Current Exhibitions and News:

 

Upstairs Gallery

May 2015, Strawberry Festival Invitational Art Exhibition - public reception, Sunday, May 3, 2-4pm!

 

Five talented artists from the Paris/Henry County, Tennessee, area have accepted our invitation to exhibit representative samples of their works in a variety of media.

 

Don't miss this opportunity to view outstanding works by this year's featured Invitational artists: Becky Hedges, Dan Knowles, Michael McClure, Martin Paschall, and Ann Stapp.

Also on display in the Upstairs Gallery, during the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival and throughout the month of May, works by Red Grooms from the Center's primary permanent collection (generously donated by Gertrude and Dr. Benmamin Caldwell).

 

Also in the Upstairs Gallery

The Lois and Wallis Jones Boehm Porcelain Collection

 

Donated by one of WTRAC's founding board members, Lois Currie, this beautiful collection of Boehm porcelain birds in not to be missed. From the Boehm website:

"The finest American Porcelain Art Sculptures"

E. M. Boehm, now Boehm Porcelain, is the artisan studio founded by sculptor Edward and wife Helen Boehm in 1950. It is today recognized as one of the world’s foremost porcelain studios. Boehm fine porcelain sculptures and open collection and limited edition collectibles, as well as historically-commissioned pieces are created by highly skilled artisans in the same Trenton, New Jersey studio in which the company was founded.

Art from the Boehm studio has been presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and every U.S. President since Dwight Eisenhower. Boehm Porcelain is currently showcased globally in the homes of discerning collectors and celebrities as well as the world’s foremost museums and galleries including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hermitage, the Smithsonian, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Tokyo National Museum, the Israel Museum, the Singapore Art Museum and the Abdine Palace in Cairo. Boehm porcelain is the only American art form to have two dedicated rooms in the Vatican Museum in Rome.

Downstairs Gallery

The Ewers Collection

One of WTRAC's significant permanent collections of fine art was donated by Marge and Dr. Bill Ewers of Nashville. The Ewers Collections includes an impressive variety of American and European paintings, prints, and textiles.

Admission is free. Donations appreciated.

Call 731-784-1787 for additional information.