Featured Exhibit
Celebrating 40 Years Of "ArtSmart: Indiana"
June 20 - November 8, 2026
Weil Gallery
This exhibit celebrates the rich artistic legacy of Indiana through works drawn from the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette's permanent collection in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of ArtSmart: Indiana. The educational initiative of ArtSmart: Indiana has connected students, educators, and the community with Hoosier art for decades, inspiring generations to engage more deeply with art, history, and culture statewide.
Spanning a variety of media, styles, and time periods, the gallery showcases artists featured in ArtSmart: Indiana's program and offers visitors an opportunity to explore the depth and diversity of Indiana art. As we mark the 40th anniversary, this exhibition celebrates not only the artists themselves but also our state's enduring contributions to American art.
Current Exhibits
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Celebrating 40 Years of: "ArtSmart: Indiana"
June 20, 2026 - November 8, 2026
Weil Gallery
This exhibit celebrates the rich artistic legacy of Indiana through works drawn from the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette's permanent collection in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of ArtSmart: Indiana. The educational initiative of ArtSmart:
Indiana has connected students, educators, and the community with Hoosier art for decades, inspiring generations to engage more deeply with art, history, and culture statewide.
Spanning a variety of media, styles, and time periods, the gallery showcases artists featured in ArtSmart: Indiana's program and offers visitors an opportunity to explore the depth and diversity of Indiana art. As we mark the 40th anniversary, this exhibition celebrates not only the artists themselves but also our state's enduring contributions to American art. -
Mary Pat Wallen: "Imperfectly / Perfect"
August 22, 2026 - November 29, 2026
East Gallery
Mary Pat Wallen’s work portrays their personal journey through life. It is messy. It consists of multiple layers of what the world might see as mistakes, but Wallen sees as beauty. It is seeing the beauty among the rust and corrosion of humanity. To not view the holes or rusty crevices as decay, but rather, opportunities to let your soul shine. Wallen likes to call it controlled chaos, a yin and a yang, or better yet, their WABI-SOBI moment.
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Caleb Weintraub: "Body English"
August 22, 2026 - November 29, 2026
McDonald Gallery
Based in Bloomington, Indiana, Weintraub holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BFA from Boston University. His work has been exhibited at Fredericks & Freiser (New York), Zolla/Lieberman Gallery (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), the International Museum of Art and Science (McAllen, TX), the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Grunwald Gallery of Art (Bloomington, IN). He has been artist-in-residence at Redux Contemporary Art Center and the Santa Fe Art Institute and currently serves as Associate Professor, Area Head of Painting, and Director of the Eskenazi Technology and Innovation Lab at Indiana University Bloomington.
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Jinan Kim: "Boundaries and Networks: The Power Of Lines"
September 19, 2026 - January 23, 2027
Shook Gallery
This exhibition explores how line and structure alone can construct a world. In these works—read either as abstract geometric compositions or as landscapes—the underlying logic remains the same: lines accumulate, intersect, and form networks. While color suggests the apparent subject of each piece, what persists beneath is a shared abstraction. A boundary in these works is never merely a limit, but the beginning of a connection.
”I express emotions through geometric structures. In my works, simple elements like points, lines, and planes come together to convey the profound range of human emotions, from the serenity of order to the anxiety of the unknown.”
Upcoming Exhibits
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Tom Mallon: "Fantasies and Illuminations"
December 19, 2026 – February 21, 2027
East Gallery
Mr. Mallon's passion is creating unique realities with paint, insisting that multi-figure composition is the highest art form. Many of his painted fantasies and illuminations draw on mythology, and most, if not all, feature the human figure. The two individuals the artist claims have been most responsible for inspiration throughout the artist's life are Michelangelo and Beethoven. He considers Rembrandt and Monet the most supremely talented paint technicians, Rubens and Rodin among the most compositionally inventive. Mr. Mallon insists that only a well-conceived composition will engage and lead the viewer's eyes into and through the work and that anything less is merely a study.
Join us for the opening reception, Friday, December 18th, from 6-7 PM
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Becky Brody: "Transparency"
December 19, 2026 – February 21 , 2027
McDonald Gallery
When I start a painting, I either know exactly how to paint it and what it will look like—or I don’t. If I am unsure of whether I can paint what I envision, then this is a challenge, and I am in uncharted territory, experimenting and growing as an artist.
Since I make a living as an artist, I must paint to please the public in subject matter and technique. To me, this is “commercial art.”
I decided long ago that I’d price these commercial paintings very reasonably so I’d be forced to paint more, and therefore I would improve. But to improve as an artist, besides painting a lot, it is crucial to experiment and challenge yourself.
In my opinion, the paintings that are a challenge (involving new techniques, subjects, or materials) are “fine art”. Those are the paintings I save for exhibitions such as this one, “Transparency”. On display are paintings that I was not at all sure I could do.
Join us for the opening reception, Friday, December 18th, from 6-7 PM
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