Transformative Encounters

Rice students are artists, innovators, entrepreneurs and original thinkers. They crave an environment that makes them think in new ways, forge new connections and encounter thought-provoking ideas. With new funding, the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice will implement the innovative programming and experiences that maximizes their potential for creativity.

LIBBIE RICE SHEARN MOODY

  • Fund for the Arts

    The Libbie Rice Shearn Moody Fund for the Arts will provide support for programs at the Moody Center that encourage creative thinking, enrich curricular innovation and promote cross-campus and community collaboration through transformative encounters with the arts.

    LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOODY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Art students

“The Moody Center for the Arts works to bridge the Rice campus with the community and to promote original thought, new ideas and personal connectivity through the arts. I am so grateful to the Moody Foundation for their tremendous support, and I’m thrilled that this endowment will honor the matriarch of the Moody family.”

—ALISON WEAVER, the Suzanne Deal Booth Executive Director of the Moody Center for the Arts

pick up sticks

ABOUT
LIBBIE RICE SHEARN MOODY

Born in 1869 to a prominent Houston family with close ties to William Marsh Rice, Libbie Rice Shearn was named after Rice’s second wife, Elizabeth. She met W.L. Moody, Jr. in April of 1890. They were engaged the next month and married before the end of August. Devoted to her husband and four children, Libbie managed a growing household and contributed to local clubs as well as hereditary organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.

Rice University
P.O. BOX 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892

Email: stewardship@rice.edu

Moody X Logo