Category: Museums and galleries

  • Pottery at Western New Mexico University Museum

    Western New Mexico University Museum, Silver City, New Mexico, is housed in beautiful historic Fleming Hall, built in 1907. Pictured are the top two of four floors, and some of its wealth of Mimbres pottery. From the website: Western New Mexico University Museum is the home of the NAN Ranch Collection—the largest and most complete…

  • Sonja Peterson at Burnet Fine Art & Advisory

    Recently closed at Burnet Fine Art & Advisory in Wayzata, Minnesota was Sonja Peterson: I Want to Know No More. This exhibition features new works “continuing her exploration of the role humans have in migration and evolution using her signature paper cuts.” Peterson is a local artist, and I’ve been fortunate to see her paper…

  • Dale Chihuly at the Cafesjian Art Trust

    Newly opened in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area is the Cafesjian Art Trust. From the website: “the Cafesjian Art Trust was established by Gerard Cafesjian to share his collection of Contemporary and Modern art with the public.” Gerard Cafesjian was a vice president, and then member of the board, for legal publisher West Publishing in…

  • Native American Beadwork

    The Kensington Runestone Museum in Alexandria, Minnesota has some really lovely pieces of Native American beadwork and quillwork in their First Peoples exhibit. There weren’t details posted by the pieces, so just enjoy!

  • Ubuhle Women at the National Czech & Slovak Museum

    At the end of last summer, I took a road trip to the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library for the sole purpose of seeing this exhibit, “Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence.” From the Ubhule website: “What started as a humble project, using traditional skills to create independence and give rural…