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November 5, 2017 - November 22, 2017 - The Area Artists Annual juried exhibition is open to artists who reside within Trumbull, Mahoning and Columbiana counties in Ohio; and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania. Works in all media are eligible, including oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, sculpture and crafts.

July 9, 2017 – August 20, 2017 - The Butler’s Midyear Show exhibition is open to artists age 18 or older who reside within the fifty United States or its territories. Works in all two dimensional media are eligible including oil, watercolor, acrylic, pastel, drawings, prints, photographs and digital works.

October 10 - November 20, 2016 - The exhibition on view will be ten larger-than-life oil pastels including portraits of Sam Francis, Richard Bellamy, Al Held, Jerome Liebling, Joel Oppenheimer and Willem de Kooning, as well as three self-portraits.

October 10 - December 31, 2016 - This is an exhibition of historically accurate women’s fashion costumes modeled on specific period fashions, and reproduced from fashion plates of the era brought to life on Ballard’s dolls sculpted of papier mache. These fashion dolls are part of a collection born of the marriage of Ballard’s old love of costume design and small museums’ desires to showcase histor...

October 2 - December 31, 2016 - In this exhibition, Eva Petric creates an interplay of light and shadow by composing a “lace assemblage” from found, donated, and inherited hand-made pieces of lace collected from all over the world, and combining them with sound and video projections. It is her homage to the delicate webs that tie us together and unite us in this world.

September 18 - November 20, 2016 - The exhibition, Robert Cottingham: Master Realist is a retrospective look at the career of this great American artist. In a sense he has, through his painting, preserved for all time, disappearing American imagery. In the process he has raised to iconic levels the signage that has come to mark the American city as well as the countryside. Presenting an exhibition...

September 18 - November 20, 2016 - This exhibition aims to document Charles Pollock’s transition from relatively monochrome abstractions to explorations related to Color-Field painting in the 1960s. Irregular shapes stemming from torn paper collages, sharply contrasted with monochromatic backgrounds. Set against subdued variations of gray, these forms appear both rooted and amorphous; though black...

September 11, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition offers a look at a largely unexamined aspect of the career of one of the most highly influential thinkers and artists of the 20th century. This exhibition features Adolph Gottlieb’s little-known monotypes that he worked on between the summer of 1973 and February 1974, after suffering the effects of a stroke in 1970. The exhibition includes 40 ...

July 26 - December 31,2 016 - This exhibition describes with hammer, chisel and other carving tools, McGinnis painstakingly sculpted exact representations of the birds of our region, adding accurate color to each piece. This exhibition is drawn from the J. D. “Bud” Williamson Collection, and inaugurates the Butler’s new Balcony Gallery at Butler North.

September 13, 2013 - December 31, 2016 - On view in this exhibition are primitive paintings from the Colonial Era, carousel objects, carvings, ship models, folk art works, decoys and the Butler’s glass bells collection.