The National Museum of Wildlife Art’s 50-piece exhibit “Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art” is on a national tour, and every detail of sending the art across the country needs to be as carefully considered as the selections themselves. “This show all started with a conversation with the Art Bridges Foundation,” Hanawalt said. “Not every show goes on the road, but this was a good show to get out contemporary pieces that we have collected.” “I started working on the show in 2018,” museum Curator Tammi Hanawalt said. “It started with development for our space, and I’ve been working with...

Currently on view at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts is an exhibition titled “Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea.” This collaborative exhibition takes a critical look at Western narratives and who those narratives have historically amplified — or silenced. Confronting what can sometimes feel like settled narratives is no easy task and certainly not one to be accomplished without community and collaboration. With that in mind, “Many Wests” was collaboratively curated by five museums that were organized by an initiative by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Art Bridges Foundation in Bentonville. Read the Article

48 photographs cover a wall in Utah Museum of Fine Arts (UMFA), making up the Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea exhibit.  Connecting past to present is one of Many Wests’ goals. The exhibition challenges the mythology of the American west by centering overlooked and marginalized perspectives. The project began as a collaboration between Art Bridges and the Terra Foundation for American Art. It resulted in a partnership between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a consortium of Western museums, including UMFA. Read the Article

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth has announced a partnership with three Texas museums, made possible by a grant from the Art Bridges Foundation. Paul R. Provost, Art Bridges Foundation CEO, stated, “Expanding access through collaboration and collection-sharing is at the heart of the Art Bridges Cohort Program, and we’re delighted to have the Amon Carter Museum of American Art leading a cohort with museums across Texas. Countless visitors will be introduced to the Carter’s collections through these exhibitions, and we’re confident the program will deepen engagement with their communities.” Read the Article

Past meets present in “Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1945-1975,” running through May 28 at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. With 52 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by 32 artists, the traveling exhibition is the first of its kind exploring the innovation and experimentation present in modern Native American art. The traveling exhibition is supported by the Art Bridges Foundation, the Hillman Exhibition Fund of The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and The Heinz Endowments. Read the Article

Three Texas museums will have a chance to collaborate with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art all in part to an over quarter of a million-dollar grant from the Art Bridges Foundation. This new collab will bring a series of special exhibitions drawn in part from the Carter’s collection to three Texas museums: Amarillo Museum of Art (Amarillo), Art Museum of South Texas (Corpus Christi), and Ellen Noël Art Museum (Odessa). Read the Article