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Mitchell Center
United States
Приєднався 26 чер 2008
The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston is the interdisciplinary arts resource on campus for UH students, faculty and staff, as well as the general public. In order to bridge disciplines, stimulate dialogue and support the creation of innovative works, the Mitchell Center supports a variety of programs such as visiting artists, lectures and workshops, scholarships, fellowships, performances and exhibitions.
Artist Spotlight: Samora Pinderhughes
Samora Pinderhughes, composer, pianist, vocalist, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist,
performed March 21st at the Eldorado Ballroom, owned by Project Row Houses. Known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics, Pinderhughes uses music, visual arts, film, and language as abolitionist action to examine sociopolitical issues. Working in the tradition of the black surrealists throughout the African Diaspora who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution, Pinderhughes is a prison and police abolitionist, an anti-capitalist, and an advocate for process over product.
The Healing Project, for which Pinderhughes was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, began in 2014 as an interview-based artistic work examining systemic oppression and articulating paths to individual and communal healing by bringing together the stories of people impacted by structural violence. The project has expanded and evolved over the last decade to include a constellation of creative works exploring the daily realities of violence, incarceration, detention, and policing in communities across the United States. Now an arts organization based in New York City, The Healing Project’s community has grown to include world-class artists whose collective works appear in a full-length album, short films, museum exhibitions, live concerts, and a newly launched workshop focusing on advocacy-oriented projects.
The Houston production of The Healing Project was co-presented by the Mitchell Center, Project Row Houses and the Elizabeth D Rockwell Center for Ethics and Leadership at Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston. Pinderhughes is a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts visiting artist. Through ongoing partnerships with Houston artistic and cultural institutions, the Mitchell Center is committed to making its programs available to the local community free of charge.
performed March 21st at the Eldorado Ballroom, owned by Project Row Houses. Known for striking intimacy and carefully crafted, radically honest lyrics, Pinderhughes uses music, visual arts, film, and language as abolitionist action to examine sociopolitical issues. Working in the tradition of the black surrealists throughout the African Diaspora who bend word, sound, and image towards the causes of revolution, Pinderhughes is a prison and police abolitionist, an anti-capitalist, and an advocate for process over product.
The Healing Project, for which Pinderhughes was recently awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, began in 2014 as an interview-based artistic work examining systemic oppression and articulating paths to individual and communal healing by bringing together the stories of people impacted by structural violence. The project has expanded and evolved over the last decade to include a constellation of creative works exploring the daily realities of violence, incarceration, detention, and policing in communities across the United States. Now an arts organization based in New York City, The Healing Project’s community has grown to include world-class artists whose collective works appear in a full-length album, short films, museum exhibitions, live concerts, and a newly launched workshop focusing on advocacy-oriented projects.
The Houston production of The Healing Project was co-presented by the Mitchell Center, Project Row Houses and the Elizabeth D Rockwell Center for Ethics and Leadership at Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston. Pinderhughes is a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts visiting artist. Through ongoing partnerships with Houston artistic and cultural institutions, the Mitchell Center is committed to making its programs available to the local community free of charge.
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Convergence Research: Cosmic Fragments
Переглядів 754 місяці тому
Cosmic Fragments is a collaborative music and dance performance choreographed by School of Theatre & Dance Associate Professor and Dance Program Director, Teresa Chapman and featuring music composed by Mitchell Center Scholar in Residence Sam Wu. It was performed on April 17, 2024 by Members of the AURA Contemporary Music Ensemble by dancers Heesu Han and Jessica Figueroa of Chapman Dance. Cosm...
Innovation Grant: Narratology for Dance
Переглядів 264 місяці тому
“Narratology for Dance” brings together the disciplines of creative writing and dance to explore various ways that writers and dancers can collaborate to create original work. In 2023, a two-week multidisciplinary residency focused on the creation of a new narrative-based dance. "Narratology for Dance" was presented in Spring 2024 at the Ensemble Dance Works concert at the University of Houston...
Eiko Otake: A Body with Fukushima
Переглядів 1314 місяці тому
Co-presented with Aurora Picture Show, the Mitchell Center welcomed Japanese-born interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake to Houston as part of our Visiting Artist series. Otake spent four years of her childhood in a prefecture next to Fukushima. After the region was hit with multiple disasters including an earthquake, a tsunami, and the explosions of the Daiichi nuclear plant, Otake visited the ir...
Artist Spotlight: Jennifer Teets and "Intimate confession is a project"
Переглядів 364 місяці тому
"Intimate confession is a project" is a group exhibition curated by Mitchell Center Visiting Scholar Jennifer Teets that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of ten multifaceted artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding ce...
Artist Spotlight: Robert Machiri
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Harare-born, Berlin-based artist Robert Machiri performed a Houston iteration of sonic movements and archival recordings from the ongoing project "Pungwe Sound Trails" on November 9, 2024. Machiri’s practice of Pungwe is conceived as a series of ephemeral encounters that explore relationships between people, history, and memory through intersections of sound and spatial politics. Machiri conduc...
Convergence Research: Luca of the Dream
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Multidisciplinary artist Daniel E. Zamora combines storytelling, sound engineering, projection art and music in Luca of the Dream, for March's Convergence Research. Reality blends with the mystical, as Luca, a fox from a spirit realm, weaves tales inspired by love, addiction, time, and joy. Through captivating soundscapes and Daniel's lived experiences, these stories traverse imagination and in...
Artist Spotlight: Tania Candiani
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Histories and lives embedded in the land - and particularly the waterways that have alternately built and destroyed Houston over time -are the subject of a newly commissioned, multi-disciplinary work by Mexican artist Tania Candiani. In her past work, Candiani has worked across a spectrum of media and practices to explore the intersections between people, place, labor and industry. In so doing,...
Convergence Research: Tying the Knot
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Tying the Knot: The Tyranny of Trauma is an interdisciplinary, performative work delivered through an improvised, experimental practice exploring the stages of grief. A collaboration between Donald Rabin (Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Arts in Leadership), Brittany Kirschner (Bachelor of Arts in Dance) and Felipe Harker (Bachelor of Architecture), Tying the Knot brings together dance, mus...
Convergence Research: BODY + Memories of the Subsoil
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November's Convergence Research spanned across two sessions. "BODY" is lyrical spoken-word and dance performance from UH PhD student in Poetry, Adele Elise Williams, and UH undergraduate in Acting and Dance, Trenton Tabak, which seeks to expand upon Tania Candiani’s solo exhibition, Lifeblood, specifically the corporeal as it is lost or amplified in particular environments. Delivered in several...
Convergence Research: Intercultural Theatre Experiment + 2 poems for feeling / 2 poemas para sentir
Переглядів 299 місяців тому
October's Convergence Research took place across two unique sessions. In the first session, Khanthida Mounivong, a second year graduate student in Theatre Studies introduced the Intercultural Theatre Experiment. This experiment focuses on the question of whether it is possible to create a cultural exchange in fair terms. Originally from Laos, Mounivong is currently crafting her dramaturgical sk...
Convergence Research: Harmony of Nature featuring Angela Lai
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For September's Convergence Research, flutist Angela Lai presented "Harmony of Nature," an immersive musical experience beginning with a meditative journey and traveling throughout the Blaffer Art Museums exhibition, "Tania Candiani: Lifeblood." Immersed in the captivating fusion of Tania Candiani's artwork and Angela's melodies, the audience was transported to an intimate space where past and ...
Innovation Grant: No more Carmens!
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No More Carmens!, is an interdisciplinary panel discussion and film screening created by Dr. Gabriela Estrada for the University of Houston’s community to discuss the treatment of women in film and in the performing arts. The panel consists of experts in the fields of film, dance, theatre, and women’s studies who analyze the depiction, treatment, reiteration, and normalization of sensitive wome...
Innovation Grant: TAKE ROOT
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TAKE ROOT is a multidisciplinary work for music and dance that explores the world underneath the forest floor. It was performed August 25-27, 2022 in the spacious lobby of the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. Sophia Torres, choreographer Rob Smith, composer Keith Epperson, set design Roberto de Guzman, clarinet Nina Knight, viola Bing Wei, cello PDC WORKS DANCERS L...
Innovation Grant: VITAMIX, an Interdisciplinary Laboratory
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VITAMIX is an interdisciplinary laboratory run by Corey Fogel, where students from different University programs can offer up their creative language and materials to a collaborative, tangible blend of ideas. Artists, musicians, actors, dancers, philosophers, writers, and scientists may discover where their practices overlap, how they layer, how they amplify, and even how they mute each other. ...
Innovation Grant: Theatre Scholars Play Sports
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Innovation Grant: Theatre Scholars Play Sports
Artist's Talk: Robert Wilson, Two Street
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Artist's Talk: Robert Wilson, Two Street
In Plain Listen, Jeanette Andrews Full Performance
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In Plain Listen, Jeanette Andrews Full Performance
Convergence Research: Featuring Arin Alston
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Convergence Research: Featuring Arin Alston
Convergence Research: Follow Along - Ekphrasic Writing Workshop with Josie Mitchell
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Convergence Research: Follow Along - Ekphrasic Writing Workshop with Josie Mitchell
Artist Lecture: Christopher K. Morgan, Diverse Discourse
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Artist Lecture: Christopher K. Morgan, Diverse Discourse
i just love the sound of his voice. national treasure!
😏 "Promo SM"
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Too bad the officers dont get recognized enough for there hard work. Even thru covid not even something for the officers just a piece of paper
“Hi Karen......”
thats cool!how did you do the animation at the end??? from 3:01 to 3:21