Community Arts Academy

About The COMMUNITY ARTS ACADEMY

The University of Houston Community Arts Academy offers eclectic, adventurous, premiumquality learning experiences in music, theater, dance, and visual arts. The Community Arts Academy is a UH home for any Houstonian, regardless of age, who wants to grow through creativity.

Join our diverse, supportive community and enjoy the wonderous opportunities and resources the University of Houston offers growing artists.

FALL COMMUNITY ARTS ACADEMY SEASON

8/23/22 7:30 p.m. Backstage Pass – Seminar First Session

9/12/22 7:30 p.m. Euphonia! Intersection of Music and Art – Seminar First Session

10/27/22 7:30 p.m. Tennessee Williams Table Read

For more information about our programs, or if you have questions, ideas, or requests, please contacts us:

caa@central.uh.edu 713-743-3398 Uh.edu/caa Evan Leslie, Director Michelle Girardot, Office Coordinator

COMMUNITY ARTS ACADEMY Upcoming Seminars

EUPHONIA! INTERSECTION OF MUSIC AND ART

Mondays, September 12, 19, 26 6:30 – 8 p.m. & Saturday, October 1, 7:30 – 10 p.m.

This interdisciplinary seminar uses visual art concepts to help us hear music more vividly and music listening skills to help us look at art more deeply. The seminar culminates with a Moores School Symphony Orchestra concert, underneath Frank Stella's modern art masterwork Euphonia. Join us for a feast of the senses!

$170

BACKSTAGE PASS

Tuesdays, August 23 – November 14, 7:30 p.m. (12 sessions) This exclusive course takes you into unseen corners of the College of the Arts: the costume shop and theatrical lighting lab; up into the ecstatic universe of Frank Stella's Moores Opera House mural; inside a priceless piano; and out onto the football field with the marching band drill designer.

$490

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TABLE READ

Mondays, November – December, 7:30 p.m. (4 sessions) A reading group, where one of Williams’ most trusted producing partners is our guide. The papers of Cheryl Crawford, pioneering woman Broadway producer, are deposited in the UH Library. Unseen letters, script notes, and production documents will enhance an exploration of several of Williams’ most loved and daring plays.

$170

University of Houston

Moores School of Music 3333 Cullen Blvd. Room 120 Houston, TX 77004