MMAA News & Updates
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...
The 45th ‘Elkhart Juried Regional’ exhibit continues at Midwest Museum in Elkhart
ELKHART — The 45th “Elkhart Juried Regional” continues through Dec. 22 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. The Elkhart Juried Regional is a major survey of current trends by artists from 20 northern Indiana counties and four southern Michigan...
Butcher and Adams photography exhibits continue at Midwest Museum of American Art
Tribune Staff Report ELKHART — The exhibits “America the Beautiful: The Photographs of Clyde Butcher” and “Ansel Adams: Selected Photographs from the Portfolios” continue through July 16 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. A new traveling...
‘America the Beautiful’ exhibit coming to Elkhart museum
By Matt Gotsch Published: May. 8, 2023 at 12:04 AM EDT ELKHART, Ind. (WNDU) - Another art exhibit is getting its debut in Michiana, as the Midwest Museum of American Art (MMAA) in Elkhart displays Clyde Butcher’s “America the Beautiful”...
‘Douglass Witmer: Call and Response’ continues through March 5 at Midwest Museum
Tribune Staff Report Feb. 12, 2023 ELKHART — The exhibit “Douglas Witmer: Call and Response” continues through March 5 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. The exhibit is a multi-faceted project that highlights the abstract artist’s recent work while...
18 Midwest Towns Our Writers Say You Should Visit In 2023
LAURA RAY JAN.15.2023 The Midwest may not get as much love as the coasts, but it has plenty to discover. To find the best of the Midwest, we reached out to our expert travel writers. Here’s where they recommend visiting this year in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,...
Elkhart’s Midwest Museum holds Scott Hatt exhibit
Tribune Staff Report ELKHART — The exhibit “Enchanted Lands: The Collage Works of Scott Hatt” continues through March 5 at the Midwest Museum of American Art, 429 S. Main St. Hatt, who died in October 2021 at age 64, operated The Spurious Fugitive art gallery in...