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X-WR-CALNAME:Houston · arts · Wednesday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260522 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102 DTSTAMP:20260729T073058Z UID:10000658-1779408000-1793577599@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Installation view of Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, 2026. Photo: Sean Fleming. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calen dar \n\n\n \n iCalendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n \n \n \n About\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty an d Influence People is the first exhibition to survey the work of acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Mary Ellen Carroll. The exhibition focuses on a selection of key projects spanning over four decades and includes works ex hibited for the first time. The exhibition charts the import and impact of Carroll’s exploration of some of the most urgent issues of our time\, i ncluding environmentalism\, architectural and technological infrastructure \, immigration\, and urban legislation\, as well as the artist’s engagem ent with questions of sexuality\, identity\, and being. \n \n Organiz ers\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People is organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and curated by Rebecca Matal on\, Senior Curator\, with Yiran Chi\, 2025-26 Rice Curatorial Fellow. \ n \n Support\n \n Major Support for Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People is provided by Teiger Foundation with sustainab ility efforts guided by Rute Collaborative as part of Teiger Foundation’ s Climate Action for Curators.Additional support is provided by N2 Stone F oundation\, the Stolbun Family\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Frank Liu Jr. Foundation\, Michael and Katie Russell\, The Andy Warhol Fo undation for the Visual Arts\, and Martha Claire Tompkins. \n \n\n\nIn- kind support is provided by Bellows Construction and Layher. \n Contempora ry Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the patrons\, bene factors\, and donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund\, July 1\, 2024-Jun e 30\, 2025: Anonymous\, Chinhui Juhn and Eddie Allen\, Louise Jamail\, Si ssy and Denny Kempner\, and Beverly and Howard Robinson. \nContemporary Ar ts Museum Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Hou ston Arts Alliance and the Texas Commission on the Arts. \n \n Extended Description\n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence Peop le is the first exhibition to survey the work of acclaimed multidisciplina ry artist Mary Ellen Carroll. The exhibition focuses on a selection of key projects spanning over four decades and includes works exhibited for the first time. The exhibition charts the import and impact of Carroll’s exp loration of some of the most urgent issues of our time\, including environ mentalism\, architectural and technological infrastructure\, immigration\, and urban legislation\, as well as the artist’s engagement with questio ns of sexuality\, identity\, and being. \nSince the 1980s\, Carroll has pr oduced a heterogeneous body of work taking the form of performance\, film\ , photography\, writing\, architecture\, public art\, and policy. Yet\, th e artist’s primary medium is the field of social relations that govern a given time and context. An inheritor of conceptual\, project-based\, and institutional-critique-based practices\, Carroll puts pressure on the cond itions within which a work of art gains legibility\, while never forsaking formal and aesthetic considerations. By their own account\, each project is approached by asking\, “what do we consider a material as a work of a rt and what is the problem I am trying to solve?” Carroll’s approach t o art-making is collaborative and research-based\, often involving years o f planning\, coordination\, and community engagement. As the exhibition ti tle’s allusion to famed comedian and rabble-rouser Lenny Bruce suggests\ , Carroll is equally a trickster\, scamp\, and intermediary\, applying a w ryly humorous (though no less critical) approach to addressing society’s most pressing issues. \nMany of Carroll’s works are ongoing and intenti onally durational as is the case with their landmark\, multifaceted projec t\, prototype 180 (1999-ongoing). Sited in the Sharpstown neighborhood of Houston\, prototype 180 remains a legendary intervention into urban policy in a city known for its famous lack of zoning and idiosyncratic land-use policies\, and has taken multiple forms since its inception\, most notably the 180-degree rotation of a mid-century suburban house in 2010 and the s ubsequent “unbuilding” of the structure in 2017. Works such as prototy pe 180 reveal the durational quality of the artist’s larger artistic pro ject\, as well as Carroll’s tendency to avoid market-based criteria in f avor of a rigorous\, continuously unfolding\, and adaptive mode of art mak ing that is often geographically and temporally dispersed. Mary Ellen Carr oll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People continues CAMH’s tradition o f presenting scholarly and in-depth survey exhibitions dedicated to the wo rk of historically significant artists at pivotal moments in their career. The exhibition will include selected works from the 1980s to the present\ , such as My Death is Pending… Because. (1986-2017)\, The Doppelganger T apes\, (1993-ongoing)\, prototype 180 (1999-ongoing)\, Federal (2003)\, in destructible language (2006-ongoing)\, and PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0 (2008-ongoin g)\, among others\, as well as a series of new commissions. \nMary Ellen C arroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People highlights the multifaceted \, aesthetically rigorous work of an artist who has demonstrated deft inst itutional critiques of art and used their artwork to interact with and que stion the politics and policies surrounding social and physical structures \, including the ways in which bodies navigate these spaces. Employing a c onceptually-driven form of exhibition making\, the exhibition both honors and mirrors Carroll’s recursive\, materially diverse\, and ecologically- attuned practice through a display in which works are always seen through\ , between\, and in relation to each other. Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People offers the occasion to reconsider Carroll’s work and the questions it raises about identity and intimacy\, objects/ide as and their afterlives\, and the value that political and social activism informed by humor and play might offer contemporary critical practices. \ n About the Artist\n The work of New York-based conceptual artist Ma ry Ellen Carroll (MEC\, studios) engages the disciplines of architecture\, public policy\, film/media\, and technology. Carroll’s body of work spa ns over four decades in a range of media that transcend genres. Fundamenta lly\, the work investigates a single\, fundamental question: What do we co nsider a work of art? It is dedicated to a social and political critique t hat explores the interactions of subjectivity\, language\, power\, and kno wledge.  \nCarroll is the recipient of numerous awards and honors includi ng from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Pollock-Krasner Foundation\, American Academy in Berlin\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Rauschenberg Foundation\, Gra ham Foundation\, and most recently the American Academy in Rome. Carroll r eceived an MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago (1989) where t hey studied time-based arts\, filmmaking\, and architectural history\, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Colorado Boulder. Teaching\, lecturing and public presentations on architecture\, art\, and public policy are an important part of Carroll’s work and have occurred at the DIA Art Foundation\, Columbia University\, American Academy in Berl in\, Rice University\, Yale University\, among others. \nCarroll’s work is in numerous public and private collections in the US and abroad and has been exhibited at institutions including: the Whitney Museum of American Art\; the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Philadelphia\; the Institute of Contemporary Art\, London\; Museum für Völkerkunde\, Munich\; the Renais sance Society\, Chicago\; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\; Johann Jacobs Museum\, Zurich\; Prospect.3\, New Orleans\; Busan Biennial\, South Korea \; Los Angeles County Museum of Art\; MoMA-PS1\; MUMOK\, Vienna\; Arthur R oss Architecture Gallery at Columbia University\; Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\ ; among other venues. This is the first major solo museum exhibition of th e artist’s work. \n Publication\n The exhibition is accompanied b y a catalogue co-published by CAMH and Dancing Foxes Press and designed by Teo Schifferli\, and featuring new scholarship by exhibition curator Reb ecca Matalon\, art historian Pamela M. Lee\, and historian of science\, D. Graham Burnett\; reprinted and/or expanded interviews between Carroll and Hamza Walker and scholar David Joselit\; as well as poetry and prose by I man Mersal and Kathryn Scanlan. \n \n Extended Media\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \ n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Resources\n \n \n Tours\n \n For more information about tours visit camh.org/tours. \n \n Accessibility\n \n Exhibition labels are available in English.Ex tended Labels (English)Extended Labels (Spanish)Large Print Labels (Englis h) \n \n Press Release\n \n Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People \n \n Educational Materials\n \n Content Revi ewEducation Guide \n \n Exhibition Merchandise\n \n Shop Now \n \n Related Events\n \n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073058Z LOCATION:Brown Foundation Gallery\, Houston\, TX\, United States URL:https://camh.org/event/mary-ellen-carroll-how-to-talk-dirty-and-influe nce-people/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=houston-tx X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260904 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270215 DTSTAMP:20260918T002806Z UID:10000774-1788480000-1802649599@camh.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:(L to R): Dionne Lee\, Castings (detail)\, 2022. Gelatin silve r prints\, 5 x 7 inches. Courtesy the artist and Petra Bibeau\, New York\; Beverly Buchanan with Virginia “Gina” Templeton\, Abandoned Sculptur e Off Pea Ridge Road\, Monroe Co.\, Georgia (detail)\, 1982. Reproduction of one hand-written page and eight photographs mounted to photobook\, Bev erly Buchanan papers\, Archives of American Art\, Smithsonian Institution. Courtesy the Archives of American Art\, Smithsonian Institution. \n \n \n Add to calendar \n \n\n \n Google Calendar \n\n\n \n iC alendar \n\n\n \n Outlook 365 \n\n\n \n Outlook Live \n\n \n \n About\n \n Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee foregrounds Bev erly Buchanan and Dionne Lee’s explorations of the myths\, majesty\, and dispossessions embedded in the American landscape. The exhibition is the second in a series organized by Senior Curator Rebecca Matalon to bring to gether artists across generations as a way to open up new interpretations of their work. The show follows the 2021 exhibition Wild Life: Elizabeth M urray & Jessi Reaves\, which similarly presented an exchange between inter generational artists. Divination pairs original photographs as well as ma terials from the late Buchanan’s archives\, including photographs\, jour nals\, writing\, and ephemera\, with a selection of videos\, photographs\, and sculptures by the Columbus-based Lee. While Buchanan (1940-2015) and Lee (b. 1988\, New York City) are from different generations\, both artist s explore relationships between Blackness and land\, mining racialized his tories of the American landscape and its dualities as a site of sanctuary and displacement\, sustenance and deprivation. The two artists share an in terest in survivalist practices\, and each thinks of land as not only a ph ysical place or substance to be encountered\, but an accumulation of ever- shifting material and psychic entanglements. Over the last decade\, new s cholarship has brought renewed and much deserved critical attention to Buc hanan’s profound but underrecognized contributions to the history of lan d art and environmental sculpture\, works that range from cast concrete sl abs (“frustulas”) to her later small-scale “shack sculptures” that memorialize the architectural styles of Southern homes and their owners. This exhibition aims to delve into lesser-known aspects of the artist’s practice\, for example\, her placing of small cast concrete works in grave yards of enslaved peoples across rural Georgia\, and her “auto-archival ” use of photography to document these covert actions\, major public wor ks\, and herself. Divination places Buchanan’s work in dialogue with Lee ’s photographic and filmic examinations of what it means to tend to\, se ek out\, and honor the land on which we live\, including its hidden and da rker histories. The exhibition positions their practices as forms of divin ation-making visible what all too often remains unseen. \n \n Organi zers\n \n Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Lee is organized by Con temporary Arts Museum Houston\, and curated by Rebecca Matalon\, Senior Cu rator. \n \n Support\n \n \n Support for Divination: Beverly Buch anan & Dionne Lee is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thanks to Teiger Foundation for research support. \n Con temporary Arts Museum Houston exhibitions are made possible by the generou s donors to CAMH’s Major Exhibition Fund: Scott R. Sparvero\, Chinhui Ju hn and Eddie Allen\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, Beve rly and Howard Robinson\, Ruth Dreessen and Tom Van Laan\, Cindy and David Fitch\, Louise Jamail\, Sissy and Denny Kempner\, Elisa and Cris Pye\, an d Poppi Massey. \n About Beverly Buchanan\n Born in Fuquay\, North Carolina\, Beverly Buchanan (1940-2015) grew up in South Carolina. By the late 1960s\, Buchanan had earned several university degrees in the science s\, and was working as a public health worker and educator in New York Cit y and East Orange\, New Jersey. \nIn 1971\, Buchanan enrolled at the Art S tudents’ League\, where she studied with Harlem Renaissance painter Norm an Lewis. From that time on\, Buchanan devoted her time to making art. In the 1970s\, she considered herself an abstract expressionist painter and c ompleted a series of “Wall” paintings which were exhibited at the Mont clair Art Museum in New Jersey in 1976.  \nIn 1977\, Buchanan moved back to the South. From 1979 to 1986\, Buchanan made a series of public stone s culptures across the American Southeast\, which she allowed to decay over time and become part of the surroundings. Most notably\, in 1979 she compl eted Ruins and Rituals (also the title of the Brooklyn Museum retrospectiv e from 2016-2017)\, and in 1980 Marsh Ruins\, with funding from a Guggenhe im Fellowship. Some of these works can still be found\, while others have withered away. They contemplate the idea of “ruination” and commemorat e the history of Southern Black communities. \nBy the mid 1980s\, Buchanan was exploring Southern vernacular architecture through her practice. She created a series of makeshift sculptures known as “shacks” in which sh e paid tribute to the improvised and self-built homes of Black communities in rural Georgia. Often attached to her sculptures were hand-written or t yped narratives\, which she referred to as “legends\,” that gave voice to a cast of characters\, some remembered and others imagined. \nBuchanan ’s later work is intimately linked to her natural surroundings and folk art. As a native Southerner\, she drew on memories from her childhood as w ell as the lush Georgian landscape and yard art of local self-taught artis ts. A passionate gardener\, Buchanan produced vivid oil pastel flower draw ings and small assemblage works. \nThe winner of numerous honors during he r long career\, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fe llowship and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, Buchanan’s work is in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\ , the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Whi tney Museum\, among others. A posthumous solo retrospective\, Ruins and Ri tuals\, curated by Jennifer Burris and Park McArthur\, was held at the Bro oklyn Museum of Art in 2016-17. \n About Dionne Lee\n Dionne Lee (b . 1988\, New York\, NY) works in photography\, collage\, and video to expl ore power\, survival\, and personal history in relation to the American la ndscape. Lee lives and works in Columbus\, Ohio and received an MFA at Cal ifornia College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2017. \nLee’s work has b een exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, New Orleans Museum of Art\, Museum of Fine Ar ts Houston\, The Princeton University Art Museum\, Contemporary Art Galler y of Vancouver\, CA\, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art\, San Francisc o\, CA\, Aperture Foundation\, New York\, International Center of Photogra phy\, New York\, and Light Work\, New York. \nRecent exhibitions include W hitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing\, The Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, Spora\, Swiss Institute\, New York\, NY\, Wi dening the Lens: Photography\, Ecology\, and the Contemporary Landscape\, Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, Prologue\, Columbus Museum of A rt\, Columbus\, OH\, All This Soft Wild Buzzing\, Wattis Institute for Con temporary Art\, San Francisco\, CA\, Re/Sisters\, Barbican Art Gallery\, L ondon\, UK\, Penumbra Foundation\, New York City\, Site Unfolding\, Bibeau Krueger\, New York City\, Tara Downs\, New York City\, Cushion Works\, Sa n Francisco\, CA\, The Locker Plant / Chinati Foundation\, Marfa\, TX\, Et al. San Francisco\, CA\, /(Slash)\, San Francisco\, CA\, FotoFest Biennia l 2022: If I Had a Hammer\, Houston\, TX\, and Center For Fine Art Photogr aphy at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art\, Fort Collins\, CO. \nLee is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foun dation\, Unseen California\, and Land Arts of the American West between 20 22-2023. In 2019 Lee was an artist in residence at the Center for Photogra phy at Woodstock. \n \n Publication\n The exhibition is accompanied by a risograph-printed catalogue co-published by CAMH and F featuring new writing on the artists’ works by exhibition curator Matalon and scholar Dr. Elleza Kelley\, as well as an assortment of photographs\, historical documents\, and archival materials. \n \n Resources\n \n \n Tours\n \n tours@camh.org713.284.8276Additional Information \n \n Accessi bility\n \n Exhibition labels will be available in English and Spanish. \n \n Press Release\n \n Divination: Beverly Buchanan & Dionne Le e Press Release \n \n Educational Materials\n \n Content ReviewEdu cation Guide \n \n Related Events\n \n View Calendar LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T002806Z LOCATION:Nina and Michael Zilkha Gallery URL:https://camh.org/event/divination-beverly-buchanan-dionne-lee/?utm_sou rce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=houston-tx X-SOURCE-NAME:Contemporary Arts Museum Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://camh.org/event-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Houston Fire Museum 1899 Legacy Luncheon DTSTART:20260923T163000Z DTEND:20260923T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260729T073104Z UID:10006364-1790163000-1790168400@thesocialbook.com CATEGORIES:arts,community DESCRIPTION:Luncheon event. Firefighter demonstration and fire museum coll ection display. Complimentary valet parking is provided. LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T073104Z LOCATION:Houston Fire Museum\, 2403 Milam Street\, Houston\, 77006\, Unite d States URL:https://thesocialbook.com/event/houston-fire-museum-1899-legacy-lunche on/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=houston-tx X-SOURCE-NAME:The Social Book - Houston X-SOURCE-URL:https://thesocialbook.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Art Class – Explore the exciting and endless possibilities of wa tercolor. DTSTART:20260923T180000Z DTEND:20260923T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T082948Z UID:10002537-1790168400-1790175600@hcrj.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Wednesday art class open to beginners and seasoned artists. Ne w 6-week sessions focused on a medium. All supplies are provided. Members free\; Nonmembers are asked for a $50 donation due to limited space. Max C lass size 16\nPlease RSVP to beth@hcrj.org. LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T082948Z LOCATION:HCRJ\, 801 Bering Drive\, Houston\, TX\, 77057 URL:https://hcrj.org/event/watercolor-wednesdays/2026-09-23/?utm_source=ca ldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=houston-tx X-SOURCE-NAME:Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism X-SOURCE-URL:https://hcrj.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:🔴 LIVE Comic Book Sale DTSTART:20260924T000000Z DTEND:20260924T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T130751Z UID:682g3dnvagh7sv976ku2vj2j0v@google.com CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:⚡LIVE COMIC SALE⚡📅Every Wednesday\, 7-9PM CST📱Bedroc k City Comic Co. Facebook Page💥Hundreds of key back issues\, comic bun dles\, today’s releases\, giveaways\, and more with local pickup\, world wide shipping\, and layaway options!\n\nJoin with Google Meet: https://mee t.google.com/ubf-vwha-pyd\nOr dial: (US) +1 662-778-8065 PIN: 906321577#\n More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ubf-vwha-pyd?pin=7245730746315&hs=7\n \nLearn more about Meet at: https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282 720 LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T130751Z LOCATION:Bedrock City Comic Company\, 6516 Westheimer Rd\, Houston\, TX 77 057\, USA X-SOURCE-NAME:Bedrock City Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.bedrockcity.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR