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.
Piano Recital with Pianist Justin Kolb and Viewing of David Robert Austen’s Exhibition
Thursday, September 6, 12 pm
Opening Reception for all exhibitions
Friday, September 7, 7 pm
Gallery Talk and Christ College Symposium with Artist Krista Steinke
Wednesday, September 26, 7 pm
Coffee Hour and Book Signing with Artist David Robert Austen
Wednesday, October 3, 7 pm
The Photography of David Robert Austen: We Ended Up Australian.
Lives Honored and Dreams Imagined. Based on a True Story.
David Robert Austen
Blue Hills Farm Father and Son, 1993
Archival inkjet print on paper, 26 x 20 inches, limited edition
Collection of the Artist
David Robert Austen
Ethabuka Station Wildflowers, 1985
Archival inkjet print on paper, 26 x 20 inches, limited edition
Collection of Roberta Glaser Carlsen
Please click here for the exhibition brochure.
Krista Steinke: Good Luck with the Sun and other works
Krista Steinke
it all seemed so serendipitous: one-week pinhole exposure with insects and an accident (from “Sun Notations”), 2016
Archival pigment print, 44 ½ x 65 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Please click here for the exhibition brochure.
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, and the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art.
Opening Reception for all exhibitions
Sunday, January 13, 2 pm
Gallery Talk with Artists Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko
Lecture by Rev. Dr. Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Acting Director, Huffington
Ecumenical Institute, Loyola Marymount University, titled “Eye-witnessing the War in Ukraine”
Friday, January 18, 7 pm, Duesenberg Recital Hall and the Brauer Museum of Art
Gallery Talk with Artists Sarah Krepp and Olivia Petrides
Wednesday, February 13, 7 pm
Line/ Force/ Burn Rubber: Sarah Krepp & Olivia Petrides
The Art of Lynn Olson
The Icons on Ammo Boxes: Art by Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko
Sarah Krepp
BLOW-OUT: FULL FORCE (716), 2016
Tire, panel, steel, paint on wall, 14 x 30 feet
Rockford Art Museum
Olivia Petrides
Polar Nights I and Polar Nights II, 2014 and 2016
Ink & gouache on paper, Polar Nights I: 6 panels, 78 x 364 inches, Polar Nights II: 5 panels, 78 x 260 inches
Collection of the Artist
Lynn Olson (1925-2013)
Embrace, undated
Steel, steel fibers, and cement, 18 x 15 x 11 inches
Collection of Irene Baidinger
Sofia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko
Our Lady with the Child, 2018
Ammunition box fragment, tempera, and gold leaf. The board was brought from Avdiyivka (Industrial Zone),
49 x 53 centimeters (approximately 19 ¼ x 20 ¾ inches)
Collection of the Artists
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, and the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art. Additional funding for the Icons on Ammo Boxes exhibition was from the Emil and Elfriede Jochum Chair, the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christianity and the Arts, the Center for Church Vocations, the Center for Church Relations, the Valparaiso University Department of Art, and the Valparaiso University Department of Theology.
Opening Reception and Award Ceremony
Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm
Valparaiso University Juried Art Student Exhibition
View of the 2018 Valparaiso University Art Student Exhibition
This exhibition was made possible through funds provided by the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art and Valparaiso University’s Zahn Fund.
Gallery Talk
Wednesday, July 10, 7 pm
Corey Hagelberg: No Beauty in This
New Acquisitions
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Corey Hagelberg
Make Peace, Plant Trees, 2017
Woodcut on paper, 11 x 12 inches
Collection of the Artist
These exhibitions were made possible through funds provided by the Partners for the Brauer Museum of Art.
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
| October 3 with Artist David Robert Austen | 7 p.m. |
Hands Up! It’s THURSDAY NIGHT NOIR.
Kansas City Confidential, 1952, © 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 fifth season of fun and informative forays into the shadowy world of noir.
Thumb a dead-end ride with glamour gals and oily hoods, hapless squarejohns caught in the crosshairs of fate, and the most vicious femme fatale in the history of classic film noir!
Four iconic movies representing distinct themes and eras of film noir will be featured:
| January 17 | Detour (1945) | 7 p.m. |
| February 21 | The Window (1949) | 7 p.m. |
| March 21 | Kansas City Confidential (1952) | 7 p.m. |
| April 18 | Nightfall (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. |
- 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
