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PIONEER SPIRIT AWARD DINNER
2008 recipient – Joe Pool
April 2, 2008
6:00 pm Reception in Pioneer Hall
7:00 pm Dinner in Derrick Room
In keeping with the spirit of the early founders of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society to preserve for future generations the history of this region, the Pioneer Spirit Award recognizes individuals, families, businesses or organizations that exemplify the pioneer character. Recipients are those who have not only worked to preserve the past for future generations, but have worked to assure a better present for their fellow citizens of the Panhandle and the state of Texas. Past Pioneer Spirit honorees are Award are Betty Bivins Lovell, Harold Courson, Nancy and Bob Josserand, and Genevieve Caldwell. Tickets are $75 per person, and sponsorships are available. For reservations, call (806) 651-2233.
“YARD ART AND HANDMADE PLACES: EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESSIONS OF HOME” WITH GUEST SPEAKER JILL NOKES
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
April 5, 2008 11:00 am-2:00 pm
Lecture, luncheon, and book signing
“Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and heritage, or even to create sacred spaces for personal and community refreshment and healing. Jill Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, traveled across the state of Texas, seeking out residents who had transformed their yards and gardens into oases of art and exuberant personal expression.”
Cost is $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are requested, call (806)651-2233 or email adavid@pphm.wtamu.edu
GRIFFIN COLLECTION
Furniture Gallery
Opening April 5
Griffin renovated the Ranchos house with architectural elements purchased from various decrepit or crumbling buildings in northern New Mexico. She filled the home with European furniture and paintings as well as art and furniture from the American Southwest and Mexico, including
Hispanic religious art. The furniture exhibit will provide a glimpse into the large collection assembled by the late Griffin.
SOUTHWESTERN TEXTILES FROM THE JOHNIE GRIFFIN COLLECTION
Textile Gallery
Opening April 5
Griffin collected a wide variety of Southwestern textiles including Mexican Saltillo serapes, Rio Grande blankets, and Navajo rugs and blankets. Approximately twelve exquisite examples will be on exhibit.
OLIVE VANDRUFF: 100 AT 100
Foran Gallery
Opening April 12
In honor of what would have been her 100th birth year, PPHM exhibits works from Vandruff’s personal collection in several media including pastel, watercolor, casein, and oil. Vandruff became a renowned painter of animals and birds and often was commissioned to paint horse portraits. In 1961, Vandruff married H.D. Bugbee and succeeded him as curator of art at PPHM from 1962 to 1982.
OLIVE VANDRUFF RECEPTION
Foran Gallery
April 17, 2008 5:30-7:30
WEEK OF THE YOUNG CHILD
April 22 – 25, 2008 10:00 am, 11:00 am and 1:30 pm
This program is available for Pre-school students 3 – 5 years old and/or Kindergarten students who attend public schools, private schools, and Day Care centers and children of stay-at-home mothers. Registration is a MUST. Children can register for all four days or just for one day. The program will be approximately one hour per group each day. Each day will have a theme: Cowboy Day, Pioneer Day, Indian Day, and Fossil Day. The kids will do hands-on activities, taste unique foods, listen to storytellers, see Indian dancing, work like a pioneer, and learn about dinosaurs, etc. Admission cost for those participating will be free during their activity session.
“A KIOWA’S ODYSSEY: A SKETCHBOOK FROM FORT MARION” SYMPOSIUM
Hazlewood Lecture Hall
April 26, 2008 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m. – 12 noon
Phillip Earenfight, Director Trout Gallery
Joyce Szabo, Professor of Art History University of New Mexico
Dr. Candace Greene, Ethnologist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
12 – 12:30 p.m.
Walking tour of exhibition, Southwest Gallery
Florene Whitehorse Taylor, Kiowa Storyteller
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Cost: $12 PPHM members/$18 non members. RSVP by April 23 to Elaina at 806-651-2258 or ecunningham@pphm.wtamu.edu
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