June 21, 2024
ART AS ACTIVISM: Environmental + Reproductive Justice Art Showcase at POST Houston
presented with CEER and Air Alliance Houston
Featuring work by Zsavon Butler, Dakota Cooley, and Asenette Ruiz
March 15, 2024
Artist Talk: Cian Dayrit + Kristi Rangel
at POST Houston
February 29, 2024
Artist Talk: Lost and New Horizons: Re-Imagining Houston’s New Ecologies with Jaime González + Henry G. Sanchez
at POST Houston
February 2 & 3, 2024
Migration and the Climate, two-day event at POST Houston with Air Alliance Houston and Rice University Center for Environmental Studies to bring together artists, scholars, and community leaders on the intersection of the climate crisis and migration
Speakers: Ana Bueno, Eddie Canales, Sylvia Dee, David Donatti, Cesar Espinosa, Anita Jaisinghani, Kairn Klieman, Matt Manalo, Juan Mancias, Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Ana Martín Gil, Christina Morales, Keren Reichler, Jonny Rhodes, Fernando Riosmena, Materanya Ruchinagiza, Weston Twardowski, Roy Vũ
January, 25
Sound, Stories, and Solidarities, a listening and storytelling event rooted in radical joy and international solidarity at POST Houston
Mitchell Center Visiting Artists Asad Ali Jafri and SpaceShift Collective: Amirah Sackett, Melissa Munira Jafri, Yahya Youssef, with Houston-based collaborators Erika Mei Chua Holum, Arslen Metoui, Cancega Xicas Unidas, Carlos Castaneira, Christina Novakov-Ritchey, Mashal Awais, Matt Manalo, Rice SJP, Zain Awais, Zaytounat
November 9 + 11, 2023
Pungwe Sound Trails Performances by Rob Machiri
Artist talk with Rob Machiri and Erika Mei Chua Holum
June 12-16, 2023
Environmental and Climate Justice Summer Program for HISD high school students, a week-long program at Rice University
co-hosted with Rice’s Center for Environmental Studies
June 2023
Press: Formas de exorcizar una mortífera frontera
by Marina Azahua, Revista de la Universidad de México digital platform about the work of Saúl Hernández-Vargas and his exhibit And what was the desert like? [pdf]
June 1, 2023
How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Panel Discussion
Houston Cinema Arts Society Screening at The DeLUXE Theater
Panelists: Doris Brown, West Street Recovery and NAC; Sandra Edwards, Impact Justice; Katie Wall, Sunrise Movement HTX; and Aaron Ambroso, HCJM
April 27, 2023
Turning the Tide speaker series, Plant It Forward + HCJM
at Emancipation Economic Development Council
Speaker: Grace Ifeanyichukwu of We Are The Ones Cooperative Incubator and Accelerator
April 25, 2023
Community Feedback Session and Again, Together Screening
Short film screening and conversation at HCJM
Presenters: Ronald L. Jones, filmmaker + artist; Hadley Medlock, Rice University Center for Civic Leadership student organizer
April 18, 2023
City of Houston's Earth Day HTX 2023
Houston’s Environmental ARTivism: The Power of Art in Resilience and Placemaking, Julia Ideson Library
Panelists: Theresa Escobedo - Civic Art Program Manager – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, City of Houston; Aaron Ambroso -HCJM; Kristi Rangel - Artist - Witness series. Moderator: Necole S. Irvin, Director, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs - City of Houston
April 4, 2023
Press: Migración climática: el nuevo factor que preocupa por el desplazamiento de población dentro del país
Univision Houston interview by Ana Bueno
April 1, 2023
Missing in Brooks County, Film Screening and Conversation
Film Screening and Conversation, Houston Climate Justice Museum
Panelists: Eddie Canales, South Texas Human Rights Center; Michelle Chinos; Omar Roman; and Dr. Kate Spradley, Texas State University; along with filmmakers Jeff Bemiss and Lisa Molomot.
March 20, 2023
Lost and Found: The Emotions Behind Extinction
Guest Speaker at HCJM
Dr. Dolly Jørgensen, Professor of History at the University of Stavanger, Norway
November 18, 2022
Worldmaking: Arts Engagement Amidst Climate Change
Gulf Coast Connections, Rice University Center for Environmental Studies
Presenters: Aaron Ambroso, Houston Climate Justice Museum; Xandra Eden and Ashley DeHoyos, DiverseWorks; Rebecca Snedeker, New Orleans Center for the Gulf South; Ama Rogan and Dr. Amy Lesen, Educators, Artists, Scientist Engaging Learners (EASEL)
November 12, 2022
Black Media Story Summit: Climate Justice
The Balancing Act: Using facts and creativity for climate justice media
Moderator: Aaron Ambroso, HCJM
Panelists: Ralph Bouquet, NOVA; Caty Borum, Yes, And...Laughter Lab; Dr. Stephanie Castillo, STEMedia
November 4, 2022
Creosote Stories: Seeding Planthroposcenes in Northeast Houston
HCJM at Rice University Solar Studios
Exhibit opening with Reading + Conversation: Kathryn Savage, Groundglass, and Willow Naomi Curry, Arcadia
November 2, 2022
Press: New Climate Justice Mural at Rice’s Solar Studios
by Hadley Medlock, Rice Thresher
September 30, 2022
Would You Look at the Time?
Julia Barbosa Landois short film Screening and Artist Panel at Garza Studios
Moderator: Tiffany Jin, HCJM
Panelists: Artists Julie DeVries, Julia Barbosa Landois, Monica Villarreal
September 24, 2022
Behind me was the desert: Migration, Borders and the Struggle for Land
Houston Climate Justice Museum
Panelists: Marina Azahua, Columbia University; Eddie Canales, South Texas Human Rights Center, Saúl Hernández Vargas, Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Fellow
Saúl Hernández-Vargas exhibit opening
September 10, 2022
Climate Action in Houston: Where are we now?
Presenters: Aaron Ambroso, HCJM; Doris Brown, Northeast Action Collective and West Street Recovery
August 26, 2022
5 Years After Landfall
Houston Climate Justice Museum
in partnership with Air Alliance + One Breath
Show curated by Matt Manalo with works by Jean-Sebastien Boncy, Willow Naomi Curry, Julie DeVries, Julia Barbosa Landois, Matt Manalo, and Cecilia Norman
Reflections: Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee; policy advisor Zoe Middleton; professor, writer and founder of the Houston Flood Museum Dr. Lacy M. Johnson; City of Houston poet laureate Outspoken Bean
Participating Organizations: CEER, Connective, Brazos Bookstore, Environment Texas, Moms Clean Air Force, Houston Youth Climate Strike
July 18-22, 2022
Feral Atlas Summer Program at Rice University a week-long program for high school students at Rice University Solar Studios
led by Rice University students Preston Branton, Magdah Omer, and Emily Weaver
Featuring workshops and talks with Willow Naomi Curry, Dept., Houston Youth Climate Strike, Plant It Forward, UH Precious Plastics, and West Street Recovery
July 8, 2022
Climate Block Party
Houston Climate Justice Museum
Speakers: Doris Brown, Northeast Action Collective & West Street Recovery; Joy Priest; Eddie Garcia Carrizo, Comecrudo Tribe; Anika Shethia and Tommy Wan, Houston Youth Climate Strike; Alondra Torres and Alexander Spike, Air Alliance; Stop TxDOT; Houston DSA; Nia Buckley, RECollective; Sandra Edwards, Dolores McGruder, Joetta Stevenson.
April 20, 2022
Texas Historical Commission Webinar
From the Ground Up: Starting a Museum
Presenters: Aaron Ambroso and Tiffany Jin
