Museum of Texas Tech University

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE 2011-2012

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"Up from the Basement" designates exhibitions from the Museum's collection

2011… still showing

Nests and Eggs, in the Explorium Gallery. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Natural Science Research Laboratory collection.

June 19, 2011- May 13, 2012
"They Weren't Always White"—Wedding Attire from the Museum's Collection, in Gallery 1. This exhibition highlights numerous wedding, second-day, going-away, and other trousseau garments from the Museum’s Textiles Collection. Ranging in color from white, ivory, and ecru to brown, olive green, and navy blue, and spanning over 100 years–1830 to 1949–each of the garments is unique, yet representative of its contemporary fashions, with some individual touches. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Textiles collection.

Discover It! Case—“The Slaughter Sisters-in Law," in Gallery 5. This features the Slaughter sisters-in law's photographs and a handmade, white lace fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guard sticks. The Slaughter family and descendants had a major impact in the regional development of ranching, community growth, and civic and social advancements. Both C.C. Slaughter and his brother John founded historic ranches in the region: C.C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch (1898); and John Slaughter's U-Lazy-S Ranch (1901). Items on loan to the Museum from Mr. Bob Macy.

September 26 - March 11
Chernobyl, 25 Years Later—Biological Legacy of a Nuclear Meltdown, in Gallery 2. In 1986, a nuclear meltdown and explosion occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. This exhibition highlights research conducted at Chernobyl by Dr. Robert Baker, Horn Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Natural Science Research Laboratory of the Museum, and others. The primary goal of the Chernobyl project is to achieve an understanding of the biological consequences of long-term, chronic exposure to radiation in the environment. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Natural Science Research Laboratory.

Neighbors—Selections from the Art Division Collection, in Gallery 4. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Art Division of the Museum of TTU. Neighbors are people who live near us: sometimes next door, sometimes down the block, and sometimes a mile or more away. Artists are neighbors. As they spend time with us, sometimes our likeness ends up in one of their images. In this small selection of art works, all by artist-neighbors from Texas or our neighbor to the west, New Mexico, perhaps you will find someone who looks familiar, who provided to you a helping hand, who lives down the road from you, or who you do not know in the least. Image: Nancy Palmeri, Chicken Banquet, 1999. Woodcut. © Nancy Palmeri. Photograph courtesy MoTTU Art Division.

Mosaic: A life of possibilities for people with intellectual disabilities, in Gallery 101.

Making Christmas Fantasies Come True, in Gallery 6. Selected figures from the Lynn Haney Santa Claus Collection represent 25 years of making Christmas fantasies come true.

2012

JANUARY

January 28 - April 29
Speaking Volumes: Books and Ideas from 1250-1862, in the Special Exhibitions Gallery 7. Ancient and rare books, documents, and manuscripts from The Remnant Trust, Inc. The exhibition includes: Homer’s The Iliad; Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation; Confucius’ The Morals of Confucius; Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; Julius Caesar’s Invictissimi Imperatoris Commentaria; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Euclid’s The First Six Elements of Geometry; England’s Magna Carta; Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; and Cicero’s De Officiis.

January 29 - April 8
Windows to Heaven: Treasures from the Museum of Russian Icons, in Gallery 3. A look into eternity!… This exhibition brings together a grouping of historically significant Russian Icons dating from 1590 to the present. St. Nicholas and St. George, Old Testament scenes, pictorial themes centered on the life of Jesus, and images of the Mother of God are well represented in this collection from the Museum of Russian Icons. Tour organized by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.

>>> February

Opened February 3, First Friday@The Museum…
The Ice Age on the Southern Plains. A new permanent gallery featuring megafauna from the Pleistocene Period of prehistory like mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant camels, short-faced bears, and dire wolves. This exhibition is from the Museum's collections and reflects the local area's distant natural history past as revealed by ongoing research activities of the Museum of TTU at Lubbock Lake Landmark.

March

March 2 - May 6 — A First Friday@The Museum premiere…
The Year of the Girl—The Girl Scout Centennial, exhibits in Gallery 101, Gallery 6, and the Explorium Gallery.

APRIL

April 15 - June 30
Wizards of Pop: Sabuda and Reinhart. This exhibition features the pop-up art of Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart. Exhibition organized and toured by the National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature, Abilene, TX.

MAY

May 13 - July 22
America Celebrates: Quilts of Joy and Remembrance. America Celebrates! is a joyful, diverse, and sometimes touching look at how we see ourselves as a nation. The exhibition of 58 art quilts from American fiber artists seeks to find how we, as ordinary people, share the threads and traditions that tie Americans together. The exhibition will also feature those traditions that Americans brought with them as immigrants. Toured by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.

June

June 15 - November 4
On the Home Front, Gallery 1. WWII clothing and artifacts from the Museum's collection. ,An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's collection.

June 15 - November 18
World War II on the Southern Plains (working title), Lubbock Gallery. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's collection.

June 15 - November 4
War Babies, Gallery 4. An "Up from the Basement" exhibition from the Museum's Art collection.

JULY

July 15 - September 9
Memories of WWII: Photographs from the Archives of the Associated Press. Almost two hundred reporters and photographers fanned out around the globe to cover World War II for The Associated Press, the world's largest news service. Five reporters lost their lives. Seven others won Pulitzer Prizes, including Joe Rosenthal, who clambered up Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi to take the flag-raising photo (shown left) that became the emblem of American victory and one of the most famous photos of all time. As the main source of war news for most of the nation's newspapers, The AP offered Americans a daily view of the conflict through photographs by its own photographers and by photographers in the U.S. Armed Services, as well as images from the world press that otherwise would not have been seen. The best of these images make up this exhibition. Toured by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO.

AUGUST

August 25 - November 18
Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight. The dreams of flight, freedom, and the view from above inspired by the Wright brothers were not segregated, but for almost 50 years after they took to the skies, the paths to the training and expertise necessary to become a pilot were. The content of the exhibition is based on the newly published book of the same title by National Air and Space Museum curator, Von Hardesty. The show covers significant figures, events, and themes associated with African Americans in aviation and aerospace history. It documents the struggles of those individuals who were systematically barred from the ranks of military and civil aviation, and highlight the parallels between the struggles of these aviation pioneers and those of the civil rights movement. Among other topics, the exhibition explores black aviation firsts, barnstormers, aerobatics, long distance flights, the Tuskegee Airmen, integration of the U.S. Armed Services, Vietnam and Korean conflicts, commercial aviation, and the involvement of African Americans in the space program. A Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions (SITES) production; supported by MetLife Foundation.

September

October

November

DECEMBER

December 9 - February 17, 2013
Covering America in the 1950s and 1960s: The Saturday Evening Post

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