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Below and opposite: Sunset Center,Amarillo’s first indoor mall, has beenconverted into an artist community.The Galleries at Sunset, with over fiftystudio-galleries, is also home to thePanhandle Art Center and the AmarilloArt Institute.Indoor activities include enjoying the widearray of visual arts venues the city has tooffer. Amarillo College is home to theAmarillo Museum of Art, founded in 1967by community members for the purpose ofshowcasing local art as well as loanedexhibits. Other venues for art lovers inAmarillo are the Panhandle Art Center,Amarillo Fine Arts Association, and AmarilloArt Institute. The Galleries at Sunset Center,home to a prolific and emerging local artsscene, opens over fifty galleries to the publicfor “First Friday Art Walk” each month.Private galleries include the IC Gallery, theRayburn Gallery, and the Carey-McDuffContemporary Art Gallery. Downtown Amarillois home to the Process Art House, a gallerywhere emerging contemporary art is featured.Panhandle Plains Historic Museum inCanyon offers loaned exhibits and is hometo the permanent collections of HaroldBugbee, Frank Reaugh, and other Texas andSouthwestern artists, as well as EasternAmerican and European art. Other exhibitsappear from time to time in Amarillo’sbanks, hotels, and restaurants. Art shows canalso be found in shops and other venueslike Blue Sage Pottery and Art Gallery, TheNat Ballroom, and The 806, all within theU.S. Route 66-Sixth Street Historic District.AMARILLO - Faces, Places & Open Spaces106