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January
February
March
March 3 - May 12
The Artist in the
Studio
The exhibition provides an opportunity
for children and adults to meet artists and to be artists. The
Museum of TTU is the first venue for this new exhibition.
March 15 - May 12
Homage to Van Gogh
Leaving Paris behind, Arles in southern
France was the place where Van Gogh passionately painted until
the end of his life. The Foundation Vincent Van Gogh-Arles has
been building a collection of 75 contemporary artworks whose
theme is "Homage to Van Gogh," such artists as Francis
Bacon, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, David Hockney, Jasper Johns,
and Roy Lichtenstein.
April
April 7 - September
15
Jades and Ivories
This beautiful collection of objects
created in ivory and jade is just a portion of the exciting Diamond
M Fine Art Collection of the Museum of TTU.
April 7 - 2002
Peter Hurd Paints
a Mural
Southwestern regionalist painter Peter
Hurd was commissioned in the 1950s to paint a fresco mural in
the then museum rotunda (now Holden Hall) at Texas Technological
College. He employed the same methods and materials as those
used by fresco painters for thousands of years. Preliminary drawings,
the "cartoons," and a model of the mural created by
Hurd make up this exhibition.
April 28 - September
15
N.C. Wyeth, Illustrator,
Friends and Family
Newell Convers Wyeth was one of the
early 20th century's most influential American illustrators.
His influence extended to his children and other artists of the
time such as Andrew Wyeth and Henriette Wyeth-Hurd, and Ann Wyeth
McCoy. The exhibition is drawn from the Museum's Diamond M Fine
Art Collection.
May
June
June 2 - September 15
in the Diamond M Wing Galleries
Medieval Frescoes
from the Vatican Museums Collection
Thirty-one medieval frescoes from
the Roman churches of St. Nicolai in Carcere (St. Nicholas in
Prison) and Saint Agnese fuori le Mura (St. Agnes Outside the
Walls). This is a one-time showing of these works in North America.
A catalog
of the exhibition is available. Click here for details.
June 2 - September 15
in Gallery 3
Sacred Art from the
Old and New Worlds
Selected paintings, sculpture, and
church silver from the Museo Franz Mayer and Comisión
Nacional de Arte Sacro in Mexico City, and the Sarah Campbell
Blaffer Foundation of Houston, Texas. This collateral exhibition
demonstrates the continuing traditions and influence of the Italian
artists in the New World.
A catalog
of the exhibition is available. Click here for details.
July
July 21 - 2002 in the
Print Gallery
Works on Paper: Prints
and Drawings from the Fine Art Collection of the Museum of TTU
Selected works on paper including
prints and drawings by such artists as Luis Jiménez, Grant
Woods, Bess Hubbard, Thomas Hart Benton, Peter Hurd, George Rouault,
and many others.
August
September
October
October 13. 2002 - January
5, 2003
Changing Hands art
without reservation: Contemporary American Art from the Southwest
Organized
by the American Craft Museum, New York
This is the first in a series of three
comprehensive exhibitions to be presented over six years by the
American Crafts Museum. The exhibition will examine Native American
arts in the Southwest, concentrating on cutting-edge work in
clay, glass, fiber, metal and wood by 40 emerging and established
artists. Organized by the American Craft Museum, New York.
A catalog of the exhibition
is available through the American Craft Museum at 40 West 53rd
Street, New York, NY 10019.
press
release
October 20 - December
1
Cool Breezes: Handheld
Fans in 20th Century American Advertising, Folk Art, and Fashion
This exhibition displays large, sturdy
folding fans built for daily use, as well as fragile and elaborately
decorated fans that served as fashion accessories and flirtation
tools. It explores the fan as a part of a visually rich design
tradition.
press release
November
December
December 8 - February
2, 2003
Other Side of the
West: Creating New Icons of the American West
This bold endeavor brings together
painters who are working in, of , and about the West in a variety
of styles and with widely disparate subject matter. In their
own words, they are out to "massage, twist, tweak, and sometimes
shatter" traditional concepts of the art of the West.
press release
December 8. 2002 - January
10, 2003
Teddy Bear Reunion
and Picnic
A seasonal exhibition of all the teddy
bears recruited for 2002 and returning from 2001, with an opening
event on Sunday, December 15 from 2-4 PM to celebrate.
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