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  1. Art Activity | Create a Decorative Bowl

    Jun 15, 2021 - Contemporary craft sets the stage for this hands-on art project. The video and activity guide take you step-by-step through the creative process of making a decorative ceramic bowl. Art-Making Activity | Exploring Stitching and Creating Decorative Bowls• Activity Guide PDF Family Programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from the Junior League of Houston, Inc. Wiess Law; 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. Art Activities for Families: Modern & Contemporary

    Nov 16, 2020 - Want to experience these modern and contemporary works of art in person? Visit the Kinder Building on your next trip to the MFAH. Create your own masterpieces inspired by the modern and contemporary art on view in the Kinder Building galleries. Watch the how-to videos below, download the activity guides, and you’re on the way.    Activity Guide | Making Lines & Prints  Activity Guide | Fun with Lines & Colors  Activity Guide | Exploring the Textures of Home  Explore More Find art activities from all areas of the MFAH collections.

  3. Art Activity: Let’s Make a Drawing

    Sep 24, 2020 - Explore more of Alpuy’s art in the MFAH collections, and let his 1949 drawing Sin título (Dos estructuras) [Untitled (Two Structures)] inspire you to make ink-on-paper drawings of your own. Download the activity guide   Learning

  4. Art Activity: Let’s Make Some Noise

    Aug 27, 2020 - This at-home, family-friendly art activity is inspired by Stanton Macdonald-Wright’s 1914 painting Arm Organization, from the MFAH collection of American art. Exploring Visual Art & Sound Build a sound maker of your own, inspired by the colors and figures in Arm Organization. Follow along with the video and how-to guide. Arranging Colors & Music The works of artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973), including Arm Organization, compare color to music and are among the first abstract paintings in American art.

  5. Summer Art Explorers: Playing with Spheres

    Aug 7, 2020 - Discover works of art in the MFAH collections that embrace every era of history across the globe. This week brings the theme “Playing with Spheres and Gravity.” Kids can be Summer Art Explorers wherever they are—at home online, or on-site at the Museum. Every week, explore a new theme featuring extraordinary exhibitions, installations, and activities. • Playing with Spheres and Gravity • Jugando con esferas y gravedad Learn more about Summer Art Explorers Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Jerold B.

  6. Close-Up on “Black Art & Abstraction”

    Jul 29, 2020 - Valerie Cassel Oliver moderates “Black Art & Abstraction” on Saturday, August 1, at 3 p.m. Political leaders called upon artists to align themselves with the movement with “positive” and “uplifting” art that served to reflect community. Cassel Oliver, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, was senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston until 2017.

  7. Summer Art Explorers: Start Your Adventure!

    Jul 15, 2020 - Summer Art Explorers: Download the Guides Discover works of art in the MFAH collections that embrace every era of history across the globe. This week brings the theme “Playing with Toys.” Kids can be Summer Art Explorers wherever they are—at home online, or on-site at the Museum. Every week, explore a new theme featuring extraordinary exhibitions, installations, and activities.

  8. Writers Remix Series | Asian Art Galleries

    The performances take place in the Asian Art Galleries.  May 22, 2025Experience the MFAH collections of Asian art, spanning nearly five millennia, through the written word. In addition to celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, this session of the Writers Remix Series focuses on the Asian Art Galleries in the Law Building.

  9. Art Crowd | “Gauguin in the World”

    Are you a Museum member but not yet part of Art Crowd? Join the Art Crowd today! Not yet a Museum member? Join the MFAH now and add on an Art Crowd membership to enjoy free access to Art Crowd events for a full year. Tickets Free for MFAH members who belong to Art Crowd $35 for guests and nonmembers About Art CrowdThe Art Crowd add-on membership is designed for MFAH members in their 20s and 30s. Tickets also provide two free drinks, access to light bites, an art-making activity, and art talks from Museum curatorial staff. A local DJ spins the soundtrack and sets the mood. 

  10. Exclusive Shopping Event | Glassell Art Sale

    On Thursday evening, enjoy early access to an extraordinary selection of art in every medium. Get first dibs on unique pieces before anyone else! Proceeds from ticket sales go directly toward supporting Studio School scholarships, making this event a celebration of art and opportunity. December 11, 2025 | SOLD OUTThe season of giving has arrived, and what better way to kick it off than with exclusive, early access to one-of-a-kind creations by the talented students of the Glassell School of Art.