This week's FRESH Art on Tap: February 12

2019

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In this new edition of Arts on Tap, artist, curator, and co-founder of the recently launched Latinx Artist Registry & Directory - MantecaHTX - Theresa Escobedo shares exhibition highlights from Houston's first-ever Spring of Latino Art (Feb 1 - May 31).

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#1 Artist's Choice pick for this week's Art on Tap is the Carlos Cruz- Diez commissioned site-specific digital installation Spatial Chromointerference (Sun, Jan 20 - Sun, Apr 7, 2019).

Up next - Radical Memory (Feb 1 - April 13), which features selected works from the collection of Gilberto Cardenas, a prominent researcher and advocate for Latino artists and communities across the country.

Wrapping up this selection is a fresh event this weekend: an Artist Talk with Darwin Arevalo & Grace Zuniga, presented this Saturday, 2-4 PM in conjunction with Prima Materia, on view now at The Union (Jan 19 - March 9). This engaging artist talk will be followed immediately in the same venue by a MantecaHTX Open Call Info Session, sharing exhibition opportunities with artists interested in presenting their work during SOLA and the forthcoming Latino Art Now! conference.


Spatial Chromointerference @ The Cistern more details	Radical Memory @ Sawyer Yards more details	Prima Materia @ The Union more details

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12

ReelPeople: UP Abilities @ A.D. Players at The George Theater February 12 // 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM // $18 Everything is Possible. Live a No-Barrier Life. You don't need eyes to see - you need vision. Follow Jen, Erik, and Amanda - amoung others - as you learn about the obsticles they overcome trying to live their life to the fullest against all odds. ... more details
The Idea Fund Round 11 Grantee Reception @ Aurora Picture Show February 12 // 7:30 PM // Free Come celebrate our TIF Round 11 Grantees and hear more about their upcoming projects! Each grantee will be giving a short presentation. Presentations will begin at 8:00pm. Light fare and refreshments will be served. Let's celebrate the arts in the Greater Houston Area!... more details

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13

REELART 2019 @ Celebration Company February 13 - March 14 // Free Celebration Company is a Houston-based entrepreneurial program composed of more than 20 adult artists living with disabilities who create art and photography for both a leisure activity and a life skill. The Center for Art and Photography at Celebration Company is a gallery and gift showroom that features their paintings, handmade paper and photographs, taken with adaptive cameras... more details
REELART @ Celebration Company February 13 // 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free with Registration Roy is a talented artist from Houston who graduated with honors from Texas Southern University in 2014. With a keen penchant for color, he is a nationally recognized mixed media artist who has Down syndrome. Ezra's art fluctuates between realism and abstraction, at times with African and hip hop themes... more details
Round 48 \| Somewhere I Read @ Project Row Houses February 13 // 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM // Free Project Row Houses (PRH) presents "Somewhere I Read," a series of listening groups focused on the themes of listening to and hearing Black Geographies. In conjunction with Tia-Simone Gardner's Round 48 installation "The Black Power Station," the listening groups will hear an audio recording of the essay "Mathematics Black Life" by Black Feminist Geographer Katherine McKittrick... more details
MARCI'S STAFF PICK Fuenteco Presents Bad Love: A Dark Valentine's Reading & Open Mic @ Brasil February 13 // 7:00 PM // Free Love is not always roses and chocolates. Sometimes love is dark, sometimes it's a punch in the gut, and sometimes it's just laugh-out-loud ridiculous. This Valentine's Eve, join us for a different kind of Valentine's reading--one that doesn't focus on the happily-ever-afters but that instead lingers on all that is less than perfect in, about, and around the subject of love. We'll feature three special guest readers, poets John Pluecker and Reyes Ramirez and playwright Jelisa Jay Robinson, and will then open the stage to any and all Houston writers and poets for an open mic... more details
DARAL'S STAFF PICK Petty weight Championship SLam @ Avant Garden February 13 // 7:30 PM // $5 Valentine's Day presents a wonderful opportunity each year for our poets to get petty. Attend this event and witness the embarassing, the cringe worthy, the texas-sized tea that comes with failed past relationships. For this slam, all petty-themed poems get a two point bonus. Poets will be prioritized by the number of petty poems they have and then it will be first come. first serve... more details
Arts Connect Community Conversations on Arts Education @ Houston Arts Alliance February 13 - 20 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free Arts Connect is a collective impact initiative seeking to build relationships with our community. We share a vision to realize the tremendous potential of every student by ensuring the arts as essential to a complete education, recognizing that when students prosper, our community thrives... more details

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14

MICAH'S STAFF PICK Femme Fatale @ The Flat February 14 // 4:00 PM Femme Fatale presented by our very own DJ SMNS hosts a myriad of strictly female DJ talent every Thursday night at 10. HipHop, Dance Beats, and more to Warm up your Weekend. A new Guest DJ every Thursday Night and don't forget about our drink specials!... more details
JESSICA'S STAFF PICK Cultured Cocktails benefiting Guerra Girl @ Boheme Cafe and Wine Bar February 14 // 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free FRESH ARTS EVENT Please join us for drinks and conversation at Boheme Cafe & Wine Bar on Thursday, February 14th, when a portion of the proceeds from all drink sales during the 5:00PM -8:00PM happy hour will go to support Guerra Girl. So enjoy a drink or two, meet Guerra Girl, and take-in Boheme's bohemian atmosphere! The proceeds from the evening will support the artist Guerra Girl so don't be shy, raise a glass (or three) while raising funds for Guerra Girl... more details
Public Opening: Roni Horn - When I Breathe, I Draw @Menil Drawing Institute February 14 // 7:00 PM // Free For over thirty years drawing has been fundamental to the practice of contemporary American artist Roni Horn (b. 1955), whose work revolves around the mutability of identity and the fragility of place, time, and language. "Roni Horn: When I Breathe, I Draw" presents a selected survey of the artist's drawings from the early 1980s to her most recent work on paper... more details
Faking It: A Story of Love @ Staton Theater February 14 // 8:00 PM // $10 LOVE IS WEIRD... This Valentine's Day, some of Houston's best improvisers and stand-up comics will reveal the truth about love and all things related - through totally made-up characters... more details
Jazz on Valentine's Concert @ MATCH February 14 // 8:00 PM // Varies Jazz vocalist Raquel Cepeda presents "Jazz on Valentine's" on Thursday, February 14, 2019. The concert will be featuring timeless romantic Jazz tunes, offering the most romantic alternative to enjoy your Valentine's Day... more details
REYES'S STAFF PICK National Association of Chicana and Chiano Studies, Tejas FOCO 2019 @ HCC \| Eastside Campus February 14 - 16 // 5:00 PM 10:00 PM // Varies The 2019 National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies--Tejas Foco conference is an interdisciplinary conference. We invite submissions that offer insight into past, current, and future strategies of empowerment and resistance within new configurations and redefinitions of self and community, the dynamics of El Movimiento and how we tell our stories, reclaiming our histories, and defining our realities in the 21st century... more details
Boston Marriage @ MATCH February 14 - 23 // Varies // $25 Women of fashion meet Wildean wit in this wickedly funny comedy, set in the early 20th Century. Anna has received an enormous emerald from her married lover, as well as a stipend with which she intends to woo her longtime companion, Claire. But Claire is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna's help for a rendezvous. When Claire's young inamorata appears, it sets off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's futures at risk... more details
Theatre at the J: Moonlight and Magnolias @ Jewish Community Center \| Joe Frank Theatre February 14 - 24 // Varies // General $30 / Member $20 It's 1939 and hilarity abounds. From the memoirs of legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht comes this true story, now adapted for the stage. Movie mogul David Selznick has stopped production on Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is a disaster!... more details
BOOTYCANDY @ MATCH February 14 - March 10 // Varies // Pay-What-You-Can Robert O'Hara's semi-autobiographical and wildly subversive comedy tells the story of Sutter, a young gay black man on an outrageous odyssey through his childhood home, his church, dive bars, motel rooms, and his grandmother's nursing home. At times poignant, shocking, hilarious, and wise, BOOTYCANDY is a kaleidoscope of scenes, sermons, sketches, and daring meta-theatrics... more details

FRIDAY , FEBRUARY 15

Garland Fielder: Neveroddoreven @ Anya Tish Gallery February 15 // 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM // Free Fielder references the balanced nature of his work by using a palindrome as the exhibition's title NEVERODDOREVEN hints at the symmetry and reflection to be discovered. At the heart of the exhibition resides an enduring fascination with the psychology behind various tests of interpretation, such as Rorschach ink blots. While those references are not literally transposed into the art, one can begin to elucidate reflected symmetries hiding in various ensembles through a meditative viewing of the entire exhibition as an installation... more details
All Güt Things @ Czech Center Museum Houston February 15 // 6:00 PM // Free In partnership with the Czech Center Museum Houston, the Goethe Pop Up Houston presents All Güt Things, a newly completed documentary by Chase Honaker that chronicles the story of the 19th century immigration of Germans to Texas and the unique dialect that was born from it... more details
Double Happiness & Difficult Bamboo @ MATCH February 15 // 8:00 PM // Varies Balancing youthful exuberance with moments of profound introspection, Double Happiness & Difficult Bamboo portrays a refreshingly current perspective on contemporary chamber music in repertoire that explores popular culture, pre-recorded media, meaningful historical references, and shifting artistic paradigms... more details
HGO Presents Studio Recitals at MFAH @ MFAH February 15 - 16 // 7:30 PM // $40 HGO's popular Studio Recital series returns with artists of the Houston Grand Opera Studio performing an intimate program of classical works. The up-and-coming singers and pianist, among the most talented in the world of opera, will perform works by a variety of composers, including William Walton, Charles Griffes and Salvador Moreno from Mexico... more details
Berlin's Zvizdal: Chernobyl - So Far So Close @ MATCH February 15 - 16 // Varies // Varies BERLIN's Zvizdal is a cinematic play that follows the day-to-day existence of an elderly couple living in the abandoned Chernobyl forbidden zone. To create the work, the Belgian-based collective, BERLIN, traveled to the village of Zvizdal to document how the couple continues to live, work, and survive 30 years after the nuclear disaster of 1986. The resulting film, sculpture, and set portray the world of Pétra and Nadia, their love, and their stubborn refusal to allow an invisible danger to separate them from their home... more details

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16

ANGELA'S STAFF PICK Space City Slam Series: Preliminary #3 @ BakerRipley February 16 // 10:00 AM // See Website FRESH ARTS ARTIST MEMBER Compete for your chance to join the internationally-renowned Meta-Four Houston youth slam team. The top 6 winners will receive free travel, meals, and accommodations to Brave New Voices 2019, held this summer in Las Vegas. This free competition is open to Houston teens, ages 13-19. Register today!.. more details
Clay Mug Workshop at HCCC @ Houston Center for Contemporary Craft February 16 // 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM // Free Led by current resident artist Zoe Gross, this two-session workshop (February 16 and 23) covers hand-building techniques to create a textured clay mug. On the first Saturday of the workshop, get your hands dirty, as you discover how to use slabs of clay to build your mug. Practice your basic building and joining skills to add a handle, and experiment with various textures and decorative techniques to enhance the surface of your object... more details
Queer(ing) the Canon: Queer Figure Drawing Session @ Station Museum February 16 // 2:00 PM // Free FRESH ARTS ARTIST MEMBER Queer(ing) the Canon is a series of free figure drawing sessions for the public to practice seeing, appreciating, interacting with, and drawing queer bodies. Hosted by the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, this series actively combats the hetero-patriarchal canon of art by centering the bodies and experiences of queer folx, as opposed to the bodies that have been historically valued (i.e, straight, white, male). Queer(ing) the Canon creates body-positive spaces, meaning we welcome models of all genders, body types, abilities, and racial/ethnic backgrounds... more details
Exhibition of Sculpture - Jim Love: Special Reception @ Moody Gallery February 16 // 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM // Free Moody Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculpture by Jim Love (1927-2005) from The Estate of William J. Hill. The works in the exhibition date from 1959 to 1988, nearly three decades of the artist's life. Sculpture marks the gallery's first one-person exhibition of Love's work since his death in 2005... more details
A Complimentary Opera Concert @ Czech Center Museum February 16 // 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM // Free Join us for a intimate evening of art song in Houston's Museum District at the Czech Center Museum Houston. Audiences are invited to experience the exceptional talents of up-and-coming artists from Houston Grand Opera Studio. Developed thematically, each performance features a repertoire of works by renowned composers and surprise talents, selected for your enjoyment by HGO Studio members... more details
Houston Choreographers X6 @ Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center February 16 // 8:00 PM // General $30 / Member $20 / Student & Senior $15 A time honored tradition whereby the J commissions six emerging choreographers to create a new work to perform at the Kaplan Theatre. A memorable evening featuring new works by: Stacey Allen, Jennifer Mabus, Kristy Nilsson, Donald C. Shorter, Jr., Dwain Travis, and Shizu Yasuda. Uptown Dance Company makes a quest appearance performing excerpts from "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" by choreographer Krissy Richmond... more details
Theremin Fantasies @ MATCH February 16 // 8:00 PM // Varies Apollo takes the stage with theremin wunderkind Carolina Eyck. Featuring works by Bohuslav Martinů and Eyck herself, join us for an evening of new collaborations and unique sounds... more details more details
The 80s Kids: Just a Friend @ Staton Theater February 16 // 9:30 PM // Free Mystic Lyon is thrilled to present "Canis Major" by legendary artist Sharon Kopriva. During the run of the show, there will be dog and animal inspired programming including meditations for sending animals healing, a Gong Grant for an area dog support group and an extra special event lead by Kopriva... more details
Sharon Kopriva's Canis Major - Opening Reception @ Mystic Lyon February 16 // 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM // $10 "Just a Friend" is a long form improv show featuring The '80s Kids - a group of performers who came together over a mutual love of 80s pop culture because they LIVED it, man! This week, The '80s Kids welcome I'm Just Happy to Be Here + The Space Rhyme Continuum Improvised Hip-Hop!... more details

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17

Beers & Art at Saint Arnold Brewing Co. @St. Arnold's Brewery Febrauary 17 // 11:00 AM // Free WE are excited to kick the year off with another awesome afternoon of great local delicious Saint Arnold craft beers, talented local Houston artist & makers. Some of the best & coolest vintage selections from local curators! And of course, some great jams to keep things going!!.. more details
Jackie and Me @ MATCH February 17 // 2:30 PM Young Joey Stoshack has the special power to travel through time, so when he's given an assignment to write a paper about a famous African-American, he chooses Jackie Robinson and heads back to 1947 to meet the man himself. Through his adventures, Joey experiences what it's like to be African-American during a time of segregation and witnesses first-hand Jackie smashing the color barrier, even when people on his own team are against him. A powerful tale of bravery and integrity... more details
REELFILMS - Far From the Tree @ Edwards Greenway Grand Palace Stadium 24 & RPX February 17 // 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM // Free with Registration Based on the New York Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, this film follows the journeys of five families in how they respond, with love, empathy, and understanding, to extraordinary developmental, physical and life challenges. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who we thought they might have been... more details
Guest Recital: Eduardo Monteiro @ University of Houston \| Fine Art Building February 17 // 7:30 PM // Free The Moores School of Music presents a recital by pianist Eduardo Monteiroof the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He will perform works by Beethoven, Mignone, Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Wagner/Liszt.... more details
BLACK LOVE: The Return of the Poetry Lounge @ Alley Kat Bar & Lounge February 17 - 24 // Varies // $15-$50 The much-anticipated relaunch of Poetry Lounge is a salute to Black History Month and the incomparable Queen of lyricism, Miss Nina Simone. Affectionately named after her 1979 live recorded album, Poetry Lounge reemerges this February as Black Gold, a series of open mic sets addressing Black Matters, Black Politics, Black Love and Black & Beautiful... more details

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Sensory Friendly Day

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

A.I. Lack Series Recital: Duo Edelen @Moores School of Music February 19 // 1:00 PM // Free The A.I. Lack Master Series at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music annually presents distinguished classical performers and recognized pedagogues in a series of free masterclasses and recitals, which provide a wider educational experience for UH students and the Houston community. The endowment that supports the series was established in memory of Abram I. Lack in 1989... more details
WIVLA Monthly Meeting @ Archway Gallery February 19 // 5:45 PM // Free SoulCollage® is a process in which you tap into your intuition to create a "deck" of amazing cards, each of which celebrate deep personal meaning. These cards have the ability to transform your life as you allow them to inform you about important decisions or transitions, or simply teach you more about varied aspects of your self... more details
Cade Manning Hayes and Jesús E. Robles, Jr. Dust: Origins @ Museum of Fine Arts \| Brown Auditorium February 19 // 7:00 PM // Free The Rice Design Alliance has selected DUST, an architecture studio based in Tucson, AZ, founded by Principals Cade Hayes and Jesús E. Robles, Jr., as the recipient of the Spotlight Award 2019. The Spotlight Award considers architects from around the world within the first 15 years of their professional practice who have demonstrated design excellence and curiosity through their body of work... more details
Chamber Winds, Wind Ensemble @ Moores Opera Center February 19 // 7:30 PM // Free The Moores School of Music presents a concert by the Chamber Winds and Wind Ensemble... more details