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    • » 2023
      • » Seeing Is Enough
      • » 77th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
    • » 2022
      • » Wild & Tenacious
      • » Lake Valley by Rachel Rose
      • » Mirror Mirror
      • » 76th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Amalgamations
      • » Accessible Expressions Ohio – 2022
      • » Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe
      • » Springfield High School Youth Visual Art Exhibition
      • » Radical Imagination
      • » Dish
    • » 2021
      • » BLACK LIFE as subject MATTER II
      • » Accessible Expressions Ohio 2021 (Beach Gallery)
      • » UnNatural History: Photographs by Diane Fox (McGregor Gallery)
      • » Mark Bradford’s Red Painting
      • » Who Tells Your Story? (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » What Makes Me Feel Safe? (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » 75th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Public Domain
      • » Groundwork
      • » …Does the Dream Dream the Dreamer? Unseen Works of David Catrow (McGregor Gallery)
      • » Nurturing Reverence
      • » Enter the Cosmos: An Exploration of Art and Space
      • » Gary Birch: Paintings and Sculpture (Deer Gallery)
      • » Universe
      • » On a Snowy Evening
      • » Discarded/Sourced
      • » Unconventional: Self-Taught Artists of the Permanent Collection
    • » 2020
      • » Cowboys & Hatters (Halley & Klein Galleries)
      • » Color Improvisations 2 (McGregor & Deer Galleries)
      • » The Liyana Project (Beach Gallery)
      • » 74th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Vision 2020: Dayton/Kyoto Print Exchange 10th Exhibition (Beach Gallery)
      • » Kusama’s Pumpkin
      • » Paintings by Randolph H. Deer (Deer Gallery)
      • » Beneath the Smokestacks: Paintings by David Knapp (Halley & Klein Galleries)
      • » This Land Is Your Land (Virtual Exhibition)
    • » 2019
      • » Zac Benson: Among the Perishing (Beach Gallery)
      • » Ubi Sunt: Annie Lee and Brian Zimerle (Deer Gallery)
      • » Zac Benson: God Help Us All (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Shelter: Crafting a Safe Home
      • » A Window In: Works by Michael Weisel (Deer Gallery)
      • » 73rd Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Print Positives (Halley and Klein Galleries)
      • » A Flying Adventure: Works by Claudia Retter (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Packed II: Works by Nicki Crock (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Ohio Designer Craftsmen: Best of 2019 (McGregor Gallery)
      • » Lois Lenski: Storied Prints (Beach Gallery)
      • » Ten Years: A Reckoning – Paintings by Wendy Cross (Halley & Klein Galleries)
      • » Packed II: Works by Nicki Crock (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » The Art of Watercolor – 46th Western Ohio Watercolor Society Exhibition (Halley & Klein Galleries)
    • » 2018
      • » 72nd Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Christopher Burk: Illuminating the Everyday (Deer Gallery)
      • » The Boomer List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
      • » American Narratives: Selected AAA Prints from the Permanent Collection (Halley Gallery)
      • » Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection
      • » Members Egg Invitational (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » International Baccalauréat Visual Art Exhibition (Beach Gallery)
      • » Art Connect: High School Art Exhibit (Beach Gallery)
      • » Universe of Learning Artful Exoplanets: Creating Imaginary Worlds
      • » Curious by Nature: Works by Charley and Edie Harper (Halley & Klein Galleries)
      • » Ohio Plein Air Society – The Farm (Klein & Halley Galleries)
      • » Sharri Paula Phillips: Marvelous Journeys (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Spirits, Illusions & Discoveries: Scanographs by Doug McLarty (Chakeres Gallery)
    • » 2017
      • » 71st Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Story Retold: Prints by Annie Lee-Zimerle (Chakeres Interactive Art Lab)
      • » Industrial Nature: Works by Michelle Stitzlein
      • » State of Mind (Beach Gallery)
      • » Art Connect High School Exhibition (Beach Gallery)
      • » Springfield City School District Student Exhibition (Beach Gallery)
      • » Reid Middle School Youth Capture the Colorful Cosmos Online Exhibition
      • » Juneteenth Celebration of Gammon House (Community Room)
      • » Vanity Deficit (The Black Gallery)
      • » Waterworks: Western Ohio Watercolor Society 2017 Exhibition
      • » Stories by Hand: Marianne Rabb Britton (Beach Gallery)
      • » Blue Plate Specials: The Abilities Connection (Beach Gallery)
      • » Faces of the Heartland: James R. Hopkins
      • » Jennifer Rosengarten: Gardens & Ponds (Deer Gallery)
      • » Tom Hawley: Lignam Revîvere (Wood Revitalized) in the Beach Gallery
      • » Edna Boies Hopkins: Life in Print
      • » The Carton (Beach Gallery)
      • » Debbie Loffing: Assembled Misfits (Chakeres Interactive Gallery)
      • » Art 360°: Contemporary Art Hatching Across Ohio
    • » 2016
      • » Ohio Plein Air Society 2016 Exhibition: Parks en Plein Air
      • » Norman Rockwell: The Man Behind the Canvas
      • » Dayton/Kyoto Print Exchange – STORM (Deer Gallery)
      • » A Place for All People (in the Beach Gallery)
      • » 70th Annual Member’s Juried Exhibition
      • » Faces and Stories: Paintings by Jimi Jones
      • » Springfield High School AP/IB Exhibition (in the Conference Room)
      • » Artist as Teacher
    • » 2015
      • » Authentic Narratives: Ohio’s Regionalists, 1915-1950
      • » Ridgewood School presents The Sky’s the Limit in the Beech Gallery
      • » Full Circle: Paintings by Jason Morgan
      • » Andrew Hendrixson: Not Yet Fallen (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Lynda Pauley – Following the Trail (Halley Gallery)
      • » 69th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Alyson Annette Eshelman: To Spin a Yarn (Chakeres Gallery)
      • » Associated American Artists: Art by Subscription – from the Permanent Collection
      • » Ridgewood School presents The Sky’s the Limit in the Beech Gallery
      • » Art and Math: Works from the Permanent Collection (Halley Gallery)
    • » 2014
      • » Compelled: Folk Art & Vision
      • » Painting Ohio Prairies: A Year in the Life – 2014 Ohio Plein Air Society Exhibition
      • » Wittenberg Studio Art Seniors Winter Show (Halley Gallery)
      • » Recent Works: The Art of Larry Shineman
      • » Capturing Likenesses: Portraits by Eunice Bronkar (Halley Gallery)
      • » Jack Osbun Paintings
      • » Special Exhibition – Classic Images: Photographs by Ansel Adams
      • » The Ohio Perspective (Deer Gallery)
      • » 68th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition 2014
      • » Discovering Legends
      • » Portraiture Through Time – from the Permanent Collection (Bosca Gallery)
      • » 2014 Congressional Art Competition
    • » 2013
      • » Outside in Ohio: A Century of Unexpected Genius
      • » Stephen Sabo – Whittler, Tinkerer, Artist
      • » The Tradition of Amish Quilts
      • » FUNNIES: Paintings and Drawings by Alan Crockett
      • » Material World
      • » 67th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2013
      • » Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection
      • » Point of View: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection (Quinlan Gallery)
      • » Sue Cavanaugh: Gathering
      • » India’s Coffee Country: The Domestic and The Divine – photographs by Andrew LaMoreaux
      • » Best of 2013: Ohio Designer Craftsmen Annual Juried Exhibition
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Juried Members’ Exhibition 2013
    • » 2012
      • » Ohio Plein Air Society Biennial Juried Exhibition
      • » Jack Earl: Modern Master – A Retrospective
      • » Full Deck: A Short History of Skate Art
      • » Fine Lines: The Drawings of Tamie Beldue, Clara Crockett and Kathy A. Moore
      • » 66th Annual Members’ Exhibition 2012
    • » 2011
      • » Introduction to Wittenberg University’s East Asian Collection
      • » The Western Ohio Watercolor Society Juried Members’ Winter Show
      • » Preserved Portraits by Barbara Vogel
      • » Collective Minds: Selections from the Contemporary Ceramic Collection of Patrick Doust and Richard North
      • » “UnPolished” Sculptures by Carol Boram-Hays
      • » Rodney Veal: ReVeal – Five Zones of Beauty
      • » 65th Annual Members’ Exhibition: A Year to Celebrate 2011
      • » Robert C. May – Exploring the Energy of Light
    • » 2010
      • » Ohio Plein Air Society 2010
      • » Fragile Nature: The Photographs of Joel Sartore
      • » Form Figure Function: Contemporary Ohio Ceramics
      • » Home House Dayton/Kyoto International Print Exchange
      • » 64th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition
      • » Regional Dialect
      • » The Nature of Charley Harper
      • » Derek Bosier: Heroes and Villains (Chakeres Gallery)
    • » 2009
      • » Gretchen Cochran: Bounty or Burden
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Winter Exhibition 2009
      • » Along Water Street – New Work: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
      • » Julia McLemore: New Botanicals
      • » Jack Osbun: A 40-Year Retrospective – In Search of Significant Form
      • » 63rd Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition
      • » The Creative Spirit
      • » Juliellen Byrne: Figural Poetry
      • » Scott Dooley and Thomas Bartel: Sculptural Work in a Functional World
    • » 2008
      • » From Formal to Familiar: The Paintings of Rosemarie Beck
      • » David Battle: Art Up Front And What’s Behind It
      • » Art & Politics
      • » 62nd Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2008
      • » Thomas Macaulay 2008 and 1972
      • » The Ohio Art League 97th Spring Juried Exhibition
      • » Edna Boies Hopkins Woodblock Prints: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression
      • » Stewart Goldman: Then and Now
      • » Contemporary Ceramics from the Canton Museum of Art
    • » 2007
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Winter Exhibition 2007
      • » Ohio Plein Air Society 2007
      • » Legacy: A Tradition Lives On
      • » Beyond The Academy: Works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection
      • » Associated American Artists: Original Etchings and Lithographs from Our Permanent Collection
      • » 61st Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2007
      • » Extraordinary Places: 3rd Annual Clark County High School Art Exhibition
      • » Migiwa Orimo / Kate Kern / Anne Straus
      • » Shades Of Clay: A Multi-Cultural Look At Contemporary Clay
      • » Jim Dawson: Images, 1985-2005
    • » 2006
      • » Mark Chepp: Ten Paintings in Thirty Years… A Sort of Retrospective
      • » Installations by Xan Palay and John Benvenuto
      • » Aerospace Design: The Art of Engineering from NASA’s Aeronautical Research
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Autumn Exhibition 2006
      • » Tim Fisher: Recent Paintings and Scott Addis: Landscapes
      • » Allegories Of Strife: The Diptychs Of Alison Weld, 1990-2005
      • » 60th Annual Juried Members’ Exhibition 2006
      • » Two Media / Two Expressions: An Exhibition of Contemporary Clay and Glass
    • » 2005
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Winter Exhibition 2005
      • » Visionary Paintings: Ronald Newman
      • » Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak – A Fifty-Year Retrospective
      • » 59th Annual Members Juried Exhibition 2005
      • » Return To Route 66: Photographs by Shellee Graham
      • » Fiber Art: Winifred Fiedler and Anne Hubler
      • » Every Man a Rembrandt: The Paint-By-Number Craze
      • » Walking The Tightrope: Paintings By Ron Anderson
    • » 2004
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Winter Exhibition 2004
      • » Seeing The Unseen: Photographs by Harold E. Edgerton
      • » A Community of Artists: The Collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
      • » Recent Paintings: Cole Carothers and Glen Holland
      • » 58th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2004
      • » Expanding Boundaries: Art Quilt Network
      • » Woman: Collages By M.M. Dupay and Photographs by Heidi Lambert Kirkpatrick
      • » Brian Joiner: Drowning in the Sea Of Life – The Middle Passage
    • » 2003
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Winter Exhibition 2003
      • » Rod Bouc and Robert Robbins: Landscapes
      • » The State Of The Arts: A Celebration Of Ohio’s Rich Artistic Heritage
      • » In A Clear Light: The Triumph Of Ohio Watercolor Painters, 1870-1967
      • » 57th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition 2003
      • » Painting and Works on Paper: Donald Roberts
      • » Porthole: Deborah Brod
      • » Urban Landscapes: Michelangelo Lovelace Paintings
    • » 2002
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Juried Members’ Exhibition 2002
      • » Berenice Abbott – Portraits of Maine and Terence Byrnes – The Main Street Project 1966-2001
      • » Seven Years In Ohio – Stephen Fessler’s Visionist and Realist Paintings (1995-2002)
      • » Robert Knipschild Paintings
      • » Tim Rietenback: Gigantic
      • » 2002 Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition
    • » 2001
      • » Western Ohio Watercolor Society Juried Members’ Exhibition 2001
      • » William Hawkins: The Drawings in Context
      • » Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic
      • » Tomoko Parry: Drawings & George Hageman: Ceramics
      • » Nancy Fletcher Cassell: Naturemind
      • » Angelo Ippolito: A Lifetime of Paintings
      • » 55th Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition
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    • » Silent Art Auction for Collections Support
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