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January
November 2, 2003
- July 25, 2004
Defining Craft
1: Collecting for the New Millennium
Organized and circulated
by the Museum of Arts and Design, the exhibition is the first
in a series that explore the changing definitions and meanings
of craft today. The exhibition also acknowledges the contributions
of the many artists and the collectors and patrons who have helped
build and shape America's premier collection of craft. (175 works
by international artists)
January 18 - March
14
Jacob Lawrence:
Three Series of Prints - Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L'Ouverture
The exhibition features
44 framed works including 31 color prints and 13 pages of text
from the three Series. From the collection of Alitash Kebede.
A program of Landau Traveling Exhibitions.
February
New Permanent Gallery!!!
William C.
and Evelyn M. Davies
Gallery of Southwest Indian Art
This new permanent
installation features the Davies' donated collections of Southwest
Indian pottery, textiles, katsinas (katchinas), paintings, and
much more. The gallery is a brand new facility of the Museum.
The gallery opened to the public for the first time on Saturday,
February 21, 2004.
March
March 28 - May
30
The Museum of
Texas Tech University Collects...Landscapes
Highlighting late-19th
and 20th century art works that examine the various ways in which
artists express in style and medium their personal impressions
of their surroundings. The exhibition features works by regional
artists such as Peter Hurd, Wilson Hurley, Gene Kloss, and Julian
Onderdonk, and art by those more widely known including Charles
Daubigny, Alfred de Breanski, and Alexandre Jacob.
April
May
June
June 27 - August
22
Through American
Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Collection of the
Huntington Museum of Art
The works presented
date from the late-18th century up through the end of the 20th
century. Gilbert Stuart, George Inness, Ralph Blakelock, Franz
Kline, Robert Motherwell, Edward Hopper, Jim Dine, Louis Comfort
Tiffany, Harvey Littleton and Joel Philip Myers are some examples
of the artists represented. A program of the Smith Kramer Fine
Arts Services. (75 works)
July
NEW Permanent Gallery!!!
GRAND OPENING!!!
July 1
A Changing World:
Dinosaurs, Diversity, and Drifting Continents
This
is the much anticipated "Dinosaur Hall," that tells
the story of the "Age of the Dinosaurs" using specimens
from every period of the Mesozoic Era. Featured are fossils from
the Museum's special area of research, Triassic West Texas, highlighting
such creatures as Technosaurus (named for Texas Tech),
and Postosuchus (named for Post, Texas). This permanent
gallery represents an important area of the Museum of TTU's collections
and research activities.
August
September
October
October 3, 2004 - January 2,
2005
Alan Magee: Paintings,
Sculpture, and Graphics
Alan Magee, born in
1947 in Newtown, PA, attended art school in Philadelphia and,
in 1968, began working as an editorial and book illustrator in
New York. Among his regular clients were Time, The
Atlantic, New York Magazine, The New York Times,
and Bantam, Ballantine, and Simon and Schuster book publishers.
In 1982, Magee received a National Book Award. The exhibition
is a retrospective of his later personal paintings done since
the 1970s. Originally curated by the Farnsworth Art Museum of
Rockland, ME, the exhibition contains new pieces by the artist
as well.
November
November 14, 2004 - February 27, 2005
Cerámica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayólica
Organized by curator Robin Gavin and an interdisciplinary team of scholars from the US, Spain, and Mexico, the exhibition is a satellite version of a show presented at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM. (108 pieces)
December
2005
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