Browse Exhibits (4 total)
IU Institute for Advanced Study: Repository Research Fellowship Project
Repository Research Fellow and New Orleans-based artist, Natan Diacon-Furtado used Wylie House Museum and IU Archives collections to inform his projected light patterns in the museum. His pieces are representative of the lives of three lesser-known individuals who called Wylie House home for varying periods of time. Exhibit opening: September 17, 2021.
Call and Response: Creative Interpretations of the Wylie House
The Call and Response: Creative Interpretations of the Wylie House exhibition is an artistic extension of the Wylie House Museum’s commitment to share the lesser-known histories of people associated with the 1835 Indiana home. Initially a phsyical exhibition in early 2020, this digital component features the individual artists and links to a virtual tour of the original exhibition in the historic home.
Elizabeth Breckenridge, 1843-1910
What was life like for Elizabeth “Lizzie” Breckenridge (1843-1910), an African-American woman who spent most of her life living with and working as a domestic servant for the Theophilus Wylie family? Pulling from a variety of primary sources, this exhibit pieces together her life experience in the second half of the 19th century in Bloomington, Indiana.
Stargazing: Re/Imagining the Life of Elizabeth “Lizzie” Breckenridge
Stargazing is a multidisciplinary arts and humanities project that brought together Indiana University faculty - a poet, a choral director, and a museum archivist - to create new ways to make visible the life of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Breckenridge (1843-1910), a free woman and the domestic employee of Professor Theophilus WYlie, cousin of Andrew Wylie, the first president of IU.