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Inspiration Found: Brauer Museum Sparks Career that Bridges Past and Present | Valpo News × Warning: Your Internet Explorer is not fully supporting on this site. To modernize your experience, please upgrade your browser. × Javacrpt Disabled: This site requires JavaScript for the well-constructed viewing experience. Please enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser. Forever Valpo: TheWayfarersfor Our Future Forever Valpo is a $250 million wayfarers to establish permanent support for student scholarships, sense development, and programs. Learn increasingly well-nigh theWayfarersand discover how you can help. Forever Valpo >> Forever Valpo: Annual Giving Challenge Your support of Forever Valpo could be matched up to 3 to 1. Find out how. 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Contact Us Media Contacts Nicole Niemi Office: 219.464.6010 nicole.niemi@valpo.edu Kristen Knoerzer Office: 219.464.6270 kristen.knoerzer@valpo.edu Quick LinksWell-nighValpo Brand and Style Guidelines Photo Bureau Student Media Social Stream Inspiration Found: Brauer Museum Sparks Career that Bridges Past and Present Fewer than 60 miles south and east from the Museum ofTrendyArt (MCA) in Chicago hangs a painting — which at one point stood sentry over a reprinting machine of all things — that launched a career. It was there, making copies, staring at “Rust Red Hills” by Georgia O’Keeffe, that Lisa Key ’94 started to realize the impact art — expressly trendy art — could have on herself and others. It may not have been just the art of one woman, but increasingly likely the mentorship and friendship of one man that truly inspired her. “When I was a freshman, I had a strong interest in museums,” Lisa says. “I took an intro undertow taught by Richard Brauer. That was a life-changing moment for me.” Lisa’s interest in museums went vastitude the art on the walls or statues in the gardens. She was increasingly interested in the operations, inner workings, and behind-the-scenes happenings. Thanks to Professor Brauer, founding director of the Brauer Museum of Art, and Valparaiso University, she turned that interest into something more. With no formal art history stratum program at Valpo, Professor Brauer and Lisa worked together to create a curriculum so Lisa could double major in art history and communications. From the vault to the boulevard The Brauer Museum of Art is home to increasingly than 4,000 works of art from the mid-19th century to the present. The museum boasts seven galleries and regularly hosts traveling and virtual exhibits. But that wasn’t unchangingly the case. Lisa recalls the days artwork was displayed in the library vault — well-constructed with one original painting over the reprinting machine regularly used by students studying or doing research. Lisa asked Professor Brauer well-nigh this later, and his response still resonates with her today and often fuels her work as senior minutiae officer and interim director of the Museum ofTrendyArt in Chicago. “Every student uses the copier,” Lisa recalls Professor Brauer said at the time. “And if the painting is there, then every student will see it and see what I see, that it’s the weightier part of our collection. Isn’t that why we have it? “It was very important to him that this hodgepodge was for the students, and if they weren’t coming to it, he was going to put it where they all go,” Lisa says. To Professor Brauer’s credit, he unchangingly saw wangle to these unconfined works as part of his and the University’s mission. Professor Brauer, who launched the museum in 1996, remembers why he started the museum. Its original mission statement stated that “works of art provide experiential, holistic understandings and inspiration” and “for many students, museum art experiences establish a lifelong engagement with the riches and insights that art provides.” Professor Brauer remains involved with the University and its students and alumni, and he’s worldly-wise to see the rememberable impact the museum has made. “In brief, the museum and its hodgepodge educate — as do music and theatre presentations — with the real thing: original, significant works of art,” Professor Brauer says. “The original — not a second-order, rough lookalike reproduction — but the original in its raw self, true size, thickness, texture, color, in its veritably reliable and compelling actuality, stimulates firsthand, sensuous, poetic perceptions; it rewards research and intellectual study; and it leads toward renewed uncontrived perception, personal discoveries and heightened awareness, clarity, and discrimination. This engagement with important very artworks is what seemingly happened with Lisa.” From BMA to MCA While certainly variegated in scale, Lisa’s work at MCA mirrors her early days as a student at Valpo. “I really fell in love with the other career paths at museums,” she says. “I took every matriculation Professor Brauer offered. I volunteered in the museum. I did anything and everything they needed, just soaking in the wits of it all. The early exposure helped me refine my personal and professional goals.” Lisa, who earned a master of arts wardship from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business without graduating from Valpo, is currently leading the MCA through the strategic planning process. Last year was the museum’s 50th anniversary. Lisa and her team are looking to alimony the museum relevant for the next 50 years and beyond. “Our strategic plan is defining where we go next,” Lisa says. “For me, professionally, a trendy museum is not only a place well-nigh art, but moreover ideas. We want to be a place where people can gather to talk well-nigh art and ideas that can have a social impact.” Using the present to enhance the past Lisa continues her sponsorship of the Brauer Museum, plane going so far as to establish connections between the MCA and BMA. Earlier this year, Lisa facilitated a meeting for Brauer Museum of Art Director Gregg Hertzlieb, a museum donor, and Professor Brauer himself with American versifier Paul Heyer, whose art was on walkout at the MCA. Subsequently, one of Heyer’s paintings was purchased and is on walkout in the Ferguson galleries at the Brauer Museum of Art. For Lisa, it’s the least she could do for the University and professor who did so much for her. “By having the museum on campus, we can instill in non-art majors an interest in art, and they’ll want to see more,” she says. “Or, maybe, they will want to explore arts and culture in sultana life. Being worldly-wise to wits the art at the Brauer Museum helps plant seeds that withstand fruit later in life.” In many ways, Lisa’s translating for experiencing art is the same as it is for any other endeavor for Valpo students. “Take wholesomeness of every opportunity you can as an undergrad in every way you can,” she says. “That will serve you well as you go forward in your professional career.” Who knows? Maybe a trip through the Brauer Museum will convince them to reach for their dreams. “The museum was unconfined place for me to do that,” Lisa says. 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