Archived - Shows And Events

October 05, 2016 - November 18, 2016 - The exhibition, featuring twenty paintings from the Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, examines the broad humanitarian and artistic contributions that Roerich made to Russian and world culture. His paintings show his unique combination and expression of three passions that dominated and guided his life: art, science, and philosophy. Roerich’s aesthetic and ph...

September 22, 2016 - April 14, 2017 - The exhibition is exploring the depth and range of the permanent collection, the works are arranged according to the date of the exhibition the piece was shown. In addition to drawings, paintings, and photographs, the exhibition presents various printmaking methods such as etching, lithography, screenprinting, and woodcuts. Highlights of the exhibition include...

September 15, 2016 - May 05, 2017 - The exhibition explores variations of several designs and looks at the technique of relief-molding used by the designers and potteries in the creation and production of these ceramics. Highlighting nineteenth-century American jugs, the exhibition was selected from the ceramics that were donated by New York collectors Emma and Jay Lewis in 2012. Their gift of mor...

September 15, 2016 - November 18, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on his newest project, Pompeii Archive, which grew out of his interest in the photography of Giorgio Sommer of the excavations at Pompeii and his own curiosity about how landscapes accumulate visual markers and meanings. Concerning his Pompeii Archive project, Wylie notes that “change is inescapable at Pompeii…I document the changing...

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.

August 17, 2016 - July 02, 2017 - The exhibition presents a selection of artworks that offer a variety of interpretations and depictions of waterways, from abstract to realistic and from topographic to contemplative. The works are presented with quotes from novels, books, songs, and poems that complement the pieces by reflecting on the common theme of the relationship between humanity and water. B...

August 17, 2016 - December 04, 2016 - The works in the exhibition are selected from his series of twenty-seven prints, each labeled at the bottom in letterpress with a female name that hints at an earlier time. For the artist, the names are a metaphorical link to his African American lineage, from slaves to domestic servants, connoting his ancestors and giving the ironing boards a compelling narra...

August 17, 2016 - December 04, 2016 - The exhibition features thirty-two bronze sculptures by French artist Auguste Rodin examining the artist’s fascination with the human figure and the body in motion. Included are selections representing some of Rodin’s most famous works illustrating both the evolution of the artist and of his craft. The exhibition commemorates the centennial anniversary of the ...

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 speci...