April 26 - October 31, 2016 - The exhibition forms the core of a renewed emphasis and focus on American art and highlights themes of the collection’s strengths, particularly the New England landscape, genre painting, and portraiture. American paintings were the last objects assembled by Museum founder Electra Havemeyer Webb before she died in 1960.

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May 1 - October 31, 2016 - This immersive, whimsical exhibition will feature more than  sixteen quilts ranging from three-dimensional to kinetic quilted sculptures, by internationally renowned fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann. Dominique Ehrmann is celebrated for her freestanding, three-dimensional quilted sculptures. Referring to herself a “quilt illustrator,” Ehrmann likes to tell...

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May 1 - October 31, 2016 - Sherwood’s sculptures explore the aesthetic systems of space, time, and the dynamic relationships of objects in motion. The choreography of each piece is governed by a set of basic movements, facilitated by an arrangement of rotating joints and aerodynamic surfaces. Made of stainless steel and ranging in scale and size, the reflective qualities of this materia...

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May 27 - August 7, 2016 - The twenty-five photographs gathered here tell us a great deal about the artist at mid-career and the two projects on his mind at the time: the 1945 retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, and the book A Time in New England (1950).

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June 10 - August 7, 2016 - This groundbreaking photographic exhibition explores the artistry of traditional Japanese tattoos along with its rich history and influence on modern tattoo practices. Although tattooing is largely seen as an underground activity in Japan, Japanese tattoo artists have pursued their passions, applied their skills, and have risen to become internationally acclaimed artist...

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June 13 - July 30, 2016  - At first this exhibition may appear to be a group show.  But upon closer examination the viewer will see a selective retrospective, featuring four distinct bodies of work by the same artist dating from 1981 through 2015.   Upon even closer inspection the distinctive combination of Hermansader's hand, mind, and eye working together threads the work...

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June 18 - October 20, 2016 - The exhibition showcases more than 60 paintings, works on paper, and related materials by Moses alongside work by other 19th- and 20th-century folk and modern artists. century folk and modern artists. “Grandma Moses is best known for paintings of simple farm life and the rural countryside that established her reputation as a wildly popular latter-day folk artis...

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July 2 - November 6, 2016 - Milton Avery's Vermont is the first exhibition to take a focused look at the work this great American modernist created based upon his summers spent in southern Vermont, from the mid-1930s through the mid-1940s. Milton Avery’s Vermont examines Avery's artistic process, featuring pencil sketches executed en plein air, wonderfully fresh watercolors that wer...

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July 2-November 6, 2016 - The works in the exhibition examines Avery's artistic process, featuring pencil sketches executed en plein air, wonderfully fresh watercolors that were based on these sketches and executed in Vermont, and many of his major oil paintings that were drawn from these sources and typically completed during the winter months in his New York studio. Avery's Vermont works...

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July 9 - Jan 22, 2017 - Papering the Town: Circus Posters in America will feature 18 historic circus posters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including some of the largest posters in Shelburne Museum’s collection. So “step right up” to see Papering the Town: Circus Posters in America! Highlights include two posters from Shelburne Museum’s collection that have r...

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