Writers Remix Series | “Toshiko Takaezu” Friday, May 2, 2025 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
May 2, 2025
Experience the exhibition Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within like never before—through the power of the written word. Local writers bring Toshiko Takaezu’s abstract artistry to life, performing original works, all within the Museum galleries.
Make an evening of it and start off at Happy Hour Friday. Sip on a drink and soak in the ambience before the performances begin.
Performing Artists
- Free Knowledge
- Isaac Salazar
- Saji Samii
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The performances take place in the exhibition gallery on the lower level of the Beck Building.
- On Fridays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. with happy hour from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Arrival Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building.
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About the Artists
Free Knowledge (Free.K) is a multidisciplinary artist, travel poet, and curator. She is the creator of P.O.E.T.I.C. (Purposely Organizing Emotions To Ignite Change), which champions creative expression as a tool for transformation. The only woman from Texas to win the SoFried National Team Championship, Free.K uses her voice as a call to action.
Isaac Salazar, a Houston-based poet, is a graduate student at Rice University. His work has appeared in publications including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Honey Literary, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
Saji Samii is a poet, author, spoken-word artist, and ceramist. Her writings center around love, spirituality, healing, and self-awareness, and her poetry collections include Jonesin’: A Requiem for Love, When the Seed Sprouts, and A Lotus by Any Other Name.
“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.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.