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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
Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running: Majr Gazr

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology (1925 – 1950)
    • May 15 - Sept. 4
  • Moments in Time: Paintings by Hubert J. FitzGerald
    • May 15 - Sept. 4
  • Events

At the River's Edge: Paintings by Patrick Ruane


Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth
    • June 11 - Sept. 11
  • Seeing Red: Southeastern Pennsylvania Earthenware from Winterthur
    • May 28 - July 24
Farm Work by Jamie Wyeth

Philadelphia, PA
  • Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment
    • Opens July 2
  • Water As The Source
    • Through July 23
  • Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go
    • Through August 28
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment

Charleston, SC

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

  • Kcymaerxthaere by Eames Demetrios
    • Closes July 15
  • Winter Stories by Paolo Ventura
    • Closes July 15
The Postcard Show

Gibbes Museum of Art
  • Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad
    • Closes July 10
  • A Soldier's View of Civil War Charleston
    • Closes July 10
  • Anna Heyward Taylor
    World Traveler
    • Through July 17
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
Stephen Marc: Passage on the Underground Railroad

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • An Artist’s Eye from the Modern and Contemporary Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art
    • June 17 - Oct. 23
  • Rembrandt: From Sacred to Profane
    • May 17 - August 21
  • Events
An Artist’s Eye from the Modern and Contemporary Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • South Dakota Artist Series: Paintings/Ceramics: Sheila Agee and Ben Suga
    • June 26 - October 23
  • African Beads and Beadwork: Jewels of a Continent
    • Through Sept. 2
  • Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath?
    • Through Sept. 4
  • The Art of the Basket
    • Through Sept. 18
  • Madeiran Stitchery
    • Through November
Lynn Thorpe: Earth and Sky

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum

  • SMS: A Collection of Original Multiples
    • June 11, 2011 – January 8, 2012
  • Eye Spy: Elements of Art
    • Through July 24
  • (Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South
    • Through July 17
  • Events
MS: A Collection of Original Multiples
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Larry Edwards
    • Closes July 24
  • Jean-Louis Forain: La Comédie Parisienne
    • June 26 - Oct. 9
  • John Rogers: American Stories
    • June 26 - Oct. 9
  • Event
Jean-Louis Forain: La Comédie Parisienne
The Pink Palace Museum
  • George Washington Carver
    • Closes 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

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Call of the Wild
    • July 8 - October 9
  • Painted Visions: The Paintings of Gwen Rodriguez
    • Through July
  • Winslow Homer’s War – Original Harper’s Weeklies from the collection of Haynes Galleries, Franklin, TN.
    • Through July
  • Event

Nashville, TN

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work
    • June 24 – Sept. 11
  • Vesna Pavlovic: Projected Histories
    • June 24 – Sept. 11
  • Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
    • May 20 - August 21
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • April 15 - March 27, 2012
  • Events
Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work
The Parthenon
  • Missing Nature
    • Through August 20
Missing Nature
Tennessee Art League
  • 46th Annual Central South Art Exhibition (CSAE)
    • Closes June 24!!!!
46th Annual Central South Art Exhibition (CSAE)

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • Bob the Builder™–Project: Build It
    • Through Sept.11
Bob the Builder™–Project: Build It
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Celebrating Volkswagen: The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg at the Hunter
    • May 24 -
  • Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War from the George Eastman House Collection
    • Through Aug. 28
  • Beverly Semms: Starcraft
    • May 15 – Oct. 23
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Beverly Semms: Starcraft

Norris, TN

Museum of Appalachia

  • Event: Old Fashioned 4th of July

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture!

  • Fountain City Art Guild - Summer Solstice Show
    • July 1 - 29
  • New Group Exhibition in the Balcony
    • July 1 - 29
  • Arts in the Airport
    • 2011-2012
  • Event
Fountain City Art Guild - Summer Solstice Show
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee
  • Sudan: The Land and the People
    • Through August 28
 Sudan: The Land and the People
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work
    • June 10-Sept. 4
  • Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE)
    • May 13-August 7, 2011
  • Anne Wilson: Local Industry
    • May 13-August 7, 2011
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work

Gatlinburg, TN
  • Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition
    • Through Sep. 3
  • Selections of work by former Artists-in-Residence
    • Closes Jul. 4!!!!
Selections of work by former Artists-in-Residence

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor
    • Closes July 10
  • The Ellen Noël Art Museum Announces its newest exhibition: Sculpture by Steve Teeters
    • Closes July 10
  • Form & Substance: The Art of George Tobolowsky
    • June 3 – Sept. 11
  • Event
Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

  • Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912
    • May 29 -
  • 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
Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

  • Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
    • Through Sept. 4
  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • Through August 14
  • Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
    • Through 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
Encountering Space
Meadows Museum SMU
  • Concrete Improvisations - Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente
    • May 15 - July 31
  • New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
    • Ongoing
New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.

Charlottesville , VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

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

Williamsburg, VA

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

  • The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
    • Feb. 19 -
  • The Art of Steve Harley
    • Through Dec. 2011
  • Material Witnesses Quilts and Their Makers
    • Closes in April of 2012
  • Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art
    • Ongoing
  • Cross Rhythms Folk Musical Instruments
    • Ongoing
  • We the People Three Centuries of American Folk Portraits
    • Through July 31
  • Conserving the Carolina Room
    • Ongoing
The Old Plantation: The Artist Revealed
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
    • May 14 – October 2
  • Process and Presence: Selections from the Museum of Contemporary Craft
    • Closes 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
OUTDOOR SCULPTURE COLLECTION

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Iron: 2010: New Work by American Blacksmiths
    • June 20 - August 28
  • Ax Lore: Historic Tools from the John and Brenda Henson Collection
    • June 20 - August 28
  • Event
Ax Lore: Historic Tools from the John and Brenda Henson Collection

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
    • June 12 – Oct. 23
  • Racine and Vicinity Show: All Media Juried Competition
    • June 4- August 27
    • Wustum Location
  • The Wright Stuff: Artists Respond to the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • May 29 - August 2
  • Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place
    • May 22 – October 2
  • Event

Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

  • Jamie Burmeister
    • May 20- August 7
  • Living History: A Group Exhibition
    • May 20-September 11
  • Event

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Blog: Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE) & Anne Wilson: Local Industry
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Carris Studio pottery archives
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