Art opening reception: "Tier One Comics"

05.06.13

The Graphic Novel Workshop with professor Mat Johnson, offered every other spring through the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, is a

Mid Main First Thursday benefiting Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

03.07.13

Check out the lineup and be sure to swing by the Art Garden to purchase a raffle ticket, have a drink compliments of Deep Eddy Vodka and enjoy free bar bites at Sparrow Bar and Cookshop w

Pix of the Day

University of Houston's marching band is deconstructed: Maverick helps students break conventions

By Joel Luks

02.11.13 | 1:26 pm

When Daniel Bernard Roumain entered one of the rehearsal halls at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music, he had a plan to shake up the expectations of the myriad of students t ...

UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents En Masse

Discovery Green

04.20.13

En Masse is a participatory, large scale, outdoor performance event with newly commissioned music by UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts artist in residence Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR),

All About Houston

Big changes for the Mitchell Center: Arts organization moving in a bold, new direction

By Tyler Rudick

09.05.12 | 1:09 pm

This upcoming fall season marks a major turning point for the Mitchell Center, the innovative arts initiative founded at the University of Houston in 2003 to provide ground-breaking colla ...

Getting personal

How does art inspire you? Houston's arts leaders offer a collage of thoughts

By Joel Luks

08.20.12 | 12:06 pm

Why do we love art? What is it about the arts that inspires us personally, spiritually and academically? CultureMap reached out to major art leaders and art makers for their innermost thoughts ...

Blaffer Art Museum presents "Lynne McCabe: Room to be (Ms.)understood: A Social Sculpture Workshop"

Blaffer Art Museum

08.28.12

Blaffer Art Museum and the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts host multi-disciplinary artist Lynne McCabe in residence during the 2012 fall semester. McCabe makes interactive work that expl

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents "Working with Social Works"

Blaffer Art Museum

11.14.12

A public lecture and conversation with Shannon Jackson, professor at the University of California, and UH Mitchell Center and Blaffer Art Museum artist in residence Lynne McCabe. This event is asso

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts presents "(Ms.)Understood: A Panel Discussion"

Blaffer Art Museum

11.13.12

A public conversation between Jacki Apple, visual, performance and media artist; Lynne McCabe, Mitchell Center and Blaffer Art Museum artist in residence; and Elizabeth Gregory, professor of Englis

The Light Surgeons presents SuperEverything*

Asia Society Texas Center

11.09.12 - 11.10.12

London-based group The Light Surgeons's SuperEverything* is an explosive live cinema performance incorporating multiple projections across oversized screens. Filmed on location a