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Pennsylvania to Tennessee: page 5
Page 1: AL-FL Page 2: GA-LA Page 3: MD - NJ
Page 4: NM - OH Page 6: TX - WY

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
  • Your Art Needs You!
    • Nov. 17, 2012 - Feb. 17, 2013
Your Art Needs You!

Doylestown, PA

James A. Michener Art Museum
  • Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image
    • Nov. 3, 2012 - March 31, 2013
  • Suspended Harmonies: Fiber Art by Ted Hallman
    • Nov. 3, 2012 - March 3, 2013
  • Parting Gifts: Artists Honor Bruce Katsiff, Director/CEO, 1989 – 2012
    • Through December 9, 2012
  • Creative Hand, Discerning Heart: Story, Symbol, Self
    • Through December 30, 2012
  • Intelligent Design
    • Permanent Exhibition
Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making their World
    • Nov. 17, 2012 – April 7, 2013
  • A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards
    • Sept. 29 - Dec. 30
  • Building a Masterpiece: Frank Furness' Factory for Art
    • Sept. 29 - Dec. 30
  • A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre
    • August 4, 2012 - April 14, 2013
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
  • Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
    • Ongoing
  • Event
A Mine of Beauty: Landscapes by William Trost Richards

The Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers
    • Dec. 2, 2012 - April 14, 2013
  • Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces – A Trilogy
    • Nov. 17, 2012 - Feb. 10, 2013
  • Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp
    • Oct. 30, 2012 - Jan. 21, 2013
  • Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and The Life Line
    • Sept. 22 - Dec. 16
  • Ronaldus Shamask: Form, Fashion, Reflection
    • Oct. 6, 2012–March 10, 2013
  • Notations: Sean Scully
    • Through February 2013
  • Cy Twombly: Sculptures
  • Through March 2013
  • Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design
    • Through fall 2012
  • Events
Double Portrait: Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast, Graphic Designers

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • MAYA 2012: Lords of Time
    • May 5, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Events
MAYA 2012: Lords of Time

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art
  • Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940-1950
    • Sept. 14, 2012 to Jan. 6, 2013
  • Events

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art
  • Sound and Vision: Monumental Rock and Roll Photography
    • Sept. 21 – Dec. 30
  • Willard Hirsch: Charleston's Sculptor
    • Sept. 21 – Dec. 30
  • Events
Willard Hirsch: Charleston's Sculptor
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Pulse Dome Project: Art & Design by Don ZanFagna
    • Closes Dec. 8
  • Events
Pulse Dome Project: Art & Design by Don ZanFagna

Myrtle Beach, SC

The Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum
  • Jonathan Green - The Artist as Servant-Leader: A Retrospective of Community Engagement
    • Sept. 25 - Dec. 30, 2012
  • An Artist's Eye: A Journey through Modern and Contemporary Art with Sigmund Abeles works from the Columbia Museum of Art's Permanent Collection
    • Oct. 7, 2012- Jan. 6, 2013
  • Figuratively Speaking: The Art of Sigmund Abeles
    • Oct. 7, 2012- Jan. 6, 2013
An Artist's Eye: A Journey through Modern and Contemporary Art with Sigmund Abeles

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • South Dakota Governor's 5th Biennial Juried Exhibition
    • Through Jan. 27, 2013
  • Illustrations from The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
    • Through March 3, 2013
  • Judy and Jennifer Onofrio Fornes
    • Sept, 11, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013
  • Harvey Dunn: Depictions of Weather
    • Closes December 2!!!!
  • Marghab Linens
    • Nov. 23, 2011 - Nov., 2012

Harvey Dunn: Depictions of Weather


Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum
  • Brooks Introduces: Caleb Sparks
    • Nov 10 - Mar 17
  • The Brilliance of Tiffany: Lamps from the Neustadt Collection
    • Oct 12 - Jan 13
  • The Taste for Tiffany
    • Oct 12 - Jan 13
  • Howard Simon: Modern American Woodcuts
    • July 28, 2012 - January 27, 2013
  • Early Quilts from Southern Collections
    • Through January 6, 2013
  • Events
Howard Simon: Modern American Woodcuts
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Portrait, Patron, Muse: Women in the Dixon Collection
    • Oct. 21, 2012 - Jan. 20, 2013
  • Jim Buchman Sculpture
    • Closes Dec. 2!!!!
  • Event
Portrait, Patron, Muse: Women in the Dixon Collection
National Ornamental Metal Museum
  • Master Metalsmith: Eleanor Moty
    • Closes Dec. 2!!!!
  • Events
Master Metalsmith: Eleanor Moty
The Pink Palace Museum
  • Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees
    • Nov. 17 – Dec. 31
  • Events
Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
  • Beyond the Abyss: Phil crouch & the Bathysphere Adventure
    • Nov 15 – Feb 17
  • Denton Ridge: Mountains to Coasts
    • Nov. 2, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013
  • The Passion of Kitty Harvill
    • Extended Through Feb. 17, 2013
  • Civil Conundrum
    • Nov. 2, 2012 - Jan. 28, 2013

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center
  • Holiday Season Art Exhibition & Sale
    Works by Centennial Art Center Staff & Students
    (Fundraiser for Arts in the Parks)
    • Through Dec. 12
Holiday Season Art Exhibition & Sale
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Holiday at Cheekwood
    • Nov. 23 - Dec. 30
  • Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection
    • March 31 - Dec. 31
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Holiday at Cheekwood

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts
    • Oct. 19, 2012 – Feb. 10, 2013
  • Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
    • Sept. 21, 2012–Jan. 13, 2013
  • Brian Alfred: It’s Already the End of the World
    • Sept. 21, 2012–Jan. 13, 2013
  • Cameras & Community in Action
    • Sept. 21, 2012–Jan. 13, 2013
  • Rose on 65th Street by Sculptor Will Ryman
    • Through December 31, 2013
  • Events
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
The Parthenon
  • Distilled Accumulations: Paintings by Bill Killebrew
    • Oct. 6, 2012 – Jan. 26, 2013
  • Events
Distilled Accumulations: Paintings by Bill Killebrew

Tennessee Art League

  • Arlene Wilson, Honor the Earth
    • Dec. 1 - 31
  • Jan Batts & Pam Tyson, In Our Hearts and On Our Minds
    • Dec. 1 - 31
  • Room In the Inn, Walls, Fingers & Floors: Paintings for your walls, rings for your fingers & floor cloths for your floor
    • Dec. 1 - 31
  • Studio A Group
    • Dec. 1 - 31
  • 2012 Juried Show
    • Closes Dec. 3!!!!
  • $100 Art Show
    • Closes Dec. 3!!!!
  • Studio A Group's November featured artists
    • Closes Dec. 3!!!!
Tennessee State Museum
  • Elvis at 21: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer
    • Nov. 8, 2012 - Jan. 8, 2013
  • The Guitar: An American Love Story
    • November 8 - December 30
  • Event

Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • LONG STORY BIT BY BIT: LIBERIA RETOLD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM HETHERINGTON
    • Closes Dec. 6!!!!
  • Event
LONG STORY BIT BY BIT: LIBERIA RETOLD, PHOTOGRAPHY BY TIM HETHERINGTON

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery
  • Jessica Wohl: Domestic Disturbance
    • Nov. 30, 2012 – Feb. 17, 2013
    • University Art Gallery
  • SEAM, a solo exhibition of sculptures and installations by Jason Brown
    • Nov. 9 – Dec. 18
    • Carlos Gallery
  • Event
Jessica Wohl: Domestic Disturbance

Collegedale, TN

Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum
  • Vessels in Time: A Journey into the Biblical World
    • Through fall 2012
Vessels in Time: A Journey into the Biblical World

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum
Winter Wonders
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Exploring the Land: Landscapes from the Hunter collection
    • Dec. 1 - April 28, 2013
  • Celebrating 60 Years of the Hunter Museum
Exploring the Land: Landscapes from the Hunter collection

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Drawn and Carved: Works by Sally Ham Govan and Bill Cook, Jr.
    • Closes Nov. 30!!!!
  • Alleged Posthumous Writings by Nick DeFord
    • Closes Nov. 30!!!!
  • Marcia Goldenstein and Jean Hess
    • Closes Nov. 30!!!!
  • Arts in the Airport: 75 Years of Making Memories in Aviation
    • October 12, 2012 – April 11, 2013
  • Event
Marcia Goldenstein and Jean Hess
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • QUADRIVIUM: Joshua Bienko, Evan Meaney, Althea Murphy-Price, and Karla Wozniak
    • Nov. 18 - Dec. 16
  • Event
QUADRIVIUM: Joshua Bienko, Evan Meaney, Althea Murphy-Price, and Karla Wozniak
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan
    • Sept. 15 – Dec. 31
Zen Buddhism and the Arts of Japan
Girl Scout Museum
  • The year 2012 is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States! Special exhibit including a 100 year timeline broken into 25 year segments.
The year 2012  is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States! Special exhibit including a 100 year timeline broken into 25 year segments.
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Seventh Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition
    • Nov. 23, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013
  • Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond
    • November 9 then ongoing
  • Horizons: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
    • Through Feb. 2013
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Horizons: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries ETSU
  • "Cross Roads" BFA Studio Art Seniors' Exhibition
    • Closes Nov. 30!!!!
    • Slocumb Galleries and Tipton Gallery
Humor; Analog Humor

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