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.
The gallery opened in 1983.
African - 40 pieces
New Guinea - 20 pieces
19th-century painting - 150 paintings
contemporary art - 200 pieces
20th-century prints - 50 prints
Gallery internship; museum studies program on graduate level.
Can borrow educational materials for cost.