The Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, located downtown, is the art hub in the Hub City. The center, called LHUCA for short, is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary this September. LHUCA has made an impact on the art community in Lubbock.
“It’s really important to have a space like this,” said the program director of the LHUCA, Jakob Reynolds. “As an artist growing up in Lubbock, there was a lot of inspiration but not necessarily enough of venues for artists to showcase their work or connect with one another or really create that thriving and vibrant artistic culture that we’re staring to grow here.”
LHUCA hopes it’s events, classes and program spread throughout the region.
“Lubbock is not known worldwide as a really large art center in Texas but I think LHUCA has helped to show everybody in the region and in the wider areas what Lubbock has to offer,” Reynolds said.
But it’s biggest mission is to inspire the next future artists of America.
“Art is in Lubbock is very special to me because I grew up being very interested in art but didn’t have an outlet until I discovered LHUCA,” said the LHUCA guest services coordinator, Mica McGuire. “I started coming to the clay studio on our campus and fell in love with it and it inspired me to go to school for art.”