Greencastle Arts Council

05/05/2026

Art & Art History Department: Senior Art History Thesis Presentations
Date: Wednesday May 6, 2026
Time: 4:30 to 5:30 PM EDT
Location: The Richard E. Peeler Art Center Auditorium, DePauw University

Remembrance & Discovery: Offering Revisions in Art Historical Narratives

Join us as DePauw’s senior Art History majors Axel Romero and Samaira Snow present their thesis research, exploring how art history can be revisited, challenged, and expanded through new perspectives and scholarship.

This event is free and open to the public.

Contact information for additional information on the event:
Misti Scott [email protected]

05/05/2026

Open Studio Figure Drawing
Date: Wednesday May 6, 2026
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM EDT
Location: The Richard E. Peeler Art Center room 203A on the campus of DePauw University

For students and adults who are wanting to improve their drawing skills through observational drawing from a live, clothed model. All skill levels are welcome.
All artists need to bring their own drawing supplies. Easels and drawing boards are available for use.

There will be no instruction. The model will move through a series of poses increasing in length

Contact information for additional information including cost of this event:
Misti Scott [email protected]

05/05/2026

TUESDAY (5/5@7:30PM GCPA, Thompson): If you’re a fan of composer Henry Cowell, be sure to catch DePauw Institute of Music's spring Chamber Music Recital when Cowell’s lively Quartet for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord will be performed by Bekah Paul, Bella Zollner, Emmie Parsons and Granger Lui in Thompson Recital Hall!! No ticket needed to this free event.

05/04/2026

Event: Behind the Scenes: Permanent Collection Overview
Day: Friday, May 8, 2026
Time: 10:00–10:45 AM
Place: Richard E. Peeler Art Center (DePauw University)
(Meet in the lobby on the first floor)

Explore the hidden treasures of DePauw University's Permanent Art Collection with exclusive 45-minute tours led by Christie Anderson, the collection's registrar. These tours offer a rare opportunity to view artworks not currently on public display. The collection includes approximately 3,700 objects. Learn how artworks enter the collection through donations, bequests, and selective purchases, how they are cataloged and stored, how condition is monitored, and how pieces are prepared for exhibitions and teaching.

Free and open to the public.
Please email [email protected] to sign up for the tour!

05/04/2026

Event: Art + Art History Spring Open House & 5 x 5 Art Sale
Day: Thursday May 7, 2026
Time: 5:00pm to 7:00pm EDT
Place: The Richard E. Peeler Art Center on the campus of DePauw University

This event brings together student, staff, and faculty work and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available in the lobby.

Open studios and student work
All studios and classrooms will be open, showing work by students across all levels and media. This is the only time during the semester when all studio students exhibit work at the same time, in the spaces where the work was made.

Gallery exhibitions on view:

Universal Language: The Art of Sexual and Gender Diversity
Selections from the Kinsey Institute Collection
January 26 – May 7, 2026

Samuel E. Vázquez: Poetic Reflection
January 26 – June 24, 2026

2026 Senior Studio Art & Design Studies Exhibition
April 17 – May 16, 2026

5×5 charity art sale
Students donate original 5" × 5" artworks. For a $5 donation, you may select one piece to take home. Proceeds support arts programming for at-risk children through the Putnam County Summer Enrichment Program.

05/03/2026

SUNDAY (5/3@3PM, GCPA, Kresge): Putnam County Festival Choir, a sponsored project of the Greencastle Arts Council, will end its season Sunday literally on a high note!! 🎶

Following performances by DePauw Institute of Music's concerto competition winners, the combined choirs and orchestra will perform Randall Thompson's lushly lyrical setting of "The Road Not Taken," with poetry by Robert Frost, and Handel's jubilant Coronation Anthem No. 1 to conclude its 2025/26 season.

Tickets: https://dpugreencenter.eventbrite.com/

04/16/2026

LISTEN TO THIS!

2025 Banff International String Quartet CompetitionBeethoven/Schubert + 20th Century RoundRecorded August 30, 2025 in the Jenny Belzberg Theater at Banff Cen...

04/15/2026

Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Studio Art & Design Studies Senior Thesis Exhibition
Day: April 17, 2026
Time: 5:00pm to 6:00pm EDT
Place: The Richard E. Peeler Art Center (DePauw University), Visual Arts

An exhibition showcasing the work of graduating senior Art Studio and Design Studies majors, led by Professors Lori Miles and Kevin Brophy.

Art Studio Seniors: Dylan Copeland, Jane Duffy, Kuro Duong, Rori Mullen, Luke Russo, Samaira Snow, Lucy Stokes

Design Studies Seniors: Sam Cox, Ella Jones, Emily Loera, Preeyantia Sen, Lucy Stokes

Open free to the public.

04/15/2026

Film Screening: Decade of Fire*
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:45 PM
Place: Richard E. Peeler Art Center Auditorium (DePauw University)

Admission is FREE and open to the public

Decade of Fire (2018, 1h 15m • Dirs. Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, Gretchen Hildebran)

In the 1970s, the South Bronx was on fire. Abandoned by the city government, nearly a quarter-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multi-ethnic neighborhood burned to the ground. While insidious government policies caused the devastation, Black and Puerto Rican residents bore the blame. Decade of Fire exposes the truth about the borough’s untold history and reveals how the community chose to resist, remain, and rebuild.

Screening followed by Q&A with Samuel E Vázquez. Moderated by Dr. Robert Dewey, Chair, History Department, DePauw University.

Special thanks to Vivian Vázquez Irizarry.