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Dord Fitz
School and Gallery
1710 Taylor DR 2-9741

Amarillo, Texas
February 24, 1960

Dear Miss Sterne:
Following is the schedule for the Women's Art Exhibit in Amarillo. Arrive Thursday night. My Thursday night class will be in session. A party will be in order if the travelers wish. Friday we must leave Amarillo at 10:30 a.m., in order to get in the things of local color. Drive to Startford, Texas, through the golden spread where the open spaces and far flung horizon will embrace you. At one pint one looks back to see Amarillo thirty miles away on the level plain. Sometimes if the mirage is right, it towers into the sly like a giant.

Out of Startford we will visit famous ranches of the Old West and be entertained by a host of real cowboys. We will have a chuck wagon lunch on a ranch that covers eighty-six miles.  The day will terminate with a real beef barbecue dinner. 

The show will open to artists and art patrons at the gallery, 2 p.m., Saturday, March 19. We will all have a relaxed and fun time, then be served a buffet supper in the gallery. At 8 p.m., we will move to the auditorium of Amarillo College and share all the art we can discuss with the public. At 10 p.m., we are all free, and there will be a party for all who want to got at one of the large homes here. 

Sunday 2 p.m., we must be ready to spend a couple of hours in the gallery greeting the public. That day the exhibit will open to the public with a reception given by the Federated Clubs of Amarillo. 

You will all be cared for and can go as guests into homes or stay here in the gallery all together. We want you in Texas as long as you can stay. 

Here are some of the things that we think. Knowledge and awareness that leads to wisdom are two different things, but they are dependent one upon the other. The knowledge of physical laws must be available and mastered if awareness is to happen into wisdom. These physical laws are conscious tangibles--the creative act is a subconscious or an unconscious tangible. Knowledge made up of facts concerning the laws of nature as they apply to the structure of art can be taught to the average mind, and, under proper stimuli, the average mind can break its barriers and become creative, with no bounds. 

We have a school of 100 active people, another 100 move in and out but forever skirt our shores. These people know that love and respect for human kind is synonymous with the creative mind. They are not planning to be great artist, but they will all be intelligent and trained consumers. 

I teach ten classes a week in seven centers over the area. We have