• Sunday: noon to 5 p.m.
• Monday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Tuesday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Wednesday: noon to 5 p.m.
• Thursday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Friday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Saturday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The HunterMuseum is open every day except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
Admissions:
Adults: $8
Children 3 - 17: $4
Under 3: free
Members:
Always free
Group Rates:
See Tours Section for Group Rates

Accessibility: The Hunter Museum of American Art is fully accessible to visitors with limited mobility. Parking has been reserved for our handicapped visitors in our parking lot near the East wing. All galleries are wheelchair accessible with an elevator allowing access between floors. Restrooms are located on the entry floor in the East and West wings.


Driving Directions to the Hunter Museum of American Art:

Located on the banks of the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, the Hunter Museum of American Art is easily accessible from I-24:

• From Atlanta: drive I-75 North to I-24 West, then follow directions below.
• From Knoxville: drive I-75 South to I-24 West, then follow directions below.
• From Nashville: I-24 East, then follow directions below.
• From Birmingham: follow I-59 to I-24 East, then follow directions below.
• From Huntsville: follow Hwy 72 to I-24 East, then follow directions below.

From I-24:

• I-24 to downtown Chattanooga.
• U.S. Highway 27 North
• Take exit 1C right on 4th Street
• Turn Left on High Street and follow High Street straight into the Museum’s parking lot.
  • Parking is free for Museum visitors.

Perched on an 80-foot bluff on the edge of the Tennessee River, the Hunter Museum of American Art offers stunning views of the river and the surrounding mountains. This panorama is equaled only by the exceptional collection of American art inside recognized as one of the country's finest.
Once inside, the inspiration continues, because it's not just about the art; it's all about you, the visitor. The Hunter is for the entire family to enjoy. Together, you will see art with new eyes as a way to better understand American history and to learn more about what makes us Americans today.

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Events

Exhibitions:

Transformation 6: Contemporary Works in Glass
May 9 - Oct 27, 2010

An exhibition featuring the work of 28 glass artists.

Each of the artists in the show are finalists and winners of the Raphael Founder’s Prize, which honors artists working in glass, metal, clay, wood and found materials, and who are expanding the boundaries in their fields through new techniques, ideas and approaches.

The pieces in the exhibition were inspired by the common theme of “transformation.” The artists used methods commonly associated with creating glass works—blowing, casting, sculpting, etc.—then combined those works with other materials such as bone and aluminum.

The final product is the transformation of glass into eye-catching, contemporary works of art. In addition, the exhibit explores communication and transparency in today’s society through social, political and personal reflections.

Artists featured in Transformation 6 include Michael Crowder whose work Mariposa Mori is a wall-mounted display of fragile butterflies rendered in glass. The butterflies’ once iridescent colors have faded to crystalline white, which radiate against the background fabric.

Evoking Nahokov by Michael Rogers is a freestanding glass display case that houses 22 handmade paperweights that feature images of butterflies and an old-fashioned typewriter. This is a tribute to Russian novelists Vladimir Nabokov.

The 28 pieces selected for the show were chosen by a diverse jury. Criteria considered by jurors were immaculate craftsmanship, a clear link to the idea of transformation and a strong sense of presence. The jury also had to determine how much of a role glass should play in a glass show. They concluded that the dominance of the material is not as significant as the importance of glass to the meaning of the work.


Stephen Rolfe Powell Retrospective
June 27 and will run through Oct. 24.

Retrospective will showcase Powell’s whimsical glass pieces

The Hunter Museum of American Art presents a retrospective exhibition of contemporary glass sculptor, Stephen Rolfe Powell, featuring selections of the artist’s work from the last twenty years.

Powell, who is recognized both nationally and internationally for his colorfully patterned pieces, draws his inspiration from nature, and ancient Italian murrini techniques. Included in the exhibition will be work from his Teasers, Whackos and Screamers series. Many of the works are new and have never been shown before.

A Birmingham native, Powell began his artistic career as a painter and ceramicist. He had his first experience with glass blowing in the early 1980s, and has been devoted to the medium ever since. Along with creating his own work, Powell is also a professor at Centre College in Danville, Ky., where he has been instrumental in building a glass making studio and founding their glass program.

“It is Powell’s intense use of color combined with unusual gravity-defying forms that entice the viewer into lingering and looking closely,” said Nandini Makrandi, Hunter Museum Curator of Contemporary Art. “He continually experiments, refines and challenges the boundaries of his medium to create something new.

“In fact, it was a fractured wrist in 2003 that inspired his exploration and change from the large vessel format which he had been working with for a number of years, to a more horizontal form that developed into his popular Whackos series.”

Many of Powell’s pieces seem to reference bird or animal forms, while the colors are drawn from the infinite rainbow visible in nature.

Powell’s work is also featured in the exhibit, Jellies: Living Art, at the Tennessee Aquarium. This exhibition is in celebration of the Hunter’s continuing partnership with the Tennessee Aquarium.

Organized by the Hunter Museum in conjunction with Stephen Rolfe Powell Studios.

Exhibition support is provided by the SunTrust Foundation.