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Katonah, NY

The Katonah Museum of Art
  • Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography
    • March 25 - Sept. 2
  • Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures
    • Through May
Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • Great, Strange and Rarely Seen: Objects from the Vault
    • April 14 - August 16
  • St. Peter's Church in Albany
    • March 3 - April 29
  • 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
Great, Strange and Rarely Seen: Objects from the Vault

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell's Graphic Works
    • March 31 - August 26
  • Artworks Project Space: Hoss Haley
    • March 23 - October 28,
  • Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition
    •  March 23 - Sept. 9
  • Fire on the Mountain: Studio Glass in Western North Carolina
    • March 23 - July 8
  • Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics
    • March 23 - Sept. 16
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • Waking Up with Van Gogh
    • April 7 - July 29
  • AN AESTHETIC STATE OF MIND: Works by C.M. Kakassy
    • Through May 20
  • DISCOVER FOLK ART: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
    • Ongoing
  • SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
    • Ongoing
  • AMERICAN ART POTTERY: From the Museum's Moody Collection
    • Ongoing
  • BORN OF FIRE: Glass from the Museum's Luski Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Event

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum
  • Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper
    • March 30 - July 1
  • Piece by Piece: Quilts, Collages, and Constructions
    • March 30 - July 1
  • Chords of Memory: Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton
    • March 9 - May 13
  • Highlights from the Permanent Collection
    • Through Dec. 31, 2013
  • Event
Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper

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
Dasha Shishkin: I surrender, dear

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum
  • A Painter's View: The Andrew Wyeth Studio
    • March 27 - Oct. 28
  • Scribner's Magazine: The Early Years in Illustration
    • Through May 20
Scribner's Magazine: The Early Years in Illustration

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • PAFA and Dr. Barnes
    • April 7 - July 8
  • Of, To, and From Ray Yoshida
    • April 7 - July 8
  • Cynthia Norton: Freedom Rings Placed Within
    • March 3 - May 27
  • After Tanner: African-American Artists Since 1940
    • Closes April 15!!!!
  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
    • Closes April 15!!!!
  • Bill Viola: Ocean Without a Shore
    • Ongoing
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
  • Event
PAFA and Dr. Barnes
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Super-Athletes of the Sierra Madre: contemporary color photographs by Diana Molina
    • March 31 - Sept. 30
  • Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum
    • Through Sept. 16, 2012
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Super-Athletes of the Sierra Madre: contemporary color photographs by Diana Molina

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • 2011 Runaway Runway
    • April 6 - June 3
  • Our Time, Our Place: Photographs of the Black South by Richard Samuel Roberts
    • Through April 29
  • Events
2011 Runaway Runway

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art
  • The Art of Alfred Hutty: Woodstock to Charleston
    • Closes April 22
  • Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
    • Closes April 22
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Jill Hooper: Contemporary Realist
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Young Contemporaries: Annual Student Exhibition
    • March 30 – April 28
    • Event
Young Contemporaries: Annual Student Exhibition

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

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

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Blog: Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work Blog: Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work
Faye's Page A special Girl Scout section:
Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts, 1925 - 1973
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Carris Studio pottery archives
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