Traveling Exhibitions

Art of the Aloha Shirt: Keoni of Hawaii, 1938–51

Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations

The exhibition Young at Art: A Selection of Caldecott Book Illustrations includes original illustrations from Caldecott Medal recipients and from “runner-up” Honor books, as well as other illustrations by award-winning artists.

Lines with Power and Purpose: Editorial Cartoons

Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster, 1844–2012

Featuring fifty posters, this exhibition profiles the evolution of posters from presidential races from Polk to Obama, and brings eye-popping political graphics to the to the forefront and to show the great American political poster as art.

Our People, Our Land, Our Images

This photographic exhibition features the work of indigenous artists from North America, Peru, Iraq, and New Zealand. The exhibition is distinctive in its historical reach, including newly discovered 19th-century trailblazers, members of the next generation of emerging photographers, and well established contemporary practitioners.

Material Pulses: Seven Viewpoints

This exhibition features quilts, mixed media, and installation work. Quilts of up to 101 inches high will be featured, for dramatic scale of an art form that is often relegated to its functional qualities. The artists investigate color, pattern, and size through traditional and experimental quilt-making applications.

Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and Imagined

Westward expansion was one of the most transformational elements in American life throughout the nineteenth century. Printed imagery played an important role in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and those who inhabited it. Featuring hand-colored engravings and lithographs, the exhibition explores these depictions and the influence artists had on the West’s perception.

Grand Ole Opry

ExhibitsUSA’s Grand Ole Opry features thirty gelatin silver prints by Gordon Gillingham, a commercial photographer hired to photograph the Opry between 1952 and 1960. The images document the radio show and the country music business during the zenith of country music’s postwar boom, and wonderfully capture the spirit, energy, camaraderie, and sheer joy of performing that permeated both musicians and fans of The Opry in its heyday.

Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America

The story of Hmong textile production told in this exhibition reflects the radical upheaval in the external environment that Hmong refugees experienced. It tracks the evolution of Hmong textiles from ceremonial works to those created for commerce.

Blake Little: Photographs from the Gay Rodeo

Consisting of 41 black-and-white photographs taken between 1988 and 1992, the selected images document the gay rodeo circuit and the lives of many of its participants in those years. The collected body of work not only serves as a stunning example of black-and- white portraiture and rodeo photography, it also explores the diverse and complex natures of individual and community identity in the West.