November First Friday

This First Friday, stop into the Museum for Art in Wood to experience its current exhibitions, including the opening of A Usable Past: Reflections on a Nation and Its Inheritance, which brings together sculpture by 12 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.”

While visitors are at the Museum, explore its permanent collection featuring over 1,400 objects, the Library exhibition Cinders: Burned, Scorched, and Pyrographed Works in Wood, and shop the Museum Store for unique handmade objects, jewelry, artworks, and books.