August 24 – October 15, 2026
IUSB Art Gallery
Gallery hours: Mon–Thu | 12:00–4:00 p.m. EST
or by appointment (email mrospen@iu.edu)
Reception
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 5:00–8:00 p.m. EST
IUSB Art Gallery
Please join us for this free, public reception to celebrate the work of the artists included in Memories and Mindscapes. Light snacks and beverages will be provided.
Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 6:00–7:00 p.m. EST
Education and Arts Building, Room 1011
This free, public event will offer a unique window into the work of contemporary artists who have drawing at the core of their practice. Kurt M. Hanus, PsyD, Assistant Professor of Counseling at IUSB, and artists from Memories and Mindscapes will answer questions and share their thoughts. Moderated by IUSB Art Gallery Director, Mark Rospenda, the discussion will touch on various topics including process, the history of drawing, and the realization and understanding of inner worlds. An opportunity for Q&A with the audience will be offered at the end.
About the Exhibition
Most of us were given a crayon, pencil, or stick to make marks with before we could even walk. At first, those marks were simply gestures—lines and shapes made without intention beyond the pleasure of making them. Over time, they began to coalesce into forms and stories, becoming a way to make sense of the world around us and, perhaps, to give shape to the world within us. As language and drawing developed together, marks and images became another way of expressing experiences that were still taking shape in words.
Memories and Mindscapes considers drawing as a medium uniquely attuned to these interior states of being. Familiar, immediate, and often intuitive, drawing can give form to experiences that exist beyond language, communicating the personal with an intimacy and directness that other mediums may not. The works in this exhibition offer glimpses into inner worlds shaped by hopes, dreams, anxieties, nightmares, beliefs, and remembrances.
In this way, the drawings become both windows and mirrors: invitations to enter the imagined spaces of others while encountering fragments of our own. Memories and Mindscapes asks us to look inward as we look outward, and to consider how a simple mark on a surface can give visible form to the otherwise unseen landscapes of the mind.
