Exhibitions & Events
Throughout the year the Brauer Museum of Art opens its galleries to the public to view various collections and special displays. In addition, the Museum hosts corresponding special events.
All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.
Opening Reception: Friday, September 6, 7pm, BMA
Student Coffee Hour with Betty LaDuke: TBA
Gallery Talk with Artist Su Kwak: Wednesday, September 25, 7pm
Music Performance) Landscapes: Music Inspired by the Paintings of Frederic Edwin Church, composed by Daniel Baldwin and performed by faculty chamber musicians: Thursday, October 3, 7pm, BMA
Gallery Talk with Artist Mark Fletcher and Curator Seojeong Shin: Wednesday, November 6, 7pm, BMA
Betty LaDuke: Social Justice Revisited: Remembering • Reliving • Resisting, curated by Gloria Ruff
Su Kwak: The Cosmic Light Series, curated by Jungsil Jenny Lee
Mark Fletcher: Winking Turtle, Whispering Tree, curated by Seojeong Shin
Betty LaDuke
Border Crossing #2, 2014
Acrylic on wood, 48 x 28 inches
Collection of the Artist
Su Kwak
COSMIC LIGHT #34, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, 48 × 72 inches (122 × 183 cm)
Collection of the Artist
Please click here for the exhibition catalogue.
Mark Fletcher
Swamp Music, 2009
Watercolor and ink on paper, 16 x 12 inches
Collection of the Artist
These exhibitions were made possible through funds provided by the Brauer Museum of Art’s Robert and Caroline Collings Endowment, the Brauer Museum of Art’s Brauer Endowment, Valparaiso University’s Cultural Arts Committee, World Friendship Among Children, and the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art.
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 12, 2pm, BMA
Gallery Talk with Curators Daniel Kraft and Jim Ross: Wednesday, January 22, 7 pm, BMA
Symposium for Spectral Speculations exhibition with Sandy Kita, Jennifer Prough, and featured guest Donald Jenkins: Wednesday, February 5, 7pm, Duesenberg Recital Hall
C. Curry Bohm: Brown County and Beyond, curated by Daniel Kraft and Jim Ross
Spectral Speculations: Japanese Prints from the Ruth A. Ruege Collection, curated by Sandy Kita
Mary Bourke: Unfinished
Claude Curry Bohm (1894-1971)
Spring Comes to the Old Dirt Road, 1950
Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Gift of Percy H. Sloan
Brauer Museum of Art, 53.01.003
Yōshū Chikanobu (1838-1912)
Cat Ghost of Saga (Saga no Kaibyō), 1886, signed: Yōshū Chikanobu hitsu
Color woodcut on paper, 14 ¾ x 10 1/8 inches
Gift of Ruth A. Ruege
Brauer Museum of Art, 2015.19.747
Mary Bourke
Icarus Bids His Wingless Mother Goodbye, 2011
Oil on canvas, 54 x 45 inches
Collection of the Artist
These exhibitions were made possible through funds provided by the Brauer Museum of Art’s Robert and Caroline Collings Endowment, the Brauer Museum of Art’s Brauer Endowment, Valparaiso University’s Cultural Arts Committee, World Friendship Among Children, and the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art. The C. Curry Bohm exhibition was made possible through additional support provided by the Brown County Art Gallery, the Richmond Art Museum, the Swope Art Museum, the John P. Weatherhead Gallery at the University of St. Francis, and numerous individuals.
Student Exhibition Opening Reception and Award Ceremony: Wednesday, April 8, 7pm, BMA
Art Faculty Exhibition Opening Reception: Friday, April 17, 7pm, BMA
Valparaiso University Juried Art Student Exhibition
Valparaiso University Art Faculty Exhibition
View of the 2019 Valparaiso University Art Student Exhibition
These exhibitions were made possible through funds provided by the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art and Valparaiso University’s Zahn Fund.
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 31, 2 pm, BMA
Jan Sullivan: Works from the Founder of Art Barn School of Art
Selections from the Brauer Museum’s Permanent Collection
New Acquisitions
Jan Sullivan (1921-2016)
Untitled, undated
Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches
Collection of Art Barn School of Art
These exhibitions were made possible through funds provided by the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art and Art Barn School of Art.
Opening Reception: Sunday, July 12, 2 pm, BMA
Calumet Voices, National Stories
Wednesday Night Joe!
Throughout the gallery exhibition season, the museum staff hosts special one hour programs for Valparaiso University students. Activities include discussions, poetry readings, and conversation with noted artists and collectors. It’s a great opportunity for students to meet each other, share common interests, and learn more about the field of art in general.
Coffee Hours are held in the Brauer Museum of Art. Refreshments are included.
2018-2019 Schedule
| Coffee Hour with Artist Betty LaDuke, date and time TBA | 7 p.m. |
Step right up!
The NOIR BAZAAR is back in business at the Brauer Museum.
D.O.A., 1950, © United Artists
The popular film/lecture series THURSDAY NIGHT NOIR, hosted by Peter Aglinskas, creator of the lecture series “The Noir Style in Image, Word, and Sound,” returns to the Brauer Museum of Art on the campus of Valparaiso University for its sixth season of fun and informative forays into the shadowy world of noir. Step right up and help yourself to a dee-luxe assortment of crooked cops and jive-crazy hep cats, Sinister sirens and high-class heists, B-girls and bagmen…and a zombie gangster who gets the last laugh. Now THAT’s some bizarre noir!
Four iconic movies representing distinct themes and eras of film noir will be featured:
| January 16 | Decoy (1946) | 7 p.m. |
| February 20 | D.O.A. (1950) | 7 p.m. |
| March 19 | Private Hell 36 (1954) | 7 p.m. |
| April 16 | The Burglar (1957) | 7 p.m. |
A lecture and discussion will follow each screening.
These events are free and open to the public.
This film series was made possible through funds provided by Valparaiso University’s Cultural Arts Committee and the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art.
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In Quest of Beauty: The Life and Times of Junius R. SloanWritten by Richard H. W. Brauer, retired museum director and professor emeritus, Valparaiso University, and funded in part by the Indiana Humanities Council. |
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Junius Sloan’s Kaaterskill Lakes and the Catskill Mountain House: The Story of an American Cultural IconWritten and curated by John Ruff Ph.D., associate professor, Department of English, Valparaiso University. Funded in part by the Indiana Humanities Council and the Sloan Endowment. |
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American Art & National IdentityWritten by David Morgan, formerly Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, Valparaiso University, and funded in part by the Indiana Humanities Council. |
- Krista Steinke: Good Luck with the Sun and other works (PDF)
August 21 – December 9, 2018 - Line/Force/Burn Rubber: Sarah Krepp & Olivia Petrides (PDF)
January 8 – March 31, 2019 - Overwhelming Beauty: Painting, Collage, and Sculpture by Henning Eichinger and Yvonne Kendall (PDF)
January 9 – April 1, 2018 - The Indiana Dunes Revisited: Frank V. Dudley and the 1917 Dunes Pageant (PDF)
August 22 – December 10, 2017 - Old Master Prints from a Private Collection (PDF)
August 22 – December 10, 2017 - The Art of Ernst Schwidder (PDF)
April 11 – May 14, 2017 - Sand & Steel: Visions of Our Indiana Shore (PDF)
January 10 – April 2, 2017 - Borders by Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir (PDF)
October, 2014 – March, 2017 - External Reflections – Internal Wars: Photographs by Louise Witkin-Berg (PDF)
August 23 – December 11, 2016 - Paintings by Frank V. Dudley from the James Moeller Collection (PDF)
May 17 – August 7, 2016 - Sacred Spaces and Objects: The Visual, Material, and Tangible (PDF)
April 13 – May 8, 2016 - Michael Miller: An Appreciation (PDF)
January 8 – April 3, 2016 - So Small Between the Stars, So Large Against the Sky: Studies for a Monument New Works by Neil Goodman (PDF)
January 8 – April 3, 2016 - Carlos Lopez: A Forgotten Michigan Painter (PDF)
January 8 – April 3, 2016 - Celebrating Life: Betty LaDuke Retrospective Exhibition (PDF)
January 8 – April 3, 2016 - Hermann Gurfinkel: Hidden Northwest Indiana Legend (PDF)
May 15 – August 9, 2015 - Inner Visions: Sacred Plants, Art, and Spirituality (PDF)
January 9 – April 5, 2015 - From 2/11 to Today: Recent Work by Ted Halkin (PDF)
August 26 – December 14, 2014 - Selections from the Andy Nunemaker Collection (PDF)
August 26 – December 14, 2014 - Parallel Pursuits: Tom Brand – Finding Form
Carole Stodder – Shaping Space (PDF)
May 16 – August 10, 2014 - Trucks: Recent Work by John Himmelfarb (PDF)
January 7 – April 6, 2014 - Mr. Imagination: Chicago Self-Taught Artist (PDF)
January 7 – April 6, 2014 - Light Journey: An Odyssey in Paint (PDF)
A Mid-Career Retrospective Exhibition of the Art of Su Kwak
December 1, 2012 – March 17, 2013 - The Art of George Ames Aldrich (PDF)
- August 21 – November 16, 2012
- Healing Pool: An Installation by Brian Knep (PDF)
December 2, 2011 – March 18, 2012 - Mindless Mayhem: The Art of Ron Villani (PDF)
December 2, 2011 – March 18, 2012 - The Art of the Newel: The Jay W. Christopher Collection (PDF)
August 23 – November 18, 2011 - Henry Diltz: Woodstock and Friends (PDF)
August 23 – November 18, 2011 - Damned: Sculpture by Ronald Gonzalez (PDF)
August 23 – November 18, 2011 - Recent Views of An Inner World: Paintings by Richard Loving (PDF)
December 3, 2010 – March 20, 2011
