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AU Museum at Home
To ensure our community's safety, we are temporarily closed. We are committed to bringing you #artwhereyouare with exhibition highlights and selections from our permanent collection on our digital platforms. Until we reopen, connect with our Museum@Home on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and subscribe to our mailing list. Please visit our homepage for updates, and AU's COVID-19 webpage for more information and resources.
Browse our Summer Exhibitions
Another Fine Mess
Shipsides & Beggs Projects, 2020
Yuri Schwebler: The Spiritual Plane
browse our Spring exhibitions
Gods & Monsters
Artworks by Viola Frey
Mortality: A Survey of Contemporary Death Art
Behind the Scenes: Preparators and their Art
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art
Theoretical Dilemma
MFA Studio Art Thesis Exhibition
Ideasthesia: 7 Sensory Perceptions
MFA Studio Art First Year Exhibition
Exhibition catalogs online
Browse a selection of e-book exhibition catalogs online.
Winter 2020
Communicating Vessels
Ed Bisese, Elyse Harrison, Wayne Paige
Learn more about Communicating Vessels.
Robert Franklin Gates: Paint What You See
Learn more about Robert Franklin Gates.
Landscape in an Eroded Field
Carol Barsha, Heather Theresa Clark, Artemis Herber
Learn more about Eroded Field.
Project Space Exhibitions
Volkmar Wentzel
Winter 2020
Learn more about Volkmar Wentzel.
Topographies of Life
Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
Early Fall 2019
Learn more about Topographies of Life.
Plans to Prosper You
Reflections of Black Resistance and Resilience in Montgomery County’s Potomac River Valley
Summer 2019
Learn more about Plans to Prosper You.
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Feeling nostalgic?
Images (top-bottom, left-right):
Yuri Schwebler, Mirror Magnetic North, 1972. Image courtesy Yuri Schwebler Archives, Salem, NY.
Jennifer Frank, Rodified, 2020. Installation: Birch dowels, twine, motion lighting, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. From Theoretical Dilemma.
Viola Frey, Untitled (Oval Head, Hat, Leaf Hands), 1979. Ceramic and glazes, 60 1/2 x 25 x 14 1/2 in. ALF no. VF-0448CSS. Artists’ Legacy Foundation, Oakland, CA. Art © Artists’ Legacy Foundation / Licensed by ARS, New York.
Bonner Sale, Troubled Magic: All We Know, 2019. Gouache on paper, 22 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist. From Behind the Scenes: Preparators and their Art.
Julie Wolfe, Cultural Values (detail), 2016. Ink and gouache on found book pages, 75 x 110 in. Suite of 50. Courtesy of Hemphill Fine Art. From Quest for a Third Paradise.
Online Events
Raw Hope of Humanity Rising
Interdisciplinary online public dialogues for 2020
Register and save your spot for:
Idealism vs Cynicism
July 22, 6:00-7:30PM ET
Real vs Fake
September 2, 6:00-7:30PM ET
Gallery Talk: Yuri Schwebler
July 16, 12:30-1:30PM ET
Register on Crowdcast
Weekly Updates
Enjoy special features from our Spring exhibitions and staff selections from the AU Museum Permanent Collection.
A spotlight on Brian Maguire and Museum Operations Assistant Sarah Leary's selection from the Corcoran Legacy Collection. Read More
Join Sara Dittrich of Behind the Scenes on a virtual studio visit, and read Assistant Registrar Jessica Pochesci's take on Milton Avery. Read More
Artist and Preparator Erick Antonio Benitez's Virtual Studio Visit and Marketing & Publications Specialist Elizabeth Cowgill's Staff Selection.
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Explore the first-year explorations of AU's MFA Studio Art cohort and Director & Curator Jack Rasmussen's staff selection.
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Preparator Kevin Runyon's abstract selection, and features from the MFA thesis exhibition Theoretical Dilemma.
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A spotlight on Behind the Scenes: Preparators and their Art and Associate Director Kristi-Anne Shaer's selection from the AU Museum Collection.
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Learn more about Gods & Monsters, and Registrar Carla Galfano's pick from the Corcoran Legacy Collection.
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Giving to the AU Museum
While we are doing everything possible to ensure we maintain the quality of exhibitions you have come to expect, we are facing many of the challenges other museums are experiencing at this time. Please consider making a contribution by becoming a member. No gift is too small, and your support matters now more than ever before.
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Family activities
Get creative with us at home!
A Surreal Weekend Portrait Activity
Inspired by Elyse Harrison of Communicating Vessels
