"A Strange Enterprise": Drawings of the French Theatre from the Permanent Collection

Scholz Family Works on Paper Gallery
April 15–July 1, 2012

French playwright and actor Molière (1622–73) once said, "It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh." This focus exhibition of Old Master and nineteenth-century drawings related to the theater examines the function and role of the performing arts within political and social discourse in France. The selection presented here includes figure studies and decorative designs by eighteenth-century artists Claude Gillot, Charles Antoine Coypel, and Gilles-Marie Oppenord and their post-revolutionary successors Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol, James Pradier, and Charles Antoine Cambon.

2012 BFA/MFA Candidates' Theses Exhibition

O'Shaughnessy Galleries and the Milly and Fritz Kaeser Mestrovic Studio Gallery
April 1–May 20, 2012

This annual exhibition of culminating works by eight seniors and five third-year graduate students in the Art, Art History and Design Department demonstrates a broad awareness of the themes and processes of contemporary art and is often provocative.

The artworks range from industrial and graphic design projects and complex multi-media installations to more traditional art forms such as paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, ceramics and sculpture.

On Sunday, April 1 the Art, Art History and Design Departmental awards will be announced in the Annenberg Auditorium during the 2–4 p.m. opening reception, along with the 2012 Efroymson Family Fund Emerging Artists Awards. For the fifth consecutive year, these are possible due to a $10,000 grant award from the Efroymson Family Fund, a Central Indiana Community Foundation Fund.