GATHER: Public Art @ KGMCA

Thursday, April 24th | 2:00 – 5:30 pm  

 

Join Public Art UHS for GATHER: Public Art @ KGMCA, an afternoon celebrating creativity, community, and wellbeing through artist-led activities shared in public space.

Inspired by Gabrielle Constantine’s temporary public artwork for YardWorks, A Home Built of Lace, this afternoon program means to gather the Kathrine G. McGovern College of Arts community around art-making and creative experiences centered on home spaces and home places. 

The program will host three activations at the Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard and Jorge Pardo’s Folly — Public Art UHS’s latest permanent artwork. 

These activations are free and open to the public, but please RSVP to secure your spot.

 

 

Gather: Public Art @ KGMCA

Resonance: a spring sound and art journey with nash fallas | thursday 4/24

A sound bath is a meditative experience in which participants are bathed in resonant sounds and vibrations. We use instruments like singing bowls, chimes, and gongs to promote relaxation, stress reduction, and a deeper state of consciousness.

Sound Bath Sessions @ Folly

  • 2 PM: Embodying Art through Sound and Vibration
  • 3 PM: A Spring Renewal Meditation
  • 4 PM: Release and Let Go with Sound Frequency


Please note: registrants will need a yoga mat or cushions for the sound bath experience.

Register Here

studio session: carefree crafting with gabriela Magana and Tina hernanez | Thursday 4/24

Join School of Art alums Gabriela Magaña and Tina Hernandez for a leisurely quilting and crafting session. Play with fabric and slow stitching techniques. Participants will create a collaged fabric piece that will become part of a collective quilt in conjunction with Gabrielle Constantine’s outdoor installation “A Home Built of Lace”. We invite you to craft in a carefree outdoor setting while reflecting on the themes of the installation and on the value of crafting in community.

Please note: This is an open session, participants can come and go at will from 2 – 5 pm

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yalanchi process workshop + dinner with gabrielle constantine | thursday 4/24 + 4/25

A two-part workshop and dinner experience presented as part of GATHER: Public Art @ KGMCA for YardWorks. Make and roll yalanchi (Armenian grape leaves) with Gabrielle Constantine. Participants will prepare this process-based food and follow a guided discussion with the artist.

  • YALANCHI Process Workshop | Thursday, 4/24 @ 3 PM
    The workshop follows the logic of a quilting circle where we will sit around the table and collectively partake in the labor of this dish.
 
  • A Home Built of Lace Dinner | Friday, 4/25 @ 6 PM
    The following evening join Gabrielle Constantine, Public Art UHS, and the Kathrine McGovern School of Art for a private dinner reception celebrating the closing of A Home Built of Lace with a menu of traditional Armenian cuisine curated and cooked by the artist herself.
 

Please note: registration for this experience is for both dates.

Register Here

LOCATION

Kathrine G. McGovern School of Art, Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard

4188 Elgin street
HOUSTON, TX 77004  



PARKING 

Paid parking for visitors to campus is available at Elgin Street Studios, located at 4224 Elgin Street. The Garage is located a 5-10 minute walk from the workshop location at the School of Art courtyard.

Pay-by-text visitor parking is available across campus. Payment can be made via credit card and cash. Current visitor parking rates are available on the UH Visitor Parking Rates page

Related Artworks

A Home Built of Lace

Gabrielle Constantine shifts domestic objects into exterior space, exploring how that inversion can reveal the values embedded in them. By using one material to represent another, the artist interrogates our ideas of taste and how deeply they connect to our socio-economic and cultural identities.

Folly

Working on small and monumental scales, Jorge Pardo’s artworks explore the intersection of contemporary painting, design, sculpture, and architecture. Folly is one of Pardo’s most ambitious architectural installations to date, commissioned for the UH Central campus by Public Art UHS. It is a site-specific response to one of the last original wooded areas remaining at UH.