Adolph Shulz was born on June 12, 1869 in Delavan, Wisconsin and died January 24, 1963 in Nashville, Indiana. Shulz and his wife, Ada were both well-known artists; Adolph for his impressionist landscape paintings and Ada for her impressionist painting of mothers and children. Their son Walter had become a somewhat accomplished painter before his early death in 1918. Adolph studied at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1889, and after he and Ada married they moved abroad in 1894 to study art at separate French academies. Adolph also studied at the Royal Academy of Munich. Adolph and Ada returned to Delavan to set up their own studio following the birth of their son in October of 1895. Shulz read about Brown County?s natural beauty in the early 1900s and began to spend summers in Nashville, Indiana to paint the striking landscape. Less than two decades later the Shulz family permanently moved from Wisconsin to Nashville, Indiana. Adolph and Ada Shulz helped found and became charter members of the Brown County Art Gallery Association in 1926, one of the oldest galleries in the United States. While teaching art classes Shulz met single mother Alberta Rehm, who he would soon marry after divorcing Ada in 1926. Shulz would help care for Alberta?s daughter, Emilie, who was later institutionalized as an adult. Adolph Shulz held teaching positions at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida and the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Museum of Art has 80 works by Adolph Shulz in the permanent collection.
David Allen Hanks (1940-) is a curator and scholar. He specializes in 19th and 20th century decorative arts. He also holds interests in architecture, specifically Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
He earned a Bachelor’s degree in 1962 and a Master of Arts in 1965, both from Washington University. He has worked at several museums including the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. He is currently the president of David A. Hanks & Associates Inc., a decorative-arts consulting company founded by Hanks in 1980.
He has authored and co-authored several books including The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright (1979), Innovative Furniture in America from 1800 to Present (1981), Frank Lloyd Wright: Preserving the Architectural Heritage-Decorative Designs From the Domino’s Pizza Collection (1989), and American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow (2005).
Floyd D. Hopper (1909-1984) was born near French Lick in Martin County, Indiana. He turned down a scholarship to DePauw University to attend John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana; he attended on scholarship. He received a certificate in 1933, since no official degrees were offered at the time. He later returned to Herron to earn a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1940. Artists that Hopper studied under while at Herron include William Forsyth, Clifton Wheeler, Paul Hadley, Roy C. Nuse, George Harding, Francis Speight, Donald M. Mattison, Henrik M. Mayer, Eliot O
Founded in 1975, the Asian Art Society (AAS) aims to cultivate greater interest in the IMA through the Museum’s renowned collection of Asian Art. The AAS was originally named the Oriental Arts Society, but changed its name to the Asian Arts Society around the 1990s. Members of the AAS support the IMA‘s Asian art collection by assisting in the selection and acquisition of new works of art for the Asian Art Department and co-sponsoring dinners and lectures with prominent art collectors, historians, and dealers. Events hosted by the AAS have included lectures on such topics as Life and Art in the Ming Dynasty, Japanese Screens, The Art of Kabuki, and many more. The AAS is led by a Board of Directors and is advised by John Teramoto, Curator of Asian Art and a Museum Affiliate liaison. In 2016, AAS celebrated their 40th anniversary.
Presidents:
Robert Shula: 1975-1978
Keith Clary: 1978-1980
Tom Kuebler: 1980-1982
Dorit Paul: 1982-1984
Carolyn Greer: 1984-1986
Dick Fowler: 1986-1987
Marni Fechtman: 1987-1989
Betty Aker: 1989-1991
Ernest Lorch: 1991-1993
Joan Kahn: 1993-1995
Jane Schlegel: 1995-1997
Nancy Sinclair: 1997-1999
Jody Garrigus: 1999-2001
Joe Caparo: 2001-2003
Patricia Lyster: 2003-2005
Eli Lopez: 2005-2007
Chip Kalleen: 2007-2008
Tom Kuebler: 2008-2011
Marni Fechtman: 2011-2013
Nancy Inui: 2013-2016
Scott Keller: 2016-2017