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.
Please note that the Brauer Museum of Art is closed until further notice. Please stay tuned for further information as it develops regarding the museum resuming its exhibition schedule and events such as Thursday Night Noir.
The Valparaiso University Art Department is pleased to present the 2020 Senior Art Thesis Exhibition! This year’s exhibit features graduating senior artists Nicole Jones, Andréa Kütemeier, Nicole Lubarski, Jordan Pagel, Anna Styrczula and Claire Utzinger. In lieu of a traditional gallery show, the artists are bringing their work directly to you. We welcome you to explore and engage with each of the unique projects. Visitors to the website are encouraged to post comments in the designated section that accompanies each gallery image. Please click here to view the exhibition.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
New Acquisitions
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
Please note that the Brauer Museum of Art is closed until further notice. Please stay tuned for further information as it develops regarding the museum resuming its exhibition schedule and events such as Thursday Night Noir.
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 | Canceled | |
| April 16 | Canceled | |
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. |
- Betty LaDuke: Social Justice Revisited: Remembering • Reliving • Resisting (PDF)
August 20 – December 8, 2019 - Line/Force/Burn Rubber: Sarah Krepp & Olivia Petrides (PDF)
January 8 – March 31, 2019 - Krista Steinke: Good Luck with the Sun and other works (PDF)
August 21 – December 9, 2018 - 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
