MUSED HOUSTON ART EVENTS | May 6

THIS WEEK IN HOUSTON

May 6–10, 2026

Houston’s art world doesn’t believe in easing into May. This week is packed with openings, performances, screenings, walks, and talks, including one very Houston-style celebration as Notsuoh marks 30 years with its four-day Dirty Thirty Anniversary Festival (May 6–9), featuring live music, installations, poetry, film, and creative chaos.

East End Movie Nights moves to Wednesday nights at Equal Parts Brewing. Curated by artist XZZX (Mariela G. Dominguez), this month’s series highlights biographical films about influential musicians from across Ibero-America (free admission).

Saturday brings Orange Show Center for Visionary Art’s The SLAB Social, celebrating Houston’s iconic SLAB culture with custom rides, DJs, food trucks, and swangas galore, while BOX 13 ArtSpace hosts its annual Empty BOX fundraiser later that evening.

And to top off whatever you have planned for Mother’s Day, consider catching the classic 1986 sci-fi thriller Aliens at River Oaks Theatre!

Melissa Richardson Banks

Founder, Publisher & Editor

MUSED HOUSTON

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WEDNESDAY 05.06.2026

11:30 AM–12:30 PM ARTIST TALK Sarah Sudhoff: Code of Conduct with curator Rosa Ana Orlando at TANK Space in Spring Street Studios

6–11 PM MUSIC EVENT Ice House Radio at The Car Wash (underneath Echoes) – free, weekly Tuesday–Saturday

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

7–9 PM FILM SERIES East End Movie Nights: Living Stories | Histories Vivas at Equal Parts Brewing – free screening of *The Violin* (Mexico, 2005; 98 min.)

THURSDAY 05.07.2026

6–10 PM ART EVENT First Thursdays Block Party at Mid Main Houston

7–8 PM LECTURE Drawing as Technology at Menil Drawing Institute

7 PM to MIDNIGHT Dirty Thirty Anniversary Festival: 30, Flirty & Thriving at notsouH – Wednesday through Saturday; four days of immersive installations, live music, performance art, poetry, film screenings, and interactive experiences across multiple spaces

FRIDAY 05.08.2026

4–8 PM ART EVENT Community Project with Artist Kandy G Lopez at Houston Museum of African American Culture – an evening of art, creativity and community

6–8 PM OPENING RECEPTION CAMH presents The Sequence Is Yours: Teacher Advisory Group Exhibit at ARTECHouse – SOLD OUT. Join the waitlist for free admission or buy tickets at www.artechouse.com using the code CAMHTAG at checkout for 25% off adult and child admission tickets.

7:30–9 PM OPENING RECEPTION Journeys Through Color: Narmin Backus at Our Texas Cultural Center

SATURDAY 05.09.2026

9–11 AM COMMUNITY ART EVENT Urban Paths presents 713Walks Arts District Houston in the Historic First Ward – free, space limited, reservations required, meet at Fresh Arts Office

11 AM–12 PM ARTIST TALK Ender Martos: The Geometry of Empathy at ELLIO Fine Art – doors open at 10:30 AM

11 AM–1 PM OPENING RECEPTION Matt Kleberg: Two-Way Mirror at Josh Pazda Hiram Butler

1–2 PM ARTIST TALK McKay Otto: GOLD at Heidi Vaughan Fine Art

3–4 PM ART TALKS Resident Artist Talks: Malene Djenaba Barnett & Katie Mongoven at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

3–5 PM ARTIST RECEPTION + TOUR Ramona Residency presents Five Ramona Artist Mothers at CityCentre Two (818 Town & Country Blvd., Houston, TX 77024) – Maddie Casagranda, Cassie Arnold, Beatriz Bellorín, Megan Harrison, Adrian Rhodes

3–5 PM OPENING RECEPTION Dan Sutherland: What I Had at Moody Gallery – artist talk at 4 PM

4–7 PM OPENING RECEPTION Celebration of Spirit at Czech Center Museum Houston

4–8 PM ART EVENT The SLAB Social at the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art – free event featuring candy-colored, custom vehicles with neon displays, tinted windows, and signature swangas, along with DJs, an exhibition, food trucks, a speaker program, and a vendor market.

7–9 PM FUNDRAISING EVENT Empty BOX: Class of 2026 at BOX 13 ArtSpace

SUNDAY 05.10.2026

9:15–11:59 PM FILM SCREENING Aliens starring Sigourney Weaver at River Oaks Theatre

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