Plan Your Arts Weekend: Thursday thru Sunday

It’s a spooky week in Houston! While you may be out trick-or-treating on Halloween, why not also hit an art opening in costume? Missed an event? No problem—plan to visit during regular hours to support local art.

For the full lineup of this week’s art events, check out my online calendar!

BIG NEWS! Encourage your friends to subscribe to MUSED Houston by November 30, 2024! After a year of sharing Houston's vibrant arts scene with nearly 1,200 events promoted—for free—I recognize I can’t sustain this work without community support. Your subscriptions help keep this resource alive for Houston’s artists, galleries, and cultural spaces. And, special thanks to those who’ve shown support through advertising—just two spots are available each week (see this week’s ads below).

Starting in January 2025, I’m introducing a paid subscription option with exclusive perks like early access to select events, deeper insights from guest writers, and discounts at arts and cultural venues around town. A free scaled-down version will continue, highlighting one “Pick of the Week” (e.g., an event, artist, organization, venue).

Early Bird Perks: Subscribe by November 30, 2024 to receive an invitation to a special holiday gathering and an exclusive discount on your 2025 subscription. Watch for more details soon!

To promote your event for free, please submit it through my website at www.melissarichardsonbanks.com. All accepted events are added to the calendar, with select ones featured in the curated weekly e-newsletter.

~ Melissa Richardson Banks

All events are subject to change without notice. Please check with the venue or the organizer of an event to ensure that it is taking place as promoted and scheduled. And, if you miss an opening at a museum or gallery, please check the MUSED Houston art events calendar on my website at www.melissarichardsonbanks.com to plan your visit during a venue's regular operating hours.

THU 10.31.2024

🎨 ART EVENT “David Best: Houston Temple” 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Orange Show Center for Visionary Art (2334 Gulf Terminal Dr., Houston 77023). Drop in and witness this first temple built by the artist in Texas. Participate in weekly vigils and pay tribute to departed community members until November 9 for its burning ceremony.

FRI 11.01.2024

🎨 OPENING RECEPTION “BLOCK XXIV” Exhibition 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at MFAH Glassell School of Art (5101 Montrose Blvd., Houston 77006). On view thru December 1 2024 are works by 11 artists that evoke various, often indeterminate, states of being along the spectrum of transformation.

🎨 ARTIST HOURS + OPEN HOUSE “Kristin Marie Bachmann | At the Still Point” in Techno Gallery at TXRX Labs (6501 Navigation Blvd., Houston 77011). Seventy sculptural works employing various weave structures were developed over four years at multiple locations in Texas and New York.

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SAT 11.02.2024

🎨 ART VIEWING + FILM SCREENING “Kaleidoscope” and “Mr. Limburger Short Films” 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM at Hardy & Nance Studios (902 Hardy St., Houston 77020). RobinWood Art Studio presents Wood Fancher Anthony's large-scale painting inspired by Mexican embroidery patterns and created using holy water sourced from Zacatecas, México. A 2:00 PM screening of the artist's animated stop-motion films stars the studio's beloved mascot.

🎨 CLOSING RECEPTION + ARTIST TALK “Folded Time: Colleen Maynard and Sarah Sudhoff” 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Throughline Collective (3909 Main St., Houston 77002). The examination of the compounding and unspooling of time and process via performance, drawing, photography and collage.

🎨 ARTIST TALK “Kelli Scott Kelley: Nature Morte” 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Andrew Durham Gallery (1821 W. Alabama St., Houston 77098). The artist discusses her enigmatic narrative paintings that incorporate collage, using vintage linens and other re-purposed materials. 

🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION “DISASSOCIATON V: Sarah Fisher” 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Jung Center Houston (5200 Montrose Blvd., Houston 77006). The artist's first outdoor installation – a hand-carved hand painted sculpture – is celebrated.

🎨 OPENING RECEPTION “Homeland: Random Musings of a Native Son” 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Archway Gallery (2305 Dunlavy St., Houston 77006). New paintings and mixed media works by artist Harold Joiner.

🎨 OPENING RECEPTION “Caroline Gray: Stutter” 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Front Gallery (1412 Bonnie Brae St., Houston 77006). Observe the digital means employed by the artist as she continues her practice of making the exhibitions and paintings of other artists the subject of her own work. 

🎨 OPENING RECEPTION “Mac Whitney: Interconnected Elements” 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at Gallery Sonja Roesch (2309 Caroline St., Houston 77004). A collaborative exhibition with Andrew Durham Gallery, which opens its presentation in December.

🎨 OPENING RECEPTIONS 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Redbud Arts Center (303 East 11th St., Houston 77008):

• East Gallery: "About Women" presents ten lithographs in "About Women," which were created by Los Angeles surrealist and abstract expressionist artist John Altoon and inspired by American poet Robert Creeley's poems.
• West Gallery: “Lord Karl: Disruption” features the unconventional canvas—hand-painted brand-name leather jackets—of this emerging artist that draw inspiration from historic figures and explore themes of identity, rebellion, and artistic expression.

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SUN 11.03.2024

🎨 LIVE MUSIC EVENT “Sensorium: Songs of Revival” 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM at the Water Works Lawn at Buffalo Bayou Park (105-B Sabine St., Houston 77007). This is a free outdoor performance by Houston musician and sound artist Frewuhn who created the original music for the "Haha Real: Rachel Rossin" art installation on view at Buffalo Bayou Cistern thru Nov. 10.

HANDS-ON HOUSTON FALL FESTIVAL

Saturday, November 2 • 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

This free festival features hands-on activities and craft demonstrations for all ages:

• Create a mixed-media house collage with Perata Bradley.
• Make a Day of the Dead clay talisman with Gabo Martinez.
• Make a pin button with Jamie Sterling Pitt.
• Watch craft demonstrations by resident artists.
• See the new exhibition “In Residence: 17th Edition."
• Purchase refreshments from Moon Rooster food truck.

FREE CALENDAR LISTINGS! Promote your Houston art events by visiting melissarichardsonbanks.com/events and clicking "Submit Events" to enter information about your event.

WANT TO BE INCLUDED IN MY E-NEWSLETTER? To give me time to review and consider for inclusion, you must submit your events through my website two to four weeks in advance AND a representative from your organization must subscribe to my e-newsletter. Please understand that I cannot include every single event at every art venue throughout Houston. I do my best! And, remember, this weekly e-newsletter is solely a passion project for me as I like to keep a list of what I really want to see.