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Memphis, TN

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run
    • Feb. 25 - June 24
  • Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice
    • Feb. 11 - May 13
  • Events
Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice™
Memphis Brooks Art Museum
  • Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Artists Books
    • Through July 22
  • Architectural Perspectives: The Etchings of Elisabeth Searcy and Joseph Pennell
    • Through July 15
  • A Federal Art Project: Posters for Indian Court
    • Through Jun 17
  • Art and Scandal: The McCall Purchase
    • Through May 13
  • Events
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
    • C loses April 15
  • Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
    • C loses April 15
  • Event
Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
The Pink Palace Museum
  • Women of Strength, Women of Color
    • Through Oct. 14
  • 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
  • The Art of Annamaia Gundlach
    • March 2 - April 29
  • A-B-C: Items from the Collection
    • Through April 7
  • Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series
    • Closes April 1!!!!
  • Events
Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center
  • THREE PERSPECTIVES: Kim Barrick – Paintings; Carolyn Riess-Dodson – Paintings; Brenda Stein – Woodturnings
    • Closes March 28!!!!
THREE PERSPECTIVES
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection
    • March 31 - Dec. 31
  • Anatomia Botanica
    • March 24 - May 13
  • Anthology
    • March 17 - Sept. 3
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection

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
  • Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
    • Feb. 24–May 28
  • Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the World
    • April 15 - June 3
  • Events
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
The Parthenon
  • WISH YOU WERE HERE: CULTURAL TOURISM AND THE PARTHENON
    • Through May 19
  • PURLIEU: SHARON CHARNEY & ANNE WILLIAMS
    • Through April 28
  • ORIGINS OF NASHVILLE’S PARTHENON
    • Ongoing
PURLIEU: SHARON CHARNEY & ANNE WILLIAMS
Tennessee Art League
  • Suzanne Gaudette Way: As The Spirit Moves Me
    • Closes April 6
  • Clayton Reynolds
    • Closes April 6
  • Fundraiser for Robertson Academy: Wisdom of the Ages, From the Truly Wise (4 to 5 year olds)
    • Closes April 6
  • Studio A: March artists
    • Closes April 6
Suzanne Gaudette Way: As The Spirit Moves Me
Tennessee State Museum
  • Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812
  • Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell
Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • ETCHINGS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE BY ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
    • March 15 - May 11
  • Event
ETCHINGS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE BY ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Synchrony: Contemporary video exhibition
    • March 17 -April 22
  • Dorothea Lange’s America
    • Through April 17
  • Event
Synchrony: Contemporary video exhibition

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery
  • Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine
    • Closes April 8
Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

  • Joyce Maienschein Girl Scout Exhibit
    • Opens March 24 and then ongoing.
  • Opening Events
Joyce Maienschein Girl Scout Exhibit

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Recent Works by Sue Messer
    • Closes March 30!!!!
  • War of the Lawn Ornaments by Alan Finch and Denise Stewart-Sanabria
    • Closes March 30!!!!
  • Elements: Human and Natural
    • Closes March 30!!!!
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Oct. 28, 2011 – April 19, 2012
War of the Lawn Ornaments by Alan Finch and Denise Stewart-Sanabria
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: Eleanor Aldrich, Leslie Grossman, Chadwick Williams
    • March 30 - April 6
  • Event
The 65th Annual Student Art Competition
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
  • Horizons: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
    • Through Feb. 2013
  • Liquid Light: Watercolors from the KMA Collection
    • Through April 15
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Liquid Light: Watercolors from the KMA Collection

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • People’s Choice: From the Vault of the Ellen Noël Art Museum Collection
    • March 23 - May 13
  • A Visual Feast: Narrative Stitching by Cindy Hickok
    • March 23 -June 10
  • The Mike & Linda Tilton Collection
    • Closes April 8
  • Event

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Midland Arts Association's Spring Juried Exhibition
    • March 29 - April 29
  • Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
    • March 17 - June 3
  • Event
Midland Arts Association's Spring Juried Exhibition

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum
  • The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark
    • March 11 – June 17
The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
    • March 4 – May 27
  • Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections
    • March 4 – July 1
  • Face to Face: International Art at the DMA
    • Feb. 12 – June 10
  • Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
    • Through April 15
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31
  • Events

Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
  • Bill Haveron: Baptism by Fire
    • Closes March 31!!!!
  • William Powhida: Seditions
    • Closes March 31!!!!
  • Jeff Gibbons: Humming Music and Grinding Teeth
    • Closes March 31!!!!
  • Events
Jeff Gibbons: Humming Music and Grinding Teeth
Meadows Museum SMU
  • CALATRAVA AND SMU: A DECADE IN MOTION
    • March 4-April 22
  • The Invention of Glory: Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
    • Feb. 5 - May 13
  • New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
    • Ongoing
  • Events
CALATRAVA AND SMU: A DECADE IN MOTION

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
  • "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
    • Closes 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
"A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820

Goldendale, WA

Maryhill Museum of Art
  • Beside the Big River: Images and Art of the Mid-Columbia Indians
    • March 15 - May 28
  • Event
Beside the Big River: IMAGES AND ART OF THE MID-COLUMBIA INDIANS

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • The Americans in Glass Legacy
    • Through April 7
  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
    • Through April 7
  • 35th Annual Student Art Exhibition
    • Closes April 1!!!!
  • Events
The Americans in Glass Legacy

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Out On A Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry
    • Feb. 26 - June 17
  • Sitting Pretty: Furniture from RAM's Collection
    • Feb. 19 - May 6
  • Watercolor Wisconsin 2011
    • RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
    • Through April 21, 2012
  • A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
    • Jan. 29 - May 27
  • Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
    • Through July 22, 2012
  • Events

A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes


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Faye's Page A special Girl Scout section:
Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts, 1925 - 1973
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