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 Updated: 5/26/2011 
Dishman Art Museum
Beaumont, Texas
Description

The Dishman Art Gallery is a teaching facility in the Art Department at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. Exhibitions change monthly. The gallery features one-person exhibition of contemporary artists, group exhibitions of contemporary artists, Art Department faculty shows, graduating senior shows, a national competition (The Dishman Competition), artist-in-residency, Grand Bal (annual art auction), and High School Scholarship exhibitions. There are three gallery spaces - Upper Gallery, Lower Gallery, and the Heinz and Ruth Eisenstadt Collection which consists of 150 19th-century paintings and 250 porceleins and objets d'art.

History

The gallery opened in 1983.

Artifact Collections

African - 40 pieces

New Guinea - 20 pieces

19th-century painting - 150 paintings

contemporary art - 200 pieces

20th-century prints - 50 prints

Programs

Gallery internship; museum studies program on graduate level.

Can borrow educational materials for cost.

Street Address
4400 S M L King Jr Pkwy
Beaumont, TX 77705
Mailing Address
Art Department
Box 10027
Beaumont, TX 77710
phone: 409-880-8959
e-mail: alicia.hargreaves@lamar.edu
home page: lamar.edu/dishman
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