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Free admission to McNay Art Museum

OLLU would like to express its sincere gratitude to OLLU Board Chair Emeritus Bruce Flohr and his wife, Janet Flohr, for their generous donation to the 2022-2023 McNay Partnership. 

As a result of their contribution, all OLLU students, faculty and staff will enjoy year-round, complimentary admission (excluding paid exhibitions) to the McNay Art Museum. An OLLU photo ID is required for admission.

Don’t miss OLLU Day at the McNay on Sept. 8. Admission will be free all day, with a guided tour at 3 p.m. and live music and food trucks, starting at 6 p.m.

The beautiful, 25-acre McNay Museum campus features more than 22,000 works including, Medieval and Renaissance Art, 19th- through 21st-Century European and American paintings, sculpture and photographs and The Tobin Collection of Theater Arts.

The McNay is located at 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave. The museum website is https://www.mcnayart.org/.

For directions and museum hours, visit www.mcnayart.org. An OLLU photo ID is required for admission. There is a fee for special exhibits.

Free McNay Museum admission for students and employees 

Thanks to the generosity of OLLU Board Chair Emeritus Bruce Flohr, OLLU students, faculty and staff can continue to enjoy free general admission to the McNay Art Museum this coming year.

The beautiful, 25-acre McNay Museum campus features more than 22,000 works including:

•Medieval and Renaissance art
•19th- through 21st- century European and American paintings, sculptures and photographs
•Prints and drawings of the Southwest
•The Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts
•Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass
•Art of New Mexico  

For directions and museum hours, visit www.mcnayart.org. An OLLU photo ID is required for admission. There is a fee for special exhibits.

The McNay is located at 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave. The museum website is https://www.mcnayart.org/.

Painting of former OLLU art professor featured at McNay exhibition

A current exhibition at the McNay Art Museum includes “Star Gazing in Texas,” painted by the late Ida O’Keeffe, once the head of the art department at Our Lady of the Lake College.

O’Keeffe taught several courses, including “Painting” and “History of Art,” while serving as the only full-time art professor at OLL during the 1938-1939 academic year and the summer of 1939. She is the younger sister of Georgia O’Keeffe, the late artist who is considered the “Mother of Modern Americanism.” 

While at OLL in the fall of 1938, O’Keefe painted “Star Gazing in Texas,” a composition that continues through the frame itself. The painting is featured in the McNay exhibition, “Georgia O’Keeffe and American Modernism.” 

The exhibition started in January and continues through May 8. OLLU students, faculty and staff can gain free admission to the McNay and all exhibitions with their OLLU ID.

Ida O’Keeffe left OLL in 1939 and went to Cuba, where she visited family and continued painting.

To learn more about Ida O’Keeffe’s life and works, listen to a virtual talk here: 

https://bit.ly/3v7XbDd