2014 Past Exhibits

November 25, 2014 – May 3, 2015
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

Thom Ross has had a lifelong obsession with American History, particularly the folk heroes and martyrs whose epic stories reach legendary status. This exhibit featured 14 works based on historical events, expressed with bright colors and stylized forms. Ross believes that seeing these historical figures in this contemporary way gives new insight into both who they were and who we are.

November 18, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from 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.

October 23, 2014 – January 4, 2015
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

This exhibit featured approximately 70 works of art by members of American Women Artist and special guest Krystii Melaine. American Art Collector magazine recently proclaimed the members of this esteemed group as “women of distinction”, representing some of the very best painters and sculptors working today.

September 27, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Special Exhibition Gallery

This is the Booth’s signature triennial exhibition series, featuring seldom seen great works of Western art from public and private Southern collections. Included were more than 90 works of art in a range of media and styles covering over 150 years of art history. Artists represented ranged from early legends Alfred Jacob Miller and Albert Bierstadt, to modernists Robert Henri, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Robert Rauschenberg, to Georgia’s own Howard Finster, and master photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and Edward S. Curtis, to contemporary standouts Bill Anton and Krystii Melaine.

August 19 – November 16, 2014
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.

July 15 – November 2, 2014
Bergman Theatre Lobby Gallery

Part of Booth Museum’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, this exhibition presented the work of the three photographers best known for creating images at Civil War re-enactments and other living history events using the wet collodion process popular between 1851 and the 1880s.

May 15 – October 5, 2014
Temporary Exhibition Gallery

This exhibition examined the historic role of African Americans on our nation’s expanding frontier. In this body of work, Williams addressed complex social interactions that occurred between Black, European, Hispanic and Native Americans, particularly in the West. The icons and imagery used by the artist, rooted in the urban context of his native Chicago, reveal the layers of cultural heritage we share as Americans. Booth Museum was proud to partner with Africa Atlanta 2014, a city wide year-long celebration of cultural and economic bonds among African, European, and American cultures, on this exhibit.

May 3 – September 7, 2014
Special Exhibition Gallery

The Society of Animal Artists, an association of animal and wildlife artists founded in 1960, annually host a juried competition for its members. The selected works, typically comprised of about 45 flatworks and 15 sculptures, then travel to museums around the country. The Booth welcomed the 2014 show, featuring creatures from around the world by today’s best animal painters and sculptors.

April 8 – May 11, 2014
Borderlands Gallery

At Booth Western Art Museum we take pride in providing a venue for emerging and talented young artists. The artwork in this exhibit was the product of students from elementary schools in the local Bartow County and Cartersville City School Systems. Throughout the school year, art teachers in each of the elementary schools expose their students to a wide variety of art mediums. For this exhibit, each art teacher selected a number of pieces representative of the work of their school art programs.

November 12, 2013 – January 5, 2014
Borderlands Gallery

Throughout the year, staff members from 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.