L.A. Shively opted not to title any of the photographs in “Texas Seabees: Deep in the Heart of Iraq.” She didn’t want words getting between viewers and the documentary-style images of the men and women of the Navy battalion in the exhibit for Fotoseptiembre USA, the annual international photography festival.

Current exhibits at Cactus Bra Space, Joan Grona and Blue Star Contemporary Art Center.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed TV miniseries, “Lonesome Dove: Photographs by Bill Witliff” offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the making of a Western classic.

About a year and a half ago, photographer Libby Rowe began playing with the simple geometric shape of a childhood home in her work, locating it in the world she saw around her.

“There’s so much movement, so much grace,” Susan Toomey Frost murmurs, tracing the outline of a glazed flower on a ceramic tile with her index finger. “There is so much play in his designs, and I think it was because he was a dancer.”

Guillermo Nicolas, an art collector and civic leader with experience in TV and real estate, will run the organization that oversees the Museo Alameda and the Henry Ford Academy.

When Joan Frederick turned 35 in 1984, she had an epiphany — and not the good kind. The futility of her life hit her like the onset of restless leg syndrome.

SAY Sí makes Fotoseptiembre USA twice as nice with a pair of exhibitions.