2012 Program Meeting

The 2012 annual TOHA program meeting in joint session with the 116th annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) was held in Houston on Friday afternoon, March 2, 2012. The two papers in this session highlighted diverse ways art makes visual both history and public memory and ways oral history gives voice to artistic expressions of life and culture in Texas.

"VISIONS OF TEXAS:
Art and History in the Lone Star State"

Chair: Lois E. Myers, Baylor University, Waco

Paper: "Collage Portraits: Representing Small-Town Texas Memory with Mixed Media," presented by Paula Gerstenblatt, University of Texas at Austin

Paper: "Oral History: Making Texas Abstract Art Concrete," presented by Katie Robinson Edwards, Baylor University, Waco