Pop on down to the Wallace for our next “Pop-Up Museum!” in partnership with Levelland Middle School and Humanities Texas
“Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of A Texas Experience”
The Exhibit is free to the public. Open hours will include:
Tuesdays and Thursdays May 19th, 24th, 26, 31st and June 2nd 11:00am-6:00pm,
Saturday, May 21st 10:00am-2:00pm,
Saturday May 28th 10:00am-2:00pm.
Book your own special viewing for a class or group by emailing the Wallace at Wallace@WallaceTheater.com or call 806-789-9097.
Join us for a special closing dinner on Thursday, June 2nd. Tickets and details are available here.
The display will feature projects created by Levelland Middle School Students and an exhibit from Humanities Texas.
Left to right - Back Row: Mr. Jesus Vera, Instructor Levelland Middle School, Sydnii Joyce, Georgia McMahan, Elizabeth Hackler, Nathan Ellis, Ada Niederhauser, Carleigh Delgado. Front Row: Zavier Rodgers, Brady Houston, Cerys Lewis, Zackary Lopez, Danica Sanchez, Krystal Bunker, Mollie Clowe, Natalia Sanchez. Not pictured Azure Wheeler
EXHIBITION:
From Humanities Texas: Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience surveys the Alamo of the Texas imagination through illustrations drawn from historical documents, paintings, sketches, cartoons, comic books, television, and film. Alamo Images focuses, not merely on Texas history, but on the mythic power of events that helped define a community, state, and nation. Panel topics include:
The Alamo as Spanish mission
As a ruin reused for commerce
The struggle to make it a shrine
The story of the siege and battle
San Antonio as a Tejano town
Alamo defenders and survivors
The three heroes
Ongoing uses of Alamo imagery
Alamo Images is an exhibition organized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and produced by Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This program is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities."
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The 2nd floor screening room of The Wallace will be showing “An American Experience - Remember the Alamo.” A PBS production.
In the early 1830s Texas was about to explode. Although under Mexican rule, the region was home to more than 20,000 U.S. settlers agitated by what they saw as restrictive Mexican policies. Mexican officials, concerned with illegal trading and immigration, were prepared to fight hard to keep the province under their control. With war on the horizon, the Tejanos had to pick a side.
Producer: Joseph Tovares
Production Year: 2004
Narrator: Hector Elizondo
