PEACE, RESTORATION AND COLLECTIONS
CANYON, TX— Have you ever thought of your yard as an art palette? Many people yearn to make a house a home, but most don’t think of their yard as an extension of their personal tastes. Jill Nokes, a landscape designer, discusses twenty Texans who transformed their yards into oases of art and exuberant personal expression to convey their sense of individuality Saturday, April 5, 2008, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm in the Hazlewood Lecture Hall of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum.
In her book Nokes, an authority on native plants and ecological restoration, profiles 20 Texas residents who have made their yard into a masterpiece reflecting their own personal tastes and expressions influenced by their family and heritage.
Cost for the lunch, lecture and book signing is $15 for nonmembers and $10 for members. To make reservations, call Elaina at 806-651-2258 or email ecunningham@pphm.wtamu.ed.
Also on April 5, two new exhibits open to the public. The Griffin Collection exhibition will be shown in the Furniture Gallery through October 18, 2008, and the Textile Gallery through March 2009.
Johnie Griffin donated one of the museum’s largest and most important collections. Her collection includes European, American Southwest, and Mexican furniture as well as a wide variety of Southwestern textiles including Mexican Saltillo serapes, Rio Grande blankets and Navajo rugs and blankets.
The exhibit will also include several pieces of elaborately carved Chinese export furniture as well as a number of Oriental ceramics, textiles and ivory carvings.
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