TUNE IN THIS FRIDAY! I'm proud to be one of the guests featured in this Friday's episode of "The Houston Hour" with Mister McKinney and Heidi Vaughan on KPFT 90.1. The show airs live at 8:00 PM Central or you can listen on your own if you download this and other episodes from the station's archives!


WELCOME! Are you new to my weekly MUSED Houston Art Events newsletter? If so, welcome -- and encourage your friends to subscribe, too! This issue marks my 500th Houston art event that I've publicized since going public in July 2023.


SEE ART EVERY DAY! I hope to see you out and about in the Houston art scene.


~ Melissa Richardson Banks


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WED 02.07.2024


🎨 ART EVENT 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM "Fragments of Fiction Concert: Electro-Acoustic Music & Public Art" at UH’s MD Anderson Library of Honors College Commons (212 MD Anderson Library, Houston 77204). Experience new electronic music works by student composers, inspired by public artworks.


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THU 02.08.2024


🎨 OPENING RECEPTION 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM "Black Houston and the Arts" at the African American History Research Center of the Gregory School (1300 Victor St., Houston 77019). Through June 2024, artwork is on view by selected Timekeepers Resource Awardable Coalition members who studied at Texas Southern University.


🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM "Nathan Lindstrom: On Set / Off Set" at Silver Street Studios - West Gallery (2000 Edwards St., Houston 77007). On view thru February 12, 2024, this photography exhibition explores the juxtaposition between art created for commercial endeavors and fine art exploration.


🎨 ART EVENT 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM "An Ode to the Motherward" in CAMH's Reading Room at POST Houston (401 Franklin St., Houston 77201). Join "THIS WAY: A Houston Group Show" artists Berlin and Charonda Johnson in conversation at POST Houston with poet Avalon Hogans and artist Amarie Gipson.


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FRI 02.09.2024


🎨 ARTIST RECEPTION 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM "Texas on My Mind: Nancy Paris Pruden & Kathy Love" at Reeves Art + Design (2415 Taft St., Houston 77006). On view thru February 24, 2024, landscape and still-life paintings pay homage to the distinctive hues and serene aesthetics of the Texas Hill Country.


🎨 ART SHOW 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM "Love You to Death" at Hardy & Nance Studios (902 Hardy St., Houston 77020). Insomnia Gallery presents this one-night-only group show.


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SAT 02.10.2024


🎨 ART EVENT 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM "Love and Art in Magnolia Park" at La Casita de Colores of Magnolia Park Arts & Community (7515 Avenue J, Houston 77012). Artist Jesse E. Rodriguez displays his "LOVE Sculpture I Re- Created" just in time for Valentine's Day.


🎨 ART EVENT 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM "Second Saturday Open Studios" at Sawyer Yards (2000 Edwards St., Houston 77007). Artists open their studios monthly to the public


🎨 ART EXHIBIT 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM "Here and Now: Cultural Expressions" at Community Artists’ Collective (4101 San Jacinto St., Ste. 116, Houston 77004). On view thru February 29, 2024, works by 13 contemporary artists are drawn from the permanent collections.


🎨 ART EVENT 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM "Lunar New Year Night Market" at Market Square Park (301 Milam St., Houston 77002). This free festival features traditional dance performances and a night market with over 40 food and art vendors.


🎨 ART EVENT 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM "I Love You | Karla Modesto and Sebastien ‘Mr. D 1987’ Boileau" at Artique Gallery (1024 Studewood St., Houston 77008). An indoor-outdoor "romance recital" of music at this quaint, mostly private gallery space coincides with this collaborative art exhibition on view thru February 29, 2024.


🎨 ART EVENT 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM "Frank X. Tolbert 2 | Year of the Dragon Celebration" at Andrew Durham Gallery (1821 W. Alabama St., Houston 77098). Celebrate the Lunar New Year with dragon artworks by Frank X. Tolbert 2.


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SUN 02.11.2024


🎨 COMMUNITY EVENT 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM "Guided Meditation with Aproteem Choudhury" at Memorial Park's Cullen Running Trails Center (7575 N Picnic Ln., Houston 77007). This free wellness series encompasses how the power of nature can have a positive impact on our mental and emotional well-being.


🎨 OPENING RECEPTION @ 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM "A Horseshoe Over a Door | Skylar Haskard and Devin T. Mays" at F gallery (4225 Gibson St, Houston 77007). New site-specific improvisional sculptural works on view thru March 31, 2024 by appointment only.

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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. If you miss an opening at a museum or gallery, please check the calendar on my website at www.melissarichardsonbanks.com to plan your visit during the venue's regular operating hours.

KPFT'S "THE HOUSTON HOUR" with Mister McKinney and Heidi Vaughan


The Houston Hour is a hour-long radio show focused on the city's art and history that airs every Friday at 8:00 PM on 90.1 KPFT Houston, a listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station. Listen LIVE on your way home from art gallery hopping or visit the station's archives to download and save episodes for later listening.


Produced by Houston's favorite historian, Mister McKinney is also the co-host with multi-talented art advisor extraordinaire Heidi Vaughan who owns Heidi Vaughan Fine Art and is also a fine art appraiser.


The Houston Hour first hit the KPFT airwaves in 2018. Since then, hundreds of Houstonians have been interviewed on the show. Episodes often feature two guests: a creative arts-related guest, and a legendary Houston history guest.


Mister McKinney is the iconic Houston historian whose mission is ensuring the city's future doesn’t forget its past. His yellow, open-top Houston History Bus enables him to traverse the city to teach people from all walks of life about the history of Houston. He offers more than 100 different tours of historic neighborhoods and significant places around Houston. Mister McKinney’s Titans & Tycoons and Women History tours are among crowd favorites.


Heidi Vaughan is a gallerist, art advisor, and art consultant whose namesake gallery is located at 3510 Lake St at Colquitt in the Upper Kirby district, home to Houston’s oldest Gallery Row. She advises on all aspects of art collecting, including sales, the creation of cohesive collections, valuation, authentication, conservation, framing, installation, display, shipping, storage, deaccessioning, and liquidation.


LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE WITH ARTIST HOWARD SHERMAN featured on January 12, 2024 -- click HERE