Imaginations take flight through the work of international artists. Majestic yet fragile, amusing, and poignant, birds connect us with the natural world, heralding each dawn and signaling environmental shifts. The 45th-annual exhibition features avian wonders in original paintings, sculptures, and graphics created within the last three years. Painter Timothy David Mayhew is the 2020 Master Artist.
Since 1976, the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum has organized Birds in Art annually, seeking to present the best contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subject matter. Browse galleries to see fresh artistic takes on birds by some of the world’s most talented artists in an array of mediums, portraying unexpected perspectives, amusing poses, and majestic bearing. This 45th-annual Birds in Art exhibition presents paintings, graphics, and sculptures created by more than 100 artists who bring a global perspective to their passion for birds.