Past Exhibitions
The Reading Room: A Spotlight Exhibit
April 22 - June 12, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present an informational installation celebrating more than 40 Years of MMAA History. This three-and-a-half-year project was undertaken by MMAA Librarian, Susie Lehman. Forty-plus years of articles and press photographs were copied and arranged...
Recycle, Repurpose, Re-imagine: The Poetry of the Found Object
April 15 through July 10, 2022 The ideas of process and transformation; using materials found in the real world; making poetic associations; and, interpretive and personal journeys of discovery will be some of the major themes. In total, the exhibit will include over 80 works in assemblage, collage, mixed media, and...
Youth Art Month 2022
March 13 through April 10, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present Youth Art Month 2022. This year marks the 42nd year that an exhibit featuring student artwork has been shown at the Midwest Museum of American Art. Selected by art educators from four area high schools 128 students were selected...
Tuck Langland: Beginnings
February 25-April 10, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring work from the Tuck Langland Study Collection. This spotlight exhibit re-contextualizes early works from the MMAA archives of Langland’s sculpture. It explores his rootsas a student at the University of...
Lea Goldman: Storyteller
February 25-April 10, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the paintings of Lea Goldman. Lea Goldman is a full-time painter and printmaker. Her work is narrative in nature with close attention to abstract elements. Goldman’s interest in multi-cultural traditions,...
Norman Rockwell: America’s Illustrator
Norman Rockwell is America’s greatest Storyteller. He regularly contributed his bank of images to the covers of the Saturday Evening Post and promoted the America that he wished would be rather than the America that was. Today his work is appreciated by the art world as a type of genre painting tinged with...
Prints & Drawings III
January 7-September 25, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present the exhibit Prints and Drawings III. The third 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...
Nature: Forms & Forces, The Photographs of Algimantas Kezys
January 14-March 6, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibition featuring the photography of Algimantas Kezys. This exhibit highlights selected gelatin silver prints by the Lithuanian photographer, Algimantas Kezys. Some of these works were last viewed in 2000 but some have never...
Recent Acquisitions: Selections from the Permanent Collection
January 7-February 20, 2021 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the exhibit Recent Acquisitions From the Permanent Collection. This exhibit looks back over the past ten years to highlight some of the museum's most important holdings acquired from 2011-2021. Encompassing a range of media and...
Mary Amador: Embracing Family
January 7-February 20, 2022 The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a Spotlight Exhibit featuring the artwork of Mary Amador. The exhibit consists of 12 mixed media works that relate to the artist's biographical experiences as told through portraits of her children and family. The artist states, “As...