Escape the heat + spend a jam-packed afternoon with the Moody! Open to kids of all ages and families of all types, don’t miss this perfect opportunity to explore the Moody and see the artwork on view. Kids can enjoy face painting, art activities, and a scavenger hunt, while adults sip beverages, shop at the …

Raise a glass and take a walk with executive director Alison Weaver as she leads a tour of select public artwork found at Rice University. The evening will start with complimentary drinks at the Moody Center for the Arts and conclude at the James Turrell Twilight Epiphany Skyspace where guests can view the sunset light …

Join us for the closing celebration of the summer exhibition, "Baseera Khan: Weight on History." Enjoy beats from DJ Hiram and cool off with cocktails by Loro at this free and public reception held in the Moody's galleries. Don't miss your last chance to see the exhibition that Artforum called, "a lyrical, psychedelic meditation on …

Join the Moody at the opening reception for Urban Impression: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis. Focusing on the overarching and shared aspects of urban life, this exhibition presents an international selection of artists including Rana Begum, Mary Flanagan, Katsumi Hayakawa, Kahlil Irving, Lucia Koch, Julie Mehretu, Sohei Nishino, Emeka Ogboh, Robin Rhode, Seher Shah, Liu …

Join us for the opening reception of, "_____ as Myth," a community-centered art exhibition led by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton and CERCL. Taking inspiration from Mouton's memoir, the artworks on view are a result of students and local artists investigating how modern-day mythology can explain the nuances of our everyday experiences. The project was a part …

Join the Moody Center for the Arts and Project Row Houses for an Artists-in-Dialogue event that brings together two creative minds in a conversation around the visual arts and music. Organized in conjunction with the Moody's fall exhibition Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis, the visual artist Robin Rhode, who lives and works in …

Start your holiday season with a movie under the stars at the Moody! Join us for a family-friendly, free, outdoor screening of Tim Burton’s holiday classic The Nightmare Before Christmas. The galleries will be open until 9 p.m. to explore the current exhibition, Urban Impressions and free popcorn will be provided. The Moody Cafe will …

Join us to celebrate the opening of the spring exhibition Narrative Threads: Fiber Art Today. Celebrating a new generation of international artists at the forefront of fiber arts, the show includes work by Igshaan Adams, Diedrick Brackens, Christina Forrer, and Billie Zangewa, among others, as well as a commissioned, site-specific work by Orly Genger.

Houston-born artist Suzanne Bocanegra presents an original "artist talk" performed by film and television actor Lili Taylor, with vocalists from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Centered on a sixteenth-century tapestry of the same name in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Honor weaves Bocanegra’s personal narrative with her interpretation of the historic …

Join the Moody to celebrate the latest installation in the Moody Project Wall series, Swarm Migration by Bennie Flores Ansell. This mural, centered on the community-based exploration of migration, is comprised of hundreds of 3D-printed wishbones. Flores Ansell's work evokes a swarm of birds in flight as a means to communicate the scope and personal …

Hear from Nigerian-born Odili Donald Odita, the latest artist commissioned for the Rice Public Art collection. Odita's transformative, large-scale mural, Meeting Place / Painting with Changing Parts, installed in Alice Pratt Brown Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, responds to the building's focus on music, the architecture on campus, and the adjacent James Turrell …

Join the Moody and the Center for Engaged Research and Learning for the improvised and interactive performance of The Day I Met the Sun. Conceived by CERCL Fellow Devin T. Mays, this second iteration of the work is performed alongside collaborators Bill Harris, Jordan Knecht, and Veronica Salinas. Inspired and guided by the late musician …

The number of individuals forcibly displaced from their homes now numbers more than 100 million, with 35 million displaced across international borders. Many experts agree that global cooperation is necessary to effectively respond to displaced peoples, but the political contention around the topics of migration and refugees continues to hinder action. Through the lens of …

Experience musical responses to the Moody's current exhibition Hayv Kahraman: The Foreign in Us composed and performed by Shepherd School of Music students. Organized by Rice students Jaylin Vinson and Victor Cui, a series of original compositions will be played in the galleries, followed by a reception.

Experience a groundbreaking interactive performance that explores the intersection of image, poetry, and artificial intelligence (AI). The result of a collaborative project between poet Nick Flynn, media artist David Rokeby, and curator Natalie Klym, this unconventional poetry reading hosted in the Moody's Lois Chiles Theater features a real-time voice-to-scrolling image generator developed by Rokeby at …