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Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
    • June 16 - August 12
  • Catherine Lee
    • May 31 - August 12, 2012
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Contemporary Series 2012, “Tribal Stories”: William Stone’s A Venerable Landscape
    • June 9 – August 26
  • Catherine Lee
    • May 31 - August 12
  • Event
Contemporary Series 2012, “Tribal Stories”: William Stone’s A Venerable Landscape

San Angelo, TX

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts
  • 19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
    • Closes June 24!!!!
19th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center
  • Two Women Look West: Photographs of King Ranch by Helen C. Kleberg and Toni Frissell
    • June 2 - September 9
  • Justin Boyd: Time Has Slipped Rows
    • part of the Cell Series of Exhibitions
    • June 2 - September 9
  • Catherine Lee
    • June 2 - September 9
  • G.P. Crutchfield and Fandangle From the Robert E. Nail, Jr. Archives at The Old Jail Art Center
    • June 2 - September 9
  • Event
Catherine Lee

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Souvenir: A 19th-Century Carved Tusk from the Loango Coast of Africa
    • May 5 – Sept. 9
  • Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas
    • May 20 – August 19
  • Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections
    • Closes July 1
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31
  • Events

Texas in the Twenties: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs from Lone Star Collections

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The Mac)
  • Core Fellowship Program of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Of Other Spaces
    • June 6 - July 7
  • robert mateo diago with Willie Baronet and Cristella Medrano: home•less•bound
    • June 6 - July 7
  • Terry Hays: Irreversible Change
    • June 6 - July 7
Core Fellowship Program of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Of Other Spaces
Meadows Museum SMU
  • The Collection of Calloway and Jerry Bywaters Cochran: In Honor of a Lone Star Legend
    • June 3 - August 19
  • The Frances Golden Ware Gift: Landscapes of the Southwest
    • June 3 - August 19
  • 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

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
  • Quilts in the Baltimore Manner
    • June 9, 2012 through May 11, 2014
  • Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
    • Sept. 24, 2011 - July 29, 2012
  • The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
    • Feb. 19 -
  • The Art of Steve Harley
    • Through August 2012
  • Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
    • Ongoing
  • Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments
    • Ongoing
  • Conserving the Carolina Room
    • Ongoing
  • 9/11: The South Tower
    • 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
  • The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings
    • June 9 – September 3
  • 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
  • Event
2012 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art
    • June 23 - August 26
  • Rhythm of Life: Watercolors by Richard Bolingbroke
    • June 23 - August 26
  • Nature Observed: Wendy Brockman Watercolors
    • June 23 - August 26
Rhythm of Life: Watercolors by Richard Bolingbroke

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Animal Magnetism: Sculpture from RAM's Collection
    • June 24 - October 21
  • Animal Magnetism: Works on Paper from RAM's Collection
    • May 26 - August 25
  • Animal Nature
    • June 10 - October 7
  • Creature Comforts: RAM Community Art Exhibition
    • May 26 - August 25
  • Beth Van Hoesen: The Observant Eye
    • May 20 - Sept. 9
  • Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
    • Through July 22
  • Events

Animal Magnetism: Sculpture from RAM's Collection


Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center
  • El Caballo: The Horse in Mexico Folk Art
    • June 1 - July 8,
  • Tracy Linder: The Obligation to Endure
    • May 25 - August 5, 2012
  • Abbie Miller: Zipped
    • May 25 - September 9, 2012
Tracy Linder: The Obligation to Endure

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