2025 Open Space: Art About the Land—Award Winners

Nov 8

We are proud to announce the award winners for Open Space: Art About the Land.

Open Space: Art About the Land is simultaneously open as two sister exhibitions across East Central Indiana: at Minnetrista Museum & Gardens and Anderson Museum of Art.
At Minnetrista, the exhibition is open now until January 4, 2026 in Gallery 3.

Each year, Open Space: Art About the Land invites artists from across Indiana to celebrate the relationship between creativity and the natural world. Hosted in partnership with the Anderson Museum of Art and in cooperation with Red-tail Land Conservancy, this juried exhibition highlights exceptional works that reflect the beauty, fragility, and inspiration found in Indiana’s landscapes. A portion of the exhibition’s proceeds supports Red-tail’s mission to preserve, protect, and restore natural areas and farmland in East Central Indiana—furthering a shared commitment to stewardship and environmental awareness.

This year’s juror, Sachi Yanari-Rizzo, curator of prints and drawings at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, brought a thoughtful and deeply connected perspective to the selection process. In her statement, Yanari-Rizzo reflected on the shared values between art and conservation—describing both as acts of stewardship meant to preserve beauty and meaning for future generations. She noted that the selected works “communicated the artists’ genuine appreciation of nature,” emphasizing the balance between the ordinary and the extraordinary through diverse mediums such as painting, ceramics, glass, fiber, and photography.

With this year’s exhibition, Open Space continues to remind us that creativity can be both an act of reflection and a call to care for the world around us.

See a work of art that you just can’t live without?
You can purchase works that are for sale through The Orchard Shop at Minnetrista or the front desk in the Center Building at Minnetrista.