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Pop-Up Exhibition | State of Disruption
POST Houston X Atrium - L1 Southeast Gallery 401 Franklin Street, Houston, TX, United StatesBoldly exploring themes related to identity, disruption, child-like obsessions, and controlled chaos, State of Disruption is a compelling exhibition that confronts the challenges and complexities of the nation’s current education system.
Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege
Brown Foundation Gallery Houston, TX, United StatesTheaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege presents work by the acclaimed Chicago-based artist, featuring large-scale paintings, sculptures, and installations that highlight the seen and unseen dynamics of Freedmen’s Town in Houston’s Fourth Ward.
UNVANISHED
Lovie Olivia’s project UNVANISHED prioritizes the hospitality and joy found in the beautifully mundane and ordinary Black life of the Historical Freedmen’s Town.
STAY FREED: Black Archive, Imagery & Collage Making
Tay Butler’s project STAY FREED: Black Archive, Imagery & Collage Making will teach visitors how to access brick and mortar institutions and online platforms for Black imagery, scan their own archives, and center their own creativity through collage making.
Pop-Up Exhibition | State of Disruption
Mid Main Lofts 3550 Main Street, Houston, TexasBoldly exploring themes related to identity, disruption, child-like obsessions, and controlled chaos, State of Disruption is a compelling exhibition that confronts the challenges and complexities of the nation’s current education system. Teachers from CAMH’s Teacher Advisory Group (TAG) and their students channel their creativity and insights into thought-provoking works that reflect their classroom experiences and perspectives.
THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show
Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Visitor's Center 1204 Victor Street, Houston, TX, United StatesAs first seen at CAMH, THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show is on view at Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Visitors Center as part of the Rebirth in Action partnership.
Israel Alejandro Garcia Garcia: CAPIROTADA No. 1
Crossroads Hotel 2101 Central St, Kansas City, MO, United StatesIsrael Alejandro Garcia Garcia's exhibition, CAPIROTADA No.1 at the Crossroads Hotel, offers a powerful narrative on the immigrant experience in the Americas, exploring how cultural identity is maintained amidst displacement and hostile environments. Drawing from personal experiences of migration and the intricate dynamics of 'documentation' and border politics, the multimedia exhibition explores the fight against gentrification and the concept of boundaries.
Ming Smith: Feeling the Future
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art 350 Spelman Ln. SW, Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesThis special exhibition explores artist Ming Smith’s unparalleled and under-recognized career from the early 1970s through the present. The exhibition encompasses a multitude of artistic expressions to represent Smith’s vibrant and multi-layered practice, which is grounded in portraiture, and amplifies the heartbeat of Black life in the United States. Feeling the Future places works from the artist’s five-decades of creation in conversation with one another, exploring themes such as Afrofuturism, Black cultural expression, representation, and social examination.
Tay Butler and Lovie Olivia
Partnership Tower, 1st Floor Lobby 701 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX, United StatesTay Butler and Lovie Olivia participated in Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH)’s artist-in-residence program, CAMHLAB, in partnership with Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy (HFTC). While in residence, their research highlighted, honored, and animated the critical histories and stories of Freedmen’s Town, a neighborhood established in 1865 by over 1,000 newly freed Black people that is now recognized as Houston’s first Heritage District. The presentation at Houston First is inspired by the ideas Bulter and Olivia were toiling with during their CAMHLAB residency.
Hadley Clark: Gone Not Forever
Crossroads Hotel 2101 Central St, Kansas City, MO, United StatesIn Gone Not Forever, Hadley Clark deepens her ongoing exploration of material reuse, presenting an installation of plant-dyed sculptural garments crafted from textiles discarded by the Crossroads Hotel in Spring 2024. Clark transforms the hotel lobby into a stage for transient experiences—an unfamiliar space to be briefly inhabited.