Exhibitions and programs are made possible in part by grants from the City of Wichita Falls as administered by the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture, the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation, and the Texas Commission on the Arts; the J.S. Bridwell Foundation; the Bryant Edwards Foundation; the Fain Foundation; the Lola Pitzer Endowment; and MSU Texas with support from the Museum Trust Fund and individual donors to Texoma Gives and the Museum Annual Fund.
Current Exhibitions
As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, explore how print culture was crucial to the American Revolution. Prints, books, and newspapers shaped colonists' reactions to British rule, informed Americans of major developments during the war, and commemorated beloved leaders after the United States gained its independence. Read about these important works thanks to students' research in Dr. Draper's Revolutionary America class.
Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, Framing Nature: Animals through Art invites us to consider the different ways animals have been portrayed in the visual arts, what these images say about our relationship to the natural world, and how art shapes our ways of thinking about the beasts and creatures we study, hunt, admire, fear, and adore. The exhibit brings together American and European art from the eighteenth century to the present, including collection highlights, works rarely exhibited, and some presented for the first time.
Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations is an exhibition of 35 original illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Caldecott Medal-winning artists. The illustrations that comprise this exhibition are from the permanent collection of the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University, which began collecting Caldecott-awarded illustrations with the acquisition of seven original works in 1984.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Explore a broad selection of cameras from the 1890s through the 20th century in our Teaching Gallery and learn about the way photographic technologies and camera design evolved in response to popular demand.
Based on an extensive donation to the WFMA, this exhibition presents over fifty gelatin silver prints by the artist from over seven decades and his lifelong focus on the symbiotic power of nature and photography.