It was, as Anderson dubbed it, “a gift of time”-albeit in a confounding locale. They didn’t even have to prove they had created anything. They could show their work at the Roswell Museum, if they wanted. He invited creatives from all across the nation to spend a year on his dime pursuing contemporary art, right there in the remote expanse of the Staked Plains. Anderson, a painter and arts booster who had made his bones in the oil fields, fostered one of the nation’s first artist-in-residence programs. (The other is the South Side Chicago Art Center.) Today it serves as the core gallery of the much-expanded Roswell Museum and Art Center, making it one of only two centers to last the decades. Built in classic Pueblo Revival style, it gave paid work to trained artists and nurtured the careers of people like Hondo Valley native Peter Hurd and his wife, Henriette Wyeth. The story started 80 years ago, when architects of WPA programs placed one of the nation’s 100 federal art centers on Roswell’s main drag. Seriously: Some of the best contemporary art of the past half-century sprang from a bit of federal startup money and the benevolence of a local hero in a town of but 48,000 souls. And though an oft-disputed alien encounter may get all the attention, Roswell is also a minor star of the art world, thanks to a Depression-era twist of fate. ![]() The region might well have eked it out on ranching and farming alone, but the unlikely discovery of oil thoroughly changed its fortunes. You can easily ponder why its earliest residents would have bothered to settle there on the western edge of the Llano Estacado-a land so vast and free of formations that, legend has it, Coronado’s men had to pound stakes into the ground to distinguish point A from point B. Also, his line about the French toast was amazing.Above: The newest residences give artists places to live, work, and gather.ĬURIOUS THINGS HAPPEN in Roswell. While he did get kicked out of Lily’s soccer game, Cam helped Mitch coach the team to success and encouraged him to stand up for himself. Manny’s Cam impression was spot on, you guys. Also, his slow-meatball-chewing tactic is genius. Jay was eager to get out of going to his grandaughter’s soccer game, yes, but at least he wasn’t on board with the whole foot-shooting idea. I admire her bullet-aiming skills, but she was willing to literally shoot her husband in the foot to get out of a little girls’ soccer game, which is a little concerning. She was probably also bitter that she didn’t get a cool shirt like Haley did when she went to college.Ĭlaire did use Alex’s move-in as an excuse to miss the game, she was creative in coming up with an excuse, and she deserves some props for putting up with only two five-second hugs from her daughter. ![]() ![]() To be fair, she was just nervous about college, and her goodbye to Haley was super sweet. Yeah, overemotional goodbyes are the worst, but they’re an essential part of the college drop-off. It was a little sneaky of Alex to lie to her parents about her college move-in date and only allow them five-second good-byes. ![]() She played an excellent soccer game, but whipping her shirt off was a little too much for me- what happened to innocent baby Lily? Plus hipster Luke is just weird! #ModernFamily "As an actual glasses wearer, I find this offensive" same, Alex.
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