LOCAL Houston | The City Guide JUNE 2015

Local June_FinalEDITED.qxp_002houston 5/21/15 7:24 PM Page 30 MUSEUM DISTRICT HIGHLIGHTS 1. THE OTHER SIDE: CHINESE AND MEXICAN IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA Asia Society 1370 Southmore Houston, TX 77004 explores recurring issues of immigration, border relations and labor practices through the works of six contemporary artists: Andrea Bowers, Margarita Cabrera, Tony de los Reyes, Bland de St. Croix, Zhi Lin and Huang Liu. From Andrea Bowers’ drawing series, NO OLVIDARE (NOT FORGOTTEN), where she creates a memorial honoring those who died passing the U.S.-Mexico border, to Huang Liu’s dripping paint in her portraiture suggesting the passage of time and embedded with Chinese visual culture, this is an exhibit to see. www.asiasociety.org 2. HMNS is awesome in the summertime for kids and adults! The Cockrell Butterfly Center offers various events this summer including butterfly release on Wednesdays, THURSDAY SMALL TALK (where CBC staff talk about insects) and FRIDAY FEEDING FRENZY is where snakes, toads and a praying mantis are fed in view of guests. Special exhibits include SHARK! Touch tank experience where you can pet a live shark; SAMURAI: THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR; and CHINA’S LOST CIVILIZATION: THE MYSTERY OF THE SANXINGDUI. Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Dr. Houston, TX 77030 www.hmns.org 3. From superheroes to klutzes to traveling to Mexico, the Children’s Museum offers an experience for each of your children’s personalities. SUMMER OF EPIC ADVENTURE: FORCES UNITE will have your little superhero up in arms against the evil villain boredom. There’re activities, epic showdown performances, character appearances and events. KLUTz® AMAZINGLY IMMATURE teaches science, engineering, math and literacy while YALÁLAG: A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN MEXICO takes kids south of the border to the day-to-day life of people who live in Villa Hidalgo Yalálag – a Zapotec village located in the Sierra Juárez Mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Children’s Museum of Houston 1500 Binz Houston, TX 77004 www.cmhouston.org 4. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft 484 Main St. Houston, TX 77002 The museum’s summer exhibit, CRAFTING A CONTINUUM: RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY CRAFT, runs through August and was curated by HCCC curator Elizabeth Kozlowski who shares the exhibit “presents the work of pioneering artists of the studio-craft movement – a group that was pivotal in building and maintaining craft programs in higher education institutions a

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