{"id":836405,"date":"2026-09-04T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836405\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:56:09","slug":"amarillo-art-institute-opens-route-66-centennial-art-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/836405\/","title":{"rendered":"Amarillo Art Institute opens Route 66 centennial art exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Amarillo Art Institute is opening a new exhibit Friday celebrating the Route 66 centennial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The institute will hold an opening reception for \u201cThe Mother Road: Open Air, Open Road\u201d Sept. 4 at 4 p.m. at Arts in the Sunset, 3701 Plains Blvd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The opening reception is open to the public. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The exhibit features original works from 46 artists along Route 66 in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur goal is to preserve the visual story of Route 66 through contemporary plein air painting,\u201d said Phyllis Gunderson, event chair. \u201cEvery plein air painting becomes a unique interpretation of one of America\u2019s most treasured byways, connecting artists with our treasured heritage and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The artwork will be available to buy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The exhibit will be on display through Oct. 3. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KFDA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) &#8211; The Amarillo Art Institute is opening a new exhibit Friday celebrating the Route 66&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-836405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}