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Photographic essay celebrates 80 years of Rangerette history at Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Exhibit on display March 13 through July 3
Kilgore Rangerettes By Blake Holland | March 11, 2021 at 8:37 PM CST - Updated March 12 at 11:21 AM
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - They are the world’s best-known collegiate drill team; an American phenomenon that calls East Texas home. And East Texans will soon have the opportunity to take a photographic journey through their history.
The Longview Museum of Fine Arts will soon play host to a photographic essay celebrating 80 years of the Kilgore College Rangerettes.
Photographer O. Rufus Lovett first started capturing Rangerette magic while working at Kilgore College in 1989.
Clint Willour
Clint Willour, a giant of the Texas art scene, died of cancer on Thursday, February 4, 2021. He was 79.
Throughout his nearly 50-year career, the impact Mr. Willour had on the transformation of Houston into a destination for art cannot be overstated. He arrived in the city in 1970, when its contemporary art scene was fledgling, and his ethos and generosity continued to influence on the city’s museums, nonprofits, and galleries until his death.
Mr. Willour is perhaps best known across Texas for his 25-year stint as curator at the Galveston Arts Center (GAC) a nonprofit, non-collecting art space located in the port city. During his tenure as curator, from 1990 to 2016, he oversaw multiple exhibition spaces in the building and organized the Galveston Art Walk into a successful, regular event. At GAC, Mr. Willour gave many Texas artists their first institutional exhibition opportunities; he would include young artists alongside Texas stalwarts in group shows, and would