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The Magazine of the Museum of Texas Tech University Prepare to Party Spring/Summer 2019 The Magazine of the Museum Mof Texas Tech University In This Issue | Spring-Summer 2019 Red Tail Students Solve Feed Sacks Takes Flight Major Storage and the Fabric Problem of American Households The Magazine of The Texas Tech University Museum M The Magazine of the Museum of Texas Tech University Prepare to Party Spring/Summer 2019 Staff Publisher and Acting Executive Editor The Museum of Texas Tech University celebrates its 90th best of its collections, and throw a few parties to celebrate. Jill Hoffman anniversary in 2019. Watch for more information about exhibitions and events on Editor our website at museum.ttu.edu. Daniel Tyler Editorial Committee The idea for a museum took form only four years after Texas Daniel Tyler, Jill Hoffman, Ph.D., Technological College opened. On March 27, 1929, a group of Information drawn from the book “West Texas Museum Lisa Bradley citizens interested in forming a museum met, as reported in Association 1929-1979.” Design the Daily Toreador, to “form a society to help make collections Moody Planetarium Armando Godinez Jr. and further the movement (of the Museum) in general.” Tuesday Saturday Sunday This issue of M the Magazine of the Museum of Texas Tech University is From that meeting grew the Plains Museum Society, which 1:30 p.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:30 p.m. made possible by the generous evolved into the Museum of Texas Tech University Association. support of the CH Foundation. 2:00 p.m. 12:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. M is a biannual publication of the The first museum, the West Texas Museum, opened in 1937 Museum of Texas Tech University. in the basement of what is now Holden Hall on the Texas 2:30 p.m. 3301 4th St, Lubbock, TX 79409 Tech campus. Phone: 806.742.2490 Friday 3:30 p.m. www.museum.ttu.edu By the mid-1960s, the Museum Association began planning 1:00 p.m. All rights reserved. for a new Museum building, located in its current location at ©Museum of Texas Tech University 2019 2:00 p.m. 4th Street and Indiana Avenue. The building opened in 1970. 3:30 p.m. In 2019, the Museum will celebrate its history, show off the Correction: In the Fall-Winter 2018 issue of M Magazine, Bill Davies’ age at the time of his death was misstated. He was 101 when he died. M regrets the error. 2 | Spring/Summer 2019 Spring/Summer 2019 | 3 M The Magazine of The Texas Tech University Museum Medici’s Treasures 15 In 2019, the Museum of Texas Tech University turns 90. Graduate Student Curates Established in 1929 as the Plains Museum Society, and later New Art Exhibition renamed the West Texas Museum, the museum first occupied what is today Holden Hall on the Texas Tech campus. In 1970, the museum moved to its current location as the Museum of Texas Tech University. 16 Throughout 2019, we will be commemorating the history of Storage Solutions for the Museum, its collections, and all of the programs that are Bed Frames run to serve the people of Texas, especially those living in West Texas. Our theme for the birthday year is Diversity and Connections. The Museum’s collections number over 8 million objects, and 19 are perhaps the most diverse collections of any university Evolution of the Museum museum in the country, spanning art to dinosaurs and Inside M everything in between. We would be several museums at most universities comparable in size to Texas Tech. In 2019 we will university museum of the 21st century can be a catalyst for Collections Highlights. 6 be celebrating the diversity of the collections and how they engagement between university and community. can be used and enjoyed through programs spanning research M News. 11 to public education. The Museum of Texas Tech University has a vision for what Museum App . 13 24 a multidisciplinary university can be and do, to best serve Museum Exhibits Largest One of the most exciting things about being so multi both its host university and the many communities of that disciplinary is not just being able to have a very broad range Museum Project Draws Awards . 18 Collection of Feed Sacks university. Our vision explores a major expansion of facilities of programs. It also means that the Museum is an ideal place and programs that would position the Museum as a world Calendar. .36 for cross-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary programs, where the leader in university museums, characterized by the diversity arts, humanities, sciences, and technology intersect. STEAM of programs across and connecting the widest range of is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and research and collection disciplines. Math …. and in 2019 we will look at how the Museum of Texas 28 Tech University is exploring those synergies. Museum's Arroyo Now Open We may be 90, but we are looking forward to the next 90 years. As part of Texas Tech University, the Museum has partnerships with many colleges and departments. My view is that there is no unit on campus with which we could not partner. We Gary Morgan, Ph.D. also partner with many community groups in developing and Former Executive Director delivering programs for the widest of audiences. In 2019, we 29 will give some insights into those partnerships and how the Peter Mangan's "Red Tail" 32 Maxey Family Homestead Site 4 | Spring/Summer 2019 Spring/Summer 2019 | 5 M The Magazine of The Texas Tech University Museum Collections Highlights Collections Collections Highlights New Donation of Pottery by Maria Martinez and Popovi Da Museum Receives Autographed By: Megan Ree, Assistant Collections Manager, Ethnology John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster Two pottery bowls made by Maria Martinez and her son, until his death in 1971. Maria stopped working at that time, Popovi Da, of San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico have been although she lived until 1980. Maria’s decedents at San donated to the Museum by Gilley Treadaway Griffith of Lub- Ildefonso continue their tradition of black on black ware to bock. Maria Martinez, one of the most highly regarded pueb- the present day. The Museum’s History Division has acquired an unusual Williams, who is from Miramar, Florida, and Dukart, from lo potters, is known internationally for her artistic skill. She new addition to its collection – an autographed Baptists for Wibaux, Montana, are both students in the Museum’s was one of the original potters that led the revival of pueblo Kennedy campaign sign. Heritage and Museum Science Master’s Degree Program. pottery in the early 20th century. Students work in different areas of the museum and work directly with objects such as the sign. The students, under The poster was handmade by Joe Newman, a Baptist Sunday Saffell’s direction, will write an accession sheet that officially While Maria learned to make pottery as a child, pot- School superintendent from Hart, Texas. Newman held the documents that the object has been received into the Mu- tery making decreased substantially in the early 20th poster up during a campaign seum's collection. century when it became easier to buy manufactured stop by John F. Kennedy in They will then cat- goods. In 1908, however, Maria was asked to recreate September 1960. alog the condition pottery based on prehistoric pueblo potsherds, or bro- of the object and ken pieces of pottery, uncovered during excavations make a recommen- by the School of American Research at what is now Kennedy faced challenges be- dation on how to Bandelier National Monument. Her husband Julian cause he was Catholic. The sign preserve the sign. had been a laborer at these excavations, and together caught the candidate’s attention they began experimenting to recreate archaeological during the campaign rally at designs and forms, beginning with black-on-cream and the then Lubbock Municipal polychrome pottery. Maria would form the pots, and Airport. Kennedy spoke to Julian would paint them. Newman and autographed the Joe Newman, a Baptist Sunday School sign. The sign also drew attention superintendent from Hart, made this sign from the media. The newspaper for a campaign rally held by John F. Kennedy In 1919 and 1920, after years of experimentation, Ma- in Lubbock in September 1960. Kennedy pictures, plus stories that in- ria and Julian innovated the black-on-black ware style The Museum began collecting pottery by Maria Martinez in the 1960s. While the Museum has clude interviews with Newman, saw the sign and autographed it for which San Ildefonso is famous. This new donation other pottery by Martinez, the new donation represents the first pieces in the Museum’s collection also are included in the donation. for Newman. Recently, Newman's son exemplifies this style. San Ildefonso and other pueblos by Maria Martinez and Popovi Da. donated the sign to the Museum. had produced black ware traditionally, but it had fallen out of production by the 20th century. Maria and Julian The sign came to the Museum were able to produce the black effect by adding dried The Museum began collecting pottery by Maria Martinez in when Newman’s son asked manure during firing. To achieve the black matte painted the 1960s. The collection includes examples by Maria and History Curator Cameron Saffell designs over the polished black base of the pot, Julian Julian, and by Maria and Santana. This new donation if the Museum would be interested developed a glaze that would turn matte black when fired. represents the first pieces in the Museum’s collection by in the sign.
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