Indiana Heritage Arts
46th Annual Exhibition & Sale
June 8 – July 13, 2024
Awards Reception Friday, June 7 · 6 pm
BROWN COUNTY ART GALLERY · NASHVILLE, INDIANA
…a Juried Fine Art Exhibition and Sale of traditional and representational Indiana art following the legacy of the artists who founded the Brown County Art Colony in the early 1900s.
From the Show Chair
Thank you for your interest in the 46th Annual Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibition and Sale. The Board of Directors is pleased and honored to be able to produce a high quality exhibition that gives Indiana artists a professional venue in which to present their artwork. I wish to acknowledge and thank the Board of IHA for their hard work and selfless dedication to the fine tradition of Indiana art. We are also grateful for the staff of the Brown County Art Gallery–Jeanne Bennett, Kimoy Bennett, and Bern Waldhier for their support, which is integral for us.
I’d also like to thank our judge, Eric Jacobsen, who came to Peaceful Valley all the way from Maine to judge our show. He did wonderful work for us and we are grateful.
Lastly, I wish to thank the artists who entered. We thank you for your efforts to share your creativity with us, your artworks beautify the world and keep the legacy of Indiana art alive.
Please also consider attending the “Painting Selma’s garden” event at the T. C. Steele State Historic site on June 15. Indiana artists will be on the grounds painting that day and there will be an opportunity to purchase the new creations at the evening reception. Tours of the home, studio, and gardens are available and at 6:00 p.m. the staff from the Steele Site will present a history-based program in the Visitor Center. Reception reservations are required.
Best,
Jim Ross
Show Chairman
OUR 2024 JUDGE
Eric Jacobsen
Eric Jacobsen was born and raised in New England. He received a BA in History from Gordon College in Wenham, MA in 1989 and studied fine art at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in Old Lyme, CT from 1991-1995. At the Academy he received training in the Beaux Arts tradition of drawing and painting from life.
Eric’s true inspiration is the amazing beauty that he sees in nature. Jacobsen is a “Plein Air” painter. He takes his oils wherever he goes, setting up on site, working until his painting is finished.
“It is most important to me that my paintings convey a certain mood”, Eric says. “I want them to be felt by the viewer without his or her having to analyze or think about them. As a general rule, I try to find strong compositions in nature and then paint the scene accurately while leaving out any extraneous details which would only busy up the painting and detract from the strength of the piece as a whole. My painting process consists of finding a painting site and setting up to paint for a couple of hours, or until the light has changed. For larger paintings, I will return on consecutive days at the same time, under similar lighting conditions to finish a piece.”
2024 Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibition Award Winners
Congratulations to the Artists Accepted into the 46th Annual Exhibition
Sally Alexander
Cattails
Sunrise
Jason Bailey
Blue
Kathy Blankenheim
The Road to Town, Hendricks County
Peonies on the Porch
Rockport Sunset
Roy Boswell*
Looking Out into the Warmth
Summer Shade
Reflecting on a Ditch
Jeff Bottom
The Majestic
Eric Brock*
Summer Pearls
Sunset Friends
38
Char Brown
Heavenly Homestead
Beverly Bruntz
A Pretty Pair
Walking In The Moonlight
Luke Buck
Owl Creek Road
The We Shed
The Rund Farm
Ken Bucklew*
The Autumn Weeds
Ron Burgess*
Somewhere Along The Way
Golden Sunrise
Mark Burkett
Fields of April
Susie Byerley
Georgia on My Mind
John Michael Carter*
The Garden Gate
The Siamese Cat
Fireflies
Cindy Crofoot Mulvaney
Maia and Monarchs
Mary Ann Davis
Flooded Field
In the Woods
River Light
Lyle Denney*
Twilight Near Vallonia
Steve Dodge*
An Esteemed Leader
Fred Doloresco
Early Spring
The Green RV
Stone Bridge
Daniel Driggs
Peaceful Morning on the Farm
Two Cedar Waxwings
Phillip Erbaugh
Construction on 40
Brad Fields*
Burke’s Bend
Cold White Barn
Tim Greatbatch
Jackson Creek Idyll
Salt Creek Nocturne
Mary Gretsinger*
Soybean Harvest
Wawasee Morning
Chris Griffin-Woods
High Peaked Barn
Lesley Haflich
Basking in the Glow
Suzanna Hendrix
Junk Drawer
Thomas Himsel
The Natural Order
Allen Hutton
Red
Almost Spring
Bill Inman
Delicate Strength
Brian Charles Johnson*
Stuck Daydreaming
Falling Yellowwood
Systematic Sunrise
Jeffrey Klinker
Green Pasture
April Knox
Grey Day
Abby Laux
More than I Sought
Jeanne McLeish
Sunspot
Mark Millis
A Old Swimmin’ Hole
C.W. Mundy*
Selma’s Garden
Mevagissey
Big Sur
Pam Newell
Lilacs and Lace
Cumulus
Chris Newlund*
Cross Lit
My Cabin-Plein Air
Kate Orr*
Goodnight My Someone
Annie’s Nook
Dianna Porter
Wakin’ Up is Hard to Do
Evening News
The Golden Hour Dismantled
Todd Reifers
Holiday Lights
J. Rodney Reveal
What Do You Think
Patricia Rhoden (Bartels)
Winter Twilight
Thom Robinson
T.C. Steele Cottage
Douglas Runyan*
Monhegan Fish House
Skinner Creek, Brown County State Park
Cold And Sunny
David M. Seward*
Autumn Wood
Calico Corner
Laundry House
Donna Shortt*
Fit Like a Glove
Forest of Decisions
Go Toward the Light
Jerry Smith*
Valley Imprint
Yachats Beach
Sycamore Segue
Rita Spalding
Venus
Scott E. Sullivan
Giverny
Justin Vining
Winter on the Pleasant Run Creek
Whittier Alley in Irvington
Steve Warner
Morning Drive
Octet
Carol Strock Wasson*
Morning Haze
Worth Family Preserve-Winter
Libby Whipple*
Morning Fog – New Harmony, Indiana
Odon, Indiana
Rick Wilson
Pastoral Sunset
Warm Summer Evening
Marilyn Witt
Corn Harvested Just in Time
Dan Woodson
Edge of the Creek
Tom Woodson*
Barn on Hwy 27
Grandpa’s Farm
Shirley Woolard
Autumn Lingering
* award winner