Hurley Skate Team members to sign autographs and visit with fans at Collin Creek Mall Friday evening, May 22.

Meet professional skateboarders from the world-renown Hurley Skate Team at Zumiez at Collin Creek Mall on Friday, May 22 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Team members Bob Burnquist, Diego Bucchieri, Andrew Genovesi and Dyson Ramones will be on hand to sign autographs and visit with fans. Whiles supplies last, there will also be giveaways from Zumiez, located on the lower level near Dillard’s.

The works of more than 50 African-American artists from the late 1800s to the present will be on view at the Amon Carter Museum from June 6 through August 23, 2009, in the special exhibition The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper. The Kelley collection is one of the most esteemed private collections of African-American art, and the special exhibition features more than 90 works on paper by artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, William H. Johnson, Alison Saar and Charles White.
 
Admission is free to all special exhibitions at the Amon Carter Museum.
 
Two significant eras are the focus of the exhibition: the 1930s and 1940s, a period which saw the birth of African-American regionalism, and the 1960s and 1970s, which saw the rise of politically motivated and African-inspired themes; subjects range from racism and its related hardships to family, music and religion.
 
“An array of fascinating, vivid imagery makes this exhibition particularly compelling,” says Jane Myers, senior curator of prints and drawings. “Virtually every work clearly emanates from the artists’ own powerful, personal narrative.”

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California. African-American Art: Selections from the Amon Carter Museum’s Collection was organized by the Amon Carter Museum. 

Information courtesy of Tracy Greene