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Current Exhibitions

Family Album:

The Karl and Bertl Arnstein
Print Collection

February 23, 2008 - June 1, 2008

This exhibition features modern European prints assembled by Akron residents Dr. Karl Arnstein (1887-1974), famed designer of airships for the Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, and his wife Bertl Arnstein (1898-1999), a former member of the museum's Board of Trustees.More info...

A Shared Vision: The Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Photography Collection

February 23, 2008 - May 25, 2008
Arnstein, Bidwell and Isroff Galleries
Akron residents Laura Ruth and Fred Bidwell's collection of contemporary photography by emerging and mid-career artists was chosen as among the top 100 private collections of 2006 by Art and Antiques magazine. More info...

Creativity Transcends

April 19, 2008 - July 13, 2008
This exhibition features a selection of works by visual artists that have been features in the United Disability Service's nationally celebrated literary and art magazine, Kaleidoscope. More info...

Upcoming Exhibitions

Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance

May 31, 2008 - August 24, 2008
Bill Brandt, England’s greatest twentieth-century photographer, began as a photojournalist and became a poet of light and shadow. Decade by decade, Brandt (1904 – 1983) moved toward evermore radical dualities of black and white, not just in his new photographs but also in his printing of older images. More info...

California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews

June 21, 2008 - September 7, 2008
Arnstein Galleries
This exhibition represents the rediscovery of Arthur (1860-1945) and Lucia Mathews (1870-1955), leaders of the Arts and Crafts style in California and creators of luminous paintings, stylish furniture and dazzling decorative objects. More info...