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  1. Educators Event | “Learning Through Art” Summer Institute

    ChARTing Your Course: The ART of Effective TeachingTeachers, are you interested in engaging strategies, resources, and materials that you can easily incorporate in your classroom to create empowered learners? Come and “fill your teaching toolkit” with works of art from the MFAH collections and hands-on projects to enhance your TEKS and STAAR-aligned lessons, creating a more interactive and collaborative learning environment. 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

  2. The Art of Nothing (L’art d’être heureux)

    Veteran Belgian comedian Benoît Poelvoorde stars as Jean-Yves, a self-absorbed conceptual artist who moves to a seaside village hoping to reinvent himself. Embraced by the town’s quirky creative community—including …

  3. Lecture | Orozco and Mexican Post-Revolutionary Art

    September 14, 2024Enjoy an intriguing lecture from art historian Mary Coffey about José Clemente Orozco's “Mask with Jade Necklace” and Mexican post-revolutionary art. This endowment will fund a yearly program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, that focuses on Mexican art and artists. Coffey, professor of art history and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies at Dartmouth College, is an award-winning author of two books on Mexican Muralism.

  4. The Art of Silence (L’art du silence)

    Marceau’s family shares stories about his multi-faceted life and commitment to teaching new generations of performers to explore “the art of silence.”

  5. Art of the Vote: The MFAH & BakerRipley

    May 13, 2020 - Today, the initiative enters its fifth year of using art to promote civic engagement. Community Values “The ‘Art of the Vote’ event beautifully integrates art from the Museum’s collections to spark thoughtful conversation surrounding community values,” Caroline Goeser, the W. T. and Louise J. In appreciation of community partner BakerRipley, the MFAH spotlights the organization’s community-engagement efforts with a throwback to when “Art of the Vote” began.

  6. Family Art Activity: Foil Engraving with Rienzi

    May 3, 2020 - Get inspired by the art at Rienzi, then share your work of art using #MFAHatHome on Instagram and Twitter. Families, get ready for a special art activity with Ryan Hernandez, the learning & interpretation coordinator at Rienzi. Artists of all ages can make a foil engraving just like the work of skillful silversmiths! 

  7. Shine On! Art Inspired by the Sun

    Sep 5, 2018 - “My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light.” —Hans Hofmann Summer may be winding down, but Houstonians know all about the endurance of the Texas sun. Of course, we …

  8. The Art of Kusama Returns to Houston

    Jul 3, 2016 - You can see some of their works in the MFAH exhibitions Selections from the Museum’s Collection: Post-War Painting and Sculpture and The Age of Kusama: Pop Art and Minimalism. An important member of the male-dominated New York avant-garde of the 1960s, Kusama influenced many of her well-known Pop Art and Minimalist contemporaries, including Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol Some Houstonians may remember that Kusama’s work graced Rice Art Gallery’s space in 1997, transforming it into a hypnotic space full of monumental, soft sculptures in yellow, covered with hundreds of her trademark black polka

  9. “Learning Through Art” Educator Seminar | Think Tank

    The Learning Through Art program is endowed by Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff. Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Jerold B. Explore the MFAH collections of world art with activities that: Promote student thinking using specific, hands-on/minds-on techniques Connect visible thinking routines to Common Core standards Include easy-to-implement classroom

  10. Art Workshop | Ritual Light: Making Chanukah Menorahs

    In the art-making workshop that follows, create a one-of-a-kind menorah using found objects of wood, stone, and glass. No previous art experience necessary. Art-making supplies are provided. Both the exhibition and the workshop are located on the lower level of the Beck Building. On Sundays, the Museum is open from 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Art Workshop | Ritual Light: Making Chanukah Menorahs from Found Objects Presented in conjunction with “Beauty and Ritual: Judaica from the Jewish Museum, New York” Make your own Chanukah menorah in this workshop.