WEDNESDAY 02.25.2026

6:30–8 PM COMMUNITY EVENT Urban Paths presents Weekly Wellness Walk at Buffalo Bayou Park near The Cistern (105 Sabine St.)

6–11 PM MUSIC EVENT Ice House Radio at The Car Wash (underneath Echoes) – this evening's lineup features "artsy" deejays: curator Peter Lucas (6 PM) and artist Will Boone (8 PM); check out the schedule for the full week, Tuesday–Saturday.

7:15–9:15 PM SCREENINGS Houston Filmmaker Showcase at River Oaks Theater – tickets $11.30 (inc. service charge); hosted by Southwest Alternate Media Project and Houston Cinema Arts Society

THURSDAY 02.26.2026

1:30-–3 PM ARTIST TALK Thursday at the Blaffer: Tiffany Chung at Blaffer Art Museum (cafe)

5:30–7:30 PM ARTIST RECEPTION Maksim Koloskov at Cloister Gallery of Christ Church Cathedral – large-scale watercolor paintings primarily focused on Downtown Houston

6–8 PM ART EVENT Porch Talk on Shaping Culture: Care, Community, and Creativity at Freedmen’s Town Conservancy Visitor Center (1204 Victor St, Houston, TX 77019)

6–9 PM ART EVENT Spring Open House at Houston Center for Photography

7–9 PM POETRY READING Octavio Quintanilla and Mark Wunderlich at Basket Books & Art

FRIDAY 02.27.2026

6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Clutch City Craft at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue at Lawndale Art Center – this presentation is an expansion of the exhibition currently on view at Blaffer (through March 14), extending its inquiry into contemporary practices in and about Central America.

6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Maria Fernanda Cardoso | Maratus: Spiders of Paradise at Sicardi Ayers Bacino

7–10 PM ART EVENT The Happening XXXIV at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

SATURDAY 02.28.2026

11 AM–2 PM OPENING RECEPTION ChongOk Lee Matthews: Traveling Light at okusendō Fine Art & Design

12:30–4:30 PM ARTIST CONVERSATIONS Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue at Blaffer Art Museum – free admission; guided tour and moderated discussion bringing together voices from the Great Plains and Central America on the exhibition's themes of agriculture, creative practice, community, and political interventions.

1:30–4:30 PM OPENING RECEPTION An Orange Bonanza: Art from the Neurodiverse Studio Program by Bethany Cleland, Shelby Foster, Luis Hernandez at The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art

2–3 PM ARTIST TALK Deep Inside the Living Room: Andrea Venson at Houston Museum of African American Culture

2–4 PM ARTIST TALK All Kinds of Love: Doug Welsh, Shang-Yi Hua and Sarah Fisher in Rice Village (2516 Times Blvd., Houston 77005) – closing day of this group exhibition

3–4 PM CURATOR + ARTIST TOUR Clutch City Craft at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

5–7 PM CONCERT ROCO Unchambered: Music in the Age of Ideson at Julia Ideson Library (550 McKinney St Houston, TX 77002) – live classical music, including a world premiere composition (violin, cello and harp) inspired by the library's murals and celebrating the library's 100th year; "pay what you wish" tickets ($25 suggested)

5–7 PM OPENING RECEPTION Rachel Phillips: Not a Cloud in the Sky at Catherine Couturier Gallery

5–7 PM OPENING RECEPTION Prince Varughese Thomas: A House Divided and Mark Greenwalt: Drawing on Drawing at Hooks-Epstein Galleries

5–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Weight On / Weight Off: Avisheh Mohsenin at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art

5–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION Geoff Winningham's Discoveries: Photographs from 1970-2024 at Koelsch Gallery

6–7 PM ARTIST TALK ChongOk Lee Matthews: Traveling Light at okusendō Fine Art & Design

7–9 PM CONCERT Raveena | Spring Fling 2026 at Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University – free outdoor performance of R&B, dream-pop, and Indian classical influences

SUNDAY 03.01.2026

6–8 PM SCREENING 2026 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action at MFAH Brown Auditorium Theater – tickets $9 ($7 members)