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Press Release 12-8-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Williamsburg, VA

About the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Colonial and contemporary artists and craftspeople work outside the mainstream of academic art to record aspects of everyday life, making novel and effective use of the materials at hand. Bold colors, simplified shapes, and imaginative surface patterns can be seen in the variety of paintings, carvings, toys, needlework they create.

The Folk Art Museum offers changing exhibitions of American folk art from its permanent holdings and museum loan shows.

Exhibitions: The Art of Steve Harley Through December 2011
Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers Closes in April of 2012
We the People Three Centuries of American Folk Portraits Through July 31, 2011
Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art Ongoing
Other Exhbitions Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments Ongoing exhibit Down on the Farm Ongoing Inspiration and Ingenuity American Stoneware Ongoing Conserving the Carolina Room Ongoing Exciting Expressions: Painted Furniture Ongoing Introduction to American Folk Art Ongoing

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Williamsburg, VA

About the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
The award-winning DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum houses the Foundation’s renowned collection of British and American fine and decorative arts dating from 1600 through 1830. Featured in regularly changing exhibitions, these include the world’s largest collection of Southern furniture; nationally important holdings in English silver and pewter; a vast collection of 18th-century clothing and textiles; and one of the largest collections of British ceramics outside England. Masterworks and period pieces acquired for Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area exhibition buildings bolster the museum’s holdings in furniture, metals, ceramics, glass, paintings, prints, maps, tools, weapons, numismatics and textiles.

Exhibitions: Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection November 25, 2010 -
Declarations of Independence. Through December 2010
Pottery With a Past: Stoneware in Early America Through January 2, 2011
American Furniture: From Virginia to Vermont Through March 6, 2011
Other Exhbitions Rebuilding Charlton's Coffeehouse Ongoing exhibit Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet Through May 31, 2012. Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg Ongoing Identifying Ceramics: The Who, What and Ware Ongoing Musical Instruments Ongoing Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection Ongoing Lock, Stock, and Barrel Ongoing Artistry and Ingenuity Ongoing Revolution in Taste Ongoing Masterworks Ongoing

Openings, Closings, and Events
The newsletter is now divided into three pages: California to Kentucky - page 1 Click here for page 2 - Alabama to North Carolina Click here for page 3 - Ohio to Wyoming

Huntsville, AL Huntsville Museum of Art thINK Boston Printmakers Members’ Exhibition Opens Dec. 19 – Jan. 30 *Rebels With a Cause: American Impressionist Women* Nov. 21, 2010 – Feb. 6, 2011 *Encounters: Mark Messersmith* Through Jan. 16, 2011 *We Hate Jackson Pollock: Beyond Abstract* Through Feb. 27, 2011 Event

Stanford, CA Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts Extreme Makeover: A Fresh Look at the Cantor Arts Center's Contemporary Collection Opens December 15, then ongoing Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from 16th-Century Italy: Promised Gifts from the Kirk Edward Long Collection November 3 – February 27, 2011 Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates Oct. 13, 2010 – March 20, 2011 Longing for Sea Change: Odile and Odette June 16 – January 9, 2011 Go Figure! Sept. 1 - August 5, 2012 Collection Highlights from Europe 1500 - 1800, Ancient Greece and Rome ongoing Mami_wata1Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas August 4, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Event

Torrance, CA Torrance Art Museum South Bay Focus Closes December 17

Laguna Beach, CA Laguna Art Museum John Paul Jones Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011 E. Roscoe Shrader Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011 Sean Duffy: Searcher Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011 Masterstrokes: Selections from Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Members Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011 Events

Pomona, CA American Museum of Ceramic Arts Peregrinación: Mexican Folk Ceramics Event

New London, CT Lyman Allyn Art Museum American Stories Ongoing *Members Collect: The Thrill of the Chase* Oct. 17, 2010 -March 20, 2011 Event

Washington, D.C. Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens A Photographic Journey of the Ambassador’s Daughter: Moscow, 1937-38 Oct. 21, 2010 - May 29, 2011 Events

Daytona Beach, FL The Southeast Museum of Photography *Spirit: From the Infinity Series* Nov. 20, 2010- Feb. 6, 2011 Odyssey: The Photographs of Linda Connor Nov. 20, 2010- Feb. 6, 2011 I still do – Judith fox Closes Dec. 16 Photographs - Elaine ling Closes Dec. 16 Events

Winter Park , FL Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College MASTER/Plan: Visionary Architects and Their Utopian Worlds Sept. 11 - Dec. 23 Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor Sept. 11 - Dec. 23 REMIX: Old and New Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection Sept. 11 - Dec. 23 Event

West Palm Beach, FL Norton Museum of Art Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation Dec. 12, 2010 – March 6, 2011 Artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits Oct. 9, 2010 – Jan. 9, 2011 Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art Sept. 4, 2010 - Feb. 8, 2011 John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist October 2, 2010 – January 2, 2011 Event

Miami, FL The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 Florida Artists Series: Selections from Anomie 1492-2006: Arnold Mesches Oct. 13 - Dec. 5 Sequentia: Xavier Cortada Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 *La Habana Moderna* In The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 Event

Miami Beach, FL The Wolfsonian-Florida International University *Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection* Ongoing *Advertising for Health* Ongoing *Speed Limits* September 17 - Event

Atlanta, GA Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University Wondrous Transformations: Photographs by Michael A. Smith Through Jan. 16, 2011 Events

Augusta, GA Morris Museum of Art Introducing America to Americans: FSA Photography Nov. 20, 2010–Jan. 30, 2011 Helen M. Turner: The Woman's Point of View Oct. 9, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011 Events

Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection Nov. 7, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011 Framed November 5, 2010-March 6, 2011 Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection Nov. 7, 2010-Jan. 30, 2011 *Andy Warhol Enterprises* Oct. 10, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 *Ball-Nogues Studio: Gravity's Loom* Sept. 3, 2010 - March 6, 2011 Drawings to Prints July 3, 2010 - January 2, 2011 Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA's Collection April 10, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011 Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous April 17, 2010-January 23, 2011 Events

Logan, KS The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum Golden Age of Jazz Closes December 12!!!!

Wichita, KS Wichita Art Museum British Watercolors: Featuring Gifts of Virginia & George Ablah And The Friends of the Wichita Art Museum Through Jan. 30, 2011 *Bernard Chaet: Paintings From the 1960's Through the Present* Oct. 10, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011 Events

Paducah, KY The National Quilt Museum Everchanging River Opens Dec. 9, 2010 - March 7, 2011 Contemporary Broderie Perse November 19, 2010 - February 15, 2011 Event

Louisville, KY Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft PLANES, TRAINS AND SUPERHEROES Oct. 23 - Dec. 31 Rooted in Place Oct. 23 - Dec. 31 Events
The Speed Art Museum Modern in the Making: Design 1900-2000 Through April 3, 2011 European and American Art, 1800-1960 Extended Pursuing the Masterpiece: Five Recent Acquisitions Sept. 12 – Dec. 31 Events

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Click here for page 3 - Ohio to Wyoming