John Guider
Canoe at River's Edge, Sunset along the Mississippi River

The River Inside, opens October 3rd at the State Museum. Visit the Tennessee State Museum on Art Museum touring.page (Link...) The River Inside tells the story of Guider’s solo journey through the camera’s eye. Guider, who completed the upper portions of the Mississippi in three subsequent solo canoe trips taken from 2005 to 2007, captured more than 10,000 scenes of America’s waterways on film during his trips. He then selected and processed just 75 platinum prints representative of the people and places he encountered along the way. The images offer a revealing perspective on the natural and controlled inland waterways that bisect the nation.

Also, on exhibit is Akira Blount’s Enchanted Dolls through November 30. Akira Blount is more than just a doll maker; she is an internationally recognized figurative artist.

This week's Art Museum Touring.com "Openings, Closings, and Events" newsletter has been posted (Link...) showing what is going on at the participating museums and galleries in the nine state southeast region. This week the Hill Memorial Library LSU Libraries’ Special Collections, Baton Rouge, LA joined Art Museum Touring.com.

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Sherrie

William Morris
Canopic Jar: Eland, 1995
blown glass
Collection of the artist

William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal closes Sunday, September 28, at the The Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga. Visit the Hunter page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Internationally known glass sculptor William Morris transforms molten glass into sculptural installations resembling unearthed artifacts, animals and ancestral peoples. Morris’s innovative blown glass sculptures and installations are inspired by his passion for archaeology and ancient civilizations—Egyptian, West African, Mayan, Native American—as well as his deep interest in the animal world and the relationship between humans and their environment.

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Josephine's Coat of Many Colors
Vickie Vipperman
silk, bamboo, cotton, weaving

Wear Art: TN Textiles, V. 2008 at the Centennial Art Center features the work of Paula Bowers-Hotvedt, Teresa Hays, Breanna Rockstad-Kincaid and Vickie Vipperman. Visit the Centennail Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The weekly Openings, Closings and Events newsletter for the museums and galleries has been posted and is ready to be viewed (Link...).

The exhibition closes Friday September 26. Local textile artists Paula Bowers-Hotvedt, Teresa Hays, Breanna Rockstad-Kincaid and Vickie Vipperman will share the gallery at Metro Parks’ Centennial Art Center. Each artist will present a unique approach to “wearable art,” displaying and selling their original designs that include jackets, hats, scarves, neck ties, purses, shawls and more.

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Sherrie

Fall Leaf Bag
Breanna Rockstad-Kincaid

Wear Art: TN Textiles, V. 2008 features the work of Paula Bowers-Hotvedt, Teresa Hays, Breanna Rockstad-Kincaid and Vickie Vipperman. The show opens Friday, August 5, with an artists' reception at the Centennial Art Center in Nashville. Visit the Centennial Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Note: Art Museum Touring.com is upgrading its site and will down for a couple of days this weekend.

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Sherrie

LEGS & LEAVES and A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll open at the State Museum closeTwo exhibits on August 31: LEGS & LEAVES: Creations from the Cumberland Furniture Guild, and A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll & A Pinch of Country the work of noted photographer Nancy Lee Andrews. Visit the Tennessee State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

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Sherrie

Pond Lily Globe, ca. 1905
Tiffany Studios, New York.
Leaded glass; H: 13.375 in.; D: 14.0 in.
H: 36.0 in.; D: 18.0 in
copyright The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass

The exhibition Tiffany by Design: The Neustadt Collection closes Sunday, Aug. 24, at the Frist Center for The Visual Arts in Nashville. Visit the Frist page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Arguably America’s greatest art nouveau designer, Louis Comfort Tiffany created his most extraordinary works in the medium of glass. This exhibition in Upper-Level Galleries of 40 lamps conveys the beauty of his designs and complexity of the fabrication processes employed by Tiffany Studios between 1900 and 1925.

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Sherrie

Centennial Art Center in Nashville opens new exhibition on Friday, runs August 8 - 29, featuring 3 artists. Visit the Centennial Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Underwater Philodendron
Jane Word
Photograph

The exhibition features: New Pots - Pottery by Eric Botbyl, Nature as Art - Photography by Charlie Doggett, and Landscapes and Artifacts - Photography by Jane Word.

An opening artists reception is being held today at the Art Center. Check the Events page for time and details (Link...).

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Sherrie

Dragon and Splat

KIDS DAY Offers Asian Games and Crafts
Paducah Summer Festival’s KIDS DAY - DRAGON DAYS OF SUMMER
on Saturday, July 26, from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. for 3 to 12-year-olds.

Explore Asian Arts at the National Quilt Museum! Visit the Quilt Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) . For the third year, the Quilt Museum is partnering with the Paducah Summer Festival for Kids Day in the Arts. See Events page (Link...).

All activities will be free to adults and children! Plus, enjoy FREE admission into the Museum galleries to travel overseas with the exhibit 9th Quilt Japan, featuring premier Asian quilters.

Scheduled Activities include:
10-11 am (1 hour only) tethered hot air balloon rides
11am-1 pm Paducah Bank ice cream truck (free tickets for ice cream when you check in at registration)
11 am & 1 pm Story Time with Dragons
Noon & 2 pm Dragon Parades

All-Day Arts Activities include:

Name Writing in Chinese Characters; Create Japanese Paperdolls, Chinese Knots, Lanterns, Masks, Fans, Fortune Cookies, Fabric Coasters, Dancing Sticks; Sidewalk Chalk Art; Eye Spy in the Gallery; Face Painting; Musical Fun; Chopstick Games & Music; and Inflatables on the Lawn.

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Sherrie

The Glow Within
Shane Fero
Glass - hot & flameworked glass, sandblasted
and acid-etched

Encounters: Shane Fero opened Sunday at the Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, AL. Visit the Huntsville page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and get the schedule for their upcoming gallery tour in Huntsville on the Events page (Link...).

They currently have two other exhibitions running at this time:
Looking at the Collection: Buccellati Highlights
May 11 - February 1, 2009 and
Looking at the Collection: Whimsy in 3-D
On view through May 31, 2009.

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Sherrie

Foreclosure
Marcus Antonius Jansen

The exhibition at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, KY of the paintings of Marcus Antonius Jansen of Florida closes today, Saturday, June 12. Visit the Yeiser page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). He works in a Modern Urban-Expressionistic style, which is inspired greatly by his time living in New York and among the abundant graffiti. He studied art in Germany and served in the US Army for seven years. There is a link on the Yeiser page to see more of Jansen's paintings.

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Sherrie

Andy Warhol
American, 1928-1987
Electric Chair, 1971
Portfolio of ten silk screens, 232/270

10 each measuring 35 1/8” x 47 7/8” (89.2 cm x 121.4 cm)
Signed: verso

Major exhibition of Pop Art closes Sunday July 13 at the Memphis Brooks Art Museum. See the Brooks page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and all their activities on the Events page (Link...). The recognition that fine art might both acknowledge and appropriate imagery from mass media was a pivotal insight of Pop artists in the early 1960s, and has remained an important frame of reference for many others since. The Exhibition page (Link...) has sample photos from all six exhibitions currently running at the Brooks.

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Sherrie

Angels
Tim Lewis

Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis opens Thursday, July 10 (today) at the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center in Clarksville, TN. Visit the Customs House page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and view opening reception info and their other events (Link...). Tim Lewis is a self-taught Kentucky folk artist who gets his inspiration from the Bible. His stone carvings include angels, animals, crucifixes, and various versions of Adam and Eve; as well as, characters from pop culture and fiction.

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Sherrie

Tonal Meditations
Carol Krueger

Expressions: The Art Quilt, closes July 8, Tuesday<, on exhibit at the National Quilt Museum (Museum of the American Quilters Society). Visit the National Quilt Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The exhibit features art quilts of varying sizes and diverse styles and techniques, with a minimum of rules. The main criteria for inclusion in the exhibit were strong visual impact, originality and quality workmanship.

The topic and techniques used to create each personally expressive piece was left solely up to the artist. From abstract and stylized to photo realistic designs, with colors ranging from vibrant to subtle, these dazzling pieces are often purchased by private modern art collectors or added to museums.
With over 230 entries, quilters from across the US and as far away as Japan, Australia and Switzerland competed.

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Sherrie

Wilson County Sugar Sideboard
Gift from Decorative Arts Trust

The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art opened their newest exhibition Around Tennessee, 1820-1920 this past Saturday, July 5. The exhibition continues through September 7. Visit the Brooks page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and the Events page (Link...) to see the activities at the Brooks this month. Including rare textiles, fine regional furniture, evocative paintings, and early silver from Memphis makers, Around Tennessee showcases works made in the state and surrounding regions.

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Sherrie

1920s - Immigrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974
Jacob Lawrence
screenprint
Gift of Lorillard Company

The Cheekwood Art Museum new exhibition, A Century on Paper opens this Saturday June 28 in Nashville. Visit the Cheekwood page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Check out the Events page (Link...) for their Thursday Tales and Tunes with something for kids and the parents too.

Since Cheekwood was founded, the museum has amassed an excellent collection of twentieth-century works on paper. The exhibition surveys the result of many wonderful gift purchases for the permanent collection. While works by many of the most recognized twentieth-century masters are included, it also provides excellent examples of prints, drawings, and watercolors by either lesser-known or regionally recognized artists. Works range from American Realists such as Reginald March and Isabel Bishop to early Modernist like John Marin and Stuart Davis to Edward Ruscha and David Hockney.

Don't forget the Cheekwood still has the Faberge exhibit running.

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Sherrie

Mississippi River, 1949
Harlan Hubbard

Harlan Hubbard: Life in the Landscape closes Sunday at the Hopewell Museum in Paris, KY (metro Lexington area). Visit the Hopewell Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Put yourself in the Kentucky landscapes of Harlan Hubbard, artist, self-sufficient farmer, author and shanty boat river traveler. This unique exhibit is a first-ever compilation of Harlan Hubbard's works interspersed with excerpts from his writings.

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Sherrie

THE PINK PALACE MUSEUM DIVES INTO LOST WORLD OF MARINE REPTILES WITH ‘SEA MONSTERS: A PREHISTORIC ADVENTURE’. Visit the Pink Palace Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

National Geographic’s new giant-screen film “Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure,” brings to life the extraordinary marine reptiles of the dinosaur age on the IMAX screen. From the giraffe-necked Styxosaurus and 20-foot “bulldog” fish Xiphactinus to the T-Rex of the ocean - the 40-foot super-predator Tylosaurus - these wondrous beasts defy imagination.

“This is the first giant-screen film about what lived in the water during the dinosaur age,” said producer Lisa Truitt, president of National Geographic Giant Screen Films and Special Projects. “It is perfect subject matter for such an immersive format, one that allows these giants to literally swim off the screen and directly into the audience.”

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Sherrie

William Morris
Canopic Jar: Eland, 1995
blown glass
Collection of the artist

The Hunter Museum in Chattanooga Opens Today, Monday, June 23, William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal. Visit the Hunter Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Internationally known glass sculptor William Morris transforms molten glass into sculptural installations resembling unearthed artifacts, animals and ancestral peoples. The exhibition runs through Sept. 28.

If you go to the Hunter's to see Morris' work, you will, also, have the opportunity to see their other exhibition, “Women’s Work,” that examines the work of Lilly Martin Spencer. This show closes this coming Sunday June 29.

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Sherrie

Foreclosure
Marcus Antonius Jansen

The Yeiser Art Center in Paducah's new exhibition opening today, June 21, features the paintings of Marcus Antonius Jansen. He works in a Modern Urban-Expressionistic style, which is inspired greatly by his time living in New York and among the abundant graffiti.

There is an opening reception Saturday afternoon. See Events page for details (Link...).

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Sherrie

The Louisville Art Association opens At the Rivers Edge by River City Fiber Artists Friday, June 20. The artist's reception will be held on June 27. Visit the Louisville Art Center page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and the Events page for details (Link...).

Fiber Art
Juanita Yeager

River City Fiber Artists, a local group of talented and supportive artists, will present fiber art that focuses on both pictorial and abstract representations of rivers and the landscapes and communities that border them. The river theme and the work developed for this exhibition has been evolving since 2003. This five-year exploration has been both a challenge and a source of pleasure for the group which includes artists Juanita Yeager, Pat DaRif, Joanne Weis, Valerie White, Kathleen Loomis and Marti Plager. Mark your calendar, this is a diverse group of artists producing distinct and varied work worth seeing.

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Sherrie

Faces & Stories: A Portrait of Southern Writers end on Sunday, June 15, at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN. Visit the Customs House page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

An exhibit featuring portraits by internationally acclaimed photographer Curt Richter, who was initially commissioned by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. to photograph the founding members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Into Abstraction,three dimensional painted enamel works by Tennessee artist Ben Caldwell, continues through June 22.

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Sherrie

The Children’s Museum of Memphis is bringing the popular traveling exhibit, Curious George: Let’s Get Curious!, to Memphis June 14-September 28. Visit the CMOM page on Art Museum Touring.com

The insatiable curiosity of Curious George - the little monkey who has captured the imagination and hearts of millions of children and adults for 65 years - comes to life in the Van Vleet Gallery. The exhibit introduces young children to Curious George’s world and leads visitors on a fun, meaningful interactive math, science and engineering-based adventure.

Based on the familiar characters in H.A. and Margret Rey’s classic stories published by Houghton Mifflin, the Curious George exhibit inspires young children’s natural curiosity as they explore early science, math and engineering through hands-on interactive play. The immersive exhibit environment takes place in the neighborhood where Curious George lives with his friend, The Man with the Yellow Hat. Visitors recognize familiar characters and places featured in the classic stories and the new television series produced by Imagine Entertainment, WGBH Boston and Universal Studios Family Productions that launched on PBS KIDS.

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The Prints of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again opens at the Brooks Art Museum in Memphis Saturday, June 14 and runs through September 7. Visit the Brooks page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). You can, also, see Warhol related events at the Brooks on the Events page (Link...).

He was one of the most successful artists of the 20th century because he was hard working, prolific, and had an uncanny ability to identify subjects that resonated, and continue to resonate, with a mass audience. Marilyn Monroe, electric chairs, Mao, Campbell’s Soup cans, flowers, Jackie Kennedy, cows, Coca-Cola, and Liz Taylor - all vie for status as the defining iconic images of his age. This survey of 63 screen prints and five paintings includes examples of all of Warhol’s best-known works.

This exhibition has been organized by The AndyWarholMuseum, Pittsburgh, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

If you like Pop Art, now through July 13, you can not only see the Warhol print show, but, also the The Pop Environment exhibition with Warhol silkscreens and the Psychedelia: Rock ‘n’ Roll Posters, 1965 - 1970 shows.

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Sherrie

Wastelanders is a group of Paducah artists who have worked and lived in Paducah for 20 years or more. Their exhibition is closing Saturday, June 14 at the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah. Visit the Yeiser page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

E. J. Abell
Mary Yeiser

The show is dedicated to the memory of Mary Yeiser who passed away this year at the age of 102. She is the reason for the Yeiser Art Center. It was through her efforts that we came about in 1957 as a means for her to offer the opportunity to view artwork to her students.

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New Quilts from an Old Favorite 2008: Sawtooth and Inspirations: Antique Sawtooth Quilts exhbitions close Thursday, June 12, at the National Quilt Museum (The Museum of the American Quilter's Society). For more information visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

Floral Life

Sharon Schamber

The extraordinary finalists from the MAQS annual contest that challenges quilters to put a new spin on a traditional block. Sponsored by Clover, Fairfield and Janome.

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Sherrie

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, along with the Southern Arts Federation, is honored to feature Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts. Visit the KMAC's page on Art Museum Touring.com for more information (Link...).

Artist Fong Choo

Louisville, KY
Potter
Contemporary Artist

Left to Right:
Autumn Marble, 2007
Porcelain clay
4" x 5" x 5"

Dancing Karmel, 2007
Porcelain clay
5" x 3.5" x 4"

Tangerina, 2007
Porcelain clay
5" x 4" x 4"
Photo by Luis Quiles

This exhibit will feature a number of Kentucky artists and will be featured in KMAC’s Shands and Steve Wilson Galleries June 6 through August 23.

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Sherrie

Strokes of Genius: The Works of Pierre-Auguste & Alexandre Renoir —Art from Private Collections is closing June 8 at The Tennessee State Museum. Visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The Exhibition includes not only Alexandre Renoir’s work, and that of his great-grandfather, but seldom seen artwork from the private collections of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and friends. This includes Impressionist work from the great artists of that period — Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Jean-Fran Raffaelli.

CASSATT, Mary, 1844-1926

Sara Smiling, circa 1904

Drypoint on heavy wove paper

Alexandre Renoir will return to Nashville in June, where he will be on hand for the final weekend of the Strokes of Genius exhibition. There are three separate events starting Saturday June 7 with the Free painting lessons for kids (Link...). Some of Alexandre Renoir’s paintings are available to be purchased.

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Sherrie

The Memphis Brooks opens on June 4 "Psychedelia: Rock ‘n’ Roll Posters, 1965 - 1970". See the Brooks page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...).

Victor Moscoso
(American, b. 1936)
The Chambers Brothers and Matrix, March 28-
April 6, 1967
Silkscreen concert poster
Collection of Houston Freeburg

June 4 - August 24, 2008
Curated by Chief Curator Marina Pacini and Preparator
Richard Gamble Rock ‘n’ roll posters for Jimi Hendrix,
Big Brother and the Holding Co., Grateful Dead, and
Otis Redding concerts are among the 40 examples on loan
from Houston Freeburg for this exhibition. Also included are black light posters exhibited in black light!

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Sherrie

Last chance to see 3 exhibitions that were extended to June 3 at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, KY. Visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...)

Sarah Mary Taylor
Big Lady
Quilt

The three closing exhibitions are:

• Made to Deceive: Trompe L’oeil Art
• Kentucky Biennial 1-New Blue: New and Emerging KY Artists-Kentucky Biennial 1
• African American Quilts Exhibition

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Masterworks of Islamic Calligraphy closes at the Brooks in Memphis on Saturday. Visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...) and our Events (Link...) page to see their many activities during June.

A. Erol Donmez, Turkish (calligrapher)
Zehra Durmus, Turkish (illuminator)

Remarkable for its intricacy, grace, and almost spiritual beauty, Islamic calligraphy is part of the rich cultural heritage of Turkey, Memphis in May’s honored country for 2008. Following a tradition that avoided figurative art, including the human image, Muslim calligraphers developed Arabic writing into an art form. The Brooks is proud to host this select group of works that demonstrate the vital presence of calligraphy in the modern Islamic world.

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