Posted on · This month's Artful Thursday at the MFAH will explore the lives of Latinas through literature and film, specifically through the works of author Stella Pope Duarte and a film by UH Honors College Student Erica Fletcher. The presentation is this Thursday, March 25th at 6:30 PM in the Caroline Weiss Law Building of the MFAH. To preview the event, KUHF's Eric Ladau sat down with Ms. Fletcher.
Posted on · This month's Artful Thursday at the MFAH will focus on the works of Suneeta Vaswani, author of The Complete Book of Indian Cooking. The presentation is this Thursday, February 25th at 6:30 PM in the Caroline Weiss Law Building of the MFAH. To preview the event, KUHF's Eric Ladau sat down with Ms. Vaswani.
Posted on · This month's Artful Thursday program, August 13, 2009, beginning at 6:30 PM at the at the Caroline Wiess Law Building, The Art Guys present Home on the Range. For more than a quarter of a century, The Art Guys—Houston based Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing—have intrigued, entertained, puzzled, and moved audiences with their art. Theirs is a world where the everyday becomes monumental, humor is serious, and the ridiculous meets the sublime.
Posted on · This month's Artful Thursday at the MFAH will focus on the works of photographer Amy Blakemore, but through the eyes of two of her students: author Katherine Center and photographer Will Michels. The presentation is this Thursday, June 18th at 6:30 PM in the Caroline Weiss Law Building of the MFAH. To preview the event, KUHF's Eric Ladau sat down with the two artists, as well as MFAH curator Alison de Lima Greene.
Posted on · The month's free Artful Thursday program, March 12, 2009, beginning at 6:30 pm in the Caroline Wiess Law Building of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, bears the intriguing title, The Song of the Scapegoat: The Birth of Greek Tragedy. In less than a century, the poets of Fifth-Century B.C. Athens gave birth to and then perfected the genre of Greek Tragedy. Second only to the epics of Homer in their exalted scope and high seriousness, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides invited their audiences to participate in and endure titanic struggles between men and gods, order and chaos, justice and revenge, guilt and expiation.
Posted on · In anticipation of this month's Artful Thursday and in conjunction with the Houston Center for Photography's exhibition Beauty Knows No Pain, KUHF's Eric Ladau interviews O. Rufus Lovett, author of the book Kilgore Rangerettes.
Posted on · KUHF and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston present this month's installment of Artful Thursday, on Thursday, May 22nd at 6:30 PM in the MFAH's Brown Auditorium. Carter Smith of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will speak about the work of the Katy Prairie Conservancy. In this feature, Eric Ladau talks with Mr. Smith and Mary Anne Piacentini, the Executive Director of the Katy Prairie Conservancy.
Posted on · October's Artful Thursday features the works of young Latino writers who are featured in a new book "Windows into My World: Young Latinos Write Their Lives." KUHF's Eric Ladau speaks with poet and educator Sarah Cortez about this innovative program.