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Press Release 8-25-10: 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 *Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed* May 22 – October @ UnMuseum: Stay Up! Cincinnati Through October 31 Events

Greensburg, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art Rooted in Tradition: Art Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum July 25 - September19 Event

Chadds Ford, PA Brandywine River Museum Striking Poses: Portraits from the Museum's Collections Closes September 6 *Reality Check: Contemporary American Trompe l'Oeil* Opens Sept. 11 - Nov. 18

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 *Face Lift* Opens Sept. 3 - Dec. 5 *Stacy Lynn Waddell: The Evidence of Things Unseen* Opens Sept. 3 - Dec. 5 The Charleston Story Ongoing Events
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art *DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS BY NYC ARTIST DAVID STERN* Opens August 26 ^_ October 8 Events

Brookings, SD South Dakota Art Museum Harvey Dunn: Select Works Through November 1

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
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 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 Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art *Chilhuly at Cheekwood* May 25 - October 31 The American Impressionists in the Garden Closes September 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 Closes – September 12, 2010 Presence or Absence: The Photographs of Tokihiro Sato June 18–September 12, 2010 Events


The Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery *TSU Art Faculty Biennial* August 23 - September 30
Tennessee Art League Barry Werner Closes August 31!!!! *Gwen Rodriguez* Closes August 28!!!! A selection of Studio A artists Closes August 31!!!!
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Eye & Mind: A Legacy of Art Collecting at Vanderbilt University Through May 13, 2020.

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery too soon. too much. too soon, a solo exhibition by Mike Calway-Fagen Opens August 27 - October 3 Carlos Gallery *Pradip Malde: 'Reflectance'* Opens September 3 - October 3 University Art Gallery Events

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body Closes 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
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee SHELLS: GEMS OF THE SEA Closes September 5

Midland, TX Museum of the Southwest Rene Alvarado: The Madonna as Muse August - John Banovich: Nature of the Beast August - Art of the Taos Masters June 1 – Oct. 28

Albany, TX The Old Jail Center *Mexican Muralist Works on Paper: from the Blanton Museum of Art* June 5 – Sept. 12 A Cell of One’s Own: John Robert Craft June 5 – Sept. 12 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 Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea Opens August 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

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! Closes August 29!!!! Events

Racine, WI Racine Art Museum *Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach* Closes 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 Events

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Missouri

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina

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Tom Carris
Art Museum Touring
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