Past Exhibitions

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

March 10 through April 30, 2023 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new spotlight exhibit featuring the ceramic sculpture of Tom Meuninck. The Michiana Masters program seeks to acknowledge those individuals who have accomplished high honors in their field. Using the Elkhart Juried Regional as a...