Welcome! Area Artists Association (A3) is a non-profit organization of professional artists affiliated with the Lubeznik Center for the Arts (LCA) in Michigan City, Indiana. Artists who live/work within 60 miles of Michigan City, Indiana may be juried into the association through review by current A3 members. See “Join Us“ to learn more. For more information, visit our 2024-2025 Exhibitions page to see our upcoming exhibitions and visit our Annual Exhibitions tab for more information on our past exhibitions.
2024 Catalog of Artists
This catalog provides some evidence of the seriousness and dedication to creating original works of art by artists of the Area Artists Association. Many of these artists featured on the following pages have each shared a small part of their own story — what inspires them and how they learned their craft. We hope you can learn more about each of them and their works as you peruse these pages and when you see their work on display in one of our upcoming exhibits as listed on the back cover of this catalog.
This dynamic group provides valuable communal support through the sharing and exchanging of ideas. Such feedback enhances the artist’s personal/professional growth. This important communal support takes form through the promotion of Area Artists Association group exhibitions as well as notifications of special invitational, juried and other individual artistic opportunities. As you will see on the following pages, the variety of 2-D and 3-D media, styles, colors and individual artist voices makes for an exciting balance of visual art available to view within the region and beyond.
~L. C. Weigel, founding member, Area Artists Association.
2023 Annual Exhibit: Horizons Reimagined at the South Bend Museum of Art, Sept 22-Nov 5.
About Horizons Reimagined
A horizon in a painting often indicates a plane; a place of stability for the eye. And, typically we consider a horizon to be singular. Yet with Horizons Reimagined, artists show us the possibility of many. Are there many different worlds? Many different futures? Is a horizon a goal to which we should aspire? Is it far off in the distance and out of reach? Or is the horizon an indication of what is to come? Can we expect or hope for joy, beauty, peace or should we take heed of its early warning? This theme creates the possibility of dreaming impossible things and creating imaginative visions of what is, what could be, what was or what might be. In this exhibition, members of Area Artists Association have reimagined the concept of “Horizons.” See our Horizons Reimagined Catalog for information about specific artists and their works and for direct links to their websites for purchase information.