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Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • ALBANY AND THE CIVIL WAR: MEDICINE ON THE HOME AND BATTLE FRONTS
    • SEPT. 3, 2011 – FEB. 26, 2012
  • PARKER C. DUNN: THE DUNN MEMORIAL BRIDGE
    • AUG. 6 – NOV. 13
  • A GATHER OF GLASS: SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION
    • Through June, 2012
  • FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • August 27, 2011– May 20, 2012
  • Event
FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • A Tisket A Tasket: Appalachian, Cherokee and Low Country Baskets
    • July 15, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
  • Color Study
    • July 9 - Nov. 6
  • Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA
    • Closes Sept. 25!!!!
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • FROM THE MILLENIUM FORWARD: A Decade of Donations to the Hickory Museum of Art
    • Through March 24, 2012
  • THE LOUIS ORR ETCHINGS OF NORTH CAROLINA
    • Through Dec. 31
  • NY 10 and NY INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIOS
    • Through November 6
  • AMERICAN ART POTTERY: From the Museum's Moody Collection
    • Ongoing
  • BORN OF FIRE: Glass from the Museum's Luski Collection
    • Ongoing
  • SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
    • Ongoing
  • DISCOVER FOLK ART: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Catawba County Collects Philip Moose
    • Through Sept. 25

Winston-Salem, NC

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)

  • Margarita Cabrera: The Space in Between
    • Sept. 15, 2011 – Feb. 12, 2012
Margarita Cabrera: The Space in Between

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum

  • Ackland Carolina Collects
    • Sept. 9 - Dec. 4
  • The Western Tradition: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Now Open
  • Event
Ackland Carolina Collects

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure The Signs Of Power, 1973-1991
    • Sept. 15 - Dec. 31
  • Becoming: Photographs From The Wedge Collection
    • August 11, 2011 - January 8, 2012
  • A Selection of Women Artists from the Nasher Museum's Collection
    • Through December 4
  • Jaume Plensa: Glückauf?
    • Now on view
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Ongoing
  • Event
A Selection of Women Artists from the Nasher Museum's Collection

Raleigh, NC

Gregg Museum of Art & Design North Carolina State University

  • Earth with Meaning: the photographs of Alan Cohen
    • Sept. 15 - Dec. 17
Earth with Meaning: the photographs of Alan Cohen

Wilmington, NC

The Cameron Art Museum

  • Clyde Connell: Swamp Songs
    • Through October 2
  • Terrell James: Field Study
    • Through October 2
  • State of the Art/Art of the State
    • Through October 2
  • Event
Clyde Connell: Swamp Songs

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Julião Sarmento
    • Sept. 24, 2011- Jan. 22, 2012
  • Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan
    • Sept. 24, 2011- Jan. 22, 2012
  • Matthew Monahan
    • April 23- October 30
  • Events
Realms of Intimacy: Miniaturist Practice from Pakistan

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • Tattoo Witness
    • Sept. 17 - October 16
  • Event
Tattoo Witness

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Masterpieces by Andrew Wyeth from the Collections
    • Sept. 24 - Jan. 29, 2012
  • Celebrating Four Decades of Collecting
    • Sept. 24 - Nov. 20
  • Honoring Howard Pyle: Major Works from the Collections
    • Sept. 15 - Dec. 17
  • Inspiring Minds: Howard Pyle as Teacher
    • Sept. 15 - Dec. 17
  • Classic Illustrations for a Classic Tale
    • Sept. 10 - Nov. 20
Masterpieces by Andrew Wyeth from the Collections

Philadelphia, PA

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

  • Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum
    • Sept. 18 -
  • Special Display: Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11
    • August 20 - Nov. 6
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • A Tale of Two Sisters: Gifts from Ethel S. Brody and Leona Sobel
    • Sept. 9 - Nov. 27
  • Michael Kenna: Venezia
    • July 16 - Oct. 23
  • An Artist’s Eye from the Modern and Contemporary Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art
    • June 17 - Oct. 23
  • Events
A Tale of Two Sisters: Gifts from Ethel S. Brody and Leona Sobel

Charleston, SD

Gibbes Museum of Art

  • The Creative Spirit: Vernacular Art from the Gadsden Arts Center Permanent Collection
    • Through October 16
  • In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
    • Through October 16
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • Making New Traditions
    • Sept. 27, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  • Carol Hepper: Inside the Between
    • Sept. 16 - Dec. 4
  • Harvey Dunn: A Selection of His Prairie Works
    • Sept. 1, 2011 - April 15, 2012
  • South Dakota Artist Series: Paintings/Ceramics: Sheila Agee and Ben Suga
    • Through October 23
  • Madeiran Stitchery
    • Through November
  • The Art of the Basket
    • Through Sept. 18
Making New Traditions

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