Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

Do you know a teen looking to immerse themselves in the arts and the world of Museums? Applications to join the 2025-26 CAMH Teen Council are now open! 📝✍️ 🌟 Teen Council is a teen-led, 14-member cohort of paid museum workers, tasked with creating and sustaining the infrastructure for Houston’s teen creative and artistic community. 🌟 In the past 25 years, these have included battles of the bands, art markets, haircuts, fashion shows, film festivals, poetry readings, performance showcases, and publishing magazines and catalogs. 🌟 In addition to being paid a semesterly stipend, teens learn the inner workings of a contemporary arts museum, and explore the greater landscape of the arts in Houston. 🌟 Teens must be aged 13-19 years old to apply and be able to attend in-person meetings every Thursday during the school year, 4:30–6:30PM at CAMH To learn more information and see qualifications for the program, visit https://lnkd.in/g_gTdNDJ

Supporters of the Museum, we hope to see you at CAMH PARTY, our Annual Benefit & Art Auction, on Saturday, April 26, 2025 in the Museum’s galleries featuring DJ Spinderella 💃🕺 This beloved annual fundraiser and celebration brings together artists and art lovers from across Houston to toast CAMH’s successes and look towards the future over a night of art, music, dinner, and fantastic company! 🥂✨ For tickets and more information, visit camh.org/camh-party 🔗

The Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts present an evening with conceptual artist and political activist Nadya Tolokonnikova on Thursday, April 17 at 6 p.m. in the Rockwell Pavilion at M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston. Tolokonnikova is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist protest-art movement. She will sit with Patricia Restrepo, assistant curator and exhibitions manager at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, to discuss her multidisciplinary practice, experience as a political prisoner in Russia and art censorship’s impact on culture. The artist talk is free and open to the campus and surrounding communities. Register at https://bit.ly/41zdVSw.

✨ Though we are still under construction, we are thrilled you can see works from the Lucas Museum's collection in the exhibition ‘Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…,’ at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through March 23. 🖼️ At the Lucas Museum, we believe in the power of narrative art to connect us, shape beliefs, communicate values, inspire imagination, and create communities, and Vincent Valdez's work, which addresses the failings and triumphs of contemporary American society with a focus on collective memory and overlooked political histories, is a true example of this. Installation view of 'Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…,' at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2024. © Vincent Valdez. Photo by Peter Molick. Image © Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Did you know some of artist Vincent Valdez’s work is influenced by cinema? 🎬 “My references are filmmakers. I’ve been very moved over my lifetime by the scale of the movie screen. It shaped so much of my own perception about Americanism, my American identity and my role and place in this ongoing narrative.” There’s only TWO weeks left to see the exhibition Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream…🌅 in Houston! 📍 Visit CAMH before March 23, 2025 to see it. Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… will be on view at MASS MoCA from May 24, 2025 – April 5, 2026.⁠ 🗓

Congratulations to our student-artists from South Central Early College! Earlier this month, students debuted the artworks made through CAMH’s Teaching Artists-in-Classrooms program at the Houston Public Library's Johnson Neighborhood Library. 📚 These wonderful works are a result of a collaborative initiative that integrates professional artists into school settings, fostering creativity and self expression among students at South Early College High School. Under teaching artist Carlos Mendoza, students were encouraged to step outside their comfort zones, especially as many had never considered themselves artists. 🖌 Support your local library and student artists by making a visit to Johnson Neighborhood Library soon! Through Our Eyes: The Art of Family, Friendship, and Pastimes is on view through May 27, 2025. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/eF4F9nsH

Upcoming🗓Tune into The Brooklyn Rail's upcoming virtual conversation with artist Vincent Valdez and critic and art historian Max Tolleson on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 12PM CST RSVP Here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gDBw3fVE

Still moved by last week’s performances at the 4th annual 2025 Woodson Black Fest at CAMH! 💕The event featured music and performances by Emanuelee ‘Outspoken’ Bean, Mookie Copeland, Richelle Gemini, Jasmine Mans, and Jasminne Mendez. Loved the guided tour of Vincent Valdez: Just A Dream. 🙌 Houston’s creative energy never disappoints! 📸 by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston #SupportLocalArtists #BHM2025 #WoodsonFest

Celebrate the art created by students thanks to the Teaching Artists-In-Classrooms initiative! 🎉 🖼 Over a span of several months, South Early College High School, Houston Public Library, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), have collaborated in a long term art project to promote student artwork. Teaching Artist Carlos Mendoza encouraged the students to explore new techniques and mediums to create vibrant self-portraits that reflect relationships with family, friends, and pastimes. Each artwork on display serves as a vibrant reflection of personal narratives and stands as a testament to the transformative potential of artistic enrichment for all students. We invite the community to join us for the celebration of these students and their artwork at the Opening Celebration of the exhibition “Through Our Eyes: The Art of Family, Friendship, and Pastimes” which will be on view at Johnson Neighborhood Library from February 13–May 27, 2025. 🎉 Opening Celebration | Through Our Eyes: The Art of Family, Friendship, and Pastimes 📍 Johnson Neighborhood Library  🗓 Wednesday, February 12, 2024 | 5–7PM This event is free to attend, RSVP is recommended. To RSVP ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gb8bQqFq ✨ Teaching Artists-In-Classrooms at CAMH is funded in part by the Arts Connect Houston Arts Action Fund and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

This Week At CAMH! 🗓 Join us as we launch Houston’s the United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week 🌎 with a collaborative discussion with panelists Rayanne Darensbourg (Children's Museum Houston), Sean Fitzpatrick (The Jung Center - Houston), Reverend Gregory Han (Rice University) and Rabbi Shaul Osadchey (American Leadership Forum - Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter), moderated by Oni B. (ACLU of Texas). Inspired by the exhibition Vincent Valdez: Just a Dream… and the large-scale artwork Dream Baby Dream (2018) alongside the Children’s Museum Houston’s exhibition Faithful Friends, the panelists will discuss the importance of creating space to learn about and discuss our similarities and our differences. 🗓 Saturday, February 1, 2025 | 2–3:15PM 🎤 UN World Interfaith Harmony Week 📍 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston This event is FREE to attend. To RSVP ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gFNhG5W5