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For more than 50 years, Sheldon Museum of Art has provided a venue for students, faculty and staff, alumni, and visitors to engage with art and one another. As an academic art museum, Sheldon schedules its exhibitions to coincide with the academic calendar.

The Road Less Traveled

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

The road trip holds a beloved place in the American memory, conjuring fond recollections of childhood journeys and long, endless highways. This exhibition complicates such an ideal with the realities of infrastructure and environment.
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Photography from the Collection

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

Newly acquired works by Robert Adams and Robert Polidori are presented alongside collection stalwarts by Richard Avedon, Mark Ruwedel, and Alec Soth. Many of the images are large, demonstrating the roles scale and composition have played in changing the trajectory of photography as fine art.
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Richard Diebenkorn: 41 Etchings Drypoints

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

In the 1960s, Richard Diebenkorn began experimenting with printmaking at Crown Point Press, eventually publishing a series of forty-one etchings and drypoints. Displayed in its entirety, the series offers a chance to observe the evolution of a master expanding his craft.
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Fleeting Moments of Joy

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

Images of people at play are presented alongside works in which artists have played with our expectations of form, medium, and subject matter.
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The Scene Changes: Sculpture from the Collection

February 1, 2022 through July 2, 2022

Sculptors have increasingly infused process and form with expressions of social dynamics and examination of the past. Here, works selected from the tenure of each of Sheldon’s five directors present a changing scene as well as an evolution in the medium’s potential for narrative.
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Figurative Painting from the Collection

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

The large-scale, figurative works in this exhibition focus attention on artists who use their subjects as both the reason to paint and the embodiment of historical or personal moments.
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Sheldon Treasures

January 25, 2022 through July 2, 2022

From January to July 2022, Sheldon Treasures focuses on smaller gems that are exhibited less often but are no less impressive. Intimate-scale works by Romare Bearden, Mary Cassatt, Marc Chagall, Marsden Hartley, Norman Lewis, and Georgia O’Keefe, among others, are featured.
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Point of Departure: Abstraction 1958–Present

August 13, 2021 through December 23, 2021

Point of Departure draws primarily from the museum’s extensive holdings of large, two-dimensional abstraction. Each of the works gives proof of the continued importance and resonance of artworks created devoid of recognizable subject matter.
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The Nature of Waste: Material Pathways, Discarded Worlds

August 13, 2021 through December 23, 2021

Surveying artworks that use as inspiration castoffs, leftovers, junk, detritus, scarcity, and ruins, this exhibition contributes to contemporary conversations on the Anthropocene, the geological age in which humans currently live.
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Sheldon Treasures

August 13, 2021 through December 23, 2021

The fall 2021 iteration of Sheldon Treasures showcases works from the museum’s collection that feature the figure.
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