State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through...
Summer Reading
It is time again for our annual summer reading issue! This year, we have invited friends from around the state to recommend books that have recently captured their attention.
Latest News
09/15/19
Final postmark deadline for fall 2019 major grants.
08/15/19
Deadline for preliminary materials for fall 2019 major grants.
06/30/19
It is time again for the annual summer reading issue of the Humanities Texas e-newsletter!
06/01/19
We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2019 Outstanding Teaching Awards!
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
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.
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.