This website was developed through a partnership between the Blaffer Gallery and the University of Houston's College of Education. Joy Zhou, a graduate student in the University's Instructional Technology Program was lead web developer for the site, and worked under the direction of Dr. Bernard Robin, Associate Professor in the UH Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Katherine Veneman, Blaffer's Curator of Education, and Susan Conaway, Curatorial Assistant for the Blaffer Gallery, provided invaluable assistance in the design and creation of the site, as did Blaffer intern, Gina Marie De Leon, an Architecture student at the University of Houston. Special thanks to Amy Bradford, Peter Zweig, and James Surls for their help in narrating several of the video segments located in the high-bandwidth section of the site.

The collaborative team would also like to acknowledge the role of Terrie Sultan, Director of the Blaffer Gallery, whose vision and leadership not only allowed this website to come to fruition, but also helped create the art and technology partnership that is now involved in its third major web-development project.

James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977-1997 was made possible in part by generous support from an anonymous donor, the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation, Marilyn Oshman, and Carey C. Shuart.

Funding was also provided by Nancy C. Allen, Tim and Nancy Hanley, Ann and James Harithas, Claudia and David Hatcher, Molly Hipp and Ford Hubbard III, Sharon and Gus Kopriva, Nancy and Rob Martin, Karen and Eric Pulaski, Shirley and Don Rose, and Texas State Bank.

The digital stories on this site, Terrie Sultan on the Works of James Surls, Impressions of James Surls in Splendora, and Splendora: A Love Story by Eleanor Hartney were excerpted from James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977-1997, copyright © 2005 by the University of Texas Press and Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.