Based on the Texas Monthly October 2017 cover story, “Voices from the Storm,” this...
Summer Institutes
This summer, Humanities Texas will hold teacher professional development institutes in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio. Apply now!
Latest News
05/14/19
Humanities Texas will host a screening in El Paso of The Mark of War, followed by Q&A with Director Ricardo Ainslie.
04/08/19
Apply now for our upcoming summer institutes in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio.
03/28/19
Catch up on the latest news from Humanities Texas in our March e-newsletter.
3/10/19
In March and April, Veterans' Voices reading and discussion programs took place in College Station, El Paso, and Houston.
03/01/19
Listen to Texas Originals, a radio series profiling individuals who have had a profound influence on Texas history and culture.
Current Events
May 14–
August 6, 2019
August 6, 2019
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing...
June 24–July 31, 2019
Drawn from files of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service archives at Texas A&M...
August 19–
September 30, 2019
September 30, 2019
State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through...
September 1–
October 1, 2019
October 1, 2019
William Shakespeare is the quintessential subject for a humanities program. Born into a...
October 1–31, 2019
In the 1840s, German immigrants began settling at New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Sisterdale...
October 1—
November 30, 2019
November 30, 2019
This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition is composed of thirty-one photographs from the...
October 12, 2019—January 17, 2020
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros...
November 1, 2019–
January 10, 2020
January 10, 2020
Curated by a native of Sudan, this Humanities Texas...
November 11—December 3, 2019
The annexation of Texas as the twenty-eighth member of the United States of America had a...
March 1—31, 2020
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this ...
May 4—June 12, 2020
This Humanities Texas traveling...
Humanities around Texas
The John W. Stormont Lecture Series, an ongoing series at the Museum of the Coastal Bend in Victoria.
That Day, an exhibition at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts from April 6 to June 22.
Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank, an exhibition at the Dallas Holocaust Museum now through July 2019.
Joy and Suffering: The El Paso Museum of Art's Collection of Mexican Retablos, an exhibition made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas on display at the El Paso Museum of Art March 8 through September 1.
WWI America, an exhibition at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin from March 16, 2019 to August 11, 2019.
Cattle, Cowboys, & Culture: Kansas City to Amarillo, Making an Urban West, an exhibition at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon from February 23, 2019 to December 2019.