Pottery
Pottery-making was an important local industry as early as the last years of the 18th century and lasting throughout the 19th century. All sorts of ceramic containers were made: jars, […]
Textile
The decorative arts legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee developed against the backdrop of European settlement of Virginia’s frontier – really America’s frontier. Prior to the middle of the […]
Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay
Norm Schulman: A Life in Clay celebrates the intricate relationship between this ceramic artist’s life and work – his humanity, his teaching, mentoring and support of artists, and his commitment […]
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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