Smithsonian ‘Spark!’ exhibit on view in Kerrville through June 28
“Spark! Places of Innovation,” part of the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, is on view at the Kerr Arts & Cultural Center through Sunday, June 28. Kerrville is the first of six Texas venues to host the exhibit, which explores how ingenuity has taken root in small communities across the country. Admission is free.
A Smithsonian traveling exhibit on rural innovation has made Kerrville its first Texas stop, pairing national panels with a locally built tribute to Kerr County’s own innovators.
“Spark! Places of Innovation,” part of the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, is on view at the Kerr Arts & Cultural Center through Sunday, June 28. Kerrville is the first of six Texas venues to host the exhibit, which explores how ingenuity has taken root in small communities across the country. Admission is free.
Alongside the Smithsonian’s standing panels, a local committee assembled a companion exhibit, “Small Towns Big Ideas,” in the center’s Derby and Cornels galleries. Committee members wrote the Kerr County stories themselves after what organizers described as lengthy discussion, and Linda Stone designed and assembled 38 panels grouped under four themes: arts, heritage, social and technology.
KACC Executive Director Lanza Teague applied for the Smithsonian exhibit and convened the local committee, whose members included Bunny Bond, Elaine Capers, Leslie Jones, Katy Kappel, Angela Kennedy, Barbara Oates, Delayne Sigerman and Laura Sturton.
Display cases in the Cornels Gallery hold loaned artifacts that trace local craft and industry — among them shingle-making tools, examples of the Kerrville Axe and Kerrville Knife, chert samples, hummingbird feeders, a Kerrville Art Club scrapbook and Mooney Aircraft memorabilia.
The center is at 228 Earl Garrett St. in downtown Kerrville. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For more information, call the center at 830-895-2911.
Related Spark! programming and activities are also featured at partner sites around town, including Arcadia Live, the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library, the Heart of the Hills Heritage Center, the Museum of Western Art, Rails a Cafe at the Depot, the Riverside Nature Center, Schreiner University’s Logan Library and the Texas Hill Country Atelier.
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