Texas history buffs will love The Grace Museum’s newest exhibition that tells the unique story of Smith’s Station and the old Butterfield Overland Mail Route, located on Chimney Creek Ranch just over 30 miles northeast of Abilene. Established in 1876, Chimney Creek Ranch is home to cattle and native animal species along with conserved grasslands and vital water sources. … [Read more...]

Artists don’t always begin as artists. Sometimes successful professional artists start their careers with an entirely different focus before finding their creative path. This has been true for Terry Cockerham, a Texas photographer who came out of college with a science degree and joined the army. “When I finished my undergraduate degree in science in December 1971, I was … [Read more...]

Visitors to The Grace Museum this fall should prepare to be wowed by larger-than-life paintings they will encounter in the main gallery. The museum’s newest featured art exhibition (which opened Oct. 14) is a solo show of recent paintings by Paul Manes, a respected painter whose work has been exhibited across Texas, California, New York, and throughout Europe. Manes could be … [Read more...]

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...]