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HMAAC is a museum for all people. While our focus is the African American experience, our story in Texas informs and includes not only people of color, but people of all colors. As a result, the stories and exhibitions that HMAAC will bring to Texas are about the indisputable fact that while our experience is a unique one, it has been impacted by numerous races, genders and ethnicities.
Muse
Jade Cooper, a Houston based artist, will present a series entitled Muse. Composed of twenty, two-dimensional works of Black American females, including ten oil painting portraits done on canvas and wood panel and ten charcoal drawing portraitures. ...
Sports and Culture Symposium: Part One
June 1, 2013 | 1 PM
There
are moments of transcendence in sports, just as there are in society, and there
are revolutions in sports, just as there are in society. Sports, like any large
and important social institution, is a complex weaving of forces...
Otelo Burning
August 29, 2013 | 6:30 PM
Shot in Durban and directed by Sara Blecher (Surfing
Soweto), the film tells the story of a group of township kids who discover the
joy of surfing. It's set in 1989, against a backdrop of brewing conflict
between two political...
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| Sun - Monday | Closed |
| Tues - Saturday | 12pm - 5pm |
| Phone | 713·526·1015 |
| Address | 4807 Caroline Street Houston, TX 77004 |
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HMAAC Blog
Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson
May 14,2013
Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson The Houston Museum of African American Culture has a long history of partnerships in the community. Recently, I spoke with Dr.... Read More
Exhibitions
Muse
Jade Cooper, a Houston based artist, will present a series entitled Muse. Composed of twenty, two-dimensional works of Black American females, including ten oil painting portraits done on canvas and wood panel and ten charcoal drawing portraitures. ...
Films
QFest: Born This Way
July 27 | 8pm
HMAAC is proud to be a venue for the 2013 QFest: GLBTQ International Film
Festival! Showing at HMAAC is the gripping, yet informative documentary BORN
THIS WAY.
Like everywhere else in the world, gays and lesbians...
Sense the possibilities! The historical, the contemporary, the random and radical!
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Next On Deck
Revelations of Goddesses
June 8 - August 3, 2013
A Goddess is a female deity. Throughout her career, Eleanor Merritt has utilized
images of women to illustrate earth, motherhood, sisterhood, love and
household, power, strength and healing as well as at times exploring the
central place in some religions of women in prayer and worship. As the final
reflection on a season of...
