July 19, 2024, Press Release from the Allen County Museum: On August 17, 2024, the last temporary exhibition of the year will open at the Allen County Museum. The exhibition is The Art of Domesticity and will focus on the decorative arts from the 19th and 20th centuries as well as works by contemporary artists. The Allen County Museum staff organized the exhibition, which will include five contemporary women artists’ artworks. Historically, women have been pushed towards artistic expression in art forms considered acceptable for them—knitting, weaving, quilting, needlepoint, and porcelain painting—media that could be done at home. This exhibition will celebrate and investigate not only these works of art done in the past but also contemporary artists who have turned those media or subject matters into “fine art.”