Featured Exhibit
Bicentennial: Regionally Related Works from the Permanent Collection
February 1, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Weil Gallery
Bicentennial is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant artistic voices of our region. This curated collection features works by local artists alongside pieces that reflect our community's cultural, historical, and natural essence. From evocative landscapes to thought-provoking contemporary creations, the exhibit showcases the talent and diversity that make our region unique.
Join us in exploring the intersection of place, identity, and artistic expression, as we honor the creativity rooted in our local soil and the stories that resonate far beyond.
Current Exhibits
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"Bicentennial": Regionally Related Works from the Permanent Collection
January 1, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Weil Gallery
Bicentennial is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant artistic voices of our region. This curated collection features works by local artists alongside pieces that reflect our community's cultural, historical, and natural essence. From evocative landscapes to thought-provoking contemporary creations, the exhibit showcases the talent and diversity that make our region unique.
Join us in exploring the intersection of place, identity, and artistic expression, as we honor the creativity rooted in our local soil and the stories that resonate far beyond.
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Corinne McAuley: "Beaded Visions: The Celebration of Beadwork"
February 8, 2025 - May 11, 2025
Shook Gallery
After Corinne McAuley had worked in the high-tech industry for many years she started looking for a calming, creative outlet. She tried many different mediums but found nothing that stuck until a visit to a bead shop with a friend one day. She had never seen such a diverse selection of shapes, sizes, and colors of beads. From there she learned how to work with beads in her unique way. Her creations include masks, intricate tactile works that reflect nature, as well as figures, and even abstract shapes and designs. McAuley continually looks for new and interesting ways to use this medium and express herself with beads. “I feel that I have not touched the surface of possibilities...”
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New Artists 2025
March 8, 2025 - April 13, 2025
East and McDonald Galleries
Forty-six years ago, the New Artist Exhibition was established to recognize the best high school artists in the area for their creativity, talent, and dedication. New Artists 2025 is made possible by the ongoing collaboration between the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, the Art League, high school teachers, students, and private partners.
Over 120 pieces were accepted from high school students from 6 regional schools. Jurors Rebecca Robinson and Kendall Smith carefully reviewed each entry to select award winners in 8 categories and Best of Show. Additionally, special awards were given by local businesses and individuals. This year, over $7,500 in prizes were available, split between 84 awards.
Congratulations to the area teachers, students, and supportive parents represented in the 2025 New Artists Exhibition.
Upcoming Exhibits
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SAQA: "A Drop of Emerald Poison"
May 3, 2025 - September 14, 2025
East Gallery
“Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the art quilt: "a creative visual work that is layered and stitched or that references this form of stitched layered structure."
Our vision is that the art quilt is universally respected as a fine art medium. SAQA’s core values are: excellence, innovation, integrity, and inclusion.
Over the past 30 years, SAQA has grown into a dynamic and active community of over 4,000 artists, curators, collectors, and art professionals located around the world.
With our exhibitions, resources, publications, and membership opportunities, we seek to increase the public's appreciation for the art quilt and to support our members in their artistic and professional growth.”
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Bonnie Stahlecker: "Living on the Outer Edge of Hope"
McDonald Gallery
May 3, 2025 - September 14, 2025
“My passion for the book began in 1980 while a student of typography. I was completely captivated after my first foray into printing and binding an artist’s book. For many years I continued with the book format, simultaneously making traditional and non-traditional books. Since the beginning, I have always thought of books as three-dimensional objects with multiple layers, both physically and conceptually. For the past several years my artwork has undergone a transformation from the traditional book format to book-like objects to the current wall sculptures. However, as much as I like the physical object, be it a book or sculpture piece, it is the content behind the work that drives me to create the artwork.”
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Craig Martin: "Flowers on the Battlefield"
Shook Gallery
May 24, 2025 - September 7, 2025
Craig Martin’s mixed media drawings, consisting primarily of pastel, acrylic, and conté pencil on a wood panel or paper, emphasize the natural floral environment of growth, fragility, and decay. The drawings are created through both direct observation and photo reference. Still, emphasis is always on a creative use of color to expand upon the “natural” view and to reflect an active drawing style. Expressive color, primarily through soft pastel pigments, can many times be un-fixed, suggestive, and intermittent, reflecting the ever-present fluctuations of wind, movement, and light.
In challenging times, the fragility of art objects may be the perfect reminders of what we are in our better selves – much as flowers growing on battlefields can be the perfect reminders of the futility of our tumultuous history in the grand scheme of things.
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