"The Big Bend Park" features 81 works by 32 artists from around the country. This statewide exhibit, guest curated by Mr. Roy Flukinger, Senior Curator of Film and Photography at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, debuted at the Houston Center for Photography in November and December of 2001.

Throughout all the various landscapes of Texas, some of the state's richest and most memorable are found in Big Bend National Park. Named a national park in 1944, it is an all-encompassing arena: an inter-section of basin and mountain; of canyon and desert; of ruins and graveyards; of weather and sky; of paved roads and poorly defined trails; of the primacy of nature itself. This exhibition demonstrates the challenge of striving to interpret and capture the changing vistas of landscape, weather and light.

The Texas Photopraphic Society, founded in 1985, is a nonprofit organization of amateur and professional photographers dedicated to supporting contempary photography as a means for creative expression and cultural insight. TPS boasts over 900 active members from 38 states and 5 countries. The Big Bend Show on exhibit at LMFA is a 3 year traveling exhibit co-sponsored by the Texas Commission on the Arts and made possible in part by a grant from the Longview Arts and Culture Commission.