Glasstire is excited to announce the second in a series of eight panel discussions across Texas. Throughout 2026, as part of the publication’s 25th anniversary, Glasstire is organizing conversations in Dallas-Fort Worth, The Panhandle, West Texas, East Texas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and The Valley. Each panel will feature artists, art critics, and arts professionals from the region discussing the area’s art and arts writing over the past two and a half decades.
The second Talking Texas Art event will be hosted at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts (LHUCA) Firehouse Theatre on Thursday, April 23, at 6:30 p.m. Panelists include Judy Tedford Deaton, Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Grace Museum in Abilene; Jon Revett, Professor of Art and Department Head of Art, Theatre, and Dance at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU); Charles Adams, founder of the Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP) and former gallerist in New York and Lubbock; and Amy Von Lintel, author and Professor of Art History at WTAMU. The panel will be moderated by William Sarradet, Glasstire’s Assistant Editor. Read more about each of the panelists below.
Throughout the year, Glasstire will announce details of the upcoming Talking Texas Art panels, so stay tuned to see when we are coming to your area.
Judy Tedford Deaton serves as the Chief Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at the Grace Museum in Abilene, where she has been curating exhibitions and overseeing the institution’s art collection since 2006. She is responsible for concept development, installation, and interpretation of 10 art exhibitions annually. Before joining The Grace, Deaton was an Associate Professor of Art History and Gallery Director at McMurry University (1995-2006). She holds a BA from the University of Texas Austin and was a recipient of the SMU Meadows Artistic Scholarship Graduate Award in Art History. Deaton is an author, art historian, frequent guest speaker, art juror, and panelist at museums and conferences, including the American Alliance of Museums, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, and the Center for the Advancement and Study of Early Texas Art (CASETA).
Deaton is currently a member of the CASETA Board of Directors, previously served on the Arts Create Grant Panel for the Texas Commission on the Arts, and was featured in the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities article for the exhibition Spanish Texas, Legend & Legacy she curated in 2016. She is also the recipient of CASETA awards for outstanding publications and exhibitions in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2025, and the Mountain-Plains Museum Association 2009 award for art exhibition publications. She is currently working on the publication Texas Photographers in The Grace Museum Collection and the monographs William Lester: True to Form and David McManaway: The Phantasmagoric World of Ordinary Things. Recent award-winning exhibitions include Witness: Black Artists in Texas: Then and Now, Linda Ridgway and Harry Geffert: A Visual Epilogue, Coreen Mary Spellman: In Her Own Right, Art and Language: A Shared Conversation and Sherry Owens: Promise Me the Earth.
Jon Revett is an artist, educator, and writer living and working in Canyon. Born in Germany and spending his formative years in Austin, he later moved to the Texas Panhandle, where he experienced his creative genesis on a trip to Robert Smithson’s Amarillo Ramp. Originally a painter, he has expanded his practice into a variety of media, including murals, sculpture, printmaking, music, video, installation, and writing. Revett exhibits frequently, has completed residencies in London and Mexico City, and is currently a Professor of Art and Department Head of Art, Theatre, and Dance at West Texas A&M University.
Charles Adams was born in Lubbock in 1942. He graduated in 1973 with a BA from New York University, and ran A Clean Well Lit Space, an art gallery in the West Village on Bleecker Street, which focused on contemporary regional printmakers, before returning to Lubbock in 1980. He opened his namesake gallery in Lubbock in 1983, which he ran for over 40 years before selling it in 2024. He also founded the nonprofit Charles Adams Studio Project (CASP), which provides artists with studio spaces, specialized equipment, educational opportunities, and galleries to show their work. CASP continues to promote an environment of creative exchange and community engagement through a wide range of programming, including public workshops, the First Friday Art Trail, artist residencies, fellowships, and more. He additionally, through CASP, developed a public print studio, metals studio, and a small foundry.
Amy Von Lintel is Professor of Art History at West Texas A&M University. Her areas of research include modern and contemporary art of the American West, women and gender, fakes and forgeries in art, and the history of art history. Her publications include Art at the Crossroads: The Surprising Aesthetics of the Texas Panhandle (2025, Texas Tech Press); two books on Georgia O’Keeffe in Texas (Radius Press/Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Texas A&M Press); the co-authored volume Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West (Texas A&M Press), and a co-authored volume on Robert Smithson in Texas. Born and raised in Kansas City, she now lives in Amarillo, where she co-owns a brewery with her husband in a historic building on Route 66.