Category: News

The National Film Preservation Foundation Now Streaming Jones’ Catskill Honeymoon

In 2011, the National Film Preservation Foundation awarded Hamon’s G. William Jones Film and Video Collection a grant of $31,000 to support the preservation of the Yiddish-language film Catskill Honeymoon (1950, directed by Joe Berne). We are happy to announce that the NFPF has now made the film available for viewing on its website….Continue Reading The National Film Preservation Foundation Now Streaming Jones’ Catskill Honeymoon

Octavio Medellin makes the news!

This post was written by Bywaters Special Collections curator Ellen Buie Niewyk. I just finished processing the Octavio Medellin papers in Bywaters Special Collections.  I was thrilled when WFAA [Channel 8] featured a story about Medellin in its evening news on March 31.  Medellin designed four stained glass windows for the Trinity Lutheran Church in Dallas in…Continue Reading Octavio Medellin makes the news!

The Blood of Jesus at Texas Theatre: 2/19 @ 7:30pm

Still from The Blood of Jesus. G. William Jones Film & Video Collection, Hamon Arts Library.

This week Oak Cliff’s historic Texas Theatre will be hosting three nights of black cinema. On Thursday, February 19th at 7:30pm, the theatre will be screening Spencer Williams’ The Blood of Jesus (1941), a film from SMU’s Tyler, Texas Film Collection. Following its screening of The Blood of Jesus, on Friday, February 20th at 8pm and Saturday, February…Continue Reading The Blood of Jesus at Texas Theatre: 2/19 @ 7:30pm

12 from Texas: A Portfolio of Lithographs

The Bywaters Special Collection staff just installed the 12 From Texas portfolio on the second floor of the Hamon Arts Library. In 1952, Southern Methodist University Press decided to, according to its press release for 12 From Texas, “make available at a reasonable price the work of outstanding regional artists.” The subject matter of these…Continue Reading 12 from Texas: A Portfolio of Lithographs

Welcome

Welcome to the Hamon Arts Library’s new blog! In addition to library news and highlights, we are expanding our focus to include events and people around Meadows and Dallas. With this goal in mind, we invite community members to submit content to our blog about library findings and events in the community that may be…Continue Reading Welcome

 

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