Allen Whitehill Clowes Collaborative

MARCH 7 – APRIL 4, 2026

Herron School of Art + Design Eskenazi Hall | Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries - 735 W. New York St. Indianapolis, IN 46202

Berkshire, Reese, and Paul Galleries

The Allen Whitehill Clowes Collaborative exhibition is an annual, invitational showcase featuring Indiana’s top Hoosier Art Salon awardees.

Selected works by 26 distinguished artists highlight the connection between artistic innovation and community engagement, presented in partnership with the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, The Hoosier Art Salon, and the Herron Galleries.

THE LAST TREE 

Expanded Photography by Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo

February 4 – April 4, 2026

Herron School of Art + Design Eskenazi Hall | Basile Gallery - 735 W. New York St. Indianapolis, IN 46202

Basile Gallery

 Recording of the Artist Talk Recorded on February 26, 6pm EST

This exhibition centers Alexandra McNichols -Torroledo’s investigation of colonialism as a system of extraction - of land, culture, plants, and images - and its ongoing effects on Indigenous communities and the ecologies they protect. Employing nineteenth-century photographic processes historically entwined with ethnography and territorial conquest, the artist critically engages the visual technologies that once classified Indigenous bodies and naturalized resource exploitation.  

Through sustained collaboration with contemporary Indigenous land defenders, she reclaims these processes, transforming photography from an instrument of colonial authority into a space of relational exchange and agency. The work traces how colonial logics persist today through religion, global capitalism, the War on Drugs, and climate change, foregrounding those who continue to resist environmental and cultural erasure. 

Herron Goes Global

MARCH 6 – APRIL 4, 2026

Dates of Exhibition: March 6 - April 4

Reception: Monday, March 30, 11am -1pm

Herron School of Art + Design Eskenazi Hall | Marsh Gallery - 735 W. New York St. Indianapolis, IN 46202 

Marsh Gallery

Herron continues recent virtual global classroom experiences at Indiana University with four projects led each led by a Herron faculty member and an international faculty collaborator who together guided students in an international exchange project within art and design. All projects involved multiple touch points for students to connect with their international peers ranging from virtual video meetups to collaborative online platforms to share ideas visually. These experiential learning opportunities offer a more accessible means of cultural exchange to a wider student audience than is possible with our classic study abroad opportunities.   

This project was funded in part by the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Endowment in International Studies and Virtual Global Learning Fellowships issued by the IUI Office of International Affairs.

No Fixed Point Durational performance residency by Jordan Munson

2/16/26 - 2/20/26 in the Bershire, Reese, Paul gallery

Overview No Fixed Point is a durational performance residency by Jordan Munson that unfolds over multiple days within the gallery, where a constellation of instruments, electronics, drums, percussion, and other sound sources, remains installed as both an active workspace, listening site, and living document of the performance.

Activated through a series of brief, improvised sets, the installation resists the structure of discrete concerts. Each performance emerges from the residue of the last, allowing tonalities, textures, and rhythms to evolve gradually over time.

Sound is treated as a living material, layered, iterative, and in flux, shaped as much by repetition and return as by intention.

Core Concept Central to the project is an ongoing dialogue between performer, audience, and architecture. The gallery operates as an active collaborator, its resonance and spatial conditions shaping how sound is produced and perceived.

As visitors move through space, they enter the work as participants, encountering shifting acoustic perspectives and fragments of improvisation from different vantage points. There is no single position from which the work can be fully grasped; sound changes as it reflects, dissolves, and re-forms in relation to bodies and walls alike.

In this way, No Fixed Point frames performance as a shared, evolving experience that unfolds through movement, attention, and the continuous interplay of sound and space.

Performances were held on:

02.16 || 11:00a

02.17 || 4:00p

02.18 || 11:00a

02.19 || 4:00p

Culminating Event || 02.20 || 7:00p