JANUARY 20 - OCTOBER 1, 2022
Schedule of events
JANUARY 20 - OCTOBER 1, 2022
Schedule of events
CURATED BY BARBARA DAVIS
September 1 - October 1, 2022
Barbara Davis (Principal, Barbara Davis Gallery) curates this one-off Healing Arts Auction to support The Future is Unwritten Artists Response Fund, established in 2020, under the auspices of the World Health Organization Art & Health Program to provide financial and production support to artist-led projects that contribute to improved physical, mental, and social health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Partners:
Contemporary Art Museum Houston
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | 6:30PM
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) hosts a special opening reception celebrating Healing Arts Houston. Join us as we kick off exciting and necessary conversations around medicine and the arts. At 7PM, there will be welcoming remarks by Christopher Bailey, the Arts and Health Lead of the World Health Organization (WHO); Hesse McGraw, Executive Director at CAMH; and a special announcement unveiling the Houston recipient of The Future is Unwritten Artist Response Fund Grant. Following the remarks, will be a celebratory reception on CAMH’s outdoor terrace.
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
UOH Student Center South
September 29 - October 1, 2022
Innovations in Arts and Health: Collaborating for Medical Humanities, Professional Development, and Community Health is
an international conference convening the brightest and most creative
minds working at the intersection of arts and health in Houston, a
global mecca for innovations in the arts, health sciences and medical
education. The conference is open
to the public and will be a dynamic space for dialogue, learning and
inspiration. See Full Program.
Partners:
BLAFFER ART MUSEUM
120 Fine Arts Building, University of Houston
September 29 - October 9, 2022
The Blaffer Art Museum will present the work of three artists who propose alternative meditations and visualizations of the medical process. Shana Hoehn, Virginia Lee Montgomery and Sarah Sudhoff have all spent significant time living and working in Texas, and each will share work that reformulates our visual and conceptual models of healing and remedy. This exhibition will offer a space for a recalibration of care and how it is practiced as both one and many.
Fotofest Auction
The Whitehall Houston Hotel
Thursday, September 29, 6pm
In memory of Fotofest co-founder, Fred Baldwin (1929-2021), who supported so many artists from around the world, leading Saudi artist and Edge of Arabia donated this work to benefit the Biennale and an Arts & Health Residency at the University of Houston as part of Healing Arts.
Partners:
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
January 21, 2022
Livestreamed from the University of Houston, this event will feature selected panels and performances and mark the official launch of Healing Arts Houston. The free event will initiate the Healing Arts dialogue in Houston and offer a lively preview of what is to come in the September symposium. The full program and link to the free livestream will be posted here prior to the event. See event schedule here.
Partners:
Contemporary Art Museum Houston
January 20, 2022
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston invites you to a special tour of New York Times and Los Angeles Times exhibition of the year, The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse. The tour will be introduced by CAMH Deputy Director, Seba Suber, and Healing Arts Co-Directors, Stephen Stapleton and Nisha Sajnani.
PRODUCERS
UN AFFILIATE
PARTNERS
Agnes Denes Installation at Tate Britain, London. April 2020.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 14 November 2021
Venice Architecture Biennale. May-November 2021.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Launched September 2021.
Nila House. 9 Mar - 27 Apr, 2022
The Society of the Four Arts. 6-7 Jan, 2022
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