Newfields Art Museum – Modern Design Art and the LUME – Australian Indian Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
This blog shows design art in the museum and THE LUME Indianapolis, a 30,000-square-foot immersive digital art experience using projections, sound, and multimedia. 1220
Newfields: 4000 N Michigan Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46208
Date Picture Taken: September 2025
Design art at Newfields highlights modern and contemporary creativity across industrial design, furniture, graphic design, textiles, and decorative arts, showing how function, materials, and aesthetics shape everyday objects and visual culture.
Early 20th Century
Mid-20th Century
Late 20th Century to Today
Materials Matter
Modernism
The New Style
The Arts and Crafts Movement
Reviving the old and celebrating the new
Resplendent Dreams – Reawakening the Rococo
THE LUME Indianapolis is a 30,000-square-foot immersive digital art experience at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, created in partnership with Grande Experiences. It uses state-of-the-art projectors, sound, and multimedia to transform gallery space into an enveloping visual and auditory environment.
The exhibition Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians celebrates the art, culture, and worldview of contemporary Indigenous Australian artists. It showcases more than 500 works — including paintings, photographs, and storytelling — by over 100 Indigenous creators, spanning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditions.
The show explores themes of land, water, and sky, reflecting the deep interconnection between people and environment in Indigenous Australian cultural systems. A complementary musical soundtrack composed by Indigenous musicians enhances the immersive experience.
This edition of THE LUME aims to educate, inspire, and connect audiences with Indigenous Australian artistic expression, storytelling, and cultural values through a multi-sensory and accessible format.
Beginning of the show, Connection: Land, Water, Sky – Art & Music from Indigenous Australians
