Amarillo: Faces, Places & Open Spaces

Below and opposite: Sunset Center,
Amarillo’s first indoor mall, has been
converted into an artist community.
The Galleries at Sunset, with over fifty
studio-galleries, is also home to the
Panhandle Art Center and the Amarillo
Art Institute.
Indoor activities include enjoying the wide
array of visual arts venues the city has to
offer. Amarillo College is home to the
Amarillo Museum of Art, founded in 1967
by community members for the purpose of
showcasing local art as well as loaned
exhibits. Other venues for art lovers in
Amarillo are the Panhandle Art Center,
Amarillo Fine Arts Association, and Amarillo
Art Institute. The Galleries at Sunset Center,
home to a prolific and emerging local arts
scene, opens over fifty galleries to the public
for “First Friday Art Walk” each month.
Private galleries include the IC Gallery, the
Rayburn Gallery, and the Carey-McDuff
Contemporary Art Gallery. Downtown Amarillo
is home to the Process Art House, a gallery
where emerging contemporary art is featured.
Panhandle Plains Historic Museum in
Canyon offers loaned exhibits and is home
to the permanent collections of Harold
Bugbee, Frank Reaugh, and other Texas and
Southwestern artists, as well as Eastern
American and European art. Other exhibits
appear from time to time in Amarillo’s
banks, hotels, and restaurants. Art shows can
also be found in shops and other venues
like Blue Sage Pottery and Art Gallery, The
Nat Ballroom, and The 806, all within the
U.S. Route 66-Sixth Street Historic District.
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