141 upcoming events with the art gallery tag
72 past events with this tagSep 3, 2025
This Wednesday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 4, 2025
This Thursday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 5, 2025
This Friday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 6, 2025
This Saturday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 7, 2025
Sunday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 10, 2025
Wednesday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 11, 2025
Thursday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 12, 2025
Friday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 13, 2025
Saturday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 14, 2025
Sunday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 17, 2025
Wednesday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sep 18, 2025
Thursday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Indiana Pastoral: The Photography of Lamar Richcreek 9am to 4:30pm @ David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University 2021 W. Riverside Ave., Ball State University
Image: Lamar Richcreek (American, 1947–2018), Untitled from the Series Ideal Farm, 2004, chromogenic color print, gift of Jean Richcreek, 2024.006.011.
September 18 – December 19, 2025
Ball State alumnus Lamar Richcreek (1947–2018) earned a degree in business administration in 1969. After a 24-year career in banking, he launched a second career in photography. In his 50s, he returned to school, earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and taught for 20 years as an adjunct professor of photography at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. His success as a fine art photographer resulted in a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002.
Like the pastoral genre in literature, art, and music, Lamar Richcreek’s photographs often present nostalgic visual stories of Indiana’s agricultural landscape inflected by his business perspective. He once wrote in an artist’s statement, “My views of the landscape, agriculture and the family farm are romanticized ones, originating from childhood experiences and visits to my grandfather’s farm in Central Indiana. In the aftermath of World War II and during the Cold War years, the Midwest saw the creation of global markets for farm products and the development of technological advances that were invented to increase production for improved and insured profitability, all of which transformed American farming. These transformations favored agri-businesses and multi-national corporations, thereby altering the viability of the traditional family farm. This change occurred over time without my realizing its impact.”
Lamar Richcreek’s photography testifies to the effects of the post-war economic-agricultural boom in the Midwest through his images with surreal settings, witty juxtapositions, and sublime scenery. A recent donation of art from his wife, Jean Richcreek (1948–2025), to the David Owsley Museum of Art allows subsequent generations to view the corporatization of farming in Indiana through Lamar Richcreek’s creative lens. We are also grateful to Ball State alumnus Thomas Murphy (‘69) for his recent philanthropic investment in DOMA in memory of Lamar and Jean Richcreek.
Sep 19, 2025
Friday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Indiana Pastoral: The Photography of Lamar Richcreek 9am to 4:30pm @ David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University 2021 W. Riverside Ave., Ball State University
Image: Lamar Richcreek (American, 1947–2018), Untitled from the Series Ideal Farm, 2004, chromogenic color print, gift of Jean Richcreek, 2024.006.011.
September 18 – December 19, 2025
Ball State alumnus Lamar Richcreek (1947–2018) earned a degree in business administration in 1969. After a 24-year career in banking, he launched a second career in photography. In his 50s, he returned to school, earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and taught for 20 years as an adjunct professor of photography at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. His success as a fine art photographer resulted in a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002.
Like the pastoral genre in literature, art, and music, Lamar Richcreek’s photographs often present nostalgic visual stories of Indiana’s agricultural landscape inflected by his business perspective. He once wrote in an artist’s statement, “My views of the landscape, agriculture and the family farm are romanticized ones, originating from childhood experiences and visits to my grandfather’s farm in Central Indiana. In the aftermath of World War II and during the Cold War years, the Midwest saw the creation of global markets for farm products and the development of technological advances that were invented to increase production for improved and insured profitability, all of which transformed American farming. These transformations favored agri-businesses and multi-national corporations, thereby altering the viability of the traditional family farm. This change occurred over time without my realizing its impact.”
Lamar Richcreek’s photography testifies to the effects of the post-war economic-agricultural boom in the Midwest through his images with surreal settings, witty juxtapositions, and sublime scenery. A recent donation of art from his wife, Jean Richcreek (1948–2025), to the David Owsley Museum of Art allows subsequent generations to view the corporatization of farming in Indiana through Lamar Richcreek’s creative lens. We are also grateful to Ball State alumnus Thomas Murphy (‘69) for his recent philanthropic investment in DOMA in memory of Lamar and Jean Richcreek.
Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art 9am to 4:30pm @ David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University 2021 W. Riverside Ave., Ball State University
Image: Pierre Daura (American, born Spain, 1896–1976), designs for Cercle et Carré logo, 1929. Pen and ink on paper, 9 3/4 × 6 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. 2011.125.
September 18 – December 19, 2025
Hours: 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Tuesday–Friday)
1:30–4:30 p.m. (Saturday)In Paris in 1929, Belgian painter and critic Michel Seuphor (1901–1999), Uruguayan painter and theorist Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949), and Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura (1896–1976) founded an influential but short-lived artistic group named Circle and Square, after the geometric shapes fundamental to abstract art. The group attracted more than eighty international artists including Jean Arp (1886–1966), Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Alexandra Exter (1882–1949), Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Nadia Khodasevich Léger (1904–1987), Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and Sophie Täuber-Arp (1889–1943), among other famous and lesser-known personalities in the Parisian art world. Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art showcases more than sixty works by thirty of Cercle et Carré’s participants, as well as outlines the formation of the group and its artistic legacy.
The exhibition was organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, with the addition of works from the collection of the David Owsley Museum of Art. Generous support for the exhibition was provided by the Daura Foundation.
Sep 20, 2025
Saturday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Indiana Pastoral: The Photography of Lamar Richcreek 1:30pm to 4:30pm @ David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University 2021 W. Riverside Ave., Ball State University
Image: Lamar Richcreek (American, 1947–2018), Untitled from the Series Ideal Farm, 2004, chromogenic color print, gift of Jean Richcreek, 2024.006.011.
September 18 – December 19, 2025
Ball State alumnus Lamar Richcreek (1947–2018) earned a degree in business administration in 1969. After a 24-year career in banking, he launched a second career in photography. In his 50s, he returned to school, earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and taught for 20 years as an adjunct professor of photography at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. His success as a fine art photographer resulted in a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002.
Like the pastoral genre in literature, art, and music, Lamar Richcreek’s photographs often present nostalgic visual stories of Indiana’s agricultural landscape inflected by his business perspective. He once wrote in an artist’s statement, “My views of the landscape, agriculture and the family farm are romanticized ones, originating from childhood experiences and visits to my grandfather’s farm in Central Indiana. In the aftermath of World War II and during the Cold War years, the Midwest saw the creation of global markets for farm products and the development of technological advances that were invented to increase production for improved and insured profitability, all of which transformed American farming. These transformations favored agri-businesses and multi-national corporations, thereby altering the viability of the traditional family farm. This change occurred over time without my realizing its impact.”
Lamar Richcreek’s photography testifies to the effects of the post-war economic-agricultural boom in the Midwest through his images with surreal settings, witty juxtapositions, and sublime scenery. A recent donation of art from his wife, Jean Richcreek (1948–2025), to the David Owsley Museum of Art allows subsequent generations to view the corporatization of farming in Indiana through Lamar Richcreek’s creative lens. We are also grateful to Ball State alumnus Thomas Murphy (‘69) for his recent philanthropic investment in DOMA in memory of Lamar and Jean Richcreek.
Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art 1:30pm to 4:30pm @ David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University 2021 W. Riverside Ave., Ball State University
Image: Pierre Daura (American, born Spain, 1896–1976), designs for Cercle et Carré logo, 1929. Pen and ink on paper, 9 3/4 × 6 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. 2011.125.
September 18 – December 19, 2025
Hours: 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Tuesday–Friday)
1:30–4:30 p.m. (Saturday)In Paris in 1929, Belgian painter and critic Michel Seuphor (1901–1999), Uruguayan painter and theorist Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949), and Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura (1896–1976) founded an influential but short-lived artistic group named Circle and Square, after the geometric shapes fundamental to abstract art. The group attracted more than eighty international artists including Jean Arp (1886–1966), Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Alexandra Exter (1882–1949), Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Nadia Khodasevich Léger (1904–1987), Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and Sophie Täuber-Arp (1889–1943), among other famous and lesser-known personalities in the Parisian art world. Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art showcases more than sixty works by thirty of Cercle et Carré’s participants, as well as outlines the formation of the group and its artistic legacy.
The exhibition was organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, with the addition of works from the collection of the David Owsley Museum of Art. Generous support for the exhibition was provided by the Daura Foundation.
Sep 21, 2025
Sunday
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Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend 9am to 5pm @ Minnetrista Museum & Gardens 1200 N Minnetrista Pkwy, Muncie, IN 47303
Cost: $15.00 Ages: all Ages The narwhal, with its unique spiral tusk, has inspired legend and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. Take a deep dive into the narwhal's Arctic world to explore what makes this mysterious animal and its changing ecosystem so important. Through first-hand accounts from scientists and Inuit community members, the exhibition will reveal how traditional knowledge and experience, coupled with the latest scientific research, heighten our understanding of these fascinating animals—and our changing global climate.
July 12, 2025 – September 28, 2025
Location: Center Building, Gallery 3
Cost: Included with your admission ticket
Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
This is a Weekly Recurring Event
Runs from Jul 12, 2025 to Sep 28, 2025 and happens every:
Wednesdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Thursdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Fridays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Saturdays: 9:00am - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
Sundays: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Timezone: EDT
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