Faith & Family: Paintings by Sedrick Huckaby

Main gallery exhibition

February 10 through April 21, 2012

February 10  12pm - 1:30pm       Artist talk by Sedrick Huckaby / Brown Bag lunch

                                                "Welcome to Big Momma’s House”

                   1:30pm – 3pm        Gallery tour with the artist

                   5:30pm – 7:30pm   Opening and artist reception

 

Sedrick Huckaby's large-scale paintings draw inspiration from his family history and his African-American roots.  Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Huckaby received his B.F.A. from Boston University in 1997 and his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1999.  He has taught as a professor at Tarrant County College in Forth Worth and currently is a professor of water media at the University of Texas in Arlington.  Mr. Huckaby has been honored as a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, as a Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellow at the University of Illinois, and as a Brandeis Mortimer Hays Traveling Fellow, which gave him the opportunity to study the works of European masters abroad.

His own work has been included in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, at the African American Museum in Dallas, at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts in Texas, and at the Hammond House Museum in Atlanta.  His work A Love Supreme, comprised of pieces forming an 80-foot long painting of quilts created by his grandmother, celebrates both jazz and quiltmaking as central elements of African-American culture.  It serves as a foundation for his Guggenheim Fellowship project: to explore and paint the tradition of quiltmaking around the United States, and to add some of those paintings to A Love Supreme to more fully realize his intention in that installation.

Bob Stuth-Wade: Landforms

Curated by Judy Tedford Deaton

September 22 - Feb. 18, 2012

Mark your calendars now to attend the second annual Valentine Vendor Fair, a special shopping event produced by Los Aficionados to benefit The Grace Museum.  More than 30 artists and artisans from the Big Country will offer the best in hand-crafted, unique gifts. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this event is a major fundraiser for Los Aficionados, the museum’s active volunteer guild.
The 2012 Valentine Vendor Fair will be held on February 11, 2012, at the T & P Building, 901 North First Street. Glenda Ravanelli, who heads the event committee, promises that many of the popular vendors from last year’s fair will be present this year. Offerings will include exquisite hand-made soaps, a variety of lovely lavender products, beautiful purses, scarves, belts, and a great variety of one-of-a-kind gifts.

Vendors pay a modest fee to show and sell their wares. Sponsors donate to under right costs, and individual tickets for the all-day event are only $15. For more information and to purchase tickets call Sheila Richardson at The Grace Museum.

Friends & Neighbors: the art of photographing people

Wright Photography Gallery 

February 10 through June 9, 2012              

February 10   5:30 –7:30  Opening Reception and curators comments

               

The photographs of Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Michael Nye, Jecko Vassilev, Eduard Gladkov, Marion Post Wilcott, June Van Cleef, Annie Noggle, Bill Wright, Dennis Fagan and others selected from The Grace Museum permanent collection for this exhibition present fine examples telling photographs of people taken by people adept at revealing not only a likeness but also a narrative about new friends and neighbors they have met and photographed at home and abroad.

     Dennis Fagan, San Miguel Allende, Via Cruces Procession, Easter 2005, Pigment inkjet print