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Glassell Studio School

BLOCK Program

BLOCK Program
(above, left to right) BLOCK XXVI: Rachelle LeBlanc, Kellie Lawrence, Malika Galleron, Joshua Silver, Johnny Maloney, Linda Martin, John Pagani, Katia Machado, Johana Hartjen, Una Cho, Lucy Haslam, Madelline Vicencio.
 
The Glassell School of Art offers an intensely focused one-to-two-year program for advanced students with an ongoing studio practice. The BLOCK program sits between a residency and a graduate program and encourages the development of a peer group of artists, allowing for lasting interactions and shared learning.
 
Each program participant receives weekly individual critiques from artists, curators, and critics. Weekly morning seminars, which require preparation, focus on other contemporary artists’ practices and professionalization practices, combining lectures, discussions, and field trips. Drawing from the rich resources of the MFAH, with trips to exhibitions and visits from curators, BLOCK expects significant developments in each participant’s work. The BLOCK program is taught by Michael Bise and Laura Hughes, PhD.
 
Questions?
Email [email protected] or call 713-639-7500.

Apply for the BLOCK Program

Applications for the 2026–2027 BLOCK Program are accepted from March 4 through the submission deadline: April 20, 2026, at 11:59 pm.
Submit your applicationPlease note that the processing fee is $12.
 
Thursday, March 5, at 12:30 pm
Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art

Exhibitions

2025
BLOCK 10: Celebrating a Decade of the BLOCK Program
On view at the Glassell School of Art from October 10 to December 1.

BLOCK XXV: The Magic Hour
On view at the Glassell School of Art from October 10 to December 1.

2024
BLOCK XXIV
On view at the Glassell School of Art from October 25 to December 1.

2023
BLOCK XXIII
On view at the Glassell School of Art from October 13 to December 1.

2022
BLOCK XXII
On view at the Glassell School of Art from September 8 to December 2.

2021
BLOCK XXI
On view at the Glassell School of Art from September 17 to December 3.

2020
BLOCK XX
Virtual presentation focusing on landscape and environmental repair, solitude, dreamscapes, and psychological journeys.

These exhibitions are organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from the Glassell Family; The Skiles Foundation; Leslie and Brad Bucher; Mr. and Mrs. John S. Orton; Sue and Rusty Burnett; and additional generous donors.