40th Annual Shrimp Fest Preview hosted by the Ellen Noel Art Museum
(David Gomez, Anchor)
Odessa, Texas/February 3, 2026-This is DRB MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS DIGITAL NEWS. The Ellen Noel Art Museum hosted the 40th Annual Shrimp Fest preview for local media and board members. Danny Barrera has the story.
Local media were invited to a preview of Shrimpfest 2026 hosted by the Ellen Noël Art Museum. Board members and invited guests sampled Cajun-style shrimp served on decorative tables themed around Mardi Gras and displayed throughout the museum’s event room.
(Paula Coulter, Shrimp Fest Chair-Benefiting the Ellen Noel Art Museum)
“When you go to our shrimp fest, we will have tables of and we will have all you can eat shrimp, and we will have silent auction and live auction. And we have some great ideas and and fun activities for people attending Shrimp Fest this year.’
The 40th Annual Shrimpfest 2026 supplements funding it receives through donations, membership and grants. All profits from Shrimpfest support the museum’s educational and outreach programs.
(Paula Coulter, Shrimp Fest Chair-Benefiting the Ellen Noel Art Museum)
“Our Shrimp Fest event offers funds for programming for our museum. We go into the schools in second grade offering a program called Art to go, and we also have tours of the museum for our third graders.”
For 20 years Chef Gabe Grewell along with the Chuck Wagon Gang have been donating their time to prepare and cook the variety of Cajun-Style shrimp.
(Gabe Grewell, Head Chef-40th Annual Shrimp Fest 2026)
“We have our some of our standard appetizers for the sponsor party, the shrimp Pontchartrain, the shrimp Noel, the standard boil shrimp, the shrimp fest recipe, and a new Bourbon Street scampi that I introduced this year. So this is our first. It’s going to be our first trial for another warm appetizer dish.”
The 40th Annual Shrimpfest 2026 is on Monday, February 23rd, at the Ector County Coliseum Barn G starting with the Exclusive Sponsor cocktail hour at 5:30pm to 6:45pm and the General Admission entry at 6:45pm.
For DRB Media Communications Digital News, Danny Barrera.
