Children's Museum of Memphis

• Balancing Act
  • Through Jan.15, 2012.
• Events

• Brooks Introduces: Kim Thomas
  • Nov 23 - Jan 15
• Armed + Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
  • Nov 12 - Mar 11
• Divine Words/Common Tongues: Reformation Era Bibles and Prints
  • July 23, 2011 - Jan 8, 2012
• Pines to Palmettos: Florida Landscapes of Walter R. Locke
  • June 11, 2011 – Jan. 8, 2012
• SMS: A Collection of Original Multiples
  • June 11, 2011 – January 8, 2012
• Events

• From Houdini to Hugo: The Art of Brian Selznick
  • Through January 9, 2012
• Victorian Visionary: The Art of Elliot Daingerfield
  • Through January 9, 2012
• Melissa Dunn: Looking for One Thing, Finding Another
  • Through January 16, 2012
• Event

• Enchanted Forest
  • Nov. 19 - Dec. 31
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial–Made in Memphis
  • Nov. 11, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2011
• The Highsmith Collection of Indian pottery
  • Ongoing
• Greatest Little Show on Earth
  
  • Ongoing

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

• Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series
  • Dec. 1, 2011 - April 1, 2012
• Peg Harvill
  • Through Jan. 8, 2012
• Painting Tennessee: Jason Saunders Landscapes
  • Through Jan. 9, 2012
• Sacred Access
  • Through Jan. 10, 2012
• View from Space
  • Through Jan. 8, 2012
• Taking Position: A Civil War Retrospective
  • Through Dec. 30
• Events

Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art

• Visions of the American West: Masterpieces Exhibition from Buffalo Bill Historical Center
  • October 22 through March 4, 2012
• William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
  • Ongoing
• TRAINS! TENNESSEE IN G
  • Through December 31
• A Frontier Christmas
  • Nov. 25 - Dec. 31
• Events

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

• To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
  • Oct. 7, 2011 – Jan. 8, 2012
• Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Journeys
  • Oct. 7, 2011 – Jan. 8, 2012
• A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
  • Sept. 9, 2011 – Feb. 5, 2012
• Tracey Snelling. "Woman on the Run," 2008–201
  • Sept. 9, 2011 – Feb. 5, 2012
• Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
  • Closes March 27, 2012
• Events

• Ray Sandusky: Lids & Finials
  • Through Dec. 31
• Ethel Smith Gallery – Elizabeth LaPenna: New Horizons
  • Dec. 3 - 30
• Studio A Group
  • Dec. 3 - 30
• Event

• Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster
  • Nov. 11 -
• Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell
  • Through Sept. 2012
• Events

University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery

• Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight
  • Dec. 2, 2011 – Feb. 12, 2012

Creative Discovery Museum

• WINTER WONDERS
  • November 19 - January 3
  • Upstairs Gallery
• HELPING HANDS
  • November 19 - January 3
  • Downstairs

Museum of Appalachia

• Christmas in Old Appalachia
  • Dec. 3 - 24

• National Juried Exhibition of 2011
  • Dec. 2, 2011 - Jan. 27, 2012
• Kit Hoefer and Kurt Weiss
  • Dec. 2, 2011 - Jan. 27, 2012
• Arts in the Airport
  • Oct. 28, 2011 – April 19, 2012

• After the Fall
  • Nov. 4, 2011 - Feb. 5, 2012.
• Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
  • Ongoing
• Sixth Annual East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition
  • Nov. 25, 2011- Jan. 8, 2012
• Ritta Elementary School
  • Education Gallery
  • Through Jan. 29, 2012.

• Windows to Heaven: Treasures from the Museum of Russian Icons
  • Closes Dec. 31

Ellen Noël Art Museum

• A Secret Passion:Vintage Costume Jewelry from the Linda Smetak Collection
  • Nov. 19, 2011- Jan. 15, 2012
• From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings by René Alvarado
  • Oct. 21, 2011 - Jan. 29, 2012
• Event

The Old Jail Center

• Face Time: Portraits from the Collection
  • Through Jan. 22, 2012
• Eric Zimmerman: Sixteen Tons
  • Through Jan. 22, 2012
• Sellors: From the Archives
  • Through Jan. 22, 2012
• Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  • reinstalllation
  • Through Jan. 31, 2012
• W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
  • Ongoing
• Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
  • Ongoing

• Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan
  • Through Jan. 8, 2012
• Ribera: Mary Magdalene in a New Context
  • Throguh Jan. 15, 2012
• New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
  • Ongoing
• Events

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

• Judy Watson - Heron Island Suite
  • Closes Dec. 18!!!!
• Collection's permanent exhibit for the 2011-12 academic year
  • 2011-12

• Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
  • Sept. 24, 2011 - July 29, 2012
• 9/11: The South Tower
  • Ongoing
• The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
  • Feb. 19 -
• The Art of Steve Harley
  • Through Dec. 2011
• Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers
  • Closes in April of 2012
• Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
  • Ongoing
• Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments
  • Ongoing
• Conserving the Carolina Room
  • Ongoing

• "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
  • April 2, 2011 through March 2012
• Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe
  • Through Dec. 31, 2012
• 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.
• Revolution in Taste
  • Ongoing exhibit
• Masterworks
  • Ongoing exhibit
• 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
• Event

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

• Boxes and Their Makers: Contemporary Woodworkers
  • Nov. 19, 2011 –Jan. 22, 2012
• Think Inside the Box
  • Nov. 19, 2011 –Jan. 22, 2012
• Events

Racine Art Museum

• Watercolor Wisconsin 2011
  • RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
  • Dec. 11, 2011 - April 21, 2012
• Collection Focus: Dorothy Gill Barnes and David Ellsworth
  • Nov. 20, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
• New Gifts to the Collection: Russian Lacquer Boxes
  • Nov. 20, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
• To Wear or Not to Wear
  • Oct. 30, 2011 – Feb. 19, 2012
• Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads
  • Oct. 21, 2011 – Feb. 5, 2012
• Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
  • July 31, 2011 – July 22, 2012
• Events

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

• Landscapes of Conrad Schwiering: Secrets from the Studio
  • Sept. 30, 2011 - May 6, 2012
• Kysa Johnson: Terrible Beauty: Pollutants and Plagues
  • Sept. 30, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
• Helen Otterson: Coevolution
  • Sept. 30, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
• Laura Splan: Reformulations
  • Sept. 30, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
• Event