Current and Upcoming

Traces of Time: Fossils from the Collection
July 25, 2009 – June 20, 2010

Zap! Comix Prints by Robert Crumb
August 20 – December 13, 2009

Ansel Adams: The Man Who Captured the Earth’s Beauty
September 17 – December 6, 2009

John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures
October 2, 2009 – April 7, 2010

Moments of Change: Prints by Jackie Battenfield
October 21 to December 13, 2009

Coins of the Ancient World
New installation opens November 6, 2009

Transformations: Inuit Sculptures from the Collection
through November 15, 2009

Rincon Falls, Trinidad: A Print Series by Chris Ofili
January 12 to July 11, 2010

Slightly Unbalanced
January 26 to March 4, 2010

Surface Tension: Pattern, Texture, and Rhythm in Art from the Collection
March 20 to May 14, 2010

Woman as Image, Objects from the Collection: Museum Studies Seminar Exhibition
April 8 – June 13, 2010

Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 16 – May 7, 2010
Joel W. Harnett
(1926-2006)

Joel W. Harnett died August 11, 2006, at his home in Phoenix. He was a noted publisher, poet, civic leader, and art collector. The University’s art museum — the Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art — is named in honor of him and his wife, Lila, as is the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center. The exhibition, Lasting Impressions: Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of the Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center, September 27 to December 8, 2006 is dedicated to the loving memory of Joel Harnett for his generosity, nurturing, and leadership of the museums at the University of Richmond.

A 1945 graduate of the University of Richmond, Joel Harnett was a former vice president of Look magazine and founder in 1969 of Media Horizons, a public radio broadcasting and magazine company. A civic leader in New York, he ran for mayor in 1977. Moving to Arizona in 1988 to focus on publishing, he and his wife launched and ran several prominent regional magazines. He served on the board and executive committee of the Heard Museum in Phoenix.