Author Michael Grauer

Talk and book signing by Michael Grauer

Saturday, August 9, 1:00-3:00 PM
Museum of the Big Bend

Author Michael Grauer, contributor and image editor of Making the Unknown Known: Women in Early Texas Art, 1860s-1960s, will be giving a talk and signing books at the museum. Book copies will be available for purchase through the Museum Giftshop.

This event is free and open to the public.

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Michael R. Grauer holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history from the University of Kansas; the Master of Arts in art history from Southern Methodist University; and the Master of Arts in history from West Texas A&M University. He began his career at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was curator of art and Western heritage at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum for 31 years. From 2018 to 2024 he was McCasland Chair of Cowboy Culture/Curator of Cowboy Collections & Western Art at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Michael has curated over 150 exhibitions on Western art, culture and history and has authored over 70 publications. In 2020, his book, Making a Hand: The Art of H.D. Bugbee, received the Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Best Western Art Book. In 2021 He was inducted into the Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame at Dodge City, Kansas, as Cowboy Historian for 2021. Michael was image editor and one of the essayists for the award-winning Making the Unknown Known: Women in Early Texas Art, 1860s-1960s. In spring 2025 Michael started his own business cleverly named Michael R. Grauer LLC where he now consults, guest curates, writes, and presents on all things art, history, and cultures with the usual suspects.