Bruce Shackelford

Bruce Shackelford

Bruce Shackelford is the Texas History Curator for the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas. Shackelford has created a number of exhibitions dealing with the history of the American west and Texas art. He was the curator for the Robert J. and Helen C. Kleberg South Texas Heritage Center that opened at the Witte in 2012. During his time at the Witte Shackelford has written two books, Photography on the South Texas Frontier- Images from the Witte Museum Collection, and The Wests of Texas- Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs, as well as chapters for King Ranch, A Legacy in Art, Al Rendon, Mi Cultura, and a number of publications including Black Cowboys of Texas from TAMU Press and a number of publications.

Shackelford served as curator-Director of the Creek Council House National Landmark in the 1970s and 1980s. He then worked as an art consultant until the late 1980s when he returned to the museum world as guest curator at the Witte Museum for the exhibit Thundering Hooves: 500 Years of Horsepower in the American West which toured nationally.

Shackelford started working on the television series Antiques Roadshow for WGBH Harvard Public Television in the mid 1990s. He has participated on the show for 27 seasons as of summer 2023.

Shackelford received a BFA degree from the University of Texas, 18hrs graduate work at UT, and an MFA from the University of Oklahoma.