Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Mary Beasley Nye was born in 1918 in Texarkana, Texas, but she was brought to Dallas as a young child. A 1933 graduate of Highland Park High School, she attended Southern Methodist University. She later…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Mary Beasley Nye
NEWS AND UPDATES The Jones Collection received a makeover! New signage and an updated lobby area which features several pieces of antique film projection equipment from the vault. On Sunday, January 14, 2018, Curator Jeremy Spracklen hosted a Q&A at the Texas Theatre with director Peter Flynn, following Flynn’s documentary on film exhibition, The Dying of…Continue Reading February 2018 Jones Film Archive Update
This curatorial discussion on the Hawn Gallery exhibition, Clear, Deep, Dark, focuses on its artist, Julie Morel. Every two weeks during the exhibition’s run, Curatorial Fellow, Emily Rueggeberg, will post a new article highlighting one or more of Morel’s pieces from the exhibition to provide insight into the artist’s creative and theoretical processes….Continue Reading Curatorial discussion #1: Clear, Deep, Dark
Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Velma Davis Dozier and Esther Webb Houseman met while taking a metalworking class from Thetis Lemon, a talented artist herself, at the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman’s University) in the early 1930s. While…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artists Profile: The Lady Blacksmiths – Velma Davis Dozier & Esther Webb Houseman
The Hawn Gallery presents CLEAR, DEEP, DARK Works by Julie Morel On view: January 26 – March 11, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, January 26th, 5 – 7pm at the Hawn Gallery, located in the Hamon Arts Library at SMU Artist Julie Morel will conduct a gallery talk at 5:45 p.m….Continue Reading Hawn Gallery presents: Clear, Deep, Dark – Works by Julie Morel
Artist featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Janet Turner was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1914. Attending nature camps during the 1920s, she developed an early awareness of the outdoors and the beauty nature had to offer. Turner’s interest in…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Janet Elizabeth Turner
Please join the G. William Jones Film & Video Collection’s moving image curator, Jeremy Spracklen, on Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. at the Texas Theater for a screening of Peter Flynn’s 2015 documentary, The Dying of the Light. Following the screening, Flynn, the director of this documentary will be available for a Q & A…Continue Reading Screening and Q & A of The Dying of the Light
Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Barbara Lucile Maples (1912 – 1999) was born in Temple, Texas to Leslie Buford and Lucile Beatrice Hartrick Maples. She graduated from Temple High School in 1929 and continued her studies at Mary-Hardin Baylor College…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Barbara Lucile Maples
This blog post is a continuation of the Hawn Gallery’s series on the exhibition Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines by Puro Chingón Collective. Below is a discussion of pieces in the exhibition, chosen by Curatorial fellow Emily Rueggeberg. In addition to zines, Puro Chingón Collective also creates designer toys. Unlike toys found in commercial…Continue Reading Collective Practice: Community Building Through Zines – Curatorial discussion of Selected Works, Part II
Featured in the exhibition Texas Women Artists: Selections from Bywaters Special Collections, on the 2nd floor of Hamon Arts Library. Mary Frances Doyle (1904 – 2000) was known as both a dedicated art teacher and an outstanding printmaker, particularly with the silk-screen, or serigraph, technique. Doyle was born in Stephenville, Texas to Davis K. Doyle,…Continue Reading Bywaters Special Collections Artist Profile: Mary Frances Doyle