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The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

Ohio to Wisconsin - page 3

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Kentucky

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina


Cincinnati , OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Keith Haring: 1978-1982
    • Feb. 26- Sept. 5
  • Jimmy Baker: Remote Viewing
    • Closes April 10
  • Rosson Crow: Myth of the American Motorcycle
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • Event

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum
    • Through April 24
  • At the River's Edge: Paintings by Patrick Ruane
    • Through April 24
  • Event
American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Barry Moser: Bookwright
    • March 26 - May 22
Barry Moser: Bookwright

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go
    • Opens April 2 –August 28
  • "How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?
    • Opens April 1 - May 29
  • Pictures of the Body
    • Closes April 10
  • Anatomy/Academy
    • Through April 17
  • Oliver Grimley: Menagerie
    • Through April 17
  • Anatomy Now
    • Through April 17
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Secrets of the Silk Road
    • April 2 - June 5
      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 at the regular Museum admission.
  • Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan
    • April 30 through July 31, 2011
  • Events

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History
    • Feb. 25 – May 22
  • Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters
    • Through April 1, 2012
  • Events
Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History

Charleston, SC

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

  • Young Contemporaries 2011 26th annual Juried Student Exhibition and Salon des Refusés
    • Opens April 1 - 26
Young Contemporaries 2011 26th annual Juried Student Exhibition and Salon des Refusés

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • Illustrations from Love Flute
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • Home Furnishings and Art for Your Apartment
    • Through May 22
  • Traces: Montana’s Frontier Re-visited
    • Through June 12
  • Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath?
    • Through Sept. 4
  • South Dakota Artist Series: Images of Place
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • The Art of the Basket
    • Through Sept. 18
  • Madeiran Stitchery
    • Through November

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
    • Closes April 10
  • Events
(Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Caught in Time: The Watercolors of Mary Spelling
    • Opens April -
  • Ladies First
    • March 3 - May
  • Stitched
    • Through April 24
  • Birds and Blossoms: A Legacy of Beauty: A new exhibit of the Lucy E. Dunwody Boehm Porcelain collection
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • Familiar Floral Surroundings: Paintings by Sandra Vanderpool.
    • Through April
  • Taking Position: A Civil War Retrospective: Featuring the Secession Debates, the role of women, and Clarksville before the War.
    • Through mid May
  • Event
Caught in Time: The Watercolors of Mary Spelling

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center

  • Nashville Calligraphers Guild – calligraphy, Joshua D. Wagner – sculptures
    • Opens April 1 – May 25
  • Event
Nashville Calligraphers Guild – calligraphy
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
    • March 19 - June 19
  • Jiha Moon : Colliding Icons
    • March 19 - June 19
  • Material Apparatus
    • March 19 - Sept. 18
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
    Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
    • Feb. 20 - May 29
  • Simen Johan: Until the Kingdom Comes
    • Feb. 20 - May 29
  • William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked
    • Jan. 21 – May 1
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • Closes April 10
  • Events
Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
The Parthenon
  • Missing Nature
    • March 26 – August 20
  • Event
Missing Nature
Tennessee Art League
  • The Dolls of Japan - Shapes of Prayer, Embodiments of Love
    • Through April 30
  • Studio A Group's featured artists for March
    • Closes March 31!!!!

Studio A Group's featured artists for March


Sewanee, TN

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

  • The New English Art Club: Figurative Painting from Britain
    • Closes 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
    • Through April 24
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture!

  • Recent works by Pamela Neal
    • Opens April 1-30
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Through April 14
  • Event
Recent works by Pamela Neal
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
    • April 8 - April 15
  • 64TH ANNUAL STUDENT ART COMPETITION
    • Closes April 4
  • Event
2011 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments
    • March 11–May 15
  • Peter Sarkisian: Video Works, 1996-2008
    • February 11 - April 24
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event

Gatlinburg, TN

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

  • 2011 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition
    • March 11 - May 7
  • Artists-in-Residence Annual Exhibition
    • Closes April 9
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing
2011 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries

  • BFA Graphic Design Exhibit
    • Closes April 1
  • “Equus Imprint” BFA Painting Exhibit
    • Closes April 1
  • “Ascenscion” BFA Painting Exhibit
    • April 4 to 8
  • “Stray” BFA Drawing Exhibit
    • April 4 to 8
  • Event

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
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest
    • Closes April 3!!!!
  • Event
British Paintings 1550-1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

  • 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
Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • April 3 – August 14
  • 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
  • Young Masters: Advanced Placement Student Art Competition
    • February 26–April 17
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events
Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
Meadows Museum SMU
  • The Lost Manuscripts from the Sistine Chapel: An Epic Journey from Rome to Toledo
    • Through April 23
  • Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson
    • Through April 23
  • Events
Grit and Glory: Six Man Football ­ Photographs by Laura Wilson

Charlottesville, VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

  • Reko Rennie: Patternation
    • Closes April 4!!!!
  • Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection
    • Through August
  • Event
Reko Rennie: Patternation

Williamsburg, VA

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
  • 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
  • Revolution in Taste
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Event
Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg

Goldendale, WA

Maryhill Museum of Art

  • Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
    • March 15 – July 4
  • Auguste Rodin
    • Ongoing
  • Native People of North America
    • Ongoing
  • Théâtre de la Mode
    • Ongoing
  • Samuel Hill
    • Ongoing
  • Marie, Queen of Romania
    • Ongoing
Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • RAM's Second Annual International PEEPS® Competition
    • April 1 – April 28, 2011
  • Not So Still Life: 3-D and 2-D from RAM's Collection
    • Through June 5
  • Ruth Grotenrath and Schomer Lichtner at RAM
    • Through May 8
  • 44th Year of Watercolor Wisconsin
    • Through April 30, 2011
  • Event

44th Year of Watercolor Wisconsin


Sections:

Exhibitions pages to see a list and thumbnail photos of current shows.

Events pages for openings, receptions, other museum activities.

Index pages: find museums alphabetically, or by state. Who has newest pictures.

Home page shows museums that have recently been added.

Blog Blog: Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya
Faye's Page A special Girl Scout section:
Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts, 1925 - 1973
(For you Girl Scout alumns, we, also, periodically put out a separate newsletter for Girl Scouts.)
Carris Studio pottery archives
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