From July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025, The Grace Museum will show the exhibition Full Steam Ahead: The Texas and Pacific Railway. The exhibition highlights the history of the Texas and Pacific Railway in Abilene through several artifacts from The Grace Museum’s permanent collection. For more information, contact The Grace Museum.
Events
July 13, 2024–July 5, 2025
Exhibition
January 7–February 18, 2025
Exhibition
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. For more information, contact the Harlingen Arts and Heritage Museum.
January 17-March 15, 2025
Exhibition
Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, a Humanities Texas traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, explores the Port of Galveston's role in the story of 19th and 20th century immigration to the United States and considers universal themes of immigration including leaving home, encountering danger, confronting discrimination, and navigating bureaucracy. For more information, contact the Texas Maritime Museum.
January 24–March 8, 2025
Exhibition
From January 24–March 8, 2025, The University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center will show the exhibition Blackland Prairies: Locating Black Histories in Texas. Blackland Prairies assembles a presentation of archival documents and photographs of Austin’s historically Black communities created by city residents, government officials, and local news media from the 19th century to the present day. For more information, contact The University of Texas at Austin Visual Arts Center.
January 31–February 28, 2025
Exhibition
Through renowned photojournalist James “Spider” Martin's camera and the words of Congressman John Lewis, former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), March to Freedom follows a determined group of marchers, both Black and white, as they tried on three different occasions in March 1965 to take their cause to the steps of the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery. March to Freedom is an exhibition by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin and the LBJ Presidential Library, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, contact Vanishing Texana Museum.
February 2025
Exhibition
In February 2025, the Chinati Foundation will host a discussion with artists Zoe Leonard and Cameron Rowland and historian Kelly Lytie Hernández in conjunction with the exhibition Al río / To the River. For more information contact the Chinati Foundation.
February 1–March 1, 2025
Exhibition
This exhibition presents photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee and draws from the magnificent archive that he donated to the Briscoe Center for American History just prior to his death in 1986. This exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the remarkable images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947 through 1977. The exhibition was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information contact the Del Rio Council for the Arts.
February 1-March 31, 2025
Exhibition
On June 19, 1865, General Orders No. 3, was issued in Galveston, announcing to the people of Texas that, in accordance with the Emancipation Proclamation, “all slaves are free.” This day—which has since become known as Juneteenth—is now celebrated nationwide as the day that marked freedom for all Black Americans. Juneteenth presents engaging text accompanied by dynamic works of art, photographs, and historical documents to chronicle this pivotal period in U.S. history.
February 5 and 12, 5:00–6:30 p.m. CT
Teacher institute
"Reading Like a Historian with the Digital Inquiry Group" will take place on Zoom from 5:00–6:30 p.m. CT on February 5 and 12. The webinars will introduce participants to the Digital Inquiry Group's Reading Like a Historian curriculum, which teaches students how to investigate historical questions by employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on historical issues and learn to make historical claims backed by documentary evidence. Joel Breakstone, cofounder and executive director of the Digital Inquiry Group, will lead the webinars.
February 5, 2025
Event
On February 5, Sul Ross State University will partner with Alpine Public Library, elementary schools, Front Street Books, and West Texas National Bank for a Read Aloud Celebration. The free program is designed for students and families. During the events, the audiences will be introduced to a rich collection of literature, and all families will receive a complimentary book, written by Antonio Sacre, that will extend the humanities experience into their own homes. For more information, contact Sul Ross State University.