Blackwell School

[gallery ids="39199,39210"] Elise Pepple talks to Borderland Collective's Jason Reed and Mark Menjivar. The organization is a long-term art and education…

At a dozen locations around the city, you’ll find 15 photos showing the day-to-day life of kids who went to the Blackwell School, Marfa’s once segregated school for Mexican-American children.

By Carlos Morales and Sally BeauvaisAs you drive west on Highway 90 into Marfa, you’ll spot a new landmark from the road: a community mural, painted in…

[gallery ids="32517,32031,32115,32118,32534,32199,32292,32291,32356"] The "Voices of Blackwell” series was produced in partnership with the Blackwell…

Over the last 10 years, there have been two big pushes to collect the oral histories of former Blackwell School students. Both efforts eventually stalled…

The historic Blackwell School served as the segregated Hispanic school for children in Marfa from its formation in the late 1800's until the town's…

Tom Michael speaks with Jack Sanders of Camp Design Build Adventure and community organizers Ann Marie Nafziger and Peter Stanley (designer of the…