{"id":440048,"date":"2016-01-17T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T14:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=440048"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T21:00:02","slug":"tmas-45th-anniversary-begins-with-new-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=440048","title":{"rendered":"TMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 45th Anniversary Begins with New Exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/tylerartmuseum.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-440051\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/01\/tylerartmuseum.gif\" alt=\"tylerartmuseum\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-440051\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8220;Embracing Diverse Voices: 90 Years of African-American Art,&#8221; running Jan. 17-March 20, is the kickoff exhibit for the Tyler Museum of Art&#8217;s 45th anniversary. Admission is free to the exhibit, organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.  In a news release, museum officials say the display &#8220;explores the broad range of experience and artistic expression among American artists of African descent,&#8221; demonstrating &#8220;a wide range of stylistic approaches and viewpoints.&#8221; The exhibition includes works by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest C. Withers, and Kara Walker, plus Jacob Lawrence\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complete 22-piece Legend of John Brown series.  Sponsors for the exhibition are Eleanor Cameron, the East Texas Chapter of The Links, Inc., and The A.W. Riter, Jr. Family Foundation.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Embracing Diverse Voices will be the focus of the TMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2016 Black History Month Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 21.  That event features a Spring Lecture Series program, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153An American Treasure: Celebrating African-American History and Culture,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d presented by Texas artist Ted T. Ellis. The program begins at 2 p.m. at the TMA, and is open to the public at no charge. A small reception will follow.   Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylermuseum.org\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylermuseum.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.tylermuseum.org<\/a>.<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &#8220;Embracing Diverse Voices: 90 Years of African-American Art,&#8221; running Jan. 17-March 20, is the kickoff exhibit for the Tyler Museum of Art&#8217;s 45th anniversary. Admission is free to the exhibit, organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. In a news release, museum officials say the display &#8220;explores the broad range of experience and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=440048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TMA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 45th Anniversary Begins with New Exhibit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":440051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 20:10:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440048"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440060,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440048\/revisions\/440060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}