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Ansel Adams: American Master Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection Program Guide for the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock Lake Landmark, Moody Planetarium, Natural Science Research Lab, and AUGUST - DECEMBER 2015 the Museum of Texas Tech University Association September - December 2015 CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 2015-2016 Ansel Adams: American Master, Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2015 – SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2016 This exhibition of 103 works of art surveys a lifetime of creative insight and photographic acumen by American master Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Adams prevails as a premier artist of the 20th century, and his images established a standard for American landscape photography. The exhibition has been curated from the collection of Midland, Texas, resident David H. Arrington. An advocate of Adams, Arrington has gathered one of the largest private collections in the world, with iconic landscapes of the western United States and rare prints demonstrating Adams’ virtuoso photographic techniques. Visit anseladams.ttu.edu/ Antarctica–Pioneering American Explorations of the Frozen Continent FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015 – SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2016 Exploration and Adventure! This exhibition highlights expeditions into the unknown of Antarctica and Texas Tech University’s own Dr. F. Alton Wade. Learn about the fate of the Snow Cruiser, an innovative research facility on wheels. Discover the preparation it took to explore a dangerous climate that could be 70 degrees below zero. Sled dogs, penguins, ancient animals and a mummified seal add life to this frozen continent and exhibition. Curry Holden: A Landmark Visionary TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2016 Curry Holden, the first Director of the West Texas Museum (now the Museum of Texas Tech University), is credited with the discovery of Lubbock Lake in 1936. It all started when the young Kimmel brothers brought him bones of ancient bison and a Folsom point found there. Throughout the decades, Holden’s research championed protection of the Lubbock Lake. He oversaw excavations, worked with community leaders, and raised community awareness with his own guided tours into the late 1960s. His ceaseless efforts are chronicled in celebration of the Landmark’s 80th anniversary of discovery. His vision is the foundation for the Landmark’s current mission and success. Interiors: Artists Looking Inside; Recent Acquisitions from the Museum’s Art Collection OPENS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015, SEASONAL ROTATION This selection of paintings, drawings, photographs, and prints offer glimpses of each artist peeking into the interiors of homes, cafes, and daily life. All of the exhibited works are recent additions to the Museum’s art collection and many are part of the Artist, Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection (AP/RC). The exhibition is curated by Peter S Briggs, Helen DeVitt Jones Curator of Art and Michael Glenn. Lubbock Camera Club & West Texas Photographic Society of Lubbock SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 As a compliment to the exhibition, Ansel Adams: American Master; Selections from the David H. Arrington Collection, The Lubbock Camera Club and West Texas Photographic Society of Lubbock will be exhibiting color and black & white landscape photography highlighting the work of member photographers. MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY Helenn J. Rumpel: Four Decades of Art SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015 – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2015 This exhibition will feature approximately 60 of Helenn Rumpel’s embroidered works, paintings and ceramics spanning four decades. Rumpel, who died in 2014, was a Santa Fe-based artist best known for her “creative stitchery.” Combining vibrant colors and energetic textures, Rumpel joins threads, cloth, varieties of stitches, dyed fabrics, yarns, sparkling materials, beads, and found objects to explore landscapes and cityscapes. The subjects of her artistic world are international, spanning the mountains of her home in New Mexico, Greek villages along the Mediterranean, onion-domed churches in central Europe and Russia, rural villages in Germany and England, and Byzantine architecture. In addition to acclaim she earned in textiles, Rumpel also painted in oil and watercolor and created ceramic pieces. This exhibition celebrates her rich career as an artist. Embroidered Selections from the Collections of the Museum of Texas Tech University SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 Culled from over 1,600 embroidered objects in the collection these include schoolgirl samplers from the early 1800s as well as embroidered domestic pieces used in West Texas homes. The Embroiderers’ Guild of America Presents: Through the Needle’s Eye SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 The Embroiderers’ Guild of America’s National Exhibit Through the Needle’s Eye is a showcase of the best in artistic and technical embroidery. This juried exhibit features contemporary embroidery from across North America. The works include both traditional and contemporary embroidery techniques employed to create clothing, wall pieces, jewelry, vessels and sculpture. The exhibition shows the diversity of embroidery and how this age-old art form continues to be practiced by 21st century artists. Creations from West Texas Needles SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 This exhibition features embroidered pieces created by the members of the West Texas Chapter of The Embroiderers’ Guild of America, Inc., illustrating their technical skills and creativity. Exhibited as a complement to Through the Needle’s Eye, these works cover the broad range of styles possible in needlework. This exhibit includes some of the finest examples of work being done by embroiderers in this region including a display of blackwork, a Spanish style of black thread on a white background popularized in Tudor England. The Remnant Trust, Inc. PERMANENT DISPLAY, ANNUAL ROTATION A new partnership between Texas Tech University and The Remnant Trust, Inc. brings a collection of original, first edition, and rare early written works to display at the Museum. These works are intended to inspire an elevated public understanding of individual liberty and human dignity through hands- on availability of the world’s great ideas in original form. The Remnant Trust, Inc. will maintain a permanent presence in the Museum promoting the ideas of individual liberty and human dignity. This new featured exhibit will rotate on a yearly basis bringing works from the main Remnant Trust collection, housed on the Texas Tech campus in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. Ansel Adams: American Master REGISTER FOR EVENTS | MUSEUM.TTU.EDU CALENDAR MUSEUM OF TTU MOODY PLANETARIUM LUBBOCK LAKE LANDMARK NATURAL SCIENCE RESEARCH LAB REGISTRATION/RESERVATION REQUIRED PRIVATE EVENT AUG2015 MEMBERSHIP EVENT - Join Today! 6:30–7:30 p.m. AUG 7 FRI, AUG 7 11 TUE, AUG 11 Hear the stories and First Friday Art Trail Toddler Tuesday insights of one of the 6:00–9:00 p.m. The Sound of Music foremost collectors of Ansel Adams’ work. 10:30–11:30 a.m. Learn all about musical Bedtime @ the Museum instruments and build your First Day Jitters own kazoos! 15 SAT, AUG 15 6:30–7:30 p.m. Saturdays @ the Museum AGES 2-5 WITH ADULT Come celebrate the fun Ansel Adams Gallery and wonderment of the Photography THU, AUG 13 first day of school. 13 1:00–4:00 p.m. Private Opening & Come and learn about the Reception beauty of Ansel Adams’ FFAT Movie @ the Ansel Adams: American photography. Museum Master, Selections from The Lost Zeppelin the David H. Arrington Collection 7:00–8:15 p.m. 15 SAT, AUG 15 A crew of daring 7:00–9:00 p.m. adventurers braves the Chancellor Robert Duncan Gallery Lecture pitiless, white wasteland welcomes David H. Imagining What Ansel of Antarctica in a bid to Arrington’s collection to Adams Could Do with be the first explorers to the Musuem of Texas Tech Digital Technology reach the South Pole by University. 2:00–3:30 p.m. Zeppelin. 1929, 71 min, NR The Lubbock Camera Club and West Texas MUST SEE EVENT Photographic Society will Join the give a demonstration of Museum Association! 14 FRI, AUG 14 how Ansel Adams might Contact us to learn more: have used current digital Public Talk www.mottua.org/join technology to enhance David H. Arrington 806.742.2443. photographs. Located in 4 PROGRAM GUIDE | AUGUST - DECEMBER 2015 REGISTER FOR EVENTS | MUSEUM.TTU.EDU AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2015 the Helen DeVitt Jones hack the museum galleries FFAT Movie @ the Auditorium with reception with our passport activi- Museum to follow. ty, photography contest Ansel Adams: A through Instagram, and Documentary Film take free photos at the TapSnap photo booth. Use 6:30–8:10 p.m. Landmark After Dark hashtag #HackMyMoTTU A 20th century Night Hike to tag your photos and preservationist, Adams 8:05–9:30 p.m. win the contest! had great influence in making photography into Experience the nocturnal nature in Yellowhouse an art form and helping shape people’s attitudes Draw and tour the night 25 TUE, AUG 25 sky. Hike will begin at about wild areas. Directed dusk, 30 minutes before Museum Association by Ric Burns. 2002, 100 sunset. Sunset is 8:35 p.m. Annual Meeting and min, NR. Weather permitting. Dinner 6:30 p.m. The Museum of Texas MUST SEE EVENT FRI, AUG 21 21 Tech University FRI-SUN, SEP 4-6 Association’s Annual Meet- 4-6 Movie @ the Museum ing and Dinner. The Lubbock Model Spartacus Railroad Association 2:00–4:30 p.m. Model Train Days Starring Kirk Douglas, 26 WED, AUG 26 They are back again! Laurence Olivier, Jean The Museum welcomes Simmons, and Tony Curtis. Wednesday Afternoon the return of the A Thracian slave leads Movie @ the Museum Lubbock Model Railroad a revolt at a gladiatorial The Antarctica Challenge Association for another school run by Lentulus 1:30–2:30 p.m. model train extravaganza. Batiatus. The uprising Celebrating the railroad An up-to-date look at soon spreads across the worker on Labor Day ongoing climate change Italian Peninsula involving weekend, the LMRA will research by thousands of slaves.