Art Through the Decades: 1909 - 2009

September 18 - January 9 in the Weil and East Galleries:
Celebrating the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette's Centennial Anniversary, the exhibtion,

Art Throught the Decades, features significant works added to the permanent collection over the past ten decades. Each decade is represented by several works completed during that period. Some examples include works by Indiana and regional artists T.C. Steele, J.E. Bundy, George Winter, Will Vawter, Marques Reitzel, William Edouard Scott, Leo Neufeld, Hilary Eddy and numerous others from earlier years.

Beyond the Midwest component, the 1980's include works from the large Alice Baber Collection byartists of the New York School including Alice Baber, Ann Chwatsky, Paul Jenkins and Arnold Newman. The 1990's include paintings and drawings from the Akeley Collection of Mexican Modernists by Leanora Carrington and Guillermo Meza.  Recently acquired works include paintings, sculpture and works on paper by contemporary artists, Doug Calisch, William Itter, Greg Huebner, Richard Hunt, Preston Jackson, Maria Tomasula and Rudy Pozzatti .

The exhibition. Art Through the Decades, gives viewers an appreciation of some of the breadth and depth of the Art Museum's permanent collection and celebrates the future by exhibiting recent gifts to the collection from The Art League, Richard and Connie Grace, Ann and Chris Stack and Marilyn and Bill Heinze.

Whistling Boy by Marques Reitzel

Through the Eyes of Artists:

Visions of Five Local Painters

September 18 - January 9 in the McDonald Gallery:

Five women artists will be featured in the major fall painting exhibition, Through the Eyes of the Artists. When five women artists met in 2008, there was an immediate comfort level...a thread that ran through their thoughts and interests. That thread turned out to be...the love of ART. Kathryn Clark, Kathy Cox, Susan Doster, Margaret Hanke and Therese Lynch all met through local workshops, classes, or paint-outs. The group decided to do plein air painting together, and that led to group visits to museums and galleries, an artist's lecture, paint-outs and paint-ins, or just discussing art and artists.

Fire out of Control by Kathryn Clark

The women have various backgrounds in art: Kathryn Clark, who has an expertise in handmade paper making and watercolor, has a Masters of Fine Arts from Wayne State University. Recently she has become interested in oil painting. Kathy Cox earned her BFA in Visual Communication Design from Indiana University's Herron School of Art, and has other talents in photography and calligraphy. Susan Doster is a watercolorist, oil painter, and sculptor with an MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the NY Academy of Art. She teaches a class in sculpture at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette(see education, studio art classes). Margaret Hanke's training has been more informal. She has thirty-plus years of art classes in her portfolio (in Honolulu, Cleveland, Indianapolis) while studying to become a psychologist. Therese Lynch earned a second BA degree in later years in Visual Communication Design from Purdue.

Ten Years, Influcence and Development:

James Werner and Students

October 23 through January 9 in the Mickey Shook Gallery
Closing Reception January 8 7-9 pmJustin Vining
Celebrating 10 years of regional course offerings by James C. Werner, this invitational exhibit includes current students work as well as practicing artists who have studied with James in the past or benefited from his program offerings at the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art over the last 10 years.