AK: Alaska
WHERE: Anchorage Museum. WHEN: Opens Friday, September 30, 2016 through February 6, 2017. Without Boundaries: Visual Conversations Curated by Sonya Kelliher-Combs, this exhibition combines a series of public programs and…
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NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: David Richard Gallery. WHEN: Friday, September 9 through November 6, 2016. The Santa Fe Art Project In this inaugural edition, eight curators from Santa Fe features over 50 established…
‘Creams of the crop’ goes on view
The South Dakota Governor’s 7th Biennial Art Exhibition goes on view from Friday, August 19 through Saturday, December 10, 2016 at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South…
CA: San Francisco
WHERE: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. WHEN: September 3, 2016 through June 25, 2017. Leslie and Merle Rabine Performance Season BRIEF ABOUT: YBCA is spotlighting artists whose…
SC: Spartanburg
WHERE: Spartanburg Library. WHEN: Tuesday, August 16, 2016 beginning at 12:15 pm. BRIEF ABOUT: This special lunchtime concert will feature two of Western North Carolina’s most celebrated and talented young…
Visual shocks of what ifs
Organized by Amy N. Worthen, curator of prints and drawings at the Des Moines (Iowa) Art Center, “Heavy Heavy Hands Over Thy Head” is an exhibition that looks at…
VA: Norfolk
WHERE: Glass Wheel Studio WHEN: Saturday, June 4 through July 10, 2016 Just Between Us BRIEF ABOUT: This is the first exhibition of works created during Glass Wheel’s inaugural…
Peg Sagen People’s Choice Award
“In July 2015, I went to Banff National Park and for two nights stayed at the most incredible place called the Num-Ti-Jah Lodge, which is an old hunting lodge…
East Coast museum adds to collection
New works of art by major artists, a 17th-century Dutch landscape by Salomon Jacobsz van Ruysdael and a portrait by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley, were acquired by the Wadsworth…
Sculptural work has new home
Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina has received a painted-steel nonobjective sculpture by the noted artist David Hayes. The multisided sculpture is painted in bright primary colors and sits…
Another decade for ‘Doc’ Venable
Dr. Charles L. Venable and the Board have signed an employment agreement which provides for Venable to continue to serve for up to 10 more years as The Melvin &…
A show of memory lane works
Internationally exhibited artist Victor Matthews works are on view at KM Fine Arts in Los Angeles through July 9, 2016. Artist Matthews solo installation, “The Longest Road” exhibition functions as…
Viewers can expect works of power
Going on view, Friday, June 3, 2016 and featuring the work of 60 different artists, this exhibition includes powerful, representative work by some of the biggest names in the…
Major show soon to open
Opening at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Saturday, June 4, 2016, this major international exhibition will feature two significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries:…
The ‘Hills’ to ring with the sound of music
The Rushmore Music Festival’s opening concert is entitled “Songs, Dances, and Jokes” which will have goers groovin’, laughin’ and cryin’ with music by Antonin Dvořák, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Cole…
Lakota artist to show his ‘stuff’
Opening on Friday, June 3, 2016 in the Ruth Brennan Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, “Cut & Paste” is an exhibit showcasing the…
FL: Miami
WHERE: Frost Art Museum WHEN: Opens Saturday, May 14, 2016. The Summer of Women BRIEF ABOUT: The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum launches The Summer of Women with powerful…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: David Richard Gallery. WHEN: Friday, May 13 through June 25, 2016. Note: An Opening Reception will be from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Friday. BRIEF ABOUT: “The Narrative Figure 
‘Eyes+Hands’ forge a new style
On view through July 11, 2016 at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, the exhibition, “The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography and Film” explores how…
New Director of Education chosen
Anne Butler Rice became the new Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located in Hartford, Connecticut. In her new post, Rice will oversee…
‘Tribute show’ to the greatest
Opening Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at the musée du quai Branly, located along the Seine, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the exhibition, “Matahoata, Arts…
In the ‘big top arena’ once again
Last exhibited in 1986, at the Museum of International Folk Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Morris Miniature Circus is a 3/8″-scale model of a 1920s circus, built…
London painter is a first
The exhibit opening of Glenn Brown is slated for Saturday, May 21, 2016 at the Des Moines Art Center in the Anna K. Meredith Gallery with approximately 25 paintings, sculptures,…
‘Money-maker’ new to the payroll
Former Spartanburg’s Hope Center for Children as the Director of Development Lisa A. Hemond of Inman, South Carolina became the Senior Development Director for the Chapman Cultural Center. Her responsibilities…
Miller’s ‘skins’ to be showcased
Opening Friday, April 1, 2016 at the Missoula Art Museum in Montana, features the talent and creative process in the form of a site-specific installation entitled, “Abbie Miller: Exit Strategies”…
Museum names new ‘plant doctor’
Following a national search, former horticulturist at the Chanticleer Foundation in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Jonathan M. Wright has been named the Ruth Lilly Deputy Director for Horticulture and Natural Resources at…
New ‘historical shaker’ at the helm
Suzanne Brooks is the new Executive Director for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. Brooks joins SCHA with experience in historic preservation, advocacy, education and outreach. She looks to engage the…
Diaz new Warhol ‘acquisition’
Taking the reins on May 16, former curator of exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida, José Carlos Diaz becomes the Andy Warhol Museum, located in…
Homer and Wyeth works bought
The Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine recently acquired new works by Winslow Homer, “An Open Window” and “River Cove” by Andrew Wyeth. “An Open Window” is one…
Art proposals sought
BLOOMINGTON, MN – Emerging and established artists and artist groups residing in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin who are 18 years or older are invited to…
Comic creator recipient of Arts Award
Cartoonist and entrepreneur Jim Davis is among recipients selected for the Indiana Governor’s Arts Awards. Born in Marion, Indiana and raised on a Black Angus cow farm with his family…
Italian region chosen for ‘Murphy U’
Art is not limited to drawing, painting and sculpture. While the visual means summon a host of feelings, let us not forget those films and accompanying sounds that keep us…
Found materials creates art
Opening on Friday, February 19 and on view until May 21, 2016 located in the Sen. Stan Adelstein & Lynda K. Clark Gallery at the Dahl Arts Center in…
Ligare show on Georgia’s mind
As the winter starts to seem long and cold, even in Georgia, opening on Saturday, February 13 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, visitors…
Saleri show to open at Fresno State
Opening Saturday, February 6, 2016 at the Henry Madden Library in the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery and Pete P. Peters Balcony gallery at Fresno State, will be a…
Show to reveal its ‘roughness’
Opening at the Anchorage Museum on Friday, February 5, 2016, “Stick and Puck” is a solo exhibition of work by artist Michael Conti. The exhibit will examine hockey from…
Big Apple leaders to talk
At 7:00 pm on Thursday, February 4, 2016, the Johnson Collection (www.thejohnsoncollection.org) presents the third installment of “Voices in American Art” at the Chapman Cultural Center Theater in…
SD: Rapid City
WHERE: Dahl Arts Center in the Ruth Brennan Gallery. WHEN: Through April 30, 2016. Evolution: A Retrospective BRIEF ABOUT: This survey exhibit spans the past thirty years of…
A journey into spaces and places
Opening at the Springville Museum of Art on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, “Here, There, and Everywhere” will examine how spaces become places; thusly, locations invested with meaning. Works of…
A show of porcelain works
Opening Saturday, January 2016, a new exhibition, “Miniature World in White Gold: Meissen Porcelain by Johann Joachim Kaendler” will explore the important career of this innovative porcelain modeler at the…
A show of ‘it’s me’
On view in the Blank One Gallery through April 24, 2016 at the Des Moines Art Center, “Selfie: Self Portraits From the Permanent Collection” considers both well-known and little seen…
CA: San Francisco
WHERE: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. WHEN: Performances on Friday, January 22, 2016 at 8:00 pm and Saturday, 23rd at 8:00 pm. The Odyssey–from Vietnam to America BRIEF ABOUT:…
The hills of Nashville to ring
Taking place at 7:00 pm on Sunday, January 17, at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the program, “Let Freedom Sing” becomes the Nashville Symphony’s 23rd annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day concert,…
Half century feast of fashions
Opening in the Grand Gallery on Sunday, January 31,“Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair” and remaining on view through April 24, 2016 at the Memorial Art Gallery in…
Kailukiak takes ‘Budney Choice’
Going on view February 5 through April 10, 2016 at the Anchorage Museum, “All Alaska Biennial†celebrates the contemporary work of Alaska artists with works that explore the North, its…
Guild chooses new director
Artists’ Guild of Spartanburg, South Carolina has Caitlin Boice as its new Executive Director, who has been working as the Interim Director since June 2014. “Caitlin’s work ethic…
Show focuses on Needleworks
On view through February 28, 2016 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality’” focuses on ornamental needlework created…
Passionate, fiery, sensual, intense show
“Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico” is on view at the Museum of International Folk Art through September 11, 2016, showing more than 150 objects which not only celebrates,…
NM: Santa Fe
WHERE: New Mexico Museum of Art. WHEN: On view through February 21, 2016 in conjunction with O’Keeffe in Process exhibit. An American Modernism This exhibit explores the quest by…
Renovated art facility tall again
The Glass Wheel Studio, which recently held its official Grand Opening, is featuring in their first exhibition through January 17, 2016, works by glass artist Jon Goldberg, mixed-media artist Natalie…