A Quilt Show Open House (no guided tours) with extended hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be held from March 5-7, 2015. The Open House runs concurrently with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show (held at the Bloomington Convention Center). The museum will be displaying a portion of is antique quilt collection throughout the home. A shuttle will be operating between several participating sites, including Wylie House Museum on Friday and Saturday only.

Special Event Note: In addition to the exhibit, this year Wylie House Museum is pleased to welcome Indiana State Curator of Social History, Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker, for a free, one hour talk on Indiana’s Quilting Heritage. This talk takes place on Friday March 6, from 3-4pm.

Indiana’s Quilting Heritage: A Visual Survey
A Visual Feast! Mary Jane will tell the story of quilting’s history in Indiana from the 1820s to the early 1900s using images of 88 quilts, many from the Indiana State Museum’s collection. Find out what Indiana’s earliest documented quilts looked like, how Indiana Amish quilts differ from those from Pennsylvania, and how Indiana designers revolutionized quilting at the turn of the 20th century.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

“Moco’s Prehistoric Past”
Come see and examine fossils of plants, organisms, and animals found in the Hoosier state and learn how they contributed to Southern Indiana’s natural landscape. The history center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00am-4:00pm. Runs through March 31.

The History Center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4pm.

IU Art Museum is pleased to host the Noon Concert Series, presented by the Office of International Services. Take a break from studying or work and ease yourself into the weekend with free concerts in the museum’s atrium. Music will be performed by students from the IU Jacobs School of Music.

Lloyd Kolbe, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Indiana University SChool of Public Health-Bloomington

“What Will America’s Schools Do to Improve Education and Health?”

Free and Open to Everyone

The Kinsey Institute art and library collections contain thousands of examples of erotic imagery produced over centuries by artists around the world. Secret Impressions presents a selection of lithographs, engravings, etchings and woodblock prints from the mid-19th century and earlier. These artworks from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Japan illustrate the means by which pornographic and erotic images were mass produced before the invention of the camera. Wealthy collectors could commission paintings, but others could purchase prints at a lower cost. Once photography was invented in the 1830s, it quickly became a popular medium for depictions of the nude figure, as well as erotic imagery. The first photographic process to become widespread was the daguerreotype, which produced a unique image. With the invention of a process that used a negative to make multiple photographs, the mass production of erotic images became possible. Hold That Pose features daguerreotypes, tintypes, albumen and gelatin silver prints, stereocards, and other examples of photographic processes that were used in the 19th century by professional photographers to produce and distribute erotic material.

The Kinsey Institute is open to visitors from 1:30 to 5:00 pm weekdays or at other times during office hours by appointment only. Admission is free. Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. To schedule a group guided tour of The Kinsey Institute, please call 812-855-7686.

This film interweaves four stories of remarkable courage, compassion, and determination, while setting out to uncover the forgotten life of Raphael Lemkin—the man who created the word “genocide” and believed the law could protect the world from mass atrocities. Inspired by Samantha Power’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, A Problem from Hell, Watchers of the Sky takes viewers on a provocative journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action. (2K DCP presentation)

Please meet in the museum’s third floor office. No pre-registration is required, but space is limited. Admission will be on a first come-first served basis.

The Utagawa School was the most influential training ground for Japanese woodblock artists in the nineteenth century. Judy Stubbs, the IU Art Museum’s Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, will discuss works by two of its most famous students: Utagawa Kunisada and Utagawa Kuniyoshi.

Talks are free and held on Friday afternoons at Wylie House Museum’s Morton C. Bradley, Jr. Education Center, located next door to the museum at 317 E. Second St.

Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker, Curator of Social History at Indiana State Museum

This PowerPoint presentation tells the story of quilting’s history in Indiana from the 1820s to the early 21st century, primarily using examples from the collection of the Indiana State Museum. A visual feast, the program includes images of 88 Indiana quilts in different styles and techniques. These include some of the highlights of the museum’s collection as well as examples that, because of their fragility, are seldom if ever exhibited. Several examples from the world-famous Pottinger Collection of Indiana Amish Quilts are included. Find out what Indiana’s earliest documented quilts looked like, how Indiana Amish quilts differ from those from Pennsylvania, and how Indiana designers revolutionized quilting at the turn of the 20th century!

Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals.

Exhibitions in 2014 include “Thread Lines” at The Drawing Center in NYC and “Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present” originating at the ICA Boston and traveling to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Wexner Center for the Arts. In 2013 Wilson’s solo exhibition “Dispersions” opened at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and her work was included in the “Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber” at the Zhejiang Art Museum in China. In 2012 Wilson participated in the “Global Threads” exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, England. Her 2011 solo exhibitions include “Rewinds” at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and “Local Industry” at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Her work has been included in numerous shows internationally. She was included in the “2002 Biennial” at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and her solo exhibition entitled “Anne Wilson: Anatomy of Wear” was presented in 2000 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Wilson is the recipient of grants from the Driehaus Foundation, Artadia, the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council. Wilson’s work is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Paul Kotula Projects, Detroit. She is a Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The College of Arts & Sciences and the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts gratefully acknowledge Dr. Meredith McKinney (BA ’65 and MD ’68) and Mrs. Elsa Luise Barthel McKinney (BA – ’65) for their love of the arts and for their generous support in endowing the McKinney Visiting Artist Series at Indiana University Bloomington.