At 6:00pm on Wednesday, March 11, join the David Owsley Museum of Art in welcoming acclaimed illustrator Nora Krug to Sursa Hall for a public talk on her work and current solo exhibition at DOMA, Nora Krug: Belonging.
“Images have political power, and they can change the way we think. Illustrating is also an act of witnessing: images compel us to notice and investigate, and at their best, they shed light on and at the same time critically confront the subjects they engage with.” —Nora Krug
Krug’s powerful graphic memoir, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home, and her more recent book publication, an illustrated edition of Yale historian Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, are the focus of the current exhibition at DOMA. Each book takes inspiration from the artist’s personal experiences as well as events from history, including her family’s connections with the Nazi party, and identifies links between fascism past and present. Her mix of animation, illustration art, museum artifacts, flea market finds, vintage photography, oral histories, and personal conversations confront the past in order to take something revelatory and useful away from it.
This lecture is free and open to the public with no registration required. A book signing and light refreshments in the Sursa Hall upper lobby will follow the talk, and the Ball State bookstore will have copies of Belonging and On Tyranny available for purchase.
Visit bsu.edu/doma to learn more about the museum and the exhibition, which is on view through June 13, 2026.
A note for planning your visit: DOMA will be closed to the public February 28 – March 9 for Ball State's Spring Break.