the air we breathe - Workshop
October 7 – November 1, 2024
MATCH Gallery/Online
the air we breathe is an online workshop series with a focus on exploring air quality in and around Houston. Participants will reflect on how smell and memory are intertwined within an added context of air pollution and social and cultural shifts.
Praise Music Sonogram
February 6 – 8, 2025
MATCHBOX 1
Julia Barbosa Landois’s Praise Music Sonogram is a live performance that combines spoken word, video, and experimental sound to tell a story of motherhood, miscarriage, and abortion access across national and state borders. Contrasting an unexpected experience in a European haven for healthcare seekers with the medical scarcity and recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the U.S., Barbosa Landois delivers a narrative that is both deeply personal and unexpectedly comedic.
The Idea Fund: Round 18 Awards Presentation
February 11, 2025
Eldorado Ballroom
Grantees will present their project proposals to the public at the 2025 Idea Fund Award Presentation. The Idea Fund, a re-granting program administered by DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show, and Project Row Houses, and funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is thrilled to announce the selection of 12 projects by Houston-based artists to receive grants of $5,000 each for the 2025 Round 18 grant cycle.
River on Fire - Exhibition
September 28 – November 16, 2024
MATCH Gallery
River on Fire is a multidisciplinary exhibition showcasing the work of 14 artists who respond to environmental crises and climate change. Curated by Ashley DeHoyos Sauder, the exhibition draws inspiration from a long history of environmental activism related to river fires across the nation— events that have significantly shaped understandings of ecological preservation and environmental advocacy.
River on Fire - Art + Climate Justice Symposium
November 8 – 10, 2024
MATCH Gallery
The River on Fire: Art + Climate Justice Symposium centers on topics such as the legacy of oil and gas, the Gulf Coast as a precarious region, and artistic and curatorial sustainable practices. A Keynote session will be given by Dr. Kirsty Robertson, Director of the Center for Sustainable Curating at Western University and founding member of Synthetic Collective, a group of artists, scientists, and cultural researchers working on plastic pollution in the Great Lakes Region.
the air we breathe - Workshop
October 7 – November 1, 2024
MATCH Gallery/Online
the air we breathe is an online workshop series with a focus on exploring air quality in and around Houston. Participants will reflect on how smell and memory are intertwined within an added context of air pollution and social and cultural shifts.
Praise Music Sonogram
February 6 – 8, 2025
MATCHBOX 1
Julia Barbosa Landois’s Praise Music Sonogram is a live performance that combines spoken word, video, and experimental sound to tell a story of motherhood, miscarriage, and abortion access across national and state borders. Contrasting an unexpected experience in a European haven for healthcare seekers with the medical scarcity and recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the U.S., Barbosa Landois delivers a narrative that is both deeply personal and unexpectedly comedic.
Founded by artists in 1982, DiverseWorks is a force that continues to shape contemporary art practice in Houston and across the nation. A multidisciplinary arts nonprofit, we support artists through the commissioning and presentation of new projects and thrive on collaborations. We invite you to join us as we expand notions of what art is, where art happens, and what art can do.
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Meet our staff and board
Check out upcoming events
Give or become a member
DiverseWorks has been, and still is, one of those special organizations on the face of the Earth…. I have grown here as an artist and became a stronger art community member, and by default a better citizen of Houston, and therefore the world.
Jack A Massing — Artist, Houston
Jack A Massing — Artist, Houston
