Eastside gallery memorializes Black and brown musicians
one Thursday, President Clay Shorkey pontificates on the Lone Star musicians who most influenced their genres. “Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan,” he trails off, name-dropping the state’s biggest exports. “There’s so many people, but they’re all either Black or Mexican. And we don’t have statues of , so we pretty much found all these people.”
“We have 90% more than what we can show in this little building,” Shorkey says. Community Engagement Manager Morales, who organizes presentations of the museum’s offerings at local Title I schools and senior centers, estimates another 25 exhibits – spanning genres like rock, gospel, Tejano conjunto and orquesta, country, jazz, and hip-hop – are stowed away at an Austin Police Department storage facility, which the museum must vacate by next summer.
Local arts grants also support the Texas Music Museum. A 2023 check from the Creative Space Assistance Program allowed the team to restore their air-conditioning unit after a summer of sweaty tours. More recently, $50,000 from the Elevate program went toward volunteer pay.
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