Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum (HAHM) has two new exhibits that are currently open. One of them is a quilt exhibition and the other is an exhibition on the Texas Cowboy.
HAHM invites visitors to stop by this year’s Quilt Show 2025 featuring Llano Grande Quilting Bee. These beautiful quilts are on exhibit through March 15. The quilt were made by residents at Llano Grande RV Resort. A reception will be held on February 9 from 1 to 4 p.m.
HAHM presents “Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy,” an exhibition created by the Wittliff Collections at the Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, presented in partnership with Humanities Texas, the state affiliate for the National Endowment for the Humanities. This exhibition is made possible in part by a We the People grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered Bill Wittliff a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—to visit a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros still worked cattle in traditional ways. Wittliff photographed the vaqueros as they went about daily chores that had changed little since the first Mexican cowherders learned to work cattle from a horse's back. Wittliff captured a way of life that now exists only in memory and in the photographs included in this exhibition.
The exhibition features photographs with bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.
The exhibition is on display through February 18. HAHM hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is closed on Mondays.
Humanities Texas develops and supports diverse programs across the state, including lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, traveling exhibitions and documentary films. For more information, please visit Humanities Texas online at http://www.humanitiestexas.org or call (512) 440-1991.
For more information, visit Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum on Facebook or call (956) 216-4901. HAHM is located at 2425 Boxwood Street in Harlingen.
