Marshall J. Gardner Center For The Arts
Upcoming events
- Free Community Yoga
- Work In Progress Calling all visual artists.
- Linocut Printmaking Workshop
- Silver Screen Filmmakers Club Spring Showcase
- I Love Lucy Documentary
- Life Drawing Open Studio
- All in Jest Trivia
- Mending Clinic With Jane Whedbee
- Allison Svoboda Confluence: Nature as Medium
- Opening Reception Mixed media
- Orizomegami Workshop by Allison Svoboda
- Artist’s talk by Allison Svoboda
- Mudballs Workshop by Allison Svoboda
- Rashelle Roos & Joe Agati Paintings and sculpture
- Cydney Lewis & Art Garcia Collage and paintings
- Felix Maldonado Selected paintings
- 2024 Community Show Artists from Gary, Connected to Gary, that have not been exhibited in our gallery
Past events
- Cookie Decorating Easter Edition
- Life Drawing Open Studio
- Fools and Dreamers Garden Film Shorts Festival
- The Black Experience Martin Luther King and Beyond A Spoken Word Event
- Blooming Out of Trauma Artist Talk
- All In Jest Trivia
- VAGINA MONOLOGUES Written by Eve Ensler, Directed by Patti Shaffner
- Miller Garden Club Movie
- Blooming Out of Trauma Private Event for Donors
- Blooming Out of Trauma Opening Reception
- Blooming Out of Trauma The Intersection of Upholstery and Activist Art
- Open Studio Drawing
- Free Community Yoga
- Recycled Printmaking
- All In Jest Trivia
- Open Studio Life Drawing
- Miller Garden Club Movie Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes
- Digitally Correct Meta-Troubadours
- Free Community Yoga
- Patti Shaffner & BP3 Jazz Trio
- Holiday Cookie Decorating Royal Icing Demystified!
- Drepung Gomang Northwest Indiana Sacred Arts Tour
- Holiday Printmaking Create cards, papers, decor for your holiday!!!
- Our Community Wonderland Artists from Gary, Connected to Gary, that have not been exhibited in our gallery
- Artopia Therapeutic Meditative Art Calming, Relaxing, Creative
- Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, A Readers Theatre Version Miller Community Theatre presents
- SPOTLIGHT: An Evening of Poets, Storytellers, and Yarnspinners Miller Community Theatre presents Join us for a candlelit evening of entertainment as we delight in the art of spoken word. Bring a friend, grab a drink and unwind, as your friends and neighbors dazzle you with their prose.
- Recycled Printmaking Learn to make beautiful prints using Tetrapak Make “etchings'' using household items and ordinary packaging materials instead of chemicals and copper plates! In this class, you will learn traditional printing techniques while exploring various methods of creating line, tone, and texture using recycled Tetrapak cartons.
- SPOTLIGHT: An Evening of Poets, Storytellers, and Yarnspinners Miller Community Theatre presents Join us for a candlelit evening of entertainment as we delight in the art of spoken word. Bring a friend, grab a drink and unwind, as your friends and neighbors dazzle you with their prose.
- 2023 Halloween Bash Lake Street's First Costume Dance Party!
- Saturday Morning Art Class MENDING CLINIC Save your pennies! Save your favorite stuff! Learn to repair, reinforce, ornament, alter, or re-make clothes.
- ALL IN JEST TRIVIA S3G2 Friday October 20, 2023 -- 7 PM
- Saturday Morning Art Class PRINTMAKING w/Catherine Sollman Try your hand at a simple, fun, printing method using colorful acrylic paints on paper. Create and take home your own work of art.
- Doug Davis
- Fest in the First
- At That Moment Photography by Anne Evans
- Kevin Blake Artist Talk Let's meet and discuss "Living Like Larry"
- Opening Reception Kevin Blake "Living Like Larry"
- The Rocky Horror Show (7/30) MILLER COMMUNITY THEATRE 2023
- The Rocky Horror Show (7/29) MILLER COMMUNITY THEATRE 2023
- The Rocky Horror Show (7/28) MILLER COMMUNITY THEATRE 2023
- The Rocky Horror Show (7/22) MILLER COMMUNITY THEATRE 2023
- The Rocky Horror Show (7/21) MILLER COMMUNITY THEATRE 2023
- Kevin Blake Opening Reception Friday August 4th
- Artists’ Talk – Buckmaster+Anderson Celebrating the Beauty of the Indiana Dunes
- Celebrating The Beauty of the Indiana Dunes
- Sue Reyman & Ginny Takacs Floral photography and paintings
- Tough Love
- SO FAR — Artist Talk and Book Signing Nancy Hejna discusses her artwork, poetry and prose
- MAKE, DO, MEND! Saturday Morning Art Class offers a Mending Clinic
- Water Safety Social Fundraiser Featuring Jamrose
- Art & Craft Supply Swap Clean out your closets and join our swap to raise funds for future art classes the MBACD
- SO FAR – Opening Reception Join us for the First Friday event on Lake Street
- Pasta Palooza Parade 3rd annual Parade moves to the Spring because September was just too hot!
- Drawing with Chris Toepfer Saturday Morning Art Class
- All In Jest Trivia The Final Challenge ....until next autumn.....
- So Far Nancy Hejna artwork in Exhibit
- Sunday Morning Pilates Class Pilates on Sunday Mornings at the MJG
- Climate Follies A Collection of Short Plays by Jim Poyser
- Drawing with Chris Toepfer Saturday Morning Art Class
- Nick Danger Trio — Live On Lake Street All the cool kids will be there.... Sponsored by Pettit Accounting - Thank you Wendy!
- Message from the Soul Of Our City Jamika Smith returns to the Gardner Center to create the 'Miller Chair' RSVP required.
- Message from the Soul Of Our City Jamika Smith returns to the Gardner Center to create the Miller Chair. RSVP required.
- Sunday Morning Pilates Pilates on Sunday Mornings at the MJG
- Sunday Morning Yoga Yoga Sunday Morning at the MJG
- Drawing with Chris Toepfer Saturday Morning Art Class
- FIRST FRIDAY LAKE STREET FEARSOME FABLE - TOLERABLE TRUTH exhibit by Tom Torluemke continues.
- Sunday Morning Pilates Class Pilates on Sunday Mornings at the MJG
- Sunday Morning Yoga Yoga Sunday Morning at the MJG
- GELLI PLATE MONOTYPE PRINTING CLASS Saturday morning art class
- All In Jest Trivia Season 2 Game 7
- Live On Lake Street – CXPITAL Cxpital is a 3-piece Indie/Alternative Rock band from Northwest Indiana.
- Dare To Be Wild – Hygge Movie Sunday Miller Garden Club Hygge Movie Series
- Fearsome Fable – Tolerable Truth Tom Torluemke returns to the Gardner Center
- Artists’ Talk – Black History Is History Meet the exceptional talents that came together for this exhibit
- Sunday Pilates Join Angie Reens for an awesome stretch to start the week
- Sunday Morning Yoga Beginner's Yoga with Anna Martinez
- Saturday Morning Art Class Gelli Plate Monotype Printing
- Documentary Movie – “Leontyne Price Sings”
- Saturday Art Classes Join us on Lake St on Saturday Mornings
- All In Jest Trivia Join us for the best trivia game in the Region!
- COLD WAX, HOT ART Patty Roberts returns with art instruction in the use of cold wax and oil paint to create abstract artwork
- Patti Shaffner Live On Lake Street
- Black History Is History Curated by Angel Knight
- All In Jest Trivia Season 2 Game 5
- The Gardener Miller Garden Club Film Series
- Nick Danger Trio Live on Lake Street
- Akeelah and the Bee Movie Night @ MBACD
- Community Vision Board Event Free and Open to the Public
- D.C.M.T. LIVE First Friday January
- ALL IN JEST TRIVIA — Game 4 The fun continues.....
- Holiday Movie Night! — ELF Join us for a modern-day movie classic
- ARTIST TALK — Community Show 2022 Random Acts of Creativity
- MILLER COMMUNITY THEATER — Fundraiser See select performances from Madwomens Late Nite Cabaret
- Cookie Walk First Friday December • FIRST FRIDAY COOKIE WALK – December 2nd – This event is part of The Shops on Lake Street First Friday Celebration – Buy cookie boxes and get a map of participating businesses at Vibrations, Ayers Realty, Lake Street Gallery, and Indie Indie Bang Bang for $10 each in ADVANCE of this event as supplies are limited!
- HOLIDAY MOVIE NIGHT — ELF Come enjoy a seasonal favorite and support the Marshall J Gardner Center for the Arts!
- Everglades of the North & Shifting Sands History, environmental perspective, and a National Park.
- OPENING RECEPTION – “In The Company of Nature” Meet the Artists -- Angela Saxon and Royce Deans
- The Csicsko Kid — ARTIST TALK – October 7th, 6 – 8 pm An Affection for the Calumet Region and the City of Chicago
- All In Jest Trivia Night Season 2 Premiere
- TEDxGary
- Take an Art Class! Creating Abstract Art Using Oil and Cold Wax Technique with Instructor Patty Roberts
- Artist Talk With Raymar Brunson & Terra Cooks
- Jamrose Live On Lake Street
- Take an Art Class! Creating Abstract Art Using Oil and Cold Wax Technique with Instructor Patty Roberts
- Art of Business Workshop
- Mad Women’s Late Nite Cabaret
- Opening Reception Photography by Raymar Brunson & Terra Cooks
- Local Visions Photography by Raymar Brunson & Terra Cooks
- Farm-to-Table Dinner Experience with Chef Lucero Martinez-Donato
- Hurricane Reggae Band Live on Lake Street Summer Music Series
- Juneteenth on Lake Street NWIBCC 3rd annual Freedom Day Celebration
- 5 + 3 = ∞ Work by Ish Muhammad
- Open Auditions Mad Women’s Late Nite Cabaret
- Family Yoga Miller Movement Classes, first Saturday of every month.
- Movie Night! Empire Records
- What’s Your Name, Who’s Your Daddy? A Play By Jeanette Yoffe
- Quilts! By Chris Sass, featuring Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry
- Indiana Humanities Waterways Film Tour
- 80’s Trivia Night Game V: The Season Finale
- Chicago Blues All-Stars First Public Performance in over 2 years!
- Artist Talk – Searching for Balance in Chaos
- Opening Reception – Searching for Balance in Chaos
- Trivia Night! Game IV
- Searching For Balance In Chaos Explore the works of Teresina Pavel and Patty Roberts
- Meet The Artists Celebrating Black Heritage
- Movie Night! Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Four for February Celebrating Black Heritage
- Four for February Celebrating Black Heritage
- TEDx Gary Watch Party Celebrate Women's History Month
- Trivia Night Every last Thursday of the month
- Trivia Night Every last Thursday of the month
- Movie Night Some Like It Hot
- MLK Day The 15th Annual MBTP Martin Luther King Community Summit
- Anti-Racism Mural Project South Shore Arts Student Artwork
- Movie Night Join us for a special showing of Elf (2003)
- What Now? Join us for TEDx Gary Women!
- Community Art Show
- Holistic Life Foundation
- Monologues for this Moment Experience the 11th Annual Al Boswell Playfest
- Kristin Hersh Meet the author
- Artists’ Talk The Decay Devils discuss their 2019 trip to Pripyat, Ukraine
- Chernobyl & Chicken
- Opening Reception & Book Release Party
- Chernobyl Experience With The Decay Devils
- Layers Layered paintings by L. Lee Ligocki
- I Know I Am But Who Are You? Paintings by Sara Peak Convery, Randy Buvala, Tony Lipka, and Gary Price
- A Cultural Bridge Lillian Porter Attinasi Artist Retrospective
- Plein Air Competition Novice and Experienced Categories
- Art Still Lives fundraiser Art sale and cocktail party
- Art From Excess II Artist Talk II by Chris Toepfer
- Art From Excess II 2D and 3D paintings and sculptures from found objects by Chris Toepfer
- Artist Talk Unapologetically Noir
- Community Photos Apologetically Noir
- Round Table Talk
- Unapologetically Noir Tyrell Anderson
- Haiku Workshop
- Artist Talk
- Opening Reception Suzy Vance's Uncharted Territory
- Unchartered Territory Fibre Art Exhibit
- Constance Volk
- Book Signing Medley of Art: The Richness of Living in Community
- Medley of Art The Richness of Living in Community
- Painters Printing: Miller Edition Monotype Printing by Angela Saxon, Anne Corlett, Royce Deans
- Joe Rauen Live Music With Handmade Instruments
- Industrial Sights Photographs by Matthew Kaplan and Robin Michals
- Mid-Century Living Acrylic paintings by Dan Nelson
- Lake Effekt Mural Art Festival
- Living Mid-Century An Exhibit of paintings by Daniel Nelson
- Dance, Song, & Soul Food Celebrate Black History Month
- Smooth Willie Fultz band! Live on Lake Street
- Chair Yoga With Dave
- Yoga With Dave
- Anatomy of Artists Group Art Exhibit
- Artist Talk with Marty Bohn About "Definitive Moments"
- On the Table Community Discussion
- Marisol Miranda salsa band Live on Lake Street
- Definitive Moments Photography Exhibit
- Rebecca & Co! Live on Lake Street
- The JEGS Live on Lake Street
- In Her Own Style Art exhibit
- One Mic Youth music and spoken word performances
- Haunts Urban Exploration Photography Exhibit
- What Do You Want To See? A Community Discussion
- Kevin Firme Solo Exhibit
- Holiday Bazaar
- Five Foot Two A documentary film about Lady Gaga
- Community Meeting about Ming Ling Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson—Lake Street Development
- Artist Talk: Larry Lapidus Portrait Exhibit
- Shoreline Committee meeting (Miller Citizens Corporation)
- Larry Lapidus Portrait Exhibit
- Plein Air Event and art sale/reception
- Reconnect An exhibition of landscape paintings
- Shoreline Committee meeting Miller Citizens Corporation
- Hometown Gems Through the Eyes of Jim Wilson, Della Schaller, Dale Fleming
- Shoreline Committee meeting Miller Citizens Corporation
- Copper Guilding Artist Demonstration with Kei Constantinov
- Artists’ Journey Group art exhibit
- Summer Artisan Fair
- The Great Pretender A documentary film about Freddie Mercury
- Dual Insights Carole Stodder and Tom Brand Paintings
- Just US Roosevelt High School student art exhibit
- Farmers Market Fundraiser Chili cookoff, dancing, silent auction and more!
- Time Ghost Gregg Hertzlieb
- Mocha Flavored Clouds
- Rosenwald Documentary Film
- Paint It Black Art Exhibit
- CommUNITY Station exhibit
- Joy Rides A documentary film about outsider artist Wesley Willis
- Holiday Artisan Fair 2017
- Show Off People Who Collect
- Night of the Living Dead
- Closing Ceremony
- Mani Stone Painting Workshop Part of the Sacred Arts Tour
- Butter Sculpture Workshop Part of the Sacred Arts Tour
- World Peace Sand Mandala Construction
- Opening Ceremony
- Gallery of Horrors
- American Ballet Theatre A documentary film
- Scary Stuff! Watch it Grow!
- On the Table Community Discussion and Meal
- Miller Citizens Corporation Shoreline Committee Meeting
- The Pain’t in My Life Art exhibit by Parris Gill, Sr.
- Not Fade Away Music Photography by Bobby Talamine
- Me, Myself & I Jesse Johnson art exhibit
- Black Ice Corky Gray art exhibit
- Drum Circle for First Fridays!!!
- Bette Midler A documentary film
- Lake Effekt 2017!
- Art Extravanganza From Lighthouse Charter Schools
- Conflict Prints, Sculptures and Assemblage
- Open Mic Poetry Readings
- Gary Poetry Project workshop
- Get Surreal With The Paintings Of Doug Davis
- April Artisan Fair
- The Art Within Rebuilding Through Preservation
- Fats Domino A documentary film
- Vanguards II Hope, Disappointment and Future History
- Calumet Heritage Partnership meeting Open to the public
- Poetry Reading
- Heroes’ Quest The Indiana Dunes State Park Radio Play and Puppet Show
- Annual Holiday Artisan Fair
- Althea Documentary Film
- Jeff Manes Book Signing
- South Shore Soup Microfunding dinner
- Reframing Histories
- Cinema and Cocktails Gary International Black Film Festival Eve
- Objectified Mathias 'Spider' Schergen's solos art from found objects exhibit and workshop
- South Shore train double track project – meeting with NICTD
- Cut From a Different Cloth Reception and art exhibit featuring Corky Gray
- Access 4 All Film Premier
- Home Tour Lake Michigan Modern
- Lake Michigan Modern Miller Beach Exhibit
- Jeff Manes Book Signing
- Music/Movement Workshop – African Expressions for Kids (6-12 years)
- Nelson Algren Photography Exhibit By Art Shay
- Nelson Algren Festival
- Music/Movement Workshop African Expressions for Kids (6-12 years)
- Amy Winehouse Documentary Film with introduction by Larry Lapidus.
- Intro to Manga Japanese comic drawing art class (12—Adult)
- Yoga for kids Ages 6—12 years
- June Pop Up Artisan Fair
- Sand and Steel Iron Sculpture Exhibit
- Bead Town is BACK!!!
- Lighthouse Charter School Student art showcase and silent auction
- Intermediate Drawing For Adults
- Intermediate Drawing Ages 8-10
- Poetry, Films and Popcorn Celebrating National Poetry Month with live readings and films
- Soup and Screen Film, soup and silent auction to benefit the Miller Beach Farmers Market
- Spring Pop Up – Artisan Fair and cafe
- Community Conversation With Save the Dunes / National Lakeshore
- Beginning Drawing classes For Adults
- Beginning Drawing classes – ages 8-10
- Jeff Manes Book Signing
- Straight Shooters Photography Exhibit featuring Bob Palmieri and Larry Lapidus
- What Happened, Miss Simone? Documentary Film
- Turning Trash into Treasure Found Art Workshop
- Vanguards Moving 'Out Here' to Miller
- Finding Lucy Documentary film about Lucille Ball
- Zentangle Adult drawing classes
- Exhibit and Silent Auction For Miller Doors
- Miller Doors Painting Workshop
- Footsteps in the Dunes A radio play spotlighting 3 ecologists: Diana, Cowles and Douglas
- All Worth Their Salt Book signing and live storytelling with Jeff Manes
- Richard Pociask Art Exhibit
- Calumet River Project
- Watercolor and More Art class, ages 16 and up
- Calumet River Project
- The Unwonted
- If These Walls Could Tell Storytelling Event
- Collective Perspectives Photo Exhibit
- Action Group Workshop Organized by Miller Spotlight
- Tibetan Monks Sand Mandala Opening Ceremony And Initial Viewing
- When You’re Strange A Film About The Doors
- Saving The Dunes Artist Path Exhibit
- I Am Divine A Documentary Film
- Love: Lost & Found Organized by Tim Petrites
- Holiday Bazaar Pop-Up Arts & Crafts
- Bead Town Art Exhibit and Workshops
- Motown Christmas Concert Live Band
- The Power of Song A documentary about Pete Seeger
- The Maestro A film about Arturo Toscanini
- Aggregate Valparaiso University Art Faculty Exhibit
- Everglades of the North An award-winning film
- Dual Nature Art Exhibit
- The Dream Continues Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Line Drawing Hannah Barnes Exhibit
- Sacred Arts Tour Tibetan Monk Sand Madala Painting
- Classic Auto Show & Pop Up Art
- Where’s the Magician When You Need Him? Tom Torluemke
- Exit Through the Gift Shop Lecture/Movie
- Wirt Emerson Visual & Performing Arts Art, Music, & Dance Performance
- The Concert Years Lecture/Movie about Judy Garland
- FDR Ed Asner Performance
- Outsider Art Lecture with John Cain / Susanne Craig
- Denny Davis Retrospective Art Exhibit
- Leontyne Price Sings Lecture/Movie
- Father of Modern Photography Lecture/movie about Alfred Steiglitz
- In an Indescribable Vessel And Moving Rapidly Toward An Indistinct Shore
- To Be Designed SAIC Graduates
- La Davina The Life & Career of Maria Callas
- Michael Jackson Visions Exhibit & Films
- Emerging Perspectives Ball State Graduate Artists
- Craig Smith Galleries Exhibit & Pop Up