Past

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.

Saitō Kiyoshi's (1907-1997) keen sense of design, superb technique and engagement with an appealing variety of themes made him one of the best known and most popular Japanese print artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition will focus on prints Saitō created in the 1950s and '60s, arguably the most vibrant period of his career, and includes several rare, early designs.

Stuart Davis’s 1938 mural Swing Landscape, a work familiar to many EMA visitors, is considered one of the most important American paintings of the twentieth century.

The focus exhibition illuminates how international exchange fostered the development of modernist art in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.

Drawing on the collections of both the Eskenazi Museum of Art and the Lilly Library, this exhibition is the first-ever to survey the university's impressive holdings by this important and perennially popular Old Master.

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

Through a selection from the Glenn Close Costume Collection, this exhibition will explore the art of developing a character with a focus on the creativity and skills of the designers and makers.

Advance reservations are strongly encouraged for this exhibition.

Leonardo Drew’s prints, at once powerfully large yet fragile, test the versatility of the medium, transforming cotton paper pulp and pigment into what suggests densely populated cities, a forest, or an urban wasteland. They sometimes look like maps of geographical landscapes viewed from above, while others are reminiscent of the night sky and distant galaxies. Evocative of fire, soil, sky, and water, there are strong perceptions in both microcosmic and macrocosmic scale.