Caroline Wiess Law Building Lectures Year of Monday, August 26, 2024-Monday, August 25, 2025


Pueblo (Acoma), Acoma Jar with Abstract Bird Design, early 1900s, clay, slip, and paints
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery Through January 12, 2025

This traveling exhibition highlights Pueblo voices and aesthetics, offering an understanding of Pueblo pots as vessels of community-based knowledge and personal experience.

17 Nov Sun / 2024

21 Nov Thu / 2024

05 Dec Thu / 2024

  • Ingenuity And Invention

    Harriet Stratis, speaker / Paul Gauguin, 1898–99, Human miseries (Misères humaines) from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints (also called the Vollard Suite), woodblock print in black on ivory Japanese paper, state I/I, private collection, Houston, promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

    Ingenuity and Invention: Paul Gauguin’s Printing Techniques
    6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    Harriet Stratis presents a lecture on Paul Gauguin’s experimentation with techniques and materials in print production.

09 Jan Thu / 2025

  • Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls

    Celestial Conch Shell with Skulls, Huastec, Veracruz (Northern), Mexico, 900–1521, conch shell, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by James C. Flores in honor of Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. at “One Great Night in November, 2007.”

    Indigenous Faith Practices: Vietnamese Folk Religion
    6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.

    Houston faith leaders engage in a discussion about their connections with objects and themes showcased in the exhibition Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs, and Peoples.