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Event calendar
May through August 2008
While Humanities Texas strives to provide the most accurate information, dates and times may occasionally change without notice. Please verify information with venue.
Austin
"Working Hands: An Exhibition of Photographs by Rick Williams," Humanities Texas exhibit. Austin-Bergstrom International
Airport, East Airside Gallery, 3600 Presidential Boulevard; April
24–July 27, 2008. Contact:
512.530.7541.
Beaumont
"The Boomtown Film and Music Conference and Festival." Hosted by the Southeast Texas Film Alliance, this film and music conference will include panel discussions that focus on the history of motion pictures and their cultural impact. Various venues throughout Beaumont; 9:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m., May 17, 2008. Contact Christopher Dombrosky: 409.466.0007.
Big Spring
"Images of Valor: U.S. Latinos and Latinas of World War II," Humanities Texas exhibit. Hangar 25 Air Museum, 1911 Apron Drive; July 1–29, 2008. Contact: 432.264.1999.
Blanco
"Rural Texas Women at Work," Humanities Texas exhibit. Blanco Library, 1118 North Main Street; May 1–22, 2008. Contact: 830.833.4280.
Brownsville
"The Great Bronze
Age of China," May 131, 2008; "The Sun King: Louis XIV and the New World," June 1–30, 2008. Humanities Texas exhibits. Brownsville
Historical Association, 1325 East Washington Street. Contact: 956.541.5560.
Burnet
"The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence," Humanities Texas exhibit. Texas Heritage Festival, Burnet County Fairgrounds and Rodeo Arena; June 19–21, 2008.
Dallas
"Hispanic Art in Texas: An Interdisciplinary Teacher Institute," a two-day program for teachers exploring current scholarship on Hispanic art since 1737. Sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design. University North Texas System Center, 1901 W. Main Street, Dallas; 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m., June 12–13, 2008. Contact Dr. Kelly Donahue-Wallace: 940.565.3529.
The Writers Studio, an acclaimed radio series providing an intimate look into the lives and work of writers of international prominence, will tape an interview with author Louise Erdrich in front of a live audience for later broadcast on public radio stations. Presented by The Writer’s Garret, 2800 Routh St.; 7:30 p.m., May 12, 2008. Contact Thea Temple: 214.871.3300.
Denton
"Dr. Edwin Moten: The First African-American Physician in Denton County." An exhibit chronicling the life and career of a Denton physician in the early decades of the twentieth century. Denton County African American Museum, 317 West Mulberry; February 23–August 23, 2008. Contact Georgia Caraway: 940.349.2850.
El Paso
"Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas," Humanities Texas exhibit. El Paso Museum of History, 510 North Santa Fe; May 3–23, 2008.
Contact: 915.351.3588.
Fort Worth
Dickson Reeder, Portrait of Bill Bomar, 1946. Oil on canvas, 32 Ό x
22 Ύ in., 1989.017. Gift of Bill Bomar. Courtesy of The Old Jail Art Center,
Albany.
The Amon Carter Museum will display "Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s," an exhibit featuring paintings, watercolors, and prints by artists of the Fort Worth School. Supporting the exhibit will be a broad range of public programs, including teacher workshops, school tours, family days, and gallery talks. 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard; through May 11, 2008. Contact: 817.738.1933.
Highlands
"Poetry and Writing Theatre Workshop." Living history performer Melissa Waddy Thibodeaux will perform as Harriet Tubman, recounting Tubman's role in the Underground Railroad and highlighting the importance of literacy to African Americans in the late nineteenth century. Hosted by Children's Prison Arts Project. Stratford Harris County Public Library, 509 Stratford; 3:30 p.m.5:30 p.m., July 8, 2008. Contact Birgit Walker: 713.520.7661.
Houston
The Houston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America is hosting a series of public programs exploring the history and culture of the Near East. Contact Becky Lao: 281.497.7382.
- "Lust in the Dust! Excavations at the Petra Great Temple," lecture by Martha Sharp Joukowsky, director of the Joukowsky Institute, Brown University. Hilton University of Houston Hotel and Conference Center, 4800 Calhoun Road; 7:00 p.m., May 15, 2008.
"The Road to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement," Humanities Texas exhibit. The Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby Street; June 10–July 27, 2008. Contact: 713.655.1912.
"Poetry and Writing Theatre Workshop." Living history performer Melissa Waddy Thibodeaux will perform as Harriet Tubman, recounting Tubman's role in the Underground Railroad and highlighting the importance of literacy to African Americans in the late nineteenth century. Hosted by Children's Prison Arts Project. Aldine Harris County Public Library, 11331 Airline Drive; 2:30–4:30 p.m., July 10, 2008. Contact Birgit Walker: 713.520.7661.
Mesquite
"Border Studies," May 13–June 3, 2008; "People's Lives: A Photographic Celebration of the Human Spirit," July 14–September 1, 2008. Humanities Texas exhibits. Eastfield College Library, 3737 Motley Drive. Contact: 972.860.7174.
San Antonio
"Mosaics in Context: The Medium and the Message." Lecture by art historian Dr. Nayla Kabazi Muntasser. Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road; 1:30 p.m., May 24, 2008. Contact Kellen Kee McIntyre: 210.383.9723.
Seabrook
"Poetry and Writing Theatre Workshop." Living history performer Melissa Waddy Thibodeaux will perform as Harriet Tubman, recounting Tubman's role in the Underground Railroad and highlighting the importance of literacy to African Americans in the late nineteenth century. Hosted by Children's Prison Arts Project. Evelyn Meador Harris County Public Library, 2400 North Meyer Road; 2:30–4:30 p.m., July 7, 2008. Contact Birgit Walker: 713.520.7661.
Tyler
"The Great Bronze Age of China," Humanities Texas exhibit. The University of Texas at Tyler Library, 3900 University Boulevard; July 7–August 8, 2008. Contact: 903.566.7351.
Humanitites Texas exhibits circulating outside of Texas
Nebraska and Kansas
"The Dust Bowl," a Humanities Texas exhibit, will travel throughout Nebraska
and Kansas in June and early July. The exhibit will be on display at the Beloit
Municipal Building in Beloit KS, June 1215, 2008; at the Watkins Community Museum of
History in Lawrence KS, June 1922, 2008; at Candlelight Cabin at Stanton Lake
Park in Falls City NE, June 2629, 2008; and at the Hastings Public Library in
Hastings NE, July 36, 2008.