New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art promotes discourse about and access to art being made today: also known as contemporary art.
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art was founded in 1975 with the original director, John P. Begley, also establishing a printshop in addition to exhibiting works by living artists. Over the years, artists who have shown with the gallery include Andy Warhol, Mary Beth Edelson, William M. Duffy, and countless significant regional artists with ties to the Midwest region of the United States. We have exhibited artists working across a range of mediums including mixed-media and installation art, fiber/textile arts, conceptual art, photography, painting, works on paper and works in clay, demonstrating the vibrant creative expressions found in Indiana, the Midwest and across wider networks in the US and abroad.
Founded with the the spirit of philanthropist Jane Blaffer Owen’s revitalization project of New Harmony in mind, the gallery has always presented works that demonstrate quality, sense of place and experimentation. The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art was one of three spaces at the forefront of contemporary art in the state of Indiana during the 1970s: a time when generative, artist-run spaces were offering a sense of limitless potential of what art could be and can mean as well as legitimizing exhibiting artists(1.) In 1985, University of Southern Indiana assumed management of New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art as part of Historic New Harmony, encouraging cultural and educational programs that inform audiences of all backgrounds. This hybrid spirit of creative expression, innovation and learning remains key to artistic presentations offered to visitors coming into the gallery to this day.
If you are excited by art, ideas, philosophies and collaboration, then the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is a space for you.
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(1) Besson, C. (2017). Artist-run spaces. Critique d’art, (49), 26–34. https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.27117