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Rothko Chapel The Rothko Chapel is a nonprofit cultural landmark, a sacred art space open to all people. Social Media Guidelines: https://bit.ly/3rPXIWZ
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The Rothko Chapel, founded by Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, was dedicated in 1971 as an intimate sanctuary available to people of every belief. A tranquil meditative environment inspired by the mural canvases of Russian born American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970), the Chapel welcomes over 100,000 visitors each year, people of every faith and from all parts of the world. On the plaza, Barnett Newman's majestic sculpture, Broken Obelisk, stands in memory of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Chapel has two vocations: contemplation and action. It is a place alive with religious ceremonies of all faiths, and where the experience and understanding of all traditions are encouraged and made available. Action takes the form of supporting human rights, and thus the Chapel has become a rallying place for all people concerned with peace, freedom, and social justice throughout the world. Before scheduling your visit, be sure to check our website event calendar for program offerings and chapel closures (http://rothkochapel.org/experience/events/).

What do visitors bring to the Rothko Chapel, and what do they leave behind?Join international scholars Beatrice Fellegar...
10/22/2026

What do visitors bring to the Rothko Chapel, and what do they leave behind?

Join international scholars Beatrice Fellegara and Thomas Bieker as they explore over five decades of visitor experiences, reflections, and encounters with the Chapel.

📅 Thursday, November 19 | 11 AM
📍 Rothko Chapel Administrative Building
🎥Livestream Available
🎟️ Pay What You Can | $0–25

Moderated by Carolyn King, Rothko Chapel Director of Research & Education, this program features scholarly presentations, a panel discussion, and a special opportunity to explore the Rothko Chapel Archives.

🕯️ Honoring remembrance through faith, tradition, and community.📅 Thursday, October 29 | 6:30 PM 📍 Rothko Chapel 🎟️ Pa...
10/20/2026

🕯️ Honoring remembrance through faith, tradition, and community.

📅 Thursday, October 29 | 6:30 PM
📍 Rothko Chapel
🎟️ Pay What You Can | $0–$25

We are grateful to welcome voices from Houston Zen Center, Congregation Beth Israel, Covenant Church, Houston Aztec Massage, and Elovate, alongside guitarist Jesus Lozano, for our 5th Annual Interfaith Time of Remembrance.

Join us for an evening of music, poetry, and reflection as we honor loved ones and the diverse traditions of Día de los Mu***os and All Saints’ Day.

🌼 Guests are invited to bring a small memento or photograph for our community ofrenda.

🕯️ Join us for an evening of remembrance, reflection, and connection.Rothko Chapel invites you to our 5th Annual Interfa...
10/20/2026

🕯️ Join us for an evening of remembrance, reflection, and connection.

Rothko Chapel invites you to our 5th Annual Interfaith Time of Remembrance, a special gathering honoring the lives and memories of those who have passed.

Event Details
📅 Thursday, October 29, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Rothko Chapel
🎟️ Pay What You Can | $0–$25
🪑 In-person with bench seating

🌼 Guests are invited to bring a small memento, photograph, or meaningful item to place on our community ofrenda in memory of a loved one.

Featuring:
Rev. Neely Atkinson | Houston Zen Center
Dr. Tom Cole | Congregation Beth Israel
Jesus Lozano | Guitarist
Rev. Laura Mayo | Covenant Church
Enereya Salazar | Houston Aztec Massage
Jasmine Shah | Elovate

In observance of Día de los Mu***os and All Saints’ Day, we will come together through music, poetry, and personal reflections to explore the universal experiences of life, loss, and remembrance. Featuring voices from diverse faiths and traditions, this gathering offers a space for healing, connection, and honoring the bonds that transcend time. All are welcome to gather, remember, and find comfort in community.

Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Rothko Chapel honors the rich histories, cultures, and enduring contributions of ...
10/12/2026

Today, on Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Rothko Chapel honors the rich histories, cultures, and enduring contributions of Indigenous communities. We reflect with gratitude on just a few of the many Indigenous leaders, artists, and advocates who have shared their voices at the Chapel, inspiring dialogue on human rights, spirituality, and cultural preservation.

🌿 1981 | Chief Tom Porter Sakokwenonkwas, of the Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, was honored as a recipient of the inaugural Rothko Chapel Awards for Commitment to Truth and Freedom.

🌿 1992 | John E. Echohawk (Pawnee), Executive Director and co-founder of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), was honored with the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize.

🌿 2013 | Kevin Locke (Tokaheya Inajin, “The First to Arise”), a Lakota artist and cultural ambassador, shared his traditions and artistry at the Chapel.

🌿 2017 | Suzanne Benally presented A Navajo Perspective on Reverence for Life, sharing Indigenous perspectives on spirituality and our relationship with the world around us.

🌿 2019 | Tiokasin Ghosthorse, member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation and founder, host, and executive producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio, shared his perspectives with the Chapel community.

May we continue to listen, learn, honor Indigenous sovereignty, and create space for the stories, traditions, and perspectives that enrich our collective humanity.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for “The New Americans”: Our Shared Struggle for Democracy, a powerful conversation ...
10/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for “The New Americans”: Our Shared Struggle for Democracy, a powerful conversation exploring identity, solidarity, resistance, resilience, and hope through art and lived experience.

We were honored to welcome Vincent Valdez, 2025-2026 ACLU of Texas Artist-in-Residence & 2026 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and Lonnie Ali, CEO of the Muhammad Ali Center, for a conversation moderated by Rothko Chapel Board Member Ellen Susman. We were also grateful to hear from Oni Blair, Executive Director of the ACLU of Texas, during the program.

Inspired by Valdez’s The New Americans series, the evening invited us to reflect on the people, stories, and communities that shape our country, and our collective responsibility to democracy.

If you missed the conversation, there’s another opportunity to experience "The New Americans." Join Vincent Valdez on Saturday, October 17, from 4–6 PM, at Dreamers Books + Culture in Houston’s East End, where he will hand out prints of his drawing series.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make this meaningful evening possible.

This Saturday, make space to slow down, reconnect, and create. 🌿Join The T.R.U.T.H. Project for The Sacred Mark, part of...
10/06/2026

This Saturday, make space to slow down, reconnect, and create. 🌿
Join The T.R.U.T.H. Project for The Sacred Mark, part of our Art of Healing creative wellness series, supported by lululemon. Guided by Dr. Kathleen Funk, this two-hour experience brings together meditation, breathwork, qigong, intuitive art, and reflection to explore our connections to spirit, ancestry, community, and self.
✨ No art experience required.
✨ Come exactly as you are, and give yourself permission to explore.

📅 Saturday, October 10 | 11 AM–1 PM
📍 Rothko Chapel Admin Building
14108 Sul Ross St. | Houston, TX 77006
🎟️ FREE | Registration required
Register: https://truthprojecthtx.dm.networkforgood.com/forms/sacred-mark-registration

Sometimes wellness looks like stillness. Sometimes it looks like movement. Sometimes it begins with making a mark.

Join us Thursday, October 15, for “Revisiting the Rothko Chapel at 55,” an illuminating book talk and signing with autho...
10/06/2026

Join us Thursday, October 15, for “Revisiting the Rothko Chapel at 55,” an illuminating book talk and signing with authors Annie Cohen-Solal and David N. Myers, moderated by Rothko Chapel President Abdullah Antepli.

📅 Thursday, October 15 | 6 PM
📍 Rothko Chapel
🎟 Pay What You Can: $0–30 | In-person with chair seating
📚 Limited copies available for purchase at the program

Presented in partnership with Villa Albertine and the French Consulate, this international and interdisciplinary conversation will explore Revisiting the Rothko Chapel (2024) and invite us to consider the Chapel and the light it offers with fresh perspective and renewed understanding.

Register here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-the-rothko-chapel-at-55-author-talk-tickets-1994235858135

🍂 OCTOBER AT THE ROTHKO CHAPELThis month, join us for experiences bringing together art, music, poetry, reflection, and ...
10/01/2026

🍂 OCTOBER AT THE ROTHKO CHAPEL

This month, join us for experiences bringing together art, music, poetry, reflection, and community. Save the dates and gather with us. ✨

💬 OCT 2–3 | 10 AM–6 PM
The Truth Booth: Pop-Up Public Art Installation
Step inside the iconic speech-bubble-shaped Truth Booth and respond to one simple prompt: “The truth is…”

A project by Cause Collective, with Hank Willis Thomas, Sam Giarratani, and Helen Banach. Free and open to the public on the Plaza.

Special thanks to The Muriel Pollia Foundation for underwriting support.

🎶 OCT 4 | 9 AM
Music & Poetry for Peace & Democracy
Presented with Jaipur Literature Festival Houston
Celebrate the closing of JLF Houston with a morning of music, poetry, and reflection featuring Mausiqui, students from The Fay School, and Houston Youth Poet Laureate Kaviya Dhir.

📖 OCT 15 | 6 PM
Revisiting the Rothko Chapel at 55: Book Talk & Signing
Presented with Villa Albertine and the French Consulate
Authors Annie Cohen-Solal and David N. Myers join Rothko Chapel President Abdullah Antepli for a conversation exploring art, democracy, and sacred space as we celebrate the Chapel’s 55th anniversary.

🕯️ OCT 29 | 6:30 PM
5th Annual Interfaith Time of Remembrance
Presented with Mind Body Spirit Institute at the Jung Center

Gather in community for music, poetry, and personal reflection honoring Día de los Mu***os and All Saints’ Day. Guests are invited to bring a small memento or photograph of a loved one to place on our community ofrenda.

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️This post touches on su***de, grief, and the experience of losing a loved one. Please read with car...
09/30/2026

⚠️ Trigger Warning ⚠️

This post touches on su***de, grief, and the experience of losing a loved one. Please read with care and take the space you need.

As we approach the final day of Su***de Prevention & Awareness Month, we’re reminded that the need for compassion, connection, and care extends far beyond September.
Rothko Chapel is a space for the fullness of being human, for reflection and connection, hope and uncertainty, joy and grief.

As you offer grace, patience, and empathy to those you cherish, remember to offer that same tenderness to yourself.

Some of what we carry is visible. Much of it is not. Even the brightest smile can conceal deep pain. Discrimination, bullying, financial hardship, rejection, major life transitions, grief, and loss can weigh heavily over time.

Sometimes connection begins with simply asking, “Are you okay?” Listen without judgment and make space for an honest answer. You don’t need the perfect words to be present.

We also hold close those carrying the grief of losing someone amid profound emotional pain. At the Chapel, you are welcome to sit in silence, reflect, pray, cry, grieve, or simply seek a moment of peace; without explanation or judgment. May we extend to ourselves the same grace, patience, and compassion we so readily offer those we love.

Hardship should be met with compassion, not silence or judgment.

Reach out. Check in, even on those who seem okay. Listen. Make space. Ask for help. Start a conversation.

Su***de & Crisis Lifeline
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Su***de & Crisis Lifeline.

Houston Crisis Intervention Hotline
Hotline: 832-416-1177 | Text: 281-201-4430
Teen: 832-416-1199

09/29/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Rothko Chapel for the opening of our 2026–27 Program Season, We the People: Art, Faith & the Sacred Work of Democracy.

We’re grateful to our speakers, artists, community organizations, partners, staff, volunteers, and visitors who came together for an afternoon of art, faith, dialogue, and civic engagement.

Thank you for being part of our community and helping us begin this season together🖤

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3900 Yupon Street
Houston, TX
77006

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

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