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Katonah, NY

The Katonah Museum of Art
  • Art to the Point: Tri-State Juried Exhibition
    • Closes Feb. 19
  • Younger Artists: New York Stories
    • Closes Feb. 19
  • Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures
    • Through May, 2012
  • Event
Art to the Point: Tri-State Juried Exhibition

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • Temple of Fancy: Pease's Great Variety Store
    • Nov. 19, 2011- March 25, 2012
  • ALBANY AND THE CIVIL WAR: MEDICINE ON THE HOME AND BATTLE FRONTS
    • Closes Feb. 26, 2012
  • Kid Stuff: Great Toys from Our Childhood
    • Oct.1 - March 4, 2012
  • A GATHER OF GLASS: SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION
    • Through June, 2012
  • FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • August 27, 2011– May 20, 2012
  • Event
ALBANY AND THE CIVIL WAR: MEDICINE ON THE HOME AND BATTLE FRONTS

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards
    • Closes Feb. 26
  • The New Materiality
    • Nov. 18, 2011 - Mar. 18, 2012
  • Homage2 (squared)
    • Oct. 1, 2011 – March 4, 2012
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Western North Carolina Regional Scholastic Art Awards

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • Andrew Fullwood: ORIGINS
    • Closes Feb. 26
  • FROM THE MILLENIUM FORWARD: A Decade of Donations to the Hickory Museum of Art
    • Through March 24, 2012
  • North Carolina Landscapes by Chrys Riviere-Blalock
    • Closes February 12!!!!
  • IMAGE*INATION
    Catawba Valley Camera Club's
    5th Annual Photo Competition
    Entrance Gallery
    • Through March 31, 2012
  • AMERICAN ART POTTERY: From the Museum's Moody Collection
    • Ongoing
  • BORN OF FIRE: Glass from the Museum's Luski Collection
    • Ongoing
  • SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
    • Ongoing
  • DISCOVER FOLK ART: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
    • Ongoing
IMAGE*INATION

Winston-Salem, NC

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

  • Out of Fashion
    • Nov. 3, 2011 – March 4, 2012
  • Margarita Cabrera: The Space in Between
    • Closes Feb. 12!!!!
  • Event
Out of Fashion

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum

  • The Spectacular of Vernacular
    • Jan.14 - March 18
  • Highlights from the Permanent Collection
    • Dec. 31, 2013
  • Event
The Spectacular of Vernacular

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection
    • Dec. 10, 2011 – July 8, 2012
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection

Raleigh , NC

Gregg Museum of Art & Design North Carolina State University

  • Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume
    • Jan.19 - May 12
  • Textiles of Exile: Fiber arts made by immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons
    • Jan.19 - May 12
Textiles of Exile: Fiber arts made by immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons

Wilmington , NC

The Cameron Art Museum

  • Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection
    • Feb. 3 – May 6
  • Murrinis Within a Crystal Matrix: The Poetic Glassworks of Richard Ritter
    • Through April 1
  • Murrinis Within a Crystal Matrix: The Poetic Glassworks of Richard Ritter
    • Through April 1
  • Penland School of Crafts: Evolution and Imagination
    • Through April 1
  • Event
Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center
  • Julião Sarmento
    • Closes Feb. 12!!!!
Julião Sarmento

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design
    • Feb 4 - April 8
  • Brian Ferrell: Transitions of Form
    • Feb 4 - April 8
  • Events
Brian Ferrell: Transitions of Form

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Comic Catharsis: A Gift of Cartoons by William Steig
    • Jan. 21 - March 11
  • Events
Comic Catharsis: A Gift of Cartoons by William Steig

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
    • Jan. 28 - April 15
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

  • Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium: Exhibition of Large-scale Photographs by Turkish Photographer Ahmet Ertug,
    • Closes Feb. 12!!!!
  • Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum
    • Through Sept. 16, 2012
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts
    • Through Apr 29, 2012
  • Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters
    • Nov. 17, 2011 - April 1, 2012
  • Events
Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art
  • The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston
    • Jan. 20 - April 22
  • Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
    • Jan. 20 - April 22
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Aggie Zed – KEEPER’S KEEP
    • Jan. 20 – March 10
  • From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration: PART I
    • Through March 3
  • Event
From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration PART I

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • Clive King
    • Dec. 13, 2011 - April 15, 2012
  • South Dakota Artist Series: Steve Babbitt & Michael Hill
    • Dec. 13, 2011 - May 6, 2012
  • The Inspiration: South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs Donation
    • Nov. 1, 2011 - April 22, 2012
  • Marghab Linens
    • Nov. 23, 2011 - Nov., 2012
  • Harvey Dunn: A Selection of His Prairie Works
    • Sept. 1, 2011 - April 15, 2012
The Inspiration: South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs Donation

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