Selected Past Traveling Exhibitions
Since 1995, International Arts & Artists (IA&A) has traveled more than 60 exhibitions that have been shown in some 400 locations. The following list represents only a few examples of past traveling exhibitions from IA&A. A complete list will be forthcoming so please check back here for more details. IA&A can develop similar exhibitions on request. Please feel free to contact our staff with any questions.
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
This groundbreaking exhibition features the photographs of American artist Man Ray (1890-1976) that translated the vogue for African art into a modernist aesthetic and disseminated this idea to a popular audience. This exhibition explores a little-examined chapter in the development of modernist artistic practice; namely, the significant role photography played in the process by which African objects—formerly considered ethnographic curiosities—came to be perceived as the stuff of modern art in the first decades of the 20th century. The exhibition juxtaposes both iconic and recently discovered photographs with a number of the actual African masks and figures they depict, illustrating the complex nature of photographic representation. The exhibition includes photographs by contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler, Walker Evans, Clara Sipprell, Cecil Beaton, and Raoul Ubac.
Tour Schedule
October 2009 - January 2011
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Man Ray, Noire et Blanche, 1926
Habsburg Treasures
Renaissance Tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The tapestry collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria, is regarded as one of the most important in the world. This exquisite exhibition tells one of the most beloved themes in the Flemish weaver’s repertoire: scenes from the legendary founding of Rome by twin brothers Romulus and Remus.
The eight tapestries in the exhibition come from two different series: six from the Brussels atelier of Frans Geubels, and two from the bequest of King Francis I (1708-1765). The later series presents the story in a similar composition. Together, these eight recently-restored tapestries narrate the familiar story and provide spectacular examples of Brussels tapestry production in the 16th- and 17th-centuries.
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Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Columbia Museum of Art, SC
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Workshop of Frans Geubels, Brussels, The Birth of Romulus and Remus, c. 1560, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Voices
Contemporary Swedish Ceramics
The ten artists featured in Voices are the leading exponents of the dynamism and originality of contemporary ceramic art in Sweden. Viewed together, they enable us to discern uniqueness in the contemporary development of Swedish ceramics. The artists, selected from different generations, work in varying styles and are free in their relationship to traditional ceramic art to seek new directions and emphasize freedom of expression. Despite the use of a wide array of media such as clay, glass, rope, glaze, and metal, no longer is it the material that is of utmost importance, but instead the point of view of the ceramic artist. The artists contributing their “voices” to the exhibition work sculpturally and conceptually, addressing existential issues with humor or abstraction.
Tour Schedule
March 2009 – December 2010
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA
The Trout Gallery at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Cederhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN
Slidell Cultural Center, Slidell, LA
Eva Hild, Loop 1054, 2006
New York, September 11th
by Magnum Photographers
By now, the story of September 11th has been burned into our collective memory, but few have seen New York from the perspective of Magnum photographers. Eleven members of the legendary photo agency immediately dispersed from their monthly meeting in New York as the events unfolded to document the incomprehensible. Their photographs, by turns haunting, surreal, and breathtaking, are collected together in New York, September 11th by Magnum Photographers.
From their various vantage points we are transported to Ground Zero to witness the destruction of the World Trade Center, including the implosions that sent thousands fleeing through the streets from debris. Documented also is the photographers' return to the scene and their quiet observation and respect for the rescue workers, whose jobs had only begun and, and for the mourners who had been gathering, struck with grief.
Tour Schedule
August 2006 - December 2009
Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR
Blake Library, Stuart, FL
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX
Andrew Wyeth: The Helga Pictures
Debuting in 1987 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., this exceptional exhibition with more than 70 works from the Helga series included finished paintings in tempera and dry brush as well as drawings and works in watercolor.
Exhibition venues: University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA / Canton Museum of Art, OH / Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
This International Arts & Artists’ exhibition toured from 2001-2003.
Andrew Wyeth, Easter Sunday (detail),© Pacific Sun Trading Company, LLC. Image courtesy of Frank E. Fowler.
Kara Walker at the 25th Saõ Paulo Bienal, 2002
IA&A was selected to present Kara Walker at the Bienal and received grants from the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions (a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts); the Pew Charitable Trust; the Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Department of State. The centerpiece of Walker’s installation was a cyclorama, 85 feet in circumference, built on-site and filled with near-life-size, cut-paper silhouettes.
Exhibition venue: 25th Saõ Paulo Bienal, Brazil
Kara Walker, Cut, 1998. Courtesy of Brent Sikkema, NYC
Victorian Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Drawings and Watercolours from the National Museums & Galleries of Wales
Victorian Visions included 64 works reflecting the wide range of pre-Raphaelite styles found in the collections of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales. Among the artists included are Sir Edward Poynter, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones.
Exhibition venues: The Frick Art Museum and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA / The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN / Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN / The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY / Columbia Museum of Art, SC
William Henry Hunt, Fruit Piece, c. 1855
Paris Moderne: Art Deco Works from the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris Moderne represents the first time a significant collection of art deco objects from the MAMVP toured the United States. Included in the exhibition were enormous gold-lacquered panels made by Jean Dunand for the ocean liner Normandie, loaned by the museum for the first time. This exhibition of 83 works—including more than 40 paintings and works on paper, 30 pieces of furniture, 10 sculptures, and other decorative arts—celebrates the rich decorative style of Parisian interiors of the 1920s and ‘30s. Accompanying the furnishings were paintings by major artists including Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, André Derain, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso.
Exhibition venues: Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS / Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Maurice Champion, Meuble d’appui a deux portes (Armoire with two doors), 1937
Crafting Utopia: The Art of Shaker Women
The Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has the largest and most representative collection of Shaker artifacts available to the public at an original site. This exhibition featured 115 beautifully crafted objects, including unique woodenware and household objects, costumes, textiles, and furnishings. Crafting Utopia focused on the role of women in the Shaker community and their importance in the development of Shaker crafts.
Exhibition venues: Davenport Museum of Art, IA / Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA / Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL / Newcomb Gallery of Art, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA / Fullerton Museum Center, CA / Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY /Naples Museum of Art, FL
Courtesy of Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA