Rock Climbing at Barton Creek

Outdoor Adventure Trip | Register by Wed, 2/22

Paul A. Smith: Standing In (weekend hours)

The Blaffer Art Museum is proud to present the exhibition Standing In by Jamaica-born, New York-based artist Paul Anthony Smith who makes photo-based works that push back against the medium’s inherently predatory dimensions while simultaneously introducing a network of added layers to navigate.

Leslie Martinez: The Secrecy of Water

The Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston is proud to present the first solo museum exhibition of work by the Dallas-based artist Leslie Martinez.

Martinez (they/them/their) creates immersive, spellbinding paintings that explore ideas of place, climate, landscape, and personhood through unconventional methods of applying and interlaying various materials, textures, and hues on canvas. Their signature style of abstract painting features viscerally tactile and spatial atmospheres created with physical ingredients like fabric rags, recycled clothing, and crushed stone that reveal discordant visual intersections of destruction and emergence.

Jacolby Satterwhite: We Are In Hell When We Hurt Each Other

For over a decade, Jacolby Satterwhite has used 3D animation, sculpture, performance, painting, and photography to create fantastical, labyrinthine universes. Exploring the themes of public space, the body, ritual, and community, Satterwhite draws from an extensive set of references guided by queer theory, Modernist tropes, and video game languages to challenge conventions of Western art through a personal and political lens. An equally significant influence is his late mother, Patricia Satterwhite, who lived with schizophrenia and made ethereal vocal recordings as well as drawings and diagrams for visionary household products throughout Satterwhite’s childhood. His mother’s work often serves as the source material within a decidedly complex structure of memory and mythology.

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Studio Workshops: Plein Air Painting with Isabelle Zimmerman | Session #2

Paint en plein air using gouache or watercolor with artist, educator and University of Houston MFA alumna Isabelle Zimmerman. Explore how public artworks interact with the environment and create a dynamic compositions inspired by different public art sites on the University of Houston campus.

Photography Book Launch | “Making a Scene!”

This panel discussion celebrates the release of Making a Scene! How Visionary Individuals Created an International Photography Scene in Houston, Texas. The new book by Xavia Karner documents the social history of “who did what and when” to create an international photography scene in the once seemingly unlikely city of Houston.

Taylor Tomlinson: The Have it All Tour

Taylor Tomlinson has announced the 2023 dates of The Have It All Tour. The comedian’s perspective possesses a degree of wisdom that’s typically earned with age. Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, her Quarter-Life Crisis special went on to earn unanimous critical praise with the Washington Post calling her “your favorite quarantine-watch” and Newsweek opining she is “undeniably hilarious” and “wise beyond her years”.

Moores School of Music 25th Annual Jazz Festival

The University of Houston Moores School of Music is pleased to presents the 25th annual Jazz Festival.

Join us in celebrating 25 years of extraordinary jazz at the University of Houston with two nights of can’t-miss concerts.

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