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Ohio to Wisconsin - page 3

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Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina


Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Pictures of the Body
    • Feb. 5 - April 10
  • Anatomy/Academy
    • Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Oliver Grimley: Menagerie
    • Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Anatomy Now
    • Jan. 29 - April 17
  • Tom LaDuke: run generator
    • Extended through March 6
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
Tom LaDuke: run generator
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Secrets of the Silk Road
    (Exhibition opens after all!)
    • The artifacts and mummies
      February 18 - March 15
    • With all the artifacts but without the two mummies
      March 17 through March 28
    • Modified exhibition--with made to scale photographs of all of the artifacts, and two models of the mummies--that will go back up on April 2, and the show will continue in the modified form through June 5, at the regular Museum admission
  • Events

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

  • Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper
    • Feb. 12 – May 8
  • 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
Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper

The Pink Palace Museum

  • New Connections
    • Opens February 12 - October 23

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • An American Tradition
    • Closes Feb. 27
The River Inside: Photography of John Guider

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center

  • Matthew Deric Gore – paintings, Hannah Maxwell Rowell – drawings & paintings, John Watts – sculptures
    • Feb.4 - March 23
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition
    • Closes Feb. 20
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
    • Opens Feb. 20 - May 29
  • Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
    • Opens Feb. 20 - May 29
  • William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked
    • Jan. 21 – May 1
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • Through April 10
  • Events
Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
The Parthenon
  • TESTIMONY: DENEEN COLEMAN-RUFF
TESTIMONY: DENEEN COLEMAN-RUFF
Tennessee Art League
  • Brandt Hardin
    • Through Feb. 26
    • Premiere Gallery
  • MONO KI: Kimonos as Language
    • Feb. 1 - March 5
    • Ethel Smith Gallery
  • Tennessee Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
    • Through Feb. 26
    • Poston3 Gallery
  • Studio A Group's featured artists for February
    • Through Feb. 26
    • Second Floor Gallery

Art by prison inmates

Tennessee State Library and Archives
a Division of the Department of State
  • The Volunteer State Goes to War: A Salute to Tennessee Veterans
    • Through April
The Volunteer State Goes to War: A Salute to Tennessee Veterans

Sewanee, TN

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

  • The New English Art Club: Figurative Painting from Britain
    • Opens Feb. 19 - April 10
    • University Art Gallery
  • Event
The New English Art Club: Figurative Painting from Britain

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art

  • Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
    • Jan 30 - April 24
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

  • Children's Art: A World Apart
    Children's Paintings from Oak Ridge's Sister City Nakamachi, Japan
    • Feb 2 -
  • Event
Children's Paintings from Oak Ridge's Sister City Nakamachi, Japan

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture

  • Threads and Fibers: Recent Works by Marie Gibson
    • Closes Feb. 25
  • Another Way of Life: Photographs by Dean Rice
    • Closes Feb. 25
  • Emporium Artists Exhibition
    • Closes Feb. 25
  • Event
Taiwan Sublime: Four Photography Masters’ Visions of the Treasure Island
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Carlo Scarpa: A House and a Door
    • Closes Feb. 16!!!!
Carlo Scarpa: A House and a Door
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
    • February 11 - April 24
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing

Gatlinburg, TN

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

  • 15th Sevier County Biennial Juried Exhibition
    • Closes Feb. 26
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing
15th Sevier County Biennial Juried Exhibition

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries

  • Annual Positive/Negative 26 National Juried Art Exhibition
    • Feb.14 - March 4
  • Event
Annual Positive/Negative 26 National Juried Art Exhibition

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
British Paintings 1550-1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • American Legacy: Our National Parks: On Location with the Plein-Air Painters of America
    • Feb. 13 – April 24
  • Contemporary Artist Series: Collectors Choice: Paul Folwell
    • Through March 27
American Legacy: Our National Parks

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center

  • Ed Blackburn - Jumping Across (The River)
    • Feb. 5 – May 22
  • Cell Series featured artist: Anne Allen
    • Feb. 5 – May 22
  • Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing
  • W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
    • Ongoing
  • Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
    • Ongoing

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

  • Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement
    • Opens Feb. 13 – May 8
  • Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
    • Jan. 30 - July 17
  • Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present
    • Tower Gallery
    • Through Jan. 29, 2012
  • Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program
    • Closes Feb. 20!!!!
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events
Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program
Meadows Museum SMU
  • The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo
    • Jan. 23 - April 23
  • Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson
    • Jan. 30 ­ April 23
  • Events
Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson

Williamsburg, VA

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

  • The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
    • Opens Feb. 19
  • Guyton Gallery.
  • Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers
    • Through 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
  • 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.
  • 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
    • Jan. 29 - April 3
  • It's Herman Miller Time: Today's Furniture Makers Respondn
    • Jan. 29 - April 3
  • Google Doodles: Design for the Modern Office
    • Jan. 29 - April 3
  • Events
I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art Candy

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Not So Still Life: 3-D and 2-D from RAM's Collection
    • Feb.4 – June 5
  • Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner at RAM
    • January 23 through May 8
  • 44th Year of Watercolor Wisconsin
    • Through April 30, 2011

44th Year of Watercolor Wisconsin



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