Director Grant Holcomb has announced that the Memorial Art Gallery will receive a prestigious Museums for America award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

A nationally touring, mid-career retrospective of works by American artist Willie Cole opens January 21 at the Memorial Art Gallery. Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands features 31 assemblages, prints and mixed-media works created between 1988 and 2006.

World War I was the first war in which the US government used posters as a cheap and effective means of mass communication. Playing on cultural roles of gender and family and utilizing the power of symbols and personification, US wartime posters addressed such needs as recruitment, government bond and loan campaigns, labor, food conservation, and Red Cross fund drives.

Beginning January 17, visitors to the Memorial Art Gallery can see a major new addition to the permanent collection-a beautifully decorated suit of etched armor made in northern Germany in the 16th century.