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Menil

Public Program

Museum Experience Day

Join the institutions of Houston’s Museum District Zone 1—the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, and the Houston Center for Photography—for a day of family entertainment: music, photography scavenger hunt, art exhibitions, and more!

Free admission.

Houston Center for Photography

11a.m.–7p.m.: 2016 Print Auction Exhibition
11a.m.–6p.m.: Photography Scavenger Hunt
11a.m.–3 p.m.: Moon Rooster Food Truck in HCP parking lot
12p.m.–5p.m.: Experience HCP’s FlashDrive, Mobile Photography Education Unit and live screen printing with Hen Laying Egg

Da Camera Young Artists Performances at HCP
2, 2:45, and 3:30 p.m.

Program and Artists
Selections from Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D Minor for solo violin
Selections from Bach’s Sonata No. 2 in D Minor for solo cello

Jackson Guillen, violin; Sonya Matoussova, cello

The Menil Collection

Special Exhibitions on View:

MicroCosmos: Details from the Carpenter Collection of Arctic Art

The Precarious

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Infinity Machine at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel

Da Camera Young Artists Performances in Menil Foyer
2, 2:45, and 3:30 p.m.

Program and Artists
John Luther Adams, Nunataks John Luther Adams, Red Arc/Blue Veil

Stephanie Ng, piano; Danielle Chan, vibraphone

Rothko Chapel

11a.m.–12p.m.: Tai Chi class near the Rothko Chapel reflecting pool led by Henderson Smith

Da Camera Young Artists Performances at the Rothko Chapel
2, 2:45, and 3:30 p.m.

Program and Artists
Shane Monds, No 11 (re), 2015
Earle Brown, String Quartet

Jae-Won Bang, violin; Ingrid Hunter, violin; Jill Valentine, viola; Hellen Weberpal, cello; Renaud Boucher-Browning, bass; Shane Monds, drone