Past Exhibitions Archives - Michener Art Museum

Creatures from the Collection

January 10, 2026 – May 3, 2026

Adult Student Invitational

December 5, 2025 – January 18, 2026

Daniel Garber’s “Tanis” Returns

November 19, 2025 – February 15, 2026

Peter Paone: Not So Still Life

Drawing from his vivid imagination, the Philadelphia artist and teacher Peter Paone created a series of still life paintings that are full of life, tension, contradictions, and reflections on the artist’s own history and society at large.

October 11, 2025 – March 15, 2026

Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven

The most comprehensive exhibition to date of this important Pakistani-American visual artist. Agha’s work prompts collective feelings of wonder and contemplation, disarming audiences with their splendor and allowing them to ponder deep questions regarding the history of women and the role of spirituality.

September 6, 2025 – January 11, 2026

The Short Line

The Short Line garden traces the approximate footprint of three original cells from the Bucks County Jail’s “short line,” a corridor that once extended from either side of the jail’s central guardhouse—now repurposed as a gallery for the museum’s modern and contemporary art collection. Where there were once bars and bricks, there is now soil, solidarity, and shared history.

May 30, 2025 – September 30, 2026

Lisa Naples: Grounded in Gold

Across art history, gold has long represented what is sacred and precious. Drawing from this symbolism, Lisa Naples’ most recent group of abstract and animal sculptures are literally and metaphorically grounded in this material. Whether moments of tenderness or estrangement, Naples’ works invite viewers to understand these experiences as ones still grounded in gold.

May 24, 2025 – December 7, 2025

Judith Schaechter: Super/Natural

The first public exhibition of glass artist Judith Schaechter’s newest, monumental work: an immersive stained-glass dome, titled Super/Natural, that explores the idea of biophilia, the human tendency to connect with nature.

April 12, 2025 – September 14, 2025

Yesterday’s Dreams Are Real: Collecting Black Art and The Legacy of Lewis Tanner Moore

This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Lewis Tanner Moore (1953-2024), who championed the work of Black artists throughout his life, challenging institutions like the Michener Art Museum to prioritize diversity in their collecting and exhibition practices.

February 15, 2025 – July 27, 2025

Mark Sfirri: The Flower Show

Turned wooden flowers, initially made for his son’s wedding, have preoccupied artist Mark Sfirri for more than two years.

December 14, 2024 – May 4, 2025

Charlotte Schatz: Industrial Strength

A sculptor and painter who lived and worked most of her professional life in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Charlotte Schatz (1929-2023) explored industrial forms through non-traditional materials and colorful, painted compositions that were considered unconventional for women artists at the time.

November 16, 2024 – March 9, 2025

Monuments and Myths

Monuments and Myths: The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) and Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) were the preeminent American sculptors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

June 29, 2024 – January 5, 2025