Exhibitions
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Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish WomenMarch 28, 2024 – August 26, 2024American Art Museum
Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States.
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Carrie Mae Weems: Looking Forward, Looking BackSeptember 22, 2023 – July 7, 2024American Art Museum
This focused exhibition pairs two projects by Carrie Mae Weems that explore the relationship of memory to history and of memory as it is mediated through performance, photography, or video.
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Composing Color: Paintings by Alma ThomasSeptember 15, 2023 – August 4, 2024American Art Museum
This exhibition provides an intimate view of Thomas’ evolving artistic practices during her most prolific period from 1959 to her death in 1978.
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Welcome Home: A Portrait of East Baltimore, 1975-1980July 16, 2021 – January 23, 2022American Art Museum
Of the more than seventy projects funded by the NEA, the East Baltimore Survey was unique for having been conceived, led, and carried out by women photographers.
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Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is PrologueMarch 15, 2019 – September 2, 2019American Art Museum
Internationally acclaimed artist Tiffany Chung is known for her multimedia work that explores migration, conflict, and shifting geographies in the wake of political and natural upheavals.
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Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographsApril 6, 2018 – January 27, 2019American Art Museum
This exhibition traces the history of A box of ten photographs between 1969 and 1973, telling the crucial story of the portfolio that established the foundation for Arbus’s posthumous career.
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Romaine BrooksJune 17, 2016 – October 2, 2016American Art Museum
This exhibition brings together 50 paintings and drawings from the museum’s permanent collection.
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Annie Leibovitz: PilgrimageJanuary 20, 2012 – May 20, 2012American Art Museum
The images in this collection chart a new direction for Annie Leibovitz, one of America's best known living photographers, whose career now spans more than 40 years.
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Miriam Schapiro: A Woman's WayApril 25, 1997 – July 20, 1997American Art Museum
Featuring key works from the 1970s to the 1990s, this exhibition presents mixed-media canvases and prints from the Feminist Art Movement and the Pattern and Decoration trend.
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Lost & Found: Edmonia Lewis's CleopatraJune 7, 1996 – April 14, 1997American Art Museum
See the life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African American sculptor.
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North American Wildflowers: Watercolors by Mary Vaux WalcottApril 15, 1994 – August 29, 1994American Art Museum
Admire 50 original watercolors from North American Wildflowers published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institution, that represent a fraction of the over 700 watercolors Walcott created.
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Lilly Martin Spencer (1822-1902): The Joys of SentimentJune 15, 1973 – September 3, 1973American Art Museum
See the first exhibition of the works of one of America's formost 19th century woman artists, including some 30 paintings, 28 drawings and 10 prints, all of pretty, sentimental and anecdotal subjects.
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