Past Exhibitions
Abner Hershberger: The Abstraction of Landscape
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to present a new exhibit featuring the artwork of Abner Hershberger. Hershberger, Professor of Art Emeritus at Goshen College, has been an active painter and printmaker for over six decades. The Legacy Collection, owned by MMAA, presents an overview of his work. The...
A Walk in the Woods: The Poetry of Landscape
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new exhibition “A Walk in the Woods: The Poetry of Landscape”. The exhibit will open on Friday, April 16, and continue through Sunday, June 6, 2021. This exhibit features selected works representing nature at its most...
Ralph Bower: Goshen Woodcarver
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce a new spotlight exhibit “Ralph Bower: Goshen Woodcarver”. The exhibit will open on Friday, April 16, and continue through Sunday, June 6, 2021. Admission: $10 per adult visitor, $6 ages 8-12, $8 ages 13-18, $8 college...
Youth Art 2021
The Midwest Museum of American Art is pleased to announce the opening of its annual observance of Youth Art Month on Friday, March 12, 2021. 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 five area high...
Adam Grant: A Holocaust Remembrance
January 12-April 11, 2021 A Holocaust Remembrance: Selected Works by Adam Grant, will unveil three recent gifts to MMAA by the Auschwitz & Mauthausen survivor Adam (Grochowski) Grant (1924-1992). Adam Grant continued to develop his skills as a Toledo-based fine artist receiving many high honors for his figurative...
Gabor Peterdi: The Early Works
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...
The Blue Ribbon Collection: Selected Works from the Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival
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...
Michiana Masters Series: Dora Natella, A Spotlight Exhibit
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...
Politics & Religion: Artists Speak Out!
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...
42nd Elkhart Juried Regional
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...