Past Exhibitions

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present the spotlight exhibit, The Grand Illusion: Interpretations of 19th century Orientalism in American Art and Beyond. This exhibit continues through Sunday, July 25, 2021. Orientalism is a 19th-century term...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new spotlight exhibit, Michiana Master’s Series featuring the artwork of Dick Lehman. This Goshen-based ceramic artist, and potter, has received international recognition for his unique and experimental work,...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring the artwork of Abner Hershberger. Hershberger, Professor of Art Emeritus at Goshen College, has been an active painter and printmaker for over six decades. The Legacy Collection, owned by...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition “A Walk in the Woods: The Poetry of Landscape”. The exhibit will open on Friday, April 16, and continue through Sunday, June 6, 2021. This exhibit...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new spotlight exhibit “Ralph Bower: Goshen Woodcarver”. The exhibit will open on Friday, April 16, and continue through Sunday, June 6, 2021. Admission: $10 per adult...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the opening of its annual observance of Youth Art Month on Friday, March 12, 2021. This year marks the 42nd year that an exhibit featuring student artwork has been shown at the Midwest Museum of American Art....

January 12-April 11, 2021 A Holocaust Remembrance: Selected Works by Adam Grant, will unveil three recent gifts to MMAA by the Auschwitz & Mauthausen survivor Adam (Grochowski) Grant (1924-1992). Adam Grant continued to develop his skills as a Toledo-based fine...

January 12-April 11, 2021 Gabor Peterdi is a Hungarian-born, Master Printmaker who taught for 27 years at Yale University. Many of these never-before-seen etchings & drawings represent the artist’s feelings of escalating violence in Europe beginning in 1935...

January 12-March 7, 2021 Dick Pletcher had a vision to create a community arts & crafts festival after purchasing a farm just west of downtown Nappanee. He and his wife Susie began a fifty-year festival at the site of what became Amish Acres. Every year a...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new spotlight exhibit featuring the sculptures of Dora Natella. What does it mean to be a Master? First there are years of training to become more than proficient at the craft of making something be it music,...