Archived - Shows And Events

November 3 – December 31, 2017 - The Swope will conclude its celebration of the Museum’s 75th anniversary with an exhibition featuring the institution’s founding collection. In January 1941, the Swope Art Museum’s founding director, Terre Haute native John Rogers Cox (1915-1990), was given the rather daunting task of building a collection for the institution which would open on March 21, 1942. Cox...

September 1 – October 28, 2017 - The exhibition was eventually expanded to a regional scope to include artists from the entire state of Indiana and its four neighboring states of Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio. A guest juror, chosen from outside the region, selects the exhibition from the many works submitted and then chooses the recipients of the awards—with the exception of the purchase ...

June 10 – August 12, 2017 - This exhibition will explore the Manhattan subjects of National Academician Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), and will coincide with the publication of Adolf Dehn’s Manhattan: Rhapsodies in Blue and Beyond, by Fairfield University art history professor, Philip Eliasoph.

May 14, 2017 - Rodders Rod Roundup Car Show will be held at Fairbanks Park.​ Registration from 9AM to 1PM. First 100 get a dash plaque. $10.00 if you pre-entry by May 7, you get a shirt and dash plaque $12.00 Day of Show no shirt. Top 50, 7 Special Awards, Judged Show.

April 8 – May 20, 2017 - Wooden’s tradition of celebrating students and teachers alike continues with the 50th exhibition which features student artwork from each school in the Vigo County School Corporation, as well as several other area private schools. Additionally, at the high school level, the show is open to surrounding counties and home-schools and functions as a juried exhibition.

January 20 – March 25, 2017 - The exhibition will provide new insight into Hopper’s 1941 painting of a house in Cape Cod titled Route 6, Eastham from the Swope’s founding permanent collection.

October 7, 2016 – January 7, 2017 - This exhibition will feature two of Wilson’s visionary projects intended to influence people’s daily lives: 1954 drawings for an animated film titled “Old Mister World and the Hue-Mans: A Fable of the Earth and the Atom” and murals painted in the mid-1970s for a public library in Frankfort, Kentucky. Unfortunately, neither project came to fruition. Wilson’s conc...

September 24, 2016 - Top 40 , 9 Special Awards , Registration 11 AM to 2 PM , Awards at 3 PM , $10. for pre-entry includes shirt and Dash Plaque by Sept. 13, $12.00 day of show no shirt , Fish Fry , Crafts , Yard Sales ,Music , Lawn Mower Demolition Derby . No Trailer parking on show grounds trailer parking available at the church. Event held in Cory, IN.

September 11, 2016 - Rain or Shine. Registration Fee is $12.00, Registration begins at 10 am, Free Dash Plaque and T-Shirt given to the 1st 50 entries. People’s Choice, Top 10 Car, and Top 5 Motorcycle Awards Presented at 3pm. Held at the Zorah Shrine Country Place.

August 23 – October 2, 2016 - This exhibition features artwork by over 20 contemporary artists as well as a selection of historical works from our Permanent Art Collection.