2011 Past Exhibits

November 15, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from the Booth Western Art Museum work with members of the Cartersville Boys & Girls Club and the Hands of Christ After School Program to create artwork in a variety of media. This annual exhibition gathered the best works of art created during the preceding year. The young artists ranged from elementary school to high school students.

September 24, 2011 – February 12, 2012
Special Exhibition Gallery

This was the third offering of the Booth’s signature triennial exhibition series, featuring seldom seen great works of art from public and private Southern collections. Included were more than 50 paintings and sculpture in a range of media and styles covering over 150 years of art history.

September 13, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Stan Natchez creates art that juxtaposes the icons of both ancient and modern American culture, often incorporating familiar items such as pow-wow beads, dollar bills and newspapers. Inspired by Pop artists Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns, his work explodes in vivid colors and provocative visual statements.

September 13 – November 13, 2011
Borderlands Gallery

This juried exhibition featured the work of photographers who are members of the Booth Photography Guild, a group that meets monthly for educational photographic programs.

May 17 – September 11, 2011
Borderlands Gallery

This juried exhibition showcased the talents of artists who are members of the Booth Artists Guild, a group that meets monthly for art education and fellowship.

April 12 – May 12, 2011
Borderlands Gallery

Included were up to four works of art from each city and county elementary and primary school.

April 2 – September 4, 2011
Special Exhibition Gallery

Presented to coincide with the 150th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War, this exhibition traced the history of our Nation’s greatest conflict through the art of one of its greatest historical artists. The exhibition featured more than 40 major paintings, plus preliminary sketches that Künstler uses to create his masterworks.

March 10 – August 21, 2011
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

Featuring 40 paintings and sculpture, this exhibition showcased the talents of an artist that views the West a little differently. He is best known for dramatically geometric views of Western vistas, often combined with powerful weather events. His work also includes landscape, floral, and figurative subjects that incorporate elements of abstraction and cubism.

January 11 – April 10, 2011
Borderlands Gallery

This exhibition showcased the work of Kevin Nickell, a former staff photographer for the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite National Park. Into the Fog captured the enchantment of nature blanketed by mystical fog in more than 30 impressive black and white images.

November 16, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from the Booth Western Art Museum work with members of the Cartersville Boys & Girls Club and the Hands of Christ After School Program to create artwork in a variety of media. This annual exhibition gathered the best works of art created during the preceding year. The young artists ranged from elementary school to high school students.