Events

May 9–
June 24, 2023
Exhibition

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.

American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame and Museum
2601 E Interstate Drive
Amarillo, TX 79104
June 6–
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

Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation
901 East 15th Street
Plano, TX 75074
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.

Shalom Austin
7300 Hart Lane
Austin, TX 78731
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.

Magik Theatre
420 South Alamo Street
San Antonio, TX 78205
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.

MATCH Theater
3400 Main Street
Houston, TX 77002
July 19–
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

Spellman Museum of Forney History
200 S Bois D Arc Street
Forney, TX 75126
September 5–
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

Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation
901 East 15th Street
Plano, TX 75074
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

Honey Grove Library & Learning Center
500 N 6th St
Honey Grove, TX 75446
March 30–
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.

Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum
315 W Avenue B
Temple, TX 76501