Saturday May 18th-Sunday, May 19th: Pioneer Gun Show
Saturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Five West Texas A&M University student artists who’ll soon begin making their mark on the world will offer one last look at their work in an upcoming exhibition.“The World Is Our Oyster,” on view through May 18 in the Dord Fitz Formal Gallery in Mary Moody Northen Hall on WT’s Canyon campus, will feature the work of five May graduates, all studio art majors: Kayla Monds of Pampa, Chit Pu of Amarillo, Cristal Chavez Saavedra of Amarillo, Anna Vongkaysone of Amarillo and Andrea Hernandez of Amarillo.Monds makes paintings that bring Greek Mythology into modern times. Pu takes digital sketches and blows them up into large-scale abstractions. Saavedra’s paintings explore nontraditional renderings of sugar skulls. Vongkaysone makes nostalgic paintings that fuse hyperrealistic imagery with abstracted symbols. And Hernandez makes ceramic sculptures that focus on everyday objects and food.Fitz Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and by appointment Fridays and Saturdays. Email jrevett@wtamu.edu.
AMARILLO LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ANNUAL MEETING & POTLUCK FEATURES TX STATE REPRESENTATIVE FOUR PRICE ON SATURDAY, MAY 18th
The Amarillo League of Women Voters invites the public to our Annual Meeting and Potluck. This free event will take place:
- Saturday, May 18th
- 10:00 a.m.
- Amarillo Area Foundation (919 S. Polk St.).
Everyone is welcome, and League members are strongly encouraged to attend (as we will be voting on board members, our annual budget, and updates to the by-laws). Please encourage friends and family to join us.
Our speaker this month is Four Price, Texas House of Representatives for District 87. He’ll be discussing the importance of the League’s mission of empowering voters and defending democracy from the perspective of an elected official.
Like last year, this meeting will also be a potluck. Drinks will be provided, but we encourage everyone to bring some food to share. If you plan to attend, please use this sign-up form to let the Board know what you plan to contribute to the potluck — and thank you!
Reminder: This is an election year, and the League is dedicated to community outreach. If your organization, business, nonprofit, or church is interested in having League set up a voter registration booth at an upcoming gathering, or if you’d like us to present our seminar, CIVICS 101, please contact us at amarillolwv@gmail.com or call 806-337-2148.
Thank you for empowering voters and defending democracy in Amarillo!
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More about Texas Representative Four Price: State Representative Four Price, a fourth generation Texan from Amarillo, has the privilege of serving as the results-oriented voice for constituents residing in eight Texas Panhandle counties – Carson, Hansford, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Potter, and Sherman. In 2022, Price was re-elected to a seventh term in the Texas House of Representatives where he continues to vigorously advocate for the betterment of the Texas Panhandle and the entire Lone Star State.
Representative Price serves on the House Natural Resources Committee, the House Public Health Committee, and the House Select Committee on Health Care Reform. These committees provide Representative Price with additional leadership opportunities to help influence and shape significant public policy on numerous matters directly impacting the well-being of Texans daily – the sustainability of a reliable water supply and the delivery of healthcare services, including mental health.
He believes that access to quality healthcare and clean water, along with sound public education and higher education opportunities, are foundational to the quality of life and prosperity of individual Texans and their communities. He further believes that these essentials are vital to the economic viability and long-term sustainability of rural Texas.
More about the Amarillo League of Women Voters: Our mission is simple: “: Empowering voters. Defending Democracy.” We are proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing political parties or candidates at any level of government, but always working on issues of vital concern to members and the public. We encourage informed and active participation in government, work to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influence public policy through education and advocacy. Our members work to register voters, provide them with election information through our Voters Guides, Candidate Forums, and community outreach. The League of Women Voters in Amarillo envisions a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate.
Thanks,
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Adam Leathers
Senior Director of Community Impact
Phone: 806.376.6359 Mobile: 405.240.3140 Email: adam@uwamarillocanyon.org
2207 Line Ave. Amarillo, Texas 79106
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Join us on May 18th 10 AM at Llano Cemetery for Beautification Day!
Celebrate those who keep our cemetery beautiful year-round and help us prepare for Memorial Day Weekend. Learn how to fold a military flag and enjoy a delicious hamburger and hotdog lunch on us. Trash bags provided. Families and local residents, come together for a day of community love and care.
The Amarillo Art Institute’s (AAI)Arts in the Sunset
is presenting the highly acclaimed “Impressionists
Immersive Exhibition,” now through July 17.This ex-
hibit will be the second traveling exhibit the art gallery
has housed, following 2023’s successful run of “Mi-
chelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition.”
“Impressionists” brings to life paintings by the rev-
olutionary movement’s famed artists such as Van
Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Morisot, Manet, Degas, Pissarro,
Gauguin, Cezanne, and Toulouse-Lautrec. An immer-
sive room creates a multi-sensory experience, with
more than 1,000 moving masterpieces projected on
screens and 3D interactive panels explaining key in-
novations, artists’ influences, and how these paintings
influence all of modern art that followed. The up-close
setting will feature such well-known pieces as “Starry
Night,” “Water Lilies,” “Waiting,” “In the Conservatory”
and many more.
The exhibit is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11
a.m. until 7 p.m., with the last entry of admission at 6
p.m. On Sundays, the exhibit will be open from 1until 5
I p.m., with the last entry at 4 p.m. Tickets range from
$15-$25, based on age. Proceeds from the exhibit go to
the Amarillo Art Institute and its art programs. Tickets
are on sale now and can be purchased online at art-sinthesenset.org-
AMoA hosting exhibit by
Brooklyn-based artist
A Swoon exhibition will be on display
at the Amarillo Museum of Art, April 13
through Aug. n. A reception will be held
at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 19,with cock-
tails and hors d’oeuvres followed by an
artist talk at 7 p.m. by Caledonia Curry.
Admission is free for AMoAmembers or
$10 for non-members. Tickets will be
available at the door.
Caledonia Curry, whose work ap-
pears under the name Swoon, is a
Brooklyn-based artist and is widely
known as the first woman to gain large-
scale recognition in the male-dominat-
ed world of street art. Curry took to the
streets of New York while attending the
Pratt Institute of Art in 1999,pasting her
paper portraits to the sides of buildings
with the goal of making art and the pub-
lic space ofthe city more accessible.
The Amarillo Museum of Art is locat-
ed at 2200 S.VanBuren on the Washing-
ton Street campus of Amarillo College.
Museum hours are Wednesday through
Saturday, na.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday, 1-5
p.m. For additional information, visit
www.amoa.org, email amoa@actx.edu,
or call 806-371-5050 or 806-371-5392
(weekends).
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| FamFest is coming: Saturday, May 18, 11-2 at Sam Houston Park! We will be taking sponsorships through Wednesday, May 8, so if you’d like to be a sponsor, just follow the link below and select your sponsorship level from there. It’s going to be a great time for the entire family. We will have music, silent auction, inflatable games, carnival games, magic show, vendors, food trucks and much more. Mark your calendars and we hope to see you there!
https://www.missionamarillo.org/forms/famfest-registration
We just completed another 365 Dad class. These dads learned how to better understand themselves, how to better care for themselves, how to better understand the mom of their child, and how their child doesn’t just want them to pay attention but to give attention. Please pray for these guys as they move to the next stage of fatherhood. One has asked for mentoring, so we will be beginning that with him in the coming weeks.
When you support Mission Amarillo through FamFest, you help us to help young moms, dads, prepared kids ages 2-4 to do well in school, and make sure that every child in the 5 school districts in our area that needs shoes has them. We appreciate your support and couldn’t do what we do without you!
Loving our neighbor; equipping for life, Jeff Parsons Executive Director
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7 Star Horse Therapy
7-Star Horse Therapy – Equine Assisted Therapy (7starhorsetherapy.org)
(806) 355-4773
Join us in celebrating 20 years of 7 Star Horse Therapy at our upcoming open house event!
We invite you to come and experience the magic of equine therapy with food, live demonstrations, and exciting door prizes, including Rangers tickets, Golds Gym membership, and more!
Mark your calendar for NEXT SATURDAY. MAY 18th and bring your friends and family for a day of fun and celebration!
4753 S Farm to Market Rd 1258, Amarillo, TX 79118
Spring Art Exhibition to highlight
works of graduating WT seniors
CANYON- Five West Texas A&M
University student artists who’ll soon
begin making their mark on the world
will offer one last look at their work in an
upcoming exhibition.
“The World Is Our Oyster,” on view
May 2 to 18 in the Dord Fitz Formal Gal-
lery in Mary Moody Northen Hall on
WT’s Canyon campus, will feature the
work offive May graduates, all studio art
majors: Kayla Monds of Pampa, Chit Bu
of Amarillo, Cristal Chavez Saavedra of
Amarillo, Anna Vongkaysone of Amaril-
lo and Andrea Hernandez of Amarillo.
The show will open with a 5 to 7 p.m.
May 2 reception in the gallery.
Fitz Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mondays through Thursdays and by ap-
pointment Fridays and Saturdays.
Emailjrevett@Wtamu.edu.