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Press Release 8-13-08: Openings, Closings, and Events
New Gallery Joined Our Site
This Week!
Gibbes Museum
Tennessee Art League
Nashville, TN

The Tennessee Art League was organized in 1954 as a non profit organization with the state of Tennessee. The primary mission of the TAL is to assist local visual artists by providing gallery space, workshops, and educational programs.

We have 4 galleries

  • The Premiere Gallery
  • The Ethel Smith Gallery
  • Members Gallery
  • Poston Gallery

Current Exhibitions:

  • Watercolors by artist Denton Ridge
    • through August 29
    • The Premiere Gallery
  • Katherine Taylor-McBroom brings Elvis back to Tennessee
    • Ethel Smith Gallery
  • Nick Long (right)
    • Opens Sept. 6 - 30
    • Event
Sunburned

Openings, Closings, and Events*
Memphis, TN:

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art*

  • Around Tennessee, 1820-1920
    • Through September 7
  • A Genesis: Fifteen Poems and Etchings
    • Through November 30
  • Psychedelia: Rock 'n' Roll Posters, 1965 - 1970
    • Through August 24
  • The Prints of Andy Warhol
    (From A to B and Back Again)
    • Through September 7
  • Events

* See Exhibitions page to see a sample photo from each of these shows.

Sugar Chest
Warhol
Children's Museum of Memphis
  • Events: CMOM Family Nights & Child Elvis Impersonators Perform
  • Curious George: Let's Get Curious
    • Through September 28
Curious George

Grand Junction, TN

National Bird Dog Museum

  • Event: Fundraiser
    • Fun Shoot
    • Aug. 16
    • Galena Plantation & Lodge
      Holly Springs, MS
Fun Shoot

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum

  • Civil War: Hoofbeats in the Heartland
    • Through September 14th
  • Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis
    • Through October 31
"Hoofbeats"
Tim Lewis

Nashville, TN

Belle Meade Plantation

  • Event: "Jazz on the Lawn" with Michael Fair
Belle Meade
Centennial Art Center
  • Upcoming exhibition features the works of Eric Botbyl (ceramics), Charlie Doggett (photography), and Jane Word (photography)
    • Opened Aug. 8 - 29
Botbyl Pottery
The Frist Center for Visual Arts
  • Tiffany by Design: The Neustadt Collection
    • Closes Aug. 24
    • Upper-Level Galleries
  • Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975
    • Through Sept. 21
    • Ingram Gallery
  • Shades of Gray: Four Artists of the Southeast
    • Through Sept. 21
    • Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery and Education Gallery
The Hermitage
  • Free admission to The Hermitage Mondays, June 23 through August 25, for children under 18!
    • Must be accompanied by a Tennessee resident adult.
    • No limit to the number of children per adult.
    • Next date: August 18
The Parthenon
  • The natural Preservation of Form: sculpture by
    Kath Girdler Engler
    • Opens August 15
  • IMMERSION: A KatrinaRoom
    • Opens August 15
Kath Girdler Engler sculpture
The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
  • “Remember the Ladies!” -Women Struggle for an Equal Voice
    • Opened Aug. 11 -
      Jan. 30, 2009
  • Collection Highlights from the Tennessee State Library and Archives
    • Ongoing at Bicentennial Mall
Suffragettes march
Suffragettes march
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • Collection III
    • Closes Aug. 15!!!!
  • Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out Polaroid Photographs and Videos by Andy Warhol, Grant Worth
    • Opens August 28 - Oct. 10
    • Event: opening reception
Bianca Jagger

Sewanee, TN
University Art Gallery Sewanee:
The University of the South
  • Greg Pond: Userland[s]
    • Opens August 29 -
      October 15
    • Event

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art

  • Events
    • William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal
      • Through Sept. 28

Knoxville, TN
Blount Mansion
  • Dog Show by Sally Ham Govan
    • August 1 - 31
Emporium Center
  • Legacy: The Quilts of
    Georgia Bailey
    • Aug. 1 - 29

Biennial Exhibition
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Staff Influxion
    • July 20-August 24
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond
    • Opened Thursday July 10
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Opened Friday June 27
    • Ongoing exhibition
  • Size Matters: XS - Recent Small-Scale Paintings
    • Closes August 24
  • Works from the Morristown Art Association
    • Through Sept. 15

Gatlinburg, TN
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
  • Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object Exhibition
    • Opens August 15 -
      October 18
    • Blain, Loggia, and Drown Galleries
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection
    • Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing

Paducah, KY
The National Quilt Museum
  • 9th Quilt Japan
    • Through October 7
  • Quilt National '07
    • Closes August 15!!!!

Yeiser Art Center

  • PostSecret
    • July 26-Sept. 20
Jansen

Owensboro, KY
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
  • KENTUCKY MASTERS: Early Artists of the Commonwealth from the Humphreys Collection
    • Through October 12
  • New Contemporary Sculpture Park
    • Ryan Park
Turner
Into the Wind

Louisville, KY
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
  • Southern Arts on Display with Tradition/Innovation
    • Closes August 23

"River's Edge"

Lexington, KY
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
  • Andy Warhol: Fame and Photography
    • Closes Aug. 24
  • From Picasso to Warhol: Modern and Contemporary Prints from the Collection
    • Closes Aug. 24
  • Breaking Tradition, Forging Ahead: WPA Prints from the Collection
    • Closes Sept. 15

Biloxi, MS

Ohr-O'Keefe Art Museum

  • “Domo Arigato: Thank You”: Second Annual Ohr-O’Keefe Clay Invitational
    • Closes Aug 22
Bryd

Fayetteville, NC
Fayetteville Museum of Art
  • Forsaken: Edifice and Landscape
    • Opened July 19 - Sept. 7
  • Event

Atlanta, GA
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
  • Big Shots: Andy Warhol’s Polaroid Portraits
    • Opens August 30
  • Chester Higgins, Nubian Dreams: Images of the Sudan
    • At the Schatten Gallery, Emory Library Systems.
    • Closes August 15!!!!

Warhol Polaroid
"Images of the Sudan"

Milledgeville, GA
Georgia College & State University Museum
  • Steffen Thomas: Small Paintings-
    Powerful Figures
    • Through Sept. 6
  • Solo Exhibition featuring the works of Frances de La Rosa
    • Opens tomorrow Aug. 14
  • Events
Frances de La Rosa

Augusta , GA
Morris Museum of Art
  • Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf
    • Opened July 26
  • Landscape of Slavery:
    The Plantation in American Art
    • August 23-October 19
  • Events

Savannah, GA

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace


Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Carolina Collects
    • Closes Aug. 17
  • Dale Chihuly: Seaforms
  • Opens September 5 –
    November 30

Charleston, SC
Gibbes Museum of Art
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
    • August 29 - November 30

New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
  • The Baroque World of
    Fernando Botero
    • Through September 21
  • Events
Earthquake
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