Archive | Moody Center for The Arts

The Chapel in the Hive performance April 5

The Chapel in the Hive

Poetry and Music Inspired by the Honeybee

Photo by William Bossen

SPILL

Written by Leigh Fondakowski and directed by Weston Twardowski

Zeisha Bennett

New Art / New Music 2025

Original musical responses from Shepherd School student musicians

Discussion with playwright Leigh Fondakowski

Dialogue with SPILL playwright Leigh Fondakowski

Anna Mayer, “Fireful of Fear,” 2008 – present. Process image from the retrieval of a wildfired ceramic sculpture from the charred landscape in Malibu, CA, 2018. Photo by Poppy Coles.

Art in the Face of the Climate Crisis – responses from the Gulf Coast

Presented by Artadia

Kinetic Ensemble, courtesy of the group.

Environmental Strings

Kinetic Ensemble x Rice Student Artists, Composers, and Poets

Moody Center for the Arts

Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Christopher Sperandio, Comics Without Borders

Celebrate with Rice Students

Photo: Moody Center for the Arts.

Art Spiegelman

In Conversation with Ofra Amihay

Frank Hernandez

Spring Fling 2025: Madison McFerrin

with DJ DOUBLEDUTCH

Dimensions Variable: Nature Inspires

Painting workshop, beekeeping demonstration + music video screening

Opening Reception for Platform: Julia Gartrell

Hear from the Artist + Mend an Item in Need of Repair

Phillip Pyle II, Spectrum Sammy, photo by Frank Hernandez

Moody Project Wall: Phillip Pyle II

Spectrum Sammy

Phillip Pyle II at the reception, photo by Brandi Smith

Reception for Moody Project Wall: Phillip Pyle II, Spectrum Sammy

Celebrating Black History Month

Trevor Paglen and Jeffrey J Kripal at Artists-in-Dialogue Feb 4 2025. Photo by Frank Hernandez

Artists-in-Dialogue: Trevor Paglen + Jeffrey J. Kripal

score for transistional times, dancers Kayla Collymore, Donna Crump, Suzette Sagisi, and Tegan Schwab-Alavi. Photo by Frank Hernandez

score for transitional times

Dance Performance and Installation by Hope Mohr and Ranu Mukherjee

Opening reception for Breath(e), photo by Frank Hernandez.

Opening Reception for Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice

Celebrate with the Artists Brandon Ballengée, Mel Chin, Tiffany Chung, Cannupa Hanska Luger, and Xin Liu

Do Ho Suh: In Process, Materials from the artist's studio. Photo: Anthony Rathbun.

Do Ho Suh: In Process

Fall 2024 Exhibition

Moody Project Wall: Ruhee Maknojia, Scheherazade Meets the Television. Photo Zeisha Bennett

Moody Project Wall: Ruhee Maknojia

Scheherazade Meets the Television

Moody Movie Night: Home

Free Outdoor-Turned-Indoor Screening

Frank Hernandez

Lucy Kim

Fall 2024 Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program

Zeisha Bennett

New Art / New Music Fall 2024

Original musical responses from Shepherd School student musicians

Frank Hernandez

Opening Reception for Platform: Eva LeWitt

Temporary Public Art | Commissioned by the Moody

Zeisha Bennett

Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Ruhee Maknojia

Celebrate this collective art installation led by the artist

Do Ho Suh: In Process, Reception, photo by Frank Hernandez

Dimensions Variable: The Creative Process

Chef Chris Shepherd, Musician Warren Sneed, and Origami Expert Kyle Fu

Artists-in-Dialogue Kim and Adam October 24 2024

Artists-in-Dialogue: Lucy Kim + Kirsten Adam

Human Perception in Art and Science

Monument Symposium October 18 2024. Still from Brandi Smith Rice News

Monuments Symposium

With Paul M. Farber, Director, Monument Labs

Opening reception for Do Ho Suh: In Process, photo by Frank Hernandez

Opening Reception for Do Ho Suh: In Process

Reception for the 2024 Fall Exhibition

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, provision, at opening reception. Photo Gustavo Raskosky.

Reception with Artists Lorena Molina and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy

Celebrate New Tent Series Artworks

Karyn Olivier, photo by Frank Hernandez

Opening Reception for Off the Wall: Karyn Olivier

Public Reception | Temporary Public Art on Campus

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Climate Parliament. Photo, Frank Hernandez

Opening Reception for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Climate Parliament

Celebrate the latest Rice Public Art commission with the artist

Sarah Welch, Skeeter Control. Photo by Gustavo Raskosky.

Tent Series: Rajgariah, Tam, and Welch

2024 Academic Year | Temporary Installations on PCF Tents

Yusef Omawalie in front of william cordova, 2800 dowling-wasi-sangarara, detail. Photo by Zeisha Bennett

Off the Wall: william cordova

2024 Academic Year | Site-Specific Installation | Partnership with Glassell School of Art, MFAH

Kelly Akashi, Resonant Earth, installation view. Photo by Anthony Rathbun.

Resonant Earth: Contemporary Perspectives on Land and Body

Summer 2024 Exhibition

Martha Friedman, Floating Thoughts, courtesy of the artist.

Martha Friedman, Floating Thoughts

Temporary Public Art | O'Connor Building

Summer Jam at the Moody, photo by Frank Hernandez

Summer Jam 2024

Crafts, Activities, Food + Indoor Farmers Market

Martha Tuttle banners in lawn

Platform: Martha Tuttle

Temporary Public Art | Commissioned by the Moody

Dimensions Variable: Natural Information Society. Photos by Frank Hernandez

Dimensions Variable: Natural Information Society

Musical Performance in the Galleries

Pride Happy Hour

Celebrate with Pride Chorus Houston and DJ Krazzy Kris

Red Landscape: Georgia O’Keeffe in Texas 1912-1918

Open Dance Project Performance

ArtLab: Mixed-Media Sculptures

Free | Every Saturday in June, 2 - 4 pm

Wellness at the Moody Series

Every Friday at 1 p.m.

Breath of Life

Presented by Lone Star Lyric

Devin Kenny, Ash and Spirits, photo by Frank Hernandez

Platform: Devin Kenny

Temporary Public Art | Commissioned by the Moody

Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us, opening. Photo by Frank Hernandez.

Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us

Spring 2024 Exhibition

Book Launch for "Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us"

Join curator Frauke V. Josenhans and contributor Miriam Ticktin for a special tour of the exhibition

Opening Reception for Resonant Earth. Photos by Frank Hernandez.

Opening Reception for "Resonant Earth: Contemporary Perspectives on Land and Body"

Celebrate the opening with the artists

Sip + Stroll: Guided Tour of Rice Public Art

Learn More About the Public Art Installations on Campus

Moody Project Wall: Angela Chen, Practices of Attention

Spring 2024 | Collaborative Artmaking

Photo: Jeff Fitlow

ZENITH Skyspace Dance Performance

A Dance Commission Choreographed by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener

THEY ARE FALLING ALL AROUND ME / Postcards from the Edge of Latent Space

A Performance Exploring New Sites of Creativity with Generative AI

Frank Hernadez

Dimensions Variable: A Journey Through the Senses

Food tasting, art making, and music inspired by "The Foreign in Us"

Reception for Moody Project Wall: Practices of Attention

Celebrate this collective art installation led by Angela Chen

Jeff Fitlow

Movement Workshop with Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener

Open to All Levels of Dance Experience

Spring Fling 2024, photo: Brandi Smith

Spring Fling 2024

Kaitlin Butts with THEBROSFRESH

Window Into the Creative Mind, Chelsea de Souza. Photo courtesy of the Moody.

Window into the Creative Mind

A Live Experiment with Music and EEG-based Brain Interfacing

Martha Tuttle, the bear that longs to touch the ocean, installation shot. Zeisha Bennett.

Opening Reception for Platform: Martha Tuttle

Celebrate the new installation

Archival materials from Hayv Kahraman's artist studio (c) Hayv Kahraman. Shaving cream workshop at the Moody.

Moody ArtLab | Shaving Cream Marbling

Hands-on Artmaking Following the Shepherd School Family Concert

Moody Center for the Arts

Lunchtime Talk: Kelsey Norman on Hayv Kahraman

Explore questions about refugee policies inspired by the Moody's spring exhibition

Shepherd School of Music students at the Spring exhibition. Photo by Zeisha Bennett.

New Art / New Music Spring 2024

Original musical responses from Shepherd School student musicians

Gustavo Raskosky

Khruangbin Listening Event at the Skyspace

A La Sala La Ventana