Date & Time

September 5, 2025, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
September 6 – October 25, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Venue
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Address
4848 MAIN STREET, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77002

Shop a curated retail installation of limited-edition works by the celebrated ceramic artist, Roberto Lugo, during the run of his solo exhibition, Pigeon Crib: Houston Edition, co-presented by HCCC and R & Company. These artist-made pieces offer an accessible extension of the exhibition and reinforce Lugo’s commitment to creating work that lives expansively beyond the gallery space.

About Roberto Lugo
Roberto Lugo is a Philadelphia-based artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator. Lugo utilizes classical pottery forms in conjunction with portraiture and surface design reminiscent of his North Philadelphia upbringing and Hip Hop culture to highlight themes of poverty, inequality, and racial injustice. Lugo’s works utilize traditional European and Asian ceramic techniques reimagined with a 21st-century street sensibility. Their hand-painted surfaces feature classic decorative patterns and motifs combined with elements of modern urban graffiti and portraits of individuals whose faces are historically absent on this type of luxury item–people like Sojourner Truth, Dr. Cornel West, and The Notorious BIG, as well as Lugo’s family members and, very often, himself.

Lugo holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Penn State. His work has been featured in exhibitions at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 2023 Heinz Award, a Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures award, a 2019 Pew Fellowship, a Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize, and a U.S. Artist Award. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Walters Art Museum, and more.

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Check out the inaugural Houston edition of this contemporary art fair at George R. Brown Convention Center.

Saturday, September 20, 2025

At the Glassell School of Art, Roberto Lugo will give a demo and speak about the influences that shape his radical approach to ceramics.

Saturday, October 4, 2025

This month, learn the art of basket weaving with former resident artist and Lone Star Weaver Molly Koehn!

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