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. Ends Labor Day, September 6, 2010.
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
- Closes Sept. 5!!!!
- Huth and Boeing Galleries
- Imagine Tomorrow
- Event
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San Francisco, CA
The Contemporary Jewish Museum
- Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
- August 26, 2010 – March 22, 2011
- 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)
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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
- Go Figure!
- Opens Today, Sept. 1 - August 5, 2012
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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
- Rwanda/Intended Consequences – Jonathan Torgovnik
- Opens September 4 – Nov. 7
- Home Stills – Bastienne Schmidt
- Opens September 4 – Nov. 7
- Events
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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
- Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art
- 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
- Speed Limits
- Event
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Miami, FL
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
- Spiritual Healing – Shamans of the Northwest Coast
- 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
- Events
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Milledgeville. GA
Georgia State College & University Museum
- Collocations by Mickey Smith
- Stories by Jessica Bruah
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Augusta, GA
Morris Museum of Art
- Painters’ Reel: Contemporary Painting in Georgia
- Wolf Kahn Pastels
- 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
- Ball-Nogues Studio: Gravity's Loom
- Sept. 3, 2010 - March 6, 2011
- 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 tomorrow, Sept. 2 - Oct. 17
- Iowa Memorial Union’s Black Box Theater
- Events
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Paducah, KY
The National Quilt Museum
- The Machine Age of Quilting: Treadle to Computer
- A Horse's Tale
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The Yeiser Art Center
- Anne Bagby: paintings
Christina Bartsch: prints
A Two Person Exhibition
- Carol Jones
- YAC Artist of the Month
- Sept. 4 – Oct. 2
- Event
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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
- Reflections on a Louisville Landmark: 150 years of Louisville Water Company
- Events
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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?
- Pursuing the Masterpiece: Five Recent Acquisitions
- 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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