“Drive-Away Dolls”: Writer-director Ethan Coen goes solo with this crime comedy. Also opening: anime “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training” and faith-based drama “Ordinary Angels.” (Opens Thursday; Cinergy, 9201 Cinergy Square)
The Reserve at Forty-Seven
Hop into Spring with our Egg Hunt!
Join us for a delightful Egg Hunt on March 23rd at 4711 S. Virginia St.
Bring your family and friends for a fun-filled day of egg-citement and adventure.
Hunt for hidden treasures in our beautiful location
Enjoy arts and crafts activities for all ages.
Indulge in delicious treats and goodies. We will have food trucks as well.
Win amazing prizes in our egg-citing competitions!
Don’t miss out on this egg-straordinary event! Mark your calendars and join us for an unforgettable celebration!
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.“Rent”: The iconic rock musical gets its debut staging at the Amarillo Little Theatre Adventure Space in a virtually sold-out two-weekend run. But there’s no day (like) today to get on the waitlist. (Full disclosure: I’m on the production team.) (7:30 p.m. Thursday; continues through Feb. 25; 2751 Civic Circle; ticket prices vary; 806-355-9991)
Best of the Barrel: Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum celebrates its bison-themed exhibition “The Fall and Rise of an American Icon” with spirits and tasty treats. (6 p.m. Friday; $50 members, $75 nonmembers; 2503 Fourth Ave. in Canyon; 806-651-2244
The Discover the Community Speaker Series:
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts – Tremaine Brown
Tremaine Brown’s FREE lecture, “Greater than the Sum of Our Parts,” offers you an opportunity to explore the significance of giving back to your community and why it’s rewarding to serve others. Join in on the conversation around the community with Tremaine Brown as he shares his experiences serving the Amarillo community, both as the proprietor of Shi Lee’s BBQ and Soul Food and as the founder of the Vessel of Humanity and Compassion. Happening at the Don Harrington Discovery Center, doors will open at 5:30 PM. Q&A with each speaker afterward, with refreshments provided. Meant primarily for adults, we ask that your younger learners stay home for this one!
Friday, February 23rd, 2024
6:30 pm – Cocktails with Horsd’oeuvres
7:15 pm – Gallery Talk with Alex Gregory, Curator of Art, and Ray Graham, Collector
AMoA Members Free, non-members $15
Tickets at the door
https://www.amoa.org/the-
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Ray Graham is more than a collector of artworks. His longstanding and generous support of visual art has positively impacted artists and arts organizations throughout the country. It was as an anthropology student at the University of New Mexico that Ray befriended, and began to support, artists who were beginning their careers. As a result, many of the artists in the Graham collection live, or have lived, in proximity of his hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The artworks on view in this exhibition reflect Ray’s curiosity and continuing commitment to supporting emerging artists, artists from within his community, and artists who may be underrecognized in their time.
Photography has been an important part of Ray Graham’s collection. Included in this exhibition are photographs by John Gossage, who Graham commissioned to document the activist Charles Hyder when he left Albuquerque to fast in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Meggan Gould’s installation of anthotypes titled Corporate Time/Doomsday Time as well as large format polaroid prints by collaborators Patrick Nagatani and Andrea Tracey address similar concerns about nuclear proliferation. There are also several photographs by Meridel Rubenstein on view, including toned gelatin silver prints from the Low Riders series among others.
Ray Graham often supported artists over a long period of time. The exhibition includes multiple examples from these artists including Richard Hogan, Allan Graham, William Masterson, Russell Adams, Terry Conway, Jerry West, and Ron Cooper among many others. More recent additions to the Graham collection are included in the exhibition as well, from artists James Hart, Alyssa Eble, Esther Elia, Colin Smith, Jill Christian, and Lisa Dahl.
Although this exhibition is comprised primarily of artworks from Ray Graham’s collection, it also includes artworks from artists that Ray has more recently befriended and wished to include alongside his collection. Bill Jehle, Kim Arthun, Michael K Bisbee, Benjamin McVey, and Mel Ziegler each have multiple artworks on view in the exhibition.
Visitors to the exhibition will find a visually diverse array of artworks ranging from relatively small-scale objects by artists Stuart Arends or Ross Rudel, to large paintings from Richard Thompson or Charles Field. Sculptures from David Anderson, Patrick Simpson, and Jason Knapp are included along with mixed media works by Merry Scully, prints by Edward Ruscha, a drawing by Dennis Oppenheim, and an oil pastel by Ike Morgan. Other artists whose work is on view include Heather Bingham, Gregory Botts, David Bower, John Cliett, James Cogswell, Dirk De Bruyker, Michael Eastman, Jacques Flechemuller, Thomas Freund, Lee Hill, Lester Johnson, Matt Jones, Mark Kerckoff, David Koch, Rose Mary Mack, Adrian A. Martinez, Mary Mattingly, Sharret Rose, Robin Smith, Susanna Tanger, Cara Tomlinson, Peter Voshefski, and Josie Williams.
Amarillo Wranglers: The local hockey squad takes on rival team Odessa Jackalopes. (7:15 p.m. Friday; continues Saturday; Amarillo Civic Center Complex Coliseum, 401 S. Buchanan St.; tickets $13 to $24; 806-378-3096)
Amarillo Symphony: The orchestra’s 100th-anniversary season continues with one of the majors: Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. The bill also features a new composition by Amarillo College’s Nathan Fryml, featuring the Amarillo Master Chorale. (7:30 p.m. Friday; continues Saturday; Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Buchanan St.; tickets $21 to $71; 806-376-8782)
West Texas A&MUniver-
sity Theatre’s production of “Bullin a Chi-
na Shop” is one of five plays chosen to be
staged at an upcoming regional festival.
Ahead of a trip to the Region 6 festival
forthe Kennedy Center American College
Theater Festival, a one-night -only perfor-
mance of “Bull”will be staged at 7:30 p.m
FeQ..2:ligthe Branding Iron Theatre in the
SybilB.Harrington Fine Arts Complex on WTs campus. In addition WT students will show their design and performance in a skills in a series of presentations from Feb 19th to Feb 22nd, also in the Fine Arts Complex. KCACFT is dedicated to celebrating and recognizing the amazing work of college theatre students across the nation said Callie Hisek, associate professor of theater and theater program coordinator