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Wearable art heels sport tree wart texture

November 17, 2023

A Rice student used galls — plant tissue growths caused by small wasps — to decorate a pair of shoes as part of an art project, creating some online buzz when a picture of the heels were posted on social media.

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy, Leslie Hewitt and Kenneth Tam

Influx of acclaimed arts faculty shows depth, breadth of Rice’s commitment to art education

May 23, 2023

Rice students with an interest in the arts have more opportunities than ever to deepen their knowledge of, skill in and academic understanding of art in all of its forms thanks to ongoing efforts and investments by Rice’s School of Humanities toward arts education at the university.

A generous donation of vintage comics from Rice University alumnus Dr. Gordon Green ‘62 was recently made to the Comic Art Teaching and Study (CATS) Workshop in the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library.

Rice alumnus donates personal collection to Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop

April 11, 2023

A generous donation of vintage comics from Rice University alumnus Dr. Gordon Green ‘62 was recently made to the Comic Art Teaching and Study (CATS) Workshop in the Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library.

Student on left participating in acting exercise with professional actor on right

Actors From The London Stage dazzle throughout campus visit

February 6, 2023

The Actors From The London Stage, the international touring troupe based in London and at the University of Notre Dame, shared their talents with Rice students and the Houston community at large during the group’s recent on-campus residency Jan. 31-Feb. 4.

Butterflies installation opening

Feeling the butterflies

January 23, 2023

Rice Owls and Houston art lovers were invited Jan. 20 by the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts to campus for the opening reception of “Butterflies,” an original multimedia video and sound installation created by Rice senior Ling DeBellis and University of Houston student composer Antonio Sanz Escallón.

Bread and Puppet workshop

Puppetry workshop brings Owls, performers together for larger-than-life performance

December 12, 2022

Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Department Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures within the School of Humanities, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and Bread and Puppet Theater — one of the oldest nonprofit political theater companies in the country — Rice students got the chance to play roles in a larger-than-life puppet show Nov. 22.

Original Mickey Mouse comic strip art

Comic Art Teaching & Study Workshop receives original comic art gift worth six figures

December 5, 2022

A rare art collection featuring some of the most famous cartoon characters in American history has been acquired by Rice University’s Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) within the School of Humanities’ Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.

Rice University students Chiro Ogbo as Mr. Darcy and Taylor Stowers as Lizzy

Rice Theatre to present fresh take on ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Oct. 21-29

October 4, 2022

Rice University Theatre will present Kate Hamill’s “Pride and Prejudice” for two weekends only at Hamman Hall: Oct. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m., with a matinee Oct. 23 at 3 p.m., and Oct. 27 and 29 at 8 p.m.

Friends of Fondren Library event in the Kyle Morrow room Feb. 16, 2022 honoring Rice-affiliated authors who published works in 2021.

Writing about women across the disciplines

February 21, 2022

The Friends of Fondren Library annual event Feb. 16 honored Rice-affiliated authors, editors and composers

A still from James Blue's 1962 film 'The Olive Trees of Justice'

Rice Cinema screening Blue’s ‘Olive Trees of Justice’ over two nights

February 17, 2022

Algerian-set drama was legendary film professor’s only non-documentary film

Poster of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" showing spellers on stage.

Rice Theatre presents ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’

February 15, 2022

Acclaimed musical comedy comes to Hamman Hall Feb. 25-26, March 3-5

Senior VADA major Laura Semro holds a small puppet she made in a Theater 314 course.

Puppetry design course challenges students to explore their creative boundaries

February 10, 2022

“Never in a million years did I think I’d be designing and making a puppet”

Li'l Jormly cover by Christopher Sperandio

Sperandio’s genre-bending, post-apocalyptic comic presents puzzles, one-eyed pigs

January 20, 2022

The newest comic book from the VADA professor comes from respected Latvian publisher Kuš

Baker College junior Xavier Elizondo

Inaugural cohort of Humanities Dean’s Fellows hails culture of collaboration

December 14, 2021

New program funds undergraduates passionate about humanities research

VADA seniors exhibit new work on bodyhood

VADA seniors exhibit new work on bodyhood

November 18, 2021

New work from the 2021-22 cohort of Visual and Dramatic Arts seniors on the Studio Art track debuted Nov. 12 in the Sleepy Cyborg Gallery

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