Throughout his career Darby Bannard has made original contributions to the field of art. In 1970 he began to use the new acrylic medium, which evolved into his ground-breaking paintings of colorful expanses of richly colored gels applied with squeegees, rakes and brooms. In 1987 Clement Greenberg proclaimed him one of the best five or six living painters.

This student curated exhibition examines three broad topics in modern and contemporary Japanese art.

Painted devotional images of saints and other holy persons, called retablos, are used as objects of veneration and to seek favors. A splendid collection has been graciously donated to the Lowe Art Museum by prominent art collectors, Joseph and Janet Shein.

The Myrna and Sheldon Palley Pavilion for Contemporary Glass and Studio Arts features a stunning $3.5 million glass collection with masterpieces by Dale Chihuly, Richard Jolley, William Carlson and others, as well as 3-D art by some of the most talented artists in contemporary art.