MMAA News & Updates
MMAA Receives $500,000 Capacity-Building Grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc.
The Midwest Museum of American Art has received a $500,000 capacity building grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support five interconnected organizational priorities: staff and workforce development, technology infrastructure, board governance, fundraising capacity,...
Recent Gifts of Kohler Foundation, Inc.
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the recent gift of five (5) works by Barbara Rossi from the Kohler Foundation, Inc. Barbara Rossi (September 20, 1940 – August 24, 2023) was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a...
Recent Gifts of Glen C. Davies and Kohler Foundation, Inc.
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the recent gift of five (5) works by Glen C. Davies from Glen C. Davies and the Kohler Foundation. Glen Davies (1950) was born in Chicago, and attended the School of the Art Institute there during the late...
Recent Gifts of Jane Wenger and the Kohler Foundation, Inc.
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the recent gift of six (6) works by John Schacht from Jane Wenger and the Kohler Foundation, Inc. John Schacht (February 12, 1938 – August 10, 2009) was a self-trained, American artist based in the...
Recent Gifts of Phyllis Bramson and the Kohler Foundation, Inc.
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the recent gift of three (3) works by Phyllis Bramson from Phyllis Bramson and the Kohler Foundation, Inc. Phyllis Bramson (born 1941) is an American artist, based in Chicago and known for "richly...
New Acquisition – The Problem We All Live With
The Problem We All Live With, Collotype, Norman Rockwell The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of a rare collotype of the Norman Rockwell painting, The Problem We All Live With, which was published for the first time as a...
Youth Art – MMAA Senior Scholarship Recipient
Cameron Cripe from Fairfield High School received the MMAA Senior Scholarship this year. Cameron will be attending Ball State University in the fall and has been accepted into the Media Design & Development Program within the School of Communications and...
Youth Art Opening
The opening for the 46th Elkhart County Youth Art Exhibition was a success. On display are 202 works of art from 146 students representing 6 Elkhart County high schools. We hosted over 300 students, parents, teachers and sponsors on March 8th and gave away over $3,600...
Quiet expanses: Toledo painter Joanne Grossmann’s art heads to Indiana museum
MAGGIE GRETHER The Blade mgrether@theblade.com In Joanne Grossmann’s 1976 painting Fast Food, a man looks out the window of a fast food restaurant into a familiar Midwestern landscape. Cars sit in a concrete parking lot. Trucks rumble down an interstate. In the...
Elkhart’s Midwest Museum of American Art continues ‘American Portraits’ exhibit
ELKHART — The exhibit “American Portraits: Identity, Persona, & Power” continues through Sept. 30 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. Director/Curator Brian Byrn has assembled more than 100 examples of American portraiture from the museum’s...