People who missed the Witte Museum’s highly effective exhibit “Black Cowboys: An American Story” when it opened in 2021 are getting one other shot. The Witte has introduced the exhibit again, updating it with the newest scholarship and including extra tales concerning the lives of the Black males, ladies and kids who labored on Texas ranches earlier than and after emancipation.
The exhibit, which runs June 15 by Feb. 9, tells modern tales, as nicely. The boots displayed in a single case have been worn by Larry Callies in 2011. Callies made a reputation for himself as a roper and a singer, opening for Selena and Travis Tritt, amongst others, till he misplaced his voice within the Nineties. He has stated that he requested God for steerage on what he ought to do subsequent and was informed he ought to open a Black cowboy museum.
So, he did. The Black Cowboy Museum will be present in Rosenberg close to Houston.
The mission of the exhibit is underscored by the saddle displayed with Callies’ boots. It was used within the early 1900s by a cowboy whose identify is misplaced to historical past and represents the many individuals whose tales weren’t preserved.
The Gallery
Witte Museum3801 Broadway
The Work
Larry Callies’ boots with saddleOn show till Feb. 9, 2025
