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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
    • Closes 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
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Events
Art and Scandal: The McCall Purchase
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Lee Littlefield: Big Texas Bayous
    • Through July 1
  • Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
    • Closes May 11!!!!
  • Event
Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
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
  • A Painterly Palette: The Art of Mary Addison Hackett
    • April 28 -July 1
  • Quantum Confusion: Plywood & Plexiglass
    • Closes May 20
  • Events
Quantum Confusion: Plywood & Plexiglass

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
  • Permanent Residents: Artists from Cheekwood’s Collection
    • March 31 - Dec. 31
  • Anatomia Botanica
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Anthology
    • March 17 - Sept. 3
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
Anatomia Botanica

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Rose on 65th Street by Sculptor Will Ryman
    • April 10, 2012–December 31, 2013
  • Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
    • Through May 28
  • Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the World
    • April 15 - June 3
  • Events
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination
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
  • Lori Putnam: Recent Works
    • Closes May 4!!!!
  • Painters from Life: August in Maine
    • Closes May 4!!!!
  • March artists for Studio A
    • Closes May 4!!!!
  • Suzanne Gaudette Way: As The Spirit Moves Me
    • Closes May 4!!!!
  • Event
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
Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • ETCHINGS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE BY ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
    • Closes May 11!!!!
  • Event
ETCHINGS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE BY ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum
  • CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
    • Closes May 13!!!!
CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
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

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery
  • SENIOR ART MAJORS 2012: PORTMANTEAU
    • Closes May 12!!!!
  • Event
SENIOR ART MAJORS 2012: PORTMANTEAU

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

  • Through the Vision of Children: Oak Ridge Schools Art Exhibit
    • April 13 - May 20
  • Joyce Maienschein Girl Scout Exhibit
    • ongoing.
Through the Vision of Children: Oak Ridge Schools Art Exhibit

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Merleville Watercolor Society Hangs It Up
    • May 4 - 25
  • The Muse Among Us
    • May 5 - 25
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Spring - Fall, 2012
The Muse Among Us
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
  • Several Silences
    • March 16-May 20
  • Horizons: Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir
    • Through Feb. 2013
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Several Silences
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas
    • Closes May 20
Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • People’s Choice: From the Vault of the Ellen Noël Art Museum Collection
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • A Visual Feast: Narrative Stitching by Cindy Hickok
    • Through June 10
  • Event
People’s Choice: From the Vault of the Ellen Noël Art Museum Collection

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Melanie Yazzie’s Mind Maps: Mixed Media Works of Melanie Yazzie
    • April 7 – May 27
  • Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
    • March 17 - June 3
  • Event
Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center
  • The Reclusive Image: Works from Texas Museums
    • Feb. 4 – May 20
  • Cell Series featured artist: Bill Davenport
    • Feb. 4 – May 20
  • The Aztec Theatre: From the Archives
    • Feb. 4 – May 20
  • Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Through Jan. 31, 2013
  • W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
    • Ongoing
  • Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
    • Ongoing

Fort Worth, TX

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

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Souvenir: A 19th-Century Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast of Africa
    • May 5 – Sept. 9
  • 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
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31
  • Events

Souvenir: A 19th-Century Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast of Africa

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The Mac)
  • Billy Hassell: WATERSHED
    • April 6 - July 10
  • Carol Selter: Animal Stories
    • April 6 - July 10
  • Daniel-Kayne: Mine…Mine…
    • April 6 - July 10
  • Events
Daniel-Kayne: Mine…Mine…
Meadows Museum SMU
  • Modern Mexican Painting from the Andrés Blaisten Collection
    • April 29 – August 12
  • The Invention of Glory: Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Invention of Glory: Alfonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries

Williamsburg, VA

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
  • Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
    • Sept. 24, 2011 - July 29, 2012
  • 9/11: The South Tower
    • Ongoing
  • The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
    • Feb. 19 -
  • The Art of Steve Harley
    • Through August 2012
  • Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers
    • Closes in April of 2012
  • Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
    • Ongoing
  • Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments
    • Ongoing
  • Conserving the Carolina Room
    • Ongoing
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
Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection

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
    • March 15 - May 28
  • Event
Ceramics from the Permanent Collection

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
  • Events
SPACE: Art Exhibition for Teens @ the Woodson Art Museum

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • 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
  • 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


Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center
  • NCHS Art Dept: Diversity of Expression
    • May 1 - 27
NCHS Art Dept: Diversity of Expression

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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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