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The University Museum at Texas Southern University presents the culture of people of the world through the presentation of special exhibitions and programs and the continuous documentation and interpretation of the museum's permanent collection.

Join us for a double feature! The University Museum will showcase two exhibitions: Brown RenfroThe Professor, The Studen...
08/14/2026

Join us for a double feature! 


The University Museum will showcase two exhibitions: 

Brown Renfro
The Professor, The Student, The Curator 

&

2026 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition 

On View Saturday August 29th 2026 - Sunday October 25th 2026 
With a special reception Friday August 28th 2026 | 6 - 8 PM

Free and open to the public

Parking available in West Garage @ Blodgett 

$10.00 per vehicle



LAST DAY OF SHOWIf you didn't get a chance to experience "Sacred Web" this will be your final day to view the incredible...
08/08/2026

LAST DAY OF SHOW
If you didn't get a chance to experience "Sacred Web" this will be your final day to view the incredible show!
The University Museum will be open on Sunday August 9th 2026
10 - 2 pm

STUDENTS 🌟🌟🌟Please join us at the University Museum at Texas Southern University for an informational session on "Career...
07/16/2026

STUDENTS 🌟🌟🌟

Please join us at the University Museum at Texas Southern University for an informational session on "Careers in Conservation" and learn more about internship opportunities for students.
Friday July 17th 2026
10 - 12 pm
Parking available in West Garage at Blodgett $10.00 per vehicle

We will be closing early at noon on Friday July 3rd and closed Saturday the 4th of July. Stop by and see us after the ho...
07/02/2026

We will be closing early at noon on Friday July 3rd and closed Saturday the 4th of July.

Stop by and see us after the holiday, we will reopen under our normal business hours starting July 7th from 10 to 2 pm.

Join us tonight from 6-8 pm for the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! You won’t want to mi...
06/12/2026

Join us tonight from 6-8 pm for the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! You won’t want to miss this event, featuring a culinary experience courtesy of ChòpnBlọk. Free parking will be available in Lot F; enter via Ennis St and keep driving straight towards Alexander Durley Stadium. See you there! Image shows John T. Biggers posing behind one of his sculptures, archival image courtesy of Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

We are 1 day out from the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! Biggers was a frequent collabo...
06/11/2026

We are 1 day out from the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! Biggers was a frequent collaborator and the Texas Southern art department was often visited by artists, poets, and creatives. Biggers’s artistic mentors, collaborators, and friends included Maya Angelou, Vivian Ayers, Charles White, Roy DeCarava, Viktor Lowenfeld, Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, and countless others. Join us tomorrow from 6-8 for an opening reception celebrating this new exhibition! Free parking available in Lot F, access via Ennis St. Image shows Maya Angelou and a young Harvey Johnson in the art building, archival photograph courtesy of Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

Just 2 more days until the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! Biggers founded Texas Souther...
06/10/2026

Just 2 more days until the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! Biggers founded Texas Southern University’s art department in 1949 and helped shape one of the nation’s most important programs for Black artists. One unique aspect of Biggers’s pedagogy was his emphasis on his students becoming teachers. In fact, several of Biggers’s students went on to become colleagues and faculty at TSU; this included Harry Vital, Leon Renfro, Charles Criner, Harvey Johnson, Jesse Sifuentes, and more. Dozens more of Biggers’s students went on to teach at other schools and universities throughout the US. Join us this Friday from 6-8 for an opening reception celebrating this new exhibition! Free parking available in Lot F, access via Ennis St. Image shows John Biggers teaching a drawing class outdoors in the 1950s, archival photograph courtesy of Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

Cameroonian artist Franck Kemkeng Noah created and performed in this sculptural costume while a teaching resident artist...
06/10/2026

Cameroonian artist Franck Kemkeng Noah created and performed in this sculptural costume while a teaching resident artist at Texas Southern University in 2023. Kemkeng Noah mentored TSU art students as part of his residency. The students also gained practical industry skills by assisting with installing his exhibition “Memory Palaces” at the University Museum at Texas Southern University.

Kemkeng Noah’s art blends his Cameroonian cultural background with the European and American contexts in which he has worked. While primarily a painter, Noah used his residency to explore working with sculpture. This sculpture, using found objects collected in Houston, is a coat inspired by masks and other cultural traditions of western Cameroon.

You can see Noah’s sculptural costume in “At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at HBCUs” on view now at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture through July 19.

“At the Vanguard” is a collaboration between the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. It is part of the HBCU History and Culture Access Consortium Initiative made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and a bequest from Dr. Beryl Carter Rice.

📷: Courtesy of The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture; Collection of University Museum at Texas Southern University

3 days until the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! In 1957, Dr. Biggers received a UNESCO ...
06/09/2026

3 days until the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers! In 1957, Dr. Biggers received a UNESCO fellowship to study in Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, and Dahomey (now Benin), making him one of the first African American artists to travel to Africa. This experience sparked a lasting fascination with West African designs, symbols, and cosmologies. He had started work on mural, Web of Life, prior to the trip, but its themes and designs were shifted by the world he was exposed to in West Africa. Biggers was especially drawn to creation stories that emphasized inherited bonds across generations. Join us this Friday from 6-8 for an opening reception celebrating this new exhibition! Free parking available in Lot F, access via Ennis St. Image shows John and Hazel Biggers with Ghanaian dignitaries; photograph from the back cover of the 1st edition of Ananse: The Web of Life in Africa, courtesy of Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

We are only 4 days from the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers at the University Museum at T...
06/08/2026

We are only 4 days from the opening of Sacred Web: The Artistic Lineage of John T. Biggers at the University Museum at Texas Southern! John Biggers was the founding chairman of the art department at Texas Southern University, where he taught for more than 30 years and influenced countless young artists. Biggers is commonly known for painting large murals that highlight African American life, community, and cultural heritage, often using symbolic imagery such as quilts, shotgun houses, and family scenes. Visitors to TSU’s campus can view three original murals (Web of Life, Family Unity, and NUBIA), as well as outdoor recreations of two more paintings (Quilting Party and Jubilee: Ghana Harvest Festival). Join us this Friday from 6-8 for an opening reception celebrating this new exhibition! Free parking available in Lot F, access via Ennis St. Image shows John Biggers studying the artwork of Henry Wilson, archival photograph courtesy of Earlie Hudnall, Jr.

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Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
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