65 Artists, 65 Years: An Anniversary Exhibition
February 11 – September 8, 2024 Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator In 2024, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art celebrates the 65th anniversary of officially opening its doors […]
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Creating Common Memory
November 8, 2023 — December 31, 2024 Organized by guest curator Hayden Haynes (Onöndowa’ga:’, Deer Clan, Seneca Nation of Indians, Cattaraugus Territory), with Dr. Erica Nuckles, the Museum’s Director of Learning, […]
Toshiko Mori & Frank Lloyd Wright: Dialogue in Details
Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator In 2009, Toshiko Mori Architect (TMA) completed the Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion in Buffalo, New York, a 7,775 square foot visitor center […]
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Southwestern Pennsylvania
October 15, 2023 – January 14, 2024 Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator In 2019 teams from The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Fallingwater met to discuss a […]
Block Party: Community & Celebration in American Art
June 25 – September 17, 2023 Author: Jeremiah William McCarthy, Chief Curator, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Since the beginning of the year, our Museum has been hard at […]
Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945–1975
February 26–May 28, 2023 Freedom, spontaneity, and personal expression: these are the characteristics that would define the generation of Indigenous artists at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) […]
Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America Exhibition Overview
This exhibition explores how, after World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender.
Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism
In Alone Together: Encounters in American Realism, we bring together works separated by almost a century to consider how they are bound together by the shared experience of living and working in difficult times.
Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance Exhibition Overview
Stephen Towns: Declaration & Resistance examines the American dream through the lives of Black Americans from the late 18th century to the present time.
Tina Williams Brewer | Cultivation: Journey of the Work Overview
Brewer's solo retrospective exhibition Cultivation: Journey of the Work features works from the beginning of her quilting career to her latest pieces as of last year, and is only on view for 3 more weeks, through April 24, 2022.
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee Exhibition Overview
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee presents the first major critical assessment of works by the artist Doris Lee (1904 – 1983). Lee was one of the most recognized artists in the country during the 1930s and 1940s.
Border Cantos | Sonic Border Exhibition Overview
Written by Chief Curator Barbara Jones Opening on Sunday, May 30, Border Cantos | Sonic Border is a collaboration between American photographer Richard Misrach and Mexican American artist/composer Guillermo Galindo. Together, they explore the complexities […]