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 2018
JUNE/JULY
26-3
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@ Mystic Lyon
6 PM - 7 PM // Free
FRESH ARTS MEMBER EVENT
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Mystic Lyon is hosting "Moving beyond the Hypothetical," an Interactive Performance by Emily Sloan. We all perform and on this day we will vibrate from the hypothetical to the probable. Tea and discussion will follow...
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Jr. Pottery Wheel Workshop for Kids
@ Fire It Up Pottery & Art Studio
June 26 // 11 AM - 1:30 PM // $45
Fire up your child's creativity by having them join the fun and create something uniquely their own! They will learn how to turn mud into magic by creating a bowl on the wheel which will then be glazed and fired...
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Brain on Art
@ Children's Museum of Houston
June 26 // 11 AM - 3 PM // $12
The Children's Museum of Houston is collaborating with Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal and his team of University of Houston graduate students to collect data on brain activity associated with the creative process of producing and contemplating visual artwork...
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Terrance Hayes at Brazos Bookstore
@ Brazos Bookstore
June 26 // 7 - 8 PM // Free
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. How To Be Drawn, his most recent collection of poems...more details
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Master Class with Yulia Drozdova: The Art of Mandala
@ Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas"
June 27 // 12 - 2 PM // $20 - $80
Yulia is known for creating captivating mandala plates that embody an elaborate set of emotions through the use of complex patterns and distinctive colors. Now you have a chance to learn how to create your own mandala designs with Yulia's step-by-step MandalaArtPlayts classes!...
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Watercolor 101 - by Mint & Maple
@ Renovate
June 27 // 5:30 - 7:30 PM // $146.14
This class focuses on the basics of watercolor. We dive into various watercolor techniques and learn about mixing colors, how colors work together, and create a color wheel. Through lots of practice, you will use your newly learned techniques and make your own watercolor cards!...
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Wine Down Wednesdays
@ WASH - Watercolor Art Society Houston
June 27 // 6 - 9 PM // Free
Do you want to make art, but don't have the appropriate studio space to create in peace? Interested in socializing with other young adults, local artists, and creatives? Bring your art supplies, a bottle of wine, your friends, and make art together! Together we can think creatively, explore artful conversation and ideas...
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Cultured Cocktails with Sculpture Month Houston
@ Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar
June 28 // 5 - 8 PM //
Free
FRESH ARTS EVENT
Please join us for drinks and conversation at Boheme during happy hour when a portion of the proceeds from all drink sales will go to support Sculpture Month Houston. Enjoy a drink or two, meet the Sculpture Month team, and take-in Boheme's bohemian atmosphere! ...
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Text Neck
@ MATCH
June 28 // 7 - 9 PM // $5
Text Neck is a dark comedy about how Smartphones are changing our bodies and minds. In an episodic video, we follow 9 people as they navigate new ways of interacting, communicating and just being in the age of the Smartphone...
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The PM Show
@ Rudyard's British Pub
June 28 // 7 - 9 PM // $10
The PM Show is an electrifying collaboration between poets and musicians who combine their talents to create a rehearsed stage show at Rudyard's. Poets and musicians invent new, original material for each performance...
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In Control
@ Anya Tish Gallery
June 29 // 6 - 8:30 PM // Free
Through their painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, or video installation, eight female gallery artists provide a rare and apposite moment to reflect on the place of female artists in a male dominated profession. These women show what it means to be "in control."...
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Miniatures and Wine Art Show
@ Dionisio Winery
June 29 // 6 - 10 PM // Free
1 Stop Shop presents "Miniatures" with Wine, a Miniature Canvas and other mediums Art Exhibit at Dionisio Winery...
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Harvey Baths Launch
@ Axelrad
June 29 // 8 - 10 PM // Free
You have one song to make a waterscape with provided supplies. It will be simultaneously shot from below and projected on to the stage wall. We're playing with what's possible between our collective imagination and our relationship with water in Houston...more details
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@ Flatland Gallery
June 29 // 8 - 11 PM // $5 -$10 donation
A touring veteran, Kevin Greenspon has performed hundreds of shows across the USA in venues ranging from art museums to abandoned naval bases. Using multiple video projectors, tape machines and synth programs that react to each other...
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Love Is For Everyone - Open Studio
@ Deerslug Studio
June 30 // 11 AM - 5 PM // Free
Celebrating, remembering, recognizing and promoting the activism for equality for human sexuality, Pride month gives our community a reason to look within ourselves and each other for the deeper connections and give love in bounty for what was once oppressed. To celebrate my identity as a gay, Latina woman, I would like to dedicate my open studio to LGBTQ+ Pride as this exhibition...
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Performance | Serious Work with Julia Barbosa Landois
@ Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
June 30 // 12 - 12:30 PM // Free
Serious Work satirically contrasts the banalities of parental life with the performance artist persona, using a smartphone as mediator and monkey wrench. The 30-minute performance begins by invoking 1970's era endurance works, only to unravel audience expectations with irony and humor....
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Vox Storytellers 2018
@ Cafeza
June 30 // 3 - 5:30 PM // Free
WASHINGTON AVE. ARTS DIST. EVENT
Vox Storytellers 2018 will thread together a narrative of Houston's environmental past, present and future. Thoughtfully curated speakers, all Houstonians, will share their individual stories in the context of the city's environment to give us a more holistic picture almost a year after Harvey...
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Observing the Invisible Opening Reception
@ Cindy Lisica Gallery
June 30 // 4 - 8 PM // Free
"Observing the Invisible" invites you to watch, interact and assess societal elements. Jan Rattia's photography presents arrangements of objects and figures as symbols that explore personal memory, in context with the ongoing collapse of his native Venezuela. Emilie Duval attracts you to the monumental and complex regulatory systems with her interactive installation and paintings...
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@ Sterling House
June 30 // 4 - 9 PM // Free
Introducing Houston's best whiskey, fantastic local artist, and finest House DJs. The Crew, The DoBo, and Eliments bring you a brand new experience: Whiskey Art Market...
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From the Shores of the Adriatic
@ Vaughan Mason Fine Art
June 30 // 5 - 8 PM // Free
Vaughan Mason Fine Art is proud to feature the work of Lubbock, Texas artist Jeffrey F. Wheeler in From the Shores of the Adriatic. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, and painted ceramic works created in the past year and inspired by the artist's travels in Europe...
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Opening Reception: Najee Dorsey "Somewhere South"
@ Nicole Longnecker Gallery
June 30 // 5 - 8 PM // Free
Nicole Longnecker Gallery announces the exhibition; "Somewhere South" featuring work by Columbus, Georgia artist Najee Dorsey. The exhibit will feature Dorsey's large scale mixed media works along with some of his unique digital compositions...more details
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Exhibitions Opening Reception -
Jonathan Cowan: Radiant Void,
Mandy Cano Villalobos: Dust in the Mouth
@ Gray Contemporary
June 30 // 5 - 8 PM // Free
Gray Contemporary is pleased to announce two exhibitions, Jonathan Cowan: Radiant Void in the Main Gallery, Mandy Cano Villalobos: Dust in the Mouth in the Second Gallery...
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ArtÃsticas Fest: Verano Edition
@ Wonky Power Live
June 30 // 6 - 9 PM // Free
ArtÃsticas Fest aims at bringing local HTX Latina creatives together whom express their talents boldly, with the attitude of "Si Se Puede"! Las que no tienen miedo ser diferente sin explicación! ...
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Late Night Pie
@ Archway Gallery
June 30 // 6 - 9 PM // Free
Join us for pizza, pie, and assorted beverages in a casual evening of art conversation. This month's theme is Summer Spice. Pizza will be served from 6 to 7:30 and desert pie after 7:30. Free and open to all...
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Home.Girl.Hood
@ MATCH
June 30 // 7 - 11 PM // $21.83
Join the award winning touring artist and author of Home.Girl.Hood. Ebony Stewart in an evening of poetry, dance, short films and conversation. The night features dance performances by...more details
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Immanuel and Helen Olshan - TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL: Week 4
@ Moores Opera Center
June 30 // 7:30 PM // $15 - $25
Capping off the Immanuel and Helen Olshan TEXAS MUSIC FESTIVAL (TMF) Orchestra Series' commanding four-week concert series will be "Shostakovich: First and Last" with Grammy Award-winning Maestro Hans Graf leading...
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Networked Art Show *and Tell: Art event for Artists + Collectors
@ 45ArtCenter
July 1 // 1 - 5 PM // Free (Pot-luck)
Visit with 20+ local gallery owners, art event coordinators, art directors, professional artists, event promoters, related professionals, who will share their supports for an informal "show and tell, no wrong questions" event like Houston has never seen! ...
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Books Artists Love: Gael Stak, David McGee and Dana Frankfort
@ Brazos Bookstore
July 2 // 7 - 8 PM // Free
We are excited to welcome three local artists in an interdisciplinary evening of conversation! Join artists Gael Stack, David McGee, and Dana Frankfort to hear which books they're reading, which they recommend to friends, and which they treasure.
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Performance Art Night with Robert Catalusci and Jim Pirtle
@ Notsuoh (Upstairs)
July 3 // 9 PM - 12 AM // $5
FRESH ARTS MEMBER EVENT
Join Expiremental Action for Performance Art Night which presents two new works: Vestibular by Jim Pirtle, a piece about positional security; and Alien God by Robert Catalusci, a multi-sensorial performance art installation where a shamanic universe deconstructs the present metaphysical human condition...
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Julia Abbott-Koivumaa
Through the immediacy of image-making, I find a meaningful channel for ideas that hover and live in my sub-conscious mind. These images flicker, find form and dissipate once exposed to my conscious observation. Currently, I am working with various combinations of encaustic (wax, resin and pigment fused through heat application), pen, pencil, gouache, ink and digital photography...
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Thank you to our generous supporters!
Art Colony Association, BB&T Bank, The Brown Foundation, Frost Bank, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, Houston Endowment, Inc., Houston First Corporation, Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts, Silver Street Studios, Texas Commission on the Arts, The Deal Company, The Fairbanks Family Fund, The Richard M Fairbanks Foundation, Visit Houston
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