Art Encounters | Exploring Mosaics
This Art Encounters session focuses on creating a collaborative mosaic inspired by the work of contemporary artist Tyler Allen and by Louis Comfort Tiffany’s A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels. Participants are invited to join Allen in exploring organic forms found in nature while drawing inspiration from stained-glass artistry.
Plan Your Visit
Admission is free. This program takes place in the Arrivals Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building. On Thursdays, the Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with free general admission.
About the Artist
Tyler Allen is a conceptual artist from Houston. He received his MFA in integrated practices from Pratt Institute and BFA from Texas Southern University. Allen works in a variety of mediums, with a focus on collage, printmaking, and assemblage.
General admission to the MFAH is free on Thursdays, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.