Beyond • Aesthetics

This exhibition will shed light on art as a persistent religious inflection and also prompt us to literally view religion from an objective and artistic perspective. The emphasis of the […]
Shaping the Earth: Iron Mountain Stoneware of Laurel Bloomery, TN

Iron Mountain Stoneware operated from 1965 to 1992 in Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee. Workers formed the stoneware by hand, applying the glazes and decorations created by owner Nancy Patterson Lamb. In […]
Rebis: New Paintings by Virginia Derryberry

Rebis includes 17 paintings by Virginia Derryberry, an Asheville, NC artist and Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her large compositions fuse realism and portraiture […]
Points of Viewing: The Paintings of Sam Morrow and John Sauers

Points of Viewing will showcase approximately 30 works by two of the region’s most quintessential painters: John Sauers (Darlington, MD) and Sam Morrow (Bristol, VA). The exhibition will focus on […]
Animals in Bronze

Animals in Bronze: The Michael and Mary Erlanger Collection of Animalier Bronzes From prehistoric Near Eastern art, to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art, and the undercurrents of the Renaissance, […]
Into the Wilderness: The Settlement of Virginia’s Frontier

With Wallace Gusler’s expertise as Curatorial Consultant, we are pleased to present the material culture of Virginia’s frontier in the 18th and early 19th century, including longrifles, other weapons, reproduction […]
From These Hills 2007: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands

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Stardust Rising: The Art of Charles Vess

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Inside the Outsider

Inside the Outsider showcases the work of two regional artists whose work categorizes them as being outsiders: Abingdon native Ollie Cox and Richard Bay from Radford, Va. “Outsider” artists, classified […]
Rossini’s Rome: The Recordings of a Neoclassical Etcher

This exhibit will showcase a series of etchings by the 19th century Italian artist Luigi Rossini. Formally educated as both an etcher and architect, Rossini compiled this group of etchings […]