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Memphis, TN

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run
    • Extended through September
  • Events
Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run
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
  • Events
Revealed Terrain: Landscape in Contemporary Artists Books
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Modern Dialect: American Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection
    • Through July 15
  • Lee Littlefield: Big Texas Bayous
    • Through July 1
  • Event
Lee Littlefield: Big Texas Bayous
The Pink Palace Museum
  • Women of Strength, Women of Color
    • Through Oct. 14
  • The Bison: American Icon
    • Closes 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
  • 2012 National Juried Exhibition
    • Through Aug 5
  • Outdoors In: The Paintings of Lori Putnam
    • May 23 - July 29
  • A Painterly Palette: The Art of Mary Addison Hackett
    • April 28 -July 1
Outdoors In: The Paintings of Lori Putnam

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center
  • Keith Harmon – Paintings
    Roberta Winnett Harrison – Paintings
    Ron Lederer – Ceramic Art
    • Closes May 23!!!!
Ron Lederer – Ceramic Art
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Every Tree Tells a Story
    • May 26 - September 3
  • 2012 TREEHOUSES EXHIBITION
    • May 26 - September 2
  • Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection
    • March 31 - Dec. 31
  • Anthology
    • March 17 - Sept. 3
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Every Tree Tells a Story

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
    • May 25 – Sept. 3
  • Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial
    • May 25 – Sept. 3
  • Edward Burtynsky: The Industrial Sublime
    • May 25 – Sept. 3
  • Rose on 65th Street by Sculptor Will Ryman
    • April 10, 2012–December 31, 2013
  • Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
    • Closes May 28
  • Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the World
    • April 15 - June 3
  • Events
Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Tennessee Art League
  • 47th Annual Central South Art Exhibition (CSAE)
    • May 5 - June 22
    • Premiere, Ethel Smith, & Members Galleries.
  • Art Seen at 11
    • May 5 - June 22
    • Poston3 Gallery
  • Studio A Group's featured artists
    • May 5 - June 22
    • Second Floor Gallery
Studio A Group's featured artists
Tennessee State Museum
  • Nothing Like I Planned: The Art of John Mellencamp
    • April 12 - June 10
  • Becoming the Volunteer State: Tennessee in the War of 1812
    • Through June 24
  • Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell
    • Through Sept. 2012
  • Event
Nothing Like I Planned: The Art of John Mellencamp
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • Material Glance: A Portfolio of Lithographs by Antoni Tàpies and Poems by Shūzō Takiguchi
    • May 29 – July 26
Material Glance: A Portfolio of Lithographs by Antoni Tàpies and Poems by Shūzō Takiguchi

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum
  • Tinkertoys®: Build Your Imagination™
    • May -
Tinkertoys®: Build Your Imagination™
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Sound and Vision Monumental Rock and Roll Photography
    • May 5 - Aug 12
  • Event
Sound and Vision Monumental Rock and Roll Photography

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Merleville Watercolor Society Hangs It Up
    • Closes May 25!!!!
  • The Muse Among Us
    • Closes May 25!!!!
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Spring - Fall, 2012
Arts in the Airport
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Honors Exhibition
    • May 4 - June 3, 2012
  • Event
MFA Thesis Exihibitions: Taryn Williams: in the dark
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
  • Streetwise: Masters of 1960s Photography
    • May 4-August 5
  • Horizons: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
    • Through Feb. 2013
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Streetwise: Masters of 1960s Photography

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Melanie Yazzie’s Mind Maps: Mixed Media Works of Melanie Yazzie
    • Closes May 27!!!!
  • Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
    • Closes June 3
  • Event
Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography

San Angelo, TX

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
  • 19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum
  • The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark
    • Through June 17
  • Nicolas Poussin's Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter)
    • Ongoing
  • Michelangelo’s First Painting:
    The Torment of Saint Anthony
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Nicolas Poussin's Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter)

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas
    • May 20 – August 19
  • Souvenir: A 19th-Century Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast of Africa
    • May 5 – Sept. 9
  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties
    • Closes 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
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31
  • Events

Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

Meadows Museum SMU
  • Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
    • April 29 – August 12
  • New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection

Charlottesville, VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa
  • People of Substance by Jason Wing
    • May 18 – August 26, 2012
  • Events
People of Substance by Jason Wing

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.
  • 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
Richard Newsham’s Fire Engine

Goldendale, WA

Maryhill Museum of Art
  • 2012 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
    • May 12 – October 7
  • British Painting from the Permanant Collection
    • May 1 – Nov. 15
  • Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
    • May 1 – Nov. 15
  • Beside the Big River: Images and Art of the Mid-Columbia Indians
    • Closes May 28!!!!
  • Event
Beside the Big River: IMAGES AND ART OF THE MID-COLUMBIA INDIANS

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration
    • April 14 - June 17
  • SPACE: Art Exhibition for Teens @ the Woodson Art Museum
    • May 1 – June 3
  • Carnival of the Animals
    • April 14 – June 17
NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Beth Van Hoesen: The Observant Eye
    • May 20 - Sept. 9
  • Out On A Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry
    • Feb. 26 - June 17
  • Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
    • Through July 22, 2012
  • A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
    • Closes May 27!!!!
  • Events

A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes


Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center
  • Tracy Linder: The Obligation to Endure
    • May 25 - August 5, 2012
  • Abbie Miller: Zipped
    • May 25 - September 9, 2012
  • NCHS Art Dept: Diversity of Expression
    • Closes May 27!!!!
Tracy Linder: The Obligation to Endure

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