Writers Remix Series | “Tamara de Lempicka”
April 25, 2025
Experience the Tamara de Lempicka exhibition like never before—through the power of the written word. Local writers bring Tamara de Lempicka’s artistry to life, performing original works inspired by her bold and evocative style, all within the Museum galleries.
Make an evening of it and start off at Happy Hour Friday. Sip on a drink and soak in the ambience before the performances begin.
Performing Artists
- Kile J Atwater
- Bleah Patterson
- X’ene Sky
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The performances take place in the exhibition gallery on the upper level of the Law Building.
- On Fridays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. with happy hour from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Arrival Hall on the lower level of the Kinder Building.
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About the Artists
Kile J Atwater is an artist, writer, and community organizer whose work blends comedy, dynamic storytelling, music, and advocacy to center Black queer joy and liberation. Their artistry moves beyond performance—it’s about creating space, sparking conversation, and amplifying voices that have long been silenced. Their writing and creative work have been featured in Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, Buzzfeed, Hunger Magazine, and Afropunk.
Bleah Patterson is a queer, southern poet from Texas. Much of her work explores the contention between identity and home and has been featured or is forthcoming in various journals including Electric Literature, Pinch, Grist, The Laurel Review, Phoebe Literature, The Rumpus, and Taco Bell Quarterly.
X’ene Sky is a pianist, vocalist, composer and cultural worker in the lineage of Zora Neale Hurston. Her interests include slavery and the interstices of queerness, inheritance, climate change and musical repetition as a way to access trance-like states and other modalities represented in the material and immaterial. She is concerned with questions of personality and who we are outside of our name, class and education.
“Tamara de Lempicka” is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Major support is provided by:
Bobbie Nau
Additional generous support is provided by:
Linnet F. Deily
JBD Foundation
Jay Jones and Terry Wayne Jones
Bettie Cartwright
Sara Dodd-Denton and Will Denton
Cecily E. Horton
The Anne and Edgar Lackner Charitable Foundation
Susanne and William E. Pritchard III
Leslie and Russ Robinson
Winnie Scheuer and Kevin Bonebrake
Merrianne Timko
Polish Cultural Institute New York
Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation
Collectors Studio
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.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.