Past Exhibitions

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sprite is a term that is used to encompass many types of “fairy-like” creatures that can be discovered through European folklore. Sprites also can go by more specific names such as, Fairy, Elf, Spriggan, Pyxie, Pillywiggen, Tomte,Nisse, and Goblin. In this “Sprite After Christmas” (exhibit within an exhibit) Artist,...

The Elkhart Juried Regional Exhibition is a major survey of current trends by artists from 20 northern Indiana counties and four southern Michigan counties. This year 200 artists submitted 345 works in all media for the judges’ consideration. The exhibition features 144 works of art by 115 artists. It was juried by...

June 24- July 31, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring 8 original signed lithographs by Grant Wood (1891-1942) from an anonymous private collection. In 1930, Grant Wood became the most well known artist in America when he debuted his iconic American Gothic at the Art...

August 26 - October 1, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring photographs from the collection of Dr. Rick and Cindy Burns. While the term vernacular refers often to the amateur status of the maker, in this exhibit it refers to the everyday and ordinary places, people and...

July 15 - August 21, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new spotlight exhibit of work by John Mishler. Goshen artist, John Mishler, joins the exclusive list of artists receiving recognition as a Michiana Master from MMAA. The sculptor is past recipient of two Best of Show awards in the...