Exhibitions: Cook Center: Arts & Humanities Council: Indiana University Bloomington

A place for art and exploration

The Cook Center in Maxwell Hall is home to the Process Gallery, a dedicated exhibition space, and the Grand Hall, a multi-use event and exhibition space. Exhibitions presented in these spaces highlight new work from current IU faculty members, students, and alumni, as well as community artists.

Throughout the year, the Cook Center presents exhibitions curated by and featuring the work of faculty members, visiting artists, and community members to give our guests a glimpse into the diversity of creative expression and experimentation that define the arts scene at IU Bloomington.

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Current Exhibits

Black Lit

February 3rd through March 10th

An immersive poetry exhibit celebrating Black authors, hosted in collaboration with the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Library. Featured artists... Korie "KP" Griggs * Ellise Smith * PDVNCH * El Williams III * Essence London * Taylor Ajewole Duckett * Sym Cloyd * Maria Hamilton Abegunde * Dhakir Abdullah * Bernardo Wade * Justin A. Carney

Noli Me Tangere

February 3rd through March 10th

The Center for Religion and the Human presents an exhibition featuring work from the Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) digital archive and an adjacent exhibition Supplications: a selection of works from the Kinsey Institute Collections curated by Jeremy Biles, Ryan M. Pfeiffer + Rebecca Walz.

Engaged Artist in Residence Program

Hale Ekinci

Meet our Spring 2023 Artist in Residence

The Cook Center's Engaged Artist-in-Residence program brings two working artists to the Bloomington campus each year to work and interact with IU students and community members through a series of workshops, outreach projects, and exhibitions.

The residencies are designed to advance a model of “engaged” artistic practice that supports artists whose careers can be significantly furthered by access to IU’s resources in curation, collections, and research, and who can, in turn, activate those resources in new ways and demonstrate new engaged modes of artistic exchange for the campus’s largely rural, Midwestern community.

Hale Ekinci (b. 1984 in Karamursel, Turkey) is a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, designer, and educator based in Chicago. She received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago and is currently an Associate Professor of Art & Design at North Central College. Exploring personal history, cultural identity, gender politics, and craft traditions, her works vary from videos to embroidery paintings embellished with vibrant colors, patterns, and autobiographical relics. She was recently a Facebook Chicago Artist in Resident. Her work has been exhibited nationally at EXPO Chicago, Studio Gang, Co-Prosperity, One After 909, Woman Made Gallery, South Bend Museum of Art, Koehnline Museum of Art, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, and Queens College Art Center. Her videos have been screened internationally, including New York City, Berlin, Warsaw, and Jerusalem. She completed residencies at ACRE, Jiwar Barcelona, Momentum Worldwide Berlin, Elsewhere Museum, and Chicago Artist Coalition.

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