Past Exhibitions

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 of Fine Arts in Kaunas in 1935. He came to Chicago...

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 features 147 works of art by 121 artists. The...

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 photograph. The final artwork will be installed in the...

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 sense of transcendental color and surface illusionism...

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 expressing themselves with an unusual tenacity for...

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 featured in this exhibit were given event passes...

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 teaching awards, including the prestigious Lundquist...

Featured by Art by Rylee Olmstead (Senior, Concord HS).

This spotlight exhibit features thirty never-before-seen works from the museum's permanent collection. The artwork included in this exhibit ranges from representational to abstract including figurative observations taken from life. This spotlight exhibit is on view through September 29, 2019

The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a spotlight exhibit, Folk Memories: The Paintings of Emma Schrock, from Friday, April 12, through Sunday, June 2, 2019. Drawn from the MMAA holdings this exhibit features a dozen paintings that survey the Amish subject matter made famous by the ‘Grandma Moses...