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Press Release 8-18-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
Newsletter is now so large it can not be sent by email and is built into the site.

There are now museums from twenty-seven states on our site!

Openings, Closings, and Events
The newsletter is now divided into three pages: Ohi0 to Wyoming - page 3 Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Kentucky Click here for page 2 - Alabama to Missouri

Cincinnati, OH Contemporary Arts Center Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand Closes August 22!!!! *Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed* May 22 – October Pat Steir: Water & Stone Closes August 22!!!! @ UnMuseum: Stay Up! Cincinnati Through October 31

Greensburg, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum July 25 - September 19 Event

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art *Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna* May 21 - Sept. 19, 2010 *Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Ceramics Research Center* Closes Sept. 5 *SC6: Six South Carolina Innovators in Clay* June 16 - Sept. 19 Events

Charleston, SC Gibbes Museum of Art *JoAnn Verburg: Interruptions* Closes August 22!!!! *Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection* Closes August 22!!!! The Charleston Story Ongoing Events

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum Ex Libris: The Art of Ownership II Through Nov. 28 Photographs from the James K. Patterson Collection: Salon Style Through Sept. 5 Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present June 26 - September 26 Me TV: The Identity Channel August 7 - Events
Children's Museum of Memphis *Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World!* Closes August 31 Japan & Nature: Spirits of the Seasons Through September 12
The Pink Palace Mansion Linen, Cotton & Silk Through Fall 2010
Pink Palace Museum Recently Uncovered Gomphotherium Fossil Ongoing *I AM A MAN* Through October 24 Moving Stories Through October 17

Clarksville, TN The River Inside: Photography of Jogn Guider Opens August 19 The Award Winners – Selection of works from the Tennessee Watercolor Society’s Biennial Exhibition Closes August 27!!!! Call to Arms Closes August 29

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center The Cumberland Valley Tennessee Association of Craft Artists August 6 – September 22
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art *Chilhuly at Cheekwood* May 25 - October 31 The American Impressionists in the Garden March 13 - Sept. 6 The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge Ongoing *William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit* Ongoing Events
Frist Center for the Visual Arts Chihuly at the Frist May 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011 The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957 June 18–September 12, 2010 Presence or Absence: The Photographs of Tokihiro Sato June 18–September 12, 2010 Events


Tennessee Art League Barry Werner Closes August 31 *Gwen Rodriguez* Closes August 28 A selection of Studio A artists Closes August 31
Tennessee State Museum Bernard de Clavière: Animalier Extraordinaire Closes August 22!!!! Romance of the Horse Closes August 22!!!!

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body May 29 – September 6 Event
Hunter Museum of American Art Transformation 6: Contemporary Works in Glass May 9 - Oct 27 Stephen Rolfe Powell Retrospective June 27 - Oct. 24. Event

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture Top Choice Exhibition Closes August 27
Knoxville Museum of Art Jane South: Shifting Structures August 7 - November 7 Contemporary Focus 2010 Opens August 27 - November 7 *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* Ongoing My Space Art Project in the KMA Community Gallery Through September 5 Event

Gatlinburg, TN Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts *2010 Instructor Exhibition* Through October 8 Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery Ongoing

Midland, TX Museum of the Southwest Randolph Howard: Painting Contemporary Artists Series Closes August 22!!!! Art of the Taos Masters June 1 – Oct. 28

Fort Worth, TX Kimbell Art Museum European Art South Gallery Current *Asian Art* North Gallery Current *Pre-Columbian and African Art* East Gallery Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony On View beginning Sept. 26 Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea Opens August 29 Events

Dallas Museum of Art African Masks: The Art of Disguise Opens August 22 Retrospective of Painter Luc Tuymans June 6 - Sept. 5 Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea Closes August 22!!!! The Living Room: Installation by Visiting Artist Jill Foley July 27 - September 25 Events

Goldendale, WA Maryhill Museum of Art OUTDOOR SCULPTURE GARDEN Through October 3 WILLIAM MORRIS: NATIVE SPECIES Through September 6 *Auguste Rodin* Ongoing *Native People of North America* Ongoing *Théâtre de la Mode* Ongoing *Samuel Hill* Ongoing *Marie, Queen of Romania* Ongoing Events

Wausau, WI Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Peanuts at Bat! Clsoes August 29 Events

Racine, WI Racine Art Museum *Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach* April 18 – Sept.12 *Jennifer Angus: Patterns of Insect Life* April 25 – Sept. 26 *The Insectopedia of Joanna Poehlmann* April 25 – Sept. 26 *Insects and Invaders in RAM's Collection* June 13 – Oct. 17 Event

Casper, WY Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center 25th annual Rocky Mountain Invitational Exhibition August 13 - September 10 Twilight August 5 - September 6 A Perfect Fit: Traveling Exhibition from the Fuller Craft Museum May 1-September 12 *Conrad Schwiering Studio collection* Ongoing Event

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Missouri

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina

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A map has been added to each museum page. The museums that provide a lot of information will now have three pages: their main page, a page for exhibition descriptions and a page for their events.

Check our:

Home page and/or Index page to see which museums recently updated their page and on what date. Look for the new photos tag.
- Museums and galleries that have joined in the past month are listed at the top of the column on the Home page
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Events page for openings, receptions, other museum activities
Exhibitions page to see a list and thumbnail photos of current shows. Check a particular museum's website (available on its page on our site) for all its activities and exhibitions.

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Tom Carris
Art Museum Touring
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