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Explore the shows currently on view in our three featured exhibition galleries! These shows include art from our permanent collection and from around the world.

Featured exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Featured Exhibitions

Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Thursday, July 14, 2022, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 11, 2022, 5 p.m.

Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of the Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation will feature more than 180 prints by contemporary women artists who employ a strategy of fragmentation in their artistic process. Derived from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation—one of the largest private print collections in the world—the exhibition is presented by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NWMA) in partnership with the American University Art Museum.

A diagram of an electric iron, with all the parts exploded out and numbered, is printed over a background of blue waves.

CURRENTS: Recent Acquisitions, 2019-2022

Thursday, September 29, 2022, 10 a.m.—Sunday, May 28, 2023, 5 p.m.

At the museum, history is kept in the present while the works of living artists are collected to look toward the future. Museums show how human history ebbs and flows like the tide, with current events washing over and echoing moments from the past. All the artists represented in Currents are people of color, women-identifying, or queer—identities that historically have been underrepresented in museum collections, including those of the Eskenazi Museum. Each of these newly acquired works supports the museum’s teaching and research mission.

Passage

Thursday, October 13, 2022, 10 a.m.—Sunday, April 23, 2023, 5 p.m.

In the Setswana language spoken by artist Mohau Modisakeng's family, life is thought of as a passage and is called botshelo, which means “to cross over.” Humans are called bafeti (voyagers), a word that acknowledges the transience of the human experience. To reflect on South Africa's complex histories of colonialism and 20th-century Apartheid, the South African Department of Arts and Culture commissioned Mohau Modisakeng to make Passage for the South African pavilion of the 57th Venice Biennial in 2017.

Focus Exhibitions

Looking at Form and Surface in African Ceramics

Thursday, November 07, 2019

5 p.m.

This Focus gallery exhibition explores the dynamics of African ceramics, with attention to different approaches to making ceramics and the roles of gender and women ceramicists in Africa. The exhibition includes a selection of ceramics from across sub-Saharan Africa donated or on loan from the collection of William M. Itter, Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at Indiana University.

Style and Status: The Art of Roman Fashion

Thursday, May 06, 2021

5 p.m.

This student-curated focus exhibition, developed during a spring 2021 ASURE course, explores the history of ancient Roman fashion.

Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Kress Collection

This focus gallery exhibition features works donated to the museum by one of our earliest benefactors, the collector Samuel H. Kress.

The Degenerate Art Exhibition: 85 Years Later

Sunday, September 18, 2022, 12 p.m.—Saturday, September 30, 2023, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition features four art objects that offer a variety of insights the Nazis’ condemnation of German modernist art, their persecution of Jewish artists, and their looting of Jewish art collections.

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