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Border Studies
The Texas/Mexico border is more than a line between two countries. It is a realm unto itself with a culture of its own, shaped partly by forces from the interior on both sides, but more decisively by the millions who choose to live and work there. The Border is a cradle of hope--and anxiety--for the well-being of both Mexico and the United States. Here are resources for humanities programs about the Border today and its role for the future.
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Exhibit
This selection of fine art images by 8 gifted photographers, plus maps showing historical relocations of the border, highlights the vitality of places people, and patterns of culture along the Texas-Mexico Border.
Panel topics include:
- Historic locations of the border
- Rio Grande at El Paso/Juarez
- Rio Grande in the Big Bend
- International ferry at Los Ebanos
- Border patrol at work
- Farm work
- Kitchens
- Beauty pageant
- Teenage girls at a dance
- Grade school graduation dance
- Fruit-packing shed
- Sugar cane
- Teenage parents
- Orphans
Exhibit format
The exhibit is available in two editions, a wall hanging fine art edition and a freestanding school edition.
Fine art edition: contains 36 framed photos plus four drawings. All are mounted in white mats behind plexiglas. Captions are printed on the mats. All photos are approx. 11” x 14”; framed size is 18” x 22”.
Shipping weight (2 wooden crates): 225 lbs. *
Wall space required: 74’ (running)
School edition: 8 panels (4 double-sided units), 24” wide x 36” high. Panels attach to wooden leg poles to form a zigzag unit standing 68” high.
Shipping weight (2 fiber cases): 100 lbs
Space required: 14’ x 5’
Supplemental materials:
- A brochure with an illustrated essay on characteristics of border culture and peoples. 50 copies free with exhibit.
- An exhibit guide that introduces the artists and their comments about the photographs. 50 copies free with exhibit.
- A poster of a collage of borderland images. 5 copies free with exhibit.
- A magazine: The Border: Human Destinies and the Great River: Texas Journal of Ideas, History and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1, Fall-Winter 1997. 1 copy free with exhibit while supplies last.
Optional materials (available on request):
- VHS video
- And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
- Big Bend: The Last Texas Frontier
- The Desert Is No Lady
- Forgotten Borderland
- The Hunt for Pancho Villa
- Identidad y Fronteras/Borders & Identity
- No Key to Turn
- People of the Sun: The Tiguas of Ysleta
- Songs of the Homeland
- This Most Singular Country
- A Trip Through Time