CASETA FEBRUARY 2024 Newsletter

FEBRUARY 2024

CASETA NEWSLETTER

Be sure to put June 21-23 on your calendar for the 2024 CASETA Symposium and Texas Art Fair! It will feature outstanding presentations covering more than 125 years of Texas art history; receptions and special events; and access to a large and impressive array of Texas art.

To celebrate the groundbreaking publication of CASETA’s Making the Unknown Known: Women in Early Texas Art, 1860s-1960s, presentations by three of the book’s many authors will highlight chapters on 19th-century female artists, Grace Spaulding John and Kathleen Blackshear. Other talks will focus on the artists Forrest Bess and John Biggers, the Texas Post Office Murals, Chicano/Chicana art, and contemporary art from 1948 to 1984.

Symposium Hotel Booking link

Registration for the CASETA Symposium and Texas Art Fair

will be available in early April!

COMING SOON!

Ruth Uhler, Growth, 1934

Courtesy of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Canyon, Texas

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Earlie Hudnall, Jr: Homeward

On view December 16, 2023 - March 30, 2024

Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is a Houston-based photographer whose subject matter focuses on documenting the everyday life of African American communities in the South. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Hudnall began photographing while serving as a Marine in the Vietnam War in the 1960s. In 1968, he relocated to Houston to attend Texas Southern University (TSU) and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education. While attending TSU, he found the encouragement to continue photographing from well-known TSU faculty members, including art professor John Biggers and professor of philosophy Dr. Thomas Freeman. After graduating, Earlie made Houston his permanent home and worked as a staff photographer at TSU from the 1970s until 1990. In 1990, he was hired as the university photographer, a position he held until his retirement in 2019.

Earlie Hudnall Jr., Homeward

Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Mother with Son, 2008

In the new Emmett and Miriam McCoy Building at the Museum of the Big Bend, early Texas art enthusiasts can enjoy works from the Sul Ross State University Summer Art Colony instructors Otis Dozier, Harry Anthony DeYoung, Michael Frary and William Lester and student Bertha Landers alongside works by early SRSU instructors Anna Keener and Elizabeth Keefer and SRSU students James Swann and Enrique Espinosa.