Exhibitions in the Midwest
Santiago Calatrava, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001
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Aegon Gallery, Centre College — Danville, Kentucky
No exhibitions listed.
Akron Art Museum — Akron, Ohio
- Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien’s True North, to October 3, 2010
- Detroit Disassembled: Photographs by Andrew Moore, to October 10, 2010
- Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, October 23, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College — Oberlin, Ohio
Due to renovation project, no exhibitions are currently scheduled.
Art Institute of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois
- Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna & Howard Stone Collection, to September 19, 2010
- Sound & Vision, to August 29
- Cable Me at the Earliest Moment: James Henry Breasted’s Role in Building the Egyptian Collection, to September 1, 2010
- Stanley Greenberg: Architecture under Construction, to September 6, 2010
- Roger Hiorns, to September 6, 2010
- Everyday Adventures Growing Up: Art from Picture Books, to November 28, 2010
- BIGsmall, ongoing
- Ballplayers, Gods, and Rainmaker Kings: Masterpieces from Ancient Mexico, September 16, 2010 – January 2, 2011
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky
- Treasures from the Vault, to July 25, 2010
- The Bluegrass Palette of Andre Pater, October 10, 2010
- Hoofbeats & Heartbeats:The Horse in American Art, August 22, 2010 – November 21, 2010
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Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University — Ames, Iowa
- Polyphonic Abstraction: Paintings and Maquettes by Bill Barrett, to August 6, 2010 at the Christian Peterson Art Museum
- Exquisite Balance: Sculptures by Bill Barrett, to August 6, 2010, at the Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden
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Cedar Rapids Museum of Art — Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- The Sky’s the Limit: Marvin Cone’s Clouds, to August 22, 2010
- The American Century, ongoing
- Grant Wood: In Focus, ongoing
- Treasures from the National Collection, ongoing
- Mauricio Lasansky: Master Printmaker, ongoing
- Art in Roman Life, ongoing
- Malvina Hoffman: Rodin’s Last Student, ongoing
- From Monet to Picasso: The Riley Collection, to September 19, 2010
- The Grant Wood Window: Drawings for the Veterans Memorial Stained Glass Window Commission, to November 14, 2010
- China: Insights. New Documentary Photography from the People’s Republic, October 9, 2010 – December 31, 2010
Chazen Museum of Art — Madison, Wisconsin
- The Magic of John Wilde, to July 25, 2010
- Dennis Nechvatal Landscapes, August 7, 2010 – October 3, 2010
- Andy Warhol Polaroid Studios, October 9, 2010 – December 5, 2010
- Hidden Treasures: Illuminated Manuscripts from Midwestern Collections, December 18, 2010 – February 27, 2011
- Holy Image, Sacred Presence: Russian Icons 1500-1900, March 12, 2010 – June 5, 2011
Cincinnati Art Museum — Cincinnati, Ohio
- Vegas 360, to September 26, 2010
- Walker Evans: Decade by Decade, to September 5, 2010
Cleveland Museum of Art — Cleveland, Ohio
- In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize, to March 13, 2011
- Andrew Borowiec: Cleveland Photographs, to October 17, 2010
- Midwest Modern: The Color Woodcuts of Mabel Hewit, to October 24, 2010
- Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, October 17, 2010 – January 17, 2011
- The Glory of the Painted Page, November 6, 2010 – February 27, 2011
The College of Wooster Art Museum – Wooster, Ohio
- Chinese and Japanese Painting and Calligraphy, Fall 2010
- Faculty Leave Exhibitions, Spring 2011
- Studio Art Senior Independent Study Group Exhibition, Spring 2011
Columbus Museum of Art — Columbus Ohio
- Furs, Fins, & Feathers, to June 5, 2011
- The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis, October 8, 2010 – January 16, 2011
- Currents: Complaints Choir, October 8, 2010 – January 16, 2011
- Street Talk: Aminah’s Mt. Vernon Avenue, Winter 2011
Contemporary Arts Center — Cincinnati, Ohio
www.contemporaryartscenter.org
- Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand, to August 22, 2010
- Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed, to October, 2010
- Pat Steir: Water and Stone, to August 22, 2010
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis — St. Louis, Missouri
- Great Rivers Biennial, to August 8, 2010
- Martin Brief, to August 8, 2010
- Sarah Frost, to August 8, 2010
- Cameron Fuller, to August 8, 2010
Cranbrook Art Museum — Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Galleries are closed through Spring 2011
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Dallas Museum of Art — Dallas, Texas
- Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, to August 22, 2010
- Through the Eyes of Our Children – Something Beautiful, to August 29, 2010
- Luc Tuymans, to September 5, 2010
- Mexico 200, José Guadalupe Posada: The Birth of Mexican Modernism, to January 9, 2011
- Mexico 200, Tierra y Gente: Modern Mexican Works on Paper, to January 9, 2011
- African Masks: The Art of Disguise, August 22, 2010 – February 13, 2011
- The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, October 3, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement, February 13, 2011 – May 8, 2011
- Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio, Spring 2011
- Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, 1952, Summer 2011
Detroit Institute of Arts — Detroit, Michigan
- Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955, to July 2010
- Through African Eyes: The European in African Art, 1500 to Present, to August 8, 2010
- Seventy-Third Annual Detroit Public Schools Student Exhibition, to May 30, 2010
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Earlham College — Richmond, Indiana
No exhibitions listed.
The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University — Detroit, Michigan
No exhibitions listed.
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Figge Art Museum — Davenport, Iowa
- Global Currents: The John Deere Art Collection, to October 24, 2010
- 10 Years: The Brand Boeshaar Scholarship Program, to August 15, 2010
- Scale: Ceramic Forms and Photographic Landscapes, to August 29, 2010
- University of Iowa School of Art MFA Exhibition, to August 15, 2010
Ford Gallery, Eastern Michigan University – Ypsilanti, Michigan
www.emich.edu/art/events_exhibits.php
- Open Book: An International Survey of Experimental Books, April 5, 2010 – June 15, 2010
Fort Wayne Museum of Art — Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Through the Glass Nightly; Photographs by Cara Lee Wade, to August 22, 2010
- Soft Tissue: Sculpture and Works on Paper by Ya Ya Chou, to August 21, 2010
- 1934: A New Deal for Artists, to August 22, 2010
- Self Constructions: Works by Audrey Riley, Emma Downs, Amanda Joseph, Rebecca Stockert, Holly Hardin-Clabaugh, and Alethea Gerardot, to August 22, 2010
- Art•ol•o•gy: The Intersection of Art & Nature, August 27, 2010 – October 24, 2010
- Contemporary American Realism: 2010 Biennial, September 3, 2010 – November 7, 2010
- 2010 FWMoA Artist Member’s Exhibition, November 19, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art — Norman, Oklahoma
- Wanderlust: Travel and American Photography, to September 12, 2010
- Bruce Groff: A Creative Mind, October 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota — Minneapolis, Minnesota
No exhibitions listed.
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Gilcrease Museum — Tulsa, Oklahoma
- The West of Olaf Seltzer, to August 29, 2010
- Rendezvous: Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition and Art Sale, to July 11, 2010
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Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- A Collection’s Legacy: Women Donors at the Haggerty, to August 15, 2010
- Theodore Czebotar: Paintings from the Olympic Peninsula, to August 15, 2010
- Hollywood Icons, Local Demons: Paintings by Marc Anthony, August 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Let There Be Light: Stained Glass and Drawings from the Collection of Oakbrook Esser Studios, August 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Holiness and the Feminine Spirit: Paintings by Janet McKenzie, August 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Treasures from the Haggerty, August 25, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Hollywood Icons, January 12, 2011 – May 1, 2011
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Indianapolis Museum of Art — Indianapolis, Indiana
- Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements, to August 1, 2010
- Joshua Mosley: American International, to August 29, 2010
- Tara Donovan: Untitled, to August 1, 2010
- Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA’s Collection, to January 30, 2011
- Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous, to January 23, 2011
- Jeppe Hein, to September 5, 2010
- The Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, Part II, May 8, 2010 – September 5, 2010
- Framed, November 5, 2010 – March 6, 2011
- Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial, February 27, 2011 – May 15, 2011
Indiana University Art Museum — Bloomington, Indiana
http://www.indiana.edu/~iuam/iuam_home.php
- Shot by Warhol, March 1, 2011 – May 8, 2011
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Joslyn Art Museum — Omaha, Nebraska
- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, to September 12, 2010
- Space Silent Spirit: Maynard Dixon, July 31, 2010 – October 17, 2010
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Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, The University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/
- Mary Upjohn Meader: Pioneering Adventures over Africa, in the William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing
Kent State University Museum — Kent, Ohio
- Made in India: Indian Textiles, Global Markets, to March 20, 2011
- 25th Anniversary Kent Sate Museum 1985-2010, to February 13, 2011
- Stavropoulos, to September 5, 2010
- I Never Leave the House Without a Hat: The Savanna Vaughn Clark Collection, to October 10, 2010
- Katherine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen, October 2, 2010-September 4, 2011
Kent State University School of Art Gallery — Kent, Ohio
http://dept.kent.edu/art/galleries
- Eric May, Downtown Gallery, August 4 – 24, 2010
- Gingr Vaughan: Mannequin Series, Eells Gallery, July 2010
- Gathering Light: Seniors Reflect on Aging & Creativity, Eells Gallery, August 2010
Kimbell Art Museum — Fort Worth, Texas
- Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony, ongoing
- Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, August 29, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Salvator Rosa: Bandits, Wilderness, and Magic, December 12, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Krannert Art Museum — Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Museum closed until August 23, 2010 for building renovations.
Krasl Art Center — St. Joseph, Missouri
- 2010 Biennial Sculpture Invitational: New Works, to August 29, 2010
- Ultra-Realistic Sculpture by Marc Sijan, September 3, 2010 – October 24, 2010
- Killer Kitsch by Three Contemporary Artists, November 19, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- Christmas Kitsch, November 19, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University — East Lansing, Michigan
- Online Exhibition: Gifts of Art: 35 Years of Friends of Kresge Acquisitions, ongoing
- Online Exhibition: Discoveries: Research, Science, and Seeing the Collection, ongoing
- Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition, September 7, 2010 – October 10, 2010
- Designing Women of Postwar Britain, October 16, 2010 – December 17, 2010
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Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum — Wausau, Wisconsin
- The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century, to August 29, 2010
- Peanuts at Bat!, to August 29, 2010
- Birds in Art, September 11, 2010 – November 14, 2010
- I Want Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art, November 20, 2010 – January 23, 2011
- Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller, January 29, 2011 – April 3, 2011
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Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University — Dallas, Texas
No exhibition listing.
Miami Art Museum, Miami University — Oxford, Ohio
- Creatures Great & Small, Fall 2010
- Animal Tales: Storybooks for Children, Fall 2010
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University — St. Louis, Missouri
http://kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
- Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction from the Permanent Collection, August 20, 2010 – September 20, 2010
- Studying the Art Object: Materials and Methods, August 20, 2010 – September 20, 2010
Milwaukee Art Museum — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection, to September 6, 2010
- Theaster Gates, to August 1, 2010
- Warrington Colescott: Cabaret, Comedy, and Satire, to September 26, 2010
Minneapolis Institute of Arts — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Une Cité Moderne: Drawings by Robert Mallet-Stevens, Architect, to September 19, 2010
- A Penny Saved: Collections from the Katherine Kierland Herberger Collection, to March 27, 2011
- Basins, Baskets, and Bowls: Women Explore the Vessel, to May 30, 2011
- Atelier 17, September 4, 2010 – March 6, 2011
- Chairevolution! 300 Years of Designing the Chair, September 16, 2010 – November 28, 2010
- Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Wealth, September 17, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Jennifer Davis, Erika Olson, Terrance Payne, and Joe Sinness, October 22, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Art of the Native Americans: The Thaw Collection, October 24, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- Love of the Gods, December 22, 2010 – June 19, 2011
- The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, January 23, 2011 – April 17, 2011
- Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting: Masterpieces from the National Galleries of Scotland, February 6, 2011 – May 1, 2011
- Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Collection of Peter Marino, February 6, 2011 – May 15, 2011
- Conversations with Wood: Selections from the Waterbury Collection, June 17, 2011 – September 4, 2011
- Japonisme: Paris Embraces the Japanese Aesthetic, October 16, 2011 – January 15, 2012
- Defining Threads: Fashion and Festival in Southwest China, February 19, 2012 – May 13, 2012
Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri — Columbia, Missouri
- Faces of Warhol, to Summer 2010
- The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West, ongoing
- Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection, ongoing
- The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo, to September 26, 2010
Museum of Contemporary Art — Chicago, Illinois
- Selections from the MCA Collection, to Summer 2010
- Rewind:1970s to 1990s Works from the MCA Collection, to September 5, 2010
- Earthworks: Robert Smithson, Sam Durant, and Mary Brogger, to September 5, 2010
- Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, to Fall 2010
- Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, to October 17, 2010
- Here/Not There, to August 1, 2010
- Luc Tuymans, October 2, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- Jim Nutt: Coming into Character, January 29, 2011 – May 8, 2011
- Mark Bradford: Against Abstraction, Summer 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland — Cleveland, Ohio
- Aida Ruilova: The Singles 1999-Now, to August 15, 2010
- Marilyn Minter, to August 15, 2010
Museum of Wisconsin Art — West Bend, Wisconsin
- 170 Years of Wisconsin Art, to January 2, 2011
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — Kansas City, Missouri
- Expressions of Brush and Ink: Literati and Chan (Zen) Painting of China and Japan, to August 1, 2010
- Venice: 3 Visions in Glass- Cristiano Bianchin, Yoichi Ohira and Laura de Santillana, to August 15, 2010
- Flourishing Patterns: Textiles from Persia and Europe, to August 22, 2010
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Oakland University, Meadow Brook Art Gallery — Rochester, Michigan
No exhibition listings.
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Philbrook Museum of Art — Tulsa, Oklahoma
- The Eugene B. Adkins Collection, ongoing
- Villa Philbrook: The Phillips Residence, 1927-1938, ongoing
- To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum, to September 12, 2010
- Adaptation: Video Installations by Guy Ben-Ner, Aurturo Herrera, Catherine Sullivan, and Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation, October 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow, February 6 – May 1, 2011
Price Tower Arts Center — Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- Fellowship: 75 Years of Taliesin Box Projects, to September 19, 2010
- William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest, October 1, 2010 – January 9, 2011
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Saint Louis Art Museum — St. Louis, Missouri
- Bill Viola: Visitation, to September 6, 2010
- The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, to September 6, 2010
- Joe Jones: Painter of the American Scene, October 10, 2010 – January 2, 2011
- Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, February 13, 2011 – May 8, 2011
Sculpture Center — Cleveland, Ohio
- The Sculpture of David E. Davis: Celebrating the 20 Year Legacy, August 28, 2010 – October 24, 2010
- All You Can Eat, October 30, 2010 – October 31, 2010
- The Cleveland Ceramics of Yasuhisa Kohyama, November 6, 2010 – December 19, 2010
Sheldon Swope Art Museum — Terre Haute, Indiana
- Still Life: Quiet Revelation, to August 20, 2010
Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame — Notre Dame, Indiana
No exhibition listings.
Speed Art Museum — Louisville, Kentucky
- Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise?, to August 1, 2010
Spencer Museum of Art — Lawrence, Kansas
- Discover the Spencer’s Second Life Island, ongoing
- Reviving the Past: Antiquity & Antiquarianism in East Asian Art, closes 2010
- Elevator Poetry, ongoing
- Quilting Time & Space, to August 16, 2010
- Conversation IX – Media Memes: Images, Technology & Making the News, August 14, 2010 – December 19, 2010
- Dan Perjovschi Central Court, September 16, 2010 – February 6, 2011
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Taft Museum of Art — Cincinnati, Ohio
- American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780-1850, August 27, 2010 – November 7, 2010
- Keystone Contemporary: Paperwork: Kristine Donnelly, August 6, 2010 – October 24, 2010
- American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780-1850, August 28, 2010 – November 7, 2010
- Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art, November 5, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- The Colors of Christmas: Victorian Paper Decorations, November 5, 2010 – January 9, 2011
- Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos, December 3, 2010 – January 30, 2011
- Keystone Contemporary, January 21, 2011 – April 17, 2011
- The American Impressionists in the Garden, February 18, 2011 – May 15, 2011
- Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections, April 1, 2011 – June 12, 2011
- In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows, June 10, 2011 – August 14, 2011
- Small Paintings, June 17, 2011 – July 31, 2011
Toledo Museum of Art — Toledo, Ohio
- The Psychedelic 60s:Posters from the Rock Era, to September 12, 2010
- Out of Sight, to August 29, 2010
- 92nd Annual Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, to August 22, 2010
- Arts Gone Wild Exhibition, to August 15, 2010
- Life in Miniature: Ceramic Netsuke from the Silverman Collection, October 1, 2010 – February 27, 2011
- Inspired Giving: The Apollo Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition, October 15, 2010 – February 13, 2011
- The Egypt Experience: Secrets of the Tomb, October 29, 2010-May 13, 2012
- Venice: Light and Landscape, November 4, 2010 – March 11, 2011
- Aminah Robinson: Voices That Taught Me How to Sing, November 18, 2010 – February 27, 2011
- Baroque Prints of the 17th Century and Beyond, February 25, 2011 – May 22, 2011
- The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, March 19, 2011 – June 12, 2011
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Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University — Witchita
- Art of Our Time: Selections from the Ulrich Museum of Art Collection, to August 8, 2010
University of Iowa Museum of Art — Iowa City
- A Legacy for Iowa: Pollock’s Mural and Modern Masterworks from the University of Iowa Museum of Art, ongoing
University of Michigan Museum of Art — Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century, to August 22, 2010
- Sister Corita: The Joyous Revolutionary, to August 15, 2010
- UMMA Projects: Jakob Kolding, July 31, 2010 – October 24, 2010
- On Beauty and the Everyday: The Prints of James McNeill Whistler, August 21, 2010 – November 28, 2010
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Walker Art Center — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- The Talent Show, to August 15, 2010
- 1964, to October 24, 2010
- Hélio Oiticica/Rirkrit Tiravanija: Contact, to March 20, 2011
- Event Horizon, to August 26, 2012
- Benches & Binoculars, to November 21, 2010
- Guillermo Kuitca: Everything-Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008, to September 19, 2010
- From Here to There: Alec Soth’s America, September 12, 2010 – January 16, 2011
- Yves Klein, October 23, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Wexner Center for the Arts — Columbus, Ohio
- Mark Bradford: You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You), to August 15, 2010
Wichita Art Museum — Wichita, Kansas
- Western Imprints: Carving Out the Western Landscape/Reduction Woodblocks by Leon Loughridge, to October 3, 2010
- Community Favorites, ongoing
- Mrs. Murdock and Friends: Elizabeth Nevas and the Friends of the Wichita Art Museum, to October 3, 2010
- Heritage of the West: A Romance Gone Forever: The M.C. Naftzger Collection of Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings by Charles M. Russell, ongoing
- Sculpture from the Wichita Art Museum Collection, ongoing
- American Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Wichita Art Museum, ongoing
- The Secrecy Series: Selected Works, to October 10, 2010
- In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight, to September 26, 2010