Collection Features – From the Fort Wayne Museum of Art

November 12, 2025August 26, 2025

Playing Favorites: Isabel Kern & Robin Grebe

A young woman smiling, with brown eyes, brown bangs, and a green jacket over a white shirt.

Staff members are choosing their favorite art at FWMoA! Follow along to learn why this glass sculpture by Robin Grebe is a special piece for our Development Associate, Isabel Kern.

October 6, 2025October 2, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Ricardo Xavier Serment

This multimedia woodcut has a colorful and graphic style, similar to a comic strip. Three figures in the foreground are walking, with nine small, red, devil figures hovering behind and around them. Two of the taller figures are masked, looking out for the smallest child, who appears unaware of the demonic figures. In the background is a city scape, and behind the three figures is a masked, winged, hero figure, holding back the swarm of small demons.

Today we are looking at the works of Ricardo Xavier Serment. His comic-like style draws you into his narratives of good vs. evil. Learn more about his background and his striking multimedia prints in this month's Treasures from the Vault.

October 1, 2025August 26, 2025

Playing Favorites: Michele Andrews and Deanna Krueger

A smiling, grey haired white woman with blue and brown glasses, gold earrings, and an orange shirt.

This mixed media work is a great topic for today's Playing Favorites! Can you guess what materials were used to create this piece? Michele Andrews brings her thoughts on artwork made by Deanna Krueger.

September 22, 2025September 19, 2025

Now On View: Elements of Texture

Two close ups looking at textured glass. On the left, it is a black, white, and mustard color combination, with the layers of color having been organically chiseled away, revealing colors underneath. On the right, there is an orange and red glass work with the orange being revealed as circles of varying sizes across the surface of the piece.

Walk through the galleries of FWMoA and observe the textures artists use to bring their works to life! This month's Now on View highlights works by Dinh Q. Lê, Philip Baldwin, and Monica Guggisberg.

September 1, 2025August 20, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Neal Ambrose-Smith

A colorful image with a rodent-like creature in the center, next to the symbol of the bear totem. The "rodent" is clothed with green pants, a blue dress shirt, and red and white striped tie. Its arms are raised like it's dancing. Next to it, a small creature also appears to be dancing in black dress shoes. The small creature's head is a print of the bear totem. The background is blocks of oranges and pinks. The upper half shows a cartoon image of batman's head, and a black infinity symbol. The bottom half has the text, "Get some!" and images of birds of prey.

This month's Treasures from the Vault brings us works by Neal Ambrose-Smith! Ambrose-Smith draws from his personal life, sharing artwork through the lens of an Indigenous American. Read on to learn more about his inspiration and collaborative works!

August 29, 2025August 28, 2025

Now on View: Beyond the Furnace, Cut and Laminated Glass

A gradient of green sheet of glass make this sculpture that stands like a miniature tower. The top of this work tapers in, slightly, and the front of the work at first appears flat, but comes forward in the middle, creating a subtle point toward the viewer. Over a dozen layers of glass are visible, with some bending the light and reflecting itself.

A variety of laminated sculptures are Now on View in the Glass Wing! Read about this sculptural process and artists who have made impactful contributions in the world of studio glass.

August 28, 2025

Historical Highlight – Sampling American Quilts

This quilt has a blue background with mainly white detailing, reminiscent of lace. The boarder is a white ruffled edge with small orange flowers and leaves coming out from the sides. The middle of the quilt is made of diagonal lines, with white, clover-like shapes over the intersections, and baskets of flowers within the blue diamonds.

We're taking a look at practical, decorative, and popularized quilts! This Historical Highlight gives us a window into the social and economic changes that shaped the quilt patterns we know of today.

August 7, 2025August 5, 2025

Now on View: The works of Dinh Q. Lê

This work shows two images overlaid on top of one another. One image is black and white, showing a man and a boy facing viewers. Both are in uniforms with numbers on their chests. The second image has orange undertones and depicts a room with four windows, a cot, and checkered flooring.

Displaying striking images surrounding Vietnamese and Cambodian history, "Weaving the Narrative: The works of Dinh Q. Lê" is Now on View at FWMoA.

August 5, 2025August 11, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Curlee Raven Holton

Silhouette of a man's bust, covered in grey words. The background is also grey-toned, with windows, tree branches, a lamp post, and abstract shapes filling the background.

In this month's Treasures from the Vault we find a print by artist Curlee Raven Holton. In this piece, Holton visualizes the thoughts and feelings of someone experiencing memory loss.

July 7, 2025August 11, 2025

Treasures from the Vault: Terry Winters

A greyscale image, made of two images within rectangles. A greyscale circle with interior connected lines in the upper left, and an xray image of a shoulder in the bottom right.

In this month's Treasures from the Vault, we see works from Terry Winters. Through lithography and drawings, he portrays images of biology and abstraction.