In Shakespeare’s beautifully tragic tale of love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. A chain of fateful events changes both families forever.

“Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”

The show runs February 27, 28, March 3-6, 2015 @ 7:30 p.m. and March 7 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Ticket prices are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students.

Concurrent with the opening of the museum for the 2015 season, as well as the annual heirloom seed sale, the Wylie House will be hosting the Bloomington Water Color Society’s exhibit featuring paintings inspired by a visit to the museum last summer. Hours are extended on Saturday, March 7 until 4pm. The paintings will be displayed in the Education Center and will remain on exhibit through April. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the artwork during our regular open hours, Tuesday-Saturday, 10m-2pm.

A Quilt Show Open House (no guided tours) with extended hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be held from March 5-7, 2015. The Open House runs concurrently with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show (held at the Bloomington Convention Center). The museum will be displaying a portion of is antique quilt collection throughout the home. A shuttle will be operating between several participating sites, including Wylie House Museum on Friday and Saturday only.

Special Event Note: In addition to the exhibit, this year Wylie House Museum is pleased to welcome Indiana State Curator of Social History, Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker, for a free, one hour talk on Indiana’s Quilting Heritage. This talk takes place on Friday March 6, from 3-4pm.

Indiana’s Quilting Heritage: A Visual Survey
A Visual Feast! Mary Jane will tell the story of quilting’s history in Indiana from the 1820s to the early 1900s using images of 88 quilts, many from the Indiana State Museum’s collection. Find out what Indiana’s earliest documented quilts looked like, how Indiana Amish quilts differ from those from Pennsylvania, and how Indiana designers revolutionized quilting at the turn of the 20th century.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

“Moco’s Prehistoric Past”
Come see and examine fossils of plants, organisms, and animals found in the Hoosier state and learn how they contributed to Southern Indiana’s natural landscape. The history center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00am-4:00pm. Runs through March 31.

The History Center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4pm.

For the past twenty years, IU Art Museum educators and the art teachers of Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC) have partnered to celebrate Youth Art Month during the month of March with a student art exhibition. Observed locally since 1973, Youth Art Month emphasizes the “value of art education for all children and encourages support for quality school art programs.” Works of art selected by MCCSC art teachers showcase the excellence and variety of art education in local schools. These selections, representing grades kindergarten through six, are on view in the second floor of the IU Art Museum’s Thomas T. Solley Atrium beginning March 1. A reception and celebration for the young artists and their families and teachers will take place on Saturday, March 7, from 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. on the second floor of the museum’s Solley Atrium.

In Shakespeare’s beautifully tragic tale of love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. A chain of fateful events changes both families forever.

“Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”

The show runs February 27, 28, March 3-6, 2015 @ 7:30 p.m. and March 7 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Ticket prices are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students.

How did four blue-collar Italian kids from New Jersey become one of the greatest successes in music history? Join us on the whirlwind journey of pop-music greats Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, as their true-life trip through obscurity, heartbreak, and stardom unfolds in the runaway smash-hit Jersey Boys.

Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-Winner for Best Musical, this blockbuster phenomenon takes you up the charts, across the country, and behind the music of this iconic super-group. Jersey Boys is loaded with electrifying performances and the true-life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Audiences will be blown away by the spot-on renditions of hits like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Dawn,” “My Eyes Adored You,” and more.

Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

This international sensation is a Broadway triumph, was named the number one show in Las Vegas, and continues to break records in cities across America—bringing countless audiences to their feet. As The New York Times says, “The crowd goes wild!”

This film offers a behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. In addition to the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore, the film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of the first federal marriage-equality lawsuit taken to the U.S. Supreme Court. (2K DCP presentation)

Join us for the opening festivities for Visions from the Forests and a performance by the Kotchegna Dance Company. Based in New York, this exciting dance troupe consists of seven dancers and drummers who perform dances and songs from Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) under the direction of master dancer and choreographer Vado Diomande. This performance is supported in part by the IU African Studies Program.