Archive | Moody Center for The Arts

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, the bear that longs to touch the ocean

Natural Information Society. Photo by Ike Day. Courtesy of the Artists.

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, Ash and Spirits

Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 | Installation + Collaborative Sound Work on Loop Road

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

Sky Hopinka, Mnemonics of Shape and Reason, still. Courtesy of the Artist.

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

Collaborative Artmaking Project

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

Badie Khalegian, photo by Hung Truong. Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us installation details, photo: Anthony Rathbun.

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

Photo: Paula Lobo

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

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

Khruangbin Listening Event at the Skyspace

A La Sala La Ventana

Rina Banerjee

Rina Banerjee

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

Rina Banerjee, Make Me a Summary of the World. Courtesy of Perrotin. Portraits courtesy of the participants.

Artists-in-Dialogue: Rina Banerjee with Georgina Baronian and Igor Marjanović

An interdisciplinary discussion with the Moody's Artist-in-Residence

Lillian Schwartz, UFOs, 1971. From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Lillian F. Schwartz & Laurens R. Schwartz Collection.

Lillian Schwartz: Early Permutations

A Screening of Films by a Trailblazer in Computer-Mediated Art

Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us opening reception. Photo by Frank Hernadez.

Opening Reception for Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us

Reception for the 2024 Spring Exhibition with the Artist

Laure Prouvost: Above Front Tears Nest in South, installation view. Photo by Anthony Rathbun.

Laure Prouvost: Above Front Tears Nest in South

Fall 2023 Exhibition | At the Moody

Gabriel Martinez, Resolution, Moody Project Wall Fall 2023. Photo by Zeisha Bennett.

Moody Project Wall: Gabriel Martinez, Resolution

Temporary Public Art | Community-based Artwork at the Moody

Community Night: The NeverEnding Story

Outdoor Movie on the Moody Lawn

Courtesy of Hope Stone Dance.

horse latitudes

Final performance by Hope Stone Dance

Tomás Saraceno, Crux Australis 68.00, dedication ceramony. Photo: Jeff Filtow.

Dedication of Tomás Saraceno, Crux Australis 68.00

Celebrate the latest Rice Public Art commission with the artist

Portrait of Agnieszka Kurant

Agnieszka Kurant

Fall 2023 Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program

New Art / New Music Fall 2023 photo by Zeisha Bennett

New Art / New Music Fall 2023

Original musical responses from Shepherd School student musicians

Premiere of Skyspace: Olivia Block, 12 Degrees of Sky

Original light and electronic composition at the James Turrell, "Twilight Epiphany" Skyspace

Martha Friedman, Floating Thoughts, courtesy of the artist.

Opening Reception for Martha Friedman, Floating Thoughts

Celebration with the Artist at the Ralph S. O’Connor Building for Engineering Science

Artists-in-Dialogue: Agnieszka Kurant + Cary Wolfe

A Conversation with the Artist-in-Residence

DREAMING OF AFRAM

An Evening with Lisa E. Harris

Opening Reception for Tent Series and Platform 23-24, photo by Frank Hernandez

Opening Reception for Platform and Tent Series Installations

Celebrate the works of Devin Kenny, Preetika Rajgariah, Kenneth Tam, and Sarah Welch

White Sands by Alfred Guzzetti.

Open Air

Theater Performance | Composed by Kurt Stallmann with video by Alfred Guzzetti, featuring Eric Mandat

Dimensions Variable: Oliver Halkowish photos by Melissa Taylor.

Dimensions Variable: Oliver Halkowich

Original Choreography Inspired by the Work of Laure Prouvost

Codex Borgia, Special Collections, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Opening Reception for Moody Project Wall: Gabriel Martinez

Join the Artist to Celebrate this Collaborative Installation

Bird Walk Fall 2023, photo courtesy of the Moody Center for the Arts

Bird Walk with Cin-Ty Lee

Fall 2021 | Walk with Special viewing of Laure Provoust exhibition

Opening Reception for Laure Prouvost, photo by Frank Hernandez.

Opening Reception for Above Front Tears Nest in South

with the artist Laure Prouvost

Artists in Dialogue Prouvost, photo Moody Center for the Arts

Artists-in-Dialogue: Laure Prouvost

Conversation with Laure Prouvost

william cordova, John Bunch Crear, James Aaron, Halim, members of the Houston and Chicago Chapters of the Black Panther Party.

Opening Reception for Off the Wall: william cordova

Public Reception | Temporary Public Art on Campus

Planting Event with Bennie Flores Ansell

Fall 2023 | Take Home a Seedling in Soil Enriched with Stories

Drop-In Moody Project Wall Workshops

Join Artist Gabriel Martinez to Create the Next Installation

Danielle Dean, Death Drive (detail), photo by Sean Fleming.

Off the Wall: Danielle Dean

2023 Academic Year | Site-Specific Installation | Partnership with Glassell School of Art, MFAH

Bennie Flores Ansell, "Swarm Migration," installation. Photo by Gustavo Raskosky.

Moody Project Wall: Bennie Flores Ansell, Swarm Migration

Spring and Summer 2023 | Community-based Artmaking

JooYoung Choi, 'Like a Bolt Out of the Blue, Love Steps in and Sees You Through--Infinite Feels Arrangment,'

JooYoung Choi: Love and Wondervision

Summer 2023 | Seasonal Exhibition

Love and Wondervision Zine Workshop

Summer 2023 | Community Engagement | Presented with Zine Fest Houston

Hedwige Jacobs, Personal Space, 2022. Photo by Allyson Huntsman.

Tent Series: Robert Hodge, Hedwige Jacobs, and Royal Sumikat

2023 Academic Year | Temporary Installations on PCF Tents

Summer Jam 2023

Summer 2023 | Annual Event | Community Engagement

Moody Wellness Series Summer 2022, with Khan, Psychedelic Prayer Rugs

Wellness at the Moody Series

Summer 2023 | Yoga and Qigong in the Galleries

JooYoung Choi, flower puppets.

ArtLab: Flower Puppets

Summer 2023 | Community Engagement