Spring Break Drawing Outpost at Eldorado Ballroom

Music at the Museum workshop participants at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2025. Photo: Tasha Gorel. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live About Join CAMH at Eldorado Ballroom at Project Row Houses for a drop-in outpost inspired by CAMH’s exhibition Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe and focusing on drawing-based art-making activities with artist Nathaniel Donnett.This Spring Break Drawing Outpost invites you to explore the imagination by interpreting our everyday lives through abstraction and representational collage, examining objects, environments, thoughts, and bodies. To rethink these perspectives, we will engage with collage through drawing and photography as processes and with the surrounding landscape as inspiration. The workshop reimagines alternative ways to consider what material means and its potential to mean something different, while most importantly, having fun. Attendees of each workshop are invited to choose one drawing that will be on view in CAMH’s Cullen Education Resource Room for the duration of the Spring Break Community Celebration.All supplies will be provided.Join us for only one or all of our Spring Break Drawing Outposts. Guests 16 or younger must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian, or other responsible adult. RSVP is required.Registration for the Eldorado Ballroom Drawing Outpost does not register you for all 3. Explore the other Drawing Outposts:Houston Freedmen’s Town Visitor Center  Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 1-4PMEldorado Ballroom Thursday, March 12, 2026 | 1-4PM RSVP Location & Parking Eldorado Ballroom is located at 2310 Elgin St, Houston, Texas 77004. Free on-site parking is available in their dedicated lot, with its entrance conveniently located on Elgin Street between Emancipation Boulevard and Bastrop Street. This workshop will be located in the main ballroom on the second floor. About Nathaniel Donnett Nathaniel Donnett received his B.A. in Fine Arts from Texas Southern University and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. He is currently a Project Row Houses Artist-in-Residence (2026). He is the recipient of a Support for Artists and Creative Individual Grant (2025), the Mitchell Center Scholar in Residence at the School of Art (2024-25), the Houston Region Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy of Rome (2024), and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2022). He was also awarded the Helen Frankenthaler Scholarship from Yale University (20202021), a Dean’s Critical Practice Research Grant, and an Art and Social Justice Initiative Grant, both from Yale (2020), the Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grant (2017), among others. Donnett founded and published “What’s the New News,” a newspaper and project that reframed the narratives of historical neighborhoods (2010-2019). His work has been exhibited nationally at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; the ...