Last updated: 5/26/2011
Beaumont, Texas
Street Address
4400 S M L King Jr PkwyBeaumont, TX 77705
Mailing Address
Art DepartmentBox 10027Beaumont, TX 77710
phone: 409-880-8959
e-mail: alicia.hargreaves@lamar.edu
web: lamar.edu/dishman

Museum Type(s)

Art

Staff

Alicia Hargreaves
phone:
Dr Jessica Dandona
phone:
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

Educational Programs

Gallery internship; museum studies program on graduate level.

Can borrow educational materials for cost.

Publications

A brochure deals with the gallery's permanent collection.

The gallery publishes one exhibition catalogue per year.

Exhibitions
Museum Events
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