December First Friday

This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood and experience its current exhibitions, A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance, which brings together sculpture by twelve artists who reckon with America’s layered histories. From family lineages and ancestral myths to rooted or shifting values, the ideas that drive these works probe how the nation’s past continues to shape these artists and their experience of the present. Drawing from the metaphorical power inherent in the material of wood, these artists translate inheritance into form, giving “shape and substance to national identity.”In addition to A Usable Past, opening in the Museum’s Library is the collection-themed exhibition, American Graffiti: Painting, Dyeing, and Surface Design in Wood, which follows the rebellious, experimental, and often quirky spirit of artists who dare to obscure the unadulterated beauty of wood grain.

While visitors are at the Museum, explore its permanent collection featuring over 1,400 objects and shop the Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.