Events

Join Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and Houston Center for Photography live on Facebook for a joint virtual talk by current resident artists, Hillerbrand+Magsamen. The Houston-based artists are the recipients of the inaugural Interdisciplinary Craft + Photography Artist Residency, offered by HCCC and Houston Center for Photography. The three-month residency was created in response to the growing number of artists who are working at the intersection of contemporary craft and photography, supporting those with an experimental, multidisciplinary edge, who are testing…

T.V. to See the Sky Inspired by Yoko Ono’s work, SKY T.V. June 21, 2021, beginning at sunrise 5:42AM Pacific Standard Time and continuing for 24 hours This event is inspired by Yoko Ono’s second conceptualization of SKY T.V. in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery, which she described as “a T.V. just to see the sky. Different channels for different skies, high-up sky, low sky, etc." SKY T.V. 1966 (furniture piece) was a video sculpture described by Ono as “a…

What does it mean to make photographic work about and in a community? What are the ethics of telling others’ stories? How can these stories transcend regional and national borders, and connect disparate communities? Finally, what can pictures do, and what are their limitations? Join HCP’s 2020 Carol Crow Memorial Fellow, Briana Vargas, and Mauricio Palos, award-winning documentalist and cultural promoter, as they discuss these questions around Centro Cultural Tenexcalco, where Vargas realized her fellowship body of work, Dicen. Founded…

MOVEMENT STUDY III: CIRCLING A HAWK by Elizabeth Bick In Conversation: Elizabeth Bick (2020 HCP Fellow) and Dorota Biczel (ED and Curator, HCP) How can photography be intermediatic? What even are the intermedia? How does an intermediatic approach alter customary expectations of distance and intimacy in photography? Artist Elizabeth Bick and HCP’s Executive Director and Curator, Dorota Biczel, discuss Bick’s practice informed by her training in modern dance. At the core of Bick’s work are relationships between architecture, urban fabric,…

Join Juror Kris Graves and the artists of 38th Center Annual in an online celebration for the show! Over the past weeks, Center Annual has provided a diverse range of works to be viewed by the public at HCP. The show, as Graves states, contains "imagery that has the potential to change stagnant viewpoints about the world we live in." Save the date and be a part of the conversation! The event will take place on Thursday, August 26, 5:00–6:30pm…