September 24, 2015 - August 21, 2016 - Rather than shaping, carving, or casting three-dimensional forms, he now assembles and arranges visual experience, using what captures and holds his attention to generate orchestrated constellations of marks, such as those that make up Permanent Maintenance, his largest wall drawing to date. Commissioned by the Colby College Museum of Art, this multipart piec...

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September 25, 2015 - April 24, 2017 - This exhibition highlights the design movement that embraced the ideals of superior craftsmanship, naturalistic ornamentation and living with beauty in the home. Among the manufacturers featured are the Steuben Glass Works, Phoenix Glass Company, Rookwood Pottery, Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, Biloxi Art Pottery, Paul Revere Pottery, and Matt...

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September 26, 2015 – October 2, 2016 - This exhibiton reveals Pittsburgh as a major center of design, where avant-garde art met cutting-edge materials that transformed America. From the roaring 1920s to the swinging 1960s, pioneers at Carnegie Institute of Technology, Kaufmann’s Department Store, and manufacturers such as Westinghouse, PPG, and Alcoa formed a collective network of brav...

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October 01, 2015 - December 04, 2016 -The exhibition features some of the largest and most spectacular rock and mineral specimens from the museum’s permanent collection. Extracted from mines all over the world, the minerals in this exhibition include dense quartz clusters from Arkansas, deep purple amethyst from Brazil, a massive 175-pound Peruvian pyrite, and exquisite okenite and stillbite...

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October 3, 2015 - December 1, 2016 - Opulent Oceans: Extraordinary Scientific Illustrations from the Museum’s Library exhibition includes 46 exquisite reproductions from 33 rare and beautifully illustrated scientific works. The world’s oceans abound with a truly astonishing diversity of life forms. Beginning some 400 years ago, European voyages of discovery began mapping the glob...

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October 9, 2015 - October 30, 2016 - This exhibition allows guests the rare chance to view paintings from all sides, including the backs where interesting details about their history, composition, and condition reside. This information can reveal clues about the works’ previous ownership, the economy of artists in reusing materials, early attempts to prevent the artworks from warping, and on...

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October 7, 2015 - June 19, 2016 - This exhibition is an extraordinary loan from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, this work represents Pierre Bonnard's dining room, along with his wife and cats, at his country house in Vernonnet, a small town outside of Paris on the Seine River. Rather than painting from life, Bonnard created the work entirely from memory, foregrounding his subjective respons...

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October 8, 2015 - September 11, 2016 - A capsule examination of the collaborative design process behind Pixar Animation Studios. On view in the Process Lab, the exhibition features original artwork including rarely seen hand-drawn sketches, paintings, and sculptures from over 25 years of Pixar filmmaking and creative exercises inspired by the Pixar design process. In addition, over 650 Pixar...

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October 10, 2015 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition in PEM's Art & Nature Center explores the concept of scale – from the nano-sized to the galactic – challenging our perception of perspective, relative size and proportion. Featured works include miniatures, sculptures, photography and installations loaned from regional, national and international contem...

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October 16, 2015–October 30, 2016 - A found-metal outdoor sculpture created by Deerfield artist Trisha Moody-Borbeau. Many of the objects included in the sculpture came from her family’s machine shop; others are donated by clients of Borbeau’s hair salon in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The dragon’s eye are made with hand-blown glass ornaments by an artist in Vermont. This scul...

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