Photographer Paul James Black presents an intimate group of Polaroids and black and white photographs of only one person; his wife Carol. The photographs in the exhibition, Paul Black: Carol, were taken in the first two decades of their marriage and offer an intimate record into their private world in the 1960s and 70s. Carol is the only subject in … Paul Black: Carol

Bill and Linda Reaves have been avid Texas art collectors for over forty years, and together have assembled an outstanding collection of artwork by 20th century Texas artists. The Reaves Collection of Texas Art reflects the breadth and depth of the collectors’ knowledge of Texas art and artists. This exhibition features a selection of artworks from their private collection focusing … Up Close and Personal: Portraits from the Reaves Collection of Texas Art

Hung Liu is known for masterful recreations of historical Chinese photographs. Her subjects over the years have been Chinese refugees, street performers, soldiers, laborers, and prisoners, among others. Liu challenges the documentary authority of the appropriated photographs by reconstructing the narrative through a variety of media. Liu’s initially training in the Socialist Realist style of the Maoist regime is evident … Hung Liu: The Long Way Home

The generosity and continuing support of the Collectors Circle is the focus of this exhibition featuring works of art purchased and conserved by this outstanding group of Grace Museum supporters. On the evening of February 10, 2019, The Grace Museum celebrated the seventh annual Collectors Circle event. The tradition was established in 2012 by the Exhibitions and Collections Committee of … Gifts of The Collectors Circle

33 photographs from the 1978 Jamaica Botanical Series Collection of The Grace Museum, Gift of Eddie Green William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston’s books include William Eggleston’s Guide (1976) and The Democratic Forest (1989). In the early 50s, William Eggleston (b. 1939 Memphis, TN.) … William Eggleston: Jamaica Botanical

What do artists Romare Bearden, Charles Taylor Bowling, Ken Hale, Jimmy Jalapeeno, Loren Mozley, Andy Warhol, Dan Wingren, Roger Winter, and Tony Sheets have in common? Clue #1: This is not a trick art history question. Clue #2: It does have something to do with gardens. Answer: Each artist had a work of art on view in Gardens at The … Gardens at The Grace: Selections from the Permanent Collection

The story of women’s suffrage is a story of voting rights, of inclusion in and exclusion from the franchise, and of our civic development as a nation. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and explores the complexity of the women’s suffrage movement and the relevance … Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence

The fine art of found objects defied the status quo to become a major art movement in the last decades of the 20th century. Inspired by Picasso and Braque’s 1912 experiments with paper and print and Marcel Duchamp’s “readymades”, Dada and Surrealism made anything and everything a medium for serious art making. Appropriation of images from popular culture took the … Et Al: Found Object Features from the Permanent Collection

This exhibition features found object assemblage and artwork created by friends and associates of David McManaway. David McManaway, Jim Love and Roy Fridge, from Chicago, Amarillo and Beeville (respectively) migrated to Dallas, Houston and Port Aransas in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Together they spearheaded a midcentury Texas chapter in the long-standing tradition of assemblage or found object art. … The Jomo Collective: David McManaway and Friends

Photographer David H. Gibson met David McManaway in 1964. A long friendship followed and in 1993 Gibson began documenting McManaway’s extraordinary studio. A visit to McManaway’s studio was akin to stepping into one of McManaway’s works of art; walls, ceilings and table tops covered with carefully selected cultural castoffs silently awaiting a second chance as fine art. Gibson’s photographs of … David H. Gibson: The McManaway Studio Project

David McManaway’s Studio Revisited is designed to recreate the experience of visiting the studio that is now gone but certainly not forgotten by those who were privileged see firsthand McManaway’s world. An artist’s studio is typically described as a creative laboratory where all the required tools and materials await the master’s creative transformation into fine art. But, David McManaway’s studio … David McManaway’s Studio Revisited

“People are always trying to take my work too literally, to list the things that are nothing more than ingredients of my pieces. . . .It’s like gestalt: the whole is always more than the sum of the parts. Most people never go beyond that list of objects to deal with the content, the meaning those objects assume in their … David McManaway: Cult of the Commonplace

The Hispanic Heritage Display Committee presents Entretenimientos: Música, Baile y Radio. This exhibition was created by Abilene’s Hispanic Heritage Display Committee, a group committed to archiving, preserving, and displaying the histories of Hispanics in Abilene for the community and its future generations. This exhibition highlights just a small portion of the rich history of music, dance, and entertainment in Abilene’s … Abilene’s Hispanic Heritage Display Committee presents: Entretenimientos: Música, Baile y Radio

“Where glittering barrooms graced the night Amid the songs of dance-hall queens; Where rugged men with boots and beards Watched the swiftly moving scene, They bought their joy and paid in gold When they came to Abilene” The words of this 1936 poem by Walt Cousins still ring true, with urban development continuing to make its way into nearly every … Downtown Abilene: At the Crossroads of Rugged and Refined

A white wedding dress is a relatively new and modern concept and is mostly worn in the Americas and western European countries. Wedding dresses throughout the world and time have varied greatly in color, style, and tradition. Even in the Western part of the world in Roman times brides wore a yellow veil and Ancient Athenians wore long violet or … From This Day Forward: Wedding Dresses 1870s-1950s

Dependence on Mexican labor has been a source of great opportunity as well as great conflict for Mexicans and Americans. In 1942, facing labor shortages caused by World War II, the United States initiated a series of agreements with Mexico to recruit Mexican men to work on U.S. farms and railroads. These agreements became known as the bracero program. (Bracero … Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964