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August 6 - August 6, 2017 - Every painting has a story under its surface. This exhibition will feature paintings with important clues hidden underneath their surfaces that curators, conservators, and conservation scientists have used to better understand the paintings.

The Central Indiana Division of the NMRA will be your host for the 2016 national convention at The Westin, Indianapolis, and the national train show at the Indiana Convention Center.

May 15, 2016-January 8, 2017 - This exhibition celebrates the artistic achievements of men and women who were born, raised, or worked in Indiana. The state's 200-year history is explored in key chapters that demonstrate creative accomplishments in painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and decorative, design, and fashion arts drawn from the IMA's rich permanent collection. The quality and ...

May 1 - June 19, 2016 - The 3,000-square-foot exhibit includes interactive Native American tools used to farm, grind and cook corn, an interactive station on genetic modifications of corn over time and more.​ The Science, History and Culture of Corn takes visitors back more than 10,000 years to learn about the evolution of corn from the time of the ancient Mesoamericans--when the teosinte plant wa...

March 4, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition celebrates the legacy of Marie Daugherty Webster (1859-1956), who is considered one of the leading designers in the history of early 20th-century quilt making. The exhibition consists of 25 appliquéd quilts designed and made by Marie Webster, which date from 1909-1930, 13 patterns, and original pages from Ladies' Home Journal. Marie Daugherty Webst...

February 26, 2016 - February 26, 2017 - This exhibition of portraits focuses on Tarkington’s interest in the human face, a subject he wrote about extensively. 2016 marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Hoosier native Booth Tarkington, who was a former trustee of the John Herron Art Museum and a dedicated art collector.

February 12, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - The exhibition features a selection of lush, vibrantly colored video animations by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. Olivier’s painterly videos depict a variety of subject matter, ranging from intimate scenes of daily life to captivating landscapes and abstract visions. For many of the videos in this exhibition, Olivier photographs his actual paintings, documentin...

February 12 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition of the artifact was originally a splitting maul used by Lincoln to drive iron wedges into logs creating split-rails for fencing. The maul head, made from a tree root-ball, eventually split in half. Rather than discard the tool, Lincoln repurposed it into a bench mallet he used to drive pegs into furniture and other fixtures. Lincoln discarded the o...

The art of love. Whether it’s August Rodin’s The Kiss or Robert Indiana’s Love sculpture, artists have always had something to say about love. Love is a strong emotion, and is as difficult to define as art itself. SoArts and Garfield Park Arts Center will be exploring the concept of love, the heart and Valentine’s Day. Each artist will interpret the concept in their own medium based on their own l...

December 4, 2015-November 6, 2016 - The three films on view were produced in collaboration with choreographer and performer Erin Ellen Kelly, with whom Ghani has been working since 2006, and feature scores by composer and musician Qasim Naqvi. This exhibition will feature a trilogy of her video work over a period of 11 months.