Bare-Montgomery Gallery

Little Windows into Life

Duration: May 5, 4-6pm

About: The Exhibition, Little Windows into Life, features a collection of eight miniature galleries from the ARTH 481 Curatorial Practices course. Each curatorial project showcases different themes and mediums.

The collection as a whole explores the external and internal human experience. External themes feature physical experiences of racing, architecture, and environments of stillness, while the internal narratives explore gender, identity, race, memory, and nostalgia. These experiences are shown across a range of mediums, from traditional oil and acrylic painting to photography, printmaking, and audio. All mini exhibits have an interactive element that allows the audience to engage directly with these themes, such as creating sand art and displaying it within the model itself—visitors become active participants in the work.

Little Windows into Life encourages multi-sensory participation with each exhibit. These interactions invite audiences not only to observe but to immerse themselves, encouraging a deeper personal connection to both the external and internal narratives in one’s life.

Clay & Chaos

Duration: Mar. 16- 27, 2026

About: The exhibition Clay & Chaos features work by members of Art Club and Ceramics Club, showcasing a dynamic range of artistic voices, materials, and processes. Both groups offer a welcoming platform for all Indiana State University students regardless of major or background to explore the excitement of artmaking and take creative risks within a supportive environment. From three-dimensional hand-built and wheel-thrown ceramics to two-dimensional mixed media works spanning painting, drawing, and collage. The exhibition celebrates experimentation, craftsmanship, and a shared passion for making. Clay & Chaos offers a wonderful opportunity to experience the creative outcomes of these students and perhaps be inspired to reconnect with your own playful spirit of artistic expression.

Tad of Grad

Duration: Feb. 9-20, 2026

About: ‘A Tad of Grad’ is a pop-up exhibition featuring finished and in-progress artwork by a selection of graduate students from the Department of Art and Design. These multidisciplinary works demonstrate the artists’ dedication to their practice and mastery of material, process, and unique visual language. This exhibition offers an opportunity to engage with their work in progress and prior to the culmination of their Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibitions.

POCKET GALLERIES - only one night!

Reception: 12.9.2025, 4-6 pm

About: 'Pocket Galleries’ presents three mini exhibitions by students Evan Aldredge, Jackie Rodriguez, and Tiff Solorzano in the ARTH-418 Curatorial Practice course. These exhibitions showcase 2D artworks ranging from paintings to drawings by various influential artists.

Aldredge’s show explores Van Gogh and the ways his artwork conveys movement. Rodriguez’s exhibition centers on physically disabled women artists, including Frida Kahlo. Solorzano’s show highlights the work of Beksinski and his themes of absurdity and meaning. All three exhibitions feature interactive experiences for the audience—one even invites visitors to try holding a paintbrush in their mouths to paint.

We hope the audience walks away with a deeper appreciation for curation and the unique creativity each student brought to their exhibition.

HAUNTING OF THE BARE-MONTGOMERY

Oct 20 - Nov 7, 2025

About: The Haunting of Bare-Montgomery is an annual Halloween exhibition featuring themed artwork from Indiana State University students, faculty, and staff. This exhibition also features collaborative projects from Art + Joy lab participants and Art Club Members.

FROM THE 2nd FLOOR

Sept 22 - Oct 10, 2025

About: ‘From the 2nd Floor’ is a showcase of student work from the Department of Art and Design’s Digital Art and Graphic Design disciplines. Graphic Design and Digital Art skills and talents often overlap and complement one another in industry and in the classroom. As a reflection of that symbiosis, both disciplines are housed on the second floor of the Fine Arts building here at Indiana State University. The Graphic Design pieces are students’ creative responses and solutions for various marketing, advertising, branding, narrative and user experience challenges. Digital art works include students’ artistic expressions through storytelling, 3D modeling, animation and experimental media, realized using computers and other digital tools. We invite you to enjoy and celebrate the amazing work of our students ‘From the 2nd Floor.’

PULLING INK

Aug 19 - Sept 12, 2025

Curator:  Chester Burton
Artists: FAITH CARRICO | JAY GROSS | REECE HARPER | MASON PERKINS | SOPHIA SANDERS | SAMUEL SNOW | BEE SNOW | TIFF SOLORZANO | NATHANIEL STRIEGEL | JEREMIAH WHITE 
You are invited to Pulling Ink, an exhibition celebrating student’s prints from the Summer Serigraphy course. Summer Serigraphy is an intro level short, fast, and intense section of printmaking that gives students an introduction to screen print process. Students are asked to develop imagery from a range of prompts that include layered collage, image appropriation, and interpretations of “propaganda”. The work in the current exhibit is an expression of that range and how the students are successfully communicating their unique ideas and voices through print process.

The Curator's Dollhouse

May. 6 2025

'The Curator's Dollhouse' is a collection of miniature exhibitions crafted by four emerging curatorial students in the ARTH 481 class "Curatorial Practices." The exhibition showcases a range of artwork from acrylic and oil paintings to lithographs and digital artworks.  These miniature shows include historical baroque, neoclassical, and contemporary artists that discuss social commentary intersecting with playful motifs. Each presentation engages the senses with immersive experiences ranging from kinesthetic, audio, and visual activities.  The viewer will enjoy the novelty of 'The Curator's Dollhouse' for the small size of these multiple interactive exhibitions that they would normally not be able to experience in one location. They are provided an insider's view of the curatorial process through the lens of student curators who are presenting the exhibition design. 'The Curator's Dollhouse' is an engaging experience that encourages viewer interaction and the exploration of a wide range of art styles.

2025 Art Club Exhibition

Mar. 24- Apr. 11, 2025

Art Club is an organization on campus that prides itself on bringing students together from all majors to enjoy the many ways of creating art. This years exhibition features pieces created during Art Club meetings. From beautiful crafts to amazing fine art pieces, come see the diversity of Art Club.

BARE-MONTGOMERY GALLERY
STAY FOCUSED

Feb. 17- Mar. 7, 2025

‘Stay Focused’ showcases the creativity and technical growth of students across the introductory, intermediate, and advanced photography courses taught by Jamie Nichols. The exhibition features a diverse range of techniques and processes from traditional darkroom to more experimental methods, and highlights each artist’s unique approach to image-making. The collection celebrates the vision of emerging photographers as they explore the possibilities of the medium.

BARE-MONTGOMERY GALLERY
PETITE PERSPECTIVES- a pop-up show!

ONE NIGHT ONLY! December 10, 2024, 4-6 pm

For this one-night-only pop-up exhibition, this semester’s eight Curatorial Practice students use miniature models to curate work by artists of their choosing. By consolidating the gallery to a scaled-down, 3D version of Indiana State University’s own Turman Gallery, the students are able to approach curation as a medium to deliberately communicate what about their artist appeals to them. This was facilitated by delving into the entire curation process, from proposal, to design, to promotion. Following this process, the students incorporated interactive elements for the viewers to become part of each mini exhibition. Petite Perspectives explores works by a wide variety of artists. Each are interpreted by the individual students to appeal to a contemporary audience.

HAUNTING OF THE BARE-MONTGOMERY

Oct. 21- Nov. 8, 2024

The Haunting of Bare-Montgomery is an annual Halloween art exhibition that takes place in the Bare-Montgomery Gallery located in the lobby of Fair Banks Hall. This will be its 4th season! All featured artworks are by current Indiana State University students, faculty, and staff. Two collaborative projects will also be showcased: Exquisite Corpses by Art + Joy Lab members, and Painted Pumpkins by Art Club members. 
There will be candy, hot beverages, and mini pumpkins and gourds to paint/decorate. Costumes are highly encouraged.

COLLABOR8

Aug. 19 - Sept. 13, 2024

Eight students in the summer drawing class collaborated on a continuous 30’ drawing, taking inspiration from the architectural and decorative features of Fairbanks Hall. The resulting work was then split into eight sections and the students incorporated self-portraits that echoed the famous historical figures immortalized in the stained glass dome above the gallery. The dynamic process of group decision-making and collaborative creativity led to the energetic and unified work which is now being shown in the very gallery where it was created.

ELEMENTAL

Apr. 29- May. 10, 2024

Students in ARTP 170: Introduction to Visual Art created collaborative site-specific earth artworks as their final creative project. Drawing inspiration from artists like Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy, the students worked together in groups to identify the sites and materials they wanted to use and develop design ideas based on the exhibition title, Elemental. Once the designs were agreed on the groups headed outdoors to create their artworks with only the natural materials that were readily available. The posters in the exhibition represent the students’ documentation of that process as well as their project statements.

LARGER THAN LIFE SIZE: An Exhibition of Monstrous Masks and More...

Mar. 25- Apr. 12, 2024

Alexus Kelley, Phoenix Kelley, and AJ Orman are the Creatures Of The Night Studios.

DIVINE JOURNEY- Dante’s Divine Comedy

Feb. 5 - Mar. 1, 2024

In tandem with Roberto Márquez’s show, 'Commedia' in The Yang University Art Gallery, is the 'Divine Journey' in the Bare-Montgomery Gallery. Here you will discover framed woodcut prints on letterpress paper from the 1400s accompanied by an interactive prompt to create and display your own contemporary illustrations inspired by Dante's 'Divine Comedy.' This is a great opportunity to travel through Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) and see how past and present visuals converge to narrate this epic poem.

The Printmaking Student Exhibition

Nov. 16- Dec. 15, 2023

The Printmaking Student Exhibition features a range of print techniques and styles by Art and Design students at ISU who are currently taking the following classes: Serigraphy, Intro, Intermediate, and Advanced.

The Haunting of Bare-Montgomery

Oct. 17- Nov. 3, 2023

This is the third annual exhibition of The Haunting of Bare-Montgomery. This Halloween show features artwork created by ISU students, faculty, and staff. This exhibition showcases two collaborative projects: “Exquisite Corpses” by the Art + Joy Lab, and painted pumpkins by ISU’s Art Club members. At the reception there will be free candy and hot beverages and spooky activities such as painting and decorating mini pumpkins and gourds. Costumes are highly encouraged!

13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A RED CHAIR

Sept. 18 - Oct. 6, 2023

In 1917, Wallace Stevens wrote his important poem, 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Influenced by Cubism and Imagism, Stevens looks at his subject from multiple points of view. The resulting series of cantos portray not just one but many blackbirds in situations ranging from observational to abstract and metaphysical.

Inspired by Stevens’ poem, students in the Intermediate and Advanced Painting classes have created the works in this exhibition using a single red chair as their subject. Together, the paintings – like Stevens’ poem – suggest the passing of time and shifting points of view. As viewers, we are asked to enlarge our notion of what a chair is and does through the multiplicity of approaches.

The titles are influenced by the imaginative leaps and lyrical phrasing of Stevens’ poem, and inspired by the thoughts, feelings, and ideas generated in the painting process.

You Are Here

Apr. 26 - May 5, 2023

You Are Here is an exhibition that features the artwork of students in the Spring 2023 ARTP 170 class. In this show students used a variety of mediums to create their own personalized artistic map of ISU's campus.

Graphic Design Exhibition

Apr. 4 - 14, 2023

The Graphic Design Exhibition features graphic design works by ISU students from the Department of Art and Design.

Sculpture Exhibition

Mar. 13- 24, 2023

The Sculpture Exhibition showcases 3D artworks fabricated in a range of materials which have been created by ISU students from the Department of Art and Design.

Public Blackness III

Friday, February 17, 3-4pm

Public Blackness is an exhibition that spans all three of the Art Galleries at Indiana State University. The aim is to create greater awareness of the on-going and often unresolved local and national racial issues. The show is designed to provide a safe platform where ISU students and the broader community can learn, engage, and be inspired to take positive action to help heal and transform outdated and unconscious biases.
 

Public Blackness demonstrates how the Black body in a racially divided society gradually disappears from our understanding of what it means to be a human. What transpires when the Black body is captured in our gaze—a gaze that has been trained to only view it as a problem everywhere it exists? What happens when the myths from our past—which were frequently used to justify its destruction—become ingrained in our imagination of its existence today? One should leave the exhibition knowing a bit more about what makes the Black body vulnerable to the violence it still endures today.

POP-UP Grad Exhibition

Jan. 16- 27, 2023

Are you wondering what our amazing Graduate Students are working on? Here is your chance to get a sneak peak of their work in this POP-UP Grad Exhibition.

Photography Exhibition

Dec. 1- 9, 2022

This exhibition is showcasing artwork made by photography students from this semester. Pieces from the ARTS 335 class feature examples of assignments ranging from darkroom to digital photography. Pieces from the 336/435/400E classes feature examples of the students' semester portfolio work.

Ceramics Exhibition

Nov. 7- 18, 2022

Featuring students work from the Ceramics Department.

The Hunting of Bare-Montgomery

Oct. 17 - 31, 2022

Featuring spooky Fall themed artwork from students and faculty.

Manu Propria

Sept 30 - Oct 6, 2022

Manu Propria is a pop-up exhibition featuring current work from this semester's students in ARTS 215 and 316.

Charcoal and chalk on toned paper Image Info: Paradise of Perdition by Jenna Whalin

Welcome to Art Club

Sept. 1- 12, 2022

Welcome to Art Club is a selection of art pieces submitted by ISU's Art Club. 

Image Info: Arlene Wilson, WAP, 2020, oil on panel