COLLEGE OF ARTS & MEDIA

Looming large amidst these three floors is the

March Events

Art

SCARCITY AND ABUNDANCE EXHIBITION

January 26 – March 4

Reception | January 26 | 6 p.m.

University Gallery, HFAB Free Admission

Music

CONCERT AND SYMPHONIC BANDS CONCERT

March 2 | 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

College of Arts & Media

CAM ARTIST SERIES: TEXAS GUITAR QUARTET

March 3 | 7:30 p.m.

Recital Hall, GPAC

Music

CHORALE SPRING CONCERT WITH SHSU ORCHESTRA

March 4 | 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

Music omni-visible Goddess of Liberty. This artifact is the original statue that sat atop the Texas Capitol until 1985, when she was replaced by a younger, aluminum alloy replica. Following a brief tour of parts of Texas and some cosmetic surgery, this original Goddess was put on display in the Museum in 2001. The Museum describes her as “formidable,” which is true, but it is also true that

JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND JAZZ LAB BANDS CONCERT

March 9 | 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

Music

SHSU OPERA PRESENTS: TWENTY FOUR, OR THE CURE FOR LOVE

March 23 – 25 | 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

Art

23RD ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION

March 27 – April 6

Reception | March 30 | 5 p.m.

University Gallery, HFAB

Free Admission

Music

BELLES VOIX AND MUSIKANTEN CONCERT

March 28 | 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

Theatre & Musical Theatre

365 DAYS/365 PLAYS (FULL-LENGTH) (HOLE CYCLE)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

March 28 & 30 | 7:30 p.m.

April 1 & 3 | 7:30 p.m.

Showcase Theatre, UTC

Theatre & Musical Theatre

365 DAYS/365 PLAYS (FULL-LENGTH) (WHOLE CYCLE)

By Suzan-Lori Parks

March 29 & 31 | 7:30 p.m.

April 1| Matinee | 2 p.m.

April 4| 7:30 p.m.

Showcase Theatre, UTC

Music

SHSU BILL WATROUS JAZZ

FESTIVAL

March 31 & April 1| 7:30 p.m.

Payne Concert Hall, GPAC

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To view our full list of events, visit shsu.edu/CAM in the form of an IMAX theatre, which occasionally offers movies or documentaries that reflect the theme of Texas, special exhibitions, or other “educational” fare. Currently, for example, they are showing films on the Serengeti, the Arctic, and dinosaurs. For pure entertainment, they are also offering Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. In the smaller, multi-sensory “Texas Spirit Theatre,” visitors can view Shipwrecked to learn more about La Belle or The Star of Destiny, to brush up on key events in Texas history. she was not chosen for her beauty. Rather, her features were purposefully exaggerated— protruding lips, a gherkin nose, and a brow that would embarrass a caveman—to provide shape to a face designed to be viewed from afar. These features are particularly emphatic when seen up close, which is the view from almost anywhere in the Museum. Standing at more than 15-feet tall, she continues to command Texans’ attention.

Theaters and Rotating Exhibits

The Museum features entertainment options

Museum staff, “prompt meaningful reflection on the natural beauty of public lands and their significance as places of solace, rejuvenation, recreation, and refuge.”

One of these paintings, undertaken by Lee Jamison, highlights a public site of great significance: the San Jacinto battlefield. The landscape was undertaken from a flattering angle, one that deemphasizes the region’s swampy terrain and minimizes the prominence of refineries and their attendant smoke plumes. What is depicted is a painting of variegated grasses and multihued plants, and a blue sky, composed in a horizontal landscape punctuated by a vertical monument to the State’s aspirational culture.

This quiet and beautiful scene depicting marsh grasses and woods, according to Jamison, somewhat disguises “the grim realities of the long-ago Battle,” which reflected, among other things, poor planning on Santa Anna’s part. But the “nature of the land contributed to the outcome of the battle,” continues Jamison, and therefore may “provide insight into our park system and the influence of the land on our state culture.”

The “Art of Texas State Parks” will remain on display through April 30.

Reflections

the sentiment behind the Museum. Bullock’s statue faces eastward, toward newly redesigned exterior grounds. The Lone Star Plaza remains, along with its large, bronze star-shaped sculpture. But gone is a three-block portion of Congress Avenue; in its place is a pedestrian promenade that, with surrounding buildings, makes up the

“Texas Mall.” This Mall will, according to its designers, serve as the “northern gateway to the Capitol,” where Bob Bullock once labored as Lieutenant Governor, and where, in 1995, he first discussed the idea of the state history museum that now bears his name.