Artist Talk & Sound Walk | Leilehua Lanzilotti Saturday, March 29, 2025 2 p.m.-3 p.m.
March 29, 2025
In conjunction with the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within, composer, sound artist, and co-curator Leilehua Lanzilotti has developed a concert program, a stand-alone video installation, and a series of demonstration videos centered on the hidden element of sound.
This afternoon, Lanzilotti talks about the work created in association with the exhibition and presents a musical component that invites the audience to a sound walk in the gallery to activate the sound art in Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within is located on the lower level of the Beck Building.
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About the Speaker
Leilehua Lanzilotti is a Kanaka Maoli composer, artist, and curator whose work explores language and water sovereignty, land stewardship, and Indigenous futures. Through multimedia installations, nontraditional concerts, and sound interventions, Lanzilotti fosters deep listening and imagination. A 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for with eyes the color of time, Lanzilotti has received the Creative Capital Award, 2025 USA Fellow Award, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation’s SHIFT Award. Lanzilotti’s work has been supported by residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Casa Wabi, and Merwin Conservancy, among others.
“Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within” is organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, with assistance from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and the Takaezu family.
The exhibition and its national tour have been made possible through lead support from the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Major support is provided by:
Sara and Bill Morgan
Generous support is provided by:
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Michael W. Dale Exhibitions Endowment for Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design
John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation
James Cohan Gallery
Anne Lamkin Kinder
Nana Booker
Bettie Cartwright
Leatrice and Melvin Eagle
Kerry F. Inman and Denby Auble
Scott & Judy Nyquist
Ted L. Rowland
Jeffrey Spahn
Toshiko Takaezu Foundation
Friends of Toshiko Takaezu
The exhibition is co-curated by Noguchi Museum curator Kate Wiener, independent curator Glenn Adamson, and sound artist and composer Leilehua Lanzilotti. The exhibition was conceived and developed with former Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.