2022

Spitting Image: Portraits From The Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Permanent Collection (ENAM Curated) I Ave Maria: The Many Visions of the Madonna (ENAM Curated) I Dramatic Moments: Frederic Remington’s Early Engravings, 1882-1892 (on loan from the Lee Silliman Engraving Collection) | Regional Show | Water Works (ENAM Curated in collaboration with the University of Texas Permian Basin’s Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery) I ECISD Student Show | Les Diners De Gala By Salvador Dali (on loan from the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University) |

2021

Audubon’s Quadrupeds: His Last Project (on loan from the Lee Silliman Engraving Collection) | Finding Alice: An Illustrated Look at Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (ENAM Curated) | Never Wonderland: Exploring the Intersections of Function, Art and Craft - Works by Daiken Asakawa and Chris Stanley (ENAM Curated) | Woman Artists: Four Centuries of Creativity (on loan from the Reading Public Museum) | ECISD Student Show | Lives Lived Well: Diane K. Browne | Regional Show |

2020

Dewing • Saint-Gaudens • Vedder (on loan from the Jean and Graham Devoe Williford Charitable Trust) | Way Out West: Alice Leese | Animal Magnetism: Kat Truth | Regional Show | Ned Bosnick’s Texas (ENAM exhibition) | BAM! It’s a Picture Book: The Art Behind Graphic Novels (on loan from The National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature) | Betrothed: 250 Years of Wedding Fashion (From the Steven Porterfield Collection; Guest Curated by Steven Porterfield)

2019

ECISD Student Show | Here We Stand: Charles Edward Williams | Regional Show | In His Image: Nick Bascus | Biomorphic: Diana Kersey | Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts (on loan from the Syracuse University Art Collection) | Reflection: 180 Years in Photography (Guest Curated by Steve Goff) | Sight and Feeling: Photographs by Ansel Adams (on loan from Kalamazoo Institute of Arts) | Sacred Scripts: 1,000 Years of Religious Texts (ENAM Curated)

2018

On With The Show, This Is It! Chuck Jones And The Animation Art Of Looney Tunes (on loan from the Daura Gallery) | Modern Frescoes: Ali Cavanaugh | Captured by Detail: Camille Engel | Momoyo Torimitsu: Somehow, I Don’t Feel Comfortable (on loan from the Bedford Gallery) | Regional Show | Celebrate Texas: Art & Fashion (ENAM Curated) | Cut Up/Cut Out (on loan from the Beford Gallery) | World Adventures (on loan from Oklahoma State University Museum of Art) | A Permanent Record: Heidi Pitre | The Golden Age Of Hollywood: Costumes From The Gene London Cinema Collection

2017

American Indian Cowboy: Works by Nocona Burges | Regional Show | Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Of Fame (ENAM Curated) | Herb Williams: Alpha By Artist | Ground Zero 360 (on loan from The Ireland Fund) | Works by Annita Delano (on loan from Kim and Dr. Joseph Damiani)

2016

Recent Acquisitions | Regional Show | Dust and Depression: Farm Security Administration Photography from the 1930’s (on loan from The Amarillo Museum of Art) | Piercing the Past: Quilts from the 1930s (on loan from Steven Porterfield) | Shibusa: India Flint | West Texas Triangle: Roger Colombik | Alex Rubio: Collections | Time Traveler: Works by Norman Kary | Huicholes: People Walking in the Search of Sunrise (on loan from the Consulate General of Mexico, Presidio, TX) | Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea (Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick) | Spirit Lines: Helen Hardin Etchings (on loan from Helen Hardin #1’s LLC-a Nevada Corporation)

2015

Art & Fashion of the 1920’s (ENAM Curated) | Mediterranea: American Art from the Graham D. Williford Collection | West Texas Triangle: Ben Woitena | Rob Vander Zee: Worlds of Present & Future | Changing Weather: Judy Youngblood | Charles Burchfield: Weather Event (on loan from Burchfield Penney Art Museum) | Art of the Print (ENAM Curated) | Billy Schenck: A 45 Year Retrospective

2014

ECISD Student Show | Regional Show | West Texas Triangle: Ken Little | Healing Blade: Fantasy Art in Medicine | In the Making: The Art of Tracy Krumm | Russian Icons: Imperial Treasures (on loan from the collection of Daniel Bibb) | Spirt of the Mask (on loan from the collection of Carla Hanson) | Keys of the Renaissance (on loan from the collection of Gary Ventolini)

2013

They Practice What They Teach: Works by Regional Art Faculty | Nature in Bloom: Floral Paintings from Local Collectors | Playing with Fire: Contemporary Glasswork by Kathleen Elliot | Inner Vision: Bronzes by Michael Naranjo (on loan from the collection of Tia) | ECISD Student Show | Regional Show | Of Birds and Texas: The Art of Scott and Stuart Gentling (on loan by the Museum of Printing History, Houston) | West Texas Triangle: Danville Chadbourne | Bryant Holsenbeck: Environmental Artist | Chicanitas: Small Paintings from the Cheech Marin Collection | Conquering Lands: The Art of Jose Cisneros (on loan from the Torch Collection) Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps (on loan from the Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection Museum of the Big Bend, Sul Ross State University) | Jake Erlich: Long Shadows (on loan from Andrew Erlich) | The Color of Oil: Paintings by Margarete Bagshaw

2012

Downstream: Paintings by Joyce Howell | The Mike and Linda Tilton Collection | A Visual Feast: Narrative Stitching by Cindy Hickok | People’s Choice: From the Vault of the Ellen Noel Art Museum Collection | ECISD Student Show | Regional Show | West Texas Triangle: Catherine Lee | Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art (on loan from the Museum of African Art in Long Island City, NY) | Flour Girls: Mixed Media Art by Letitia Huckaby | In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight (on loan from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum) | Art that Soars: The History of Magic of Kites | Wish You Were Here: The Artistry of Postcards from the Greene Collection | Art Glass 1880-1940: From the Becker Collection | Destination in Paintings: From the Kasten Collection

2011

The Art of Devotion: Latin American Religious Art from the Collection of the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts | William Schickel: Spirit Made Manifest | ECISD Show | West Texas Triangle: George Tobolowsky | Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor | Sculpture by Steve Teeters | Regional Show | Expressions of Character (ENAM Curated) | Beyond Paper Folding: The Art of Joan Son | The Wizards of Pop: Sabuda & Reinhart | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Show | From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings of Rene Alvarado | A Secret Passion: Vintage Costume Jewelry from the Linda Smetak Collection (Guest Curator Steven Porterfield)

2010

Plains of Mars: European War Prints (1500-1825) (on loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation) | Meaning of Sight: Benito Huerta | Regional Show | Permian Basin Collects | Ed Freeman: Desert Realty | ECISD Student Show | A Legacy of Art: Gifts to the Collections | West Texas Triangle: Sherry Owen | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Show | George Mendoza: Colors of the Wind | The Global Artistry of Leo and Diane Dillon: A Retrospective (on loan from the National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature) British Paintings 1550-1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | The Art of English Beadwork from the 19th Century (on loan from Sandra Bassett) (Guest Curator Steven Porterfield)

2009

2008

Things Dead and Motionless: Stills Lifes from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | R.S.V.P. Sculptures from the Permanent Collection | Animalerie: Jayne Hinds Bidaut | Regional Show | Mary Shaffer: Fluid Translucency | West Texas Tringle: Joe Barrington | New Acquisitions from the Ellen Noel Art Museum’s Permanent Collection | ECISD Student Show | The Art Guys: What’s the Big Idea? Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Boydell’s Shakespeare Prints (on loan from the Jundt Museum) | Janet Chaffee: Drawn and Cut | Davis Aylsworth: Fugue for Tinhorns Sounds like Frere Jacques | Teapots: Object to Subject | Girls and Their Dolls, Boys and Their Toys-Antique Children’s Toys and Clothing: 1840’s to 1960’s (Guest curator Steven Porterfield)

2007

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Paintings, Drawings and Prints | DaNisha: Celebrating the Circus | Muchas Voces, Un Espiritu (Many Voices, One Spirit (on loan from the collection of Joe A. Diaz) | ECISD student Show | CraftHouston 2006: Texas (on loan from the Houston Center from Contemporary Craft) | West Texas Triangle: Jesus Morales | Metal Arts 2007 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Collection of A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. St. Louis, Missouri | The Art of Fashion: What Women Wore, 1760 – 1960: From the Collection of Steven Porterfield (Guest curator Steven Porterfield)

2006

Robbie Barber: Rural Dialogues | Vaquero: genesis of the Texas Cowboy, Photographs by Bill Wittliff | Regional Show | A Portrait of the Artist, 1525-1825: Prints from the Collection of Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | ECISD Student Show | Teaching Art: Area Faculty Exhibition | Selections from the Collection | Metal Arts 2006 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Texas Singer- Songwriters: An Americana Portrait Photographs by Gary Goldberg | Blurring Boundaries: Musicians Who Create and Artist Who Play | Bead International (on loan from the Dairy Barn Arts Center) | Virgil Grotfeldt and Meredith Jack: Elegies and Ghosts | Christmas Creches

2005

Discovering the World of Peter Sis (on loan from the National Center from Children’s Illustrated Literature) | Katherine Ace: Coupling Dichotomies | Regional Show | Works from the Permanent Collections | Melissa Miller: Recent Works on Paper | ECISD Student Show | Pressing Matters: 500 Years of Wine Art from the Sterling Vineyards Print Portfolio | Kathy Vargas: Ephemeral Investigations | Works from the Permanent Collections | Metal Arts 2005 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Eye of the Beholder: Contemporary Art from Area Collections | Asian Games: The Art of Contest (on loan from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation) | Terra Firma: Contemporary Ceramics from the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Collection | What the Fire Said: Work by Dee Wolff | Through the Needle’s Eye: 18th Century Embroiderers Guild Exhibition

2004

Travis Erion: Symbols of the Soul | Mark Wade: Nature | Melinda K. Hall: In the Works | Works from the Ellen Noel Art Museum Permanent Collection | Tina Fuentes: Capas y Luz | Regional Show | ECISD Student Show | Loteria: An Exploration of Mexico Paintings by Teresa Villegas | Edge of Time: Photographs of Mexico by Mariana Yampolsky | Metal Arts 2004 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | A Noble Pastime: Hunting Scenes from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | Connie Kiener Retrospective: Umbrian Legacy | Kate Breakey: Small Deaths | Playing Around: Toys by Artists (on loan from the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft) | Holiday Display: Dollhouses by Jayne Sedate | Michael Roque Collins Retrospective: Tropological Landscapes

2003

Susan Cronin: Casting Humor | Anna Jaquez: Fleeting Moments | Regional Show | Todd Stone: Fluid Images | ECISD Student Show | A Defining Moment: The Hudson River School in Italy (on loan from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John F. McGuigan Jr.) | ECISD Student Show | Teaching Art: An Area College and University Faculty Exhibition | American Pains Artist (Annual juried exhibition) | Endangered Treasure: Our Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Metal Art 2003 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Picturing the Landscape: Works from the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | Andrew Dasburg: American Modernist | Sacabo & Rulfo: The Unreachable World of Susana San Juan | Needle Art: A Postmodern Sewing Circle | Indian Textiles: The Enduring Sari (ENAM Curated)

2002

Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective | Regional Show | ECISD Sr. Student Show | Venetian Paintings from the 16th and 17th Centuries from The Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation | Cindy Holt: Images from the Texas Governor’s Mansion | American Pains Artist (Annual juried exhibition) | Zelda: By Herself The art of Zelda Fitzgerald | Hugh Gibbons: Tacit Responses | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Portraits in Courage (ENAM Curated) | Howard Rubenstein: Nature’s Unearthly Facts | Tony Villejo: Allegory in Steel | Brian and Jerry Pinkney: Once Upon a Vision | Tony Scherman: Chasing Napoleon | Keith Carter: Ezekiel’s Horse

2001

2000

Jack Dowd: America on the Move | Regional Show | ECISD Student Show | Texas Stars Rising: David Keens, Kate Breakey, Antonio Arellanes and Brian Bosworth | Alla-Prima International: National Women Plein Air Painters | Works from the Southwestern Bell Telephone Collection | Metal Arts 2000 (National juried sculpture exhibition) | Survey of Paintings by Robert C. Ellis | Watercolor Horizons Group Juried Exhibition | Frances Bagley: Timeless Dance | Steve Goff and Kent Moss: Double Vision | Jean Cappadonna-Nichols: All About Eve | David Diaz: Going Home | Young at Art: Children Illustrations (on loan from the Wichita Falls Museum of Art)

For research requests or information about exhibitions prior to 2000, please contact Kristi Reese, Registrar at registrar@noelartmuseum.org.

Past Exhibitions