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William Morris 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Josephine's Coat of Many Colors 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Fall Leaf Bag 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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...). Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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 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...). Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Dragon and Splat KIDS DAY Offers Asian Games and Crafts 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: 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
The Glow Within 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: Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Andy Warhol 10 each measuring 35 1/8” x 47 7/8” (89.2 cm x 121.4 cm) 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Angels 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Tonal Meditations 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Wilson County Sugar Sideboard 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
1920s - Immigrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Mississippi River, 1949 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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. Support your local museums and galleries! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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. Support Your Local Galleries and Museums! They are economic engines for your community. 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 Left to Right: Dancing Karmel, 2007 Tangerina, 2007 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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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 June 4 - August 24, 2008 Support your local galleries and museums! Sherrie ( categories: )
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...)
The three closing exhibitions are:
Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
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.
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. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
The Second Dimension: Painters (& Friends) Look at Pottery ends on Saturday at the Ohr-O'keefe Art Museum in Biloxi, MS. Visit their page on Art Museum Touring.com for details Link....
An all-female show, featuring longtime friends and popular Gulf Coast artists—most of them members of the former ArtWave--make a nod toward the art of ceramics and its roots in the earth around us. Support Your Local Galleries and Museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie
The Tennessee State Museum is pleased to present a diverse array of events and programs in June, in conjunction with the current exhibition in the changing gallery, entitled Strokes of Genius: The Works of Pierre-Auguste & Alexandre Renoir - Art from Private Collection. Alexandre Renoir is the great grandson of Auguste Renoir. See the Events page on Art Museum Touring.com for all the activities the closing weekend of this exhibition. Link...
The Rose Vase Oil on canvas A once in a lifetime opportunity for kids! Reservations are required and will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis. Saturday, June 7- "Petite Fleur" Children's Workshop: The Tennessee State Museum will offer two FREE one-hour sessions. Alexandre Renoir will lead a creative painting workshop for young children where the focus will be on painting flowers in an Impressionistic fashion. This workshop is appropriate for grades K-8, but all ages are welcome. One adult must accompany each child or group of children if they all come together. Paints and art supplies will be provided. However, it is recommended that each child bring an apron or cover-up to protect their clothing as they will not be provided. Full details available on the Tennessee State Museum page on Art Museum Touring.com. Link... If your kid is interested, hurry. The space will go fast! Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Erika Johnson, who worked with acclaimed feminist artist Judy Chicago at the Vanderbilt University invitational in 2006, will create an installation in the Parthenon’s West Gallery. (Link...)
Johnson’s installation is an attempt to address and reconcile these issues. As she states, “Curtain is an installation, a fearful, playful, hopeful attempt at reclamation, an invitation.” An opening reception will take place at the Parthenon on Saturday, May 3 from 6-8 p.m. CLARKSVILLE, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY at Customs House Museum (Link...)
Annual Clarksville Train Fest Free Admission! Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
Three art exhibitions close this weekend. On the Saturday, April 12, in Nashville at the Parthenon Abundance Series: Paintings by Marla Faith closes after being extended by popular demand, (Link...) and at the Louisville Visual Art Association in KY (Link...), the architectural art work exhibition Pattern and Structure: Liz Whitney Quisgard ends. You can see other work at these two museums by clicking on the Art Museum Touring.com links which will take you directly to their page.
On Sunday, April 13, in Nashville the Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist closes at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Link...). Aaron Douglas was a leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance and spent much of his life in Nashville, Tenn., as head of the art department at Fisk University. ( categories: )
Eighteen major women artists from the Mississippi Gulf Coast will be featured in an exhibit of two-dimensional works at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art. The show opens April 11 and runs through May 31. “The Second Dimension: Painters (and Friends) Look at Pottery” is the second part of a themed series of spring exhibits at Ohr-O’Keefe; the first, “Photographers on Painting”, is currently on display at the museum’s transitional location at the Swetman House. You can see other work from this exhibition on the Ohr-O'Keefe page on Art Museum Touring.com (www.artmuseumtouring.com/ohr-o'keefe.html).
The challenge was given to area photographers recently to consider how pictures relate, or not, to the process of painting. Similarly, we challenged a group of area painters and print-makers to think about how a potter might take earth and shape it into art. These challenges are presented just as these artists are returning to the top of their game after Katrina. Support your local galleries and museums! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky currently has two exhibitions featuring the art of India. The following are the traveling exhibitions currently being shown through May 11, 2008: Miniature Worlds: Art from India and The Inner Eye: Folk Art of India from The William and Ann Oppenheimer Collection.
More work from these exhibitions can be seen on The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). It is one of the largest art museums in Kentucky, the UK Art Museum collects, preserves, studies, and exhibits the best of humanity's artistic heritages. The museum maintains a growing permanent collection of more than 4,000 European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and decorative arts. There are also holdings in art of the Americas, Africa and Asia. Permanent collection galleries and a changing schedule of diverse exhibitions provide a broad range of experiences for the visitor. The University of Kentucky Art Museum is located on the UK campus in the SingletaryCenter for the Arts on the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue. The museum is open noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday and noon to 8 p.m. on Friday; closed Monday and University holidays. Free admission for most exhibitions. Sherrie
Of Rage and Redemption: The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín closes Wednesday the 20th at the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
This landmark exhibition presents the work of one of the most highly regarded Latin American artists of the twentieth century, Ecuadorian painter and graphic artist Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919–1999). You can see more work from this exhibition on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). The first exhibit of its kind in the United States in more than fifty years, and the first scheduled stop on the Vanderbilt-organized national tour the exhibition covers each of Guayasamín’s major periods—his early paintings that reflect the plight of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, his more mature work that addresses human suffering in the context of war and injustice, and, finally, the paintings of his last period that embody the artist’s search for reconciliation after a life of fighting injustices. His work reminds me of Goya's and of course Picasso's Guernica. Support your area museums and galleries! They are economic engines for your community. Sherrie ( categories: )
The Owensboro Museum of Fine Art of Owensboro, KY current exhibition Crossroads: Spirituality in American Folk Traditions, ends Sunday, March 16.
Minnie and Garland Adkins More than 200 works of art comprise this major survey of contemporary art showcasing the diversity of spirituality expressed by artists and craftsmen working outside the academic tradition. Representing Appalachian, Native American and Hispanic cultures, CROSSROADS includes objects on loan from private and public collections across the nation. More work from this exhibition can be seen by visiting the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art page on Art Museum Touring.com (Link...). Support your local museums and galleries! Sherrie ( categories: |
RENOIR, Alexandre, b. 1974
Curtain Erika Johnson
6 Squares Quisgard
Moonlight on Horn Island, Norma Seward
Teju Ben.jpg credit line: (Indian, born 1959) Figures in Traditional Hindi Dress, c. 2003, colored pencil and ink on paper
