Event Calendar

Join us for exclusive menu selections to celebrate 100 years of Route 66 in our Bistro, right in the heart of historic Amarillo Downtown. Built in 1927, our building offers an authentic insight into an era that dawned a century ago with the completion of U.S. Route 66. We are pleased to offer discounted appetisers and beverages from 4PM to 6:30PM, at the Courtyard by Marriott Amarillo Downtown. Travelling for the festival? Please visit our website or give us a call to book your stay at our historic property: (806) 553-4500 www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/amadt-courtyard-amarillo-downtown

Blank Spaces Murals have partnered with Visit Amarillo and National Geographic to produce a 400-foot mural in the corridor between Historic Route 66 and downtown Amarillo. Join Blank Spaces for their unveiling of the new 66 Stories from Route 66 Mural at the Texas Route 66 Visitors Center from 6-8 PM. Enjoy live music, food trucks, and an evening of celebrating 100 years of the Mother Road.

📍Texas Route 66 Visitors Center, 1900 SW 6^th Avenue, 79106
⏰ 6-8 PM

Speakers: Carrie Boretz Keating (Photographer and wife of the late Edward Keating) and Caitlin Keating (Journalist, Filmmaker, Producer, and daughter of Carrie and Edward Keating). The talk will begin at 7:15 p.m.

In conjunction with the exhibition, Main Street: The Lost Dream of Rt. 66, Photographs by Edward Keating, join us for a conversation about the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Edward Keating. Main Street is the result of 11 years of travels along Route 66 — the 2,400-mile stretch between Chicago and Santa Monica. Keating approached the highway as both a journalist and memoirist. His photographs bring attention to the lives and myths scattered along the stretch of Route 66 and serve as a metaphor for the deterioration of middle-class America. The exhibition and this conversation will reflect on stories and personal mythology constructed from the artist’s recollections of the road. Edward Keating served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, as well as the John Faber Award for International Reporting, Overseas Press Club, for his series of photographs on the September 11 attacks. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for the 1997 series “Vows,” co-authored with Lois Smith Brady. In 2003, Keating joined Contact Press Images photography agency. MAIN STREET was Keating’s sixth monograph. Tragically, Keating died of cancer in Sept 2021 as a result of his many months long exposure to toxic materials, while photographing at Ground Zero.