August 19 - October 23, 2016  - ​The exhibition captures images of the Carolina coast in this new collection of work that debuts at the Columbia Museum of Art. Fair documents our spectacular coastline through 25 dramatic, large-scale photographs that teeter between abstractions and high-resolution imagery of the land.

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August 19 – September 25, 2016 - The works included in this exhibition eloquently speak to the myriad thoughts, ideas, and feelings that all humans share, regardless of individual ability or circumstance. The annual competition invites submissions of art and literature which are then selected for display by a panel of judges, and the works are exhibited in several venues throughout CNY.

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August 20 - November 27, 2016 - (413): Pioneering the Western Massachusetts will explore the works and careers of five makers who have been responsible for the development of western Massachusetts’s internationally renowned craft community: Josh Simpson (glass), Mark Shapiro (ceramics), Silas Kopf (woodworking), JoAnn Kelly Catsos (baskets), and Mara Superior (ceramics). The creative communi...

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August 20 - September 5, 2016 - In this exhibition, the artist creates a juxtaposition of materials through an installation of sculpted straw bales that intersect and envelop three massive on-site boulders..  

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August 21–October 16, 2016 - This exhibition brings to the United States, for the first time, examples from distinguished private collections of Afghan war rugs. The artists who wove them, mostly women, abandoned their traditional nonfigurative styles to produce rich pictorial images that recount a more current cultural story. Maps, weapons, army tanks, and portraits of kings, khans, and mil...

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August 21–October 16, 2016 - The exhibition probes the question “How do Americans remember war?” with soldiers’ portraits developed in the flesh of leaves, battlefield landscapes photographed using 19th-century technologies, and war poems of intimate reflection. “The real war will never get in the books,” Walt Whitman declared. In response, photographer Bi...

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August 22, 2016 - September 18, 2016 - Annual Student Exhibition is on view in the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art. Selected by the studio art faculty, this exhibition features works by visual media and arts practice majors and minors along with non-majors enrolled in beginning through advanced studio art classes during the University’s 2015-2016 academic year.

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August 23 - September 30, 2016 - This winter, visitors will get a glimpse into the day-to-day activities of the Museum’s curatorial department in a new exhibition Vault Visible: Behind the Scenes at the Asheville Art Museum. Sure to appeal to art collectors, museum studies students, and anyone curious about the inner workings of a Museum, Vault Visible will give visitors the chance to observ...

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August 23 - September 11, 2016 - The exhibition has over one hundred paintings framing scenes, as if looking through a window, across the United States and Canada. She describes her intent, “We do see pollution and trash, factories, car accidents and roadwork, graffiti even on cactus and near petroglyphs, and much of North America is prairie that seems empty and unchanging for miles on ...

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August 23 - December 18, 2016  -​ This exhibition, which features images of the fishing industry depicted by Beal during his summer visits in the 1920s and 1930s to the village of Rockport, Massachusetts. The prints and drawings are recent gifts from the estate of Gifford Beal made through the efforts of Kraushaar Gallery.

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