Toyland: Artifacts of Youth
Toyland: Artifacts of Youth November 17, 2022 – March 5, 2023 Organized by William King Museum of Art & Presented in The Glenn C. Price & The Strongwell Galleries […]
Washington: The Myths and the Man
Washington: The Myths and the Man October 6 – January 29, 2022 Washington: The Myths and the Man is organized by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture & Presented […]
God Willing, We’ll See Each Other Again: The Life and Work of William Fields
God Willing, We’ll See Each Other Again: The Life and Work of William Fields July 28, 2022 – December 4, 2022 “One day at a time.” This was the […]
The Open Road: The Art of the Motorcycle
The Open Road: The Art of the Motorcycle June 16, 2022 – September 18, 2022 United Company – Legard Galleries, World Fine Art Gallery “The Open Road: The Art […]
Panoramic Gallery – Furtherneath
Furtherneath May 19 – July 10 Panoramic Gallery, 3rd floor, William King Museum of Art “I create artifacts out of paper using a gaming mouse, vector software and a laser,” […]
The Long Rifle in Virginia
The Long Rifle in Virginia April 1, 2022 – October 31, 2022 United Company – Legard Galleries, Cultural Heritage Gallery The long rifle was a surprise factor in winning […]
Humor Me: The Art of Laughter
Humor Me: The Art of Laughter February 24 – July 3, 2022 In the age of Covid, it seems that the world around us has become dull and gray. […]
Lift Your Spirits: Nurturing the Human Spirit Through Creativity
Lift Your Spirits: Nurturing the Human Spirit Through Creativity February 3, 2022 – May 29, 2022 Celebrate and investigate the human spirit in the act of creating in the […]
Will the Circle be Unbroken?
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? November 11, 2021 – March 13, 2022 William King Musuem of Art in Abingdon, VA, United Company – Legard Galleries, Cultural Heritage Gallery Will […]
Bernini and the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia
At the dawn of the seventeenth century, a new generation of artists emerged in Rome that would develop an artistic movement known as the Baroque period. Following the Renaissance, […]
From These Hills 2021: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands
William King Museum of Art (WKMA) celebrates the diversity of regional artists with the 15th anniversary of its biennial exhibition, From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands. This major […]
WORKS ON PAPER: PORTRAITS
WORKS ON PAPER: PORTRAITS This exploration of portraiture by local students, educators and artists is on display in the Art Lab building Jun 1, 2021 – Aug 27, 2021. […]
Mastering Craft: Contemporary Concepts from Regional Makers
Mastering Craft: Contemporary Concepts from Regional Makers On display May 27, 2021 – September 12, 2021 Mastering Craft: Contemporary Concepts from Regional Makers features the work from three previous […]
Citizens & Soldiers
Ken Smith on display in the Panoramic Gallery April 29, 2021 – June 27.
A Painting Tradition
A Painting Tradition On Display April 22, 2021 – September 19, 2021 United Company-LeGard Galleries A survey of 18th – 19th century paintings, A Painting Tradition looks at the […]
Tennessee Fancy: Decorative Arts of Northeast Tennessee 1780 – 1940
Tennessee Fancy: Decorative Arts of Northeast Tennessee 1780 – 1940 On Display April 1, 2021 – October 31, 2021 This exhibition takes a look at what made the decorative […]
Grounded
The exhibition, Grounded, focuses primarily on the exploration of architectural form and how it interacts with space. Artist Mark Bradley-Shoup says in reference to his work, “Architecture can act as […]
Tangible: Where Art and Technology Converge
“Artifacts of a different time” is one of the phrases that artist Jordan Fowler uses to describe his sculptures. Fowler combines traditional welding techniques with contemporary computer science to create […]
Soma and Psyche: Paintings by Charles T. Jones
Painting is only one of many ways that seeks to make sense of the why’s, wherefore’s, and what-now’s of life, this situation in which we all find ourselves. We naturally […]
Looking Back
From a waterfall tumbling down Toole’s Creek to a misty morning on an early Abingdon Main Street to the dormered cottage that was the original Johnston Memorial Hospital, Looking Back: […]
Head Over Heels
From the collection of Mary Jane Miller comes a sensational show of shoes. Head Over Heels chronicles decades of high fashion through footwear and includes designers such as Yves Saint […]
Transforming Politics
As we celebrate the centennial of women’s suffrage, we celebrate a women-led movement that sparked a transformation of politics around the world. The suffragettes used their artistic skills, creativity and […]
Animal Instinct by John Hilton
John Hilton’s work often portrays personal, and at times uncomfortable, subject matter. He finds it difficult to narrow down one unifying theme in the work as it addresses myriad subjects […]
The Alchemy of Light
When Michelle Gagliano cast aside all toxic materials from her artistic practice in 2018, her work took on another layer of meaning. Gagliano uses natural pigments, oils, and solvents based […]
Quilt National
Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, Quilt National returns to the William King Museum of Art. An international juried exhibition of contemporary quilts, this biennial seeks to demonstrate the transformations taking […]
D.R. Mullins: One Man Group Show
William King Museum of Art is delighted to organized the first retrospective of this respected and influential artists’ work, the largest showcase of his art ever mounted by an art […]
Superabundance: The Legacy of Laura Lu Copenhaver
Designated as a Virginia Woman in History in 2007 by the Virginia Library, Laura Lu Copenhaver is an example of industrious ingenuity. From working with the Virginia Farm Bureau to […]
Elaine Fleck: Textures Interwoven
Textures Interwoven presents a selection of paintings that merges fabrics and oils into a unique representation of the natural world and how humans have an integral place in it. Part […]
By Native Hands: Selections from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
By Native Hands: Selections from the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art highlights selections from the Native American basket collection of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel, MS. Focusing […]
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions 2015-2016
In Our Own Words: Native Impressions 2015-16, on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, highlights the lives of Native Americans today. This series of prints, produced by Daniel […]