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 three pages:
Alabama to Kentucky - page 1
Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina
Click here for page 3 - Ohio 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
- June 13 – Sept. 5
- Huth and Boeing Galleries
- Imagine Tomorrow
- Event
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San Francisco, CA
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
- Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life
- “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
- StoryCorps StoryBooth
- As It Is Written: Project 304,805
(The Torah Project)
- Jews on Vinyl
And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl
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Stanford, CA
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts
- Buildings on Paper: Architectural Drawings
- Longing for Sea Change: Odile and Odette
- June 16 – January 9, 2011
- William Trost Richards—True to Nature: Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches at Stanford University
- Collection Highlights from Europe 1500 - 1800, Ancient Greece and Rome
- Mami_wata1Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
- August 4, 2010 - January 2, 2011
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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, FL
The Southeast Museum of Photography*
- Florida Vernacular – Rick Lang
*Museum reopened August 17
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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
- On the Silk Road and High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce
- August 21–November 28, 2010
- 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
- Event
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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
- Tap-Tap: Celebrating the Art of Haiti
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Atlanta, GA
Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
- Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an
- Opens August 28, – December 5
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Milledgeville. GA
Georgia State College & University Museum
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Augusta, GA
Morris Museum of Art
- Painters’ Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia
- Unhindered by Seriousness: Sculpture by Carl Blair
- Events
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Indianapolis, IN
Indianapolis Museum of Art 
- Drawings to Prints
- July 3, 2010 - January 2, 2011
- Jeppe Hein
- The Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, Part II
- Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA's Collection
- April 10, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011
- Joshua Mosley: American International
- Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous
- April 17, 2010-January 23, 2011
- Events
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Iowa City, Iowa
University of Iowa Museum of Art
- Ere Ibeji: Yoruba Twin Figures from the Collection of J. Richard Simon
- Opens September 2 - October 17
- Iowa Memorial Union’s Black Box Theater
- Events
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Logan, KS
The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum
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Paducah, KY
The National Quilt Museum
- 19th Century Vibrations: Color Resonance in Antique Quilts 1860-1940
- A Horse's Tale
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The Yeiser Art Center
- My Nature / Your Nature
Recent Artwork by Travis Graves
- Tracy Badger
- YAC Artist of the Month
- Closes August 27
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Owensboro, KY
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
- Art of the Glassmaker
- Point of View
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Louisville, KY
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
- Equine Divine
- Red River: The Narrative Carvings of Edgar Tolson, Donny Tolson, Carl McKenzie and Earnest Patton
- Event
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The Speed Art Museum
- Andy Warhol: Myths
- European and American Art, 1800-1960
- Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise?
- Events
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Lexington, KY
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
- The Bluegrass Palette of ANDRE PATER
- HOOFBEATS and HEARTBEATS: The Horse in American Art
- Opens August 22 - November 21
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