The Citadelle Art Museum

06/15/2026

𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝘁𝗵 is is this week and time is running out to register for this important session.

Teaching difficult history well is one of the hardest things a classroom asks of you. This session gives you a framework, a model, and lesson ideas you can actually use — built around the extraordinary portrait work of David Kassan, who has spent years documenting Holocaust survivors through paint and conversation.

Every grade level. Every discipline. Certificate of Completion provided. $20 includes breakfast.

Register today at thecitadelle.org/events-calendar

06/15/2026

Texas K-12 teachers, join us!

On July 8, The Citadelle is hosting Art Deco Through the Eyes of an Illustrator — a professional development morning that traces how innovation, design, advertising, and consumer culture collided between WWI and WWII and changed the visual world permanently.

You'll build interdisciplinary lesson ideas ready to use in art, social studies, ELA, and CTE classrooms, scaled for any grade level.

And you'll see three original works by J.C. Leyendecker — one of the defining illustrators of the Art Deco period — alongside a painting by his mentee, Norman Rockwell. Up close, in person, in our galleries.

Light breakfast at 8:30. Program runs 8:45 to 11:30. Certificate of Completion provided. $20.

Register at thecitadelle.org/events-calendar

06/11/2026

We are thrilled to welcome back acclaimed artist Chelsie Murfee of Chelsie Nicole Contemporary to The Citadelle for a four-day drawing workshop. Day one is already off to an incredible start as artists gather, learn, and create together.
We’re grateful to have opportunities like this that bring inspiration, creativity, and connection to our community.

06/09/2026

You're running out of time to see 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 before it 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟯.

Seven artists, months on our walls, and work that has stopped people mid-step in our galleries since February.

If you have been meaning to come, this is the weekend to do it. Bring someone. Take the drive. Slow down for an afternoon with seven of the most compelling portrait artists working today.

We would love to see you before it's gone.

Tuesday through Saturday | 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. | thecitadelle.org

𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮.

06/08/2026

Calling Texas K-12 teachers.

Holocaust Stories: Survivors' Voices is a professional development morning designed to give you new tools for one of the heaviest subjects in any classroom. Visual art opens a door that words alone often cannot, and survivor stories told through the eyes of young people give students a way in.

You will walk out with interdisciplinary lesson ideas designed for vertical adjustment within your content area. Useful for art, ELA, history, social studies, and beyond.

Open to every K-12 grade level. Open to every discipline. Certificate of Completion available for PD hours.

June 19, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at The Citadelle Art Museum in Canadian, TX. $20 ticket. Coffee and a light breakfast on us.

Save your seat at https://thecitadelle.org/events-calendar/

06/02/2026

Texas K-12 teachers, save the date.

Long before screens, illustrators sold the world an entire era. They gave Art Deco its glamour, its speed, its sense that something new was on the way.
Here is something worth knowing: The Citadelle holds three works by J.C. Leyendecker, one of the great illustrators of the Art Deco period, along with a painting by his mentee, Norman Rockwell. Teachers attending this PD will see these works up close.

On July 8, we are hosting Art Deco Through the Eyes of an Illustrator, a professional development morning that traces how innovation, design, advertising, and consumer culture grew up together between WWI and WWII. Teachers will leave with interdisciplinary lesson ideas built for vertical adjustment within the content area, ready to use in art, social studies, ELA, and CTE classrooms.

Open to every K-12 grade level and every discipline. Light breakfast at 8:30. Program runs 8:45 to 11:30. Certificate of Completion provided for PD hours.
$20 ticket. The Gallery at The Citadelle Art Museum, 520 Nelson Ave, Canadian, TX. Park at Canadian MS and use our back entrance across Wash*ta Ave.

Register and purchase tickets. Visit https://thecitadelle.org/events-calendar/

Visit, discover and experience The Citadelle Art Museum any time of year. Located in Canadian, Texas, just a short drive from Amarillo.

05/31/2026

Chelsie Nicole Murfee, award-winning portrait artist, recognized by the European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, is coming to The Citadelle June 11–14 to lead a four-day adult portrait drawing workshop.

Four days of focused instruction in form, light, proportion, and presence, inside a working museum, from an artist whose drawings are hanging on our walls right now.

Don't wait on this one - only a few spots left!

June 11–14, 2026
Registration: $625
bit.ly/Citadelle_PortraitDrawing

05/30/2026

Texas K-12 teachers, this one is for you.

Some subjects ask more of a teacher than others. The Holocaust is one of them.

On June 19, we are hosting "Holocaust Stories: Survivors' Voices," a professional development morning built around one question: how do we teach the weight of this history in a way young people can carry?

The session draws on the work of internationally celebrated painter David Kassan, whose portraits of Holocaust survivors are built through research, interviews, and painting. His approach offers teachers a model for helping students engage with difficult history honestly and meaningfully.

You will leave with lesson ideas that are interdisciplinary and ready for vertical adjustment within your content area. Open to every K-12 grade level and every discipline. Certificate of Completion provided for PD hours.

June 19, 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The Gallery at The Citadelle Art Museum, 520 Nelson Ave, Canadian, TX. $20 ticket includes a light breakfast and coffee. Park at Canadian MS and enter through our back entrance across Wash*ta Ave.

Register and purchase tickets at https://thecitadelle.org/events-calendar/

Professional development for Texas K-12 teachers. Explore new ways to teach the Holocaust through visual art and survivor stories.

05/29/2026

A church built in 1910, a family home filled with art for decades, a museum that opened its doors to the public and never looked back.

The Citadelle carries all three of those lives inside its walls, and you feel it the moment you walk in. The light through the original windows. The architecture that was never meant to be institutional. The gardens that bloom every spring like they've always belonged to this place, because they have.

This is not a white box gallery. Every room was curated with the same intention the Abraham family brought when they lived here, and that intimacy is still present in every corner of the collection. Art belongs in spaces where people actually breathe, and this building has always known that.

Come spend some time with us. Open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

What's your favorite spot in the museum? Tell us in the comments.

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05/27/2026

Drew Lindse Puentes is 19 years old, studies painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and already has a piece hanging in the United States Capitol Building. That last part bears repeating.

He won the Congressional Art Competition, a national competition open to high school students across the country, and his work was selected to be exhibited in Washington. For a kid who grew up on a ranch in the Texas Panhandle, that's a long way from the open land and livestock that shaped everything he knows about making art.

His subject matter is western life. As he puts it, "The moments I paint aren't an idea of the West, it's something I've been a part of my entire life."

Western imagery in art and media has a long history of turning cowboy culture into something theatrical. Drew pushes against that. He describes his goal plainly: "My goal is not to idealize the West, but to present it as something still alive, resilient and authentic."

Throughout high school he earned state recognition for four separate pieces and was awarded in regional and national exhibitions, including the "I Am Texas" competition, which placed one of his works at the Bryan Museum of Art in Galveston. The Congressional Art Competition win came on top of all of that.

The Citadelle has followed Drew's work and we are proud to call him one of our own. He's exactly the kind of artist this region produces when young people are given access to instruction, encouragement, and the space to develop a point of view. We sponsored him to attend the Chelsie Nicole Murfee portrait workshop here at the museum this June, and we cannot wait to see what comes next.

A few spots remain in the Chelsie Nicole Murfee portrait drawing workshop this June.

If you've been thinking about it, now is the time. bit.ly/Citadelle_PortraitDrawing