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Photo: Jesús Vassallo

Faculty Arts Showcase

Dimensions Variable with Poncili Creacion. Photo by Nash Baker.

Dimensions Variable: Poncili Creación

Poncili Creación

Artist Talk: Poncili Creación

Poncili Creación

Workshop: Poncili Creación

Creativity Up Close

Creativity Up Close Lecture Series

A Night of Philosophy and Ideas

A Night of Philosophy and Ideas

Installation view of Particle Chamber by Leo Villareal, 2017. Six channel digital projection, electrical hardware, and custom software. 13ft x 17ft 1/2in x 15ft. © Leo Villareal. Courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo: Nash Baker

Leo Villareal: Particle Chamber

2018 Installation

Matthew Ritchie

Matthew Ritchie

The Demon in the Diagram

Moonrise Kingdom, 2012. Movie poster

Moody Movie Night: Moonrise Kingdom

Moody Movie Night: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

Moody Movie Night: Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom

Matthew Ritchie. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York

Matthew Ritchie

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program

Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion a

George Lewis: Remains of the Sky

Erika Blumenfeld, Encyclopedia of Trajectories (Work-in-Progress), 2018, 23.5k gold in gum arabic on Arches paper. Image courtesy the artist.

Erika Blumenfeld

Encyclopedia of Trajectories

Motoko Hondo, The Perfect Shadow of an Imperfect Realm (detail), 2017.

An Evening of Graphic Scores and Avant-Garde Jazz

New Art / New Music with studens from the Shepherd School of Music. Artwork copyright the artist. Photo Nash Baker

New Art / New Music

Dimensions Variable at the Moody Center for the Arts. Photo by Nash Baker.

Dimensions Variable

We Make Carpets, Crêpe Paper Carpet, 2018. 65,000 folded sheets of crêpe paper. Photo: Nash Baker

We Make Carpets: Crêpe Paper Carpet

Summer 2018 Installation

6 Projects pop up exhibition

Pop-up Exhibition

+1, +1, +1, +1, +1, +1, Six Projects on Accessory Dwelling

Musicians from Silkroad Ensemble. Photo: Liz Linder Photography

Music and Conversation: Arts and Leadership

Free and open to the public

Installation view of Island Universe by Josiah McElheny, 2008. Chrome plated aluminum, handblown and molded glass, electric lighting, and rigging. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Nash Baker

Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Spring 2018 Installation

Installation view of Pile the Wood High (Anna Helm, Lisa Lapinski, and Hirsch Perlman). Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, 2018. Photo: Nash Baker

Pile the Wood High!

Open Dance Project's DADA GERT. Choreography by Annie Arnoult. Photo by Lynn Lane.

DADA GERT

Joseph Cohen, Graphene, 2017. Laser induced graphene on Arches paper. 20 x 30 inches. Courtesy the artist

Joseph Cohen

Looking at a flower

Jarrod Beck, Origin, 135 degrees, 2017, Steel and resin clay. Commissioned by Rice Public Art and made possible through the generous support of Russ Pitman (’58). Photo: Lynn Lane.

Platform: Jarrod Beck, Origin, 135 degrees

Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 | Central Campus

Lisa Edwards-Burrs performs Auksalaq, score excerpt by Matthew Burtner. Photo by Joe Adkins

EcoSono Ensemble

Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion at Rice University. Photo Paul Hester. Image courtesy Rice University.

Hans Tutschku: nighttime songs from afar

Josiah McElheny, Island Universe, 2008. Photo by Todd-White Art Photography, London

Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

Opening Reception with the Artist

Diana Thater, The Starry Messenger, 2014

Diana Thater: The Starry Messenger

Spring 2017 Installation

teamLab, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour, 2015. Interactive Digital Installation, Endless, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi. Installation photo at the Moody Center for the Arts, 2017. Photo: Jenny Antill

teamLab– Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour

2017 Installation

Mickalene Thomas, Shinique: Now I Know, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic and oil on wood panel. 96 x 120 inches. © Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas: Waiting on a Prime-Time Star

Fall 2017 Exhibition

Sarah Rothenberg with Dylan Morrongiello, tenor, Shepherd School of Music, and Carlos Dengler as The Narrator/Marcel in A Proust Sonata. Performance at the Moody Center for the Arts’ Lois Chiles Studio Theater at Rice University, 2017. Photo: Ben Doyle

A Proust Sonata

Twilight Epiphany (2012), The James Turrell Skyspace at the Suzanne Deal Booth Centennial Pavilion a

Trajectory of a Curve: A Sound and Light Composition by Kurt Stallmann

Artist Jarrod Beck with the 45° element of Michael Heizer’s massive granite sculpture 45°, 90°, 180° (1984) at Rice University. Photo courtesy Rice Public Art.

Public performance and procession

Jarrod Beck: Origin, 135 degrees

Installation view of Repeater by David Scanavino, 2017. Photo: Nash Baker

David Scanavino: Repeater

Summer 2017 Installation

Brazilian Arts Foundation, Capoeira performance

Performance: Capoeira Luanda

© David Scanavino.

Summer Jam

Free admission

Olafur Eliasson, Green light – An artistic workshop, 2016. Photo: Nash Baker

Olafur Eliasson

Green Light -- An artistic workshop

Installation view of Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics at the Moody Center for the Arts. ©Thomas Struth. Photo: Nash Baker

Thomas Struth

Nature & Politics

Artists in Dialogue: Diana Thater and David Alexander

Mona Hatoum at the Moody. Photo: Nash Baker

Mona Hatoum

Leslie and Brad Bucher Artist-in-Residence Program

An Iiad, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare. Directed by Rob Kimbro. Starring Leon Ingulsrud as The Poet. Original music by Ben Morris. Photo: Jeff Fitlow

Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare

An Iliad

Dancers of Dušan Týnek Dance Theatre perform Vespertine Awakenings at the James Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace

Dušan Týnek Dance Theater

Vespertine Awakenings