Past Exhibitions

Intimate Worlds: The Collage Works of Bonnie Rock

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...

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Abstract Topographies: One If By Land-The Paintings of Richard Keen

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...

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45th Elkhart Juried Regional

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...

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American Portraits: Identity, Persona, & Power

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...

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Ansel Adams

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...

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Prints & Drawings IV

Prints & Drawings IV

Through September 16, 2023 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present the exhibit Prints and Drawings IV. The fourth installment of this spotlight exhibit features 35 works on paper, some of which, have never before been shown publicly, these works vary from abstract to representational and explore...

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Youth Art Month 2023

Youth Art Month 2023

March 12 - April 8, 2023 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...

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Enchanted Lands: The Collage Works of Scott Hatt

Enchanted Lands: The Collage Works of Scott Hatt

January 13 through March 5, 2023 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition on display through Sunday, March 5, 2023. The exhibit “Enchanted Lands: The Collage Works of Scott Hatt” features 56 collage works by the deceased South Bend artist. This exhibit highlights selected collage...

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Douglas Witmer: Call and Response

Douglas Witmer: Call and Response

January 13-March 5, 2023 The exhibition “Douglas Witmer – Call and Response” is a multi-faceted project that highlights the artist’s recent work, while demonstrating the integral relationship between an artist and a museum and the dialogues artists form with art that comes before them. For this exhibition, the Museum...

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