South Shore Arts

South Shore Arts is a non-profit arts center in Munster, Indiana with a satellite location in downtown Hammond, IN. South Shore Arts provides arts education for all ages, exhibits and programming that is free and open to the public. Our History With the avowed purpose to stimulate interest and appreciation of art in our region, ten artists formed the Hammond District Art Association in 1936. Membership was limited to Hammond and Calumet City artists. Together, they sponsored the first annual Art Exhibition of the Hammond District Art Association in the millinery department of the Edward C. Minas Company Department Store in Hammond. The ten founding artists were: William J. Bachman, Martha Ellyson, Anne Geyer, O.O. Haag, Lenore Conde Lawson, Eunice McCullough, Frank Myslive, Clyde Price, Laverne Thornton, and H. Tom Tuinman. As time went on, the group broadened its constituency to include East Chicago, then Whiting, and later all of Lake County. The annual exhibition that began in...