Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design: Indiana University Bloomington

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This is where art, architecture, design, and merchandising merge to shape the future of creativity from imagination to implementation.

Inspiring + Instructing

Our faculty of artists, designers, practitioners, and scholars are here to instruct and inspire you, as we shape the future of creativity together.

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Limitless + Interdisciplinary

We are a transdisciplinary community of creatives who bring together art, architecture, design, and merchandising.

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Featured news + events

State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity

Exhibition: Aug. 28–Nov. 18, 2020

State of Nature: Picturing Indiana Biodiversity, is an exhibition that featuring artifacts from Indiana’s prehistory alongside visual art that documents biodiversity in Indiana. This exhibit will feature historically significant natural artifacts and visual art by over fifteen artists that have a connection with the state.

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McKinney Visiting Artist Series

Speaker series

The McKinney Visiting Artist Series brings prominent working artists from a range of studio practices and fields to the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Artists lead workshops and critiques for students within the school, as well as lectures and gallery talks open to the campus community.

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Actor Glenn Close as the Marquise de Merteuil.

'Art of the Character': Exhibition will celebrate Glenn Close costume collection

Exhibition: May 4–Nov. 14, 2021

"The Art of the Character: Highlights from the Glenn Close Costume Collection" will be presented in partnership with the Sage Fashion Collection in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.

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Fallout: Art in this Time

ONLINE EXHIBITION BEGINS: July 17, 2020

The Grunwald Gallery is pleased to present Fallout: Art in This Time, a cumulative, online exhibition featuring the work and practices of emerging and established artists. Fallout asks artists to reflect on the ways their lives and artistic practices have shifted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and consider their work in the context of a post-pandemic world.

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A mockup of a white minimalistic building.

Construction underway for IU Eskenazi School’s new building, inspired by 1952 Mies van der Rohe design

News

The Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University has begun construction of a new building inspired by a 1952 design of legendary architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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