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Grace opens photography exhibit about Hispanic women

Abilene, TX (July 11, 2008) - The Grace Museum announces the opening of a special photography exhibit focused on Hispanic women.

Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas (Spanish for the feminine "us" or "we") features 50 photographs, both black-and-white and color, from eight emerging photographers documenting the lives and culture of Latinas, most first- or second-generation immigrants to the United States. These striking images convey dignity and strength in the faces, families, and traditions of multiple generations.

"As a Mexican-American born on the border and raised in middle America, exhibition organizer Virginia Dodier - photography historian, curator, and director of the Carlsbad Museum & Art Center in New Mexico - has, like many other Hispanic women and girls, experienced the feeling of living in two worlds," said Judy Deaton, Curator of Arts and Exhibits for The Grace. "She organized Nosotras to present positive images of women's lives lived 'between here and the homeland.'"

Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas is on exhibit in The Grace's second floor Galleries A and B through August 16. The exhibit is generously sponsored by Celina and Wendell Fennell, Jean Hays, the Hispanic Leadership Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, Anca Pacuraru, M.D., and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

The Grace Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. every Thursday. Admission is free Thursday evening after 5 p.m.

For more information, call 325-673-4587.

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The Grace Museum's exhibitions and educational programs are supported in part by grants from the Texas Commission on the Arts, the Abilene Cultural Affairs Council, the City of Abilene, Taylor County, and the Downtown Revitalization Program of the Tax Increment Finance District. The Grace Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1909, The Hotel Grace served as a rest stop for railway travelers. The mission-style building was renovated and re-opened in 1992 as The Grace Cultural Center. The Grace Museum , a non-profit organization, now serves as a home to a Children's Museum, History Museum , and Art Museum. At 55,000 sq. ft., The Grace Museum is the 10th largest general museum in Texas . The Grace Museum is the cornerstone of cultural arts and education in West Texas .