Learning about your heritage can be eye-opening. Hearing about the struggles, the victories, and the realities of generations of people who came before you can be a true source of pride. Part of The Grace Museum’s mission is to preserve and share the history of people in our area. That means sharing people’s real stories – everyone’s stories. The museum wants its visitors to … [Read more...]

Links between art and language can be traced all the way back to the earliest prehistoric pictures and symbols drawn onto cave walls by our ancestors. Over time, these symbols evolved into our known alphabets and later into complex languages. In the old world, cuneiform pictographs were pressed into clay and parchment scrolls were used to document trade, events, and … [Read more...]

Few people can say that they have had artwork displayed in an accredited museum, but that isn’t true for the students in and around Abilene. For years now, The Grace Museum has set aside four weeks every year to celebrate students and their great accomplishments. The Youth Art Month Exhibition is the largest exhibit of works that The Grace holds each year. Over 1,000 pieces … [Read more...]

Artist Kate Breakey obsessively takes pictures of the natural world. Growing up in rural coastal Australia in the 1960s, Kate developed at an early age an interest in biology, natural history, and a profound respect for all living things. The vast wilderness, the ocean, the big skies, the plants, and the wildlife have all had an indelible effect on her aesthetic as an … [Read more...]