# @artscouncilindy on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-07T20:46:51.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Indy Arts Council (@artscouncilindy) — https://gondola.cc/artscouncilindy

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Introducing the first round of the 2025 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award recipients, Aaron S. Coleman and Eli Craven! ⁠
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Aaron S. Coleman | Aaron is a multi-disciplinary artist, Associate Professor and Kenneth E. Tyler Endowed Chair at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. He has participated in international residencies and exhibitions and has received numerous awards for his work in printmaking, sculpture and installation including the 2021 Black Box Press Foundation’s Art as Activism Grant. Aaron's work can be found in the collections of The Janet Turner Print Museum, the Ino-cho Paper Museum in Kochi, Japan, the National Library of France, and the Artist Printmaker and Photographer Research Archive among many other public and private collections. ⁠
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Eli Craven | Eli Craven is a lens-based artist based in Lafayette, Indiana. Craven’s research resides in the critical investigation of the image and its relationship to ideologies of sexuality, desire, and death. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Kant Gallery, Copenhagen; KlompChing Gallery, Brooklyn; and at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, in Portland. Select clients include Corriere della Sera, Gestalten publishers, Penguin Random House, and the Paris National Opera. He is currently an associate professor of photography at Purdue University.⁠
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The DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award, funded by the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation and administered by the Indy Arts Council, is for contemporary visual artists who want to take risks. ⁠
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To learn more about Aaron and Eli, and to apply for the second round visit IndyArts.org/dehaan-artist-of-distinction-award.⁠
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#DeHaanArtistofDistinction #IndyArtsCouncil

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