ART READS WITH DAI
ART READS WITH DAI
Dig Deeper with Art Reads
Dayton Metro Library and Dayton Art Institute, opens a new window are excited to deepen our ongoing partnership! In order to celebrate Dayton Art Institute's special exhibitions, opens a new window, DML Librarians have created related booklists. We hope that these booklists will help patrons extend their DAI experience with further reading of recommended DML materials.
Checkout a DAI Pass
Check out a Family Pass to the Dayton Art Institute from your Dayton Metro Library.
Each membership admits up to 2 adults and up to 4 children to the DAI – including access to the collection galleries and all museum exhibitions. Memberships may be checked out for up to three weeks. They can be reserved in person or online, and they are not renewable.
DAI Special Exhibition
Jamie Wyeth: Unsettled
On Display at DAI March 15 to June 8, 2025
A distinguished figure in contemporary art, Jamie Wyeth is recognized for his fiercely independent, realistic approach to art. This exhibition follows Wyeth’s entire career and looks at a specifically darker thread within his oeuvre of troubling and unnerving imagery. Unsettled is divided into three distinct sections: “Strangers and Specters;” “Natural and Supernatural Worlds;” and “Haunted Places and Disturbing Spaces.” Drawn from museums and private collections from across the country, the DAI is the exclusive Ohio venue and the final stop for this major traveling exhibition. Organized by the Brandywine Museum of Art, opens a new window.
About the Artist, Jamie Wyeth
The realistic painter, Jamie Wyeth (born July 6. 1946), works primarily in oils, but also watercolor and tempera. The third in a generation of notable artists, Wyeth's father is the striking painter Andrew Wyeth, and his grandfather N. C. Wyeth is well known for his stunning light-filled illustrations. Some of Jamie Wyeth's most renowned paintings include "Portrait of Shorty" (1963), "Portrait of a Pig" (1970), and portraits of John F. Kennedy, Rudolf Nureyev, and Andy Warhol.
