What will you see today?
CAMH offers a variety of programs and events related to its exhibitions. You can browse based on your category of interest—exhibitions, music, family, and more.
Summer Community Celebration
Spend a summer afternoon indoors and explore CAMH’s current exhibitions, Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege and Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, through a variety of hands-on activities at the Museum!
Queer Teen Night
LGBTQ+ youth and allies are invited to a celebration inspired by Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow. Meet other queer and LGBT teens from the Greater Houston area at CAMH for a night of art-making, food, and music. Learn about local community organizations, queer spaces, and CAMH’s Teen Council, and join a free raffle for a chance to win CAMH SHOP merch!
ToGather: A gathering of people, ideas, information and food
CAMHToGather is an immersive gathering and conversation around water and its wayfaring qualities and strengths of the newly freed Black people that founded Freedmen's Town and their descendants who made it their home after traversing south coastal waters. Merging historical data, fascination, and speculation, ToGather focuses on the significance of the Gulf and Texas waters leading to Buffalo Bayou as sites of examination.
Impossible Paper Architecture
Inspired by Olivia Erlanger’s off-world landscapes and impossible architectures, create a surreal structure using paper and tape.
Poems of Their Future | An Evening Of Poetry and Performance
In response to Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege, Poems of Their Future features poetry, music, and dance to build upon themes of history and heritage as these things exist sacredly in Freedmen’s Town.
History, Houston, and Collage
CAMHThe workshop History, Houston, andCollage blends historical images, documents, and ephemera of Houston's past with contemporary collage for a fun-filled analog exercise in archival study. From Freedmen's Town to Third Ward, downtown to Fifth Ward, we will learn intimate details and happenings that make Houston the culturally rich metropolis it is now. A deep dive into the imagery of this past will help us create interesting and abstract collages to take home.
Write a Postcard
Explore our current exhibitions, Theaster Gates: The Gift and The Renege and Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow, then share your favorite part of the exhibition in a postcard to a friend. CAMH will mail out all postcards on your behalf.
Scavenger Hunt for Shapes and Patterns
Explore our current exhibitions by participating in a scavenger hunt for shapes and patterns.
First Thursday with CAMH’s Teacher Advisory Group exhibition at Mid Main
Mid Main Lofts 3550 Main Street, Houston, TexasJoin us for an art-filled evening,as Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) partners with Mid Main for an unforgettable First Thursday block party! Including works from State of Disruption, a pop-up exhibition of teacher and student works presented by CAMH’s Teacher Advisory Group (TAG).
Clay Planets
Mold colored clay to create a small sculptural planet inspired by artist Olivia Erlanger's large-scale planet sculptures.