| A picture paints a thousand words. The beauty of art | | | | Adams and T.C. Steele. |
| is that an artist can provoke emotion with several | | | | The exhibit raised awareness of the restoration |
| brush strokes. For each person who views the | | | | needs to preserve these timeless pieces of art. |
| painting the feelings and memories will be unique. | | | | Patrons who visit the History Market gift shop in the |
| Indiana is home to many extraordinary artists like T.C. | | | | Indiana History Center continue to support the |
| Steele. At the Indiana Historical Society we explored | | | | project. Each tax-deductible donation or purchase of |
| one of the many wonderful exhibits called The Art of | | | | calendar's, note cards, magnets, and screensavers |
| Healing. | | | | related to the exhibit at the gift shop helps the |
| The Art of Healing took us back to explore the work | | | | continuing efforts to restore and preserve these |
| of sixteen prominent Indiana artists including T.C. | | | | cherished paintings. Once restored, the murals and |
| Steele, Carl Graf, Otto Starke. These artists | | | | paintings will return to the public areas of Wishard |
| contributed to a mammoth project 1914 resulting in | | | | Memorial Hospital, Indiana's leading public hospital. |
| an estimated quarter mile of artwork. Hidden within | | | | Art comes in many forms. Visitors to the Indiana |
| the confines of one of the nation's oldest county | | | | History Center have discovered the story of Hoosier |
| hospitals in Indiana were a series of historic and | | | | artist Robert Wood and his students at Buffalo State |
| unprecedented of mural paintings. | | | | College. The Common Clay: Creating Old and New |
| A painting can take you back to happier days. The | | | | Ceramics exhibit included historical examples of |
| Wishard art collection of murals originally celebrated | | | | pottery created in Indiana in the early twentieth |
| the opening of the new wings for patients within the | | | | century. Among those early works are Overbeck, |
| hospital. Artists who worked on this extensive | | | | Muncie and Brown County pottery, and clay works |
| creative project also slept and ate at the hospital. | | | | by Karl and Gordon Martz and Richard Peeler who |
| What they created were priceless pieces of art that | | | | worked in Indiana during the second half of the |
| helped lift the spirits of patients. Project supervisor | | | | century. Featured works of art created by Robert |
| and famous Hoosier artist William Forsyth regarded | | | | Wood and his former students who include college |
| this work as "the most ambitious and monumental | | | | professors, public school art teachers and full-time |
| work yet undertaken by Indianapolis artists." Artists | | | | ceramic artists with national reputations. Exhibits |
| represented in the collection include William Forsyth, | | | | display many historical works by other Hoosier artist |
| Wayman Adams, William Edouard Scott, J. Ottis | | | | throughout the year for patrons to enjoy. |