Core Program Events
The prestigious Core Residency Program at the Glassell School of Art offers postgraduate residencies for art critics and visual artists. Events and exhibitions take place throughout the year. Learn More
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Lectures & Discussions | 2023–2024
2023–2024 Core Residents, left to right: (top row) Carlos Vielma, Yifan Jiang, Erin Holland, Max Tolleson; (bottom row) Umico Niwa, Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Valentin Diaconov, larí garcía
Harold Mendez
Irmgard Emmelhainz
Headshot, 2018, Julia Phillips & Keisha Scarville.
Core Program lectures are open to the public. Admission is free. Lectures take place in Favrot Auditorium at the Glassell School of Art with seating on a first-come, first-served basis.
Thursday, October 19 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Harold Mendez
Thursday, November 9 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Irmgard Emmelhainz
Thursday, November 30 | 6 p.m.
Presentations | Core Program 2023–2024
Thursday, February 1 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Julia Phillips
Thursday, March 21 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Alex Kitnick
Thursday, April 4 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Tina Campt
Thursday, April 25 | 6 p.m.
Speaker: Kevin Jerome Everson
Exhibition | 2023–2024
2024 Core Exhibition
March 7–April 14
Every year, the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, awards residencies to artists and critical writers, culminating in the spring with an exhibition and yearbook.
The 2024 Core Exhibition features work by the 2023–2024 artists-in-residence: larí garcía, Saúl Hernández-Vargas, Erin Holland, Yifan Jiang, Umico Niwa, and Carlos Vielma. The critics-in-residence, Valentin Diaconov and Max Tolleson, have contributed essays to the 2024 Core Yearbook. View Diaconov's essay here, and Tolleson's essay here.
The exhibition is installed on all three floors of the Glassell School of Art.
Related Events
• Opening Reception
Thursday, March 7, 5:30 p.m.
• Performance by Artist-in-Residence Erin Holland
Thursday, March 14, 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 17, 2 p.m.
The Core Program at the Glassell School of Art receives generous funding from The Joseph & Sylvia Slifka Foundation; The Powell Foundation; and The Glassell Family Foundation.
Core fellowships have been underwritten by Anchorage Foundation of Texas; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc.; Mr. Brad Blume; Mr. and Mrs. Jamal H. Daniel; Mr. Ronald A. Logan; McClain Gallery; and The Arch and Stella Rowan Foundation, Inc.
Endowments for the Core Program have been provided by Leslie and Brad Bucher; gifts in memory of Laura Lee Blanton; the estate of Margaret Gillingham; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Eliza Lovett Randall; Herbert C. Wells; and Warren A. Hadler.