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Mishawaka's university gallery is Bethel's Weaver Art Gallery, and its succession is short enough to tell whole. The gallery opened with its building: the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center, completed in 1996 and named for two of the university's founders, Quinton Everest and Seth Rohrer, housing the Weaver Gallery beside its 880-seat auditorium. The gallery is the art department's public room — open to the public, admission free — and its program in the current record is a teaching gallery's: faculty work (Chad Jay's Via Crucis, 31 January to 5 April 2025, fifteen stations in mixed media, carried afterward to churches on request), the community's collections (the Nativity exhibit of November 2023, fifteen nativities lent by faculty and staff beneath a twenty-six-by-eight-foot watercolor the students made), and student shows. Across the river the succession runs at full institutional scale, and it is live: the South Bend Museum of Art, founded 1947 in the carriage house of the Studebaker mansion, moved with Century Center's opening in 1977 into the Philip Johnson and John Burgee building's north wing, took accreditation in 1987, draws between 16,000 and 21,000 visitors a year on the Tribune's August 2026 account — and on 27 August 2026 the Civic Center Board voted to end its lease, giving the museum thirty-six months to relocate under the Downtown South Bend 2045 Plan, with a $1 million Lilly Endowment grant of July 2026 in hand for the transition. The campus wall, the checklist's second half, tests as the interpretive trails tested: the county's landmark campus wall is Notre Dame's — the Word of Life mural, Millard Sheets's mosaic Christ on the fourteen-story Hesburgh Library of 1964, the "Touchdown Jesus" of the stadium's sightline — across the river and boundary-printed. No wall of landmark standing on a Mishawaka campus reaches this record; Bethel's campus history is the named settler for its own walls. The succession entry closes with the symmetry the record offers: the city's gallery turned thirty in its founders' building in 2026, the year the county's museum began moving house.