Writers Remix Series | “Navigating the Waves” Friday, August 1, 2025 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
August 1, 2025
Experience Navigating the Waves: Contemporary Cuban Photography through the written word. This session of the Writers Remix Series focuses on how the exhibition traces the evolution of photography in Cuba from the 1960s to the 2010s. Local writers perform original works, all within the Museum galleries.
Make an evening of it and start off at Happy Hour Friday. Sip on a drink and soak in the ambience before the performances begin.
Performing Artists
- Phillippe Diederich
- Eva Skrande
- Icess Fernandez
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The performances take place in the exhibition gallery on Level 3 of the Kinder Building.
- On Fridays, the Museum is open until 9 p.m. with happy hour from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Arrival Hall on the Lower Level of the Kinder Building.
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About the Writers
Phillippe Diederich is a Haitian-American writer and photographer, born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Mexico City and Miami. His short fiction has been featured in numerous literary journals and earned him the 2013 Chris O’Malley Fiction Prize from The Madison Review. His debut novel, Sofrito, was published by Cinco Puntos Press.
Eva Skrande, originally from Cuba, is the author of The Boat That Brought Sadness into the World (Finishing Line Press, 2024), Bone Argot (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and My Mother’s Cuba (River City Publishing, 2010). Her poetry has appeared in Agni, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, and other journals. She has taught for Writers in the Schools and at institutions including the University of Houston, University of Houston–Downtown, Houston Community College, and the Houston Independent School District.
Icess Fernández is an educator, writer, and former journalist. A proud University of Houston alum, her work has been published internationally in Queen Mobs Lit Journal, Poetry 24, Rabble Lit, Minerva Rising Literary Journal, and the Feminine Collective anthology Notes from Humanity. Her nonfiction and memoir pieces have appeared in Dear Hope, NBCNews.com, HuffPost, and The Guardian.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.