Current Exhibits
Each year, the Peeler Art Center gallery program presents a wide range of exhibitions and related programming. From traveling exhibitions of national and international significance to shows featuring the work of current students, faculty, and alumni, the gallery program strives to offer a dynamic schedule of interdisciplinary visual experiences.
On This Page You Will Find:
Current Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
Events (Click here for Upcoming Events and here for Past Events)
Traveling Exhibitions
Fall 2024 Exhibitions
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American Ideals in Tension: The Sublime vs. Manifest Destiny November 22, 2024 - June 30, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Second floor Display Case This exhibit illustrates how late nineteenth-century American culture romanticized the unexplored western territories while simultaneously promoting the religious conviction known as Manifest Destiny. Ultimately, Manifest Destiny became the dominant ideology, leading to the tragic and widespread genocide of American indigenous peoples. The development of American society as we know it today is inseparable from the violence and murder of thousands of indigenous peoples. Curated by Elizabeth Dugan, DePauw Class of 2024, currently attending Indiana University Bloomington and seeking a degree in Art Administration with a concentration in Museum Studies. |
 Jane's Sandwich, 2023 Oil and acrylic on linen |
CLOSED Miranda Holmes: Bright Bones October 28 - December 8, 2024 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery Miranda Holmes (b. 1994) embraces expansive notions of identity and intimacy in her paintings, drawings, and installations. Her work speculates on how we shape one another and the places we inhabit. Using transparent films of paint, Holmes layers the shapes of everyday objects and experiences within figures, entangling them with the cups they hold, the drawers they open, and the shoulders they lean on. Bright Bones features work created by the artist over the last two years, including during her time in Berlin, Germany under a DAAD Fellowship in the Arts. Each work attends to thresholds of interaction that mark a relationship in flux. Holmes paints the edges between subject matter as active and buzzing. Subjects and objects seep into one another, destabilizing the Self/Other binary for a fluid vision of experience. Gestures of care and conflict lodge within bodies like memory calcifying into bone. The show underlines painting as a site for textures of intimacy to spark, wrestle, grow, or diminish within a single moment. Artist Talk: Monday, October 28, 2024, 4:30pm EDT in the Peeler Art Center, Auditorium |
 Theda Sandiford Blackity Black Blanket Drape on Library Ladders, 2023 Recycled commercial fishing net, zip tie blanket and antique library ladders Image credit: April Tracy |
CLOSED Beyond: Tapestry Expanded August 26 - December 8, 2024 Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level) Beyond: Tapestry Expanded is a curated and juried exhibition that features work from artists exploring the expansive properties of tapestry. Using the definition of tapestry as a nonfunctional, handwoven pictorial structure, artists combine both hand and digital processes, using non-traditional materials, creating three-dimensional forms, or incorporating multi-media components, including sound and video. The exhibition is organized by the American Tapestry Alliance, curated by Erica Warren, art consultant, scholar, and former curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, and juried by Jade Yumang, Associate Professor of Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Alexa Griffith Winton, art historian and curator at the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Tapestry Workshop: Saturday, September 28, 2024, 1 - 4pm EDT at the Peeler Art Center, Lobby To view the exhibition virtually, go here |
 Hiroyuki Tajima Popox, 1964 Woodcut| Gift of David T. Prosser Jr. 2016.5.5 |
CLOSED From the Prosser Collection Collection Connections: Chaos, Culture, & Contours August 26 - December 8, 2024 Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (upper level) Featured in this student curated exhibition, Collection Connections: Chaos, Culture, & Contours, is a small portion of a print collection donated by David Prosser, class of '65. The curators saw the themes listed in the exhibition title as prevalent in the pieces of art, as well as having connections with Prosser's life.To view the exhibition virtually, go here |
 Unknown Artist President Mao's thinking shall always shine (Cultural Revolution Propaganda Poster), 1973 Offset Lithograph Purchased by DePauw University 2013.1.30 |
CLOSED Art as Propaganda August 26 - November 15, 2024 Peeler Art Center, Second floor Display Case For centuries, art has been used as propaganda, spreading political messages through vibrant colors and cultural iconography. From as early as 515 B.C.E., with the creation of Persia’s Behistun Inscription, to now, propaganda has helped nations win wars, supported dictators and democracies, and spurred political agendas. The propaganda posters in this case are from Russia, China, and the United States, and they show how art has been used to promote agendas and how different governments implement this centuries-old tool. Curated by DePauw University student Abigail Fathauer class of 2025. |
 Kakuko Ishii Musubu R, 2012 Washi paper (Mizuhiki) and pigment Image courtesy of the artist © Kakuko Ishii |
Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper January 27 - April 27, 2025 Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (lower level)  Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper was organized by Meher McArthur and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. |
 Kawano Kaoru Girl with Prunus Blossom, Early-mid 20th century Color Woodblock Print Depauw Collection, 1991.11.41 |
Japanese Prints from the DePauw Art Collection January 27 - March 12, 2025 Peeler Art Center, University Gallery (upper level) |
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Annual Juried Student Exhibition January 27 - February 23, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery Brian James Priest is a interdisciplinary artist based in Indianapolis. He has presented his work at Yugong Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, White Flag Project Space and more. Priest was a recipient of the Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship and Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship. He is a former Visiting Professor of Sculpture at DePauw University and owner of BJPstudio, a fabrication and design studio. Priest received his BFA from IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design in 2004 and MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. Curatorial Talk: February 4, 2025 at the Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery This event is free and open to the public. Entries Accepted: December 8 from 1pm-5pm, December 9 - December 13 from 10am - 4pm Pick up accepted:February 24 - 25, 2025 Non picked up works disposed: March 3, 2025 |
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BATES BEEF: Ruminations from rural Indiana March 3 - April 6, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery |
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Vietnam in the Midwest March 26 - June 30, 2025 Peeler Art Center, Visual Arts Gallery |