By BSU Marketing and Communications—
MUNCIE, IN – The David Owsley Museum of Art (DOMA) at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., will display a selection of recent additions to the DOMA collection from Sept. 29 through Dec. 22, 2022.
DOMA is open to the public 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. on Saturdays. There is no admission fee. The exhibition and related events are part of Ball State’s Arts Alive Series, presented by the University’s College of Fine Arts.
The exhibition features three major paintings:
- A study of laborers harvesting sugar cane by American Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton;
- A monumental “inscape” or interior psychological landscape by Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta; and
- Contemporary artist Diane Burko’s Antarctica Diptych, which bears witness to global warming.
These highlighted works are accompanied by several new additions of American art to the collection by history painter Emanuel Leutze, symbolist Elihu Vedder, American impressionist Ernest Lawson, midwestern sculptors Janet Scudder and Mildred Welsh Hammond, Park Avenue cubist Albert Eugene Gallatin, mid-century modernist Earl Kerkam, and African American artist Joseph Delaney.
The variety of objects is further enhanced with photo drawings by former Ball State professor Lawrence Graham, Japanese prints and sculpture, and a spectacular African mask. These works add significantly to the museum’s world art collection—which reflects Ball State’s inclusive values, and represents the increasingly diverse heritage of its student body and the people of East Central Indiana.
“The exhibition gives our visitors the opportunity to monitor the growth of the museum’s diverse holdings,” Robert G. La France, director of the David Owsley Museum of Art, said. “I am perhaps most proud of the acquisition of Diane Burko’s Antarctica Diptych; now the global art collection has works of art representing all seven continents.”
Visit DOMA’s website for more information and details on related programs and events, including a free public talk by featured artist Diane Burko, who will speak at the museum at 6:00 p.m. on October 13, 2022, about art and climate change.
About the David Owsley Museum of Art
2021 W. Riverside Avenue, Muncie, Indiana
Free and open to the public, the David Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University houses a world art collection with over 11,000 works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands, Europe, and the Americas. DOMA cultivates lifelong learning and recreation in the visual arts through exciting interdisciplinary art exhibitions with engaging displays of the permanent collection in an educational environment that serves both the University and the East Central Indiana region. DOMA’s website. Visitor hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
DOMA is in the Fine Arts Building on the northern side of Ball State University’s Quad. Parking is available at the McKinley Avenue Parking Garage, and MITS bus stops are nearby. For more information, contact the museum: 765-285-5242 or email artmuseum@bsu.edu.
About Ball State
Founded in 1918 and located in Muncie, Ball State University is one of Indiana’s premier universities and an economic driver for the state. Ball State’s 21,600 students come from all over Indiana, the nation, and the world. The 790-acre campus is large enough to accommodate first-rate facilities and 19 NCAA Division I sports, but our welcoming and inclusive campus is small enough to ensure the friendliness, personal attention, and access that are the hallmarks of the University. Destination 2040: Our Flight Path establishes Ball State’s ambitious goals for our second century. We Fly!
