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#WeekofGratitude continues today with our special tribute to Artists Who Teach! The Grace Museum has a special connection to our regional Art Teachers and our permanent art collection includes several important Texas Art Educators. Join us today in thanking and…

We are inspired by passenger trains for today’s special HISTORY focused Illustrated Happy Hour. Make yourself one of these Midnight Train cocktails and settle in for a discussion about the Sunshine Special passenger train from the T&P fleet – and…

MONDAY Principles of Design Project with Canon Cavazos Homemade Geli Plates Cut Canvas Project  TUESDAY Geli Plate Printing Cardboard Loom Weaving with Heather Henderson  WEDNESDAY Found Object Collage with Mary K Kiel Huff Pop-Up Basics

Create your own layered paper sculpture inspired by the work of artist, Terry Hays, whose exhibition “Cosmic Garden” was on-view at The Grace Museum in 2019 and is now in the Grace permanent collection.

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES WEEK  It’s Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Week and we are diving into our Texas & Pacific Railway Collection for inspiration. Today we showcase railcars! The Sunshine Special, The Texan, The Louisiana Limited, and the Texas Eagle…

We are moving down the tracks for Planes, Trains, & Automobiles week with a step-by-step Perspective Drawing activity. Learn about vanishing point and how to draw train tracks from a unique perspective. #GraceTrainWeek

View fullsize CLICK TO VIEW LARGER Our final Collection Pet Takeover includes all of our remaining staff pets — posing as members of the Abilene Shakespeare Club circa 1900-1910. A sizable collection within the Grace Museum History Collection documents the…

View fullsize Willow as a Victorian Woman. View fullsize PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN CABINET CARD, N.D. View fullsize Bonnie as Col. W.L. Beckham and Cheddar as Grace. View fullsize COL. W.L. BECKHAM AND GRACE It’s #FilmFriday and our Collection Pet…

It’s #FilmFriday and we are talking about MOVEMENT! Take a look at the beautiful and magical photographs of Robert Langham III whose work was not only featured in his solo exhibition at the Grace, Magic & Logic, but who is…

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many women did not have access to higher education nor were they permitted to participate publicly in leadership roles. The solution was to band together in a socially accepted format to educate…

Get out your watercolors and crayons for this fun double feature art activity! For #ArchitectureWeek you will learn how to create a city using a wax resist technique as well as a bonus oceanscape activity using your same materials. SUPPLIESWatercolorscrayonswatercolor…

View fullsize View fullsize  As one of the most significant and prominent architects in Abilene and the Big Country in the early to mid-1900s, David S. Castle designed and built hundreds of schools, residential buildings, hotels, medical buildings, municipal buildings,…