International Arts & Artists: History

2009

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2009:

  • Color in Freedom: Journey Along the Underground Railroad by Joseph Holston
  • Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works from Cuba
  • Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women from Japan
  • Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
  • PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God by Frank Warren
  • In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America
  • The Light Fantastic: Contemporary Irish Stained Glass Art
  • Voices: Contemporary Swedish Ceramics

2008

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2008:

  • Arte en la Charrería: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture
  • The Dutch Italiantes: 17th - Century Masterpieces from the Dulwich Picture Gallery
  • Albrecht Dürer: Art in Transition, Masterpieces from the Graphic Collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany

2007

  • Hillyer Art Space participates in several city-wide events such as ArtDC, Washington's first contemporary art fair, as well as ColorField.remix and the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Every first Friday of the month, in conjunction with Dupont Circle's Gallery Walk, Hillyer Art Space welcomes hundreds of visitors to view its exhibitions. Since April 2006, Hillyer Art Space has presented 14 exhibitions featuring 92 artists from both the local region and abroad.
  • USArts celebrates five years as an organization authorized by the US State Department to issue J1 visas. USArts is now approved to issue Intern Visas in addition to professional Trainee visas. The program currently has nearly 100 active trainees across the US at any one time and has welcomed 400 participants since 2002.
  • Traveling Exhibition Services receives a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren Robbins. The grant is specifically geared toward historically black colleges and universities to provide funds for teacher workshops, family guides, and lectures to coincide with the exhibition. Traveling Exhibitions begins its first European tour with Tradition Transformed: Contemporary Korean Ceramics which debuts in at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast, Ireland.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2007:

  • Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren Brown
  • The Softness of Iron: Welded Sculptures by Orna Ben-Ami
  • Tradition Transformed: Contemporary Korean Ceramics
  • Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
  • Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avante-Garde
  • Magnum Cinema
  • ¡Merengue!: Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales
  • PostSecret
  • Renewal: Printmakers from the New Northern Ireland
  • Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick
  • Changing Identity: Recent Works by Women Artists from Vietnam

2006

  • With the support of the DC Arts Commission, IA&A opens Hillyer Art Space, a non-profit art gallery created to better serve the Washington DC community, its arts institutions, and its artists. Hillyer Art space opens its first exhibition: Scratching the Surface: A Survey of Artists in the Washington Region opened July 13, 2006.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2006:

  • From Cassatt to Wyeth: American Masterworks from the Mitchell Museum
  • Inner Light: Photographs by Flor Garduño
  • Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful
  • Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe       
  • September 11th, New York by Magnum Photographers
  • Tradition in Transition: Russian Icons in the Age of the Romanovs

2005

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2005:

  • Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde
  • In Stabiano: Exploring the Ancient Seaside Villas of the Roman Elite
  • Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place
  • Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran
  • Tools in Motion: Works from the Hechinger Collection

2004

  • IA&A announces a new collaboration with Magnum Photos, a photographic co-operative of great distinction with offices in Manhattan, London and Paris.


Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2004:

  • Albrecht Dürer: A Renaissance Journey in Print
  • Structures of Nature: Photographs by Andreas Feininger
  • From the Fire: Contemporary Korean Ceramics
  • Nexus : Paintings by Karl Momen
  • Paris Moderne: Art Deco Works from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
  • Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours from the National Museums & Galleries of Wales
  • James McNeill Whistler: Selected Works from the Hunterian Art Gallery
  • Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures

2003

  • John Hechinger, Sr. donates Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection to IA&A. Approximately 400-pieces, this collection represents 20th-century art with themes of tools and hardware.
  • In its first year, USArts places 26 professional trainees into arts intuitions throughout the US. The participants come from countries including Austria, Canada, India, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2003:

  • Runway Madness: Photographs by Lucian Perkins
  • Southern Bent: Outdoor Works by Southern Sculptures
  • Passionate Observer: Welty among Artists of the Thirties

2002

  • IA&A creates USArts, a career-training placement program that places international trainees in U.S. arts and culture-related organizations. IA&A receives official approval from the U.S. Department of State to become a sponsor for the J1 Exchange Visitor Visa.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2002:

  • Endangered Treasure: Our Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
  • Kara Walker at the 25th Saõ Paulo Bineal, 2002
  • Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak

2001

  • IA&A selected to present Kara Walker at the 2002 Sao Paulo Bienal which attracts more than 400,000 visitors.
  • Barnes Foundation chooses IA&A to tour select portions of their Collection
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Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 2001:

  • NSK: Content out of Form
  • Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection
  • The View from Here: Contemporary Russian and American Screenprints

2000

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in2000:

  • Crafting Utopia: The Art of Shaker Women
  • Zelda by Herself: The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald

1999

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 1999:

  • The Art of John Dos Passos

1998

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 1998:

  • Lynn Chadwick: Sculptural Revelations
  • Richard Hunt: Affirmations

1997

  • IA&A develops an exhibition for Japan, American Stories, which travels to the famed Setagaya Museum in Tokyo and four other Japanese museums.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 1997:

  • American Stories: Amidst Displacement & Transformation
  • John Dreyfus: Sculptor
  • Zigi Ben Haim: Journey With Me

1996

  • IA&A receives 501(c)(3) status from the IRS
  • IA&A develops its first exhibition, Roloff Benny: Portraits, which debuts at the world renowned Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C.

Traveling Exhibition Tours Beginning in 1996:

  • Roloff Beny: Portraits
  • Mariyo Yagi: Kobe Roots Toward Nawa Land

1995

  • IA&A is founded by David Furchgott in Charleston, S.C.