This week's FRESH Art on Tap: September 4 -11

2018

SEPTEMBER

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A Day in the District

September 8

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM // Free

Art Alley & other various locations

FRESH ARTS + ARTS DISTRICT EVENT

Join the Fresh Arts team for a kick-off event for Arts District Houston! Participate in interactive exhibits, view the final installation of the Box Project and take self-guided tours to 8 historical sites within the District... more details

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SEPT 4

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SEPT 5

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SEPT 6

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SEPT 7

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SEPT 8

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SEPT 9

MON

SEPT 10

TUE

SEPT 11

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

MICAH'S STAFF PICK

Fashion Week Houston Media Mixer

by Houston Visuals

@ Sole Lounge
September 4 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free

Come out for a free night of experiential culture, great vibes featuring fashion influencers, designers, brands, models, entrepreneurs, cultural leaders, bloggers, creators, artists, photographers, and city wide creatives... more details

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

The Rothko Chapel Presents Twelve Moments

@ Rothko Chapel

September 5 // 12:00 PM // $10 Donation

Twelve Moments begins at the Rothko Chapel on September 5 at noon with a focus on "Resilience." One year after Hurricane Harvey, participants will be led in a meditation followed by reflective story telling... more details

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

Opening Reception and artist talk for Let Me Be Part of Your Search History @ University of Houston Clear Lake Art Gallery September 6 // 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM // Free Jonathan McFadden will create a site specific installation using text and imagery taken from his social media feeds, exploring the theme of surveillance within these platforms... more details
Cultured Cocktails with HITS Theatre @ Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar August 30 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free FRESH ARTS EVENT Enjoy a drink or two, meet the Art Colony Association team, and take-in Boheme's bohemian atmosphere! 10% of the proceeds from the evening will support the organization, so don't be shy... more details
Futures of the Architectural Exhibition Lecture Series: Mario Ballesteros @ University of Houston September 6 // 6:30 PM // Free Please join Rice Architecture for the lecture "Exposing the Margins: An Autoconstructed Approach to Researching and Exhibiting Design South of the Border"... more details
New Releases: Let the Sunshine In @ MFAH \| Brown Auditorium September 6 // 7:00 PM // $7 - $9 In a widely praised performance, Juliette Binoche plays Isabelle, a divorced Parisian painter. Searching for someone new, Isabelle refuses to settle as a parade of flawed men drift in and out of her life... more details

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

New Releases: Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti @ Museum of Fine Arts \| Brown Auditorium September 7 // 3:00 PM & 5:00 PM // $7 - $9 This new biopic chronicles an important period in the life of French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). In 1891, disillusioned with the Parisian art world, Gauguin left his friends and family and traveled alone to Tahiti, where he found inspiration and developed the style of his best-known paintings... more details
BIOTOPE: PETRA NOVÁKOVÁ ONDREIČKOVÁ @ Cindy Lisica Gallery September 7 // 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM // Free Much like a habitat provides a living place for a population, a biotope hosts a specific assemblage of plants and animals. The artist makes reference to each artwork becoming its own metaphorical community... more details
Telling Stories @ JoMar Visions Studios at Northwest Crossing September 7 // 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM // Free Collins focus revolves around fantasy and storytelling with the whimsy of childhood being her touchstone. Some can be indirectly referencing folklore that most are unaware of and yet all too familiar with at the same time. Kind of like opening up a time capsule of things forgotten or never understood to see again with fresh eyes, fresh perspective... more details
Maxim Wakultschik: One Thousand and One @ Anya Tish Gallery September 7 // 6:00 PM // Free Wakultschik explores his captivating perspective on contemporary portraiture in cutting edge work selected for this exhibition through a unique combination of sculpture, painting, and objects that employ nontraditional materials. Each pop art like portrait is created out of thousands of hand painted wooden sticks meticulously placed to form multi-color images... more details
Viva Kultura @ Cullen Performance Hall at UH September 7 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // $20 - $50 VIVA KULTURA is an internationally acclaimed performing arts group that aims to probe the most universal and intimate of human emotions-love, joy, belonging-as they are expressed in cultures from around the world. Artists from 15 different countries display their multifaceted identities through an array of art forms... more details
2018 Texas Artist of the Year & Lifetime Achievement Award Exhibits @ Art League Houston September 7 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free Art League Houston is thrilled to announce their 2018 Texas Artist of the Year exhibit Something by Francesca Fuchs, and 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts exhibit Journey to the Brightest Star by George Smith... more details
Houston Fringe Festival @ MATCH September 7 - 9 // Varies // Price varies by performance The Houston Fringe Festival is a five-day event in which performers and companies from any city or country present original work at Houston's premier theater facility, the MATCH!.. more details
Crimson Vagabond Roadshow @ MATCH September 7 - 9 // Varies // $10 - $60 A wild band of performers, musicians and artists who come together to create a tantalizing exhibit to delight all of your senses! An event curated to inspire with live music, fusion, folk & belly dance performances, music & dance workshops, vendors, drum jam, after party and so much more... more details

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

MARCI'S STAFF PICK Symposium \| Social Practice.Social Justice @ The Historic Eldorado Ballroom September 8 // 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM // $10 - $35 Presented by Project Row Houses (PRH), "Social Practice.Social Justice" is a day-long symposium bringing together artists, activists and thought leaders to Houston's Third Ward... more details
The Market at Sawyer Yards @ Art Alley September 8 // 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM // Free ARTS DISTRICT EVENT The Market at Sawyer Yards debuted in the spring of 2016, and continues 2nd Saturdays. This curated market hosts a mix of artist mediums with a focus on folk art, the maker is the seller & artisan crafts including packaged specialty foods... more details
Sawyer Yards Second Saturday @ The Sawyer Yards Campus September 8 // 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM // Free ARTS DISTRICT EVENT Spend the afternoon wandering through Sawyer Yards' five studio buildings and discover an extensive selection of painting, sculpture, jewelry, photography, clothing, mixed media and more. Meet some of the 300+ artists, learn about their work and add a new piece (or two!) to your collection... more details
How to Love Your Writing Life (and Overcome Anxiety and Drama!) @ Writespace September 8 // 1:00 PM // $40 - $65 Concerned that there are writers as famous for their life drama as they are for their life work? (Think Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Plath). Tired of the emotional struggles that can sometimes arrive with greater force than the words? Dissatisfied with having to choose between your art and your happiness?.. more details
ANGELA'S STAFF PICK Solo Exhibition Archetype Unknown featuring Vincent Fink @ Bisong Gallery September 8 // 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free Vincent Fink sets out to explore the intersection of human and animal tendencies, while making commentary on the fluidity of identity. As we study how emotions turn into habits, habits into behavior, and behavior into personality, we find the "person" in this word is not distinct from many other living creatures, especially other mammals... more details
Gray Contemporary's Exhibitions Opening Reception @ Gray Contemporary September 8 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free Gray Contemporary is pleased to announce two exhibitions, in the Main Gallery a group exhibition including Jonathan Anderson, Matthew McAlpine, Jose Carlos Naranjo, Dmitri Obergfell, Gregory Ruppe, and Kamila Szczesna and in the Second Gallery a solo exhibition featuring works by Altoon Sultan... more details
Archway Gallery presents Transparent @ Archway Gallery September 8 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free Barbara Able's new body of work, Transparent, is a series of paintings and collages that utilizes transparency in various ways. Her new collages were inspired by Robert Rauschenberg "combine" paintings... more details
Mark Chatterley "Perception" Opening @ Clarke & Associates September 8 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free "Everything is either moving toward or away from nothingness. Life, death, creation and destruction, this is the world I find myself in. I want my art to echo these thoughts. Everything in a state of flux, changing and reforming. A sense of decay along with life... more details
Rachel Gardner "Awakening" Opening @ Redbud Gallery September 8 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free "Awakening" is a body of work focusing on the wild, overgrown, and enchanted natural world. This series alludes to the idea of the domesticated gone feral. Sharing scenes of new growth and oneness between the creature and land in nature. The imagery becomes a meditation on what creation may be like if left alone by the hand of man to flourish... more details
Party in the Grove: UH College of Arts Open House @ Wilhemina Grove at UH September 8 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free Kick off fall 2018 with the Kathrine G. McGovern College of the Arts! We invite you to celebrate the arts with us at Party in the Grove, an open house showcasing the diverse breadth of talent at our college... more details

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

Second Sunday by Midtown Houston

@ Elizabeth Baldwin Park

September 9 // 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM // Free

Second Sunday is back on September 9th! Enjoy live music by The Rikkis, food trucks, activities, booth vendors and more in Elizabeth Baldwin Park... more details

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

Gallery Talk with Joy Hilley

@ Ecclesia Houston

September 10 // 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free

Hear the stories behind the art in Joy Hilley's new collection, "When the Spirit Moves," followed by Q&A... more details

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Luxe 2nd Tuesday - A Day of Education & Inspiration

@ Houston Design Center

September 11 // 9:30 AM - 2:30 PM // Free

Join us for a day of education and inspiration for designers, architects and members of the trade. Three complimentary CEU's will be given on Green Issues in Finishings, Coverings & Coatings, Wallpaper Basics and Fabric Specifications... more details