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The following exhibitions are planned in upcoming months at the Hood Museum of Art. Please note that dates and descriptions are subject to change.
July 7 through August 26, 2012
This exhibition showcases photography that goes beyond landscape to engage with issues of the earth and its environment, and features Subhankar Banerjee, Marilyn Bridges, David Maisel, J. Henry Fair, Emmet Gowin, and Alex MacLean, among others.
Generously supported by the Bernard R. Siskind 1955 Fund and the William Chase Grant 1919 Memorial Fund.
July 7 through August 1, 2012
In this exhibition the museum showcases the gift to the museum of thirty Japanese and Japanese-inspired contemporary prints, drawings, and ceramics by Joanne and Doug Wise, Class of 1959. This exhibition will be organized by students in Professor Joy Kenseth's History of Museums and Collecting (Art History 82), who will choose the themes and arrange the installation.
This exhibition has been made possible by the Harrington Gallery Fund.
August 8 through September 2, 2012
In 2008, the Hood Museum of Art was selected as the New Hampshire museum recipient of fifty works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, which the Hood is delighted to commemorate with this summer exhibition. The gift includes artists such as Richard Nonas, Robert Berry, and Lynda Benglis.
The Hood Museum of Art, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The presentation of this exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art has been generously funded by the Harrington Gallery Fund.
September 15, 2012, through March 10, 2013
Spanning six decades of creative activity, Crossing Cultures explores more than one hundred works by artists from outback communities as well as major metropolitan centers. It presents the many art-making practices of Aboriginal people, including acrylic painting on canvas, ochre painting on bark, sculpture, weaving, and photography.
Generously supported by Hugh J. Freund, Class of 1967, Kate and Yaz Krehbiel, Class of 1991, Thayer 1992, the Leon C. 1927, Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund, and the Philip Fowler 1927 Memorial Fund.
Spring 2013
The shin hanga (new print) movement was an early-twentieth-century revival of the traditional Japanese woodblock prints that had enjoyed tremendous appeal during the previous two centuries.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art and was generously supported by Yoko Otani Homma and Shunichi Homma M.D., Class of 1977, the William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Hall Fund, and the Eleanor Smith Fund.
