Apr 29 Monday
William Henry Hamblen was a pioneer with a purpose, a trail blazer, literally. This exhibit chronicles Mr Hamblen's persistence, with no formal training in road building, to forge a usable automobile road that safely traverses the Palo Duro Canyon where none existed except Native American trails. This road connected remote communities, boosting trade and opening the way for the Texas state highway 207 to come into existence, widely known as one fo the most scenic drives in the Lone Start State.
Tickets on sale now to see Joe Satriani and Steve Vai join forces for their return to the Stiefel Theatre on Mon., April 29 at 7:30 pm! Joe Satriani is the world’s most commercially successful solo guitar performer, with six gold and platinum discs to his credit (including one more gold award for the debut album by his band Chickenfoot), and sales in excess of 10 million copies. Satriani’s solo discography includes a host of classics, including 1989’s Flying In A Blue Dream, The Extremist from 1992, Is There Love In Space? (2004) and 2010’s Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards. His 15 GRAMMY® nominations have been for songs such as Always With Me, Always With You, The Crush Of Love, and Summer Song, as well as full albums like Surfing With The Alien, The Extremist and Super Colossal. Steve Vai is a virtuoso guitarist, visionary composer, and consummate producer who sculpts musical sound with infinite creativity and technical mastery. Steve has awed fans of all genres with his exceptional guitar skills and musicianship for decades. He has sold over 15 million records, received three GRAMMY® Awards and recorded music with legends like Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, Whitesnake and many more. Tickets start @ $69 and are available at our box office at stiefeltheatre.org, in person at the Box Office at 151 S. Santa Fe or by calling 785-827-1998.
Apr 30 Tuesday
EXHIBITION DATES: April 27—May 10, 2024
The Texas Panhandle Student Art Show is an opportunity for students to exhibit and compete in the area of visual art. All eligible entries will be displayed and participating students will receive certificates. Senior portfolios may be hung by participating students and will be judged for eligible scholarships. Artwork will be judged for 10 Individual Best of Show Awards and a Best of Show Portfolio with each winner receiving an honorarium from the Amarillo ISD Arts Department. The Education Credit Union also sponsors 2 Georgia O’Keeffe Excellence in Art & Creativity Awards for one middle school and one high school student. The ECU will also award a scholarship to one senior portfolio student. AC and WT will award scholarships based on portfolio review and interviews conducted during Scholarship Night. The Texas Panhandle Art Education Association will also present awards. A reception on Friday, May 10th, 6:30 PM at the Amarillo Museum of Art will honor these winners and all participating students. Elementary artwork is encouraged for exhibition; however, awards are only eligible for secondary art students.
Sponsored by Amarillo ISDSEASON SPONSORS: Anonymous, Dr. and Mrs. Michael Engler, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Smith, Dr. Kent Roberts and Ilene Roberts Balliet Foundation, David D. and Nona S. Payne Foundation
Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while attending the Pratt Institute of Art in 1999, pasting her paper portraits to the sides of buildings with the goal of making art and the public space of the city more accessible.
In a moment when contemporary art often holds a conflicted relationship to beauty, Callie’s work carries with it an earnestness, treating the beautiful as sublime even as she explores the darker sides of her subjects. Her work has become known for marrying the whimsical to the grounded, often weaving in slivers of fairy-tales, scraps of myth, and a recurring motif of the sacred feminine. Tendrils of her own family history—and a legacy of her parents’ struggles with addiction and substance abuse—recur throughout her work.
While much of Callie’s art plays with the fantastical, there is also a strong element of realism. This can be seen in her myriad social endeavors, including a long-term community revitalization project in Braddock, Pennsylvania and her efforts to build earthquake-resistant homes in Haiti through Konbit Shelter. Her non-profit, the Heliotrope Foundation, was created in order to further support these ventures.
Today, Callie’s work can be found on the sides of buildings worldwide and has been given both permanent and transient homes in more classical institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Tate Modern, and the São Paulo Museum of Art. Most recently, she has begun using film animation to explore the boundaries of visual storytelling and currently is developing a project supported by the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program.
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