Folk Couture: Fashion and Folk Art April 10 - June 26, 2016 Fashion has always found inspiration in unpredictable sources: art, life, history—there are no boundaries. In this spirit, the American Folk Art Museum invited thirteen emerging and established designers to creatively respond to its encompassing collections that are so expressive of [...]
William Christenberry: Time, Distance and Memory March 13 - July 10, 2016 Growing up in Tuscaloosa, nationally-renowned artist and Alabama native William Christenberry spent each summer on his grandparents’ farm in rural Hale County. In 1960, he had a life-changing experience…he encountered the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and realized [...]
Down Home: Contemporary Southern Masters February 21 - June 11, 2016 The Down Home exhibition features a selection of more than 20 prints, photographs, and sculptures created with the enduring traditions of this region in mind. The Huntsville Museum of Art’s permanent collection is rich in artworks produced by living artists with strong connections to [...]
YAM 2016: Exhibition for Youth Art Month March 13 – May 1, 2016 An annual gathering of exuberant artwork from North Alabama K-12 students, organized in observance of Youth Art Month. Accompanied by the annual Visual Arts Achievement Exhibition, which presents the blue ribbon finalist artworks of middle and high school students [...]
Images of the Great War: The European Offenses, 1914-16 from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection Huth, Boeing, Salmon, and Haws Galleries August 9 – November 15, 2015 The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University is the nation’s foremost graphic and documentary resource of soldiers and soldiering, and one of [...]
Connections: Diane Fox and Beauvais Lyons Grisham Gallery June 27 – September 27, 2015 This new series is focused on regional contemporary artists with shared sensibilities. Featured are two critically acclaimed artists from Knoxville, Tennessee, whose lithographs and photographs use animals as the key protagonists in their works. Fox’s black and white and [...]
John James Audubon: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. William H. Told, Jr. March 22 – June 28, 2015 In the early 1840s, renowned naturalist and painter John James Audubon decided to paint the animals of North America. Having achieved worldwide fame with his Birds of [...]
Encounters: Dori DeCamillis February 28 – June 14, 2015 Encounters: Dori DeCamillis was part of the long-standing Encounters series showcasing outstanding regional contemporary art. Focusing on a recent series of imaginary self-portraits, Birmingham painter Dori DeCamillis depicted a character in a private mythology designed to personify an individual piece of the artist’s personality, [...]
Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough and the Golden Age of Painting in Europe February 15 – April 26, 2015 The economic growth that swept Europe during the 17th and 18th century fueled a golden age of painting. Religious upheavals transformed the way people thought about and utilized art. Technical aspects of art making were honed and codified, as [...]
Grandma Moses: Visions of America November 15, 2014 – March 1, 2015 Co-Curated by Galerie St. Etienne, New York After nearly 12 years, Grandma Moses visited HMA during the holiday season! In this presentation, the museum organized a one-gallery exhibition of 31 original paintings by this legendary American artist. These works were borrowed from institutions [...]
