1500 Binz St
Houston, TX 77004-7112
(713) 522-1138
1500 Binz St
Houston, TX 77004-7112
(713) 522-1138
Housed in the first United States building designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, the Menil’s main museum building anchors the 30-acre campus. The Menil presents regular rotations of artworks from the growing permanent collection, organizes special exhibitions and programs, publishes scholarly books, and conducts research into the conservation of modern and contemporary art. The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 7pm, and charges no admission fee.
The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art. Through dynamic exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications and accessible educational programs, the Museum reaches out to local, regional, national, and international audiences of various ages. CAMH is a nonprofit organization that relies on a variety of funding sources, including individual, government, and corporate, for its activities. Visit CAMH on the web at: www.camh.org www.twitter.com/CAMhouston www.instagram.com/camhouston www.youtube.com/thecamh www.soundcloud.com/agnes-duchamp www.issuu.com/thecamh
The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a science museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science. Museum attendance totals over two million visitors each year. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre . The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks just below New York City's American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in most attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums. Much of the museum's popularity is attributed to its large number of special or guest exhibits.HistoryThe initial museum organization was called the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, Inc., and was created in 1909. The museum's primary collection was acquired between 1914 and 1930. This included the purchase of a natural-history collection assembled by Henry Philemon Attwater and a donation from collector John Milsaps, the latter of which formed the core of the museum's gem and mineral collection. First housed in Houston's city auditorium, the collection was subsequently housed in the Central Library for seven years, and then at a site in the Houston Zoo in 1929. The museum's now wide-ranging education programs began in 1947 and, in its second year, hosted 12,000 children.
Lawndale is one of the only institutions in Houston that is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art with an emphasis on work by regional artists. Located at the edge of Downtown in the Museum District the organization utilizes its accessible location to present exhibitions, performances, lectures, film screenings and events, and offers an annual residency program to further the creative exchange of ideas among Houston's diverse communities. In all programming and activities, Lawndale strives to extend the center's outreach. Lawndale includes four museum-quality galleries, three artist studios and an outdoor sculpture garden that facilitate its role as a vital cultural resource for Houston. A board Programming Committee made up of area artists and arts professionals meet twice per year to consider proposals and select artists and exhibitions for presentation. There is no fee to submit proposal for an exhibition at Lawndale. A balance is sought among emerging, mid-career and established artists, as well as a wide range of two and three dimensional media and content. The committee gives special consideration to work that would not be shown in commercial or other museum venues due to its scale, ephemeral nature, or difficulty of installation. The schedule is intentionally flexible to allow for work to be shown within six months of its completion; accordingly, nothing is scheduled more than one year in advance. The committee also considers works from around the region that inform area artists and audiences about the most current themes and concepts in contemporary art, while remaining focused on Houston area artists. Every year Lawndale Art Center hosts an area-wide open call juried survey show, called The Big Show, which provides exhibition access to area artists. Approximately 400 artists who live and work within a 100-mile radius of Houston, bring over 950 works of art to the Lawndale galleries for jurying over three days. A nationally known curator from outside of the region selects The Big Show from these entries presenting an annual snap shot of contemporary art in Houston. Lawndale Art Center's most recent programming initiative was to launch an annual rotating mural project, which features the work of local artists on Lawndale's north exterior wall. One of Lawndale Art Center's most anticipated events is the annual festival celebrating, Día de Los Muertos, featuring an open-call exhibition of over 250 contemporary interpretations of the Mexican folk art tradition, the retablo, created by area artists and enthusiasts. During this time Lawndale also works closely with area schools, focusing on at risk and low income schools, to educate students about the Mexican tradition using contemporary art as a context and features artworks from the students during the retablo exhibition. This program provides a critical bridge to Houston's Latino community and helps build awareness within the Mexican-American community for our other programming. In addition, Lawndale also provides educational opportunities to area elementary, middle and high school-age children and to local college and university students through its teacher orientation program, internship program and guided tours and activities. History Lawndale Art Center was founded in 1979 by artist James Surls, an instructor at the University of Houston, in a 100,000 square-foot warehouse, and provided studio spaces for MFA students. Surls created an exhibition area within the warehouse and programming soon expanded to explore experimental, alternative works and performances by other artists in the community and beyond. Through the early 1980s, Lawndale operated as a university-sponsored space. Performance art and music shows drew audiences that loved the club-scene atmosphere. By 1989 the university was no longer able to support the space and the organization was suddenly homeless. A small team of hard-working individuals, committed to keeping the entity alive, formed a board of directors, obtained non-profit status and borrowed spaces in which the newly independent Lawndale could continue to program. In 1992 Lawndale rented a three-story 1930 Art Deco building at its current location in Houston's Museum District. Its layout and location were well-suited to Lawndale's vision for program and audience expansion. In 1993 the organization purchased the building and hired an Executive Director. By the mid-1990s Lawndale was beginning to stabilize. The board structure was modified but continued the artist-run Programming Committee, charged with the curatorial duties of the organization and dedicated to presenting experimental art works from area artists. By the year 2000 the facility was in poor condition. The building required major repairs and renovations in order to have adequate exhibition and office space and to realize the goal of beginning an artist residency program. In 2003 Lawndale launched a $1.4M capital campaign to fund the project; most of the funds were raised within two years. During construction in 2004, staff moved out of the building, but was able to continue programming: producing an artist-designed billboard series and presenting annual exhibitions in other area art spaces. Renovations were completed in 2005 and Lawndale moved back into a first-rate, fully ADA compliant facility. In 2006 Lawndale launched the Artist Studio Program offering financial support and space for three artists annually. From the beginning, all programming has been artist driven. Lawndale Art Center became the premiere center for artists in Houston and the region to show work, experiment, perform and meet other artists. Early projects included works by Luis Jimenez, Sue Coe, The Art Guys, Nam June Paik and Rev. Johnnie Swearingen. Performance art and music were an important part of the early years, including varied performances from Allen Ginsberg and Spaulding Gray to Black Flag and the Meat Puppets.
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit arts organization founded to advance education about the process, product and history of craft. Visitors enjoy viewing innovative exhibitions, talking with artists-in-residence, creating their own craft objects in workshops, and shopping for one-of-a-kind gifts and home décor in the Asher Gallery. Admission is free. Docent-led tours are available for groups, if scheduled in advance.
Charles A. Garcia, M. D., a Professional Association and the Museum District Eye Center is an organization of board-certified physicians who have undergone advanced fellowship and specialty training in ophthalmology. Our practice team includes specialists with training in diseases of the Retina and Vitreous, Pediatric Ophthalmology, Corneal Diseases as well as Refractive/LASIK surgery and Oculo-Plastics. Our physician staff maintain the highest levels of education and training while continuing to innovate and find new ways to accommodate patients from every walk of life.
Help us spread the word about how awesome bicycles are. You know it, we know it and we have been trying our little hearts out to share our enthusiasm with everyone we meet. We love cycling so much we are working towards constructing a museum dedicated to cycling history here in the heart of Houston’s museum district at Crawford and Calumet. Imagine a Houston where cyclists are taken seriously and cycling is seen as more than a mere recreational activity. We are learning new things everyday about cycling’s fascinating and often romantic, passionate story and are looking forward to sharing the impact of the knowledge we’ve gained. It’s the best way we know how to do our part to continue to support and grow our city’s cycling community. Let’s have a central hub dedicated to cycling. Houston is finally ready. We’ve got lots of ideas planned for the space. You can go to the museum to browse collections, learn skills at one of our workshops, hear from and meet master artisans, frame builders, advocacy soldiers, pro riders and people with stories you’ll never be able to read about in a book or on the web during a lecture series. It can be a place for you to have a safe, central meet up for your group ride, meet new groups to ride with, enjoy events or let us help you plan a cycling event or competition on our grounds. The museum will be for you. It will evolve as the community evolves and that can only mean bigger and better things for cyclists of all kinds. Please tell people that you want us to hurry up and get this thing built so you can hang out there! Your support is critical and we cannot tell you enough how delighted we would be to know that you want to help.
The Station Museum of Contemporary Art is an exhibition forum for local, national, and international artists, with an emphasis on fine arts…
Founded in 2003, Carolyn Garcia Gallery has hosted biannual shows. The Gallery is now located in the Museum District Eye Center, in a space owned by Carolyn Garcia and her husband, Dr. Charles Garcia. They host artists’ receptions introducing a new exhibition with a portion of the proceeds to local charities.
The Station Museum of Contemporary Art is an exhibition forum for local, national, and international artists, with an emphasis on fine arts that reflects the cultural diversity of Houston's communities. The museum has held comprehensive exhibitions from Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Congo, South Africa, Czech Republic, Austria, Palestine, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, and Russia. As an institution that supports local and Texas art, the Station has organized significant solo exhibitions by Mel Chin, James Drake, Dick Wray, Jesse Lott, George Smith, and group exhibitions that bring Texas artists together with national and international artists. The Station Museum upholds the rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The museum is an activist institution supporting civil society issues as well as artists who engage in social, political, aesthetic, economic, and/or spiritual content and expressions. The Station also presents film-screenings, musical events, lectures, and fundraisers for serious social causes; together, they inspire a dialogue that encourages the public to become actively aware of the lives of others. The Station Museum of Contemporary Art organizes exhibitions that question our society's morality and ethics. It embraces the idea that art plays a critical role in society as an agent of creativity and civil discourse and as a resource that deepens and broadens public awareness of the cultural, political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.
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