Category: Exhibitions
The Coe Center has a history of exhibiting Native art in conjunction with numerous institutions and collectors around the world. In addition, each year our Hands-On Student Curators exhibit their work under a common theme. These activities are supported by open access to the Coe Collection.
2015 Hands on…Culture Shock! exhibition
April 25, 2015 Held at the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts opened April 25, 2015 and closed in the summer of 2015. This exhibition curated by four students from The Academy for Technology and the Classics, is the culmination of an eleven-week program. The students...
2014 Woven Relations: Baskets from the Ralph T. Coe Center Collection
Woven Relations: Baskets from the Ralph T. Coe Center Collection exhibition, August 19 to December 19, 2014 and originally shown at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY as Plain & Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets in 2013, was broadened to include...
2013 Plain and Fancy: Native American Splint Baskets
August 10 – December 29, 2013Most Native American peoples weave baskets using various forms of grasses and shrubs, everything from sea grass, used by Eskimos and Aleuts, to willow, bracket fern and redbud used in California and the Great Basin. Fewer use...