Lectures Year of Wednesday, July 17, 2024-Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Gauguin in the World Through February 16, 2025
The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this ambitious exhibition showcasing the work of French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin.
03 Dec Tue / 2024
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Early College Program | Info Session & Tour
6 p.m.—7 p.m.The Glassell School of Art presents an information session about the new Emerging Artists: Early College Program.
05 Dec Thu / 2024
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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.
11 Dec Wed / 2024
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Narsiso Martinez. Photo: Yubo Dong
Artist Talk | Narsiso Martinez
6:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Artist Narsiso Martinez shares the story of how he came to the United States when he was 20 years old and how his experience as a farmworker continues to inform his work.
12 Dec Thu / 2024
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Bruno Munari, Never Happy (Mai Contenti), From the series: The Munari Books, Milan: Mondadori, 1945, Hirsch Library, Lester Beall Collection
Meet the Books | “Child’s Play: Artists as Children’s Book Illustrators”
6 p.m.—7 p.m.Discover more about the exhibition Child’s Play: Artists as Children’s Book Illustrators.
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Afruz Amighi
Afruz Amighi: Abodes of Solace
6 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Sculptor and installation artist Afruz Amighi will discuss her ongoing experimentation with light as a means to create spaces of intimacy and solace. Drawing upon the many traditions of religious architecture, Amighi will explore the primacy of hybridity in her structures and the use of light to activate our sense of the sacred.
14 Dec Sat / 2024
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Artist Talk | Rose B. Simpson
2 p.m.—3 p.m.Artist Rose B. Simpson discusses her multidisciplinary practice, which is rooted in her Santa Clara Pueblo heritage.
09 Jan Thu / 2025
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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.
12 Jan Sun / 2025
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John Robert Cozens, View of Vietri and Raito, Italy, c. 1783, watercolor over graphite on cream laid paper, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in honor of Dena M. Woodall.
Opening Day Lecture | “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century British Landscapes and Beyond”
2 p.m.—3 p.m.An inside look at the exhibition which highlights the flowering of landscape painting in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through the work of such notable artists as Richard Wilson, Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.
