Writers Remix Series | Asian Art Galleries
May 22, 2025
Experience the MFAH collections of Asian art, spanning nearly five millennia, through the written word. In addition to celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, this session of the Writers Remix Series focuses on the Asian Art Galleries in the Law Building. Local writers perform original works, all within the Museum galleries.
Performing Artists
- Tusi Firecloud
- Adam Mac
- Chan Tea
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- Meet in the lobby on Level 1 of the Law Building. The performances take place in the Asian Art Galleries.
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About the Artists
Tusi Firecloud is a first-generation Samoan writer and a co-founder of TAPA Houston, an organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating Pacific Islander culture. Based in Houston, she weaves heritage, identity, and community into her work.
Adam Mac is a Vietnamese writer, performer, and teaching artist. Her work is inspired by Southeast Asian culture, myths, monsters, and life as a Vietnamese person living in the American South. She is head coach of Meta4 Houston Youth Poetry Fellowship, and her work has been featured in Mouth Magazine, WayWords, and Houston Public Media.
Chan Tea is a trans nonbinary Khmer person and multidisciplinary poet and artist whose work has been featured in publications including Glass Mountain, Sybil, Infrarrealista Review, Holy of Holies, and Location/Houston. Alongside the poems, Tea’s head is filled with pool sequences and chess calculations.
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.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.
Admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free on Thursday, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.