Delight in Midland Dance Academy's performance of "Harmony." Our dancers are portraying growth and are blossoming this first season. Come and enjoy this refreshing and original show as they perform in their Spring Concert!
PLEASE NOTE THAT: The Ellen Noel Art Museum is temporarily housed inside the UTPB Presidential Archives
Come to the 3rd Floor Children’s Department, grab a book and read to our special friend of the library Felix the Therapy Dog. He loves to be read to by any and all readers! ***Event Subject to Change***
Spend the evening enjoying a discussion of selected work from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s collection. Get the chance to view, analyze, and discuss an artwork using visual thinking strategies. · Free!
When F. Scott Fitzgerald issued his classic conclusion that ‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ he failed to envision the career of legendary Texas troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard. A willing conspirator in the late seventies Cosmic Cowboy revolt that ushered in the mythical Outlaw era, Hubbard was a catalyst in the cultural upheaval that led to the peaceful coexistence of Lone Star music enthusiasts who comprised each end of the social and political spectrum of that troubled time. In the stellar company of iconic colleagues like Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Doug Sahm and Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard was an architect of the musical legacy that continues to inspire subsequent generations of up-and-coming Texas talent. Yes, Hubbard is a Texas singer-songwriter, complete with the classic trifurcated handle, fundamental chapter of the canon in his song catalog (“Redneck Mother”), and enough wild hairs in his past to qualify him as a legend. But along the way, his attention began to leave matters extraneous to his art and soul by the wayside and focus on the beauty and potential to be found in the blank canvas of, in his case, the yet to be written and recorded song. The […]
