Youth Workshop Sessions by the Black Man Project + Black Woman Project
Winter/Spring 2023–2024
The Black Man Project and Black Woman Project present youth workshop sessions at the Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence. The workshop creates a space for boys and girls to explore their impressions and engage in conversations about healing, wholeness, leadership, and community. The workshop, led by Artist Tay Butler, is open to teens, middle school to high school, accompanied by an adult chaperone.
Book your reservation at least 24 hours in advance to secure a spot.
Plan Your Visit
- The workshop takes place in the SW Bell Studio on the lower level of the Beck Building, and the exhibition is located on the street level.
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About the Presenters
The Black Man Project, founded by conceptual artist Brian Ellison, believes art is a universal catalyst for healing. The organization explores how misconceptions such as one-dimensional expression and emotional inaccessibility affect Black men.
The Black Woman Project, founded by Tarren Everett, is a nonprofit rooted in creating safe spaces for healing and healthy conversations for exploring the many nuances that affect Black women.
About the Artist
Tay Butler is a Houston-based, multi-disciplinary artist with a BFA in photography and digital media from the University of Houston and an MFA from the University of Arkansas photography program. After retiring from the US Army and his engineering career, Butler reignited a rich appreciation for Black history and a deep obsession with the Black archive. Butler's artistry consists of using past and present images to create a historically layered body of work and reorienting cultural material from the ever-growing Black experience.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. 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; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
“Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
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