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CATEGORIES:Art
COMMENT:Info source: https://www.bsu.edu/web/museumofart/exhibitions
CONTACT:mary.rodgers@bsu.edu
DTSTART;TZID=AMERICA/INDIANA/INDIANAPOLIS:20251009T090000
DESCRIPTION:September 18 – December 19\, 2025\n\nBall State alumnus Lamar
  Richcreek (1947–2018) earned a degree in business administration in 196
 9. After a 24-year career in banking\, he launched a second career in phot
 ography. In his 50s\, he returned to school\, earned an MFA at Vermont Col
 lege of Fine Arts\, and taught for 20 years as an adjunct professor of pho
 tography at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. His success
  as a fine art photographer resulted in a solo exhibition at the Indianapo
 lis Museum of Art in 2002.\n\nLike the pastoral genre in literature\, art\
 , and music\, Lamar Richcreek’s photographs often present nostalgic visu
 al stories of Indiana’s agricultural landscape inflected by his business
  perspective. He once wrote in an artist’s statement\, “My views of th
 e landscape\, agriculture and the family farm are romanticized ones\, orig
 inating from childhood experiences and visits to my grandfather’s farm i
 n Central Indiana. In the aftermath of World War II and during the Cold Wa
 r years\, the Midwest saw the creation of global markets for farm products
  and the development of technological advances that were invented to incre
 ase production for improved and insured profitability\, all of which trans
 formed American farming. These transformations favored agri-businesses and
  multi-national corporations\, thereby altering the viability of the tradi
 tional family farm. This change occurred over time without my realizing it
 s impact.”\n\nLamar Richcreek’s photography testifies to the effects o
 f the post-war economic-agricultural boom in the Midwest through his image
 s with surreal settings\, witty juxtapositions\, and sublime scenery. A re
 cent donation of art from his wife\, Jean Richcreek (1948–2025)\, to the
  David Owsley Museum of Art allows subsequent generations to view the corp
 oratization of farming in Indiana through Lamar Richcreek’s creative len
 s. We are also grateful to Ball State alumnus Thomas Murphy (‘69) for hi
 s recent philanthropic investment in DOMA in memory of Lamar and Jean Rich
 creek.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;
LOCATION:David Owsley Museum of Art\, Ball State University (2021 W. Rivers
 ide Ave.\, Ball State University)
SUMMARY:Indiana Pastoral: The Photography of Lamar Richcreek
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