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December 2022
Music in the South
Drawn from the permanent collection, the paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures that make up Music in the South celebrate the culturally diverse, richly expressive traditions of the music of the South. Music and the visual arts have both been shaped by the traditions, values, and attitudes of Southerners, especially in the realms of religion, community life, family relationships, and identity.…
Find out more »March 2023
A Hunt Slonem Menagerie
Explore the magic and whimsy of A Hunt Slonem Menagerie, on display at the Morris Museum of Art through June 4, 2023. An explosion of color, this exhibition features large and small scale electric neo-expressionist oil paintings of bunnies, butterflies, and tropical birds by renowned artist Hunt Slonem. Hunt Slonem was born in 1951 in Kittery, Maine, where his father, a…
Find out more »April 2023
And They All Sang Hallelujah
The cultural landscape of the American South is shaped and often identified by many things, religion among them. In the popular imagination, religion in the South is distinguished not by its denominations—mainly Protestant, often Evangelical—but by its conservative fundamentalist orientation. The single largest denominational body is the Southern Baptist Convention, and the wide distribution of its many churches is often…
Find out more »June 2023
The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection
The Long View: From Conservation to Sustainability: Works from the Bank of America Collection examines the evolution of the modern environmental movement and our relationship with the earth and all its inhabitants through eighty-eight works of art, including photographs, paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, that are categorized in four sections. The Beginnings of Conservation features nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists who influenced the…
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