Events at The Grace

Join us at The Grace for a live painting event! Collaborative Live Painting 2-4 PM The Grace Museum FREE EVENT Visitors can enjoy a collaborative live painting experience where visiting Chinese artists and local American artists will create two works together at The Grace Museum. This is a special event in partnership with Abilene Christian University. ABOUT THE COLLABORATION Abilene … Collaborative Live Painting

Join us at The Grace for a special artist dialogue! FREE EVENTS 6:30-7:30 PM The Grace Museum Loggia Come listen and participate in a public dialogue between American and Chinese artists at The Grace Museum. 8:00 PM Williams Performing Arts Center Recital Hall Abilene Christian University Enjoy a special piano recital at ACU by Hanqiu Xu, visiting college assistant professor … Public Artist Dialogue

For over six decades, Maxine Perini was instrumental in advancing the arts, local history, and the work of nonprofits. She served as example of women in leadership roles, and she worked to improve her hometown of Abilene.

Meet featured artist, Cindi Holt! FREE EVENT Join us for a celebratory Artist Reception and conversation with featured gallery artist, Cindi Holt. See Holt’s artwork currently on view at The Grace Museum and hear more about her inspirations and processes as a self-taught artist! Cindi Holt: Little Mouse on the Prairie – 2nd floor Gallery C 6:00 pm | Exhibition … Artist Reception: Cindi Holt

Meet featured artist, Gail Norfleet! FREE EVENT Join us for a celebratory Artist Reception and conversation with featured main gallery artist, Gail Norfleet. See Norfleet’s artwork currently on view at The Grace Museum and visit with her in person! Gail Norfleet: connecting faraway places – 1st floor Main Gallery & Atrium Gallery 6:00 pm | Exhibition Preview & Public Reception … Artist Reception: Gail Norfleet

The Farmer is a vibrant oil-on-board painting capturing a hard-working farmer who likely posed in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The artist, Marie Atkinson Hull, instills a sense of hope in her depiction of the Depression’s local impact through her colorful, evocative style. The Farmer reflects years of Marie Hull’s developing skill as well as a bright beginning to The Grace Museum.

Deepen your sense of place, attention, and imagination. THE PRESENTERS Hammonds + West Artist Hollis Hammonds and poet Sasha West form the collaborative team Hammonds + West, whose works explore themes surrounding climate change and environmental degradation through multi-modal exhibits and public engagements. Their multi-media installations have been exhibited at galleries including Beeler Gallery Columbus College of Art & Design, Wright … Art & Poetry Workshop

Meet three featured artists at The Grace Museum! FREE EVENT Join us for a joint artist reception and conversation with three distinctive female artists with work now on view at The Grace – Hollis Hammonds and Sasha West (aka Hammonds + West) and Virginia Fleck. View their art in the galleries and get to talk with the artists in person! … Artist Reception: Hollis Hammonds, Sasha West, Virginia Fleck

Meet artist Nancy Newberry FREE EVENTS Join us for a fun artist reception and conversation with featured photographer, Nancy Newberry. Be wowed by the dynamic display of colorful photographs in her newest solo exhibition, Nancy Newberry: Extraños Magníficos, on view in the second floor Alice and Bill Wright Photography Gallery. 6 pm | Public reception with refreshments | Curator Comments … Artist Reception: Nancy Newberry

Come meet featured artist, John Cobb! 6:00 pm | Join us for a special artist reception and conversation with John Cobb, whose installation John Cobb: In the Chapel and the Woods is on view in the Grace Main Gallery. FREE public reception | Light refreshments     EVENT SPONSORS

Join us for a special reception celebrating our Fall Art Exhibitions! FREE EVENT 6:00 pm | Curator Comments | Light refreshments and drinks  William Lester: True to Form Coreen Mary Spellman: In Her Own Right Texas Regionalism Revisited Hard Times Come Again No More: Depression Era Photography   Exhibition Sponsors  

Join us for an insightful presentation on “Interpreting central Texas rock art with Indigenous elders.” 6 pm | Public Lecture by Jeremy Elliott, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Language & Literature, Abilene Christian University FREE event | Light refreshments provided   ABOUT THE SPEAKER Jeremy Elliott   EVENT SPONSORS

Join us for a special event highlighting Bill Wright’s Texas: Luminous Landscapes 6:00 pm | Join us for a conversation in the gallery with featured photographer, Bill Wright, and explore his current solo exhibition FREE public reception | Light refreshments     EVENT SPONSORS This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate … Artist Reception: Bill Wright

Join us for a special presentation highlighting The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz 5:00 pm | Gallery Preview & Reception 6:00 pm | Authors and editors of The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz, Drs. Linda and William Reaves, will discuss the exhibition and the life and career of early Texas artist, Buck Schiwetz. The Reaves are respected Texas art scholars and have … Lecture: Drs. Linda and William Reaves

Join us for a special reception and presentation highlighting our Spring 2024 main gallery exhibition! For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape 5:00 pm | Gallery Preview 6:00 pm | Special Guest Speaker, Michael Grauer, McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture, Curator of Cowboy Collections & Western Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, “Texas Our Texas: … Art Exhibition Reception

Join us for a special Exhibition Reception to celebrate the opening of our Fall 2023 art exhibitions: Witness: Black Artists in Texas, Then and Now As I See It: Earlie Hudnall, Jr. 5:00 pm | Gallery Preview 6:00 pm | Artist Introductions with Special Guests Letitia & Sedrick Huckaby FREE public reception | Snacks and drinks Please RSVP your attendance … Witness | Exhibition Reception