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Vinyl Night | "American Modernism"

Date & Time

Fri. Dec. 04, 2026 6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Location Main Campus | Beck Building

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Vinyl Night | "American Modernism"

Date & Time

Fri. Dec. 04, 2026 6:30 PM-7:30 PM

Location Main Campus | Beck Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

The MFAH presents an evening of vinyl inspired by American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection with guest DJ Ichikara Valdez. Exploring the evolution of American Southern music during a period of profound cultural and musical change, the playlist traces the shifting sounds of genres such as blues, country, gospel, and rock, highlighting how these genres developed, intersected, and shaped expressions of place, identity, and modernity.


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About the Performer
Ichikara Valdez is a Houston-based artist, musician, curator, DJ, and producer whose work draws from diverse international and cultural influences. A lifelong record collector, his sound is rooted in soul, funk, jazz, hip-hop, and global grooves. He is the lead vocalist, artistic director, and producer of Hasaan Olu, a Houston-based fusion project. 

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"American Modernism from the Charles Butt Collection" is organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art with support from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
 

Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
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 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.