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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

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The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum offers changing exhibitions of American folk art from its permanent holdings and museum loan shows. Colonial and contemporary artists and craftspeople work outside the mainstream of academic art to record aspects of everyday life, making novel and effective use of the materials at hand. Bold colors, simplified shapes, and imaginative surface patterns can be seen in the variety of paintings, carvings, toys, needlework they create.

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    Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

    325 West Francis Street
    Williamsburg, VA 23185

    Phone: (757) 229-1000   |  

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      09/24/11- 07/29/12	Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware Presented by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum September 24, 2011-July 29, 2012 A new traveling ceramics exhibition exploring the Old World traditions of the early Carolina backcountry opens Sept. 24 in Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. “Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware” is the first exhibit to celebrate the achievements of North Carolina's 18th- and 19th-century potters. Highly skilled craftsmen of European and British descent brought a variety of Old World traditions with them to America...
      09/09/11- 09/11/12	First Hit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum First Hit Presented by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum September 9, 2011-September 11, 2012 “First Hit,” the first 21st-century folk art painting acquisition by Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, will go on view today in the introductory gallery of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. “First Hit” is a 2002 oil painting by Virginia Beach artist Betty Herbert that depicts one of the most horrifying moments in recent memory — the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade...
      11/26/09- Ongoing	Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers Presented by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum November 26, 2009 - Ongoing This exhibition tells the fascinating and varied stories of the women and men who produced intricate, colorful bed coverings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
      06/29/08- Ongoing	Growing Up in the 19th Century Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Growing Up in the 19th Century Presented by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum June 29, 2008 - Ongoing What was it like growing up in the 1800s? Did children enjoy the same activities that they do today? Visitors will hear stories from the past as they explore the galleries and make a 19th-century toy.

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    09/24/11- 07/29/12	Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware Presented by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum September 24, 2011-July 29, 2012 A new traveling ceramics exhibition exploring the Old World traditions of the early Carolina backcountry opens Sept. 24 in Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum. “Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware” is the first exhibit to celebrate the achievements of North Carolina's 18th- and 19th-century potters. Highly skilled craftsmen of European and British descent brought a variety of Old World traditions with them to America...
    09/09/11- 09/11/12	First Hit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum First Hit Presented by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum September 9, 2011-September 11, 2012 “First Hit,” the first 21st-century folk art painting acquisition by Colonial Williamsburg’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, will go on view today in the introductory gallery of the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. “First Hit” is a 2002 oil painting by Virginia Beach artist Betty Herbert that depicts one of the most horrifying moments in recent memory — the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City’s World Trade...
    11/26/09- Ongoing	Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers Presented by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum November 26, 2009 - Ongoing This exhibition tells the fascinating and varied stories of the women and men who produced intricate, colorful bed coverings in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
    06/29/08- Ongoing	Growing Up in the 19th Century Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Growing Up in the 19th Century Presented by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum June 29, 2008 - Ongoing What was it like growing up in the 1800s? Did children enjoy the same activities that they do today? Visitors will hear stories from the past as they explore the galleries and make a 19th-century toy.

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    05/29/10	Material Witnesses: Quilts and Their Makers Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    05/07/10- 07/11/10	Fairy Tale Art:Illustrations from Children's Books Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    05/07/10- 05/28/10	20th-century Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/19/10	20th-century Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/15/10- 06/13/10	Introduction To Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/15/10- 03/29/10	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Tour Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/15/10	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Tour Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/15/10	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Tour Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/05/10- 04/25/10	Illuminations: Tidewater Artists Explore the New Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/05/10- 10/10/10	Trains and Transportation Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    02/13/10- 12/31/11	The Art of Steve Harley Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    07/18/09	Art Adventures and African American Folk Tales Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    07/17/09	Stitch Detectives: African American Quilts Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    06/20/09- 08/29/09	Art Adventures Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    06/17/09- 08/12/09	Wee Folk Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    02/01/09- 01/03/10	Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    12/20/08- 01/02/10	Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    12/20/08- 01/03/10	Sidewalks to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    12/20/08- 01/03/10	Sidewalk to Rooftops: Outdoor Folk Art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    09/10/08- 10/19/08	We See America Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    09/10/08- 01/04/09	In Memoriam: Mourning Art in Early America Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    06/14/08- 11/08/09	Seeing Stars in American Bedcovers Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
    03/15/08- 12/31/08	Scenes of Everyday Life: The Drawings of Lewis Miller Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

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