All Past Exhibitions

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Waning Elements

January 29 - May 12, 2024
Contemporary society moves at a blistering pace. New technologies replace centuries-old traditions. Environmental degradation intensifies as society treats finite resources as commodities to be traded and exhausted. Jessica Calderwood, Brent Cole, Jennifer Halvorson, and Jacinda Russell bring these two concepts together in the mediums of sculpture, metal, enamel, glass, and photography. In Waning Elements, they explore and expose the conflicts inherent in their processes as they address issues of labor, social disconnection, loss, and time.
Hidden Treasures: Objects from DePauw University Art Collections

August 28 - February 9, 2024
As part of the “Hidden Treasures” series, objects from the art collection will be on view periodically in Peeler’s second-floor display case. Students, faculty, staff, and the general public will have a chance to see the gems which are a part of DePauw’s art collection.
Senior Thesis Exhibition

April 19 - May 18, 2024
Come view the tremendous accomplishments of DePauw University’s art students in the Senior Art Exhibition. Each student will present a brief statement about what inspired their creative explorations during the opening event. Stay for refreshments and the opportunity to talk to the artists individually. Exhibition Seniors: Elise Monroe, Alondra Perez, Hayato Takeshita, Mya Wood
Cindy O'Dell: stories

March 4 - April 7, 2024
Not only are stories a central aspect of our shared humanity, they can dispel stereotypes, expose inequities, and illuminate unjust power systems. This exhibition, stories, chronicles several decades of Cindy O’Dell’s documentary photography. The exhibit is curated in conjunction with O’Dell’s in progress textbook, Documentary Photography: A Creative Guidebook. With each image, she attempts to undo the document even as she makes a new one, thereby continually testing the limits of the form and challenging its rules. Using methods such as re-photography, memoir, videos, photo-fabric transfer, non-narrative video, photobooks, word and image combinations, and archival research, she builds layers of content and context. As a professor of art, she hopes to inspire students to tell their own stories, especially those at risk of being lost, ignored, or silenced. All stories matter.
Annual Juried Student Exhibition

January 29 - February 25, 2024
The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features works created by current DePauw students enrolled in studio art courses. The 2024 Exhibition is juried by Matt Rees. Matt Rees lives in Putnam County, Indiana, a predominantly rural area that continually feeds his wonder for the natural world and small-town America. He studied woodblock carving and printing with renowned print master, Tom Huck, of St. Louis, Missouri. After the apprenticeship, M.Rees launched Wildwood Press. His woodblock prints are part of the permanent collections of the Indiana Bar Association and the Putnam County Historical Society and Museum.
Arboreta, A Sabbatical Exhibitionby John Berry

March 6 - April 7, 2023

The paintings in Arboreta draw inspiration from the history, structures, and resilience of the Schrebergarten in Leipzig Germany, exploring the implications for how we organize our images, ourselves, and our communities. Hovering between landscape and abstraction, flat shapes compartmentalize space into different surfaces, barricades, and hiding spots. The artifice and ambiguities of spatial illusion are out in the open, weaving a seemingly wider range of frequencies into a smaller, simpler encounter.
We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collection

August 28 - December 8, 2023
Curated by current Arthur E. Klauser Fellows Ian Brundige and Alyssa Flory, We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collection uses objects within DePauw’s various collections to explore expressions of gender and sexuality as they relate to personal and communal identities. Through this exhibition, identity will be examined as a constant process of discovering, defining, revealing, and defying parts of ourselves.
Present-Not Present

February 1 - May 14, 2023
Upon entering a museum or a gallery, look around and take notice of the people that are next to you. Who do you NOT see? In a world caught up in self-aggrandizement from selfies to influencers, it can be easy to overlook groups in our society who are peripheral from the incarcerated, recently incarcerated, those without homes or countries. Present-Not Present directs attention to who is not in the confined and often perceived elite spaces of the museum. The artists in this exhibition actively engage with those on the periphery and provide them with a platform to be heard, seen, and acknowledged. Though the method of collaboration may take many forms, the work in the exhibition documents the exchanges between artist and collaborator thus creating a story that evolves and deepens over time. Artists include Jim Duignan, Brandon Hill, Marc Fischer and Claudia Bernardi, an Argentinian artist who is inspired by her forensic work of uncovering mass grave sites of the “disappeared” in Argentina and other parts of Central America.