Fort Worth Circle and the Performing Arts
I was at the Texas Library Association conference in Dallas last week and ran into two wonderful librarians from the Special Collections department at the University of Texas at Arlington. Lea Worcester and Evelyn Barker not only provide outstanding service to UTA students, they provide outreach to the North Texas community as well.
One of the projects that Evelyn and archivist Brenda McClurkin have worked on is now available online and has direct ties to our current special exhibition on the Fort Worth Circle artists. This Web site talks about the Reeder’s Children’s Theatre, a performing arts school started by Dickson and Flora Reeder. What I like best about this project are the wonderful images of the costumes and set designs.
If you would like to visit the library and see the special exhibition in person, it will be open until May 16th. Directions, parking, and exhibition hours are available on the Web site.
In my short time of being here i have come to find out that art is not just a painting on the wall that every piece of art has its own life and its own background and if more people were to stop and realize what kind of art there seeing it would make the world more classified and modern,
Threwout my whole life i thought there were just a few artists but now i know that there are millions of artists some of which havent been discovered yet and just to think about all the art that has not been discovered or captured is just incredible and amazing. With a little bit more help from the community i think we can do it and reach out to the younger crowd and bring out the young artists of the future.
— Adriana, April 25, 2008, 3:13 p.m.