Chazen Museum of Art
750 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608.263.2246
Website: www.chazen.wisc.edu
About the Chazen Museum of Art
“The Chazen Museum of Art opened in 1970 as the Elvehjem Art Center to further the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s mission of education, research, and public service. In 1978 it became the Elvehjem Museum of Art, and in 2005, in honor of a lead gift toward expansion, was renamed the Chazen Museum of Art. The expansion opened in October, 2011, doubling the size of the museum. The new building is joined to the Conrad A. Elvehjem building by a dramatic and functional bridge gallery. The Elvehjem Building is dedicated to the memory of the president of the UW–Madison from 1958 to 1962. The Chazen is a division of the Office of the Provost at the UW–Madison.
The Chazen is home to the second-largest collection of art in Wisconsin: more than 20,000 works include paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and decorative arts. The permanent collection covers diverse historical periods, cultures, and geographic locations, from ancient Greece, Western Europe, and the Soviet Empire, to Moghul India, eighteenth-century Japan, and modern Africa. The collection continues to grow thanks to artwork donations and purchases.
The museum also presents frequent temporary exhibitions that highlight the collection or are borrowed from other museums, broadening the offerings to visitors. These temporary exhibitions may be local, national, or international, contemporary or historical in scope.”
-Quoted from the official Chazen Museum of Art website
21c Museum Hotel Nashville
221 2nd Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37201
Phone: 615.610.6400
About 21c Museum Hotel Nashville
“We believe in the power of contemporary art.
Art can anchor and energize a community, be used as an agent for positive change, bea part of everyday life. Art can provide insights and start conversations. It can enrich the travel experience, and coexist harmoniously with commerce.For more than 10 years now, the 21c Museum Hotel experience has seamlessly blended art and hospitality. Our multi-venue contemporary art museum, unique boutique hotels and chef-driven restaurants together create a new kind of travel and cultural experience, globally connected yet rooted in the local community.”
-Quoted from the official 21c Museum Hotel Nashville website
The Racine Art Museum
441 Main Street, Racine, WI 53403
Phone: 262.638.8300
Website: https://www.ramart.org/
About the Racine Art Museum
“The Racine Art Museum holds the largest and most significant contemporary craft collection in North America, with more than 9,500 objects from nationally and internationally recognized artists. The mission of the Racine Art Museum is to exhibit, collect, preserve, and educate in the contemporary visual arts. It is the museum’s goal to elevate the stature of craft to fine arts by presenting ceramics, fibers, glass, metals, polymer, and wood alongside paintings and sculptures.The museum plays a vital role in arts education through RAM’s Wustum Museum,where it offers community outreach programs, studio art classes and workshops taught by regionally and nationally known artists working in craft media.”
-Quoted from the official Racine Art Museum website
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
Renwick Gallery
Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202.633.7970
Website: https://americanart.si.edu/
About the Smithsonian American Art Museum
“The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation’s first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character, and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. The museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America’s rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.The museum has been a leader in identifying and collecting significant aspects of American visual culture, including photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. The museum has the largest collection of New Deal art and exceptional collections of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings and masterpieces from the Gilded Age. In recent years, the museum has focused on strengthening its contemporary art collection, and in particular media arts, through acquisitions, awards, curatorial appointments, endowments, and by commissioning new artworks.”
The Museum’s Mission
“The Smithsonian American Art Museum is dedicated to collecting, under
standing, and enjoying American art. The Museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of artists whose works reflect the American experience and global connections.”
-Quoted from the official Smithsonian American Art Museum’s website
The Houston Museum of Fine Arts
1001 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005
Phone: 713.639.7300
Website: https://www.mfah.org/
About the Houston Museum of Fine Arts
“Located in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the MFAH is a dynamic cultural complex comprising two gallery buildings, a sculpture garden, visitors center, library, movie theater, gift shop, café, two art schools, and two house museums.”
-Quoted from the official Houston Museum of Fine Arts website