Art Encounters | “Portal”
Do Ho Suh, Portal, 2015, acrylic resin, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum commission funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund and gift of the artist. © 2015 Do Ho Suh
Lorena Morales, Falling into a Vortex, 2022
Lorena Morales, Here, There and Everywhere, 2024
September 19, 2024
Looking for a new art experience? Art Encounters programs, led by artists and inspired by art at the MFAH, focus on creating community. The way you participate is up to you! Take an active role, or simply observe. Open to all ages. Supplies are provided.
This Art Encounters session focuses on creating an artwork inspired by Do Ho Suh’s Portal and the work of Lorena Morales. During tonight’s activity with Morales, you’ll have the opportunity to craft small houses using various papers and tools as you explore themes of home, displacement, and transitional spaces, and experiment with the artistic processes employed by Do Ho Suh.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is free with Museum admission. It takes place in the Arrival Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building.
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About the Artist
Lorena Morales is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary visual artist based in Houston, Texas. Her work explores the evolving concept of home and identity in a rapidly changing world. Morales has been awarded grants and residencies, including the Carlos Cruz-Diez Foundation grant and the L’AIR Arts Residency in Paris. Her work is part of the permanent collections at the George R. Brown Convention Center and Houston’s Civic Art Collection.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
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; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.