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TEXARKANA, Texas – In need, the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council will realign its focus as the arts agency is about to cease running the Perot Theater.
The upcoming 33rd annual Juried Exhibition at the Regional Arts Center, which opens on Friday, August 6th with an opening reception (from 6.30 p.m.), underscores the agency’s ability to showcase art from both the region and artists, who live elsewhere. The exhibition will have a range of artists from coast to trip, including 23 regional artists.
Jennifer Unger is TRAHC’s Director of Education, overseeing the visual arts and community programs, as well as other TRAHC programs such as ArtsSmart and Theater for Young Audiences.
“We will continue our full program of visual arts exhibitions and it is always free to the public. Nothing will change that, ”said Unger. “We’re looking for ways to add more interactive features to the exhibits for the public, both students and adults.”
She said TRAHC is excited because the current juried exhibition is international again after a difficult past year with a pandemic.
“We are pleased that we have a huge exhibition. The exhibits are alive and well,” said Unger. “We have some really great things to do.”
Scheduled exhibitions include a traveling exhibition by the Mid-America Arts Alliance that explores the American farmer. Make sure it is on display from November 10th through January 7th. “It’s a national photo exhibition,” said Unger.
Also, look for TRAHC to share works from its permanent collection, which was deepened in 2019 by a series of works from the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin.
“We also want to highlight our permanent collection more than in the past,” she said. “Because we have such an amazing permanent exhibition, mostly local artists, but we got some extraordinary pieces from the Blantons.”
TRAHC aims to highlight these works, Unger said. In between, other exhibits will be the right time to showcase the permanent collection.
“We’re going to have our TAAC exhibit, which we always have, which is great by working with TRAHC’s Afro-American Committee,” she said. This is traditionally indicated at the beginning of the year.
And they reach an audience with art not only through exhibits in the building. TRAHC and TRAHC’s ArtsSmart program can use social media to reach out to the community with interviews and behind-the-scenes insights, Unger said.
“We’re also working on an interactive, self-guided tour of the building,” she said. “Because sometimes we forget to work in this beautiful building every day, how amazing the architecture is. I’m reminded when people walk in who have never been to the building.”
The pandemic has just canceled the drop-in arts program at the Regional Arts Center at the beginning, but wait for this to return. Kay Thomas, National Teaching Artist of TRAHC,
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