EXPERIENCE
Past Exhibitions
Youth Art 2020
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...
Prints & Drawings II
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...
Spotlight Exhibit: Voices of Nature & the Equine Spirit: The Ceramic Works of Jana Hanka
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...
Viktoras Petravicius: Master of the Monoprint
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition featuring the work of Viktoras Petravicius. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, March 1, 2020. Viktoras Petravicius (1906-1989), was born in Lithuania and graduated from the School...
41st Elkhart Juried Regional
The 41st 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 227 artists submitted 389 works in all media for the judges’ consideration. The exhibition...
40 on 40 Project
Artists Kathy Zienty & Todd Hoover approached museum staff with an idea to create a large, 4 x 10-foot mural that interprets a photograph taken by Earl Vandygriff. The proposal was to engage 40 artists to each create a 12-inch by 12-inch image taken from the...
James Wille Faust: The Geometric Edge of Nature
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition featuring the work of Indiana artist James Wille Faust. Based in Indianapolis, James Wille Faust is an artist of national notoriety who came to prominence in the 1980s. His works display a...
Michiana Masters Series: Bill Kremer
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 an early age the individual has displayed a natural tendency toward...
Jazz Experience: Jazz Expressions
As a result of the 2018 Elkhart Jazz Festival, this spotlight exhibit featuring fifteen works or expressions from an experience with jazz was conceived. From this, the work of seven artists was chosen to be displayed at the Midwest Museum of American Art. The artists...
The Tuck Langland Collection: A Biography in Sculpture
This exhibition is a survey of the 60-year career of an important Michiana figurative sculptor. Langland is best known in Michiana for his former role as Professor of Sculpture at nearby Indiana University South Bend. During his time at IUSB, Langland won numerous...