Calendar of Events
- The Grace Museum Exhibition - Margo Sawyer: Blue January 23, 2021In 2018, The Grace Museum was privileged to acquire Margo Sawyer’s acclaimed 1998 sculptural installation BLUE through an unprecedented collaboration with The Contemporary Austin and the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas Austin. For this exhibition Sawyer installs BLUE in response to The Grace Museum’s unique historical galleries and creates REFLECT featuring […]
- The Grace Museum Exhibition - Creating a Community: The State Epileptic Colony in Abilene January 16, 2021This exhibition will highlight the early history of the State Epileptic Colony in Abilene through over 50 photographs from The Grace’s permanent history collection. In 1904, the institution was founded to help individuals with epilepsy through research, care, isolation, and offering a place to work and live. The complex consisted of an administration building, a […]
- Children's Performing Art Series at Home January 6, 2021Virtual theater packages for families. Enjoy a professional children's theater show at home! Virtual Show Titles: Anne of Green Gables From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Chicken Dance Packages Include: Access to a recorded children's theater show you can stream at home. A brand-new copy of the book that inspired the show. […]
- The NCCIL Exhibition: 'What Might You Do? Christian Robinson' October 8, 2020Christian Robinson, emerging, millennial, Black illustrator, [and] all around incredible human is passionate about telling stories with pictures. Born in Hollywood, California, in 1986, he grew up in a small one-bedroom apartment with his brother, two cousins, aunt, and grandmother. Drawing became a way to make space for himself in a world crowded with loving […]
- The Grace Museum Exhibition - Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence October 2, 2020The story of women's suffrage is a story of voting rights, of inclusion in and exclusion from the franchise, and of our civic development as a nation. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and explores the complexity of the women's […]
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