Winter Exhibition Series Now on Display!
Join us for the Winter Exhibition Series Opening Reception on February 7, from 5–8 PM, as we celebrate five incredible exhibitions now on view through March 9th, 2025! Art Center galleries connect the community with artwork of local, regional, and national artists.
Rotating exhibitions fill our six galleries and are always free and open to the public.
Find yourself here, at Indy Art Center, where it’s always Everybody’s Art!
87th Annual Student Show in Memory of Judy Christofolis
Juried by Leena Dobouni, Gallery Manager at Ivy Tech Community College.
In the 87th iteration of the Annual Student Show, the versatility and vibrancy of the Indy Art Center and Fisher Art Center’s studios is on full display. This campus offers a massive range of classes with facilities that are not easily found elsewhere in the community. Whether a student is designing comic book characters in a Summer Art Camp or is rekindling their creative spirit in their retirement through a wheel throwing class, the Art Center and its faculty offer the resources, mentorship, and inspiration to aid its students in making truly exciting discoveries.
As you walk through the galleries, you will find artworks created by students of the Art Center in the last twelve months. These students range in age from two to eighty two with artistic backgrounds ranging from beginning to professional-level artists. The themes, ambitions, and intentions of the objects displayed in this exhibition are as varied as the artists that created them. The diverse sampler of works featured in the 87th Annual Student Show is an illustration of the unique community of students that make the Art Center a place that inspires creative expression in all people.
86th Annual Student Show Best of Divisional Winners Group Show
Highlighting exceptional works by Anne Harrigan, Sharla Jean Hoskin, Khaila King, and Susan Olden-Stahl.
BiAnnual ArtReach Exhibition : Imaginary Worlds!
Every year, ArtReach serves over 1,500 youth in the Indianapolis area, who may not otherwise have access to the creative arts, by providing free art classes through the leadership of professional teaching artists. ArtReach students are given a platform for self-expression while exploring the fundamentals of artmaking.
This Bi-Annual ArtReach Exhibition is a dynamic celebration of creativity, featuring the theme “Imaginary Worlds!” highlighting the incredible talent and imagination of the youth who participated in the Indy Art Center’s ArtReach program. The viewer is invited to embark on a unique journey into vivid and boundless imaginary worlds envisioned by these young artists. The exhibition showcases an array of artistic expressions, offering a glimpse into diverse, imaginative realms.
This exhibition is made possible through funding from the Katharine B. Sutphin Foundation, whose generous support plays a pivotal role in bringing this inspiring exhibition to life.
Forging Ahead : Works from the Last Ten Years of the Metals Program at Herron School of Art & Design
This collection of works is a sample of various jewelry making and metalsmithing processes from a variety of levels of courses offered at Herron School of Art + Design. You will find works that explore texture and materials and push the idea of what wearable or functional metalsmithing can be. The artists included in this show are a premonition of a future-art world with unique and clever voices expressing themselves through metals. Thank you to Professor Sarah Spomer for her help in organizing this exhibition.
Perpetual Panorama
The JoeWill Series: Perpetual Panorama is a two person exhibition of artworks by twin brothers Joe and Will Lawrance. Through diverse media, themes, and subjects this series tells the stories of two burgeoning Indianapolis-born artists whose lives tragically ended as young adults. Joe and Will Lawrance, born in 1985, were identical twin brothers that shared a deep, powerful bond to one another. The two were so interconnected and inseparable that their names morphed into the compound name, JoeWill, as a means of referring to their collective identity.
Within this collection of paintings and drawings by JoeWill, you will find the artists’ exploration of place- marked in still life works, landscape paintings, and imagined or abstracted spaces. The
works in this gallery are all direct products of the lived experiences of JoeWill. These works map the spaces- literal and psychological- that Joe and Will each traversed.
The works featured in this exhibition stand as powerful testament to the deep connections between physical environments and the internal, emotional landscapes of the artists themselves. Far more than mere depictions of nature, these paintings and drawings provide rare glimpses into the multifaceted experiences and perspectives that shaped Joe and Will’s creative visions. Through paint, ink, and various media, the artists have woven together the tangible and the intangible, inviting viewers to contemplate not just the scenes before them, but the very essence of how we, as humans, interpret, respond to, and are transformed by the spaces we inhabit. These landscapes serve as vivid, affecting records of two lives fully lived and explored.