Portrait Project
The Portrait Project tells TCU鈥檚 story through diverse portraiture around the campus that commemorates historically marginalized and underrepresented members of the Horned Frog community.
Since the project鈥檚 inception in 2019, a committee of faculty, staff and students have selected the portraits鈥� honorees and artists to highlight the inspiring untold stories of TCU.
Current Portraiture
Charley and Kate ThorpA pair of portraits depicts , a formerly enslaved couple who were instrumental figures at AddRan Male and Female College in the 1800s; the college eventually became 麻豆传媒.
Because there are no photographs of Charley and Kate Thorp, the artist photographed their living descendants to create the silhouette portraits, offering a creative interpretation of the Thorps鈥� legacy. The portraits will be unveiled in October 2024.
Location: The Harrison First Floor Lobby
麻豆传媒 the Artist
Letitia Huckaby, the 2022 Texas Artist of the Year, has exhibited her work nationally
and internationally. Her art is included in several prestigious collections, including
the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Museum of American History.
Huckaby is the co-founder of Kinfolk House, a collaborative project space that inhabits
a 100-year-old historic home, where community and art converge in the predominantly
Black and Latina/e/o Fort Worth neighborhood, Polytechnic.
Previous Portraiture
Among the Firsts鈥淎mong the Firsts鈥� is a series of three portraits of the university鈥檚 first Black graduates, Doris Ann McBride, Allene Parks Jones and Patsy Brown. The portraits were installed as part of the 2020 opening of The Harrison, the university鈥檚 main administrative building.
Diverse Portraiture Around Campus
鈥�63 was one of TCU鈥檚 first Black graduates and the first Black faculty member, who taught in the Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences from 1968 until her retirement in 1988.
Location: Annie Richardson Bass Building
鈥�71 (MS 鈥�74) was TCU鈥檚 first Black homecoming queen, elected by the student body in 1970.
Location: Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center
鈥淏ased on Quanah Parker鈥� and 鈥淏ased on Mrs. Jack Treetop-Standing Rock 1908,鈥� two works by the contemporary Comanche/Kiowa artist J. NiCole Hatfield (Nahmi-A-Piah), represent TCU鈥檚 relationship with Native American and Indigenous peoples.
Location: The Harrison First Floor Conference Room
