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The festival is inherently embedded in the landscape of Far West Texas and deeply engaged with Marfa's cultural history and present-day community. Building 98 , also located in Marfa, is a project of the International Woman's Foundation, which has operated an artist-in-residency program since 2002.
[3] [4] The site memorializes the history of supposedly "separate but equal" practices in Texas and elsewhere, as well as the role of education in Mexican American culture and the Marfa community. [5] The main schoolhouse building is made of adobe and has three rooms. [6]
Students on the merry-go-round at Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, in a photograph taken in the 1940s. The far west Texas school was once one of many schools throughout the American Southwest ...
Building 98, Marfa, Texas, 2012. Located at Fort David A. Russell's central complex is Building 98, a project of the International Woman's Foundation and the home of the iconic World War II German POW murals. The murals were completed in 1945 by Hans Jürgen Press and Robert Humpel, both German prisoners of war held at the base. The building ...
But Silva and others decided their experience, however painful, was vital history — a monument to the type of segregation immortalized by the movie “Giant,” filmed in Marfa in 1956. They ...
Jul. 18—WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally established the Blackwell School in Marfa as part of ...
The Presidio County Courthouse is located in Marfa, Presidio County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1964.
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Marfa, Texas. Pages in category "People from Marfa, Texas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.