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 two pages:
Alabama to Missouri - page 1
Click here for page 2 - New Mexico 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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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
- Event
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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 reopens 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
- 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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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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Logan, KS
The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum
- Fragile Nature: Photographs by Joel Sartore
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Wichita, KS
Wichita Art Museum 
- The Secrecy Series: Selected Works
- In Plane View: Abstractions in Flight
- Community Favorites
- Murdock and Friends
- Western Imprints: Carving out
the Western Landscape
- Events
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Paducah, KY
The National Quilt Museum
- 19th Century Vibrations: Color Resonance in Antique Quilts 1860-1940
- Quilt National 2009, Group C
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The Yeiser Art Center
- My Nature / Your Nature
Recent Artwork by Travis Graves
- Tracy Badger
- YAC Artist of the Month
- July 31 – August 27
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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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Louisville Visual Art Association
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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?
- Extended through August 31
- 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
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New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art 
- Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century
- Every Year Something New: A Centennial Celebration from the Collection of Prints and Drawings
- Women Artists in Louisiana, 1965–2010
- Scents and Sensibility
- Beyond the Blues: Swamp Tours
- Events
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Baton Rouge, LA
Hill Memorial Library
LSU Libraries Special Collections
- A Beneficial Harvest: Edible and Medicinal Plants from Flora of Louisiana
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Baltimore, MD
The Walters Art Museum 
- Checkmate! Medieval People at Play
- July 17, 2010 - October 10
- Art of the Ancient Americas
- Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
- Mummified
- Events
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Lowell, MA
New England Quilt Museum
- Contemporary Broderie Perse: An Elegant Revival
- Events
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Whistler House Museum of Art
- From Fine Art to Fiber: Reinterpreting the Masters — 2010
- Linda Maletz: French Landscapes
- Event
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Salem, MA
Peabody Essex Museum 
- Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel
- June 12, 2010 - January 1, 2011
- Eye Spy
- June 19, 2010 - June 1, 2011
- Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection
- April 10, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2012
- Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
- Events
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Muskegon, MI
Muskegon Museum of Art
- 82nd Regional Exhibition
- A Collector’s Gift: Works by Walter Shirlaw and J. Frank Currier
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Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids Art Museum
- Selections from the Photography Collection
- Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
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Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
- Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy and Fred and Lena Meijer
- June 4, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Chihuly at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden
- Events
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Ridgeland, MS
Mississippi Craft Center
- Exhibiting member: Larry Smith
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Columbia, MO
Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri 
- The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
- Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection
- The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West
- Ongoing from May 29, 2008
- Treasures from Antiquity: The Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art
- The European and American Galleries
- Event
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