Opening reception: Friday, January 16, 6-8 PM
Work by over fifty Indiana University artists, architects, and designers comes together in “Continuum: Eskenazi Faculty Exhibition 2026” at the Grunwald Gallery of Art at the Indiana University Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. The exhibition opens with a free, public reception in the gallery Friday, January 16, 2026 from 6-8 p.m. and remains on view through February 14.
Saluting the Eskenazi School’s first decade in existence, the exhibition spans media across disciplines representing the scope of instruction at the school from fashion design to architecture, interior design, and diverse areas of studio art, including fibers, printmaking, ceramics, graphic design, sculpture, digital art, video, photography, painting, and jewelry design/metalsmithing. The first Eskenazi School faculty invitational since 2021, “Continuum” will represent tenure-track, instructional, and emeritus faculty (participating artists listed below).
“Continuum” launches the Eskenazi School’s observance of its ten-year milestone by showcasing more than 50 of its world-renowned faculty artists and designers who, just in the past year, have shown their work in expositions from Paris Photo to the London Design Festival and New York Jewelry Week, been recognized with major artist grants, completed public art and design commissions, organized international symposia, and received significant press coverage.
Spotlighting these makers, “Continuum” will at the same time manifest the interdisciplinary synergy of the Eskenazi School, its legacy in the vanguard of art and design education, and the respective legacies of its fifteen component programs or areas. Founded in 2016, the Eskenazi School – then known as the School of Art and Design – combined IU’s long-established Departments of Fine Arts and Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design.
The Department of Fine Arts can trace its roots back to IU’s Department of Freehand and Mechanical Drawing, which was only the third art department in the United States when it was established in 1895. “Continuum” honors that 130-year pedigree, along with the centenaries of the Eskenazi School’s programs in Fashion Design and Interior Design, and marks or anticipates the 80th anniversary of several Studio Art areas—including ceramics (1945), metalsmithing/jewelry design (1947), and photography (1947)—that were among the first of their kind at American universities.
Today, the Eskenazi School is home to more than 80 faculty members offering instruction in six programs (Architecture, Comprehensive Design, Fashion Design, Interior Design, Merchandising, and nine areas of Studio Art) in five buildings across two cities, from Bloomington to the J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program in Columbus, Indiana. Learn more about the Eskenazi School here.
