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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

A print showing an abstract, overlapping curved figure in a dark crosshatched pattern on top of a dark yellow background. A burnt orange variation of the curved figure, curving in the opposite direction, is layered beneath the dark figure.

Amplitude: Terry Winters Prints Since 2000 from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

Friday, August 09, 2024, 12 p.m.—Sunday, December 15, 2024, 5 p.m.

Terry Winters, distinguished American artist known for his abstract paintings and works on paper, has been making prints for over forty years. This exhibition examines his printed work since 2000, a technically innovative period during which he introduced, in addition to his editioned prints, artist’s books and monoprints. Winters explores the tensions between our rational understandings of the world and its ineffable nature. He imbues his art with philosophical, scientific, and spiritual meanings that extend it beyond pure abstract form.

A caricature-style painted portrait showing a man in a dark shirt with exaggerated features and wild, dark hair.

Crossroads: The Paintings of John Mellencamp

Thursday, September 05, 2024, 12 p.m.—Sunday, December 15, 2024, 5 p.m.

This survey of John Mellencamp's artwork includes large-scale oil portraits and multi-media pieces that document the heart and soul of America with a rich sense of narrative. Mellencamp's carefully composed works demonstrate harmony, rhythm, and order with the smalltown earnest voice of the heartland where he grew up and continues to call home.

Focus Exhibitions

Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Kress Collection

Thursday, November 07, 2019, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 01, 2024, 5 p.m.

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

An ovoid vessel with a short neck and an outward curved rim. The clay vessel itself has patterned bands running horizontally around the body and there is an open interlaced plant fiber basket structure that surrounds the entire vessel surface. This basket structure ends at the rim with circular wrapped fiber around fiber core tightened into neck space.

Interwoven: Basketry and Visual Culture in Cameroon

Saturday, March 09, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores how basketry in the Grasslands region of Cameroon intersects with wider visual culture. It considers this topic through two main directions: one, the connections between the form of baskets and that of artworks made with other materials, and second, the widespread use of basketry in a variety of settings and cultural practices. Interwoven presents a selection of twentieth-century objects used in ceremonial and domestic settings, including dance rattles, baskets for honey, woven bags, palm wine pitchers, and storage baskets.

Eight figures with yellow skin are huddled together in a cluster. Two figures hold the arms of a centrally placed man. One figure wields a sword.

Jennings Tofel: Spiritual Modernist

Saturday, March 30, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 01, 2024, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition presents four paintings by Jewish American expressionist artist Jennings Tofel (1891–1959) from the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Tofel drew upon Jewish mystical and biblical themes to convey his personal spirituality and articulate his horror at the Holocaust.

A men's wrapper with dark and light blue square areas in a checkerboard-like design with six horizontal strips of red over top.

Interlacing in African Textiles

Saturday, April 06, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the concept of interlacing through a display of nineteenth and twentieth-century textiles from West and Central Africa. It discusses interlacing through African woven and dyed textiles worn as clothing, as well as the use of textiles in hats, masks, and currency. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with contemporary fiber artist Beatrice Atencah, who is an MFA candidate in the IU School of Art, Architecture, and Design.

Two heads carved from light stone are facing each other. The man, on the left, has curly hair and a beard. The woman wears a tightly crimped hairstyle and has a broken nose.

Portraits of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna: An Exploration of Roman Imperial Identity and Power

Saturday, August 03, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, March 30, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition examines the intersection of public-facing art and political propaganda during the reign of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus (193–211 CE). Severus, the Libyan-born founder of the Severan dynasty, and his Syrian-born wife, Julia Domna, used their portraits to center themselves as the rightful rulers of an increasingly complex and multicultural society.

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