Capturing the sweeping visual imagery of the original miniseries, the Lonesome Dove exhibition presents classic images taken during filming by Bill Wittliff, renowned photographer, writer, and executive producer (with Suzanne De Passe) of Lonesome Dove. The images, however, are worlds apart from ordinary production stills, depicting an extraordinary union of art, literature, and history. For more information contact the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum.
Events
May 9–
June 24, 2023
June 24, 2023
Exhibition
June 6–
July 18, 2023
July 18, 2023
Exhibition
Created to celebrate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, this Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features archival photographs, newspaper clippings, cartoons, cards, and texts detailing the struggle in Texas. For more information, contact the Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation.
June 11, 2023, 3:00–8:00 p.m.
Festival
From 3:00–8:00 p.m., the Puerto Rican Cultural Center will host Celebrando 2023. This year's Salsa & Heritage Festival will feature a cultural exchange of Columbia and Puerto Rico's mountain traditions, handcraft artisans, and authentic food. For more information, contact the Puerto Rican Cultural Center.
June 15, 2023, 6:30 p.m.
Film screening
At 6:30 p.m., the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum will continue their family- and community-oriented film series with the film I Am Not Your Negro. The screening will be followed by a scholarly panel discussion. For more information, contact the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum.
June 22–24, 2023
Festival
From June 22–24, Shabach Enterprise will host their annual Fade to Black Play Festival. The festival will introduce a public lecture series on topics including the history of African American poetry, the birth of jazz, and more. For more information, contact Shabach Enterprise.
July 19–
August 26, 2023
August 26, 2023
Exhibition
State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through fairs in ten states—California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. Time and again, regardless of geographical location, Grace's images deftly capture the strange mixture of the traditional, the kitsch, and the off-the-wall that is unique to these annual gatherings, which began as a celebration of rural American life and have evolved into super-sized extravaganzas. State Fair is an exhibition by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. For further information regarding this event, please contact the Spellman Library of Forney History.
September 5–
October 17, 2023
October 17, 2023
Exhibition
In the early 1970s, Bill Wittliff visited a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition. This Humanities Texas traveling exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat, and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle. For more information, contact the Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation.
September 12–October 24, 2023
Exhibition
State Fair is a visual distillation of Arthur Grace's photographic odyssey through fairs in ten states—California, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia. Time and again, regardless of geographical location, Grace's images deftly capture the strange mixture of the traditional, the kitsch, and the off-the-wall that is unique to these annual gatherings, which began as a celebration of rural American life and have evolved into super-sized extravaganzas. State Fair is an exhibition by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas. For further information regarding this event, please contact the Honey Grove Library & Learning Center.
March 30–
May 22, 2024
May 22, 2024
Exhibition
Melina Mara began photographing the thirteen women in the U.S. Senate in 2001, continuing as their number grew to fourteen in 2003. Changing the Face of Power: Women in the U.S. Senate, the exhibition based on her work, was created by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, and is presented in partnership with the Humanities Texas traveling exhibitions program. For more information, please contact Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum.