by MMAA Staff | Jun 7, 2019 | News & Updates
Art makes community a vibrant place, operators say BY DANI MESSICK – [email protected] Jun 6, 2019 ELKHART — In the midst of Elkhart’s entertainment revival, the Midwest Museum of American Art is celebrating its 40-year anniversary. Museum director and...
by MMAA | Feb 14, 2019 | News & Updates, Press
By Becky Malewitz South Bend Tribune Feb 10, 2019 Jim Huntington went to a quarry in Colorado last May and left with 88,000 pounds of granite in two trailers. He has between 40,000 and 50,000 pounds left. The sculptor — who was born in Elkhart in 1941 and grew up...
by MMAA | Dec 18, 2018 | News & Updates
By Marshall V. King Tribune Columnist Dec 17, 2018 ELKHART — For a year, Justin and Brooke Rothshank worked alongside each other as spouses, as artists, exploring gratitude. Once a week, she’d produce a miniature watercolor painting less than an inch square. He’d...
by MMAA Staff | Aug 23, 2018 | News & Updates, Press
By Nora McGreevy South Bend Tribune Curator Brian Byrn knows firsthand how exciting it can be to enter work into the Midwest Museum of American Art’s Elkhart Juried Regional exhibit. In October 1981, as a 23-year-old fresh out of college with an art degree, Byrn...
by MMAA | Oct 19, 2017 | News & Updates, Press
Elkhart Juried Regional reveals strong pulse for area art community by Becky Malowitz | South Bend Tribune Artist Jerry Ginther thinks his wife would like his work better if it had more color or was more decorative. “If you looked at the drawing, it’s just kind of one...
by MMAA | Jul 18, 2017 | News & Updates, Press
Brian Byrn didn’t step into an art museum until he was 18 years old, but art was very central to his upbringing nonetheless. He was born and raised in Corydon, Indiana’s original state capital, so he spent years playing on the Constitutional Elm and walking around the...
