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News Release: Eiteljorg’s Fifth Third Bank Jingle Rails returns and family discovery area reopens Nov. 20
During holidays, attractions include model trains and child-led learning experiences The model railroad in the Fifth Third Bank Jingle Rails: The Great Western Adventure passes a miniature of Monument Circle. INDIANAPOLIS – The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and...
News Release: Eiteljorg Día de Muertos Community Celebration returns Oct. 30; admission is free
Experience music, cultural presentations and community altar exhibit at Day of the Dead festival INDIANAPOLIS — The annual Día de Muertos Community Celebration returns to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art on Saturday, Oct. 30, bringing cultural...
News Release: Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship exhibition “Shifting Boundaries” opens Nov. 13
Riveting works on view by five Native artists selected for prestigious Fellowship Anita Fields (Osage / Muscogee) Starr Man, 2015 Clay, slip, gold luster glaze. Collection of the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman; The James T....
Experience an abundance of Native American art now on exhibit
By Elisa G. Phelps, vice president and chief curatorial officer Unrecorded Artist from the Navajo Nation Necklace, 1970s Silver, turquoise Collection of the Eiteljorg Museum Gift of Helen Cox Kersting in Memory of Dr. Hans Joachim Kersting, 2008.8.648 Featured in the...
Top statewide public relations awards go to museum marketing team
In May, the Eiteljorg’s Marketing and Communications team competed in the Pinnacle Awards contest presented by the Public Relations Society of America, Hoosier Chapter, and won two statewide awards for excellence. The competition recognized the best projects and...
IN MEMORIAM: Jennifer Complo McNutt, 1957-2021
By Elisa G. Phelps, vice president and chief curatorial officer Jennifer Complo McNutt, 1957-2021 As we mourn the passing of Jennifer Complo McNutt, curator of contemporary art, we also celebrate her many accomplishments during an incredible 30-year tenure at the...
Día de Muertos Community Celebration returns to the Eiteljorg as an in-person event Oct. 30
By Alisa Nordholt-Dean, vice president for public programs and Beeler Family director of education Curated by Arte Mexicano en Indiana, the Community Art and Ofrenda exhibit is open and free to visit Oct. 10 through Nov. 2. This year’s featured artist Eduardo Robeldo...
News Release: Eiteljorg in final stretch of Project 2021 capital/endowment campaign with goal in sight
Public’s support sought to fund remaining amount to bring museum’s vision to reality Project rendering of the new Native American Galleries at the Eiteljorg Museum Images courtesy of Origin Studios INDIANAPOLIS – The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western...
News Release: Sales of art at Eiteljorg’s Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale exceed $1.2 million
Exhibit of top Western art on public view through Oct. 10 At the Eiteljorg Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale, artist John Fawcett, center, received the Harrison Eiteljorg Purchase Award from Quest chair Catherine Turner, left, and Eiteljorg Museum President and...
News Release: Eiteljorg Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale returns in person with Wes Studi
Top Western art sale weekend features special events with Academy Award recipient Mian Situ Morning Hours, 2021 Oil, 28 x 20 inches INDIANAPOLIS – Admirers of art inspired by the American West will converge on the Eiteljorg Museum in September for the 16th annual...
News Release: Eiteljorg Museum celebrates the contemporary art of “Powerful Women”
Diverse group of visionary artists highlighted in second rotation of exhibition Anita Rodriguez (American, born 1941) Boda Bacalar, 1997 Acrylic on wood Gift and Gerald and Dorit Paul 2018.16.1 INDIANAPOLIS – An ongoing exhibition at the Eiteljorg Museum of American...
Johnson, Brett Allen
Brett Allen Johnson Born 1984 in Provo, Utah, lives in Lehi, Utah RAISED AT THE FOOT of Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Range—in a small town called American Fork, Utah—Johnson remembers having an interest in art throughout his life, but didn’t immediately see the...
