Mission Statement
The purpose of the Amarillo Museum of Art (AMoA) is to provide quality visual arts programming to the residents of the Texas Panhandle, eastern New Mexico, and western Oklahoma through collections, temporary exhibitions representing a variety of media and periods, educational programming, preservation and research.
History
The Amarillo Museum of Art was formulated in 1967 by a local group of determined and dedicated community leaders for the purpose of creating and maintaining an art museum for citizens of Amarillo and the surrounding area. By 1970 the Board of Trustees joined with Amarillo College, a two year community college chartered in 1926, to raise funds for the construction of a Fine Arts Complex. The Museum, the Concert Hall/Theater and Music building opened to the public in October 1972. The Amarillo Museum of Art's facilities were dedicated to Betty Bivins Childers whose perseverance and dynamic leadership led to the realization of the community's goal of establishing a visual arts resource for the area.
Caledonia Curry, whose work appears under the name Swoon, is a Brooklyn-based artist and is widely known as the first woman to gain large-scale recognition in the male-dominated world of street art. Callie took to the streets of New York while…
Read More »AMoA Summer Art Camps offer in-depth art experiences for area youth. Led by AMoA’s teaching artists, the Museum’s popular summer programs teach kids how to look at, talk about and create art. Young artists explore drawing, painting,…
Read More »In Our Own Words: Native Impressions This is one in a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art as part of the Art Bridges Cohort Program.…
Read More »Upcoming Exhibitions Jun Kaneko May 27 – September 3, 2023 Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942. In 1963, he came to the United States to study at Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA where he was introduced to sculptural…
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