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Openings, Closings, and Events

Memphis Brooks Art Museum
  • Art and Scandal: The McCall Purchase
    • Through May 13
  • Peaceful Warriors: Aim for Change
    • Jan 21 - Mar 25
  • Armed + Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
    • Through Mar 11
  • Events
Armed + Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
    • Jan. 22 - April 15
  • Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
    • Jan. 22 - April 15
  • Event
Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
The Pink Palace Museum
  • The Bison: American Icon
    • Jan. 28 - May 25
  • The Highsmith Collection of Indian pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Greatest Little Show on Earth
    Clyde Parke minature circus
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Bison: American Icon

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn
    • Jan. 11 - March 11
  • Bold Expressions: Paintings by Larry Martin
    • Jan. 4 - March 2
  • Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series
    • Through April 1
Bold Expressions: Paintings by Larry Martin

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center
  • THREE PERSPECTIVES
    Kim Barrick – Paintings
    Carolyn Riess-Dodson – Paintings
    Brenda Stein – Woodturnings
    • Feb. 3 -March 28
  • Event
Nashville, TN

Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Visions of the American West: Masterpieces Exhibition from Buffalo Bill Historical Center
    • Through March 4, 2012
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
  • The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition
    • Jan, 27 - Feb. 19
  • Events
Visions of the American West: Masterpieces Exhibition from Buffalo Bill Historical Center

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • To See As Artists See: American Art from The Phillips Collection
    • Feb. 3 – May 6
  • Answers to Questions: John Wood and
    Paul Harrison
    • Feb. 3 – May 6
  • A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
    • Closes Feb. 5!!!!
  • Tracey Snelling. "Woman on the Run," 2008–201
    • Closes Feb. 5!!!!
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • Through March 27, 2012
  • Events
Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the Worldes from the Musée d'Orsay
The Parthenon
  • WISH YOU WERE HERE: CULTURAL TOURISM AND THE PARTHENON
    • Jan. 28 - May 19
  • PURLIEU: SHARON CHARNEY & ANNE WILLIAMS
    • Through April 28
  • ORIGINS OF NASHVILLE’S PARTHENON
    New permanent exhibition exploring the history of Nashville’s beloved landmark
    • Ongoing
  • Events
PURLIEU: SHARON CHARNEY & ANNE WILLIAMS
Tennessee Art League
  • Premiere Gallery – Ed Bodnar
    • Feb. 4 - March 2
  • Ethel Smith Gallery – Fran Werner Landscapes
    • Feb. 4 - March 2
  • Poston3 Gallery – YMCA artEMBRACE
    • Feb. 4 - March 2
  • Event
Premiere Gallery – Ed Bodnar
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • THE ARTS OF JAPAN
    • Jan. 12 -Feb. 26
THE ARTS OF JAPAN

Sewanee, TN

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

  • The Gathering, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Robert Sparrow Jones, Assistant Professor of Painting at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.
    • Closes Feb. 11
    • Carlos Gallery
  • Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight
    • Closes Feb. 12
    • University Art Gallery
Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
    • Jan. 14 - May 13
CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Good Design Stories from Herman Miller
    • Jan 14th - Mar 4th
Good Design Stories from Herman Miller

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge
  • Children's Art: A World Apart, Children's Painting from Oak Ridge's Sister City, Nakamachi, Japan
    • Through March 18
Children's Art: A World Apart, Children's Painting from Oak Ridge's Sister City, Nakamachi, Japan

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • If Not Now, When?
    • Feb. 3-24
  • Forward by Pellissippi State Studio Art Faculty
    • Feb. 3-24
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Oct. 28, 2011 – April 19, 2012
  • Event
If Not Now, When?
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers
    • Jan. 19 - March 1
Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers, Toshinao Yoshioka
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
  • Liquid Light: Watercolors from the KMA Collection
    • Jan. 27-April 15
  • After the Fall
    • Closes Feb. 5!!!!
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
Liquid Light: Watercolors from the KMA Collection
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas
    • Jan. 14 - May 20
Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries ETSU

  • Figures and Faces in the Abstract: Sculptures by Mary Ann Prack
    • Feb. 6 - 24
  • Revelation: Two-Man Show by Donna Wilt and John Hilton
    • Tipton Gallery
    • Closes Feb. 3!!!!
  • 57th Annual Society of Illustrators Exhibition
    • Jan. 30 - Feb. 17
  • Event
Figures and Faces in the Abstract: Sculptures by Mary Ann Prack

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • The Mike & Linda Tilton Collection
    • Feb. 3 - April 8
  • Downstream: Paintings by Joyce Howell
    • Jan. 20 - March 11
The Mike & Linda Tilton Collection

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Linda Vallejo’s A Prayer for the Earth
    • Jan. 28 – March 18

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
    • Jan. 15– April 15
  • The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
    • Nov. 13, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events

The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
  • Eric Eley: Coincident Disruption
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • Marilyn Jolly, Melba Northum, Susan Sitzes: Transience: Imperfect, Impermanent, Incomplete
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • Walter Nelson: Graffiti on Aspen Trees – Nature vs. Man
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • LIZ LONDON: SEEKING INFINITY
    • Mercantile Coffee House
    • Jan. 19 - Feb. 25
  • Events
Eric Eley: Coincident Disruption

Charlottesville, VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

  • ill-like
    • January 24 -
  • Collection's permanent exhibit for the 2011-12 academic year
  • Event
ill-like

Williamsburg, VA

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
  • "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
    • 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
Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • The Americans in Glass Legacy
    • Through April 7
  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
    • Jan. 28 - April 7
The Americans in Glass Legacy

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
    • Jan. 29 - May 27
  • Watercolor Wisconsin 2011
    • RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
    • Through April 21, 2012
  • To Wear or Not to Wear
    • Through Feb. 19, 2012
  • Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads
    • Closes Feb. 5!!!!
  • Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
    • Through July 22, 2012
  • Events

To Wear or Not to Wear


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