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GALLERY HOURS

Monday - Friday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Thursday, 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

UNIVERSITY CURATOR

Barbara Racker
Phone: (812) 237-3787
E-mail: barbara.racker@indstate.edu

LOCATION

University Art Gallery
Indiana State University
Center for Performing and Fine Arts
Corner of North 7th & Chestnut Streets
Terre Haute, IN 47809

DIRECTIONS

Traveling east on Interstate 70:

Take Exit 7 (U.S. 41) and turn north.
Travel 2.5 miles to Wabash Avenue.
Turn right (east) on Wabash Avenue.
Travel to Seventh Street (stoplight).
Turn left and travel four blocks to Chestnut Street.

Traveling west on Interstate 70:

Take Exit 7 (U.S. 41) and turn right (north).
Travel 2.5 miles to Wabash Avenue.
Turn right (east) on Wabash Avenue.
Travel to Seventh Street (stoplight).
Turn left and travel four blocks to Chestnut Street.

Traveling south on U.S. 41:

Turn left (east) onto Ohio Street and travel to Seventh Street (stoplight).
Turn left and travel five blocks to Chestnut Street.

Traveling north on U.S. 41:

Turn right (east) onto Wabash Avenue and travel to Seventh Street (stoplight).
Turn left and travel four blocks to Chestnut Street.

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HISTORY OF THE GALLERY

The gallery program has been in existence since 1985. It was first the Turman Gallery, which was named in honor of William Turman, a distinguished painter and former faculty member at ISU, and was under the domain of the Department of Art within the College of Arts and Sciences. Beginning with Whitney Engeran, its first director, the gallery's exhibition program has provided opportunities for students to exhibit, faculty to curate exhibitions and the entire Indiana State University community to view challenging and exciting shows. Subsequent directors continued to develop the gallery as a vital resource for the ISU community. In 1997, the gallery program, under the leadership of its first full-time director, Craig Zollars, was moved to the University Art Gallery, located in the newly constructed Center for Performing and Fine Arts. The University Art Gallery program now consists of temporary exhibitions which are curated by the director or a guest curator or are sometimes borrowed from other organizing institutions. Exhibitions are planned a year or more in advance. Schedules for the academic year are printed prior to the start of the Fall semester and are mailed to institutions, businesses and individuals nationwide.

The University Art Gallery is a non-profit organization and all exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. Lectures take place in the Music Recital Hall located directly across the rotunda in the Center for Performing and Fine Arts. The gallery and recital hall are wheelchair accessible. Each of the temporary exhibitions last approximately three to five weeks. The gallery is typically closed for two days between exhibitions to all the staff to dismantle the previous show, prepare and paint the space and install the next exhibition. The gallery is closed to the public during winter break, select academic breaks and national holidays, but remains staffed between exhibitions (please call the director for details).

The Gallery Director is supported by Graduate Assistants and a number of student employees who hold the title of Gallery Assistant.

Other Exhibition Spaces at ISU and in Terre Haute include the Bare Montgomery Memorial Student Union, the Student Union Gallery, the Turman Gallery, University Collections, Arts Illiana, and the Swope Art Museum.

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