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August 14, 2018

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft B. Anele: I Dont’ Play That Game – Ongoing until 10/7/2018 Unlike other galleries, studios, and museums that display mostly

August 10, 2018

The transdisciplinary artist skewers traditional symbols and images in a new Houston Center for Contemporary Craft exhibition. By Anna Lassmann LARGE PIECES OF JAGGED CANVAS,

May 31, 2018

Rooted, Revived, Reinvented: Basketry in America June 2–Sept. 2 | Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Long after “underwater basket weaving” became the go-to stand-in for

May 4, 2018

At the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Arts InSight host Ernie Manouse talks with curator Kathryn Hall about the exhibition “Light Charmer,” which features works

March 3, 2018

 Brandon Zech and guest host Kaneem Smith on a clever “relocation” of the Menil Collection, a stack of black cats, and the inarguable pleasure

March 1, 2018

The above image is not a pipe. It is a representation of a pipe created from cigarette ashes and resin by artist Michael Crowder, inspired

February 28, 2018

The piece: “Magic Garden” The artist: Mundy Hepburn Where: In the show “Light Charmer: Neon and Plasma in Action,” through May 13 at Houston Center

February 28, 2018

The above image is not a pipe. It is a representation of a pipe created from cigarette ashes and resin by artist Michael Crowder, inspired

February 9, 2018

Light is no stranger to the art world. From old masters like Johannes Vermeer, who captured the purest moments of sunlight on his subjects, to

February 8, 2018

A post shared by Center for Contemporary Craft (@crafthouston) on Jan 31, 2018 at 10:28am PST Light Charmer: Neon and Plasma in Action Feb. 9–May

February 7, 2018

Guiding Lights Houston Center for Contemporary Craft goes for the glow with the new group show in its main gallery, “Light Charmer: Neon and Plasma

January 17, 2018

A shop owner flips a switch, sending a few thousand volts through glass tubes bent into the shape of the letters O-P-E-N. As an inert

October 4, 2017

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents an evolving look at a reemerging art form. At the Houston Center for Contempoary Craft, a new exhibit opens

September 22, 2017

By Shelby Hodge I‘ll take Manhattan but make mine a martini.” That could have been the mantra for the collection of zanily-attired guests who enlivened

August 18, 2017

The world around us produces sound endlessly, incessantly. We tend not to consider it until it’s something out of the ordinary or a bit disruptive.

August 4, 2017

  HCC Stafford TV Studio interviewed HCCC Curatorial Fellow, Sarah Darro, and HCC Curator, Kathryn Hall, about Small Expressions 2017 and Edward Eberle Retrospective:

July 31, 2017

The Chinese-born artist, who’s been in the United States for four years (she came for an MFA program in ceramics at Arizona State), specializes in

July 5, 2017

“Multiple Impressions” by furniture maker Annie Evelyn will run through September 2, 2017, at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. The display features furniture that Evelyn

July 5, 2017

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is hosting an exhibition of works by Pittsburgh-based ceramic artist, Edward Eberle. The exhibition will run through September 2, 2017.

June 14, 2017

The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a small art center at 4848 Main St., Houston, dedicated to contemporary studio craft and shows work

March 23, 2017

Christina Rees and Rainey Knudson on craft versus art, Black Lives Matter at Project Row Houses, and flowers as transgression.

March 23, 2017

Combat Paper Workshop by Drew Cameron Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Craft Garden 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, free Artist Drew Cameron has been showing

4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance. 

Free Admission

OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 10 AM – 5 PM

4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft is located in the Houston Museum District, two blocks south of Highway 59, near Rosedale St. Visitors should park in the free parking lot located directly behind the building, off Rosedale and Travis Streets, and enter through the back entrance. 

Free Admission

OPEN TUESDAY – SATURDAY, 10 AM – 5 PM