October 20 – December 22, 2022 

Selections from the permanent collection co-curated with Todd Giles, PhD, Associate Professor of English 

From Boom to Bust brings together in conversation a diverse array of American artists, authors, and cinematographers from the boom of post-World War I through the bust of the Great Depression. Artists represented include Modernists such as Joseph Pennell and John Marin, Regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Blanche McVeigh, and Social Realists John Sloan and Martin Lewis. Modernists experimented with form; Social Realists critiqued class inequities in the over-crowded cities; and Regionalists looked back nostalgically to our rural agrarian beginnings. Some were friends; others foes. Some avant-garde; others traditionalists. In common, Americans were passionately representing the nation as they saw it firsthand. 

Opening Reception and Panel Discussion 
October 20, 5-7:30 pm 
Panel Discussion begins at 5:30 pm 
Reception to follow 

October 20 – December 22, 2022 

Selections from the permanent collection co-curated with Todd Giles, PhD, Associate Professor of English 

From Boom to Bust brings together in conversation a diverse array of American artists, authors, and cinematographers from the boom of post-World War I through the bust of the Great Depression. Artists represented include Modernists such as Joseph Pennell and John Marin, Regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Blanche McVeigh, and Social Realists John Sloan and Martin Lewis. Modernists experimented with form; Social Realists critiqued class inequities in the over-crowded cities; and Regionalists looked back nostalgically to our rural agrarian beginnings. Some were friends; others foes. Some avant-garde; others traditionalists. In common, Americans were passionately representing the nation as they saw it firsthand. 

Opening Reception and Panel Discussion 
October 20, 5-7:30 pm 
Panel Discussion begins at 5:30 pm 
Reception to follow 

This exhibition showcases artwork by veterans and current service members living in Texas, curated by Art Spark Texas and the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU Texas.

Entries are now in and being reviewed by Art Spark Texas and the WFMA.

Opening Reception November 12,

2 – 4pm

October 20 – December 22, 2022 

Selections from the permanent collection co-curated with Todd Giles, PhD, Associate Professor of English 

From Boom to Bust brings together in conversation a diverse array of American artists, authors, and cinematographers from the boom of post-World War I through the bust of the Great Depression. Artists represented include Modernists such as Joseph Pennell and John Marin, Regionalists Thomas Hart Benton and Blanche McVeigh, and Social Realists John Sloan and Martin Lewis. Modernists experimented with form; Social Realists critiqued class inequities in the over-crowded cities; and Regionalists looked back nostalgically to our rural agrarian beginnings. Some were friends; others foes. Some avant-garde; others traditionalists. In common, Americans were passionately representing the nation as they saw it firsthand. 

Opening Reception and Panel Discussion 
October 20, 5-7:30 pm 
Panel Discussion begins at 5:30 pm 
Reception to follow