Current Exhibits

East Gallery:

May 17 - August 29, 2008
Una Herencia Mexicana:
Mexican Modernist art from the collections of Purdue University Galleries and the Art museum of Greater Lafayette.

Mexican artists of the 1920’s through the 1950’s had a huge impact on art throughout the Americas.  They sought to create imagery of relevance to the Mexican people and move away from the avant-garde abstraction of the time.  This exhibition presents paintings, drawings and prints by important artists of the Mexican Modernist movement, from the collections of the Purdue University Galleries and the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette.  Both institutions were the beneficiaries of a generous bequest of these artworks from Edward Stowe Akeley and Anna Akeley, longtime supporters of the arts and residents of Greater Lafayette. 
Sponsored by Eli Lilly, Tippecanoe Labs and the Purdue University Latino Culture Center

Media Sponsor: WBAA

Guillermo Meza, The Jaguar

Gallery Talk: August 26, 7:00 pm

"The Edward Stowe Akeley Collection of Mexican Art" by Ellen Fisher, Director, The Littleton Collection Gallery, Ft. Pierce, FL and former museum curator, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette

McDonald Gallery

May 17 - August 29, 2008

Rudy Pozzatti: an Indiana Legacy

from the Wabash College Permanent Collection of Contemporary Art; gifts of Dr. Donald McMasters, Wabash Class '53, Bloomington, Indiana.

Professor Pozzatti is a world-renowned, award-winning print maker and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Fine Art at Indiana University.  He initiated and directed Echo Press in Bloomington, Indiana from 1979 to 1995 with the support of the Indiana University Foundation. His works have been acquired for the collections of many museums, including Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette

Appollo (1970)

A Tribute to Audrey Rossmann: Realizing Excellence

August 15 - September 29

See the work of one of Indiana’s finest potters

The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette presents an exhibit of pottery and ceramic artwork by Audrey Rossmann of West Lafayette featuring both functional pottery as well as one of a kind sculptural vessels from the collections of several Lafayette area residents. An iconic figure in the Lafayette area pottery community, Rossmann, through her efforts as a pottery teacher at both the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and the Morton Community Center, has introduced hundreds of area residents to the pottery art-form over the span of a 40 year career. The exhibit is a tribute to an excellent artist who has given much to our community.

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