Past Exhibitions

January 12-April 11, 2021 Gabor Peterdi is a Hungarian-born, Master Printmaker who taught for 27 years at Yale University. Many of these never-before-seen etchings & drawings represent the artist’s feelings of escalating violence in Europe beginning in 1935 continuing through World War II to 1948. Joining these...

January 12-March 7, 2021 Dick Pletcher had a vision to create a community arts & crafts festival after purchasing a farm just west of downtown Nappanee. He and his wife Susie began a fifty-year festival at the site of what became Amish Acres. Every year a two-dimensional and three-dimensional Best of Show was...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new spotlight exhibit featuring the sculptures of Dora Natella. What does it mean to be a Master? First there are years of training to become more than proficient at the craft of making something be it music, writing, dance, or in this case visual art. From...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition “Politics & Religion”. The exhibit will open on Friday, August 7, and continue through Sunday, October 2, 2020. Artists have been speaking out about issues that touch many lives for centuries. In Modern times, artists have taken the role...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the 42nd Elkhart Juried Regional. This exhibition is a major survey of current trends by artists from 20 northern Indiana counties and four southern Michigan counties. This year 199 artists submitted 344 works in all media for the judges’ consideration. The...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition featuring the artwork of Karen Bondarchuk. The exhibit will open on Tuesday, June 16 and continue through Sunday, August 2, 2020. Karen Bondarchuk, a Canadian visual artist living and working in the United States, has exhibited widely in the...

The Midwest Museum of American Art has mounted an exciting exhibition of sculpture, paintings, & ceramics from the past 40 years of the Elkhart Juried Regional Exhibitions. Forty-three artworks are included in this commemorative exhibit that was created from 1979 to 2019. The exhibit will open on Tuesday, June...

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the opening of its annual observance of Youth Art Month on Sunday, March 8, 2020. This year marks the 41st year that an exhibit featuring student artwork has been shown at the Midwest Museum of American Art. Selected by...

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 ideas using a wide range of media and techniques from the museum’s permanent collection. This exhibit is on view through December 20, 2020.

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new Spotlight Exhibit, “Voices of Nature & the Equine Spirit” featuring the ceramic works of Jana Hanka. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, March 15, 2020. Jana Hanka earned her MFA from the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1980 and has lived...