Rice University Centennial Celebration |

One of the strongest natural desires we all have is freedom of expression.

The MOCAH experience offers the often overlooked and under represented classes of our youth a chance to acknowledge themselves through art.
The MOCAH experience provides artists and non-artists alike with the opportunity to discover their own artistic sensibilities through hands-on art experiences that encourage and nurture the creative process.

Participants work alongside professional artists to create our public art projects and programs.
Students and community members involved in the MOCAH experience play a vital role in the reclamation and preservation of their own community.

The infusion of art, history and culture stimulates community pride, stewardship and neighborhood revitalization.
The MOCAH experience places the public in public art by engaging the community in the creation of our art projects. These projects help transform our neighborhoods into cultural and artistic destinations.

The impact that these projects have on the community are long lasting and reach broad and diverse audiences.

Rice University Centennial Celebration

April 14th, 2012

Rice University commissioned, the Museum of Cultural Arts Houston to create 4, 8×8 family friendly sidewalk chalk experiences with the campus logo to help commemorate the University’s 100 Year Anniversary. The Centennial Celebration logo mark features the Athenian owl with its eyes forming the double zeroes in “100.” Edgar Odell Lovett, the founding president of Rice, adopted the Athenian owl as a symbol of the institute in 1912.

This family project jumped off the sidewalks and helped visitors celebrate Rice’s first 100 years, plus it set another major milestone to the remarkable journey that has transformed Rice from a bold little institute on the edge of the prairie to a thriving international university on the cutting edge of education and research.

MOCAH was so honored to not only host an interactive sidewalk chalk mural but to become apart of Rice University’s rich history. Happy 100 years Rice and many more!