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Past Exhibitions

Glorious Gorham: Silversmith to the Nation Free and Open to the Public Fierce polar bears mount dripping icebergs and mythic figures cavort on the extravagant silver masterpieces created by the Gorham Manufacturing Company. Glorious Gorham: Silversmith to the Nation. » Learn More...	Exhibition Organized by Area Students Considers “Edgy” Art Exploring Museum Careers High School Partnership On Edge, an exhibition of fine and decorative arts opening to the public Saturday, March 27 in the Museum of Art, examines works from the Museum of Art permanent collection that are unusual, bold, or even groundbreaking. Sponsored by HSBC Bank USA, N.A. » Learn More...
Music as Muse Free and Open to the Public Music surrounds us. From iPods to TV show theme songs to cell phone ring tones, our days are filled with notes and lyrics. It is no wonder artists find music inspirational. » Learn More...	62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists Exhibition Spotlights Region’s Talent and Artistic Vibrancy The 62nd Exhibition of Central New York Artists features a large group of artists who work in as many styles and media. » Learn More...
A Little Look at Dada Dada as art is characterized by absurdity, total freedom of expression, and randomness as creative tools. » Learn More...	James E. Freeman 1808-1884 An American Painter in Italy The exhibition, James E. Freeman 1808–1884: An American Painter in Italy, opens Sunday, September 13 in the Museum of Art. » Learn More...
The Fabrics of the Home In the second half of the nineteenth century, design books and popular periodicals stressed the importance of surface treatment in the conception of a unified domestic interior. » Learn More...	Exhibition Organized by Area Students Examines Passages in Art Points of Passage, an exhibition of fine and decorative arts opening to the public Saturday, March 28 in the Museum of Art, examines works from the Museum of Art permanent collection that suggest passages of many varieties. The exhibition will represent psychological, physical, and cultural interpretations of the idea of a “passage.” » Learn More...
Sculpture: In Pairs and On Paper Features Works From Museum Permanent Collection Works from the Museum of Art permanent collection » Learn More...	Rustic Tomorrow and Rustic Traditions A Celebration of the Adirondacks Leading modernist and postmodern contemporary architects were paired with prominent Adirondack rustic furniture and furnishing makers. The resultant artworks show the relevance of Adirondack rustic design traditions and tenets to contemporary design and life. » Learn More...
American Modernist Watercolors from a Private Collection “An Adventure of the Heart” Each of the 17 pieces in this exhibition is a canonical example of the work of the generation of artists who embraced the tenets of modernism and sought, through a variety of personal artistic means, to express in their art what it meant to live in the modern age. » Learn More...	Picturing Eden Picturing Eden features the photographic work of 37 internationally recognized artists who examine Paradise as a mythic, many-faceted place, one of contemplation and restoration as well as loneliness and despair. » Learn More...
61st Exhibition of Central New York Artists This 61st edition of the lively and popular exhibition series features works of art in all media by artists living within a 100-mile radius of Utica. » Learn More...	Home and Away: Exploring Photography in the Fine and Decorative Arts from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Home and Away features works that illustrate a range of photographic processes beginning with the earliest photographs: daguerreotypes and tintypes from the 1850s, through contemporary works. Central to the exhibition is Open Door, a digital montage by Jeffrey C. Becton, which utilizes a modern technological photographic process to produce its image HSBC Bank » Learn More...
It’s About Time: Clocks from the Permanent Collection During the nineteenth century, clocks were a stylish symbol of a busy and productive household as well as central ornamental features. The elaborately decorated clocks in the Museum’s collection are a testimony to their importance as status symbols as well as timekeepers. » Learn More...	Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism Extensive Exhibition Features Remarkable Bequest of American Art Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism showcases 227 paintings and works on paper that Root (1884-1956) acquired between the 1910s and the 1950s. The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of Root's bequest of this material to the MWPAI Museum of Art. M & T Bank » Learn More...
Objects From Two Collections Featured Function as Muse: Decorative Arts and the Peter Norton Christmas Project Two collections of objects created more than a century apart are united in the exhibition, Function as Muse, a collaboration between the Decorative Arts and Modern-Contemporary Departments. » Learn More...	Under The Influence Under the Influence, an exhibition of fine and decorative arts open to the public in the Museum of Art, examines works from the Museum of Art permanent collection that consider many various forms of influence, from supernatural intervention to an artist’s frenzied reaction to a letter from a parent. HSBC Bank » Learn More...
Ferdinand Richardt Drawings of America, 1855-1859 Fifty-six magnificently executed drawings by the 19th-century Danish-American landscape artist Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895)--that have not been publicly exhibited for at least a century--are featured in the landmark exhibition, Ferdinand Richardt: Drawings of America, 1855-1859 » Learn More...	Substance and Light Ten Sculptors use Cameras The Museum of Art exhibition, Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras, explores photography as a sculptural tool and medium. Works in the show demonstrate that the confluence of two- and three-dimensional media is especially effective in examining issues of memory and time, as they apply to physical and psychological space. » Learn More...
Chinese Paintings from the Henricksen Collection The thirty-two works in this exhibition provide insight about the artistic styles that Chinese painters used during the last three centuries. It was a time when Chinese artists--from the village painter to the scholar-official--bore as both inspiration and burden the full weight of an ancient, conservative tradition that could still bring forth new ideas and artistic styles. » Learn More...	African Personal Art and Adornment This exhibition, drawn from the extensive African collections of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University, focuses on treasured items that are meant to be handled and used. They serve their owners as tools, furniture, housewares, playthings, and objects of personal adornment. They were made for people in all walks of life. » Learn More...