This exhibition demonstrates the wide variety of outstanding drawings, watercolors, lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, and mixed media compositions from The Grace Museum’s permanent art collection.

This exhibition features the 10 important works of art purchased by members of the 2025 Collectors Circle for The Grace Museum’s permanent collection. Artists represented include Barnaby Fitzgerald, Scott Gentling, Letitia Huckaby, Florence McClung, Scooter Orsburn, Robert Peterson, Allison V. Smith, Chaco Terada, Elizabeth Walmsey, and Molly Wood.

This annual juried art competition offers every Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art student in Abilene ISD an opportunity to have artwork selected for a museum exhibition and to compete for valuable college scholarships. The exhibition is a collaborative effort by AEF, Abilene ISD, and The Grace Museum.

In an age defined by rapid consumption, Virginia Fleck’s work investigates the relationship between materiality and perception, urging a slower, embodied engagement with objects and space. Magical thinking — rooted in cultural superstitions and beliefs in unseen forces — plays a vital role in Fleck’s practice. By infusing her work with these notions, she taps into a collective cultural memory, … Virginia Fleck: Reclaimed Revelations

Extraños Magníficos is a contemporary Spaghetti Western, influenced by Nancy Newberry’s Texas upbringing and her mother’s Italian heritage. Staged with Mexican charros, American cowboys and military soldiers suspended in a playful sense of preparedness at the Texas-Mexico Border, this exhibition challenges modern-day perceptions of the Wild West.

Austin artist John Cobb has created renderings of Biblical imagery for more than three decades. This exhibition highlights his meticulously painted Texas landscapes, as well as a free-standing wooden chapel that houses a series of early Renaissance-style portraits in egg tempera and gold leaf, featuring contemporary individuals as subjects.

FREE public opening reception – Thursday, Feb 20, 4-8 pm Youth Art Month is a national celebration of the visual arts and art education! Each year, The Grace Museum participates by hosting a one-month art exhibition and partnering with schools throughout the Region 14 district, as well as with homeschool groups. Teachers select their students’ best artwork and submit it … Youth Art Month 2025

In this exhibition, Hammonds + West explore the transformative potential of art within our fragile ecosystem. By integrating visual art and poetry, we offer a hopeful perspective on navigating and reshaping environmental challenges. The work invites viewers to engage in a reflective and empowering space where boundaries between past and future, loss and renewal, are reimagined. The exhibition will include drawings, sculptures, installations, sound, and text.

All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees. The people came out of their houses and smelled the hot stinging … Hard Times Come Again No More: Depression Era Photography

This long overdue solo exhibition of the art of William Lester (1910-1991) will include drawings, paintings and prints from private and public collections ranging in date from 1930-1970 to examine the unique and visionary artwork Lester created during his career as a draftsman, painter, printmaker and art educator. The arc of Lester’s lifetime pursuit of “a personal style of expression” will … William Lester: True to Form

This solo exhibition will feature paintings and fine art prints by Coreen Mary Spellman from the collection of the Tyler Museum of Art and the Spellman Forney Historical Museum, as well as private collections. In a 1941 Dallas Morning News article, Louise Gossett listed Coreen Mary Spellman “among the most promising women artists in the state.” Spellman was a champion of … Coreen Mary Spellman: In Her Own Right

“In the 1930s, a group of young artists—including Jerry Bywaters, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Thomas Stell, Harry Carnohan, and Coreen Spellman, among others—gained national recognition for their scenic and ideological interpretations of the local environment. Although they depicted the people and landscapes of Texas in identifiable and representational manners, each artist possessed their own style, often combining realism with modernist … Texas Regionalism Revisited

This annual juried art competition offers every Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art student in Abilene ISD an opportunity to have artwork selected for a museum exhibition and to compete for valuable college scholarships. The exhibition is a collaborative effort by AEF, Abilene ISD, and The Grace Museum.

Youth Art Month is a national celebration of the visual arts and art education! Each year, The Grace Museum participates by hosting a one-month art exhibition and partnering with schools throughout the Region 14 district, as well as with homeschool groups. Teachers select their students’ best artwork and submit it to the Museum for display. This year’s Youth Art Month … Youth Art Month 2024

Artist Edward “Buck” Muegge Schiwetz was born in Cuero, Texas in 1898. He graduated high school in 1916 and following his father’s wishes, began studying engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University). Due to his artistic interests inherited from his mother, Schiwetz switched his degree to architecture and graduated in 1921. Subsequently, he moved … The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz

The Grace Museum (originally The Abilene Fine Arts Museum) has a history of collecting important prints, paintings, and drawings focusing on the Texas landscape. This companion exhibition features works of art collected during the last 76 years. Paintings by Edward Eisenlohr, Loren Mozley, Bob Stuth-Wade, and many others will be presented in this group exhibition exploring Texas landscape painting treasures … Texas Landscapes from The Grace Museum Permanent Collection