Exhibitions & Series
Thursday Afternoons at the Brauer returns
March 21 through May 2, starting at 4pm.
Join us on Thursday afternoons at 4pm for a lively discussion on works from the permanent collection chosen by students, faculty, and staff from diverse disciplines.
- April 4, Jennifer Prough, Dean of Christ College: Art in the Age of Mass Production: The Japanese Woodcut Print
- April 11, Hope Biermann (VU ’24): Puzzling Beauty: Exhibition the Work of Howard Bond
- April 18, Lisa Driver, Professor and Chair of the Department of Theology and Philosophy, and Company: The Theologian’s Brauer
- April 25, Jonathan Canning, Director of the Brauer Museum of Art, Art in the Modern City: Chicago, 1900 – 1950
- May 2, Gloria Ruff, Former Associate Curator of the Brauer Museum of Art: A Photographer’s Favorites: Black and White Photographs from the Permanent Collection
Patterns and Light: Photography by Howard Bond
Christ College senior, Hope Biermann, curates a selection of black and white photographs drawn from several of Howard Bond’s portfolios, concentrating on the photographer’s dramatic contrasts of light and shade, as well as his eye for pattern in nature and architecture.
Closes May 11
Photo credit: Pot & Steps, Fira, Santorini from Portfolio XXII: Aegean Light, 2005 Photography- B&W ( gelatin silver) Gift of the Artist Brauer Museum of Art, 2008.26.003
Out of Body
Associate Professor of Art Sarah Jantzi explores the visual, emotional, and psychological appeal of figuration to artists of primarily the late twentieth century.
Photo credit: Klement, Vera (b.1929) Undine/ Night Sky, 1999. Charcoal, pastel, woodcut, gold leaf, graphite, gouache, collage, and frottage on paper. Gifts Fund Purchase Brauer Museum of Art, 2003.05
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