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(CITY, STATE)—Beginning (date/time/place) , (name of sponsor) will present
“Tropical [Im]pression: A Gulf Coast Hurricane Retrospective,” an exhibition
created by the Museum of the Gulf Coast and presented in partnership with Humanities
Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The first decade of the 21st century has seen significant hurricane activity along the Gulf
Coast. In 2010, five years after Hurricane Rita, the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port
Arthur initiated the Hurricane Retrospective Project, an effort to document the recent
history of hurricanes in the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana Gulf Coast region.
The Museum of the Gulf Coast called for photographs and personal stories from those
along the Gulf Coast who lived through Hurricanes Rita and Ike. The response was
tremendous with hundreds of submissions from private citizens, amateur and professional
photographers, and businesses from the private and public sector. The collected images
were added to the museum’s permanent archives in order to preserve the history of these
events.
The culmination of the Hurricane Retrospective Project's documentary efforts
is “Tropical [Im]pression: A Gulf Coast Hurricane Retrospective,” a traveling exhibition
created by the Museum of the Gulf Coast and presented in partnership with Humanities
Texas.
The exhibition features sixty-seven color and black-and-white photographs that convey
the collective “impression” recent hurricanes made on the Gulf Coast region from
Galveston, Texas, to Cameron Parish, Louisiana.
The exhibition will be available to the public from (starting date) to (closing date) .
For more information about viewing hours or to arrange group visits, contact
(name/title) at (number) .
Humanities Texas develops and supports diverse programs across the state, including
lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, traveling exhibitions and documentary
films. For more information, please visit Humanities Texas online at
http://www.humanitiestexas.org or call 512.440.1991.