Archive Archives - Muscarelle Museum of Art

Haiti to Harlem: Toussaint L’Ouverture & Jacob Lawrence

Opening in late fall 2024, this exhibition will feature fifteen original silkscreens by one of America’s leading figurative twentieth-century artists, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). This series of prints on The Life of

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America in Black and White: Depression-Era Photographs from the Farm Security Administration

Photographs from the Farm Security Administration, a New Deal-era project that created a pictorial record of American life between 1935-1944. Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks.

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Student Photography Contest

The Muscarelle Museum of Art is proud to present an exhibition of student photography submitted as part of a competition held in the fall semester of 2023. Juried by Cuban

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Nascent Themes from a Conversation of Fragments: Recent Collages by Clive Knights

We are pleased to partner once again with Professor of Art Elizabeth Mead and Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences Jennifer Stevens on the exhibition Nascent Themes From a Conversation of

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Face to Face: Across Spaces and Places

The Art History Fall 2023 Curatorial Project presents “Face to Face: Across Spaces and Places” on view November 3 – 28, 2023 in Andrews Gallery. This exhibition examines representations of

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40 Years of Art at the Muscarelle

As we celebrate 40 years since our founding in 1983, explore the story of art at the Muscarelle and William & Mary. From the origins of the collection nearly 300

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Carving Deep: J.J. Lankes’ American Story

The Art History Fall ’22 Curatorial Project presents “Carving Deep: J J Lankes’ American Story” on view November 14 – December 5 in Andrews Gallery. This exhibition has been curated

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Faculty Show 15

Recent works of William & Mary’s studio art faculty, including visiting instructors and emeriti professors, will be featured in the exhibition Faculty Show 15 on view from September 30 through December 11, 2022.

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MUSEUM EXPANSION: The Martha Wren Briggs Center for the Visual Arts

Learn more about the upcoming Martha Wren Briggs Center for The Visual Arts, the new home for the Muscarelle Museum of Art, through our new exhibition detailing the project in

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Spark of Imagination: The Spectrum of Creativity

Spark of Imagination celebrated the ingenuity of American self-trained artists and their individual impulses to create. Along with special loans, the exhibition featured new acquisitions on view for the first

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The Human Frame: Prints by Leonard Baskin

This exhibition demonstrates Leonard Baskin’s use of the body as a vehicle for reflection, highlighting themes of mortality and morality in the natural world. Part of a required practicum course

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Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist

Works by Degas in this exhibition consisted of drawings, prints, photographs, monotypes, one sculpture, and a letter, all from a single private collection. The collection endeavored to illuminate the background

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FOREVER MARKED BY THE DAY

The new World Trade Center is a space of remembering and healing, as well as a tribute to life and art. This place serves as a memorial designed to honor

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SHARED IDEOLOGIES

Shared Ideologies, an exhibition of selected works by Native American artists from the 1970s to the present will offer visitors an opportunity to engage in a sociopolitical dialogue about the

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And still, movement

The expression of motion within the still life of black and white photography embodies the curious nature of forms that are simultaneously static and dynamic. Through a conversation between art

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The Curatorial Project: The Art of Well-Being

This exhibition—The Art of Well-Being—did not attempt to define either art or well-being. Rather it presented a range of works from the collection of the Muscarelle Museum of Art selected

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