Drawing on artworks from across cultures and in a range of mediums—including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures—the Dayton Art Institute’s exhibition considers how images drawn from the Bible invite us to see “the old, old story” anew.
The quilts presented in this traveling exhibition are graphically striking examples that embody a sense of “wall power.” The American Folk Art Museum has been at the forefront of the movement to bring recognition to quilts as a major art form with deep roots in American life and experience. See it all in person at the Dayton Art Institute.
The Meiji period encompassed great change, as traditional institutions gave way to political and social upheavals, along with the Westernization of aspects of Japanese culture. The photographs in this exhibition highlight such changes, from personal and private images to those made for a newly established tourist trade.
This exhibition features numerous photographic formats and processes: from early processes like wet-plate collodion, to lensless ones like chemigram, to experimental processes like solarization.
Drawing together a range of artworks from the DAI collection, this exhibition shines a spotlight on performers across the ages and how they, in turn, may shape the ways we act.
An exhibition at the Dayton Art Institute featuring the work of Eunshin Khang. Khang has participated in 13 solo exhibitions and 70 group exhibitions in both South Korea and across the United States. From 1989–1999, she taught at the Miami University School of Art.
Through “Exploring Feminism,” guests may become better acquainted with cycles of protest, self-expression and community-building for a movement that has continued to change and adapt to include more and different constituents within its umbrella of “feminists.”
This landmark exhibition brings together 34 paintings featured in the series, drawn from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). William H. Johnson painted the Fighters for Freedom series in the mid-1940s as tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers and performers as well as international leaders working to bring peace to the world. It was his last body of work.
Tony Foster is renowned for his extraordinary watercolor painting expeditions to remote natural wonders and wild places. The Dayton Art Institute presents an exhibition of small to large-scale watercolors painted en plein air over many years, sharing the artist’s perspective on wilderness and rewilded nature from around the world.
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