Please join us on Thursday, July 7, 2022 for our Noon Time Talk at 12:15 PM.

This important Indiana sculptor creates up-cycled wood assemblages with poetic associations.

Masks are required for all gallery talks if you have not been vaccinated. Masks are strongly recommended if you have been vaccinated. Gallery Talks or Noon Time Talks each Thursday will be limited to 50 people on a first-come-first-serve basis. Doors will be locked at 12:15. No admittance to the museum by the public will be allowed until the talk has concluded and the galleries emptied and sterilized.

Please join us on Thursday, July 14 at 12:15 for our Noon Time Talk on the spotlight exhibit, ‘The Lithographs of Grant Wood.’

Director/Curator, Brian Byrn, talks about the famous Regionalist’s nineteen lithographs produced between 1937 and 1941.

Admission is $5. Each. Free for museum members and donors.

Please join us on Thursday, July 21 at 12:15 for our Noon Time Talk with Kay Westhues.

Westhues discusses the photographs in this series that are part of a long-term project on rural culture in the Midwest, particularly in her home state of Indiana. This work was inspired by her memories of growing up on a farm in Walkerton, Indiana, and observing first-hand the shifting cultural identity that has occurred over time and through changing economic development.

Admission is $5. Each. Free for museum members and donors.

Photo credit Gina Costa.

Please join us on Thursday, July 28 at 12:15 for our Noon Time Talk with John Bower.

John Bower, Bloomington, IN Bower states, “I believe my photographs are more than simple snapshots. They are memorials, tributes, and monuments to the lives of the people who moved on—the homeowners, equipment operators, builders, employers, employees, families—those who have left some of themselves in the remains of their now-cast-aside possessions.”

Admission is $5. Each. Free for museum members and donors.

The Midwest Museum of American Art will be open for free to the public during Art Walk from 5-8PM.

The Midwest Museum of American Art is located in the center of downtown Elkhart, Indiana in a beautifully renovated neo-classical style bank building. The Midwest Museum of American Art is a showcase of 19th through 21st Century American Art. In all, the permanent collection numbers over 6,000 works with approximately 900 on display at any time during the year. The Midwest Museum of American Art is a not-for-profit public organization, funded entirely through membership, donations, and grants.