Galveston Arts Center

06/02/2026

We’re honored to be included in the Coffee & Quality Galveston Fellows Program, new to Galveston Island nonprofits!

United Way of Galveston is proud to welcome the first Coffee & Quality: Galveston Fellows Program cohort. This milestone brings local nonprofit leaders together to strengthen data, evaluation,…

05/31/2026

📣We are thrilled to announce an exciting new partnership for our GAC Kids Summer Camps with the Galveston Historical Foundation.

As part of this summer experience, campers will enjoy weekly harbor tour boat rides and walking museum tours.

Captain Brian will guide campers through Galveston Harbor via boat ride while their art teacher leads them through engaging creative activities inspired by the sights and stories of the waterfront.

Students will explore Galveston’s rich maritime history and have the opportunity to encounter dolphins and other marine life along the way.

We look forward to a summer full of creativity, exploration, and fun with your young artists!

Space is limited, register today.
🔗 https://www.galvestonartscenter.org/gac-kids-summer-camp

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05/21/2026

Our GAC Kids Summer Camp line up is filled with opportunities for your child to explore their creativity all summer long.

GAC Kids Summer Camp is kicking off in June with Intro to Board Game Design, Galveston Marine Life & Coastal Conservation, and Puppet Making with Polymer Clay.

🎨 Designed for kids age 5 - 13.

Head to our website for the 2026 GAC Kids Summer Camp Schedule & register your child today. ➡️ https://www.galvestonartscenter.org/gac-kids-summer-camp

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05/19/2026

We’re welcoming Komie Kim Le to GAC, June 13, for the ArtWalk Opening Reception of her upcoming exhibition “All-You-Can-Eat”.

“All-You-Can-Eat” features everyday objects and food from Vietnamese-American life - crab pots, baskets, fish sauce bottles - transformed into exuberant ceramic sculptures that reveal immigrant memory, humor, and resilience. She manipulates traditional Asian pottery forms with maximalist decoration, mirroring the overlapping influences accumulated through multicultural experiences. Through this tactile language, Komie explores how food, ritual, and domestic objects become markers of belonging and identity.

Her vessels carry stories of migration, family, and the joyful chaos of cultural hybridity. Through material play and color, Komie celebrates what she describes as a “naïve yet prideful” inheritance of Vietnamese-ness—an identity shaped by both traditions and pop culture influences.

ArtWalk Opening Reception
📍GAC | 1878 Gallery
🗓️ Saturday, June 13
⏰ 6PM - 9PM
🗣️ Artist Talk 6:30PM

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05/14/2026

Learn how to create your own custom headpieces at this Saturday’s Free Community Workshop - Island Icons, with Galveston headdress designer, Hurricane Headdress.

Centered around self-identity, Hurricane Headdress owner, Megan Maberry, will guide you through designing and creating a headpiece original to your imagination.

The paper techniques you’ll learn in this workshop can easily be transferred to other materials, so you’ll always have a custom headdress ready for any & every event.

We’ll get to learn more from Megan about her current headdress series, Island Icons, and the individuals who inspired each headdress design.

Seats are limited. Register today for Island Icons - Free Community Workshop, this Saturday, May 16.
🎟️ https://www.galvestonartscenter.org/islandicons

05/11/2026

We’ll have the coffee ready for you, thanks to MOD Coffeehouse, at this Friday’s Coffee with Creatives & Conveners, May 15, 9AM - 10AM at GAC.

If you’re looking to immerse yourself in Galveston’s creative community, Coffee with Creatives & Conveners gives our islands artists a monthly opportunity to share what they’re working on while learning about the creative opportunities happening throughout our community.

Coffee with Creatives & Conveners
📍Galveston Arts Center
🗓️ May 15, Friday | 9AM - 10AM
☕️ Courtesy of Mod Coffee House

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05/09/2026

Celebrate the opening of the Art Lending Library at GAC, at this evening’s ArtWalk, May 9.

The Art Lending Library operates like a regular library, but ALL members are able to check out original works of art instead of books.

After a successful run from 2017 to 2020, the Art Lending Library has relaunched in partnership with GAC.

Nick Barbee founded the Art Lending Library to make living with contemporary art more accessible, addressing the cost and intimidation that often keep people away while helping local artists reach wider audiences.

Join us for ArtWalk, May 9, from 6PM - 9PM, to learn more about the Art Lending Library & how to become an ALL member.

🎶 Live music from 6PM - 8PM by Raa Tansiel.

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