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Connie Todd, 2008, ally known creative center, a place walked onto the stage she took the (left) Ave Bonar where students come to be inspired, open mic and turned to address the Fiesta religiosa en Amecameca / Religious visitors come to be delighted, and crowd. “Thank you all very much,” festival in Amecameca, scholars come to be nourished. Connie began. Then lowering her circa 1924, THE COLLECTIONS Hugo Brehme IN CURRICULUM The figures associated with voice slightly, she added, “And if you Connie’s tenure are remarkable—the don’t mind, I’d like to express my (middle) Texas State professors Indio de los alrededores 1,187% growth in accessions, the 18 appreciation in song.” Then she threw from diverse depart - de San Juan Teotihuacán / books she had a hand in producing, her head back and laughed, that Indian from the vicinity ments, including and the 25+ major photography marvelous, sparkling laugh that has of San Juan Teotihuacán, Modern Foreign n.d., Hugo Brehme Languages, Political exhibitions she curated or co-curated, cascaded over the Wittliff Collections Science, Southwestern the increase in visitation from a few these last 12-plus years. Studies, Public History, hundred to over 30,000 visitors Connie retired as director on and English, access the annually, and her staff—which grew January 15, knowing she was leaving MUSEUM ASSESSMENT Wittliff Collections’ from three to 12 full-time employees. the Wittliff Collec tions in very good PROGRAM IN literature, film, tele- But the real influence Connie had shape indeed. And just as with her PROGRESS vision, music, and THE TIME IS Spring 2009: Connie on the Wittliff Collections was her earlier trip to Paris, the staff realizes The American photographic archives Todd is enjoying a well-deserved spirit—and her vision. Those of us that even though Connie is not here in Association of and galleries as a vacation in Paris when her brother, who worked with her quickly learned person, her remarkable and enduring Museums has selected resource for teaching. Terry Todd, calls the Wittliff office. legacy—not to mention the echoes of the Wittliff Collections Cyrus Cassells and from a pool of Kathleen Peirce are “Steve, I just wanted to say I’ve her laughter—will remain with us for approximately 100 among the MFA been hearing that things are going years to come. applicants to participate Creative Writing really well over there at the Wittliff We’re especially thrilled to in its Museum Program faculty who Collections,” Terry began. “No one’s announce we’ll have Connie back in SUSAN FROST donates BREHME collection Assessment Program bring students to the calling in sick anymore, people are the house on April 17, this time as the (MAP). MAP provides galleries to compose skipping around the hallways, and the guest speaker at our reception for the OUR DEEPEST THANKS go to Susan of the people and places of Mexico, collegial, consultative object-specific poems staff is far more productive than it’s Toomey Frost for generously donating and he opened his first photography ¡Viva México! and Vaquero photog - feedback to museums inspired by photographs ever been. In fact, morale seems to be raphic exhibitions (see p. 13). Who her Hugo Brehme Collection to the studio in Mexico City in 1912. in assisting them to set on display. Spanish at an all-time high, and I’m just better to talk about images from the Wittliff Collections in Novem ber. The Identifying himself as a fine-art priorities and identify Professor Dr. Blake wondering if you have any idea why permanent collection than the curator comprehensive archive, com prised of photographer, Brehme created real needs for change. Locklin assigns students that may be…” who helped to build it? Who knows, over 1,800 Brehme postcards, maxi - photo postcards that were printed on Helping museum staff to write critical and and leadership assess reflective essay Then Terry and I dissolved into she may even burst into song with a mum cards, black-and-white pho to - photographic papers with a variety of # how their operations responses to images in laughter, knowing that the joke was corrido or two. graphs, and hand-tinted photo graphs, tones and finishes, giving each image measure up to the exhibitions, while on his beloved sister, Connie, and on —Steve Davis took Frost 15 years to build. a richness and complexity. standards and best Dr. Mark Busby brings our beloved boss, the estimable (Assistant Curator Steve Davis is In addition to her donation of the His postcards include scenes of practices in the field, his Southwestern Señora Todd. The truth was, yes, we that Connie never settled for good serving as interim director while Texas photographs, Frost gifted an extensive Mexico City, Xochimilco, Veracruz, MAP provides feedback Studies students for an were all doing fine without Connie— enough. For her, it always had to be State conducts a search for the new library of books, periodicals, and travel Taxco, Cuernavaca, Puebla, and on how institutions introduction to the because her indelible imprint had excellent. She pushed herself, and she ephemera related to the artist. The smaller towns; the volcanoes Popo - Wittliff Collections director.) might address their Wittliff’s literary hold - already shaped the way the Wittliff pushed us, to continually strive for Hugo Brehme Collection is a valuable catépetl, Ixtaccíhuatl, and Pico de current challenges, ings. Curators and staff Collections operated, and had helped that goal, and she did so in a way that addition to the Wittliff’s holdings and Orizaba; archaeological sites and and on what resources are available to speak to shape the staff itself—a close-knit emphasized collegiality, consensus, greatly enhances the Southwestern & artifacts; and portraits and scenes of might be of help to classes about current team of dedicated, intelligent, hard- respect, and humor. Mexican Photography Collection. the daily life of the Mexican people. them. An assessment exhibitions, care of team of five members collections, and photo - working, creative people—a group In the last year of Connie’s tenure, Considered to be the leading Brehme was also an astute comprised of Wittliff graphic technolo gies. that also enjoys laughter. A staff that a university awards ceremony was expert on Brehme’s work, Frost’s businessman and a savvy entrepre - staff and Joan Heath, To schedule a class visit, was seemingly created in Connie’s held at the LBJ Ballroom on campus. previous scholarship includes the monograph Colors on neur. He introduced the photographic Christmas card to Assistant Vice click the Request a Tour own image. There, Information Technology Vice Clay, recipient of the Texas State Historical Association’s best Mexico, as well as the souvenir booklet of multiple picture President, University link on our website: As Terry and I both knew, Connie President Van Wyatt announced that illustrated book published in 2009 on Texas history and postcards that became popular with collectors and which Library, are leading the www .the wittliff collections had brought tremendous energy, Connie Todd had won the division’s culture. Read more about Frost’s work with Brehme’s photo tourists could tear out and mail. Collections in a four- .txstate.edu. vision, creativity, and wisdom over the “Supervisory Excellence” award. (Un - postcards at www.io.com /~ reuter/brehme.html. Brehme influenced many early Mexican photographers, month institutional previous dozen years as she guided be knownst to Connie, her entire staff HUGO BREHME (1882-1954) was born in Germany including Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and he is known self-study that will the Wittliff Collections, transforming had worked together to nominate and studied photography in his native land. While in his internationally for his iconic images of Mexican scenic culminate in an on-site ON THE COVER what was once Texas State University’s her.) A surprised Connie rose from early twenties, he traveled to Mexico where he began a life - landscapes and life. He became a Mexican citizen before his assessment from a MAP Mexico City, 1961, # Manuel Carrillo 2 “best-kept secret” into an internation - her table to collect her prize. As she long engagement with the country. Brehme captured images death in 1954. 3 peer reviewer. (this page, right) document from 1964: a Certificate of Exemption From Poll Campaign ad for Tax issued to a 21-year-old Hightower, then a junior at the JOIN JIM Hightower’s 1980 run for HIGHTOWER Railroad Commissioner University of North Texas, because he was a first-time voter. MAY 1, 2010 SWIM for (below) Hightower Finally abolished in Texas in 1966 as unconstitutional, the The Living Spirit of during his campaign for poll tax was designed to deter poor people, especially blacks Texas Agri culture TEXAS POPULISM: and Latino Americans, from voting, an issue in the Civil In Our Politics, Commissioner, in front of AGAINST In Our Culture what is now Gueros Taco Rights Movement that inspired the young Hightower to set Bar on South Congress in out on a political path. JIM HIGHTOWER Austin, ca. 1981, THE Also on display are Hightower’s papers from his work as is the guest speaker Ave Bonar the national campaign coordinator for U.S. Senator Fred for this day full of (opposite, top) Pen-and- Harris’s crusade for president in 1976, as well as numerous festivities celebrating ink drawing by political cartoonist Ben Sargent campaign photos and memorabilia from Hightower’s own the gift of his archive CURRENT and the Southwestern (middle) Hightower on runs for office. High tower served as Texas’s Commissioner of the radio at Threadgill’s Agriculture from 1983-1991, and while in office he Writers Collection exhibition, Swim in Austin, ca. 2000 IN DECEMBER 2008, Jim Hightower named the Wittliff Against the Current. Collections as the official repository for his archival leg a - Panel discus sions will cy, and now we are pleased to announce the next exhi bi - include “Populism in tion from the Southwestern Writers Collection: Swim HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE Texas Culture,” with NEW BOOKS: Against the Current: Highlights from the Jim Hightower WRITERS Carolyn Mugar, Archive. In conjunction with the show, May 1 will be a JIM HIGHTOWER executive director of New books (published celebratory day featuring Hightower and friends dis - Farm Aid, editorial July–December, 2009), cussing populism in Texas, served up with heaping cartoonist Ben Sargent, by authors with sub - ARCHIVE helpings of live music and good times (sidebar, right). photographer Alan stantial archives in the “When we took delivery of Hightower’s archive in consumers, environmentalists, small business owners, and Pogue, and Tom South western Writers Pittman, lead man for Collection include: early 2009, our first priority was to preserve and inven - “just plain folks.” the Austin Lounge tory the materials. Now that that’s done, we’re look ing Hightower’s archive consists of over 100 boxes, which # Time of the Rangers: Lizards and host of forward to a great turnout for our exhibition and May 1 document every aspect of his long and prolific career, Texas Rangers: From KUT’s “Folkways.” event,” said Steve Davis, assistant curator at the Wittliff. including the many inimitable “Hightowerisms” (such as 1900 to the Present Discussing “Populism by Mike Cox Jim Hightower is considered America’s #1 populist, a “Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest build - in Texas Politics” will (Forge Books) man admired as a radio commentator, syndicated political ing”) for which he’s become famous. be former Senator Fred columnist, best-selling author, and sought-after public Archival Assistant Mary García, with help from student # Unchained and Harris, Bob Moser, speaker. Hightower believes the true political spectrum is worker Bianca Marshall, spent much of 2009 preserving and Unhinged by Joe R. editor of The Texas Lansdale (Subterranean) not right-to-left but bottom-to-top, and he is dedicated to inventorying the current 135 linear feet of the Hightower Observer, Linda Chavez- battling the Powers That Be on behalf of—in his words— archive. The materials arrived from his office already very Thompson, former # Literary Life: A the “Powers That Ought ToBe”: working families, farmers, well organized, separated into categories such as com men - executive VP of the Second Memoir by tary files, show files, show tapes, book files, the Lowdown national AFL-CIO, and Larry McMurtry Jim Cullen, editor of (Hightower’s long-running monthly newsletter), promo - (Simon & Schuster) the national newspaper tional items, speeches, videos, and travel. # Rhino Ranch: A Novel The Wittliff Collections fit me Progressive Populist. While re-housing items in acid-free folders, Mary and by Larry McMurtry like a comfortable old boot, Performances by the Bianca removed some 20 pounds of paperclips and staples implemented many of his populist ideas, including con su - (Simon & Schuster) for the archives are populist Austin Lounge Lizards, from original papers—testimony to the archive’s wealth of mer protection, worker safety, organic production, and direct Jimmy LaFave, and # El Rancho de las in nature. Not only do they docu mentation. There are also 1,964 photo graphs and 4,613 marketing by small farmers. Carolyn Wonderland Golondrinas: Living depict our region’s broad audio/visual materials—and the collection will continue to The display also highlights Hightower’s post-govern - will add music to the History in New Mexico's grow. The preliminary inventory is at: the wittliff collections ment work as syndicated daily radio commentator, speech - mix, and there will be La Cienega Valley by sweep of grassroots voices, food and drink from Carmen Padilla, Jack but the Wittliff team also .txstate .edu/ swwc/ archives/ writers/ hightower .htm. maker, and prolific author of several best-selling books, start to finish. We ask Parsons, and Marc The exhibition Swim Against the Current: Highlights from including his latest, Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead knows how to present its that attendees RSVP to Simmons (Museum of the Jim Hightower Archive traces the life and work of High - Fish Can Go with the Flow, written with his “co-conspir ator” 512.245.2313 or New Mexico Press) treasure trove of materials in tower, beginning with his experience in the 1960s as an aide Susan DeMarco. Find Jim’s bio, weekly commentary, southwesternwriters@ # ways that appeal to ordinary to the U.S. senator from Texas, Ralph Yarborough, and his Hightowerisms, and more at www.jimhightower.com. Molly Ivins: A Rebel txstate.edu. Watch our folks as well as scholars. first organizing efforts on behalf of family farmers and farm Swim Against the Current, which runs March 22 through Life by Bill Minutaglio online calendar for and W. Michael Smith —JIM HIGHTOWER workers in the early 1970s. July 31, 2010, was curated by Assistant Curator Steve Davis more details to come. (PublicAffairs) 4 One of the earliest pieces among the papers is a small with support from Mary García and other staff. # 5 writers on writing BEN SÁENZ

(this page) BENJAMIN ALIRE SÁENZ was dark—but also more full of light. I don’t go back and find clues to why we are WHEN BILL MINUTAGLIO began writing for Ben Sáenz with one of recently honored by Texas State with like pedantic poems, rants, or easy who we are. Sometimes we find just the Texas newspapers in the 1970s, he saw that the the paintings from his series, Words on Paper the 2009 Tomás Rivera Mexican poems with obvious lessons that distill right clues—and we’re free. What do we rich, complex lives of African Americans in the American Children’s Book Award. The things down into something pat. Life is do when we’re free? We sing. Writing is state were often neglected by the mainstream author of numerous poetry collections extremely complicated and I can’t my way of singing. media, which historically seldom ventured into COLLABORATING and young-adult novels, Sáenz pretend that I’m a morally superior Eventually, all of us have to write Houston’s Fourth Ward, San Antonio’s East Side, WITH MARKETING engages deeply with human istic being and write out of that mentality. some kind of narrative about ourselves South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in STUDENTS themes throughout his work. In April, I struggle on every level and yet and the world we live in. Memory is smaller cities. As we did with the gift- Copper Canyon released his newest there’s something in me that rejects what we rely on to write narratives that Though hardly the most likely reporter—as a A STRONG CHAIN shop business plan, collection, The Book of What Remains. violence even as I know there is violence keep the chaos at bay. white, Italian American transplant from New York UNBROKEN once again we are Currently, he is at work on a series of in me. Writing is my way of having a Your characters are often tasked with City—Minutaglio was drawn to the African At the dedication of the collaborating with a paintings called Words on Paper. Read serious argument with myself and the finding a path out of im possible American heritage, seeking its soul in churches, on Southwestern Writers class of Texas State more at www.benjamin aliresaenz.com. world I live in. All writers write out of violence and landscapes of emotional front porches, at juke joints, and anywhere else Collection, LARRY L. business students to Our interviewer here is Shin Yu Pai: some kind of moral center. We are all warfare. Yet the message of your that people would allow him into their lives. KING said, “Those of us solicit ideas for an There is an element of social critique such disappointed idealists. We want the books is one of personal disarma - Minutaglio wasn’t always welcomed, at least who write primarily of aspect of the Collections Y our own times and our in much of your work—whether it’s world to be beautiful, and it is—and it’s ment. Would you talk about your not at first, but his quiet, respectful persistence activities. This spring own places see ourselves the fictionalized subject of a young not. There’s so much hatred in the world. response to human damage? paid off, and before long he was documenting we’ve enlisted the help as guides posting signs Latino drafted into war while his Yet there’s something in me that can’t We can recoil at the many violent acts Texas’s African American history in ways that of Aric Garcia, Dyana to point the way for white counterparts gradu ate to Ivy give up. “Radical compassion.” That’s a that are leveled against us. We can offered many of his readers their first deeper Hampton, Asiya T future writers who may Iskakova, Jenni Kraft, League schools, or the eye-witness lovely phrase. We should all suffer from respond with violence. Every time I understanding of the state’s singular, complicated traverse the same— and Brian Vernon from testimony of violence enac ted by that. To look at another human being engage in, condone, or excuse violent African American history. Minutaglio is not only a though ever-changing— Dr. Karen Smith’s MKT border agents upon an un documen - and be moved by their pain. acts, I debase myself and the social and gifted observer, he’s also one of the most talented territory. If each 3375 course, “Social ted worker. How do writing and I believe that people want to be cultural environment. And nothing is writers to call Texas home. generation is honest and Marketing,” to help us social justice combine in your life? good—even as they want to be good, they solved. We should perhaps forgive accurate in its reports, determine what online How does the idea of radical com - do terrible things. I am deeply aware of ourselves and others, but in order for the vital linkage of past- social media tools our passion inform your work? my own flaws and deeply aware I’ve there to be any kind of meaningful to-present will remain a visitors and potential When I began writing poetry, one of my hurt other people. That doesn’t feel very forgiveness, there must be a real sense of “an amiably named zone a few feet from the southeastern strong chain unbroken. visitors are using, and And that, I believe, teachers warned me against writing good. The struggle to be a decent human sorrow. We don’t live in a world that city limits of Dallas,” where running water and other how we might best take NEXT UP in the equals History.” political poetry and I’ve been writing it being is something I bring with me to my teaches us to be humble. services are non-existent. Minutaglio describes how the advan tage of those tools ever since. My work has always been writing and to my politics. I have to find a way to construct southwestern writers residents cope in this forgotten corner of modern Texas that The cultural heritage of ourselves. The students the region is our shared engaged with the life of the polis. Either Memory is a key theme through out something out of all of this. Call this my “could be a Depression-era shanty town or a squalid are visiting the Collec - history—our story as you fall into Wordsworth’s idea that the your work. Can you talk about the aesthetic. Call this my art. Living in collection book series mountain village in Honduras.” tions, holding brain - told by our artistic world is too much with us, or potential for empower ment through chaos brings nothing but insanity. I And he wades into the musical undercurrent that storming sessions, voices—and the conducting interviews Levertov’s response: the world is not the recovery of narrative? construct a narrative to give life order. I “Reading Bill Minutaglio is like listening to one of the touches on African Americans’ joys, longings, and Wittliff Collections and surveys, and doing with us enough. MPlacing ourselves in a historical context wed words and rhythms and literary great Texas blues legends,” says Assistant Curator Steve frustrations, and the passing of generations. Minutaglio’s are committed to its research with the goal of My novels’ characters live in worlds keeps us from becoming solipsists. We strategies with my personal biography, Davis, who edits the Southwestern Writers Collection Book stories offer an understanding of the sweeping evolution of preservation. Please drafting a proposed plan where they don’t matter. They want to be are not so much the products of history with my utopian vision of the world, Series. “Minutaglio’s reporting brings forth stories of suf - music, race, and justice in Texas. Moved forward by the consider adding your for how we might good and keep screwing up. My poems as we are the products of our under - with my knowledge of the cruelties on fering and resilience, while at the same time his dazzling musical heartbeat of the blues and defined by the long support to help keep approach online social have gotten more complicated and standing of history. We always have to the streets of the city where I live. I am writing evokes the brilliantly effusive guitar solos of masters shadow of racism, the stories measure how far Texas has the chain unbroken. networking to engage so tired of hate. And yet, I can’t seem to like T-Bone Walker and Lightnin’ Hopkins.” come . . . or still has to go. Make your gift today our audiences and give up on the world I live in. Finding a In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Bill Minutaglio is a Clinical Professor of Journalism at using the enclosed increase our visibility, envelope, or call us at response to human damage and arming Texas, published this April by the University of Texas Press, the University of Texas at Austin and a donor to the Wittliff among students in 512.245.9058. particular. If you’d like myself with words—that’s why I write. is an eclectic collection that gathers the best of Minutaglio’s Collections. His books include Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life; First to help by weighing in Art arises out of need to create some - writing about the soul of black Texas. He profiles Son: George W. Bush & the Bush Family Dynasty; City on Fire: Thank you! on your own social thing beautiful or transcendent. individuals both unknown and famous, including blues The Forgotten Disaster that Devastated a Town and Ignited a media preferences— What I desire most is to have an legends Lightnin’ Hopkins, Amos Milburn, Robert Shaw, Landmark Legal Battle; and The President’s Counselor: The Facebook, Twitter, honest and serious dialogue with the and Dr. Hepcat. Minutaglio also profiles Percy Sutton, the Rise to Power of Alberto Gonzales. He has also written for the Flickr, and the like— complicated and awesome world I live lawyer for Malcolm X and owner of the Apollo Theater, New York Times, Outside, Encarta, TALK, the Los Angeles e-mail us at thewittliff in. I would be the first to admit that I tracing Sutton’s roots from his family in San Antonio to his Times, Blues & Rhythm, High Fidelity, and many other collections@ txstate.edu . have often failed miserably. I just don’t status as borough president of Manhattan. publications. His website is www.billminutaglio.com. know how to give up on the world—or Additionally, Minutaglio looks at neglected, even The Wittliff Collections will be hosting Bill Minutaglio 6 on myself. # intentionally hidden, communities, such as Sandbranch, for a reading and book signing at 4:00 pm on April 27. # 7 ANSEL ADAMS photographed Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico after a long, unsuccess - ful day of shooting in the Chama Valley. Driving back to Santa Fe in an old Pontiac station wagon with his son Michael and photographer Cedric Wright, Adams spied the moon rising through the clouds above the Sangre de Cristo mountains. The artist pulled to the side of the road and quickly set up his large-format camera. Using the luminance of the moon, Adams calculated the exposure to illuminate the field of white crosses in the foreground of his iconic image. Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was a charter member of Group F/64, an organization that helped establish photography as an art form. As a technical master of the medium, he created the Zone System: a method of controlling and relating exposure and developing black-and- white film. He wrote many books and took thousands of images of the American landscape. As an environmentalist, Adams was deeply com - mitted to the preserva - tion of wilderness and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941, is part of the permanent holdings at the Wittliff Collections. we couldn’t do it without our STUDENTS

(right) Tim O’Brien, learned what a key role the Davis fam - Creative Writing Program. Texas OFFERING AN INCREASING variety of events, exhi bi - (above) Christine, November 3, 2009 ily dog, Truman, played in the writing State’s Masters of Fine Arts students tions, and research opportunities, the Wittliff Collections Criminal Justice (middle) Susan Wittig of the well-received biography. gather several times a semester in the serve tens of thousands of patrons a year. Achieving our (left, l to r) Albert, October 28, 2009 Oscar, Criminal Justice; Actress Pennylyn White traveled Southwestern Writers Room to read mission would be impossible without the team of talented, Katy, Art History; from New York City to perform her —and often perform—their poetry hard-working individuals that make up the Collections’ Tim, Mass Comm; one-woman theatrical show, Katherine and fiction. Word is getting around student staff. Currently consisting of 15 undergrad student Marcus, Micro biology; Jillian, Education; Anne Porter: A Driving Desire, in which about how interesting the MFA events workers and one graduate assistant, these talented men and Carlos, Art History; she brought to life the woman are, and attendance is increasing with women provide support to our professional staff in every Chandra, Psychology; behind the myth using extracts from each reading. aspect of our operation. Marc, Psychology DOBIE’S PAISANO Porter’s body of work, including her Susan Wittig Albert and Susan From stuffing and mailing out invitations to reclaiming (middle, l to r) Alan, M.A. Literature; RANCH NEEDS personal letters. Tweit held a rich conversation with the badge holders used for nametags, these students do Michelle, Accounting; YOUR HELP For the fourth year in a row, the each other and the audience about much of the background work needed to carry out a dependable student employees make it possible for our Adrianna, Market ing; Since 1967, writers with successful event. They execute the set-up necessary for doors to be open extended evening and weekend hours. Bianca, Studio Art/ Fibers; Courtney, Int’l Business; public and private gatherings, setting out tables and chairs, They provide the utmost in customer service, from giving a strong Texas connec - Mariah, Health Infor - tion have benefited instructing, illuminating & even more INSPIRING podiums and micro phones. They operate the audio system, directions over the telephone to on-site patron support. mation Management; from the Dobie Paisano run the lights, and assist with traffic flow in the galleries. Several of our student workers have also recently volun - Kenneth, Studio Art/ Fibers Fellow ship program, OVER 2000 PEOPLE have enjoyed their new books. Albert’s Together They mount posters and put up signage, help VIPs find their teered for training as docents and are beginning to lead which provides recipi - the myriad events held in the Wittliff Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place parking spots, and welcome guests as they arrive. tours. The student staff is behind the scenes as well, helping ents with a monthly Collections’ spaces since last fall’s is part of the Southwestern Writers Now that the galleries have been expanded, our exhibi - with installation and un-installation of exhibitions. stipend while they live renovations. Collection Book Series, and Tweit read tions have become even more popular, and these capable and As a repository of special collections for the Alkek on J. Frank Dobie’s Every semester, Texas State’s from Walking Nature Home. Their Library, one of the areas of focus for the Wittliff Collections former ranch southwest of Austin. Among the Creative Writing Program brings engaging discussion questioned the is working with archival material. Student staff assists with authors with papers in nationally acclaimed authors to meaning of one’s relationship with the migrating materials into digital formats, making photo - 146 is the number of poetry the Wittliff Collections campus for the Therese Kayser Lind - physical, natural place one inhabits. copies, re-shelving materials, and serving as proctors in the books and poetics- who have won the sey/Katherine Anne Porter Literary See the online calendar for the reading room. Some of our senior students have taken on related materials added award are Gary Series, and the Wittliff Collections are most up-to-date events listings. Make greater responsibilities, working closely with our archival to the Collections since Cartwright, Dagoberto proud to co-host as one of their event sure you’re receiving announce ments staff to process new acquisitions and assist with restoration August 2009. Among Gilb, Stephen Harrigan, locations. Last fall we began choosing for all of our readings—give us a call and conservation of archival materials. the growing number of Pat LittleDog, Billy photo graphs from our perma nent at 512.245.2313 or indicate your pref - The Wittliff Collections is grateful for these wonderfully poetry-related publi - Porterfield, Jan Reid, collec tion that evoke the authors’ er ences on our website by clicking the dedicated people. We are so happy to know them and cations are titles from R.G. Vliet, and current work to create posters and postcards Join the Mailing List link. # privileged to work alongside them. # New Mexican pub lish - fellow Sarah Bird. The advertising the readings. Novelist ers, such as La Alameda Collections also hold Press, Tres Chicas, and extensive archives for Jayne Anne Phillips was the very first the University of New the Texas Institute of to appear in the Wittliff’s new per - archives staff treated fellow archivists, Mexico, as well as inde - Letters (TIL), which form ance space/gallery, even before curators, librarians, students, and the the wittliff collections GIFT SHOP is open for business pendent Texas imprints jointly administers the photo graphs were up. Poet Tony general public to an afternoon of such as Wings Press, Dobie Paisano program. Hoagland drew laughs and a whole events cele brating Archives Month in WITH MORE THAN 30 books sale. The poster, with photog rapher tions-inspired products will be avail - Effing, Thorp Springs, A TIL Committee, the range of emotions from the audience October. The focus this year was published together in the South - Kate Breakey’s image Cardi nalis cardi - able in the near future. and Cinco Puntos. New Friends of Paisano, is during his visit in October. Francine archives building and renovation western Writers Collection and the nalis, sells for $50 signed and $35 While still developing the look of poetry collections from raising money to help Prose read this February, and Claudia projects, given the recent renovations Southwestern & Mexican Photog - unsigned. The broadside’s design and our website presence, we are up and emerging writers provide needed repairs Rankine appeared April 8. at the Wittliff and the Alkek Library’s raphy Collection Book Series—and photograph of J. Frank Dobie’s long - running online. Merchan dise can also include the books of and renovations to the As usual, it was standing room University Archives. After presen - new books to come—it seemed a horn at Paisano Ranch are by Bill be purchased at the Collections or by Sherwin Bitsui, Ash Dobie house. For more only for Tim O’Brien, the current tations and a discussion by panelists, natural idea to create a gift shop to Wittliff. Availability of this numbered phone during business hours Monday Smith, Lisa Gill, and information, contact Santee Frazier. Major Carolyn Osborn at University Endowed Chair in Creative including a shelving/space planning support the Wittliff Collections’ edition, signed by Bill, is limited. through Friday. authors from New 512.472.4533 or Writing, who spoke in November to a expert and an architect, attendees acquisition and preservation activities. New this year is a large 100% Donors who gift $250 or more Mexico, such as former [email protected] .com. crowd of over 350 and answered enjoyed archivist- and curator-led Merchandise includes all the cotton tote bag (shown at left) featur - through our Friends of the Wittliff Santa Fe Poet Laureate questions about his writing. He’ll be tours of the newly expanded Wittliff volumes in our book series, plus 14 ing another breathtaking image by Collections program are offered some Arthur Sze, Carol with us again on April 21. Collections and the undergoing out-of-print titles from the Encino Kate Breakey, titled Cooper’s Hawk, on of the items mentioned above, and all Moldaw, Gene Our very own Steven L. Davis construction of University Archives, Press of Austin, and other pub - one side and the Wittliff Collections donors of $100 or more receive a 10% Frumkin, and Mary gave a lively presentation about his which is now completed. lications. An exhibition poster and logo on the other. The bag is great for discount on gift shop items. See every - Rising Higgins, are now latest book, J. Frank Dobie: A Liberated The Wittliff Collections continue photo gravure broadside created espe - carrying books or just about anything thing online: www.the wittliff collections also reflected in our 10 Mind, during which a full house to co-sponsor MFA Readings with the cially for the Collec tions are also for and sells for only $15. More Collec - .tx state .edu/ shop. # 11 holdings. VAQUERO

(this page) From La GENESIS OF THE TEXAS COWBOY TOFULLYCOMMUNICATE Yolanda Andrade, Marco Antonio (left) Villa en la silla caballada, Rancho Tule, the essence of a country—its history, Cruz, Eniac Martínez Ulloa, Rodrigo presidencial / Villa in the Mexico, 1972, Bill Wittliff photographs by bill wittliff Presidential Chair its aesthetic, its politics, its dreams— Moya, Francisco Mata Rosas, Ángeles General Francisco Villa more than words are needed. Images Torrejón, and Antonio Turok, as well and Emiliano Zapata met WHEN TEXAS MOVED into the cattle business, its cowboy adopted many become the cross-cultural lan guage. as their mentors Héctor García and in the National Palace ON EXHIBIT FROM where they were received THE CASASOLA of the Mexican vaquero’s accoutrements and centuries-old methodologies of To honor and better com pre hend two Nacho López, are on display. by President Eulalio ARCHIVE working herds in big country. Drafted by historian Joe Frantz in the early great inter national anni ver saries—the Historical photographs related to Gutiérrez and members of the diplomatic corps. May 19 through June seventies to witness one of the last traditional roundups on the vast Rancho bi cen tennial of Mexico’s declaration the Mexican Revolution are on view, December 6, 1914, from 30, the School of Art Tule in northern Mexico, Bill Wittliff fixed the vanishing vaquero tradition of indepen dence from Spain and the including one of the most iconic: the Casasola Archive & Design at Texas State forever in nearly 5,000 photographs taken over a period of three years. In centennial of the 1910 Mexi can Revo - Generals Pancho Villa and Emiliano (middle) Leo Reynosa, will host Mexico, the 2004, the University of Texas Press published the best of these in Wittliff’s lution—the Witt liff Collec tions Zapata, taken at the Palacio Nacional 1988, Dennis Darling Revolution and Beyond: monograph, Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy. present ¡Viva México! on December 6, 1914 (left). In this (bottom) The Casasola Archive, Now Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for More than 100 historical and particular image, the boy behind Man, Tenancingo, 1933, 1900-1940 in Gallery II Paul Strand the Humanities, is touring more than 60 of the Vaquero images that have modern, documen tary and art photo - Zapata’s left shoulder is Leo Reynosa. of the Mitte Building. been digitally recreated as rich carbon-ink prints, accom panied by bilingual graphs interpret the country and This traveling exhi bi - tion is sponsored by the narrative texts from the book. Humanities Texas is promoting and traveling testify to the vitality of vision and Consulate of Mexico the exhibition to schools, libraries, museums, and other venues throughout strength of subject cap tured by the in Austin with partial Texas and the United States as part of its mission to support research, artists who have trained their lenses funding from The Texas education, and public programs in the humanities. Information about on Mexico and her people. Featuring and Mexico, 1810-2010 renting the show is available at: humanitiestexas.org /exhibits /list/ vaquero/ 40 pho tog raphers’ work from the Committee at Texas index.php. Wittliff’s South western & Mexican JOIN US APRIL 17, 2010 State. The opening ¡VIVA ÉXICO! Photo gra phy Collection, this exhibi - M reception is May 22 tion is part of Texas State’s Texas and The reception for this from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. season’s photographic Mexico, 1810–2010 Commemor a tion. his place as the premier photog rapher the 1940s because of Tina Modotti, so All are invited and exhibitions celebrates There has always been an in Mexico, and one of the world’s best it is fitting that Yampolsky’s flawless welcome. For more Vaquero: Genesis of the elaborate and complex brother hood —Graciela Iturbide—is in the show. prints are also on the gallery walls. information contact Texas Cowboy and ¡Viva Gallery Coordinator among Mexican artists of many In turn, the works of her acolyte, Frida Kahlo’s father, Guillermo México! The evening Mary Mikel Stump at genres: literature, architecture, music, Maya Goded, are also included. Kahlo, a contemporary of Brehme’s begins at 7:00 pm with 512.245.2664. A filmmaking, visual art—perhaps none Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, and an acquaintance of Bravo’s, is hors d’oeuvres and collection of historical more elaborate than that of the com - and Henri Cartier-Bresson, all direct represented by his immaculate archi - drinks, and Vaquero photographs taken in mu nity of photographers. They men - influences on and colleagues of Bravo, tec tural images. photog rapher BILL Mexico between 1895 tor, they compete, they collaborate, are presented. Mariana Yam polsky, the These essential social and artistic WITTLIFF will be and 1972, the Casasola they argue, they support... and so it is godmother of the Wittliff’s Mexican con nec tions exist be tween almost in attendance. The Archive was founded in fitting that we see the connection collection, first traveled to Mexico in every photographer in the exhibition, program will feature a 1905 by Agustín Victor very special exhibition between the artists in this exhibition. and they lend conti nuity and strength Casasola and Gonzalo talk on ¡Viva México! by Among the highlights are to the sum of all the works. As fate would have it, in 1988, Herrería when they the Collections’ recently historical photographs by Hugo Other images from the permanent photographer Dennis Darling created opened one of the retired curator/ director, world’s first photo - Brehme, a recent gift from Susan archive exhibited for the first time are a series of portraits of veterans of the CONNIE TODD. Join graphic agencies. Co-curated by Bill Wittliff and Carla Ellard, assistant curator of the Toomey Frost (see p. 2). Working in prints by Manuel Carrillo, Robb Mexican Revolution, and one of the us as we raise a glass to Numerous negatives Southwestern & Mexican Photography collection, and made possible in part the 19th and early 20th centuries, Kendrick, Paul Strand, and C.B. men featured (above) is the very same toast her long, storied, and prints have been by a “We the People” grant from the NEH, this new Vaquero exhibition Brehme is responsible for thousands Waite. Photo graphs by Lola Álvarez Reynosa. Edward Larocque Tinker’s and successful tenure. digitized and are makes a stop at the Collections from March 27 through July 31, 2010. We’ll of pictures of everyday Mexican life Bravo, Lázaro Blanco, Debbie Fleming photo graphs of General Villa and Admission is free and available for research be celebrating this show on April 17 (see the sidebar, right). that have now become valuable Caffery, Keith Carter, John Chris tian, General Álvaro Obregón are also open to the public. If at the National Photo Bill Wittliff’s Vaquero photographs have been exhibited in numerous anthro pological documents. Faustinus Deraet, Flor Garduño, Luis included in this exhibition. you’d like to attend, we Library (Nacional Foto - galleries and institutions throughout this country and in Mexico, including Mentored by Brehme, Manuel Már quez, Pablo Ortiz Monas te rio, Bob Music adds to the gallery exper i - ask that you RSVP to teca) at the National 512.245.2313 or send the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico Álvarez Bravo, who brilliantly and Wade, Geoff Win ning ham, and Bill ence: corridos (ballads) and other Institute of Anthro - your name and those in City, and the Texas Capitol. In Japan, they represented the United States obliquely interpreted the Mexican Wittliff are featured as well. songs written during the Mexican pology and History your prospective party during its bicentennial year. The full-color monograph features an aesthetic for over 70 years, is also The works by Mexican photo - Revo lution play throughout the show. (INAH), and thousands to thewittliffcollections@ of the nega tives are in introduction by Texas author John Graves, who elegizes the loss of “vaqueros represented with a new acquisition, journalists in the exhibition demon - Curated by Carla Ellard, assis tant txstate.edu. Don’t miss storage in an old doing their beautiful, strenuous work with horses and cattle in the old, old Maniquíes riendo / Laughing Manne - strate the unflinching eye of the docu - curator of the photography collec tion, what promises to be Franciscan convent in ways. But at least they can be found here, in Billy’s lovely and meaningful quins. And appropriately, the artist men tary tradition. Revealing political, and co-arranged with Connie Todd, one of our most Pachuca, Hidalgo. 12 photographs. We are most fortunate to have them.” # who studied with him and has taken social, and human truths, images by ¡Viva México! runs through July 31. # 13 memorable events yet. recent ACQUISITIONS from the ARCHIVES

(this page) Original the SOUTHWESTERN ROBERT CUMBOW, author of Once Upon A Time: The In 2003, the Collections invited RICK RIORDAN, The Lightning Thief, was THE WITTLIFF illustration for a July Films of Sergio Leone, reveal McCarthy’s interest in then an award-winning mystery writer from San Antonio, to directed by Chris Colum - COLLECTIONS 1986 Texas Monthly WRITERS COLLECTION filmmaking. [Gift of Cumbow] # During a 1960s visit to join a panel discussion for the Southwestern Writers Collec - bus and opened nationwide Steve Davis article about factionalism The Collection currently comprises over 6,350 linear feet Interim Director inside the Lion’s Club of of materials from the region’s authors, screenwriters, and LARRY McMURTRY’s Houston home, Ken Kesey’s tion exhibition Scene of the Crime: Mystery/Detective Fiction in February. The film Assistant Curator Mexico over U.S. Merry Pranksters decorated a bike belonging to Diana from Texas. (which Riordan did not Writers Collection involvement, songwriters. Recent acquisitions listed below represent David Shannon archives additions from August 2009 through January Hobby with the same DayGlo paint used on their bus. Soon after that meeting, the Wittliff Collections became write) grossed a total of Amy Cochran Events Assistant 2010. Not listed are the numerous gifts to the Collection The bike forms part of the McMurtry Collection. [Gift of the recipient of Riordan’s generosity as the author began over 200 million dollars in Andrew Hobby] # EAGLE PENNELL’s 1978 film, The donating his materials. “At the time we were very interested its first month of release. Carla Ellard of books, magazines, films, CDs, and other materials. The Assistant Curator success of the Southwestern Writers Collection depends Whole Shootin’ Match, is widely credited as inspiration in Rick’s archive because we saw him as a successful author With the success of his Photography Collection on the generous support of all of our donors. We thank behind Robert Redford’s Sundance Festival. Pennell’s who was capturing San Antonio’s unique ‘sense of place’ in Percy Jackson novels, Rior dan, who taught at both the Beverly Fondren you! # MARK APPLE GATE writing partner, Lin Sutherland, his mystery novels,” said Assistant Curator Steve Davis. secondary and college levels for 15 years, was at last able to Development Officer continues to donate his photo - donated scripts, articles, and “Little did we know that Rick was poised to become a devote his energies to writing full-time. Still, he continues to Mary García INSTRUCTING Archives Assistant, LA III ILLUMINATING graphs docu menting the live financial materials related to the literary superstar.” make regu lar appea rances in classrooms, speaking to school INSPIRING film and to their production Superstar indeed. Today Riordan is a #1 New York Times children across the United States and in Europe. Michele Miller, Media music scene in central Texas. Relations & Publications # company, Maverick Films, Inc. best-selling author whose Percy Jackson & The Olympians The Riordan Archive includes more than 20 linear feet of Committed to further - [Gift of Apple gate] Raw Joel Minor, Archivist ing the cultural legacy Pennell’s brother, Chuck, gifted series has become a worldwide phenomenon. Riordan’s materials and over 70 editions of his work. His papers con- footage from the AUSTIN GG Mortenson of the region’s literary MUSIC NETWORK showcases other mate rial, including a prop books bring Greek mythology to life for young readers by tain multiple drafts, book proposals, story ideas, character Administrative Asst. II and photo graphic arts performances on the now- hat from Shootin’ Match, tapes of placing the gods and their “half-blood” offspring in modern- descriptions, and manuscripts illuminating his creative Shin Yu Pai, Assistant and to fostering “the defunct indepen dent mu sic the film, and “My Dog Bit Elvis,” day America. In Riordan’s world, Zeus is alive and well, journey. Like many writers, Riordan dreamed of becoming a Curator, Acquisitions spirit of place” in the television channel from 1994- an unproduced screenplay by Mount Olympus sits above the Empire State Building, and successful author from a young age, and he saved many of Katie Salzmann wider world, the Wittliff Lead Archivist 2004. [Transfer from the Austin Pennell. [Gifts of Sutherland & the entrance to Hades’ underworld is in Los Angeles. his early stories as well as his college English papers and Collec tions welcome # Karen Sigler History Center] # A detailed Pennell] BEN REHDER, The first film based on Riordan’s series, Percy exams (he was a very good student). He even held on to the visitors, tours, and Cataloging Librarian author of the comic crime novels Jackson & the Olympians: first rejection letter he received, as an eighth grader. classes, host readings, model of the BRANCH DAVID - Joe Sumbera featuring Blanco County game He has con tinued his generous donations to the Collec - lectures, and symposia, IAN complex in Waco, Texas, Head Cataloging Asst. provides a visual point of warden John Marlin, tions, which are now the archival repository for materials assist researchers, and TEXAS STATE present major exhibi - reference for researchers inter - recently donated his from his Tres Navarre mystery novels, his Percy Jack son Dr. Denise Trauth tions year ’round from ested in the siege. [Gift of writing archive. Included books, and his work on The Maze of Bones—the first of ten President are manu scripts for his novels, each by different authors, in The 39 Clues series for archival holdings. The Matthew Wittmer] # A major Dr. C. Van Wyatt, VP Southwestern Writers addition to the materials of novels Bone Dry, Buck which Riordan designed the entire story arc. Information Technology Collection acquires, GARY CART WRIGHT includes re search notes and Fever, Flat Crazy, Guilt Trip, Gun Shy, and Holy One of the great attributes of a collection such as the Joan Heath, Asst. VP preserves, and makes manu scripts for his 1979 book, Blood Will Tell, which Moly, as well as correspondence and articles relating Riordan Papers is the completeness and chronological University Library available literary papers # chroni cles the murder trials of Fort Worth businessman to their publi cation. [Gift of Rehder] The move of span of materials that allows the researcher to follow the BOARD OF REGENTS and artifacts from the Cullen Davis. Also included are extensive notes and the TEXAS MONTHLY offices in Austin sparked a growth of a successful writer. Riordan’s earliest schoolboy Southwest’s leading Ron Blatchley, Chairman large addition of editorial files, artwork, and journals testi fy to an imagination that would eventually Bryan / College Station writers, filmmakers, drafts for Dirty Dealing, Cart wright’s 1984 true-crime photographs to their archive. Much of the material re-enliven the Greek myths for children and young Charlie Amato Vice and musicians. story of drug smuggling on the Texas/Mexico border. Chairman, San Antonio The South western & [Gift of Cartwright & the Austin History Center] # The dates back to the early days of the magazine, which adults worldwide. Written by hand, his epic “Sarco - # Kevin J. Lilly, Houston Mexican Photography CENTER FOR TEXAS MUSIC HISTORY donated was founded in 1973. [Gift of Texas Monthly] TOM neillia da Tharcun: The Histories of Tharcus” chron - Ron Mitchell Collection focuses on WILMORE added several Uranium Savages broad sides icles a whole pantheon of Riordan-invented gods as transcripts of interviews with Texas musicians conducted Horseshoe Bay the Southwest and by students at Texas State. Interviewees include Marcia to his Austin music poster collection. Kerry Awn, they create new realms and kingdoms that span several David Montagne Mexico, and houses Ball, W.C. Clark, Al Dressen, Cornell Hurd, and Lavelle vocalist for the self-proclaimed “comedy rock band,” epochs. Beaumont one of the largest White. [Gift of the CTMH] # A final installment of KING designed the posters that advertise shows at the Soap “In a few years we’ll be seeing an entire generation Trisha S. Pollard archives of modern and # OF THE HILL materials includes scripts for the last Creek Saloon. [Gift of Wilmore] of college students at Texas State who have been Bellaire contemporary Mexican season and several undeveloped episodes, as well as raised on Rick’s books,” said Davis. “He’s inspiring Michael Truncale photography in the U.S. Beaumont binders containing design notes and audio track guides. the SOUTHWESTERN & MEXICAN kids to become more inquisitive and imaginative, [Gift of Jim Dauterive] # MARY GRAY HUGHES’ PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION and only good things can result from that.“ Greg Wilkinson, Dallas personal library provides insight into the literary interests New purchases include photographs by GRACIELA Riordan’s newest series brings ancient Egyptian Donna N. Williams Arlington of the author of The Empty Lot and other stories. [Gift of ITURBIDE and historical images of the Southwest. # mythol ogy to the present—the Kane Chronicles begin May 4, 2010 with The Red Pyramid. William Patterson Benjamin Acosta-Hughes] # Additions to the LARRY L. New gifts include photographs, books, and travel Student Regent KING Papers include news clippings, reviews, and ephemera by or related to # HUGO BREHME [gift of A preliminary inventory for the Riordan archive Richardson Susan Toomey Frost, see p. 2] # MICHAEL O’BRIEN is online at: the wittliff collections .tx state .edu/ swwc articles about the 1999 book, Larry L. King: A Writer’s Life CHANCELLOR in Letters, or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye. [Gift of King] [gift of artist] # DAN WINTERS [gift of artist] and # “The 21 Gods; their symbols; their realms,” archives/ writers/riordan.htm. For more about the # Kenneth R. Craycroft 14 # Three 1980s letters by CORMAC McCARTHY to MARY ANN SMOTHERS BRUNI [gift of artist]. # from “The Sarconeillia de Tharcun,” circa late 1970s author, visit www.rickriordan.com. 15 Interim Chancellor Non-Profit Org The rising STAR of Texas ® U.S. Postage UNIVERSITY A member of The Texas State University System PAID SAN MARCOS Austin, TX Permit No. 1149 THEKEYSTONE

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THE WITTLIFF ON PERMANENT DISPLAY TIM O’BRIEN reads COLLECTIONS exhibitions LONESOME DOVE Collection 21 elsewhere in tx Costumes, props, set pieces as the University Endowed LOCATION Chair in Creative Writing for MAR 22 – JULY 31, 2010 and designs, photographs, MAY 8 – JUNE 26, 2010 The Wittliff Collections Texas State’s Department of SWIM AGAINST THE scripts, and other “making Small Deaths: Photoworks by are on the 7th floor of of” materials are perma nent - English. Book signing to CURRENT: Highlights from follow. 3:30 pm Kate Breakey, the exhibition the Alkek Library at the JIM HIGHTOWER Archive ly on view from the CBS based on the Wittliff series Texas State University mini series based on Larry This literary exhibition BILL MINUTAGLIO book, is at the Longview in San Marcos. McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize- 27 features manuscripts, reads from the newest book Museum of Fine Arts. winning novel. E-MAIL photographs, original art, in the Southwestern Writers and unique artifacts that thewittliffcollections Collection Series with UT lend insight into the life and @txstate.edu events Press, In Search of the Blues: work of America’s #1 A Journey to the Soul of Black TOURS & INFO populist. Event May 1. Texas. Book signing to 512.245.2313 (see pp. 4/5) april follow. 4:00 pm (see p. 7) MAR 27 – JULY 31, 2010 EXHIBITION HOURS THE MFA STUDENTS See the website for VAQUERO: Genesis of the 6 Texas Cowboy These 60 new read their poetry and fiction. may exhibition information 5:00 pm and viewing hours. digital, carbon-ink prints by 1 THE LIVING SPIRIT OF BILL WITTLIFF are made CLAUDIA RANKINE TEXAS POPULISM: In Our RESEARCH HOURS possible by Humanities 8 reads for the English Dept’s Politics, In Our Culture AUG 18 – DEC 31, 2010 Monday through Friday Texas and a “We the People” Therese Kayser Lindsey/ Poet of the Ordinary: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm grant from the NEH. Event Katherine Anne Porter Series. Photographs by Keith Carter, April 17. (see p. 12) (Please call ahead to Book signing and Q&A the exhibition based on the verify. Closed during MAR 27 – JULY 31, 2010 to follow. 3:30 pm Wittliff series book Keith breaks & holidays.) ¡VIVA MÉXICO! Honoring Carter Photographs: 25 Years, is on view at the Beeville ADMISSION is free. the bicentennial of Mexico’s 13 DICK J. REAVIS, fight for independence from whose major archive is held Museum of Art. THE GIFT SHOP Spain and the cen tennial of at the Wittliff Collections, is now open online: the 1910 Mexican Revo lu - reads from his latest book, special assistance Catching Out: The Secret www.thewittliffcollec tion with more than 100 Would you like to schedule World of Day Laborers. Book tions. txstate.edu/shop. images by a long list of a group or class tour? Call renowned photographers. signing to follow. 4:00 pm Celebrating Jim Hightower’s ONLINE (Directions, us at 512.245.2313 or request Event April 17. (see p. 13) gift of his archive, and the a tour online. If you require parking, archives info, 17 PHOTOGRAPHY Southwestern Writers etc.) www.thewittliff EXHIBITIONS RECEPTION accommodations due to a Collection exhibition, Swim disability, please call ahead collections. txstate.edu Showcasing Vaquero and Against the Current, with a and we’ll be happy to assist. ¡Viva México! with a public full day of populist-centered reception and special festivities. Panel discussions RECEIVE program featuring CONNIE and musical performances are our gift shop is open THE KEYSTONE TODD, our recently retired being planned, with JIM We’ve begun to offer our Join the curator/director. Attendees HIGHTOWER as the guest of literary and photographic mailing list are asked to RSVP to honor. Attendees are asked to series books, Encino Press online or call 512.245.2313 or thewittliff RSVP to 512.245.2313 or books, posters, and other 512.245.2313 [email protected]. southwesternwriters@ items for sale online. 7:00 pm (see p. 13) txstate.edu. (see p. 5) (see p. 11)