NEH Unveils Picturing America in Texas
Edith O'Donnell (left) and Serena Y. Ritch of the O'Donnell Foundation with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole before a
reproduction of Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington, part of the
Picturing America collection. Photograph by Michael L. Gillette.
The Honorable Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and various civic and cultural leaders launched the NEH's new Picturing America educational initiative in Texas at an April 16 event in Dallas.
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From the Executive Director:
A State of the Arts
Michael L. Gillette
The arts have held center stage at Humanities Texas this spring. An exciting national endeavor to engage students in American history through art received its Texas launch last week. Two of the state's leading art museums are displaying major exhibitions supported by Humanities Texas, while our own exhibit, "Miguel Covarrubias: Caricaturista," is traveling to several venues in Italy. Finally, in the realm of the performing arts, a Humanities Texas-supported public radio documentary on American music history recently won a coveted Peabody Award. Read more. . .
Exhibit Features Russell Lee Photos
Russell Lee, Shoeshine Boy, San Antonio, Texas, 1949. Russell Lee Photograph Collection, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Beginning in August 2008, Humanities Texas will circulate "Russell Lee Photographs," an exhibit by the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin. This traveling exhibit of photographs by renowned documentary photographer Russell Lee draws from the magnificent collection that he donated to the Center just prior to his death in 1986. The exhibit offers a rare glimpse into the remarkably accomplished images he produced in 1935 and 1936 when he first took up a camera and goes on to highlight the vast body of important work that Lee produced from 1947, when he settled in Texas, through 1977. Read more. . .
Exhibition Examines Fort Worth Circle
Cynthia Brants, The Cocktail Party, 1947. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Kimbell and Mitch Wynne.
"Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s" is the title of an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth. The exhibition, which runs through May 11 and is partially supported by a grant from Humanities Texas, includes more than 100 works by eleven influential artists, including Dickson Reeder, Bill Bomar, Kelly Fearing, Cynthia Brants, and Bror Utter, and represents the first in-depth examination of their work, from their early social and artistic encounters through their rapid attainment of their own signature aesthetics. Read more. . .
Humanities Texas-Funded Project Receives Peabody Award
The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced on April 3 that Whole Lotta Shakin', a Humanities Texas-funded radio documentary chronicling the history of rockabilly music, was one of the thirty-five recipients of this year's prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. Read more. . .
Cuate Wins Western Heritage Award
Linden Heck Howell Award winner Melodie Cuate (left) and Judith Keeling, her editor at Texas Tech University Press, show off their Western Heritage Awards. Photograph by Barbara Brannon, Texas Tech University Press.
Melodie A. Cuate, the recipient of the 2006–07 Humanities Texas Linden Heck Howell Outstanding Teaching of Texas History Award, was among the winners of the 47th annual Western Heritage Awards presented by the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Cuate won in the juvenile literature category for her book Journey to San Jacinto, the second in her Mr. Barrington's Mysterious Trunk series published by Texas Tech University Press, in which three modern children travel back in time to the Battle of San Jacinto. Read more . . .
Foundations Support Restoration
Two prominent Texas foundations recently awarded generous grants to Humanities Texas for the restoration of the historic Byrne-Reed House. The T. L. L. Temple Foundation of Lufkin has approved a grant of $100,000, and the Dian Graves Owen Foundation of Abilene has awarded a three-year grant totaling $30,000. Both of these grants will count toward the required three-to-one match of the $1 million challenge grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The T. L. L. Temple Foundation and Dian Graves Owen Foundation grants underscore Humanities Texas's three and a half decades of service to communities throughout the state and the statewide thrust of the capital campaign to restore the Byrne-Reed House.
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Upcoming Deadlines
Humanities Texas is still accepting applications for the summer teacher institutes, "From Disunion to Empire: The United States, 1850–1900." Application forms are available online. Read more. . .
Humanities Events Around Texas
Each month, dozens of organizations around the state host a Humanities Texas exhibit or sponsor an exciting program with the help of a grant from our council. See our online calendar to locate an event or program in your community.
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