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Haan Museum of Indiana Art The Haan Museum is a 1904 historic mansion and home to an impressive collection of Indiana art. Steele and the Hoosier Group.

The Haan Museum is home to artwork by historic and contemporary Indiana artists, including an impressive collection of works by T.C. It's all displayed in a historic mansion that was built in 1904 for the St. Louis World's Fair by the state of Connecticut. At the end of the fair, the building was purchased by George and Fanny Potter, who had it disassembled, moved to Lafayette, and then rebuilt in its current location. In 1984, Bob and Ellie Haan purchased the mansion, which had fallen into disrepair, and dedicated the next several decades to restoring and repairing the historic structure as their family home. Their art collection, along with extraordinary examples of antique American Renaissance Revival furniture from the 1860s, formed the basis of the museum's permanent collection. In 2015, Bob and Ellie generously donated the building and grounds to a nonprofit organization to form the Haan Museum of Indiana Art. The sculpture garden behind the museum is free and open to the public at all times, and features work by notable Indiana sculptors displayed in a landscape of native Indiana flowers and plantings. It is maintained by volunteer gardeners, and also includes a picnic area with an outdoor stage for performances and special events.

Our next Support the Arts dinner is just around the corner on October 13, and this one is all about seeing art—and maybe...
10/10/2026

Our next Support the Arts dinner is just around the corner on October 13, and this one is all about seeing art—and maybe even ourselves—a little differently.

We're welcoming Kerrie Bellisario, Director of the Haan Museum of Indiana Art , for an evening of conversation, perspective, and of course, a culinary treat from The Whittaker culinary team. We've attached the evening's menu so you can get a peek at what's being served. No lecture. No art history exam. Just a chance to sit around the table, enjoy good company and a meal, and hear from someone who spends her days helping people connect with art.

Reservations are filling fast but we have a few seats still available- we hope you can join us! https://twinn.my.canva.site/beyond-the-theatre

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10/06/2026

Thank you to the Greater Lafayette Commerce for this story! It really showcases how partnerships can bring together shared values in unexpected ways! Thanks again to our partners at First Merchants Bank!

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10/01/2026

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Last call. Only 50 seats, and this is the week to claim yours.The symposium begins Monday with a downtown art kickoff: l...
09/25/2026

Last call. Only 50 seats, and this is the week to claim yours.

The symposium begins Monday with a downtown art kickoff: lunch on the Red Seven Patio, a visit to Artists' Own, and a self-guided tour of Lafayette's public art. Then join us at the Haan for a founders' tour with Bob and Ellie Haan, Nadine Dolby's poster presentation "Pets, People and Community," refreshments with live harp, and an evening salon called "Poetry, Painting, Piano: A Nod to the Portfolio Club in the Gilded Age," set in our parlor around the 1879 Steinway.

Two days of art, place, and good company. We'd love to see you there.
Monday, Sept 28 | Starting at noon, downtown Lafayette
Place. People. Purpose. A Symposium of Art, Culture, and Community
September 28 and 29 | The Haan Museum of Indiana Art, Lafayette

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Four sessions about what art can do for people and the places they call home.Poet and artist Rosaleen Crowley of Butler ...
09/24/2026

Four sessions about what art can do for people and the places they call home.

Poet and artist Rosaleen Crowley of Butler University shares work from Be Prepared To Be Luminous, poems written in or about Indiana, and helps you begin writing and painting your own connection to place.

Kimberly Rose Free shares her work as an informal artist in residence at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Columbus, where the art grew out of relationships with the congregation.

In The Haan for Hope, we'll make art together and explore how a museum that travels beyond its walls can bring hope to the communities it reaches.

To close the day, Biddy Tran of Columbia College Chicago gives a lightning talk on Love and Art, arguing that for a community to flourish, creation has to come from a place of love.

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How does a cultural institution stay relevant to its community, and what does it owe that community in return?The Art Ma...
09/23/2026

How does a cultural institution stay relevant to its community, and what does it owe that community in return?

The Art Matters panel brings together three organizations working on that question:

Paula Danoff and Leslie Scattone on the Evanston Art Center, nearing its 100th anniversary and showing work by more than 450 artists each year.

Mark Williams and Michelle O'Hollaren on the Hamilton Southeastern Kindergarten Experience, a partnership that reaches every kindergartner in one of Indiana's largest school districts.

Annie Strader on Wabash College's Community Engaged Artist in Residence program, and how partnerships survive after the grant money ends.

Kerrie Bellisario will be moderating, and she can't wait for this conversation.

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Some art simply can't be rushed.Tiffany Wyse-Fisher of Goshen College demonstrates pinhole photography: no lens, no view...
09/22/2026

Some art simply can't be rushed.

Tiffany Wyse-Fisher of Goshen College demonstrates pinhole photography: no lens, no viewfinder, and exposures that can run from seconds to hours. You choose a place, set up, and wait while time and light do the work. It's a practice of slow seeing, and she'll show how anyone can build a pinhole camera of their own.

Just outside, Greater Lafayette artist Cheryl Kaldahl of Kaldahl Studios leads an open session painting in the sculpture garden and sketching in the galleries. No experience required, only curiosity.

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From Hoosiers to Hawkins, Indiana has been on screen more often than you might think.Tuesday morning opens with three se...
09/21/2026

From Hoosiers to Hawkins, Indiana has been on screen more often than you might think.

Tuesday morning opens with three sessions that ask what it means to make art from a particular place:

Tyler Lennox Bush of Purdue University Northwest traces how film and television have imagined Indiana, from Knute Rockne, All American, to Stranger Things, and asks whether TV drama can work as folk art.

Rachel Kavathe of Rachel Kavathe Studio in Bloomington explores what changes when we stop making art about a place and start making art from it.

Heather Galloway Vickers of Purdue's Rueff School shares memories of the Indiana teachers and artists who shaped her, the kind of firsthand history that is easily lost unless someone records it.

Which one would you choose?

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Sunlight, leaves, and a little chemistry. You'll leave with art you made yourself.Greta Bell, an MFA candidate in Studio...
09/20/2026

Sunlight, leaves, and a little chemistry. You'll leave with art you made yourself.

Greta Bell, an MFA candidate in Studio Arts at Purdue University, introduces the history and science of cyanotype, one of the most forgiving processes in photography. Then it's your turn: gather plant material from the grounds or pull from her collection, compose your print, and let the sun do the rest. Along the way, the conversation turns to how landscapes shape our sense of belonging, and what we carry and collect as we move from place to place.

Every participant goes home with a finished deep blue print.

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Lunch comes with a keynote you'll be talking about all afternoon.David Steele presents "Creating Place: Developing the T...
09/19/2026

Lunch comes with a keynote you'll be talking about all afternoon.

David Steele presents "Creating Place: Developing the T.C. Steele Historic Trail" over lunch at the Haan on Tuesday. The trail from the Friends of T.C. Steele connects seven Indiana sites where Steele lived, worked, and painted: his birthplace in Gosport, DePauw University in Greencastle, his boyhood home in Waveland, Tinker-Talbott Place in Indianapolis, The Hermitage in Brookville and Metamora, the House of the Singing Winds in Nashville, and Franklin Hall at Indiana University in Bloomington. Visitors check in at each stop with an electronic passport, and anyone who visits all seven earns a signed certificate.

What does it take to build a trail around an artist's legacy, and how does it help us see Indiana's landscape through his eyes?

Symposium guests will also view our exhibition "Chasing the Light: Inside the Luminous World of T.C. Steele." Steele was a member of the Hoosier Group, and his paintings are a cornerstone of the Haan's collection. Hear the story of the trail, then stand in front of the paintings. It's an afternoon made for Indiana art lovers.

Register: thehaan.org/symposium-registration/

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920 State St
Lafayette, IN
47905

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Tuesday 11am - 5pm
Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm

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