Dec 30, 2024 | Announcements, Eiteljorg Insider, Great Lakes, Indigenous Peoples, Native American, Pohrt Collection, Press Release, Press Releases, Project 2021 News, Western Collection
Museum to examine impacts of religion and spirituality in Native cultures and the West Monday, Dec. 30, 2024 INDIANAPOLIS – Expressions of religion and spirituality among Native peoples and within the American West will be the focus of major projects at the Eiteljorg...
Dec 13, 2024 | Blog, Eiteljorg Insider, Western Collection
By Tori Satchwell, former Eiteljorg marketing and communications intern On my first day at the Eiteljorg, I was scared, nervous and felt incredibly underqualified. Then, I saw a grandmother with her granddaughter in the museum’s Western Art Galleries. I remember the...
Dec 9, 2024 | Announcements, Eiteljorg Insider, Native American, Press Release, Press Releases, Western Collection
Curator brings long experience in museums presenting Indigenous and Western American art Monday, Dec. 9, 2024 INDIANAPOLIS – Laura Fry has been named the new Vice President for Curatorial Affairs at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. In this...
Oct 17, 2024 | Announcements, Blog, Eiteljorg Insider, Western Collection
Endowment in honor of late director Michael Duty will support museum internship efforts Michael Duty in 2017 Image courtesy of Sarah Deregan and the Duty family Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024 INDIANAPOLIS – The family of the Eiteljorg Museum’s first executive director...
Sep 11, 2024 | Events, Exhibitions, Press Release, Press Releases, Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West, Western Collection
Public exhibition open through Oct. 6 Artist Brett Allen Johnson, left, and 2024 Quest for the West Art Show Chair Catherine Turner, right, with Johnson’s painting Pueblo Shapes (2024) that won the Quest Harrison Eiteljorg Purchase Award on Sept. 6-7 at the Eiteljorg...
Aug 9, 2024 | Blog, Quest, Quest Artists, Quest for the West, Western Collection
By Johanna M. Blume, curator of Western art, history and culture Krystii Melaine Quest for the West Artist of Distinction 2023 This fall, alongside the annual Quest for the West® Art Show and Sale, the Eiteljorg will present a special exhibition of works by longtime...
