Community Artists' Collective

Community Artists' Collective The Collective’s mission is to provide the educational and cultural link among African American artists and all communities, inspiring unlimited creativity.

Leading Change Through The Arts
Our Mission is to provide the educational and cultural link among African American artists and all communities to inspire unlimited creativity. The Collective is a member of Fresh Arts.

❇️ June at The Community Artists’ Collective Summer is in full swing, and June is packed with opportunities to celebrate...
06/01/2026

❇️ June at The Community Artists’ Collective

Summer is in full swing, and June is packed with opportunities to celebrate culture, creativity, community, and collective memory. Join us for exhibitions, workshops, performances, printmaking, quilting, and family-friendly programming throughout the month.

JUNE EVENTS

🧵 June 3 | 5:30 PM
Juneteenth Black Neighborhood Quilt Unveiling & Concert featuring I Colori Dell’ Opera
Presented by the Jubilee Quilt Circle in partnership with Juneteenth Houston.

🎶 June 7 | 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Music is My Sanctuary Exhibition Opening & Legacy Concert
📍 El Dorado Ballroom / Dupree Room, 2310 Elgin Street, Houston, TX 77004
Presented by The Annual Legacy Project in collaboration with the Community Music Center of Houston.

🌟 June 10 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
sisters of the yam – Kids Juneteenth Words & Layers of Joy
📍 El Dorado Ballroom / Dupree Room, 2310 Elgin Street, Houston, TX 77004
Register at sistersoftheyam.org

🪡 June 11 & 18 | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Jubilee Quilt Circle 2nd & 3rd Thursday Workshops
📍 Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
Register at thecollective.org/jubilee-quilt-circle

✨ June 12 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hope is a Discipline* Exhibition Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception of this group exhibition curated by Tay Butler and Josie Pickens.

🎨 June 13 | 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Postcard Printing with Milpa Press
Learn the basics of relief block printing with this beginner-friendly linocut workshop led by Paloma Mayorga

* Hope is a Discipline will host additional events throughout the exhibition. Visit thecollective.org for upcoming programs and registration opportunities.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

📍 The Community Artists’ Collective
4111 Fannin St., Suite 100A, Houston, TX 77004

UPCOMING EXHIBITION On View: June 12 through July 17, 2026Hope is a Discipline begins with a question that lingers—what ...
05/28/2026

UPCOMING EXHIBITION

On View: June 12 through July 17, 2026

Hope is a Discipline begins with a question that lingers—what does it mean to keep going, to keep imagining, when the evidence around you suggests otherwise? Hope, here, is not presented as belief, but as a kind of behavior, something learned, repeated, carried. In the thinking of Mariame Kaba, it is a discipline, which is to say, a practice shaped as much by doubt as by faith.

The artists gathered in this exhibition understand that Black life has always existed in this tension between what is and what might be. Their work moves through love and resistance, memory and care, not as separate ideas but as overlapping conditions. There are moments of joy that feel deliberate, almost insistent. There are gestures that hold grief without trying to resolve it. And there are ways of being together—quiet, sometimes provisional—that suggest something like a future, even if it remains unnamed.

Hope Is a Discipline brings together Black artists of all identities whose work confronts the conditions we are living under while reaching toward something more free and whole.

Co-curated by Josie Pickens and Tay Butler, the exhibition centers care, resistance, and imagination as ways we move toward liberation and remain in relationship with one another.

The exhibition takes its title from the work of visionary abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, who reminds us that hope is not passive—it’s something we choose and build together, especially in the face of ongoing harm.

Featuring work by Li(sa E.) Harris, Lovie Olivia, Josie Pickens, Tay Butler, Mich Stevenson, and Zsavon Butler, the exhibition spans visual art, sound, and performance.

JOIN US FOR THE OPENING RECEPTION | JUNE 12 | 6PM - 8PM

More at www.thecollective.org

MAY at The Collective 🌿✨This month, The Community Artists’ Collective is honored to present Altar of Care by Lualo Creat...
05/08/2026

MAY at The Collective 🌿✨

This month, The Community Artists’ Collective is honored to present Altar of Care by Lualo Creative Studio — a community-centered exhibition rooted in memory, migration, ritual, nourishment, and collective healing. Through story circles, photography, hands-on workshops, educational conversations, and ceremonial gathering, Altar of Care invites us to reflect on how care lives within our histories, our relationships, and our everyday practices.

Join us throughout May for programs created in partnership with Lualo Studios and our regular monthly programming:

🤎 May 2
Altar of Care – Joy As Ritual: Story Circle
12PM – 4PM

📸 May 3
Altar of Care – Houston. Coffee. Photos. Repeat.
Photography & Film Developing Workshop with Christian Toledo
10AM – 1PM

🧵 May 14
Jubilee Quilt Circle 2nd Thursday Workshops
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell School of Art

📦 May 17
Altar of Care – Know History, Know Self: Balik Sa Bayan
11AM – 1PM
Join Lualo Studios in packing a balikbayan box while engaging in dialogue inspired by the exhibition.

🪡 May 21
Jubilee Quilt Circle Free Thursdays
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell School of Art

🌱 May 23
The Witness Series – Earth Bound: Gardening for Liberation
9AM – 12PM
Third Ward Garden @ Riverside Methodist Church

🕯️ May 23
Altar of Care – Ceremonial Exhibition Closing
Details coming soon

All events are free & open to the public unless otherwise stated.

📍 The Community Artists’ Collective
4111 Fannin St. Suite
Houston, TX 77004

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Houston. Coffee. Photos. Repeat. Photography And Film Developing Workshop with Christian Toledo(In connection with .stud...
05/01/2026

Houston. Coffee. Photos. Repeat. Photography And Film Developing Workshop with Christian Toledo
(In connection with .studio Altar of Care Exhibition)

Caffenol is a developing agent that is made with coffee and Vitamin C, an environmentally friendly way of developing film at home. This workshop was sparked by personal questions about coffee, photography, sustainability, human rights, and environmental justice.

This workshop is to cultivate mindfulness of our surroundings through photography, think more about sustainability and to connect everything back to nature and the people who nurture it; from the grain that make up the photo to the beans that wake us up in the morning.

RSVP CLOSED

This Saturday In partnership with , Lualo Studios invites you into Joy as Ritual — a community circle held within Alta...
05/01/2026

This Saturday

In partnership with , Lualo Studios invites you into Joy as Ritual — a community circle held within Altar of Care. Altar of Care is a gathering place, a living thank you - holding story, memory, and relationship.

Within this space, Joy as Ritual invites us to practice joy as a way of being with each other. Joy as survival. Joy as adaptation. Joy as a remembering of our wholeness, together.

Held alongside Sulong: Roots in Motion - a bakawan balikbayan–inspired tree where care, migration, and ancestry converge. In many Filipino traditions, trees are sites of offering, where the living and ancestors meet. it guides us to ask: how are we rooting into each other? what are we holding, together? What becomes possible when we move like a mangrove - adaptive, interconnected, and grounded in care?

Alongside this, We Create What Sustains Us - a collective of hand-carved spoons — carries stories of nourishment, reminding us that care lives in the everyday act of feeding and tending to one another.
Because what we practice grows.

Join Us!
📅 Saturday, May 2, 2026
⏰ 2PM–4PM
📍 4111 Fannin St. Suite

RSVP: https://givebutter.com/joyasritual

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ALTAR OF CARE - OPENING RECEPTION studio Saturday, April 25 • 6pm -8pmAltar of Care is a gathering place. A thank you, a...
04/22/2026

ALTAR OF CARE - OPENING RECEPTION studio
Saturday, April 25 • 6pm -8pm

Altar of Care is a gathering place. A thank you, a living archive of how we care for each other.

An exhibition by Lualo Studio ~
Jenah Maravilla, Trisha Morales, Rea Sampilo & Christian Toledo

Here, the altar is both form and framework—bringing together Lualo’s communal artistic and cultural movement-based work through archival materials, installation pieces, collective memory, art-making workshops, collaborations and story circles.

Rooted in Houston, Texas - this exhibition emerges within overlapping conditions - migration, environmental crises, attacks on trans youth, and ongoing educational erasure. Amid these pressures, practices of care continue to persist and evolve. Altar of Care asks: How do communities resist isolation and disposability to build networks of care and joy? What does care look like in our daily survival and organizing?

Guided by their pillars of culture, healing, embodiment, storytelling, and collaboration, Lualo Studio approaches art as a relational practice—one that understands culture as shaping how we see and move through the world, healing as collective, the body as a site of knowledge, storytelling as a tool for narrative shift, and collaboration as essential to building more just and connected futures.

This altar is a ritual: a practice where memory, labor, grief, and love are held together. Here, care is not abstract - it is everyday acts, it is mutual aid, the quiet labor of tending to one another, and showing up when systems do not.

Visitors are invited to engage as both witness and participant—to reflect on the networks of care that have held them, honor unseen labor, contribute their own stories, and imagine futures rooted in collective care.

Altar of Care is a continuation—
a reminder that the future we are building is shaped by how we care for one another now.

This exhibition is dedicated to our friend Rachel Jackson (1987 - 2025).

ABOUT LUALO STUDIO
Lualo Studio, lualo (loo•wall•oh) meaning prayer or offering in Ilocano, is a Houston-based cause-driven creative studio, formed to support community-centric work.

We are excited to officially announce that The Collective is looking for a new Curatorial & Exhibitions Manager and is a...
04/15/2026

We are excited to officially announce that The Collective is looking for a new Curatorial & Exhibitions Manager and is also inviting Art Instructors & Workshop Facilitators to lead arts programs this year through an open call!

Please visit https://www.thecollective.org/open-calls for details about each opening!

We look forward to getting to know what you may bring to our Collective team.

NOTE: Curatorial job opening closes Saturday, May 23, 2026.

🌸APRIL at The Collective 🌸We’re stepping into the season with creativity, community, collegiate collaboration, and care....
04/09/2026

🌸APRIL at The Collective 🌸

We’re stepping into the season with creativity, community, collegiate collaboration, and care. Join us this month for hands-on workshops, creative connection, and powerful exhibition openings.

• April 9
Jubilee Quilt Circle: 2nd Thursday Workshop
This Month: Crazy Totes with Patricia (Trish) Henderson
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell School of Art

• April 13 - 19
Archiving Memory - In connection with TSU Urban Arts & Wellness Week
12PM - 5PM
Featuring original work by Texas Southern University art students & professors Crystal Coulter and Mark Francis

• April 17
Jubilee Quilt Circle: Free Fridays (look out for changes to this event in May)
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell
Bring your textile projects and gather in community for guidance, skill-sharing, and creativity.

• April 25
Lualo Studios – Altar of Care Exhibition Opening
6PM – 8PM
An evening rooted in creating a gathering place, a thank you, and living archive of how we care for each other.

All events are FREE & open to the public unless otherwise noted.

4111 Fannin St, Suite , Houston, TX
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12–5PM
& by appointment

🎨 Pull up & create with us all month long.

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We are closed today, Saturday, April 4, 2026 ~ Enjoy your Easter Holiday! 🐇Visit the gallery during our regular hours, o...
04/04/2026

We are closed today, Saturday, April 4, 2026 ~ Enjoy your Easter Holiday!
🐇
Visit the gallery during our regular hours, or by appointment.

🌸APRIL at The Collective 🌸We’re stepping into the season with creativity, community, and care. Join us this month for ha...
04/02/2026

🌸APRIL at The Collective 🌸

We’re stepping into the season with creativity, community, and care. Join us this month for hands-on workshops, creative connection, and a powerful exhibition opening.

• April 9
Jubilee Quilt Circle: 2nd Thursday Workshop
This Month: Crazy Totes with Patricia (Trish) Henderson
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell School of Art

• April 17
Jubilee Quilt Circle: Free Fridays (look out for changes to this event in May)
11AM – 2PM @ Glassell
Bring your textile projects and gather in community for guidance, skill-sharing, and creativity.

• April 25
Lualo Studios – Altar of Care Exhibition Opening
6PM – 8PM
An evening rooted in creating a gathering place, a thank you, and living archive of how we care for each other.

All events are FREE & open to the public unless otherwise noted.

4111 Fannin St, Suite , Houston, TX
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 12–5PM
& by appointment

Pull up & create with us all month long.

HTXEvents ArtInCommunity

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4111 Fannin Street , Suite 100A
Houston, TX
77004

Opening Hours

Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

Telephone

+17135231616

Website

https://linktr.ee/communityartistscollective, https://www.thecollective.org/sankofaep

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