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The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art

New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art's mission is to promote discourse about and access to contemporary art in the southern Indiana region. Since its inception in 1975, New Harmony Gallery has provided an exhibition space for young and mid-career artists to show their work in a professional setting; and further, to provide a venue for contemporary art to the general public. The cornerstone of t

he Gallery’s mission is education and access through a carefully planned series of eight exhibitions per year. The exhibition series, which explores contemporary art concepts, is intended to provide increased opportunity for artists and the public to engage in discourse on and about the arts and culture. The gallery features
•rotating exhibitions
•educational programming
•co-sponsorship of a visiting artist program with
the University of Southern Indiana Art Department
•specialized art tours of the gallery and Historic New Harmony
•consignment shop featuring works by more than 100 regional artists

05/28/2026

Mark your calendars to visit “Delicate and Filled With Dynamite” before it closes this Saturday, May 30th. On Saturday, May 30th from 3-5 p.m. CT, the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art will host an Open House with light refreshments and curator Audra Verona Lambert present for insights. We’ve been so honored to feature this solo exhibition of recent works by artist Aaron S. Coleman . The exhibit has great visual interest and layers in its sculpture and large-scale installation pieces, including the eponymous boat installation (images 1 and 3, “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite,” Aaron Coleman. Boat made from basketball court flooring and abandoned playground remnants. 15ft long x 13ft tall, 2023.) The exhibit investigates the relationship between material and concept, situating these interrelated components at the intersection of cultural and social memory. Drawing key inspiration from civil rights activist/cultural historian Christina Sharpe’s scholarly publication, “In the Wake: On Blackness and Being” alongside important texts like historic civil rights activist/well-known writer James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” the artist makes timely observations about continued marginalization and displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods like Ransom Place and Cottage Place in his home base of Indianapolis, IN. Coleman repurposes discarded materials such as derelict business signage, gymnasium flooring, and playground fragments, transforming found or mundane objects to imbue his work with heightened meaning. Aaron S. Coleman is a multi-disciplinary artist and Associate Professor, and Kenneth E. Tyler Endowed Chair at the Herron School of Art and Design-IU in Indianapolis, IN. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT.

05/27/2026

- The New Harmony Project - is in town, and their fearless staff and writer-residents are hard at work during their silent writes and beyond developing scripts and projects that rise to the occasion and meet the organization’s efforts to promote “new works that interrogate the complexity of hope.”
This aim speaks to artist Aaron S. Coleman’s vision communicated throughout his solo show, “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite.” In the exhibit, Coleman notes, found objects from historically Black Indianapolis neighborhoods speak to his own personal and professional investigations into, “histories of the African Diaspora …(leading) to our current societal conditions while …(pointing) to a future where we might create a different wake.”
With and the talented visitors from the New Harmony Project, we believe in a future filled with hope, dreams realized and joy understood! Thank you for joining us in New Harmony.
“Delicate and Filled with Dynamite” remains on view through this Saturday, May 30. The gallery is open 10-5, Tuesday-Saturday.

05/26/2026

Don’t miss the final week of Aaron S. Coleman’s “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite” at the gallery, on view through this Saturday. From written word by Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe and James Baldwin to lyrics by singer Blu, language shapes the artworks on view in this solo presentation of work — the first solo show by the artist in Southern Indiana!
What are some of the words that you notice in the exhibit? What stands out to you and how does language influence the way in which you encounter your world?
Come by for a tour of the exhibit and explore Aaron S. Coleman’s fascinating work in dialogue with history and movement at the gallery during our open hours, 10-5 from Tuesday-Saturday. Show closes May 30, 2026.

05/22/2026

Today’s highlight of Aaron S. Coleman’s solo exhibit through May 30th, “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite,” is “R.I.P.” (image 1,) a 2024 wall-mounted mixed media assemblage with found and built objects. The eponymous component here is the RIP tombstone sticker placed on the found object window pane. This may point to exhibit themes of dispossession, loss of community, and premature black deaths alongside hopefulness for change that are influenced by texts such as cultural historian /writer Christina Sharpe’s 2021 book “In The Wake: On Blackness and Being.” Additionally, the placed dutch wax fabric featured here works with other patterns throughout the exhibit to build on the topic of lineage. In Coleman’s own words, “The assemblages in the exhibition are the latest in my series titled Higher Ground. Presented as ‘cross sections’ of the Ransom Place and Cottage Home neighborhoods of Indianapolis (IN), they are made from the materials of abandoned houses and closed businesses in the communities where I work. Windows, tarps, chain-link fencing, moveable letter signs and other remnants of a fractured community are paired with faux bricks ‘borrowed’ from the sites of ongoing gentrification.”The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Tuesday - Saturday.

05/21/2026

Today’s highlight of Aaron S. Coleman’s solo exhibit through May 30th, “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite,” is “Naked Truth,” a 2024 wall-mounted mixed media assemblage with found and built objects. One interesting component here is the placed dutch wax fabric in the worn, partially busted found object window frame, with the patterns featured throughout the exhibit work to build on the topic of lineage. As well, the radio station 91.9 FM sign is a found object, and refers to a volunteer community station serving the Indianapolis communities. Additionally, a faded phrase “Naked Truth” can be seen in the window alongside barely legible words “We use the swoll truth to cut through well dry...” This may point to the repeated phrase/motif in the exhibit “No More Water,” coined referring to an imminent future moment of truth and punishment by civil rights activist/award-winning author James Baldwin in his 1963 book “The Fire Next Time.” In Coleman’s own words, “The assemblages in the exhibition are the latest in my series titled Higher Ground. Presented as ‘cross sections’ of the Ransom Place and Cottage Home neighborhoods of Indianapolis (IN), they are made from the materials of abandoned houses and closed businesses in the communities where I work. Windows, tarps, chain-link fencing, moveable letter signs and other remnants of a fractured community are paired with faux bricks ‘borrowed’ from the sites of ongoing gentrification.”The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Tuesday - Saturday.

05/20/2026

Today for “Delicate and Filled With Dynamite” by Aaron S. Coleman through May 30th, we highlight influences on the artwork from award-winning scholar of African American literature and cultural history Saidiya Hartman and her 2007 book “Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route.” In her book, Hartman personally speaks to the generational trauma of the transatlantic slave trade (middle passage,) and discusses how its later effects have continuity through reconstruction, Jim Crow, red lining, gentrification and present inequities. Indeed, she says the book title “To lose your mother” means “to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider. There are no known survivors of her lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers…” The exhibiting artist Coleman’s layered work responds to Hartman’s thoughts by creating assemblage artworks that investigate how the destruction of Indianapolis’s marginalized African American Ransom Place neighborhood for gentrification continues the cycle of displacement brought by the slave trade. For Coleman, “Those who remain live in a neighborhood which is unrecognizable from its former existence. Those who left and wish to return have nothing to return to.” In keeping, the “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite” boat installation (image 1) can be seen to symbolically echo the slave trade ships, Coleman’s screen printing of a kente cloth pattern on “In the Wake” (image 2) references his (and Hartman’s) Ghanaian ancestry, and exhibited artworks have words on light-up signs (images 3-4) from the song “Old Soul” by Blu — like “lineage” and “500 Years and still I ain’t been home” — that also align with language used in Hartman’s book. The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is open Tuesday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT.

05/19/2026

Today’s highlight of Indianapolis artist Aaron S. Coleman’s solo exhibit through May 30th, “Delicate and Filled with Dynamite,” is “No More Water.” As with the other artworks in the exhibit, this 2024 wall-mounted mixed media assemblage incorporates found objects from the historically-African American, marginalized Indianapolis neighborhoods of Ransom Place and Cottage Home. The name of this specific assemblage is from a longer, rhythmic phrase in James Baldwin’s 1963 book “The Fire Next Time” implying justice and reckoning in a serious, biblical allegory: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no more water, the fire next time.” Purposeful in usage of this quote from Baldwin - a Civil Rights Activist and award winning writer - Coleman also quotes contemporary Civil Rights Activist and writer Christina Sharpe’s 2021 work “In The Wake: On Blackness and Being” throughout the exhibit to establish a broader metaphor. In Coleman’s own words, language in the exhibit like “No More Water” from Baldwin and “In The Wake” from Sharpe “serve as metaphors through which to view, understand and cope with representations of Black life as well as white supremacy as the ‘climate’ that produces premature Black death. The wake trails behind the ship, its devasting ripple effect altering the course of history, but is continuously generated at the bow which potentially paves the way for a new course, a way forward.” Come see these powerful works at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, open 10am to 5pm CT Tuesday - Saturday.

05/15/2026

The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art was pleased to host middle and high school students of the Indiana Agriculture and Technology Charter School in Evansville, IN (located on the USI campus!) for a gallery tour and the ‘Sign of The Times’ signmaking activity: curriculum provided by Aaron S. Coleman. It was a privilege to see the thoughtful responses and enthusiasm for creating signs with personal messages. Special thanks to Aaronc the Indianapolis-based artist whose solo show“Delicate and Filled with Dynamite” is on view through May 30th. Thanks to Aaron especially for providing screen prints and a curriculum for the activity, and thank you to Mt Carmel, IL-based artist Coleman Stevenson (featured in an image talking to our visiting students) for facilitating the activity today. Thanks as well to Mr. Macdonald and to Jade and the many students of IATS who visited today. Hope you are sharing your signs with a sense of personal achievement!

05/14/2026

What a week for arts and culture here in New Harmony!

In addition to delightful hands-on art activities for students coming to visit Aaron S. Coleman's "Delicate and Filled with Dynamite" -- and our ongoing "The Zine Scene: A Regional Sampler" -- on view through May 30th, we've had the privilege of witnessing 2025 NHGCA-exhibiting artist, Constance Scopelitis, working at the Blaffer Foundation Community House (she has an open studio today from 3-5 pm!) and of gaining insight into Hope McLeod's work as she presented her brilliant work as recipient of the Arlene Feiner Memorial Research Grant for Women's Studies.

Finally, we now have our messages from our Maypole activity -- featuring everyone's hand-written 'hopes' -- up in the gallery window. Fabric pieces show everyone's written contributions from our May 1st community art activity in honor of Mrs. Jane Blaffer Owen, where we wrote and doodled on fabric pieces before 'dancing' with them around a mini Maypole right here in the gallery! These will be visible to passersby until June 30.

So proud of how our community stays present and makes art together while also lifting up artists and cultural pioneers, whether they're local, visiting from the region or engaging with our town for the first time. Brilliant all around!

(Images 1-4 | Artwork by Constance Scopelitis, "Mulberry" (colored pencil on poplar board) / Docey Lewis and her sister, award-winning author and musician Hope McLeod, visiting during the gallery's 50th anniversary exhibition (Fall 2025) / Maypole installed in the gallery window, North corner / a local business owner and friend admiring the Maypole messages along with us! )

05/13/2026

The recording for the program “Creativity in Self-Published Print Media: An Artist Panel On Zines,” is now live on the gallery’s YouTube channel! Navigate to it from the linktree in the bio. Hosted by Historic New Harmony at the Atheneum Visitors Center this past month on Saturday, April 25th, 2026, this panel is in dialogue with the exhibit “The Zine Scene: A Regional Sampler” in NHGCA’s BG Projects which remains on view through May 30th. Hear insights on zines, artistic practice, and the exhibition from exhibit participants and graphic design professionals Prof. Brian Hitselberger of Purdue (founder, Two Steps Press and Weather Station .weather.station space,) Prof. David Wischer of the University of Kentucky, and Dr. Gregory Blair of the University of Southern Indiana moderated by NHGCA Sr. Gallery Associate Grant DiDomizio. All images in this post are with courtesy and special thanks to Historic New Harmony Experience Coordinator David Angel. Image 1 from left to right: Dr. Greg Blair, Prof. Brian Hitselberger, and Prof. David Wischer. The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. CT Tuesday to Saturday.

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506 Main Street
New Harmony, IN
47631

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

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+18126823156

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