Art Encounters | “Collective Thoughts”
(left) Artist Zulma Vega / (right) Two views of Human, 2021, metal mesh, tulle fabric, painted wood, metal rod, thread, and canvas. © Zulma Vega
Nahuange, Colombia, Plaque Ornament with Human and Two Birds, 200–300 AD, gold, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Calima, Colombia, Circular House Model, 200 BC–800 AD, gold, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr.
Zulma Vega, Human, 2021, metal mesh, tulle fabric, painted wood, metal rod, thread, and canvas. © Zulma Vega
Zulma Vega, Human (detail), 2021, metal mesh, tulle fabric, painted wood, metal rod, thread, and canvas. © Zulma Vega
Artist Zulma Vega
Art Encounters | Collective Thoughts
Included in today’s Fall Festival “Dream with Alebrijes”
Looking for a new art experience? Drop-in Art Encounters programs, led by artists and inspired by art at the MFAH, focus on creating community. The way you participate is up to you! Take an active role, or simply observe.
At this Art Encounters session, join in creating Collective Thoughts, a collaborative sculpture illustrating the theme of humans coexisting with Mother Earth. The project is inspired by Zulma Vega’s sculptural works and the exhibition Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia.
Responding to prompts about your relationship to nature and community, offer your thoughts by writing or drawing onto various golden materials that are then integrated into a wire-basketlike structure. Supplies are provided.
Plan Your Visit
On November 6, MFAH general admission is free. The Museum is open from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the Fall Festival runs from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. This Art Encounters activity takes place in the Arrivals Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building, and Golden Worlds is on view in the Law Building.
Safety Guidelines In the interest of your personal safety and community health, please observe all precautions set forth by the MFAH. Learn more here.
About the Artist
Colombian multidisciplinary artist Zulma Vega moved to Houston in 2012. Influenced by psychological and spiritual matters, her art incorporates manufactured materials such as cement and plexiglass with organic ones like wood and stones. Vega’s work encourages viewers to contemplate ancestors, intimate inquiries, hidden feelings, thoughts, and the dynamism of the psyche.
Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman’s Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.
“Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia” was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museo del Oro y Unidad de Artes y Otras Colecciones-Banco de la República, Colombia.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Major support is provided by:
The Glassell Family Foundation
Generous support is provided by:
The Favrot Fund