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New and Rejoining Members
El Paso Museum of Art
Founded in 1959, the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) is a major cultural and educational resource for West Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. The Museum houses a permanent collection of over 6,000 works of art. In addition to displaying works from its holdings, the Museum offers a divers schedule of temporary exhibitions, films, lectures, concerts, and other educational programs to the general public. EPMA has a steady record of accreditation by the American Association of Museums. The Museum was first accredited in 1972, then re-accredited in 1985 and, most recently, in 2001. Since the new downtown building opened in 1998, the Museum serves approximately 80,000 visitors per year. The El Paso Museum of Art is situated within the world's largest international border community with an approximate metropolitan population of over 2.6 million.
El Paso, Texas
915-212-0300
http://www.elpasoartmuseum.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
Houston, Texas
713-529-4848
www.crafthouston.org
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) is a nonprofit arts organization founded to advance education about the process, product and history of craft. HCCC’s major emphasis is on objects of art made primarily from craft materials: clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood or found/recycled materials.
Museum of the Coastal Bend
Victoria, Texas
361-582-2511
museumofthecoastalbend.org
The Museum of the Coastal Bend displays the last 13,000 years of Texas history, from the earliest known inhabitants of the Coastal Bend region through the French, Spanish, and Mexican colonial efforts, up to the range of diverse influences that have created the modern Texan culture. Archaeological and historic collections tell this story through exhibits of stone, bone and shell tools; cannons from the La Salle Expedition; artifacts recovered La Salle’s ship “La Belle”; and Native American, French and Spanish artifacts from the Fort St. Louis/Presidio La Bahia site.