Summer Exhibition Series
Art Center galleries connect the community with artwork of local, regional, and national artists.
Rotating exhibitions fill our six galleries and are always free and open to the public.
Find yourself here, at Indy Art Center, where it’s always Everybody’s Art!
Indy Art Center Exhibitions presented by
Art from the Heartland 2026
Juried by Kolt Lucius Sizer, Curator of Education and Public Programming at the South Bend Museum of Art.
The Midwest is fruitful soil for creatives of all ambitions. Art From the Heartland stitches together a disparate patchwork of artists whose work spans a wide array of traditional practices and materials.
Many artworks on display tap into more than one of these themes, and dozens of other thematic threads can be followed throughout the galleries. No single cultural background, conceptual concern, or media can fully define contemporary art of the Heartland. Rather, the works on view reflect a rich web of intersecting perspectives that speak to the complex and sometimes contradictory realities of contemporary Midwestern life. Across all three galleries the work invites each viewer to reflect on what the Heartland means to them personally.
Image: Rhonda Gates, The Oxbow Holds the River’s Memory
Delicate Threads
Delicate Threads explores neurodivergence and the pursuit of mental health at the intersection of metalsmithing, textiles, enameling, and printmaking media. The show highlights jewelry, garments, and nonferrous metal sculpture from a decade of artistic explorations.
Image: Sarah Spomer, Swell
Art Reach: Play
Inspired by games, dreams, memories, movement, and experimentation, students embraced the theme of Play through a wide range of artistic processes and materials. From whimsical watercolor creations and imaginative “dream rooms” inspired by infinite spaces, to oversized game pieces, collaborative surrealist creatures, relief printing with toys, nostalgic character design, ceramics, mixed media, and expressive painting techniques, each artwork reflects the freedom to explore, imagine, and create.
Image: Indianapolis Metropolitan High School
Kai and Akamu in Hawaii
Works by Carol Skinner’s Advanced Painting Classes
This exhibition showcases a collection of paintings created by students in Carol Skinner’s Advanced Painting Classes.
The project began in Fall 2025 with a shared assignment: each artist selected a subject from a list inspired by the beauty, culture, and spirit of Hawaii. Leading the exhibition are portraits of Kai and Akamu, two Native Hawaiians whose images serve as an introduction to the works that follow.
Solo Show by Becky Fehsenfeld
A collection of works by artist Becky Fehsenfeld.