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Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders 1-26-11 Newsletter
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Openings, Closings, and Events

The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

Ohio to Wisconsin - page 3

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Kentucky

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Rosson Crow: Myth of the American Motorcycle
    • Through April 3
  • Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
    • Closes Jan. 30!!!!
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
    • Opens Jan. 30 - April 24
  • At the River's Edge: Paintings by Patrick Ruane
    • Opens Jan. 30 - April 24
  • Event
Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Romance in Conflict: N.C. Wyeth’s Civil War
    • Jan. 22 -March 20
Romance in Conflict: N.C. Wyeth’s Civil War
Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Anatomy/Academy
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Oliver Grimley: Menagerie
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Anatomy Now
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Tom LaDuke: run generator
    • Extended through March 6
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
Anatomy/Academy
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Archaeologists, Travelers in Ottoman Lands
    • Through Feb. 6
  • Secrets of the Silk Road
    • Opens Feb. 5
  • Events
Archaeologists, Travelers in Ottoman Lands

Charleston, SC

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

  • Leslie Wayne: Recent Work
    • Jan. 21 - March 12
Leslie Wayne: Recent Work

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum

  • Face the Lens: Art for Social Change
    • Jan. 22 - March 27
  • (Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South
    • Jan. 8 – April 10
  • Events
(Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South
Children's Museum of Memphis
  • OUT ON A LIMB, adventures with nature and art
    • Jan. 15 - May15
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • Jan. 15 - June 15

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked
    • Jan. 21 – May 1
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • Through April 10
  • Events
William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked
The Parthenon
  • TESTIMONY: DENEEN COLEMAN-RUFF
    • Closes March 5
TESTIMONY: DENEEN COLEMAN-RUFF
Tennessee Art League
  • Brandt Hardin
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
    • Premiere Gallery
  • Vinci Kolodziejski
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
    • Ethel Smith Gallery
  • Studio A Group's featured artists for January
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
    • Second Floor Gallery

Art by prison inmates


Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • Good for You: Healthy Fun on the Run
    • Opens Jan. 29 - May 15
Good for You: Healthy Fun on the Run
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
    • Opens Jan 30 - April 24
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture

  • Taiwan Sublime: Four Photography Masters’ Visions of the Treasure Island
    • Closes Jan. 26!!!!
  • National Juried Exhibition of 2010
    • Closes Jan. 26!!!!
National Juried Exhibition of 2010
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • MIMB: Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
    • Jan 18 - Feb 7
  • Carlo Scarpa: A House and a Door
    • Jan 18 - Feb 16
MIMB: Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
    • Through Feb. 13, 2011
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Mapping the New World
    • Jan.15 - May 22
Mapping the New World

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • The Art of Devotion: Latin American Religious Art from the Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
    • Jan. 22 - April 3
  • William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest
    • Jan. 22 - April 3
  • Event
William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

  • Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic
    • Dec. 12, 2010–March 27, 2011
  • Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony
    • Ongoing
  • European Art
    • South Gallery
    • Current
  • Asian Art
    • North Gallery
    • Current
  • Pre-Columbian and African Art
    • East Gallery
  • Events
Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

  • Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
    • Opens Jan. 30 - July 17
  • Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present
    • Tower Gallery
    • Closes Jan. 29, 2012
  • Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program
    • Closes Feb. 20
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Sept. 25, 2010– Aug. 31, 2012
  • African Masks: The Art of Disguise
    • August 22 -
  • Events
Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
Meadows Museum SMU
  • Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson
    • Opens Jan. 30 ­ April 23
  • EL GRECO'S MASTERWORK PENTECOST IN A NEW CONTEXT
    • Closes Feb. 6
  • Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response
    • Closes Feb. 6
Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson

Williamsburg, VA

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

  • Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers
    • Closes in April of 2012
  • The Art of Steve Harley
    • Through December 2011
  • Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Down on the Farm
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Inspiration and Ingenuity American Stoneware
    • Ongoing exhibit.
  • Conserving the Carolina Room
    • Ongoing exhibit.
  • Exciting Expressions: Painted Furniture
    • Ongoing exhibit.
  • We the People Three Centuries of American Folk Portraits
    • Through July 31, 2011
  • Introduction to American Folk Art\
    • Ongoing exhibit.
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
  • Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection
    • November 25, 2010 -
  • Rebuilding Charlton's Coffeehouse
  • Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet
    • Through May 31, 2012.
  • Declarations of Independence
    • Exended Through August 2011
  • American Furniture: From Virginia to Vermont
    • Through March 6, 2011
  • Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Identifying Ceramics: The Who, What and Ware
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Musical Instruments
    Ongoing exhibit
  • Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Lock, Stock, and Barrel
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Artistry and Ingenuity
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Revolution in Taste
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Masterworks
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Event

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 3
  • It's Herman Miller Time: Today's Furniture Makers Respondn
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 3
  • Google Doodles: Design for the Modern Office
    • Opens Jan. 29 - April 3
  • Events
I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art Candy

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner at RAM
    • January 23 through May 8
  • 44th Year of Watercolor Wisconsin
    • Dec. 12, 2010 - April 30, 2011
  • Collection Focus in Fibers: John McQueen and Carol Eckert at RAM
    • Oct. 17, 2010 - Feb. 6, 2011

Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner at RAM

Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

  • Structure and Improvisation: Contemporary Quilts of Nancy Crow, Rosalie Dace,Michael James and Paula Nadelstern
    • Jan. 21 - May 1
  • Lois Willson
    • Jan. 21 - May 1
  • Conrad Schwiering Studio collection
    • Ongoing
Structure and Improvisation: Contemporary Quilts of Nancy Crow, Rosalie Dace,Michael James and Paula Nadelstern


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