Featuring Qrst Espinosa,Teresa Flores, Chelsea de Souza and XUAN Date: Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Description: Join us for two performances this month beginning with Qrst Epsinosa’s “Limitless,” exploring the idea of the infinite. Through occult studies, spiritual-based practices, and self-experiences, this interdisciplinary written-based project will share lessons learned to understand what it means to …
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Description: This new, original work is a result of a recent residency with Choreographer Carolina Márquez and composer Carmen G. Jara of C-Art Contemporary Dance Company at the Kathrine G.McGovern College of the Arts and features students from the Moores School of Music and School of Theatre & Dance. …
Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 6pm-7:30pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Description: Another World Was Possible: A Workshop by fiction writer and multidisciplinary artist J. Preston Witt attempts to make text, usually functioning in a gallery space as an accompaniment to a piece of art, into art itself. How does one move this thing that usually defines or contextualizes art, …
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: James Pickens’ narrative work uses music and film to investigate change, asking what lies at the core of desire at a given moment. Whether it be a desired experience, material item, or state of being, this project asks why and what could be on the other side. What …
Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: Sounds are linked and wired. Objects are circled and thrown. Bodies sway left and right and then we stop and begin again. Immerse yourself in a chamber of contribution, echoes, and artistry with this month’s Convergence Research. Ritual is a collaborative sound-based performance created by Mitchell Center Scholars …
Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2025 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: Convergence Research is back for the new year! Join us for January’s session featuring Anthony Sutton, Managing Editor of Gulf Coast: A Magazine of Literature and Fine Art and current PhD student in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. In this interactive performance-lecture, Sutton thinks …
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024 | 5pm-6pm Location: Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Format: Join us for October’s two-part Convergence Research with Billion Tekleab, James Pickens, Will Jones, and Jasmine Farris. November’s Convergence Research will feature compositions by Moores School of Music students Luke Brinkley, Jordan Ellisor, Eric Estrada, Jackson Okland, Thane Wimberly, performed by AURA Contemporary Ensemble as …
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: Join us for October’s two-part Convergence Research with Billion Tekleab, James Pickens, Will Jones, and Jasmine Farris. In These Precedented Times featuring Billion Tekleab and James Pickens In These Precedented Times considers Black futurity and Afro-pessimism, from a womanist perspective, and the polarity of our states as questionably …
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 6pm-7pm Location: Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard at the University of Houston (enter through Blaffer Art Museum) Format: Testimony: Seen and Heard, is a multidisciplinary collaboration between School of Theatre & Dance Professor Toni Valle, composer and alumnus of the Moores School of Music George Heathco and current BFA Sculpture student and visual artist Shelby Craze. In …
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 | (5:30-6:30pm, Q&A to follow) Location: Blaffer Art Museum Format: We are proud to invite you to join us for an incredible performance surrounded by the UH School of Art Student Exhibition. Works to be performed: Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for Two Violins in E Minor Op. 3 No. 5 (12 mins); Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for …
