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JUNE
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@ Sawyer Yards Creative Campus
6 PM - 10 PM // Free
WASHINGTON AVE. ARTS DIST. EVENT
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Celebrate summer with great local art, music and a refreshing sip with Houston's largest creative community. The first Sawyer Yards Summer Series is Friday, June 22 on the Sawyer Yards Main Yard, which includes Silver Street, The Silos at Sawyer and Winter Street Studios. There will also be a pop-up showcasing works by Summer Street Studios artists...
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Magical Unicorn Day
@ Honey Art Cafe
June 19 // 5 PM - 10 PM // Free // $5
Prepare to be dazzled by our crazy cute unicorn desserts! You can unleash your creativity by painting unicorns with us. We'll have pre-sketched magical creatures and painting supplies for $5 per painting OR free with the Unicorn Dessert Combo...
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Grown-up Storytime 114 - S11 BEST OF!
@ Rudyard's British Pub
June 19 // 8 PM - 11 PM // $7
Every month you send us stories, we pick the best ones, and assign them to a rotating crack-squad of expert story readers who show up the night of and wow our socks and/or pants off. This month is special because it is our season 11 BEST OF edition...
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@ Lawdale Art Center
June 20 // 6:30 PM - 8 PM // Free
From the moment they are born, girls internalize popular culture's depiction of who they are versus who they aren't, what they want versus what they shouldn't, and who they can be versus who they can't. What it means to be a "girl" towers over us...
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Celebrate the Summer Solstice
@ Rothko Chapel
June 21 // 6:20 AM - 8:20 PM //
$10 donation
Celebrate the Summer Solstice at Rothko Chapelwith sunrise to sunset activities. The Summer Solstice Sunrise and Sunset Observances are part of the Chapel's Summer Series of programs which includes programs for all such as tai chi, meditations, Summer Sounds...
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Black Music Month Legacy Project
@ Community Artists' Collective
June 21 // 12 PM - 5 PM // Free
The Community Artists' Collective, the Community Music Center of Houston and the Houston Blues Museum presents the third annual Black Music Month Legacy Project. The exhibition features artifacts from the Houston Blues Museum Collection...
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Culture Cocktails with Miller Outdoor Theatre
@ Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar
June 21 // 5 PM - 8 PM // Free
FRESH ARTS EVENT
Join us for drinks and conversation when a portion of the proceeds from all drink sales during happy hour will support the Miller Outdoor Theatre...
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Park-SmART Precinct One Arts & Culture Forum
@ Saint Arnold Brewing Company
June 21 // 6 PM - 8 PM // Free
Park-SmART Precinct One Arts & Culture Forum, an evening of conversation and drinks to celebrate the role of artists and the arts in creating compelling, welcoming, beautiful parks and open space for all...
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"The Faces of Syrian Refugees" -
Exhibition Opening
@ Holocaust Museum Houston
June 21 // 6 PM - 8 PM // Free w/ registration
"The Faces of Syrian Refugees" consists of life-sized color portraits accompanied by Proust questionnaire style interviews, offering an intimate visit with 20 Syrian...
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Have A Splash! With Ellen Orseck
@ Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
June 21 // 7 PM - 9:30 PM // $30
Explore the basics of watercolor in this 2.5 hour workshop. Learn how to control color, paint with three different techniques and practice mark making with a watercolor brush. Complete landscape studies that can be used as a greeting card and have a blast while painting...
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Pint Glass Etching Workshop
by PopShop America
@ The Art Cellar of Houston
June 22 // 7 PM - 9:30 PM // $35
Everyone loves a good pint glass. Now you can customize and make your own in this stylish craft workshop by Pop Shop America. You will make a set of pint glasses
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She's Real Gone - Women's Art Showcase
@ Insomnia Gallery
June 22 // 7 PM - 11 PM // $5
This one day showcase features all new original works by a dozen of Houston's most talented women artists. Several of these artists were in our first such showcase nearly two years ago, but
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The Gospel According to André
@ Museum of Fine Arts | Brown Auditorium
June 22 // 7:30 PM // $7 - $9
From the segregated American South to the fashion capitals of the world, the life and career of operatic fashion editor André Leon Talley are on full display in this poignant portrait
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Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival - Night 1
@ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
June 22 // 8 PM // Free
A lively program follows for Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival Week 3, "Dancing the Night Away," highlighted by Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story in honor of Bernstein's 100th birthday...
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The Art of Islamic Mandalas: A Path to the Center of Ourselves
@ The Jung Center of Houston
June 23 // 1 PM - 4 PM // $65 - $75
Explore the traditional practices of Islamic art by creating and painting your own Islamic mandala on tea-dyed paper. The various types of patterns, techniques, and materials of traditional Islamic mandalas - as well as their underlying connectedness with nature - will be introduced...
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Opening Reception for Daniel Heimbinder: Magic Island
@ Rudolph Blume Fine Art Artscan Gallery
June 23 // 6 PM - 8 PM // Free
Composed of stacked absurd figurative contradictions, this body of work harkens back to Heimbinder's totemic watercolor style of the early 2000s. He calls on his mental archive of literature, follies, and fables, and then mashes them up
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Caitlin G McCollom's "Light in the Window" Solo Exhibition
@ BLUEorange Art Gallery
June 23 // 6 PM - 9 PM // Free
Featuring more than 20 original paintings, the collection expresses solitary moments of spiritual communion and comprises several of the artist's series, including Final Revelation, Secret Window and Brutal Resurrection, plus
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Local Artist and Author, Erin Faith Allen, Launches Second Book - The In Between: A Travel Memoir
@ Winter Street Studios | #30B
June 23 // 7 PM - 10 PM // Free
WASHINGTON AVE. ARTS DIST. EVENT
Join Erin Faith Allen for an inside look at her journey through World War II's most notorious locations and into the depths of the human heart in her new book
The In Between: A Travel Memoir...
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Jazz on Film: The Stormy Man
@ Museum of Fine Arts | Brown Auditorium
June 23 // 7 PM // $7 - $9
Charismatic singer Yujiro Ishihara stars as a young ruffian aspiring to be a drummer in Tokyo's Ginza jazz world. Little known internationally, director Umetsugu Inoue's
The Stormy Man was one of Japan's biggest hits of the late 1950s...
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Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival - Night 2
@ UH Moores Opera House
June 23 // 7:30 PM // $15 - 25
A lively program follows for Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival Week 3, "Dancing the Night Away," highlighted by Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story in honor of Bernstein's 100th birthday...
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Sunday Art Market at Saint Arnold
@ Saint Arnold Brewing Company
June 24 // 11 AM - 3:30 PM // Free
Peruse gifts from local and independent artists while sipping on a local and independent beer at the Sunday version of the First Saturday Arts Market. The market showcases paintings, sculpture, photography, jewelry and handcrafted items...
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Concept; queerdom: an htx people project visual portrait
@ Lawdale Art Center
June 24 // 1 PM - 6 PM // Free
An expedition of healing tools to examine and encourage language, gender identity, healing, gathering, discussion, and a safe space for people to arrive exactly as they are
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Jazz on Film: Bullitt
@ Museum of Fine Arts | Brown Auditorium
June 24 // 5 PM // $7 - $9
Directed by Peter Yates,
Bullitt stars Steve McQueen as a police detective assigned to guard a syndicate witness, and features among its many memorable scenes an epic car chase through the hilly streets of San Francisco...
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Vibrations of Home/Space
@ Archway Gallery
June 24 // 6 PM - 8 PM // Free
Join us for an evening of the improvisational and experimental sound, movement and words surrounded by the paintings of Silvia PintoSouza, featuring: Singapore-based composer...
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Innovation Nation
@ Children's Museum of Houston
June 25 // 10 AM - 6 PM // Free
Superheroes change and adapt to keep up with each other. Join us to learn, create and design something new as you show off your creativity and determination during Innovation Nation WonderWeek
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Independence Heights Artist Resource Info Session
@ Independence Heights Community Center
June 25 // 6 PM - 7 PM // Free
FRESH ARTS EVENT
Join Fresh Arts and Independence Heights Redevelopment Council for an info session on local resources to help support your artistic business and community art projects
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Artist Talk: Jonathan Paul Jackson - Colorways
@ Main Street Projects
June 26 // 5 PM - 7 PM // Free
Join us for a talk with artist Jonathan Paul Jackson as we discuss his recent exhibition, "Colorways," the evolution of his creative output, and the impetus for his recent works
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Celia Dargie
Born and raised in the south east of France, I now live and paint in Houston, Texas. I was exposed to art at an early age, as my grand parents were antique dealers, and my great-grandfather, Jean de Sperati, is the most famous artist stamp forger in the world to date! I'm a "life" painter who works from intuition and emotion. I paint who I am and how I feel
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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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Special thanks to our community partners
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