Purdue art gallery moving downtown Lafayette

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - The Greater Lafayette community will soon have easier access to a Purdue art gallery.

Purdue president France Cordova announced Tuesday the Robert L. Ringel Gallery will move to a downtown Lafayette location from the Purdue Memorial Union.

“This vibrant cultural resource will soon be closer to the heart of the Lafayette-West Lafayette community,” Cordova said. “In this way, not only will the public have more access, Purdue also will support the downtown area’s efforts to serve as a cultural center.”

The Ringel Gallery exhibits works by regional, national and international artists as well as items from the Purdue Galleries’ permanent collection.

Ringel, the gallery’s namesake, and his wife, Estelle, left $100,000 in their estate to help fund the gallery, saying, “We truly believe that the arts, in all their magnificent forms of beauty, must have a prominent place wherever and whenever people gather to ask the profound questions of the ages. The gallery is the learning environment, the archive and the studio of the lively and liberating mind.”