CASETA to hold 5th annual symposium
on early Texas art

Download the symposium poster with schedule and registration information

The Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA) will hold its fifth annual symposium on early Texas Art Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, at the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Center Hotel. Program and registration details are available at http://www.caseta.org.

CASETA is associated with Texas State’s Center for the Study of the Southwest and the NEH Southwest Regional Humanities Center. Symposium speakers will include some of Texas’ and the nation’s leading experts on early Texas art:

• JAMES BAKER
Texas Art Historian, College Station
An Overview of Early Texas Art

• LEA ROSSON DeLONG
Independent Curator & Art Historian, Des Moines, Iowa
‘Dust-filled Eyes’: Alexandre Hogue’s View of the American Land

• KATIE ROBINSON EDWARDS
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History, Baylor University
Lone Star Modernism

• WILLIAM H. GERDTS
Professor Emeritus of Art History, City University of New York
Texas Art: From the Frontier to the Mainstream

• REBECCA LAWTON
Senior Curator, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
The Teacher, the Student, Her Talent and His Studio: Frank Reaugh,
Josephine Oliver and the Making of El Sibil

• WILLIAM RUDOLPH
Associate Curator, the Dallas Museum of Art
Julian Onderdonk Through the Looking Glass:
What He (and We) Found There

• RON TYLER
Director, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
The Texas Collection at the Amon Carter Museum

Saturday’s presentations, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., will be followed by a reception 6-8 p.m. Pre- and post-symposium events and a gallery of Texas art by leading art purveyors are also planned. More information about the program and registration is available from http://www.caseta.org.