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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
Matthew Monahan

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

Pennsylvania, PA

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

  • Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan
    • Though July 31, 2011
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Battleground: War Rugs from Afghanistan

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Rembrandt: From Sacred to Profane
    • May 17 - August 21
  • Nature and the Grand American Vision: Masterpieces of the Hudson River School Painters
    • Through April 1, 2012
  • Events
Rembrandt: From Sacred to Profane

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
A Soldier's View of Civil War Charleston
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
  • Kcymaerxthaere by Eames Demetrios
    • May 27 - July 15
  • Winter Stories by Paolo Ventura
    • May 27 - July 15
  • Event

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • African Beads and Beadwork: Jewels of a Continent
    • May 31 - Sept. 2
  • Traces: Montana’s Frontier Re-visited
    • Closes June 12
  • Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath?
    • Through Sept. 4
  • The Art of the Basket
    • Through Sept. 18
  • Madeiran Stitchery
    • Through November

Memphis, TN

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
    • Closes June 12!!!!
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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
  • A Taste for China
    • Closes June 15!!!!
  • Events
MS: A Collection of Original Multiples

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center

  • Dawn Hale - Paper Sculpture; Lucian Nicholson - Miniature Art Chairs and 3-D Paper Art; Sharon Midgett – Handmade Paper, 2-D Art; Mimi Walsh – Mixed Media with Enamels on Copper
    • June 3 – July 27

Lucian Nicholson - Miniature Art Chairs and 3-D Paper Art
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Works of local earth artist David Wood in a special ‘twinstallation’.
    • May 24 - Oct 21
  • Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
    • Closes June 19
  • Jiha Moon : Colliding Icons
    • Closes June 19
  • Material Apparatus
    • Closes 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
  • Event
Jiha Moon : Colliding Icons

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
    • May 20 - August 21
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • April 15 - March 27, 2012
  • Events
Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • FIT TO PRINT: CONTEMPORARY POSTER ART: FROM THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS GALLERY COLLECTION.
    • May 26 - Aug. 11
  • Eye & Mind: A Legacy of Art Collecting at Vanderbilt University
    • Through May 13, 2020.
FIT TO PRINT: CONTEMPORARY POSTER ART: FROM THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS GALLERY COLLECTION.

Chattanooga, TN

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

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture!

  • Expressions & Impressions: Works by Rickey A. Beene and Maya Simonson
    • June 3 - 24
  • Pieces of Me by Scott W Lee
    • June 3 - 24
  • Knox Heritage’s Art & Architecture Tour Photographs
    • June 3 - 24
  • Arts in the Airport
    • 2011-2012
  • Event
Pieces of Me by Scott W Lee
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • 2011 HONORS EXHIBITION
    • Closes June 13!!!!
2011 HONORS EXHIBITION
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 School of Arts and Crafts

  • Selections of work by former Artists-in-Residence
    • May 27 - Jul. 4
  • Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition
    • May. 13 - Sep. 3
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries ETSU

  • Neo Garde: Contemporary Art from South Korea
    • Closes June 10!!!!
  • Soaring: Nine Women
    • June 3 - July 29
  • Event
Neo Garde: Contemporary Art from South Korea

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
  • Form & Substance: The Art of George Tobolowsky
    • June 3 – Sept. 11
  • Event
Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center

  • Big Bend: From The Pecos To The Rio Grande
    • June 4 – Sept. 11
  • Cell Series featured artist: Will Henry
    • June 4 – Sept. 11
  • West Texas Triangle: Tobolowsky
  • Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing
  • W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
    • Ongoing
  • Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
    • Ongoing

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

  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • Opens April 24– Sept. 4
  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • April 3 – August 14
  • 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
Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
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
Concrete Improvisations - Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente

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
"A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820

Goldendale, WA

Maryhill Museum of Art

  • Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
    • May 14 – October 2
  • 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
    • Closes June 19
  • Mad About Teapots
    • Closes June 19
  • Event
Mad About Teapots

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

Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry

Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

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

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