Upcoming Exhibits

Bradford Washburn: Glories of the Greatland
On view April 17 through Sept. 19
The majestic exhibit of Bradford Washburn’s black-and-white Alaska landscape photographs is back by popular demand. Washburn was recognized as an expert on Alaska’s mountains and glaciers, a brilliant photographer and America’s leading field cartographer. He made more than 50 trips to Alaska in a remarkable career that spanned seven decades. Many of his earliest photographs were created as Washburn hung partly out of an airplane, tethered by straps and buffeted by the winds as he directed the pilot while aiming his camera.
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Kiska and Adak: War in the Aleutians
On view April 22 through Dec. 31
Early in World War II, Kiska Island was a hotly contested battlefield that figured prominently in Japanese and U.S. news. Today, the island is home to the physical remains of that era. U.S. bomb craters dot the tundra and Japanese gun barrels still point skyward, reminders of the air war’s ferocity. This digital art by Dirk H.R. Spennemann presents the Kiska battlefield filtered through an artist’s gaze. The photographs were taken during historic preservation fieldwork with the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Spennemann used digital darkroom techniques to create grittier images more evocative of the war. The exhibit also includes objects from the museum’s World War II and Cold War collections.
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Andy Warhol: Manufactured
On view Nov. 5, 2010 through Jan. 30, 2011

Andy Warhol’s artistic premise is that the ordinary can be considered art, and the ordinary is usually a manufactured object. From soup cans to portraits of movie stars, all are constructs of a commercial world. Warhol even manufactured his own persona. This 5,000-square-foot exhibit employs many of Warhol’s better known photographs, silkscreens and films to comment on manufactured objects and lives.

Curators Julie Decker and Dave Nicholls are collaborating with the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, and private collectors internationally to create this new exhibition.

Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age
On view March 4 through Oct. 9, 2011
This traveling exhibition created by Chicago’s Field Museum re-creates the lives of mammoths and mastodons, their interactions with one another and with ancient humans. The exhibition also explores how they died and became extinct. Displays include skeletons, skulls and tusks, large-scale projections, life-sized dioramas and virtual experiences. Also on display are rare and evocative objects, including some of the oldest art in existence.