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October 15, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - In this exhibition Rita Lombardi strives to show the transformative power of the neighborhood library. When being used, it ceases to be a warehouse for books and becomes a place of magical transformation, imagination, and empowerment. This is a place founded on the wonderfully democratic ideal that anyone who is interested should have free access to information.

October 15, 2016 - April 2, 2017 - Reading and writing in all variety are the featured subjects in this exhibition of fine and decorative arts dating from the 19th through the 21st centuries. Reading is a good diversion for the person who must sit quietly under the artist’s scrutiny, and literature has inspired visual artists in the Western tradition since ancient times. “Portable Magic” includes ...

August 13 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition describes the stories of passion, ambition, greed, and human suffering in ancient mythologies represent humankind’s attempts to understand the curious and inexplicable—from astronomy and tumultuous weather conditions to man’s inhumanity to man and acts of generosity and kindness. These stories remain as compelling to contemporary artists as when they...

June 12 - December 31, 2016 - This is an exhibition of more than 60 large-scale photographs by renowned National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his cover image Afghan Girl). The MWPAI Museum of Art is the only venue for this exhibition. Organized around universal themes of personal adornment, place, and ritual, exhibition will include unforgettable images from across six contine...

November 7, 2015 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition features more than 65 of her most notable paintings, drawings, small sculptures, notebooks, and the diptychs for which she is best known, the exhibition traces her career over more than four decades and culminates with her recent paintings of monumental landscapes and Native places.