Associated Artists of Butler County group is showing the 18th annual Nature and Wildlife Show through Sept. 26. Also showing is Elouise Woodward's "Expressions in Light" in the Member's Gallery and Ken Daugherty's "Mature Content, Viewer Discretion Is Advised" in the Mezzanine Gallery, both of which continue through Sept. 26 as well. The Art Center is open noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 9 p.m. Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Admission is free. Call 724-283-6922 or visit www.theartcenterbutlerpa.net.

Maridon Museum, 322 N. McKean St., features a display of 19 Japanese samurai dolls through 2008, plus its permanent exhibits of hundreds of pieces of ancient and contemporary Asian art as well as Meissen porcelain. Regular museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students, and free for children younger than age 8. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Tours are led by trained docents and are available with advance notice. The museum also has a gift shop specializing in gifts and decorative art objects relating to China and Japan. Call 724-282-0123.

An original commemorative painting called "Rest Assured" by Butler resident Willie Hobbs is on display in Butler County Commissioner Dale Pinkerton's office in the county government building, 124 W. Diamond St. It will remain there until about 2011. The painting depicts hands holding an eagle flying out of Pennsylvania with a slightly burned American flag in its talons. It commemorates the crash of United Flight 93 in Somerset County on Sept. 11, 2001. Visit the Web site, www.restassuredart.com.

<B>"In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists"</B> is showing through Jan. 10, 2009, at Fe Arts Gallery, 4102 Butler St. in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh. This salon-style exhibition celebrates Pittsburgh's 250th birthday by featuring the work of 250 Southwestern Pennsylvania artists from fourteen counties. Representing Butler County are Debbie Kuminkoski, Akiko Kotani and Rhoda Taylor. Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, glass, jewelry and fiber arts will be showcased, as well as work in less conventional mediums. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and some hours on holidays. Admission is free. Call 412-860-6028.<B>Frick Art and Historical Center</B>, 7227 Reynolds St. in the Point Breeze section of Pittsburgh, is presenting "A Panorama of Pittsburgh: Nineteenth-Century Printed Views" through Oct. 5. The exhibit provides an in-depth consideration of the history of printed views of Pittsburgh and printmaking in the city. The Frick Art Museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays; closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is free; docent-led tours are $5 each. Call 412-371-0600.<B>Carnegie Museum of Art</B>, 4400 Forbes Ave., presents "Abstract Art before 1950: Watercolors, Drawings, Prints, and Photographs" on view in the Scaife Works on Paper gallery through Oct. 18. The exhibition includes many of the avant-garde movements: cubism, futurism, dada, Russian suprematism, constructivism and early abstract expressionism. Continuing is "Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International," through Jan. 11, 2009. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays, plus for the summer, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays as well. Closed major holidays. Admission, which includes the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens, and $11 for students and children age 3 and older. Call 412-622-3131 or visit the Web site, www.cmoa.org.