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Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • St. Peter's Church in Albany
    • March 3 - April 29
  • Temple of Fancy: Pease's Great Variety Store
    • Closes March 25
  • FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • August 27– May 20
  • A GATHER OF GLASS: SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION
    • Through June, 2012
  • Event
FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • The New Materiality
    • Closes Mar. 18!!!!
  • The New Materiality
    •  Closes Mar. 18!!!!
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Event
The New Materiality

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • AN AESTHETIC STATE OF MIND: Works by C.M. Kakassy
    • Through May 20
  • Lynne Cherry's: "The Great Kapok Tree" + More: A 2012 Little Read Exhibition
    • Through April 1
  • FROM THE MILLENIUM FORWARD: A Decade of Donations to the Hickory Museum of Art
    • Closes March 24
  • DISCOVER FOLK ART: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
    • Ongoing
  • IMAGE*INATION
    Catawba Valley Camera Club's
    5th Annual Photo Competition
    Entrance Gallery
    • Closes March 31
  • 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
IMAGE*INATION

Winston-Salem, NC

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

  • Tracey Snelling: Woman on the Run
    • March 1 – May 27
  • Event
Tracey Snelling: Woman on the Run

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum
  • The Spectacular of Vernacular
    • Closes March 18!!!!
  • Highlights from the Permanent Collection
    • Through Dec. 31, 2013
  • Event
The Spectacular of Vernacular

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
    • Feb 16 - June 17
  • Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection
    • Dec. 10, 2011 – July 8, 2012
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Spectacle: The Music Video
    • March 3 - Sept. 3
  • Dasha Shishkin: I surrender, dear
    • March 3 - April 29
  • Event
Spectacle: The Music Video

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
The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Cynthia Norton: Freedom Rings Placed Within
    • March 3 - May 27
  • After Tanner: African-American Artists Since 1940
    • Jan. 28 - April 15
  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
    • Jan. 28 - April 15
  • Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
    • Ongoing
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Cynthia Norton: Freedom Rings Placed Within
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum
    • Through Sept. 16, 2012
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery

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
Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters

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
The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston

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
  • Illustrations from The Lost Children by Paul Goble
    • Closes March 18!!!!
The Inspiration: South Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs Donation

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