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PANHANDLE-PLAINS INVITATIONAL WESTERN ART SHOW AND SALE
Fixed Price Sale and Artists Reception
Foran Galleries and Lobby
March 1 6:00 pm
An opportunity to preview the exhibit, purchase original artwork and meet the artists.
PANHANDLE-PLAINS INVITATIONAL
Foran Gallery
Opening March 1
The PPI provides the only museum-quality venue for contemporary Western art in the Panhandle Plains region. This annual event will have paintings and sculpture by some 50 artists depicting the American West. Proceeds from sales will benefit the museum’s art department.
WHO’S WHO IN YOUR FAMILY TREE III
March 8, 2008 10:00-11:30 am
Join us for the next installment of the popular “Who’s Who” series and learn more about family history, often recorded in a family bible. Elaine Newkirk of the Family History Center will lead the investigation into our unique roots. We will also learn more about the Bible from an antiquarian perspective and how the book was used over generations to record family events and legacies. A tour of the new exhibit, “The Book of Books: Texts That Shaped the Times” will follow. You are invited to bring your own bible and share its history in your family with the group.
Cost: Free PPHM members/ $10 non members includes museum admission. Refreshments served. For reservations, contact Elaina Cunningham by March 5, (806) 651-2258 or email ecunningham@pphm.wtamu.edu.
DAVIS MAP COLLETION
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
Opening March 13
These Texas maps range from the earliest sixteenth-century maps of New Spain to early settlement, the republic and statehood, and into the twenty-first century. The objects are not only historical documents but also served to promote settlement, to chart transport lines, and for use by the military. The earliest maps demonstrate cartography as an art that only centuries later evolved into a science.
A KIOWA’S ODYSSEY: A SKETCHBOOK FROM FORT MARION
Southwestern Gallery
Opening March 29
This 32-page sketchbook of drawings by the Kiowa warrior Etahdleuh Doanmoe chronicle the experience of seventy-two Comanche, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Caddo who were captured at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, in 1875 during uprisings associated with the Plains Wars. To stem further uprisings, the Indian prisoners were exiled to Ft. Marion, Florida. Under the direction of Lt. Richard Henry Pratt, they were made to adopt Western values, appearance, behavior, language, and beliefs. Etahdleuh’s drawings illustrate the capture of the Indians, their passage to Florida, and their time at Fort Marion.
www.kiowasodyssey.org
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