Exhibitions

Faces and Places of the Chihuahuan Desert
 

Covering over 140,000 square miles, the Chihuahuan Desert is considered the largest in North America. This exhibition explores the topography and natural beauty of the Chihuahuan Desert and considers the human impact upon it over a period of thirty years.

Exhibition

Faces and Places of the Chihuahuan Desert is composed of thirty-one photographs from the work of University of Texas at El Paso professor emeritus Dr. Robert H. Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt’s background is in natural resources and physical geography. For the last three decades he has tracked changes in the Chihuahuan Desert. This exhibition presents, in visual form, an interpretation of scientific information about the region of the Chihuahuan Desert.

• Samalayuca Dunes
• Basin and range topography
• Paquime archeological zone
• Rain in the desert
• Cuidad Juarez
• Chihuahua City
• Sierra Madre Occidental
• Resevoirs on the Rio Conchos
• Guayule
• Sotol and Sotoleria
• Cascada de Basaseachi

Faces and Places is an exhibition produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Exhibition Format
 

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Press release

Faces and Places press release

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