Exhibitions

Joel & Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Friday, April 13 to Thursday, May 3, 2012
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010
Tuesday, January 24 to Sunday, April 22, 2012
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First Decade Celebration: Tenth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Friday, October 28 to Friday, December 9, 2011
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Idea to Image: Process, States, and Proofs from the Print Collection
Sunday, October 16, 2011 to Sunday, April 1, 2012
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Annual Student Exhibition
Wednesday, August 17 to Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Start to Finish: The Seven Stages of "Apex" by Gerry Bergstein
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 to Sunday, July 1, 2012
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Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists
Wednesday, August 17 to Sunday, October 16, 2011
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Senior Thesis Exhibition
Friday, April 15 to Friday, May 6, 2011
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Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam
Friday, January 28 to Friday, May 20, 2011
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Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
Saturday, January 15 to Sunday, April 3, 2011
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2010 Harnett Biennial of American Prints
Thursday, October 21 to Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Eye of the Collector: Works on Paper from the Sigmund R. Balka Collection
Thursday, October 21 to Sunday, December 5, 2010
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Lincoln 1861 - 1865: A Print Series by Tomás Lasansky
Sunday, October 3, 2010 to Sunday, June 26, 2011
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Tomás Lasansky: Icons and Muses
Sunday, October 3 to Sunday, December 5, 2010
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New at the Harnett
Wednesday, August 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2010
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Slightly Unbalanced
Tuesday, January 26 to Thursday, March 4, 2010
Rincon Falls, Trinidad: A Print Series by Chris Ofili
Tuesday, January 12 to Sunday, September 19, 2010
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Moments of Change: Prints by Jackie Battenfield
Wednesday, October 21 to Sunday, December 13, 2009
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John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures
Friday, October 2, 2009 to Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Rememberingstanleyboxer: A Retrospective
Thursday, August 20 to Sunday, October 4, 2009
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Zap! Comix Prints by Robert Crumb
Thursday, August 20 to Sunday, December 13, 2009
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Warhol's Photographs and Pictures
Friday, March 20 to Friday, May 15, 2009
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The Human Figure, Archetype and Actuality: Works from the Collection
Wednesday, January 21 to Friday, March 6, 2009
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Form & Story: Narration in Recent Painting
Wednesday, January 21 to Friday, May 15, 2009
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This is War! The Pain, Power, and Paradox of Images
Sunday, October 5, 2008 to Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum
Friday, September 5 to Sunday, November 16, 2008
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2008 Harnett Biennial of American Prints
Friday, March 28 to Friday, June 6, 2008
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George Whitman: Drawn to Nature
Friday, March 28 to Friday, June 6, 2008
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Publishing Prints: Selections from the Center Street Studio Archives
Wednesday, February 6 to Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures
Thursday, October 18, 2007 to Sunday, February 10, 2008
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Artist at Work: The Art and Commerce of J. J. Lankes
Friday, September 28 to Sunday, December 9, 2007
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Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite
Thursday, August 23 to Sunday, September 30, 2007
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Four Seasons: A Print Series by Jennifer Bartlett
Thursday, August 23, 2007 to Sunday, July 13, 2008
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A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie
Saturday, February 3 to Friday, May 18, 2007
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Ilgim Veryeri-Alaca: Recent Prints and Drawing
Tuesday, January 16 to Sunday, March 25, 2007
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77 Dances: Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars, 1568-1868
Thursday, October 12 to Sunday, December 10, 2006
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Lasting Impressions: Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Wednesday, September 27 to Friday, December 8, 2006
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The Space of Freedom: Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986
Tuesday, September 12 to Sunday, December 3, 2006
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Seen in Solitude: Robert Kipniss Prints from the James F. White Collection
Thursday, August 24 to Sunday, September 24, 2006
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Arise!: A Suite of Prints by Fred Wilson
Thursday, August 24, 2006 to Sunday, July 15, 2007
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Natural Selection: Landscape Print Portfolio From Center Street Studio
Thursday, March 23 to Friday, June 23, 2006
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2006 Harnett Biennial of American Prints
Friday, March 17 to Saturday, June 24, 2006
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Icons & Idols: Jack Mitchell, A Photographer's Chronicle of the Arts, 1960-1995
Friday, October 21, 2005 to Sunday, February 19, 2006
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Pierre Daura, Catalán-American Modernist: People, Places, and Things
Wednesday, September 28 to Sunday, December 11, 2005
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A Good Day for Painting: The Art of Bernard Chaet
Wednesday, August 24 to Sunday, October 9, 2005
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Margaret Ross Tolbert: Doors
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 to Sunday, July 16, 2006
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Rococo to Revolution: European Prints of the Eighteenth Century
Friday, February 11 to Saturday, May 7, 2005
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Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Royal House of Stuart, 1688-1788: Works of Art from the Drambuie Collection
Saturday, February 5 to Saturday, May 7, 2005
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Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University of Richmond
Friday, January 21 to Friday, May 6, 2005
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New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct
Tuesday, October 26 to Sunday, December 12, 2004
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From "The Asphalt Jungle": Prints and Drawings by Dawn Latané
Sunday, October 3 to Sunday, December 5, 2004
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This Could Be Anywhere, This Could Be Everywhere: Recent Work by Jeremy Drummond
Tuesday, August 24, 2004 to Sunday, October 9, 2005
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Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions
Wednesday, August 18 to Sunday, December 12, 2004
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Cuba Plástica: Recent Art from Cuba
Wednesday, August 18 to Friday, October 8, 2004
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Visions from the Soul: Woodcuts by Hans Friedrich Grohs
Wednesday, August 18 to Friday, October 8, 2004
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6th American Print Biennial
Wednesday, March 17 to Saturday, June 26, 2004
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Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings, and Prints of Charles Ritchie
Wednesday, March 17 to Saturday, June 26, 2004
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Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection
Friday, January 23 to Friday, March 5, 2004
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Janine Wong: Fragments
Tuesday, January 13 to Saturday, July 24, 2004
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Robert McCall: Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight
Thursday, October 16 to Sunday, December 14, 2003
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John Dos Passos and His World
Friday, September 26 to Sunday, December 7, 2003
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Tamarind: Forty Years of Lithography
Wednesday, August 20 to Sunday, December 14, 2003
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Arnold Mesches: Echoes, A Century Survey
Friday, March 14 to Saturday, June 28, 2003
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Going with the Flow: Prints by Pat Steir
Wednesday, August 21 to Sunday, December 15, 2002
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Hannelore Baron: Works from 1967 to 1987
Tuesday, February 12 to Thursday, March 14, 2002
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection
Friday, October 12 to Sunday, December 16, 2001
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Origin Stories: Creation Narratives in Australian Aboriginal Art
Wednesday, September 26 to Sunday, December 9, 2001
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Stefano Della Bella, Baroque Printmaker: The I. Webb Surratt, Jr. Print Collection
Thursday, March 29 to Saturday, June 23, 2001
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
American Prints from the 1920's & 1930's: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, February 20 to Sunday, March 25, 2001
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Paul Maze (1887-1979): An Impressionist in England
Tuesday, October 3 to Sunday, December 17, 2000
Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art
Joel & Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Avel de Knight: Drawings for Army Life in a Black Regiment
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 to Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
Saturday, January 15 to Sunday, April 3, 2011
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
New at the Harnett
Wednesday, August 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2010
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures
Friday, October 2, 2009 to Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
This is War! The Pain, Power, and Paradox of Images
Sunday, October 5, 2008 to Saturday, April 4, 2009
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Building the Collection: Recent Acquisitions in the Harnett Print Study Center
Thursday, August 21 to Sunday, September 21, 2008
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Publishing Prints: Selections from the Center Street Studio Archives
Wednesday, February 6 to Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
"Of Human Bondage": Etchings by John Sloan Illustrating W. Somerset Maugham's Novel
Friday, September 28 to Saturday, December 8, 2007
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
News of the Colonies: Prints, Maps, and Perceptions of the New World
Tuesday, January 23 to Saturday, April 28, 2007
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Lasting Impressions: Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Wednesday, September 27 to Friday, December 8, 2006
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Prints and the Courtly World of Mozart
Saturday, January 28 to Saturday, April 29, 2006
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Pierre Daura, Catalán-American Modernist: People, Places, and Things
Wednesday, September 28 to Sunday, December 11, 2005
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Then & Now: Dementi Studio Photographs of the University of Richmond
Friday, January 21 to Friday, May 6, 2005
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
"In Praise of Folly" by Desiderius Erasmus: Wood Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg
Wednesday, August 18 to Sunday, December 5, 2004
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Why Draw a Landscape?: A Portfolio of Prints by Contemporary Artists
Wednesday, August 20 to Sunday, December 7, 2003
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Looking at Prints
Thursday, January 30, 2003 to Saturday, June 26, 2004
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Virginia Women Artists: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, January 7 to Saturday, June 28, 2003
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Structures of Nature: Photographs by Andreas Feininger
Wednesday, August 21 to Sunday, December 8, 2002
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Reginald Marsh Prints: Whitney Museum of American Art Portfolio
Sunday, September 23, 2001 to Saturday, June 29, 2002
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Woman as Image: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition
Thursday, March 29 to Friday, May 25, 2012
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Ti Ameny Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyptian Woman, and Modern Science
Friday, February 24 to Friday, June 29, 2012
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Achachis y Bordados: Storytelling Embroideries from Chijnaya, Peru
Friday, September 16 to Friday, December 9, 2011
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Social Customs Across Cultures: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition
Thursday, April 7 to Sunday, June 5, 2011
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn's Faience Manufacturing Company
Wednesday, February 16 to Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Feedback: Video by Artists
Wednesday, January 12 to Friday, March 18, 2011
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Nature's Forms: Pattern Texture, and Rhythm in Natural Objects from the Collection
Monday, July 26, 2010 to Friday, June 29, 2012
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Nächtliche Blumenstücke: 1925 Print Portfolio by Wilhelm Heise
Friday, June 18 to Sunday, November 21, 2010
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Best in Show: Staffordshire Dogs from the Collection
Friday, April 9, 2010 to Friday, December 9, 2011
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth's Beauty
Saturday, September 19 to Sunday, December 6, 2009
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Traces of Time: Fossils from the Collection
Saturday, July 25, 2009 to Sunday, October 24, 2010
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Faces & Flowers: Painting on Lenox China
Thursday, February 19 to Sunday, June 28, 2009
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Victories, Orbs, & Angels: Byzantine Coins from the Collection
Friday, January 30, 2009 to Sunday, June 27, 2010
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
Wednesday, October 22 to Sunday, November 23, 2008
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Transformations: Inuit Sculptures from the Collection
Friday, September 5, 2008 to Sunday, November 15, 2009
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Peace Warriors and Solitudes: Recent Photographs by Carl Chiarenza
Tuesday, July 15 to Sunday, October 5, 2008
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Eating Wonderland: Recent Works by Sue Johnson
Friday, February 8 to Sunday, June 15, 2008
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Ceramic Portraits: The Georganna Yeager Johns Collection of Royal Doulton Character Jugs
Friday, October 5, 2007 to Sunday, September 21, 2008
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Castings in Contemporary Ceramics
Friday, October 5 to Sunday, December 16, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
The Sacred and The Sensuous: Hindu Art from the Collection
Wednesday, September 19, 2007 to Sunday, June 29, 2008
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
The Inner Eye: Folk Art of India from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection
Wednesday, September 19 to Sunday, December 2, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Giving Voice to Objects: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition
Thursday, April 5 to Sunday, July 15, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Native Plants of Virginia: Selections from the University of Richmond Herbarium
Wednesday, February 28 to Sunday, June 24, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Mattering: Recent Work by Fiona Ross
Thursday, September 21 to Sunday, February 12, 2006
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Smoked: Works By John Cage, Ray Kass, and Stephen Addiss
Friday, September 15 to Sunday, December 17, 2006
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
What's New? Recent Gifts in the Three University Museums
Friday, July 14, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Parian Porcelain: A Nineteenth-Century Passion
Friday, April 21, 2006 to Sunday, May 27, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Street Opera Reconsidering the Art and Writing of Margaret May Dashiell (1869-1958)
Thursday, February 9 to Saturday, July 29, 2006
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Touch of the Brush: The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Friday, October 7, 2005 to Thursday, June 29, 2006
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Traditions in Miniature: The Louise Westbrook Collection of Chinese Ceramics
Friday, October 7, 2005 to Sunday, May 27, 2007
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Roots of Creativity: Landscapes by Hans Friedrich Grohs
Wednesday, September 21 to Sunday, December 11, 2005
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Objects & Meaning: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition
Thursday, March 24 to Sunday, September 11, 2005
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Silent Spring: Andy Warhol's "Endangered Species" and "Vanishing Animals"
Wednesday, January 19 to Saturday, July 30, 2005
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Exotica: Plant Portraits from Around the World
Wednesday, September 29 to Sunday, November 14, 2004
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
"Fancy Rockingham" Pottery: The Modeller and Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century America
Thursday, September 9, 2004 to Monday, June 27, 2005
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Cheers!: Drinking Glasses from the Permanent Collection
Wednesday, August 11, 2004 to Sunday, July 10, 2005
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Art of the Eye II: An Exhibition on Vision
Friday, April 9 to Sunday, June 27, 2004
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Between Science and Art: The X-Ray Photographs of Judith K. McMillan
Friday, February 13 to Sunday, June 6, 2004
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Vanishing Amphibians: From The National Museum of Natural History
Saturday, October 25 to Sunday, December 7, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
The Art of Gold: Works by Contemporary Goldsmiths
Tuesday, September 2 to Sunday, October 19, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Articulated Spaces: Paintings by Creighton Michael
Wednesday, August 20 to Sunday, December 14, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
All in the Family: Shells from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 to Sunday, February 15, 2004
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Worldviews: Maya Ceramics from the Palmer Collection
Wednesday, February 19 to Sunday, August 3, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Vessels and Ritual Objects: Pre-Columbian Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
Wednesday, February 19 to Sunday, June 29, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Art Nouveau Glass and Pottery: Selections from the Syracuse University Art
Sunday, November 10, 2002 to Sunday, January 26, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Heads or Tails: Ancient Coins from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, September 17, 2002 to Sunday, February 2, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Structures of Nature: Photographs by Andreas Feininger
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 to Sunday, May 18, 2003
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
25 Treasures: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Tuesday, April 9 to Sunday, October 27, 2002
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Buds, Blooms, and Blossoms: Boehm Porcelains from the Permanent Collection
Wednesday, March 20 to Sunday, August 25, 2002
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Stones of Heaven: Jades from the Permanent Collection
Tuesday, November 13, 2001 to Friday, March 1, 2002
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Visionary Landscapes: The Glassworks of Josh Simpson
Tuesday, October 2, 2001 to Sunday, February 10, 2002
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
Land, Sea, & Air: Works by Andrea V. Uravitch
Saturday, February 17 to Sunday, July 1, 2001
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
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Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature
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