Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club
Museum’s Pfundt Gallery
August 21 – November 21, 2010
As the renowned Philadelphia Sketch Club celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, marking it as America’s oldest continuously operating club for professional artists, the James A. Michener Art Museum recognizes the organization’s most notable Bucks County members with an exhibit of works on paper. Bucks County and the Philadelphia Sketch Club is on view August 21 through November 21, 2010 in the Museum’s Pfundt Gallery.

New York City-based artist Gunnar Theel has donated his installation Skye Group (3) to the James A. Michener Art Museum in honor of the late Robin Larsen, founder and director of the New Hope Arts Center. On loan by the artist since 2007, the welded steel sculpture is on view outside of the Museum along Pine Street in Doylestown.

Ellis Island: Ghosts of Freedom
Michener Art Museum
June 26 – October 10, 2010
For twelve million people, Ellis Island was the doorway to a new life, with the hopes and dreams of several generations of immigrants beginning and sometimes ending there. Understandably, this American landmark in New York Harbor has deeply inspired many artists. Most notably, the legendary photographer Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented the human drama as it unfolded at the immigration center in the early 1900s, while the acclaimed contemporary photographer Stephen Wilkes captured the long-abandoned buildings of the island’s hospital complex nearly 100 years later.

The 18th USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale
October 1 – 3, 2010
Presented by the Women’s Board of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), the 18th USArtists American Fine Art Show & Sale, the largest exposition and sale of 18th- through 21st-Century American art in the nation, will be presented October 1 – 3, 2010 at PAFA. For the first time in its 18-year history, USArtists will be moving from its longtime venue at the 33rd Street Armory to its home at PAFA’s Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at 128 North Broad Street in Philadelphia.

Michelle Berkowitz: Contemporary Costumes
Michener Art Museum
April 17 – August 8, 2010
This spring, the James A. Michener Art Museum presents contemporary fashions by costume artist Michelle Annette Berkowitz. Celebrated in the society pages of the Greater Philadelphia newspapers for her evening gowns, Berkowitz’s design explorations also include millinery, beaded jewelry and sterling silver, and restoration work on vintage apparel.