Past Exhibitions
The Industrial Landscape: Paintings by Tony Bianco
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the artwork of Tony Bianco. Bianco finds beauty in the industrial landscape of steel mills in Northwestern Indiana. A recipient of many Purchase Awards in the annual Elkhart Juried Regional exhibits, Bianco has been painting...
Inner Workings: Ceramics by Janet Kronewitter
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to introduce a new exhibit featuring the ceramics of Janet Kronewitter. The elements of science or organic forms come to mind in this special spotlight exhibit of hand-built ceramic sculptures by Janet Kronewitter. Some of these works are influenced by the 11 acres of...
Joanne Grossmann: The Narrative of Quiet Spaces
May 3 - July 14, 2024 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings from the estate of midwestern artist, Joanne Grossmann (1930-2017). Strong in visual storytelling, the works in this exhibition feature compelling scenes rich with emotion and nostalgia whilehinting at a quality...
Kevin Firme: Sculpture & Drawings
March 8 - April 28, 2024 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to introduce a new exhibit featuring the work of Kevin Firme. Based in Michigan City, Firme has participated in a vast number of exhibits including more than twenty Elkhart Juried Regionals. This exhibit brings together his plant form drawings and...
Youth Art Month 2024
March 10 - April 14, 2024 This exhibit will provide a glimpse at the art education programs of four area high schools. Fifteen Art Educators will select 10 works each by their outstanding art students. The exhibit continues the tradition of surveying the art created in grades 9 through 12. FREE admission will be...
Intimate Worlds: The Collage Works of Bonnie Rock
January 12-March 3, 2024 The Bonnie Rock Legacy Collection, now housed at MMAA, was formulated from the Estate of the late artist who made her home in Plymouth, Indiana. Director Brian Byrn and Estate Executer Ted Wagner came to an agreement with Rock’s family to save a body of 54 works dating from the mid 1980s...
Abstract Topographies: One If By Land-The Paintings of Richard Keen
January 12-March 3, 2024 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition of work featuring the paintings of Richard Keen. Richard Keen (b. 1971) is an artist based in Maine. He is a graduate of Memorial High School in 1990. He has become known throughout New England for his abstractions of...
45th Elkhart Juried Regional
October 7 through December 22, 2023 The Elkhart Juried Regional is a major survey of current trends by artists from 20 northern Indiana counties and four southern Michigan counties. Awards presented to artists total over $20,000 making the Elkhart Juried Regional the largest cash awards show in Michiana. The judge...
American Portraits: Identity, Persona, & Power
July 21 through September 30, 2023 Portraiture in America began as a record of wealthy landowners, their wives, and children. Sometimes the favorite steed, cow, or hunting dog precluded the images of family. As the 19th Century wore on towards a new millennium, again, the wealthy, this time, male industrialists, were...
Ansel Adams
Selected Photographs from the Portfolios A Spotlight Exhibit May 7 through July 16, 2023 Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is perhaps the most widely known and beloved photographer in the history of the United States; the popularity of his work has only increased since his death. Adams’s most important work was devoted to what...