In the Usonian house, Wright designed a completely new kind of dwelling suited to the American lifestyle and affordable for the average citizen. Although he stressed simplification, modification, reduction and elimination in his Usonian homes, his designs also featured varied geometries, spatial complexities and experiential richness.

The first Usonian house was built more than seven decades ago, but its lessons of modest size, economy of materials and sensitivity to the natural surroundings are even more relevant today. Available beginning in the fall of 2010, the exhibition will include photographs and original drawings from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, as well as furniture and artifacts from private lenders.

For the first time in the presentation of Western expedition art, this exhibition compares and juxtaposes the different cultural and aesthetic perspectives of 19th-century artists in the exploration of the American West.   The West Was All Before Them includes images of landscapes, indigenous people, and frontier animals as seen by Lewis and Clark and other early military and independent expedition artists and compares them with the political, sublime and majestic images by later, major 19th-century artists and photographers such as Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, William Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. Consisting of approximately 100 works of art and original artifacts, this exhibition illustrates the artists' roles in introducing the American West to those unfamiliar with this region during the era of Westward Expansion.

This image of The Romance Makers is representative of the exhibition, as the loan of the artwork is under consideration.

Through 61 works of video projection, sculpture, installation, painting, printmaking and photography, Canada's top contemporary artists seek to demonstrate that passion, color, and movement are characteristics that both hockey and art share.