Bill Wright’s Texas: Luminous Landscapes
From the Grace Museum: “Texas is renowned for its diverse and expansive landscapes, showcasing a remarkable array of natural features. From Gulf Coast beaches to…
March 21 through September 21, 2025
From the Grace Museum: "This long overdue solo exhibition of the art of William Lester (1910-1991) will include drawings, paintings and prints from private and…
October 19 through February 22, 2025
From the Grace Museum: “In the 1930s, a group of young artists—including Jerry Bywaters, Alexandre Hogue, William Lester, Thomas Stell, Harry Carnohan, and Coreen Spellman,…
October 19 through February 08, 2025
Coreen Mary Spellman: In Her Own Right
From the Grace Museum: "This solo exhibition will feature paintings and fine art prints by Coreen Mary Spellman from the collection of the Tyler Museum…
October 19 through February 08, 2025
For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape
From the Grace Museum: "One of the first chroniclers of art in Texas was Abilenian France Battaile Fisk, who wrote in her 1928 publication, A…
February 17 through September 21, 2024
Hard Times Come Again No More: Depression Era Photography
From the Grace Museum: "All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the…
October 19 through February 08, 2024
Witness: Black Artists in Texas, Then and Now
From the Grace Museum: "The Grace Museum presents art exhibitions curated to celebrate the significant contributions of Black artists in Texas, both past and present.…
October 14 through February 03, 2024
As I See It: Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
From the Grace Museum: "As I See It: Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is a solo exhibition of the photography of Earlie Hudnall, Jr., who has lived…
October 14 through February 03, 2024
Susan kae Grant: Shadowing Grace
From the Grace Museum: "The eternal theme of light and dark has always interested artists. It is given importance in philosophical, technical, and mystical intentions.…
April 15 through September 16, 2023
From the Grace Museum: "Paul Manes is a painter’s painter. The artwork selected for this solo exhibition is the ultimate statement of that fact. Surfaces…
October 14 through April 01, 2023
ANNA MAVROMATIS: MATERIAL CULTURE
From the Grace Museum: "Houston-based artist Anna Mavromatis was born in Athens, Greece. She studied architecture at the University of Naples, Italy, holds a BA…
May 07 through September 17, 2022
From the Grace Museum: "For more than a decade, language has been the focus for Simeen Farhat’s sculpture. Her Inspiration first began with the prophetic…
May 07 through September 17, 2022
From the Grace Museum: "Houston based artist, Cara Barer blurs the line between object, sculpture, and photography. She salvages discarded or obsolete books and transforms…
March 24 through September 17, 2022
From the Grace Museum: "This solo exhibition of artwork by Kate Breakey will take you on a journey of her various obsessions: astronomical images, skies,…
October 30 through February 19, 2022
83 Years and Counting: Recent Additions to the Permanent Art Collection
From the Grace Museum: "The Abilene Fine Arts Museum (now The Grace Museum) began collecting art in 1938 with the stated purpose of collecting important…
October 30 through February 19, 2022
Focus on Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection
From the Grace Museum: "The Grace Museum’s goal to create a premiere photography collection with emphasis on Texas photographers, augmented by outstanding photographers from around…
October 30 through January 18, 2022
Sherry Owens: Promise Me the Earth
From the Grace Museum: "For over 30 years Sherry Owens has used the sinuous crepe myrtle tree to tell her story – of the Texas…
April 17 through October 02, 2021
From the Grace Museum: "In 2018, The Grace Museum was privileged to acquire Margo Sawyer’s acclaimed 1998 sculptural installation BLUE through an unprecedented collaboration with…
January 23 through August 07, 2021
David H. Gibson: The McManaway Studio Project
Photographer David H. Gibson met David McManaway in 1964. A long friendship followed and in 1993 Gibson began documenting McManaway’s extraordinary studio. A visit to…
April 02 through February 06, 2021
Et Al: Found Object Features from the Permanent Collection
The fine art of found objects defied the status quo to become a major art movement in the last decades of the 20th century. Inspired…
April 21 through February 06, 2021
David McManaway’s Studio Revisited
David McManaway’s Studio Revisited is designed to recreate the experience of visiting the studio that is now gone but certainly not forgotten by those…
March 07 through January 09, 2021
The Jomo Collective: David McManaway and Friends
This exhibition features found object assemblage and artwork created by friends and associates of David McManaway. David McManaway (from Chicago), Jim Love (from Amarillo), and…
April 21 through January 09, 2021
DAVID MCMANAWAY: CULT OF THE COMMONPLACE
https://youtu.be/IkqmceBcZA4 "The art of David McManaway (1927-2010) has an underground cult following. Research for this exhibition and numerous conversations with his friends and colleagues tells…
March 07 through January 09, 2021
"Hung Liu: The Long Way Home is a solo exhibition of the recent work of Chinese-born American contemporary artist, Hung Liu in a variety of…
September 07 through February 22, 2020
Sarah Ball: An Unlikely Likeness
A solo exhibition featuring paintings by Sarah Ball.
September 07 through February 22, 2020
"An exhibition of recent paintings by Melnikov curated to examine the power of contemporary portraiture that challenges the notion that depictions of the human figure…
September 07 through February 08, 2020
Up Close and Personal: Portraits from the Reaves Collection of Texas Art
A group exhibition of portraiture at the Grace Museum. "The Reaves have been active in the early Texas art community as collectors, authors, guest curators…
September 07 through January 18, 2020
William Eggleston: Jamaica Botanical
"33 photographs from the 1978 Jamaica Botanical Series; Collection of The Grace Museum, Gift of Eddie Green."
March 25 through August 07, 2019
Skyline Maker: The Architecture of David S. Castle
"This exhibition will highlight the career of Abilene architect David S. Castle. As one of the most significant and prominent architects in Abilene and the…
November 06 through July 18, 2019
A Visual Epilogue: Linda Ridgway & Harry Geffert
A show of works by artists Harry Geffert and Linda Ridgway. The show will feature "Geffert’s sculpture paired with Ridgway’s recent monoprint- drawings and sculpture curated to…
September 15 through February 23, 2019
Magic & Logic: Robert Langham III
"Robert Langham’s kinetic still life, logic defying, photographs are made with a magician’s slight-of-hand and the skill of a master-of-the-darkroom. His active still life images capture…
September 15 through February 09, 2019
Outside of Time: Philip John Evett (1923-2016)
A show of sculptures by artist Philip John Evett. "The artist's process involved carving wood sections that were later assembled with exact precision to form the final…
September 15 through February 09, 2019
Inherit the Earth: Margaret Smithers-Crump
"The art of Margaret Smithers-Crump is rooted in a life-long love of both our planet as well as personal and global human interactions with the…
September 15 through February 09, 2019
Deliberate Distraction: Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby
An exhibition featuring three-dimensional constructions by Rusty Scruby and Shawn Smith. Both artists address themes of technology and nature in their works.
April 28 through August 11, 2018
Divine Order: Conan Chadbourne
An exhibition featuring works by Conan Chadbourne. Chadbourne is inspired by mathematical themes and formulas.
April 28 through August 11, 2018
Before iPhone: Photography by Paul Sokal
"Paul Sokal explores the rapid pace of technological change through large format color photographs of the relics of once-revolutionary products now replaced by cell phones."
March 29 through August 11, 2018
An exhibition featuring art and artifacts from the collection of Judge B. Michael and Elise Chitty. The show includes Native American artifacts, folk art, modern and…
January 19 through April 14, 2018
A show of photographs by Dallas-based artist Allison V. Smith.
September 15 through February 10, 2018
Mary Vernon: Painting is Drawing
A show of recent sill life and landscape paintings by artist Mary Vernon. Vernon worked for fifty years as a professor of art and art history at…
September 15 through January 06, 2018
Texas Noir: Photography by Ashton Thornhill
A show of photographs by Texas-based artist Ashton Thornhill
March 30 through August 12, 2017
An exhibition featuring Katie Maratta's small-scale graphite and ink sketches of Texas landscapes.
April 25 through August 12, 2017
A show of works by contemporary realist artists who attempt to "create unique ways of seeing just how significant the seemingly insignificant can be." Featuring…
March 23 through August 12, 2017
Spanish Texas: Legend & Legacy
An exhibition tracing the Spanish exploration and colonization of Texas through maps, art, and artifacts. The exhibitions is co-curated by Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator and Director…
September 24 through March 11, 2017
More Life in a Time Without Boundaries
"Artists Roger Colombik & Jerolyn Bahm-Colombik, in collaboration with International Rescue Committee of Abilene, will create an installation featuring photography, sculpture and oral history dialogues…
April 19 through August 13, 2016
Home Work: The Fine Art of Photographing People
An exhibition featuring photographs by Ave Bonar, June Van Cleef, Ken Hatch, Fritz Henle, Earie Hudnall, Jr., Garciela Iturbide, Janice Ruben, George Tice, Bill Wright, and…
April 19 through August 13, 2016
Menagerie, Art and the Animal Kingdom
Three art exhibitions that explore man's fascination with representing animals. The three exhibitions are: MENAGERIE in the main gallery featuring work by Helen Altman, David Bates, John James…
November 12 through January 03, 2016
Five exhibitions celebrating important Texas modern artists and midcentury fashion and design– Seymour Fogel: On The Wall & Beyond; The Abstract Impulse; Ray & Charles…
May 28 through October 24, 2015
Grace After Dark with The Historic Paramount
A night of 24 FPS International Short Film Festival rooftop screenings. There will be food trucks on site from 6:30-8PM. The films will begin at 8:30PM.
September 03 through September 03, 2015
Artist Beili Liu’s large-scale installation–a hovering, cloud-like mass of granite and wax-coated sheets with motion sensitive lighting–is a rumination on water crises, and specifically, the…
January 22 through April 25, 2015
A selection of artwork curated from private and public collections by Texas artist Kelly Fearing (1918-2011) to demonstrate his lifelong fascination with surreal, mythic and…
November 07 through January 10, 2015
Home on the Range, Where the Prairie Meets the Plains in Central West Texas
Artworks documenting early impressions of the area, historic photographs, oral histories and rarely-seen artifacts cherish a link to the past in Central West Texas.
May 08 through August 09, 2014
Jeff Salmon: Comanche on the Texas Frontier
The Director of Frontier Texas!, a Western heritage center, talks about objects from that collection.
May 22 through May 22, 2014
Black / White: Masters of the Darkroom
A photography exhibition exploring the digital era resurgence of interest in film photography and darkroom practice as a fine art medium. Works by Ansel Adams, Edward…
February 08 through April 19, 2014
Drawn In / Drawn Out: Contemporary Drawing
A selection of work by contemporary artists who challenge traditional concepts of the art of drawing. Featuring: Adela Andea, Vernon Fisher, Linnea Glatt, Hollis Hammonds,…
February 08 through April 19, 2014
Arthur Meyerson is recognized as an important photographer. Since 1974, this native Texan has traveled throughout the world, creating advertising, corporate and editorial photographs, as…
September 14 through February 18, 2014
West Texas Club Woman 1880-1950
The American women’s club movement began in 1868 when Jane Cunningham Croly, a professional New York journalist, was denied admittance to an all-male press club…
September 11 through February 15, 2014
West Texas Woman Club 1880-1950
Exhibition featuring club woman fashions and artifacts and presents the story Abilene women's organizations contributions to West Texas culture and education.
March 05 through February 15, 2014
Julie Speed: Paper Cut: Selected Works on Paper
September 12 through February 14, 2014
Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection
This exhibition explores the major cultures and monuments of the Mediterranean region through the art works of American artists of the late 19th and early…
September 14 through January 18, 2014
Museum Matters: Arthur Myerson
An artist talk and book signing Houston-based photographer and teacher, Meyerson.
January 16 through January 16, 2014
The art and life of Clint Hamilton panel discussion featuring Anna Powell, Judy Tedford Deaton, and artist Linda Murray.
January 09 through January 09, 2014
Dr. White will discuss American art at the beginning of the 20th century and the lure of Mediterranean scenes for American artists.
October 24 through October 24, 2013
Suitable Subjects: Contemporary Still Lifes
Suitable Subjects is a group exhibition featuring still lifes by 35 contemporary artists. The exhibition explores a wide variety of contemporary responses to the still…
May 21 through August 16, 2013
West Texas Triangle: Danville Chadbourne
The Grace Museum presents West Texas Triangle: Danville Chadbourne.
May 30 through August 15, 2013
Laura Pickett Calfee: The Dutiful Daughter
The Dutiful Daughter is an exhibition of still life photography by Laura Pickett Calfee. It is a tribute to the keeper of family memories and…
May 21 through August 15, 2013
Trees presents meticulous on-site drawings celebrating trees as enduring symbols for Weary's life-long advocacy for nature conserved.
May 21 through August 15, 2013
Museum Matters: Kathie Walker-Millar
The Grace Museum is engaging art with McMurry University Professor of Art, Kathie Walker-Millar. Walker-Millar will share information about her recent trip to Peru and discuss…
July 20 through July 20, 2013
Seventy-five works of art selected from the current collection celebrate the individuals who laid the foundation for the permanent art collection.
February 07 through May 04, 2013
MUM: Photography by Nancy Newberry
Dallas photographer, Nancy Newberry explores young women's roles in contemporary culture. Her most well-known series features the Texas tradition of exchanging and wearing homecoming mums…
February 07 through May 04, 2013
David Everett and Billy Hassell: Wild Things
Flora and fauna of Texas inspire Austin sculptor David Everett and Fort Worth painter Billy Hassell. Curated by Grace Museum curator, Judy Tedford Deaton.
September 15 through January 26, 2013
Quiet Beauty, Photography by David Gibson
Texas landscapes by Dallas based Photographer David H.Gibson.
September 15 through January 26, 2013
Texas Impressionism: Branding with Brushstroke and Color, 1885-1935
Over 100 paintings dating 1885-1935 challenge the perception that Impressionism in Texas was provincial and outside the mainstream of American and European art. Organized by…
September 15 through January 26, 2013
Artist - Teacher: Selections from the Albritton Collection
Three generations of artistic cross currents among Texas artists/teachers and their artist/students.
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Loren Mozley: Structural Integrity
Important works by Texas modernist Loren Mozley (1905-1989) dating from the late 1930s through the 1970s.
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Pastel paintings imbue suburbia, carnival arcades, city store windows with a mystical, almost surreal, quality.
May 10 through August 16, 2012
Catherine Lee: West Texas Triangle
The West Texas Triangle, an alliance of five art museums, presents the works of prolific sculptor Catherine Lee. Born and mostly raised in Pampa Texas,…
June 01 through August 16, 2012
Friends and Neighbors: The Art of Photographing People
Photographs by Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Michael Nye, Jecko Vassilev, Eduard Gladkov, Marion Post Wilcott, June Van Cleef, Annie Noggle, Bill Wright, Dennis Fagan and others…
February 10 through June 09, 2012
Faith and Family: New Paintings by Sedrick Huckaby
February 10 through April 21, 2012
Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary, Paintings and Works on Paper
Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary, Paintings and Works on Paper provides a retrospective of the works Hogue produced over seven decades. This exhibition, curated by…
May 05 through August 20, 2011
Texas Outback: The Photography of June Redford Van Cleef
A recent gift from the artist to the Wright Photography Collection at The Grace Museum is the focus of this exhibition of 26 silver gelatin…
April 09 through August 20, 2011
Tools for Modern Living: Treasures from the History Vault
The history vault at The Grace Museum is a reminder of the time when high-tech was low-tech and that maybe those weren't such simpler times.…
July 29 through June 30, 2011
An Act of Faith: The Art of Mary McCleary
The Grace Museum presents an exhibition of the work of Texas artist Mary McCleary. An Act of Faith: The Art of Mary McCleary focuses on…
January 20 through April 16, 2011
Full Bloom: Paintings by Ann Ekstrom
Fort Worth artist Ann Ekstrom showcases a new series of painting in her exhibition Full Bloom curated by Judy Deaton of The Grace Museum. Ekstrom…
January 01 through February 19, 2011
Alice's Garden: Flower Portraits by Alice Wright
Alice Wright's exhibition at The Grace Museum continues with the theme of Texas Flora included their Fall exhibition programming. Alice's Garden includes portraits of flowers…
August 17 through January 15, 2011
Still Nature: The Sculpture of Beverly Penn
The Grace Museum presents an exhibition of sculpture by Beverly Penn in Still Nature on view through January 8th, 2011 in the Main Gallery. Penn's…
January 01 through January 08, 2011
Yosemite 1938: Ansel Adams and Georgia O
A rare album of photographs by American landscape photographer Ansel Adams is now on view at The Grace Museum in the exhibition Yosemite 1938: On…
April 30 through July 10, 2010
"Texas Art Seen, guest curated by Carl McQueary, features 70 rarely publicly exhibited early- to mid-twentieth century paintings from private and public collections. The works…
December 10 through February 16, 2010
The exhibition is the first solo exhibition since the artist's death in 2005.
December 10 through January 16, 2010
James Woodson: Time Mediated Anomalies
Time Mediated Anomalies, High Desert Paintings by TCU Professor James Woodson was inspired by the sweeping southwestern panoramas of Texas and New Mexico.
July 09 through August 29, 2009
James Surls: From the Heartland
The Grace Museum presents a do-not-miss exhibit, featuring 21 sculptures and 12 large-scale drawings by Texas art giant James Surls. The exhibition will feature Surls’…
July 09 through August 22, 2009
Ft. Worth-based artist Helen Altman brings her most recent torch drawings, hand woven wire birds, and beautiful printed blankets to the Grace.
July 09 through July 11, 2009
20 to Watch: New Art in Austin
If you didn't see the show in Austin, here's your chance to check it out! The Grace Museum plays host to the Austin Museum of…
April 09 through April 09, 2009
The Art Guys: Cloud Cuckoo Land
The Art Guys are coming to town! Cloud Cuckoo Land features "drawings, maquettes, ephemera, and documentation from twenty-five years of projects, proposals, failed schemes, and…
February 12 through February 20, 2009
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections
This nationwide traveling exhibition is comprised of photographs, stories, and 200 vintage aprons. Curated by EllynAnne Geisel, the contributors to Apron Chronicles "recall people who…
December 11 through January 09, 2009
The Grace Museum presents work by Texas artist and professor at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Sandria Hu.
December 11 through December 29, 2008
Imaging Blackness, 1915–2002: Film Posters from the Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive includes 43 posters from almost a century of independent black cinema.
November 13 through November 30, 2008
Zero to 60: Artwork of the Automotive Fine Art Society
This will be the first-ever museum show of work by members of the Automotive Fine Arts Society. If you dig cars, this show is for…
July 10 through September 07, 2008
Into the Woods: Paintings by Lilian Garcia-Roig
Into the Woods features Cuban-born artist Lilian Garcia-Roig's plein-air paintings. Roig was awarded a 2006 Joan Mitchell Award for excellence in the arts!!
July 10 through August 21, 2008
Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas
Curated by Virginia Dodier (photography historian, curator, and director of the Carlsbad Museum & Art Center in New Mexico), this traveling exhibit, Nosotras, features 50…
July 10 through August 16, 2008
Dan Burkholder - Katrina: The Color of Loss
Surreal images of the aftermath of Huricanne Katrina by Dan Burkholder, innovator of digital photography and creator of the digital negative.
April 10 through June 28, 2008
Organized by the George Eastman House, Picturing Eden features work by 37 national and international artists, including Maso Yamamoto, Lyle Gomes, Izima Kaora, Michael Kenna,…
February 09 through May 05, 2008
Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece By Piece
"Ami Sims, founder of the Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative and curator of this show, began contacting professional quilters in 2005 with the idea of a…
January 14 through February 28, 2008
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