Past Exhibitions (2000 - 2011)

Permanent Collection Landscapes: Campus to Country 

August 24, 1999-January 7, 2000

Beyond the Horizon: Robert Sudlow and Keith Jacobshagen 

August 24, 1999-January 7, 2000

All Dressed Up: Dolls from the Collection of Ann Brunnier

August 24-December 31,1999

Building a Legacy: Collectors from the Permanent Collection 

August 24, 1999-March 5, 2000

Iowa College Salon XXII 

January 11-March 5, 2000

Christian Petersen Conservation Laboratory 

January 17-23, 2000

Frank Miller: Cartoonist in an Iowa Tradition 

March 21 – August 5, 2000

Campus Aesthetics in Black and White: George Christensen and Louise Haug 

March 21 – August 5, 2000

Historic Athletic Attire (FHM) 

April 2 – August 6, 2000

Christian Petersen, Sculptor 

August 22- December 31, 2000

The Stonewares of Charles Fergus Binns: Father of American Studio Ceramics

August 22-October 8, 2000

Studio Traditions in Transition: Iowa Ceramists 

August 22-October 8, 2000

Josiah Wedgwood: Artist and Scientist

August 22, 2000- August 11, 2001

Iowa State College Art Pottery

August 22, 2000-August 11, 2001

Permanent Collection: Master Works of Art

October 15, 2000-August 11, 2001

From Degas to Cassatt: Impressionist Art from the Fisher Governor Foundation Collection

January 9-March 11, 2001

Skyscapes and Landscapes: The Ever-Changing Loess Hills, Those Fragile Giants of Western Iowa

May 8-July 1, 2001

Families of the Farm House (FHM)

August 22-November 15, 2000

Victorian Holidays (FHM)

November 26-December 24, 2000

The Art of the Farm House Museum (FHM)

January 4-November 19, 2001

An American Sculptor: Seymour Lipton 

August 28-November 25, 2001

Abstraction in Iowa Collections

August 28-November 25, 2001

Christian Petersen and Lee Allen: After the Iowa Project

August 28-November 25, 2001

Continuity and Change in African Art from 1930-1980

August 28, 2001-February 10, 2002

The Public Works of Art Project in Iowa

August 28-November 25, 2001

Quilts: A Patchwork Heritage at the Farm House Museum (FHM)

September 1-December 21, 2001

Ultra-Realistic Sculpture, 2nd Edition by Marc Sijan 

December 1-February 10, 2002

Human Forms from the Permanent Collection 

December 1-February 10, 2002

20th Century Glass 

December 1, 2001-March 1, 2002

Iowa College Salon XXIII 

February 17-April 21, 2002

Earth Tones I: Natural Dyes in Art

March 7-August 10, 2002

Earth Tones II: Natural Dyes in History at the Farm House Museum

March 7-August 10, 2002

Traveling Bolivia Through the Wonders of Weaving

March 7-August 10, 2002

Seed of Indigo and Safflower: The Works of Ji-Hee Kim 

April 28-August 10, 2002

An Eye for Life: John Bloom Retrospective 

August 27, 2002-January 5, 2003

Christian Petersen

August 27, 2002 – March 30, 2002

eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopedics in Art

August 27, 2002-October 20, 2002

Art on Campus: From Model to Monument 

August 27, 2002 – March 30, 2002 

(art)n Virtual Visions: Three Decades of Collaboration 

October 24, 2002-January 5,2003

Images of Iowa: Photographs of a State's Natural Resources 

January 14 - March 30, 2003

The Prints of Jay N. “Ding” Darling 

January 14 - March 30, 2003

Hunting Images from the Permanent Collection 

January 14 - March 30, 2003

Carolina Cruz Nera-The Hindu Temple and World Trade Center in the C4

January 14-March 30, 2003

John Bloom Mural Conservation Exhibition 

January 14-August 9, 2003

The Age of Brilliance 

April 4-August 9, 2003

Lalique 

April 4-August 9, 2003

Beyond Brilliant: The Victorian Pressed Glass Revolution  (FHM)

April 6-August 9, 2003

From Russian Easels: Socialist Realist and Impressionist Paintings

August 26, 2003-January 4, 2004

The Jeweled Past: Russian Enamels from the Permanent Collection & M. Burton Drexler 

August 26, 2003-Janauary 4, 2004

Contemplate Japan: Prints and Ceramics from the Permanent Collection 

August 26, 2003-January 4, 2004

Interpreting History: The Farm House Museum

January 2-May 15, 2005

Grant Wood's Main Street 

January 13-August 7, 2004

John Bloom’s Post Office Mural Cartoons 

January 13-December 30, 2004

Christian Petersen’s Midwest 

January 13-August 7, 2004

N.C. Wyeth’s America in the Making 

January 13-December 30, 2004

The American Scene: Depression Era Prints From the Permanent Collection 

January 13-August 7, 2004

Farm Life in Iowa: Photographs of A.M. “Pete” Wettach

August 31 - December 30, 2004

From the Permanent Arts Collection 

August 31-December 30, 2004

The American Scene: Rural Images from a Turbulent Era

August 31-December 30, 2004

John Bloom’s Post Office Mural Cartoons

August 31-December 30, 2004

N.C. Wyeth’s America in the Making

August 31-December 30, 2004

From Fire

August 31-December 30, 2004

Forward. Thinking.

August 31-December 30, 2004

Birds, Bugs, Blossoms and Beasts

August 31-December 30, 2004

Regionalist Sculptor, Christian Petersen

January 18-May 15, 2005

Collaboration and the Creative Process: Sculpture and Artists Books by Manuel Neri and Mary Julia Klimenko

January 18-May 15, 2005

From the Permanent Collections 

January 11-May 15, 2005

John Bloom’s Post Office Mural Cartoons

January 11-May 15, 2005

Birds, Bugs, Blossoms and Beasts

January 11-May 15, 2005

Printmakers from Paradise  & Imagining Japan 

January 11-May 15, 2005

From the Permanent Collections 

May 21, 2005-August 5, 2005

Real and Imagined aspects of THE STATE CAPITOL in Des Moines, Iowa

May 21, 2005-August 5, 2005

The Lithographs of Louis Lozowick: An American Precisionist Master

May 21, 2005-August 5, 2005

Ulfert Wilke: Two Portfolios; Words to Be seen~Without Words

May 21, 2005-August 5, 2005

John Bloom’s Post Office Mural Cartoons

May 21, 2005-August 5, 2005

Iowa Quester Glass Collection

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

Brilliant Cut Glass from the Permanent Collection

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

The Seduction of Silver

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

N.C. Wyeth’s American in the Making: What’s Your Point of View

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

Christian Petersen: Regionalist Sculptor

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

The Prints of Jay N. “Ding” Darling

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

Imaging Japan

August 23, 2005 – December 19, 2005

Religious Symbolism and Iconography 

January 10-August 6.2006 

Contemporary Studio Sculpture: From the Permanent Collection 

January 10-August 2006

American Historical Glass from the Quester Glass Collection 

January 10-August 6, 2006

Obsessed: Images of Weather 

August 22, 2006 -January 3, 2007

Artists of the Depression: John Bloom and Christian Petersen 

August 22, 2006 -January 3, 2007

When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: Grant Wood and Christian Petersen Murals 

Sept.12-November 27, 2006

N.C. Wyeth: America in the Making

Sept.12-November 27, 2006

Rodin: In His Own Words, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

Jan.9-April 29, 2007

What’s Your Legacy? Iowa State Portraits (BAM) 

August 20, 2007-March 9, 2008

The Early Years: The Founding Farm and College (FHM) 

March 22, 2007-August 10, 2009

Opening of the Christian Petersen Art Museum at Morrill Hall (CPAM)

March 22, 2007

The Art Students League of New York(CPAM) 

March 22-May 9, 2007

Highlights from the Permanent Collection

March 22-May 9, 2007

Christian Petersen: Urban Artist, 1900-1933 (CPAM) 

March 22-August 8, 2007

Christian Petersen: Campus Sculptor, 1934-1961(CPAM) 

May 16-August 3, 2007

Albert Paley: Portals and Gates (BAM, CPAM & Hometown Perry, Iowa) 

August 20, 2007-March 9, 2008

Morrill Act of July 2, 1862:Land Grant Act and the People’s College(CPAM) 

March 22-April 27, 2008

The Evolution of American Pressed Glass, 1825-1925 (BAM) 

April 5-August 10, 2008

Beyond the Decades: Selections from the Permanent Collection (BAM) 

April 5-August 10, 2008

Priscilla Sage: Fifty Years of Sculpting, 1958-2008 (BAM) 

August 26, 2008-January 5, 2009 

Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photographs and the Environmental Debate(BAM) 

November 1, 2008-March 1, 2009

Gustavo Ramos Rivera : The Colors of invention (CPAM) 

August 25-December 12, 2008

Christian Petersen: Campus Sculptor

Summer 2008

The Founding Artist of the Art on Campus Collection (CPAM) 

August 25, 2008-February 12, 2009 

Dedication of Elizabeth and Byron Anderson Sculpture Garden (ASG)

October 2 and 3, 2008 

The AIDS Memorial Quilt (CPAM)

 December 2-3, 2008

BodyScapes & CounterPoints: Prints of Beej Nierengarten-Smith (CPAM) 

January 12-May 12, 2009

Exquisite Balance: Sculptures by Bill Barrett (ASG) 

August 26, 2008-August 6, 2010

Contemplate Japan: Selections from the Permanent Collection (BAM) 

January 12-August 9, 2009

Priscilla Sage: Promised Gifts to the Permanent Collection (BAM) 

January 12-May 10, 2009

Inspirations from Japan (BAM) 

January 12-May 10, 2009

Hot and Cool: Contemporary Glass Sculpture from the Permanent Collection (CPAM) 

May 18-December 11, 2009

Selections from the Permanent Collection (BAM) 

August 24-December 31, 2009 

ReLationShips: From Our Roots (BAM) 

August 24-December 31, 2009

Merry Christmas to All: A Thomas Nast Christmas (FHM) 

December 1-December 18, 2009 

ReLationShips: Embodiment (BAM) 

January 12-May 8, 2010

N.C. Wyeth: America In the Making (BAM) 

Continuing through August 6, 2011

The American Scene: Rural Images from a Turbulent Era (BAM) 

January 12-August 6, 2011

Witness to Waste: The Prints of Jay N. Darling (BAM) 

January 12-August 6, 2010

Printmakers in Paradise: Selections from the Permanent Collection (BAM) 

January 12-August 6, 2010

All the Evils: Christian Petersen and the Art of War (CPAM) 

August 24-February 26, 2010

Polyphonic Abstraction: Paintings and Maquettes by Bill Barrett (CPAM) 

January 11-August 6, 2010 

Flood, BAM & Scheman closed

August 11, 2010 until Nov 2, 2010

Thursday Night Sessions: Figure Drawings by Frank Lobdell (CPAM) 

August 23-December 18, 2010

Christmas 1870s (FHM)

November 16 – December 20, 2010

Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King (ASG) 

August 24, 2010-July, 2012

Beth Van Hoesen: The Art of Observation (BAM) 

August 22, 2010-May 7, 2011

Mark Adams: Translation of Light (BAM)

August 22, 2010-May 7, 2011

Relationships Drawn, Analog to Digital (BAM)

January 11-May 7, 2011

Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century (CPAM) 

January 10- August 5, 2011

Interpretations of Interpretations: Photographs by King Au and Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King (CPAM) 

October 8, 2010-May 7, 2011

Quilts and Coverlets from the Farm House Museum Collection (BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011

Fragile Thread of Glass (BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011

Priscilla Sage: Contemporary Sculpture (BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011

Play With Me: Dolls from the Ann Brunnier Collection (BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011

Ulfert Wilke: Words To Be Seen (BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011

The Perfectly Set Table (BAM)

January 11-August 7, 2011

Brilliant Cut Glass ( Spinney Gallery, BAM) 

May 17-August 7, 2011