August 6 - August 6, 2017 - Every painting has a story under its surface. This exhibition will feature paintings with important clues hidden underneath their surfaces that curators, conservators, and conservation scientists have used to better understand the paintings.

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August 6, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - Our Land is a refreshingly candid look at the landscapes and special places we as a nation can visit and cherish in our own ways. While the show does not further the more awe-inspiring parts of our national aesthetic, it does help to provide a realistic view and forces the patron to ask some questions, look more closely and to figure out how to value our natura...

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August 7 - October 2, 2016 - This exhibition looks at how the Ohio River has been a constant feature to Evansville, Indiana. The river has flooded, been altered by dams, carelessly polluted, fished, and used as a source of drinking water, power, transportation and recreation for centuries. The contemporary art included in the exhibition was selected from entries submitted by artists residing in th...

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August 7 - October 2, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on the lives of both the enslaved African Americans and their white owners on a 13,000 acre tobacco plantation that existed in Robertson County, Tennessee. Through personal accounts, artifacts, and films the exhibit examines the institution of slavery and its impact.

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August 7, 2016 to August 24, 2016 - For this exhibition, Bastienne Schmidt searches the Whaling Museum collection for functional objects that have lattices or grids – such as nets, strings, and hardtack – and reinterprets them through translucent paper works that incorporate threads, fabric, and natural elements.

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August 7, 2016 to October 16, 2016 - The exhibition explores the distinct styles, philosophies, and convictions of the three painters. Featuring 23 large-scale canvases and 17 works on paper, the exhibition outlines the development of each painter’s formal vocabulary while suggesting deep connections between and among the works of all three.

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August 8 - October 30, 2016 - Richly introduced in this exhibition are works by ceramic artists emerging in the late 1960s and the early 1970s in the town of Mashiko, two hours north of Tokyo by train. Fascinated by the simple aesthetic, the craftsmanship, and the makers’ unassuming personalities and ways of life, Holmes visited many kiln towns to photograph and interview the artists and col...

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August 9, 2016 - May 21, 2017 - An exhibition of Japanese prints featuring seasonal imagery will celebrate the AMAM’s 2016–17 theme of “Time.” In Japanese culture, deeply rooted appreciation for the natural world combines with the four distinct seasons to create a rich tradition of art and literature that evokes and represents seasonal change. Woodblock prints by ...

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August 9 - December 4, 2016 - Featuring about 50 objects, mostly from American collections but including several important loans from Italy, the exhibition will span a variety of formats—Madonna and Child reliefs, small- and large-scale figures, narrative reliefs, coats-of-arms, and still-life compositions—that demonstrate the range and visual impact of the groundbreaking Della Robbia ...

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August 11-November 12, 2017 - This exhibition examines the key role played by artist colonies around the country in the development of American Impressionism. It features more than 50 oil paintings and works on paper dating from the 1880s through the 1940s by leading artists of the movement such as William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Julian Alden Weir, John Twachtman, Chauncey Ryd...

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