WEDNESDAY 04.08.2026

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

THURSDAY 04.09.2026

12–7:30 PM ART EVENT Villa Albertine presents 2026 Night of Ideas Houston: Enlightenment Legacies, Critical Futures: Thought, Speech, Action at Rice University – a free afternoon (and night) of discussion among scholars, artists, students, and community members

4–6 PM OPENING RECEPTION Annual Student Art Exhibition at O'Kane Gallery | Willow Street Pump Station (807 N San Jacinto St, Houston, TX 77002)

5:30–7:30 PM ART EVENT Craft Perspectives: Works in Progress at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

5:30–8 PM CONVERSATION Reflections at 40: A Conversation with Wendy Watriss and Steven Evans of FotoFest at Silver Street Studios, Door 1

6–8 PM ART RECEPTION David Trinidad Cordero at Rozi Turnbull Gallery – includes art by member artists, live music and refreshments

6–9 PM ART EVENT The Orange Show presents Art Car Sneak Peek at Discovery Green

6:30–8 PM PERFORMANCE LECTURE Raquel Gutiérrez | A Tailgating Duet: On Infrastructural Intimacies at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

7–10 PM OPENING RECEPTION Fresh Arts presents Jakari Sherman: Our Road Home: Gallery as Instrument at Winter Street Studios

FRIDAY 04.10.2026

6–7:30 PM DANCE PERFORMANCE Dimensions Variable: Open Machine at Moody Center for the Arts

6–9 PM OPENING RECEPTION Third Ward Quarterly Art Exhibition at Houston Community Land Trust – photographers Tomii Culmer, Marc Furi, and Jakayla Monay; organized in collaboration with Project Row Houses and Third Ward Cultural District

7:30–9 PM READING Escritores en la Casa: María José Navia at Inprint Houston 

SATURDAY 04.11.2026

11 AM–5 PM ART EVENT FLATS presents Uncle Bob's Photo Zine & Book Market at Silver Street Studios

2–4 PM PERFORMANCE Central American Slide Jam at Lawndale Art Center – Central American artists highlighted from the Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue exhibition on view

3–5 PM OPENING RECEPTION Pat Colville: Conversations (with Walter Benjamin) at Moody Gallery – artist talk at 4 PM

4–5 PM LITERARY EVENT The Artist and the Book: Photographer Diana Matar in Conversation with Curator Lisa Volpe at Museum of Fine Arts Houston

4:30–5:30 PM CONCERT Japanese Quartet COSMOS presents Music in Bloom at St. Philip’s United Methodist Church

5–7 PM ARTIST RECEPTION Edward Lane McCartney: Connections and Lynn Bennett Carpenter: The Rages at Hooks-Epstein Galleries

5–8 PM RECEPTION Fifty Forward at Archway Gallery

6–7:30 PM DANCE PERFORMANCE Dimensions Variable: Open Machine at Moody Center for the Arts

6–9 PM ART EVENT Block Party at Art League Houston – art vendors, community, music by Ice House Radio

6–9 PM OPENING RECEPTION 28th Annual Contained & Arranged at Foelber Pottery Gallery & Studio – pairing of floral artists with ceramicists

6–9 PM OPENING RECEPTION Fotofest Through Many Lenses: The Redbud Collection at Redbud Arts Center

7:30–9 PM MUSIC PERFORMANCE Listening: The Fourth String with Raheleh Filsoofi and Reza Filsoofi on the ShahTár at Ismaili Center – tickets $25; a four-string experimental rug instrument with Houston-based artists

SUNDAY 04.12.2026

11 AM–4 PM ART EVENT FLATS presents Uncle Bob's Photo Zine & Book Market at Silver Street Studios

12–3 PM ART EVENT 28th Annual Contained & Arranged at Foelber Pottery Gallery & Studio – pairing of floral artists with ceramicists

5–7:30 PM CONCERT Jazzy Sundays in the Park: Melvin Johnson and Mahoganee Renee at The Water Works in Buffalo Bayou Park – free; bring your own picnic blanket and lawn chairs

MONDAY 04.13.2026

7:30–9:30 PM MUSIC EVENT Nameless Sound's They, Who Sound at Lawndale Art Center