Yoga at Newfields

The Design Gallery returns with a thematic reinterpretation that offers new insights into the versatile design process—from inspiration to production.

Pop Up: Tea House will be a celebration of the beverage genre with a curated emphasis on the teas of Japan, in harmony with several 2019 exhibitions centering on the art, fashion and history of Japanese culture.

Brett Weston and his contemporaries were masters of the craft of black-and-white photography who used their cameras to capture increasingly-abstract forms in the world around them. 

Filmed in one take and played in the reverse, this captivating and ambitious work is an exercise in what the artist called “psychedelic ethnography.”

A new class for people ready to meet the challenge in orchid growing with fabulous spray orchids.

Join Shelley Selim, Newfields’ Associate Curator of Design & Decorative Arts, for a conversation with the creative duo behind Meadow.

Following the public talk with artists collective Studio Drift, join the Contemporary Art Society and the Design Arts Society to celebrate Meadow.

Amsterdam-based art and design collective Studio Drift is known for its large-scale installations centered on the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.

Step into the Seasons of Japan invites guests into an immersive, interactive, multi-sensory experience.

Explore the legacy of American photographer George Platt Lynes through this exhibition of photographs from the collection of the Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. 

Discover and enhance your art skills in the galleries, gardens, and studios.

Newfields’ Lyss Woods shows you how to create this exquisite construction with a small blooming orchid.

“Can resistance be choreographed?” This is the question that drives pushit!.

Has the winter weather gotten you down? Change the vibe and kick your weekend off with Rise: A Saturday State of Mind.

Michelle Reinhold—master gardener, docent, and president of the Asian Art Society President—will take guests on a tour of Orchids, installed for the first time throughout the IMA Galleries.

Fall into a mesmerizing world of wild orchids and a chilling murder with Michelle Wan’s The Orchid Shroud.

Man’s best friend looks a little different in this DreamWorks tale.

Discover and enhance your art skills in the galleries, gardens, and studios.

Discover and enhance your art skills in the galleries, gardens, and studios.

Shake up your game night and meet your friends at Newfields.

Heralded by The New York Times as “transcending real sound in real time with the unexpected,” New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia seeks to shatter preconceptions about how much can be said without a word—and, for that matter, who can say it.

This beginner’s workshop is designed to both instruct & inspire.

Join us in the first “grand” event in years, to celebrate the members for their efforts, the presidents for their leadership, and the many significant contributions.

Jones provides striking visual commentary on the duplicitous and oppressive nature of American power structures.

20th-century designers and craftsmen produced a glistening array of objects that can still enchant the eye.

Imagine an idyllic, vernal campus carpeted with over half a million blooms.

Join instructor Carol Dale for a new spin on the traditional hypertufa planter.

Discover and enhance your art skills in the galleries, gardens, and studios. For youth ages 10-15.

Discover and enhance your art skills in the galleries, gardens, and studios.

Indianapolis Ballet will close its 2018/19 Season in epic fashion with a full staging of the Tchaikovsky masterpiece, Swan Lake.

Explore how artists transform nature into art.

“Matsuri” (祭) is the Japanese term for festival. This premier event includes a VIP reception, red carpet arrivals, cocktail reception, exhibition preview, a special performance and a seated dinner.

Explore the history, physical attributes, symbolism, aesthetic qualities and utility of the Japanese samurai sword from the vantage point of beauty and function.

The Indianapolis School of Ballet will culminate its 13th year as Indiana’s premier destination for dance instruction at The Toby with its annual May We Dance showcase.

Outside In is a visually rich and instructive display of the work of noted block printmaker William Rice (1873-1963).

This exhibition examines the story of the ‟47 Rōnin”, one of the most widely-known and popular historical tales in Japan.

Explore the artistic legacy of photographer George Platt Lynes through this exhibition of photographs.

Foster a young imagination through pretend play, sing-a-longs, gallery art hunts, and hands-on art activities.

Innovative designs set new standards for shape and proportion and coined a contemporary definition of “universal beauty.”

See the extensive collection of portraiture from Dr. George H.A. and Edith Whitehill Clowes in a whole new light.

This exhibition will feature the best of the Edo collection, as well as works from several other periods.

In celebration of Orchids 2019, we've developed a special tour that will treat our guests to stories of orchid collectors and orchid lore.

Get the most out of your visit to the IMA Galleries with a trained docent as your guide.

Curious about something you see? Just ask one of our Ask Me! docents.

Explorer members and above get a preview of Pop Up: Tea House before it opens in the Efroymson Pavilion Balcony.

AAS presents an evening with Jim Canary to hear about his passion for documenting the traditional artisans engaged in manuscript and print production.

Join us in celebrating the first major museum survey of works by Indiana native Samuel Levi Jones.

Join curators Kelli Morgan, Associate Curator of American Art and Bryn Jackson, Assistant Curator of Audience Engagement and Performance, for a talk on Samuel Levi Jones - Left of Center.

Join the Horticultural Society for their annual meeting followed by an exciting update from the Ruth Lilly Deputy Director for Horticulture and Natural Resources.

Participants are invited to observe, question, and discuss a selected artwork in the galleries with a museum educator.

Star Studio Artist Demonstration is designed to be a drop-in experience that gives guests of all ages an introductory overview of a specific art medium.

The group will discuss The Strange Odyssey of Poland’s National Treasures, 1939-1961: A Polish Canadian Story, 2004, by Gordon Swoger.

Signs of spring may just be budding on the ground, but tonight we encourage you to look up to the skies.

Join Anna Stein, Assistant Curator of Works on Paper, for an exclusive look at Joseph Mallord William Turner’s watercolors, prints, and drawings.

Drop in this spring break for a hands-on lesson in design thinking.

Brighten up your spring with an explosion of flowers at Newfields.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Asian export ceramics were used to create grand and lavish interiors in European stately homes and palaces.

Put your thinking cap on as we honor another Earth Day with a little trivia.

Join this special docent led tour.

Get out of the house and enjoy what Mother Nature has to offer.