The beauty of The Wittliff Collections is in its staff, who work together on all exhibits, with the ability to respond in real time to the world around us. The goal is to provide inspiration.
It is in that spirit that the new spacious foyer with exhibit cases outside the new Lonesome Dove gallery and the reader and writer’s rooms has been renamed La Avenida (the Avenue) and is conceived as an area for wide-ranging displays and exhibitions.
La Avenida is currently home of two new bronze busts by artist Clete Shields – of Lydia Mendoza and Willie Nelson – as well as a portrait of R&B, blues and jazz great Spot Barnett, and an exhibit dedicated to novelist John Rechy, author of “City of Night.”
Hector Saldaña is curator of the Texas Music Collection, part of The Wittliff Collections. The Wittliff Collections are located on the San Marcos campus of Texas State University. Get more information about the collections on the web at thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu
