Mid-States Art & Craft Gallery
Step into the captivating realm of the Mid-States Arts and Craft Gallery, where the visions of artists from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Missouri intertwine.
Step into the captivating realm of the Mid-States Arts and Craft Gallery, where the visions of artists from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Missouri intertwine.
Journey through the ages of art history as landscapes unfold their timeless narrative, reflecting the evolving dynamics between humanity and its surroundings.
Everything you need to know about the 61st Annual High School Art Show at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science.
47th Mid-States Craft Exhibition: November 24, 2023 - March 17, 2024
This exhibition is a photographic comparison of select historical settings in Evansville with their modern-day counterparts. The historical settings range from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
In the wake of an unimaginable tragedy, I sought solace and redemption through the profound medium of art. It was amidst the depths of despair, following the loss of my beloved son, that I discovered my refuge and inspiration. From the crucible of grief, I now present to you this compelling series.
Mark your calendars! On April 8th, 2024 Evansville will experience a total solar eclipse. Get excited for this once in a lifetime natural phenomenon with our Eclipse exhibition, open now in the science galleries.
Stoven has been deeply inspired by human experiences, particularly love, romance, and nature’s feelings. His mission with art is to create something authentic and unique, full of power and distinguishable. His style is ever evolving, like all of us.
Soyoung Jung; 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the Evansville Museum. Exhibition will be up April 29th - October 8th, 2023.
Did you know that in the horse and buggy age and in the early days of the automobile in the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was another form of transportation linking our area?
Mexican folk masks hold great significance in Mexican culture and are an integral part of various celebrations and ceremonies. These masks are not just decorative pieces, but are used as a means of expressing cultural identity and preserving Mexican heritage.
Work by students from Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties in Southwestern Indiana on display at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science.
Through the years, the Mid-States Exhibitions have grown to accept entries from artists residing in the six states of Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Missouri. Some of our region’s most accomplished artists and art educators have exhibited their work in the competitions.
Indiana University’s Caleb Weintraub, Associate Professor, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and Design, and Dr. Dan Kennedy, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Science, collaborated with staff and students at CIP Bloomington, Indiana, to complete a series of artworks entitled Spectrum Dynamic. CIP is an agency that assists young people on the autism spectrum.
This exhibition provides an overview of what Evansville and the country experienced in the 1920s. This includes entering the radio age, women voting rights, the unexpected death of a long serving mayor, the opening of new schools, changes in the city’s infrastructure, and other key elements of the decade.
Taking the time to bond with students through one-on-one instruction or simple conversations about life cultivated environments full of creativity. The pieces on display were given to Les and his wife JoAnne by former students.
Within this exhibition, is the opportunity to explore a myriad of documents generously on loan from the collection of David F. Brown signed by people who served as president of the United States.
At first glance a “still life” can be defined as a composition of inanimate objects. However, the storyline lies within the activity occurring outside the frame.
The organizations on display in the Begley Art Gallery serve the purpose of helping new residents to transition to Evansville and become a part of the community and become a part of the community.
Lupkin draws from everyday life, history, and literature to create scenes which are at the same time realistic and inspirational. When developing a painting, his goal is to use modern imagery in conjunction with traditional techniques and connect them with contemporary society. His painting studio is situated above his family's stained glass business where he continues to work with his brothers William and Ben, whose close proximity make them ideal models.
Work by students from Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties in Southwestern Indiana on display at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science.
How does a sports medicine physician with no artistic background or talent spearhead an effort to create a museum exhibition and accompanying monograph about the Indiana artist C. Curry Bohm? I believe it goes back to a sunny Sunday afternoon in March 2013. I walked into a bright sunlight drenched gallery where I was instantaneously awestruck by C. Curry Bohm’s Heart of the Village. The painting’s energy, passion, light, and joyful recollection of beautiful sunny fall days immediately struck me with an overwhelming emotional response of happiness that I had never encountered in a painting. If Bohm’s work could elicit that emotional response in me, I believed others in the art community could also enjoy an in depth look at the work of this wonderful Brown County artist.
In 2021, the Evansville Museum was invited to participate in the donation project. Thirteen nationally and internationally recognized American photographers have donated 239 photographs to our permanent collection. Included in this exhibition are 136 works. The inventory of images reflects a multitude of contemporary perspectives and a rich assortment of styles, concepts, and photographic materials.
Our exhibition explores the properties of moving air by using devices that allow for the manipulation of air using air blowers, air columns, air blasts and gentle breezes. Our featured exhibits will provide a variety of experiences.
Marcel Mouly (1918-2008) has been called the last of the "School of Paris," the artist community in and around Paris that experienced its first wave from the late 19th century through the outbreak of World War II. As a young man, he was introduced to School of Paris artists when instructed to copy paintings by some of its most celebrated figures: Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque. Towards the end of the war, Mouly emerged as a prominent figure among the School of Paris' second generation when he exhibited at the esteemed Salon de Automne in 1943. Continuing to make art and exhibit up until his death, he was the last artist of the Parisian circle to live well into the first decade of the 21st century.
Remembering Pearl Harbor provides an overview of the events surrounding the attack and shares personal stories of the era. Key to the telling of these stories is the collection of Rex Knight, a Hoosier who began collecting Pearl Harbor artifacts in 1999. The collection tells the lesser-known, intimate, and individual stories that occurred just before, during, and immediately following the attack. The Knight collection uses surviving artifacts from the attack to introduce some of these stories, of both Americans and Japanese. The collection is an ongoing study in matching a personal human history with a surviving artifact. Also key to the interpretation are items from the Indiana Military Museum in Vincennes, Indiana, and from the collection of the Evansville Museum.
This exhibition developed from a class project at Johns Hopkins University. Five graduate students— Joanne Sidlovsky Grant, Lindsay Nathanson, Melinda Skinner, Tory Schendel Cox, and Michele Stewart—created this installation as a proposal for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. With the theme of justice, the group paralleled Mesopotamian law codes, or the Code of Hammurabi, to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights. By examining the Mesopotamian and American judiciary articles, we demonstrated that America assimilated Mesopotamian governance.
My work explores a deep, timeless aesthetic connection to the primal spirit of humanity. In minimalistic yet often monumental sculptures, I interweave references to science and natural phenomena with the passage of time. These works invite the viewer to look beyond the traditional constraints of form, composition, and space into a deeper world of possibility.
Throughout his career, Salvador Dali was the illustrator of more than 100 books. Among the most celebrated of his book illustrations are his portfolios for Comte de Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror (1868-1869 CE) and Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy (1308-1320 CE). Les Chants de Maldoror, or The Songs of Maldoror, was a favorite literary work among the Surrealists, many of whom found beauty in art and literature devoted to the pursuit of the irrational and the macabre. A poetic novel of sorts that unfolds in a non-linear fashion, Les Chants de Maldoror describes the violent and perverse character of a despicable protagonist who has renounced God, humanity, and conventional morality.