Arts and Culture
Galleries
- The Angelo State University Art Gallery is in the Houston Harte University Center on the ASU campus. The University Center Program Council Arts Committee sponsors the gallery. Painting, photography and art exhibits are featured monthly. Please call 325-942-2062 to verify that an exhibit is featured. Hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 2 to 5 p.m. on weekends. There is no admission charge.
- Concho Art Gallery at 36 E. Twohig, 325-374-4000
- Crosscutters – Tuscan Moon Art Gallery at 212 s. Oakes, 325-655-4121
- John Walker Gallery at 221 S. Chadbourne, 325-658-3525.
- Kendall Art Gallery at 119 W. 1st Street features original art by local artists. For appointment call 325-653-4405.
- Chicken Farm Art Center at 2505 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. is a unique Southwest compound with artists' studios, a gallery and educational facilities. Open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. 325-653-4936. Visit their website at www.chickenfarmartcenter.com
- Ruiz Studio & Gallery at 76 N. Chadbourne, 325-655-0832.
- San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts offers varied and changing exhibits of different media from many eras.
- Signature Fine Art Gallery at 36 E. Twohig, 234-4470
- Vernell Leach Watercolor Studio is at 3224 Stanford Drive and features original watercolor paintings. Please call 325-949-7508 for an appointment.
- West End Collectibles at 3033 W. Harris has original works
by area artists located in an antique mall. Open to the public
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Fine Arts
| Angelo State University Theater | Arts At ASU | 325-942-2000 |
| San Angelo Civic Ballet Inc. | 15 W. Beauregard | 325-653-8877 |
| Angelo Civic Theater | 1936 Sherwood Way | 325-949-4400 |
| San Angelo Cultural Affairs Council | the Cactus Hotel, 36 E. Twohig | 325-653-6793 |
| San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts | One Love Street | 325-653-3333 |
| San Angelo Philharmonic Society | N/A | 325-949-1751 |
| San Angelo Symphony | the Cactus Hotel, P.O. Box 5922 | 325-658-5877 |
| Twin Mountain Tonesmen Chorus | N/A | 325-947-TONE (8663) |
Authors
- Ken Hodgson
- Elmer Kelton, www.kelton.org
- Mike Thompson, www.thejackhorn.com
Museums
Angelo State University Planetarium- 2333 Vanderventer
The ASU Planetarium is the fourth largest planetarium in the nation among universities. The planetarium is in the Vincent Physical Science Building on the ASU campus, at the corner of Pierce and Vanderventer Streets. Dr. Mark Sonntag, director of the planetarium and an ASU professor, creates an array of programs for students and the public with three-dimensional views of the universe. Planetarium shows are at 8 p.m. Thursdays when ASU classes are in session. Admission is $3 for adults and $2.00 for children and senior citizens. ASU students, faculty, and staff are admitted free. For information call 325-942-2136, or 325-942-2188 for star date information, or e-mail sonntag@angelo.edu.
E.H. Danner Museum of Telephony – Officers Quarters #4, Fort Concho
Named for E.H. Danner, former General Telephone Co. president, this museum exhibits more than 100 antique telephone displays, original telephone directories dating back to the 1800s and an authentic switchboard from 1910. You also can see one of Alexander Graham Bell's original telephones. The museum is in Officers Quarters No. 4 at Fort Concho and observes the fort's hours.
Fort Concho Museum – see Attractions
Miss Hattie’s Bordello Museum - 18 1⁄2 E. Concho
Although it served for 50 years as a “gentlemen’s social center,” Miss Hattie’s eventually was closed by the Texas Rangers. Today, in its original location on historic Concho Avenue, Miss Hattie’s remains furnished much like it was during its heyday. Tours are Monday – Wednesday 4:00 pm & Thursday – Saturday 1-4 pm on the hour. Admission is $5.00. For more information call 325-653-0112
Nature Center Museum – see The Great Outdoors
The Railway Museum - 700 block of S. Chadbourne St.
Come and visit changing displays of railroad and depot artifacts, memorabilia, gift shop, and elaborate model train layouts of various gauges, including a permanent layout depicting San Angelo in the 1920’s. Two locomotives, a boxcar, and a caboose are on permanent display on track belonging to the depot. Museum hours are Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Admission is $1.00 for children under 12 and $3.00 for all others and adults. Those interested in arranging for a group tour at $1.50 per person or arranging for tours at other times should call 325-651-4506. The main number for the museum is 325-486-2140 and can also be called during the museum hours on Saturday’s. Visit their website at www.railwaymuseumsanangelo.homestead.com
San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts – 1 Love Street
The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and Education Center, this magnificent new museum facility has drawn international attention and praise. It is located on the Concho River adjacent to the Bill Aylor Sr. Memorial River Stage. The 30,000 square foot structure is built of native Texas limestone and has beautiful mesquite wood floors, galleries with soaring 40-foot ceilings and 4,000 square foot upper level deck with a view of the Concho River and downtown. The art museum and Angelo State University work closely at this facility and the university operates a ceramics studio that features large outdoor gas-fired kilns. The museum is unique among American museums in many ways. Its collection storage area, which houses distinguished collection of American ceramics, among other things, is open to the public. Important changing exhibits of all cultures and time periods are complimented by close to 300 programs offered annually such as adult workshops, children’s art classes, lectures, the Let’s Eat TV cooking show, and a Chamber Music Series, and more. Each mid-April thru June in even years the museum hosts the San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, which Ceramics Monthly has called, “the premier clay show in America.”
Since the temporary closing of the Children’s Art Museum, the art activities have been moved to the Education Studio at the art museum. These art activities, known as Art Thursdays, occur every Thursday from 2-6 pm. The program runs from August 18th through June 9th. There will be three hands – on activities for you and your family to experience together for only $1.00. Hours for the museum are from 10:00 AM to 4:00PM, Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:00 to 4:00 PM on Sunday. Admission is $2.00 for adults and $1.00 for senior citizens. Military, Angelo State University and SAISD students are admitted free of charge. For more information, call 325-653-3333 or go to www.samfa.org
West Texas Collection- 1910 Rosemont
Like a family scrapbook, the West Texas Collection contains the memories of occasions both momentous and mundane for our region of Texas. Those memories captured in correspondence, through business records, in photographs and on tape recordings - provide the raw material for our grandchildren and their progeny to study and understand the times and lives of us and our ancestors. The West Texas Collection is a division of the Porter Henderson Library at ASU. For more information call 325-942-2164 or e-mail WTC@angelo.edu
