Week of Events
Folk Art in the South: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Folk art—often characterized as outsider, visionary, or self-taught—varies widely in medium and subject matter. The range of descriptive terms applied to it does little to describe the imaginative ways in which folk artists express deeply personal ideas in visual language. They employ readily accessible materials, including found objects, to produce their work, putting mundane materials to fresh and ingenious uses.…
The Eugene Fleischer Collection of Studio Art Glass
The history of the studio art glass movement in America is relatively brief. Its origins can be pinpointed precisely to two workshops conducted by ceramist Harvey Littleton, who was interested in the potential of glass as an artistic medium, and chemist and engineer Dominick Labino held at the Toldeo Museum of Art in 1962. Littleton had envisioned a more or…
LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting
This bold exhibition includes more than fifty-five paintings by fourteen leading photorealist artists—A. D. Cook, Randy Ford, Allan Gorman, Marc G. Jones, Cheryl Kelley, Richard Lewis, Lory Lockwood, Bob Petillo, Kris Preslan, Joseph Santos, Ken Scaglia, John E. Schaeffer, Guenevere Schwien, and Harold Zabady—all of whom specialize in automobile and motorcycle imagery. Through their work, they share their enthusiasm for…
Morris Museum of Art Gala
Morris Museum of Art Gala
The Gala Committee requests the pleasure of your company at THE 27th ANNUAL MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART GALA Friday, the sixth of March at seven o'clock in the evening. Purchase Gala Tickets An evening of art, fine food, entertaining, and dancing under the stars. Co-chaired by Tara Simkins and Gene McManus, this glorious event benefits the Morris Museum of…
FREE Sundays at The Morris
Artrageous! Family Sunday: Put Women on the Wall.
Artrageous! Family Sunday: Put Women on the Wall.
Celebrate women artists with live painting demonstrations by members of Women on Paper and participate in a special tour for kids about women artists in our collection. Afterward, help create a large group canvas. FREE.