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Press Release 9-17-08: Openings, Closings, and Events

Openings, Closings, and Events
See Exhibitions page to see a sample photos of current and upcoming shows.

Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Encounters: Shane Fero
    • Closes September 28
  • Looking at the Collection: Buccellati Highlights
    • through February 1, 2009
  • Looking at the Collection:
    Whimsy in 3-D
    • through May 31, 2009

Milledgeville, GA

Georgia College & State University Museum

  • Visions and Voices, works by Kristin Cassaletto
    • Opens September 18 – December 5
  • Solo Exhibition featuring the works of Frances de La Rosa
Kristin Cassaletto

Augusta , GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf
    • Closes September 28
  • Landscape of Slavery:
    The Plantation in American Art
    • Through October 19
  • Events
Icarus

Paducah, KY

National Quilt Museum

Yeiser Art Center

  • PostSecret
    • Closes Sept. 20!!!!
Quilt
PostSecret

Louisville, KY

Louisville Visual Art Association

  • Launchings
    • Opened August 22 - October 4
Schmitz

Lexington, KY

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky

  • Master Works by Kentucky Painters: 1819-1935
    • Opened Sept. 14 ­ November 30
Kentucky Painters

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • The Baroque World of
    Fernando Botero
    • Closes September 21!!!!
  • Events

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

  • Louisiana: Photographs by Stuart Klipper
    Southern Masters Series: Robert Tannen "Stardust: Obects, Ideas and Proposals"
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
  • Fundamental Abstraction:
    Paintings by Tom Young
    Southeast College Art Conference Exhibition
    • Through Sept. 28
Earthquake
Tom Young

Ridgeland, MS

Mississippi Craft Center

  • Metal and Mixed Media Exhibit
    • Tuesday, Sept. 23
  • Events
basket

Biloxi, MS

Ohr-O'Keefe Art Museum

  • George Ohr’s National Challenge: The Juried Exhibition
    • Opens Sept. 19 - Nov. 7
Erosion

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • Life’s Rich Pageant: A Centennial Celebration of The Eight
    • September 12, 2008 -
      January 4, 2009
    • Holden Community Gallery
  • Ash Cans, Factories and Trains: Students and Followers of The Eight
    • Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 -
      Sunday, January 11, 2009
  • Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way: A Retrospective of Paintings by John Baeder
    • Through Sunday, October 26
    • Appleby Foundation Gallery
  • Expectant Gaze
    • Through 2008
    • 2nd Floor Galleries
  • Events
Diner

Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville Museum of Art

  • Sense of Place,
    • September 13 - November 2
  • Japanese artist Etsuko Komori
    • September 26 – November 16
  • Events
Komori

Wimington, NC

Cameron Art Museum

  • ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics
    • Through September 28
  • Bob Trotman: Business as Usual
    • Through October 12
  • Art and Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST
    • Through October 19
  • Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art
    • Through May 24, 2009

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Dale Chihuly: Seaforms
    • Opened September 5 –
      November 30

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art

  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Grass Roots:
    African Origins of an American Art
    • Opened August 29 - November 30
basket

Memphis, TN:

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • Curious George: Let’s Get Curious
    • Closes Sept. 28
  • Event
    • Emergency Preparedness Day
  • Curious George: Let’s Get Curious

Pink Palace Museum

  • On Track in Memphis
    • Opens Oct. 4
  • In Spite of Race,
    The Robert R. Church Family of Memphis
    • Closes October 26
Curious George

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center

  • Wear Art: TN Textiles, V. 2008
    • Closes September 26
    • Event
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • A Century on Paper
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
  • Song Archive Project
    • Closes Sept. 28
  • Artists' Books From Post War to Present
    • Closes Sept. 28
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Through January 4, 2009
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
    Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
First Time to Vote
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  • Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
    • Ingram Gallery
  • Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
    • Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery and Education Gallery
  • Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
    • Sept. 12, 2008 – Jan. 4, 2009
    • Upper-Level Galleries
  • The Best of Photography and Film from George Eastman House Collection
    • Oct. 10, 2008– Jan. 25, 2009
  • The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi
    • Oct. 10, 2008– Jan. 25, 2009

Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery
Tennessee State University
  • Faculty Biennial
The Parthenon
  • The natural Preservation of Form: sculpture by Kath Girdler Engler
    • Opened August 15 - November 1
  • IMMERSION: A KatrinaRoom
    • Opened August 27 - December 13
Door
Tennessee Art League
  • Nick Long
    • Through October 30

Tennessee State Museum

  • Akira Blount’s Enchanted Dolls
    • September 26 - November 30
  • The River Inside
    • Opens October 3rd
  • Events
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out Polaroid Photographs and Videos by Andy Warhol, Grant Worth
    • Opened August 28 - Oct. 10
Bianca Jagger

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee:
The University of the South

  • Greg Pond: Userland[s]
    • Through October 15
    • Event

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art

  • William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal
    • Closes September 28
  • Object Project
    • Opens October 12, 2008 -
      January 11, 2009

Knoxville, TN
Blount Mansion
  • “Watercolors of Tennessee” - An Art Exhibition by the Knoxville Watercolor Society. 200 W. Hill Ave.
    • Closes September 29
    • Blount Mansion Visitors Center
Emporium Center
  • Works of Mänya Pirkle and Jonathan Pirkle
    • Opened September 5-26
  • Eclectia:
    Works by Charlie Daniel and Jon Gustin"
    • Opened September 5-26
  • Wonder and Whimsy: Works of JoAnn Parsley and Olga Rader
    • Opens October 3-31

Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture
  • New York Rises
    • Closes October 1
Delancy
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee
  • NAPOLEON IN EGYPT AND EGYPTOMANIA IN TENNESSEE
    • Closes January 18, 2009
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s
    Bend Quilts and Beyond
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing exhibition
Mary Lee Bendolph

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