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Shortly after Jonathan Canning arrived last year as the new director at the Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Philipp Brockington Jr., one of the museum’s benefactors, dropped by and began sharing his enthusiasm for art and the museum with Canning. “He continued to drop by unannounced and stroll through the galleries and storage with me. He was a fount of knowledge,” Canning said, ...

Wednesday’s tour of the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus by residents of Pines Village Retirement Communities was to celebrate the legacy of Josephine Ferguson as a major benefactor of the museum. Ferguson, who died March 11 at age 99 and also lived at Pines Village, would have been 100 on Aug. 30. Her investment in artwork, said those leading the tour of the Ferguson ...

Former professors filed suit over Valparaiso University's plans to sell art from its museum's collection.

An attorney representing two retired Valparaiso University professors with long standing relationships with the university’s Brauer Museum of Art agreed to drop a request for a temporary restraining order to stop the sale of three cornerstone pieces of artwork after learning during a Tuesday court hearing that sale of the artwork is not imminent.

Indiana-based Valparaiso University is reportedly hoping to raise $20m with the sale of works by O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam and Frederic Church from its museum’s collection