Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2026 | 6pm-7:30pm Location: Blaffer Art Museum What is Convergence Research Convergence Research is administrated and facilitated by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts to support students and faculty in the McGovern College of the Arts explore connections and collaborate across disciplines. As a platform for experimentation and research, the program provides opportunities to push …
How do we find beauty in the mundane? How do we cultivate hope in a time of pessimism and despair? How might the simple acts of engagement and conversation create meaning out of seemingly nothing? The 2026 Mitchell Center Scholars will attempt to answer these questions through their performance in which short vignettes of daily life transcend their parts to …
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 5:30pm Description: Join us for an immersive, off-campus edition of Convergence Research at ARTECHOUSE Houston, featuring an evening of performance and participatory exploration. This dynamic event brings together three intriguing works: Audrey Cedor’s Tied to Masks, which traces the evolution of Greek masks from sacred ritual to contemporary horror; Ariel Katz’s Snapshots: Writing about …
Billboard chart-topping “Houston Indie, Conductorless Orchestra” Kinetic Ensemble will be performing three new string quartets composed by Moores School of Music graduate students Jackson Bosenbark, Caden Flores and Caleb Hernandez in response to visual art by Chilean artist Soledad Salame. Kinetic Ensemble is a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Visiting Artist at Moores School of Music. Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 | …
Featuring Asha Bell, Avery Dishman, and Samantha Ray Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2026 | 6pm-7pm Description: Kick-off the new semester with playwrights from the School of Theatre and Dance. Students Asha Bell, Avery Dishman, and Samantha Ray will present three short form plays exploring friendship, contemporary relationships, heartbreak, grief, and our political reality. Convergence Research is a collaboration between the …
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 …
