Featured Exhibit

Bicentennial: Regionally Related Works from the Permanent Collection

February 1, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Weil Gallery

Bicentennial is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant artistic voices of our region. This curated collection features works by local artists alongside pieces that reflect our community's cultural, historical, and natural essence. From evocative landscapes to thought-provoking contemporary creations, the exhibit showcases the talent and diversity that make our region unique.

Join us in exploring the intersection of place, identity, and artistic expression, as we honor the creativity rooted in our local soil and the stories that resonate far beyond.

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Current Exhibits

"Bicentennial": Regionally Related Works from the Permanent Collection

January 1, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Weil Gallery
Bicentennial is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant artistic voices of our region. This curated collection features works by local artists alongside pieces that reflect our community's cultural, historical, and natural essence. From evocative landscapes to thought-provoking contemporary creations, the exhibit showcases the talent and diversity that make our region unique.
Join us in exploring the intersection of place, identity, and artistic expression, as we honor the creativity rooted in our local soil and the stories that resonate far beyond.

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Bonnie Stahlecker: "Living on the Outer Edge of Hope"

May 3, 2025 - September 14, 2025
McDonald Gallery
“For nearly a decade, I’ve used the boat as a metaphor - navigating turbulent times and moving toward an unknown future. Hope, to me, is not passive but an act of resistance. These works reflect shifting emotional states: from calm perseverance to near panic. Confluence symbolizes unity and optimism, while Spiraling speaks to disorientation and despair. Together, they chart a journey through struggle, resilience, and the enduring possibility of hope.”

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SAQA: "A Drop of Emerald Poison"

May 3, 2025 - September 14, 2025
East Gallery
“Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: "a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure."
In 1777, the color, Scheel’s Green, was discovered, and later in 1814, the much improved Paris Green was developed. Both pigments were created by chemists and produced a remarkable shade of emerald green by combining chemicals that produced arsenic poison. This vibrant green was extremely popular among the privileged because it symbolized royalty and wealth. Despite the deadly drawbacks, fashions, wallpaper, soaps, paints, and toys were produced in abundance. Factory workers who produced these commodities, as well as consumers, suffered severe side effects, including death. By the end of the 19th century, the deadly greens were replaced with less toxic pigments and dyes.
The art quilts produced for “A Drop of Emerald Poison” will have just a touch of today’s safe emerald green as a reminder of the tragic history of the color green.
This exhibit is a collaboration between 3 regional groups of SAQA - Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.

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Upcoming Exhibits

Craig Martin: "Flowers on the Battlefield"

Shook Gallery
May 24, 2025 - September 7, 2025
Craig Martin’s mixed media drawings, consisting primarily of pastel, acrylic, and conté pencil on a wood panel or paper, emphasize the natural floral environment of growth, fragility, and decay. The drawings are created through both direct observation and photo reference. Still, emphasis is always on a creative use of color to expand upon the “natural” view and to reflect an active drawing style. Expressive color, primarily through soft pastel pigments, can many times be un-fixed, suggestive, and intermittent, reflecting the ever-present fluctuations of wind, movement, and light.
In challenging times, the fragility of art objects may be the perfect reminders of what we are in our better selves – much as flowers growing on battlefields can be the perfect reminders of the futility of our tumultuous history in the grand scheme of things.
Charles Gick: "The Earth Moves Through Us"

East Gallery
October 4, 2025 - February 22, 2026
Charles A. Gick is an interdisciplinary artist who combines and moves between painting, video, performance, photography, sculpture, and installation art. His work continues to receive both national and international recognition. He was the first recipient of the Purdue University Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
Gick has also exhibited his work in several international group exhibitions in countries such as Korea, Kosovo, Cyprus, Bulgaria, and Russia, and was selected as the only US representative included in “Curated Special Selections from Videoholica,” which was exhibited in Belgrade, Serbia, Milan, Italy, and Copenhagen, Denmark. He has presented artist lectures and academic research nationally and internationally. Gick received his BFA Degree in Painting and Printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA Degree in Painting from Northwestern University. He is currently a Professor of Art at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.