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News Release: New members join Eiteljorg Museum Board of Directors and Community Board of Advisors
Five new directors, eight new advisors bring diversity and experience to museum June 20, 2023: INDIANAPOLIS – The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art welcomes five new members to its Board of Directors and eight new members to its Community Board of...
Loffler, Rich
Richard Loffler Born 1956 in Regina, Saskatchewan; lives in southern Saskatchewan At 67 Richard Loffler is an avid outdoorsman. He juggles his time between home, his fieldwork, his studio work and the casting foundries, where he oversees the patinas and completed...
Tucker, Ezra
Ezra Tucker Born 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee; lives in Monument, Colorado EZRA TUCKER’S WORK is inspired by the work of classical wildlife artists like Bob Khun, Carl Rungius, Edwin Landseer, Arthur Wardle and Antoine Bayre. Tucker pulls viewers into his creations...
Anderson, Luke
Luke Anderson Born 1993 in Cheyenne, Wyoming; lives in Salt Lake City, Utah LUKE ANDRESON IS A SELF-TAUGHT PAINTER and mixed media artist originally from Cheyenne, Wyoming, now working out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Luke Anderson's surfaces often incorporate...
LaMure Jr., Dave
Dave LaMure Jr. Born in 1963 in Schurz, Nevada; lives in Kimberly, Idaho DAVE LAMURE, JR. has had a studio in Idaho for thirty-two years. His uncle inspired him with a bag of clay at the age of twelve. Later LaMure took a clay workshop at the Roswell Museum in New...
News Release: Visit the Eiteljorg for the Juneteenth and Jazz Community Celebration June 17
Celebrate Juneteenth with live music, performances, activities and more; admission is FREE The Freetown Village Singers are scheduled to perform at the Juneteenth and Jazz Community Celebration, Saturday June 17 at the Eiteljorg Museum. Eiteljorg Museum file image....
Scholars fine-tune their research on Religion and the American West during conference at Eiteljorg Museum
By Jessica Nelson, Ph.D., director of religion and culture initiatives On April 20-23, the Eiteljorg welcomed scholars from around the United States to our museum. The scholars participated in a symposium on the theme “Religion and the American West,” co-sponsored by...
Terry Tapia’s work in new galleries embodies stories shared by families, and reveals interesting details
By Dorene Red Cloud (Oglala Lakota), curator of Native American art The new Native American Galleries are organized on the themes of Relation, Continuation and Innovation. The Eiteljorg Museum’s newly re-envisioned Native American Galleries opened in June 2022 with...
Movement to instill values of DEAI is a priority for Eiteljorg Museum
By Johanna M. Blume, curator of Western art history and culture, and 2023 co-chair of the Eiteljorg DEAI Council In the midst of pandemic illness and worldwide systemic inequity and discrimination which came to a head in 2020, Black, Indigenous and People of Color...