CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
UNPACKED: REFUGEE BAGGAGE
ON VIEW THROUGH January 5, 2025
UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage seeks to humanize the word “refugee.” Created during the summer of 2017, this multi-media installation is the work of Syrian-born, New Haven CT artist and architect Mohamad Hafez and Iraqi-born writer and speaker Ahmed Badr.
SHADES OF COMPASSION
ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 29
The SHADES OF COMPASSION exhibition’s primary goal is to promote compassion worldwide through inspirational, thought-provoking photographs. Drawn from a diverse roster of forty-one international fine art photographers, the fifty exhibition photographs encompass a diverse spectrum of perspective, subject and artistic expression.
India, 20th century, Cast Bronze; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price
THE COLLECTION OF DR. & MRS. WILLIAM T. PRICE
ONGOING
The Amarillo Museum of Art’s Asian art collection has grown dramatically over the past 10 years through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. William T. Price of Amarillo. Their donations of art objects have and will spark a variety of significant exhibitions, introducing Asian art and culture to the Texas Panhandle community and to visitors near and far.
Over the past 50 years, Dr. and Mrs. Price have collected sculpture, prints, paintings, textiles and decorative arts from South/Southeast Asia, Japan and the Middle East. They have donated over 300 works to the Permanent Collection, including nearly 150 Edo Period (1615-1868) Japanese Woodblock Prints, and over 15 significant Hindu and Buddhist sculptures dating from the 2nd– 19th centuries. The origins of these sculptures include India, Cambodia, Nepal and Indonesia (including works from Java’s monumental Buddhist temple complex, Borobudur). Textiles are also one of the Price’s passions, and they have generously donated over 75 Islamic prayer rugs and secular rugs, saddle blankets and bags from such countries as Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, Spain and Tibet.
In February 2005, the Museum and its Board of Trustees honored Dr. and Mrs. Price with the naming of a Museum gallery in their honor; it is now called the Price Gallery of Asian Art.