Openings, Closings, and Events
Blue Star Museums is a partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts, and more than 700 museums in all 50 states to offer free admission to active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 31, 2010, through Labor Day, September 6, 2010. Some of the participating museums on Art Museum Touring started May 28.
Click on the Blue Star for more information and to see all the participating museums.
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The newsletter is now divided into two pages:
Alabama to Missouri - page 1
Click here for page 2 - New Mexico to Wyoming
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Huntsville, AL
Huntsville Museum of Art 
- Encounters: Kathy Chan
- In Praise of America: Selections from the Sellars Collection of Art by American Women
- Opens June 13 – August 29
- Huth and Boeing Galleries
- Imagine Tomorrow
- Event
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San Francisco, CA
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
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Torrance, CA
Torrance Art Museum
- Set Theory: Roland Reiss
- Susan Collis
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Irvine, CA
The Irvine Museum
- El Camino De Oro ~ Journey Through Early California
- Saving Paradise
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Laguna, CA
Laguna Art Museum 
- Artists in California, Early Twentieth Century: From the Permanent Collection
- Art Shack
- Opens June 13 - October 3
- Event
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Daytona Beach
The Southeast Museum of Photography
- Florida Vernacular – Rick Lang
- DSC FACULTY FOCUS - DAN BIFERIE
- DSC ALUMNI FOCUS – STEPHEN CROWLEY
- Events
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Miami, FL
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
- Spiritual Healing – Shamans of the Northwest Coast
- Volf Roitman: From MADI to The Ludic Revolution
- Paul Strand in Mexico
- Tap-Tap: Celebrating the Art of Haiti
- May 26, 2010 – September 5
- Event
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West Palm Beach, FL
Norton Museum of Art
- Beyond the Figure: Abstract Sculpture in the Norton Collection
- Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
- Acting Out/Three Videos by Three Artists
- Events
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Miami Beach, FL
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University 
- +5: Recent Acquisitions from The Wolfsonian Collection
- Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
- Advertising for Health
- Events
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Atlanta, GA
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University 
- When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection
- Event
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Milledgeville, GA
Georgia State College & University Museum
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Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Museum of Art 
- Jeppe Hein
- The Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, Part II
- Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements
- Joshua Mosley: American International
- Tara Donovan: Untitled
- Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA's Collection
- April 10, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011
- Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous
- April 17, 2010-January 23, 2011
- Indiana Artists' Club Annual Exhibition
- Events
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Wichita, KS
Wichita Art Museum 
- Community Favorites
- Murdock and Friends
- Western Imprints: Carving out
the Western Landscape
- Mingled Visions: Selections from Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
- Events
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Paducah, KY
The National Quilt Museum
- SAQA @ 20: Art & Excellence
- New Quilts from an Old Favorite: Sunflower
- Events
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The Yeiser Art Center
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Louisville, KY
Louisville Visual Art Association
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The Speed Art Museum
- European and American Art, 1800-1960
- The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100
- Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise?
- Selections from the Collection
- Events
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New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art 
- Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965–2010
- Joan Mitchell in New Orleans
- Beyond the Blues: Reflections of African America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center
- Feathers, Fur and Flowers: The Natural World in Edo-period Painting
- Events
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Ogden Museum of Southern Art
- Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures
- Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues – Photographs by William Ferris
- The William Ferris Folk Art Collection
- Brooching the Subject: One-of-a-Kind
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Baton Rouge, LA
Hill Memorial Library
LSU Libraries Special Collections
- Campus Chronicle: 150 Years of LSU
- A Beneficial Harvest: Edible and Medicinal Plants from Flora of Louisiana
- Opens June 21 – October 23
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Baltimore, MD
Contemporary Museum
- Project 20: Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry
- Event
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The Walters Art Museum 
- Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry
- Poetry and Prayer: Islamic Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum
- Expanding Horizons: Recent Additions to the Drawings Collection
- Mummified
- Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Stephen W. Fisher Collection
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
- Events
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Lowell, MA
New England Quilt Museum
- Women's Writes: Signature Quilts & Their Stories
- Events
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Salem, MA
Peabody Essex Museum 
- The Kennedys | Portrait of a Family: Photographs by Richard Avedon
- Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection
- April 10, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2012
- Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
- Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea
- Events
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Muskegon, MI
Muskegon Museum of Art
- COLOR IT BIZARRE: CLARICE CLIFF POTTERY FROM A MICHIGAN COLLECTION
- A Collector's Gift: Works by Walter Shirlaw and J. Frank Currier
- Events
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Grand Rapids, MI
Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
- Chihuly at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden
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Grand Rapids Art Museum
- Selections from the Photography Collection
- Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
- Events
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Columbia, MO
Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri 
- The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
- Opens June 5 - September 26
- Faces of Warhol: Accessing the Private
- Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection
- The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West
- Ongoing from May 29, 2008
- Treasures from Antiquity: The Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art
- The European and American Galleries
- Event
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