Past Exhibitions Archives - Page 2 of 25 - Michener Art Museum

Behind These Walls: Community Perspectives on our History

Did you know that the Michener Art Museum was once the Bucks County Jail?

May 29, 2024 – November 24, 2024

George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition

George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition celebrates the arc of Anthonisen’s artistic career spanning 65 years as a figurative sculptor.

April 21, 2024 – October 14, 2024

CFEVA at 40: Four Decades of Supporting Contemporary Art

CFEVA at 40: Four Decades of Supporting Contemporary Art celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA) with an exhibition of work by 40 contemporary artists affiliated with the center who represent the Philadelphia region’s artistic excellence, its legacy, and its future. 

February 17, 2024 – May 26, 2024

Renewal and Change: New Acquisitions

Renewal and Change: New Acquisitions features works on paper that were recently gifted to, or purchased for, the Michener Art Museum’s permanent collection.

December 2, 2023 – April 28, 2024

Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel

Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel will revisit the work of a little known, locally beloved artist whose adaptation of batik, a Javanese technique of dyeing cloth, made her work a coveted modernist

October 21, 2023 – March 10, 2024

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories September 9, 2023 – January 14, 2024 Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories considers the power of art to construct and dismantle inaccurate Indigenous histories through

September 9, 2023 – January 14, 2024

Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR

Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR Pfundt Gallery May 13, 2023–November 5, 2023 Sarah Kaizar: RARE AIR is a family-friendly art exhibition by Philadelphia-based illustrator and designer Sarah Kaizar. The exhibit features

May 13, 2023 – November 5, 2023

Alan Goldstein: Elemental

Using the language of abstraction, Alan Goldstein (b. 1938) explores nature, the human figure, and mortality in his large-scale paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Goldstein works in concert with his media,

April 15, 2023 – September 24, 2023

Mid-Century to Manga: The Modern Japanese Print in America

March 4, 2023 – July 30, 2023 Mid-Century to Manga celebrates the historical and continued local interest in Japanese and Japanese American printmaking and illustration. The exhibition traces the story of

March 4, 2023 – July 30, 2023

Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes

Focused on the women who designed, manufactured, sold, and collected footwear, Walk This Way explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture—coveted as objects of desire, designed

September 24, 2022 – January 15, 2023

(re)Frame: Community Perspectives on the Michener Art Collection

What do you want to learn about art at the Michener? What is important to you? How does your life experience influence how you understand art? (re)Frame is a museum-wide

June 18, 2022 – March 12, 2023

Kyle Confehr: Process is the Product

Kyle Confehr is an ambidextrous artist and designer based in Philadelphia, PA. His work blurs the lines between art and graffiti by weaving nostalgia, humor, and personal experience into ornate

April 9, 2022 – October 9, 2022