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CDFAC Gallery Reception: 3D Daydreaming

in Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery

A blue background with yellow wave accents. The top text reads, “3D Daydreaming Jerald Jacquard”. To the right is an image of a large yellow sculpture with a brick building in the background.

Please join us on September 8th from 4-6 P.M. for the opening reception of 3D Daydreaming featuring the works of Jerald Jacquard. All are welcome to attend.

September 8 – October 10, 2025
Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Closed weekends and University holidays

Join us on September 24, 5-6pm, for a lecture about the 3D Daydreaming exhibition and artist Jerald Jacquard.

Jerald Jacquard

1937 – 2020

Jerald Jacquard was born in 1937 in Lansing Michigan and received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Michigan State University. Jacquard had a distinguished career for close to sixty years, with seven museum retrospective exhibitions, eleven solo museum exhibitions and twelve public sculptures in high profile outdoor sculpture parks. Prestigious awards during his lifetime include a Fulbright Scholarship to study bronze casting in Florence Italy in 1963, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974, and many other prestigious awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1980, and a Lilly Research Fellowship in 1981.

His work is in numerous museum and private collections, including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, The Tucson Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country, including the Tucson Museum of Art, the Kalamazoo Institute of Art, and the Grand Rapids Art Museum among many others.

“The older I get, the more art and the making of art become a mystery. When I was young I thought that making art was natural and somewhat logical. Now it has become a necessity to make my life have meaning.” – Jerald Jacquard

Jerald Jacquard was a devoted teacher and researcher, and was known primarily as a creator of monumental sculpture. His philosophy was that teaching art and making art have a great deal in common. These skills and knowledge led him to be recruited to build two University sculpture programs, first at University of Illinois Chicago, and then at Indiana University in Bloomington. Over his lifetime of making art, Jacquard has produced work in drawing, painting, monumental sculpture, mobiles and small bronzes. 

This exhibition is a survey focusing on 3-D works from the many stages of his career and is in conjunction with the recent installation of the sculpture Rhino Arch on the UIndy campus.