Museum of the Big Bend
400 N. Harrison Street, Alpine, TX 79832 (432) 837-8143 www.museumofthebigbend.com
The Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, Texas, is celebrating 34 years of honoring the art of the cowboy with its annual Trappings of Texas show and sale. Trappings features up-and-coming artists alongside established artists from Texas, the United States, Canada and Argentina. This show and sale features custom cowboy gear like mecates, saddles, bits and spurs alongside sculpture, etchings, watercolors, pastels and oils.
The 2020 Trappings of Texas premier artist is Brian Asher of Snyder, Texas. Other artists in this year’s event include Wayne Baize, Teal Blake, Phil Bob Borman, Loren Entz, Phil Epp, Billy Hassell and Donna Howell-sickles. Gearmakers include Brooks Atwood, Rex Crawford, Shawn Didyoung, Wayne Franklin, Buddy Knight,
Lloyd Mcconnell and John Nord.
Other shows at the Museum of the Big Bend include Texas photographer Jerry Goodale,
whose images of working cowboys in the Big Bend and across the state are on exhibit through May 17. An exhibition opening June 12 features photographs by Graciela Iturbide in partnership with the Witliff Collection, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, as they celebrate the art of Iturbide’s black-andwhite photography of local people from Mexico. Alpine Photo Weekend, in partnership with the City of Alpine runs June 13 to 14. The museum’s fall exhibit, A Century of Fine Art, highlights 100 years of art at Sul Ross State University.