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Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Matthew Monahan
    • April 23- October 30
  • Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running: Majr Gazr
    • April 23- July 17
  • Keith Haring: 1978-1982
    • Feb. 26- Sept. 5
  • Event

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

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

Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Water As The Source
    • April 29 – July 23
  • Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go
    • April 2 – August 28
  • "How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm after they've seen Paree?"
    • April 1 - May 29
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan
    • Opens April 30 - July 31, 2011
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Re-opens April 30 - then ongoing
  • Event
Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History
    • Closes 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

Gibbes Museum of Art

  • Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
    • April 8 - July 10
  • A Soldier's View of Civil War Charleston
    • April 8 - July 10
  • Anna Heyward Taylor
    World Traveler
    • Through July 17
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad

Memphis, TN

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • OUT ON A LIMB, adventures with nature and art
    • Closes May 15
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • Closes May 15
Memphis Brooks Art Museum
  • Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper
    • Closes May 8!!!!
  • A Taste for China
    • Through June 15
  • Bound to be Beautiful: Book Bindings by S. C. Toof & Co. of Memphis
    • Through June 5
  • A Feast for the Eyes
    • Through June 5
  • Events
Deep Impressions: Willie Cole Works on Paper
The Pink Palace Museum
  • George Washington Carver
    • Through July 4
  • New Connections
    • Through Oct. 23
  • The Highsmith Collection of Indian pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Greatest Little Show on Earth
    Clyde Parke minature circus
    • Ongoing
George Washington Carver

Nashville, TN

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
  • TRAINS! TENNESSEE IN G
    • April 9 - Dec. 31
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
    • Closes May 1!!!!
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • April 15 - March 27, 2012
  • Events
Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior
Tennessee Art League
  • 46th Annual Central South Art Exhibition (CSAE)
    • May 7 - June 24
  • Event
46th Annual Central South Art Exhibition (CSAE)

Sewanee, TN

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

  • Senior Art Majors 2011: “A Plunge Beneath the Surface of the Visible”
    • Closes May 14
    • University Art Gallery
  • Event
Senior Art Majors 2011: “A Plunge Beneath the Surface of the Visible”

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • Good for You: Healthy Fun on the Run
    • Closes May 15
Good for You: Healthy Fun on the Run

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture!

  • Vignettes by Richard Foster, Sara Martin, and Denise Retallack
    • Opens May 6-27
  • Arts in the Airport
    • 2011-2012
  • Event
Vignettes by Richard Foster, Sara Martin, and Denise Retallack
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments
    • Closes May 15
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments

Gatlinburg, TN

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

  • Spring Wildflower Artist of the Year
    • Closes May 21
  • 2011 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition
    • Closes May 7!!!!
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing
  • Event
2011 Artists-in-Residence Exhibition

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor
    • Through July 10
  • The Ellen Noël Art Museum Announces its newest exhibition: Sculpture by Steve Teeters
    • Through July 10
  • Odessa Art Association Juried Show
    • Opens May 5 – May 22
Odessa Art Association Juried Show

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

  • Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
    • Opens April 24– Sept. 4
  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • April 3 – August 14
  • Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement
    • Closes 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
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement

Charlottesville , VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

  • Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land
    • April 15 – August 14
  • Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection
    • Through August 2011
  • Events
Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land

Williamsburg, VA

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

  • "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
    • April 2, 2011 through 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.
  • 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

Goldendale, WA

Maryhill Museum of Art

  • Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
    • Opens May 14
  • 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
  • Event
Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor
    • April 9 - June 19
  • Mad About Teapots
    • April 9 - June 19
  • Event
Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • RAM's Second Annual International PEEPS® Competition
    • Closes April 28!!!!
  • 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
    • Closes April 30
  • Event

RAM's Second Annual International PEEPS® Competition


Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

  • Sensational Small Works Showcase & Sale
    • Closes May 6!!!!
  • Conrad Schwiering Studio collection
    • Ongoing
Sensational Small Works Showcase and Sale

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