Press Releases – Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

HCCC & HMAAC TO CO-PRESENT NATIONALLY TOURING EXHIBITION BY PIONEERING FIBER ARTIST, SONYA CLARK

Rene Henry — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:29:11 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) and the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) are pleased to co-present “Sonya Clark: We Are Each Other,” a major exhibition of the pioneering fiber artist that showcases her large-scale, community-centered, and participatory projects, including “The Beaded Prayers Project” (1998-ongoing), “The Hair Craft Project” (2014) and the “Monumental Cloth” series (2019).

The Houston presentation of “We Are Each Other,” hosted within both HCCC’s and HMAAC’s galleries, extends the traveling exhibition’s tour, which was co-organized by the Cranbrook Art Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Museum of Art and Design. Clark’s work centers on race and Black experience, and the exhibition is rooted in both audience and context, as each organizing institution is located in American cities with substantial populations of residents with a lineage to the African diaspora, and each is dedicated to celebrating and collecting contemporary art and craft traditions.

“CraftTexas 2025” Call for Artists!

Rene Henry — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:52:27 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) announces its call for artists for the upcoming exhibition, “CraftTexas 2025,” the twelfth show in a long-running series of juried exhibitions showcasing the finest in Texas-made contemporary craft. All artists working in clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood, and found/recycled materials are encouraged to apply via the online application, open February 1 – April 30, 2025.

HCCC Announces Call for 2025-2026 Resident Artists

Rene Henry — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:50:19 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to announce the opening of the free online application for the 2025 – 2026 Cycle (September 2025 – August 2026) of its Artist Residency Program. All artists working in craft media, including wood, glass, metal, fiber, and clay, as well as those who work at the intersection of contemporary craft and photography, are encouraged to apply.

This year, the application opens one month earlier than previous years, on December 1, 2024, and closes February 1, 2025.

“Ceramics in the Environment” Celebrates Work by Glassell School of Art Students

Rene Henry — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:46:36 +0000

Installed in the Craft Garden at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC), Ceramics in the Environment features site-specific ceramic sculpture created by students from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH)’s Glassell School of Art. Led by former HCCC resident artist Jeff Forster, the artists in his Special Topics class are tasked with exploring the narrative potential of the location and creating artwork inspired by the garden’s flora and fauna.

“In Residence: 17th Edition” Celebrates Work by Recent Resident Artists

Rene Henry — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:44:34 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to present In Residence: 17th Edition, an annual exhibition celebrating the Center’s Artist Residency Program, which has supported artists working in the field of craft for more than two decades. The show features works in fiber, clay, paper, and found objects by 2023-2024 resident artists Robert Hodge, Ann Johnson, Sarah Knight, Hai-Wen Lin, Qiqing Lin, Rebecca Padilla-Pipkin, and Terumi Saito.

“Designing Motherhood” Explores Human Reproduction Through a Design Lens

Rene Henry — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:34:52 +0000

This fall, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to present Designing Motherhood, the first exhibition of its kind to consider the arc of human reproduction through a design lens. The exhibition originated in Philadelphia at the Mütter Museum at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Center for Architecture and Design. HCCC’s iteration of Designing Motherhood will be the first mounted in the Southern United States and the first to extend the contents to highlight the craft perspective on the topic. Featuring over 60 craft and design objects and prototypes from the past 50 years and the work of more than 20 contemporary artists, the show traverses themes ranging from the DIY culture of parenthood and health activism to reproductive access and equity, parental leave, and the work-life balance of artist-mothers.

HCCC Announces New Board Members

Rene Henry — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:41:32 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to
announce six new members have joined its board of directors: Dale Cover, John Guess, Duane Kelley, Maggie
McKay, José Solís, and Sandie Zilker.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Announces 2024 – 2025 Resident Artists

Rene Henry — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:37:55 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to announce its newest class of residents for 2024 – 2025, a group of 11 outstanding local, national, and international artists working in craft media.

For more than 20 years, the Center’s artist residency program has offered time and space for craft artists to focus on their creative work and interact with the public. The program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in all craft media, including but not limited to clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood and mixed media. Residents are required to have their studios open for at least two days each week, giving visitors the unique opportunity to walk in, ask questions, and watch them work. This deeper level of interaction between artists and visitors allows the public to learn about a range of craft processes and techniques and helps artists to gain exposure, make connections within the Houston community, and educate people of all ages about craft.

ZAYNAB HILAL NAMED CURATORIAL FELLOW AT HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT

Maria-Elisa Heg — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:13:27 +0000

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Zaynab Hilal as the HCCC Curatorial Fellow for the next three years. From Houston, Texas, Hilal is a first-generation, Arab American writer, poet, and curator who holds an MA in museum and exhibition studies from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and a BS in anthropology from the University of Houston.

“LA FUENTE DEL DESEO” EXPLORES CULTURAL IDENTITY & MATERIAL CULTURE THROUGH JEWELRY-INFLECTED WORKS OF ART

Maria-Elisa Heg — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 16:07:25 +0000

This summer, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) presents La Fuente del Deseo (The Fountain of Desire), the first, institutional solo exhibition of work by Georgina Treviño, an interdisciplinary artist and metalsmith from Tijuana, Mexico, based in San Diego, California. Treviño’s expansive approach to adornment combines art jewelry and sculptural traditions with the vernacular material culture, architecture, and norteño music of the Mexico-United States border. The artist occupies a radical peripheral space, both in regional perspective and artistic discipline, which allows her to deftly traverse various realms of creative production, ranging from cast-silver jewelry and tableware to custom wearables for celebrities and industrially scaled sculpture. Her oeuvre is centered on transforming everyday scenes of the world around her–from the hand-painted signs of joyerías and carnitas ricas trucks to the chewing gum covering the border wall and glinting pennies resting at the bottom of plaza fountains–into jewelry-inflected works of art.