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Exhibitions & Series

Celebrating Black Artists
In celebration of Martin Luther King Day, the Brauer Museum of Art opens Celebrating Black Artists. The exhibition presents works by eighteen Black artists drawn from the Brauer’s collection and that of Professor Michael Chikeleze, Richard C. and Fancelia A. Gozon University Chair in Values-Based Leadership.
Through the course of the twentieth century. Black artists gained greater access to arts education, patronage, and the art market, with dealers prepared to represent them and museums and collectors eager to acquire their art. That art is no longer restricted to an expression of the African American experience, enslaved or free, in the United States, but encompasses both the depth and range of the Black diaspora and the American mainstream.
This exhibition includes the work of self-taught artists, such as William, the Prophet, Blackmon and Jackie Haliburton, of art school professors Ralph Arnold, Tarrance Corbin, and Danny Campbell, Charles Bibbs, a highly successful commercial artist, and renowned Romare Bearden and Charles White, and contemporary figures of international repute, Dawood Bey, Richard Hunt, and Kara Walker, among others.
Hours:
Wednesday: 10am – 8pm
Thursday – Saturday: 10am – 4pm
Publications from Past Exhibitions
- 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