College Mall has partnered with McCormick’s Creek Church to do a bake sale! 10% of purchases from the bake sale stand at the mall will go to Susan G. Komen on April 14 and 15

The paintings of Dawn Adams always depict bodies of water–at times vast and broad across an entire horizontal plane and at times traveling circuitously and quietly through marsh reeds. Her imagery is deliberately fixated on water and its surroundings because in her time of crisis, when her teenage son died in an accident, she found some solace in the fluid materiality of water–that it shifted its shape and surface to adapt to its earthly container, that it reflected and refracted the light cast upon it be it a stormy sky, a moonlit night, or a brilliant sunset. Awe-inspiring and bigger than the details of daily life, water offered repose, some kind of peace. The artist paints these waterscapes to elicit a similar peace and contemplation on the part of her viewers.

Each work is created by layering textured strata with translucent hues of oil paint. When viewed closely, the impasto brush strokes are impressionistic and distinct, forming a surface texture that replicates the water’s surface itself. But the works are for the most part large, requiring the viewer to stand back and allow the colors to visually coalesce so that the landscape can wash over them evocatively.

At By Hand the artist will show new waterscapes that expand her terrain that include the depiction of paths through the woodlands adjacent to streams, a rain-filled forest, and reflecting pools. The exhibit will also include a number of smaller, intimate works.

Every spring, the Eskenazi Museum of Art partners with the IU School of Art and Design to present thesis exhibitions of graduating Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates in the visual arts. The second group of MFA exhibitors features Tiffany Joy Ignalaga (graphic design), Julio C. Suarez (painting), and Shawn Lopez (jewelry and metalsmithing). April 14 all three of these exhibitors will give gallery talks about their work. This event is free and open to the public.

Don’t worry, grown ups, we didn’t forget about you this Easter. Come get a special boozy treat paired with a Lucky Guy Bakery brownie!

Easter Pairing $10.00
Jessica Rabbit Cocktail – Raspberry infused Tiki Rum, Coffee Liqueur, and cream.
Lucky Guy Bakery’s Iconic Brownie – A chocolate brownie brim full of chocolate slabs serves with fresh raspberries.

Kristin Otton, a Ph.D. student in IU’s Department of Anthropogy, will discuss the aesthetically distinctive, helmet-style sowei masks of West Africa’s Sande (or Bundu) society, which have become fixtures in many Western museum collections, including the Mathers Museum’s collection. Scholarship has yielded important insights into the beautiful, stylistically standard aesthetic markers of sowei that materialize symbolic and cultural values. Attention to non-standard features, however, reveals practical formation of individualized form and identity. Close examination of the sowei masks in the collections of the Mathers Museum, National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of African Art reveal instances of intervention over time on the vast majority of the sowei masks. These interventions include physical alteration of the material form, repair of damage, maintenance or application of aesthetic standards, and transformation of identity. The physical evidence of these actions not only indicates the continued process of making sowei, but also illustrates the active and purposeful negotiation of the continuum between beauty and ugliness by both local and global forces. Otto’s Her research focuses on the production and consumption of knowledge about Africa based on material culture in the museum setting. The event will be free and open to the public.

Free visitor parking is available by the Indiana Avenue lobby entrance. Metered parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. The parking lot also has spaces designated for Indiana University C and ST permits. During the weekends free parking is available on the surrounding streets.

An access ramp is located at the Fess Avenue entrance, on the corner of Ninth Street and Fess Avenue. Reserved parking spaces are available on Ninth Street, between Fess Avenue and Indiana Avenue. If you have a disability and need assistance, special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-6873.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the School of Art and Design at Indiana University. BFA 3 features the work of Sam Bodenstein (Photography), Claudia Brooks (Painting), Bracken Sheets (Sculpture), and Grace Thomas (Graphic Design).

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the School of Art and Design at Indiana University. BFA 3 features the work of Sam Bodenstein (Photography), Claudia Brooks (Painting), Bracken Sheets (Sculpture), and Grace Thomas (Graphic Design).

At The Venue we are constantly on the look out for new and engaging artists and their art. From our first exposure to the wire mesh sculptures of Bonnie Shanas, we knew we had found something very special.
Bonnie studied sculpture primarily in Israel, before returning to the US and her home in Cherry Hill, NJ. In her artist statement for The Venue Bonnie has written:
“As a student of psychology and an enthusiast of human nature, I have always been intrigued by underlying allusions and the universal body language. The genuine truth expressed through the subtlety of the unspoken gesture is my inspiration for sculpture of the human form.
Through these images emerging from a cloth of wire, I hope to capture and share these intimate yet universal expressions. The unimposing transparency of the material intended to offer a moment or a memory, which each observer can make his /her own. ”
At The Venue we are pleased to host an opening reception for the exhibition of Bonnie Shanas’s sculptures on Friday, April14th, beginning at 6:00p.m.

Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar
Music & Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison

Directed by Kenneth L. Roberson
Musical Direction by Terry LaBolt
Choreographed by Liza Gennaro
Associate Producers: Jocelyn Bowie & David Semmel

Gangsters-turned-pastry-chefs, seductive Spaniards, and a well-oiled chaperone will have you roaring like the 20s! In this “musical within a musical”, IU Theatre icon George Pinney takes the stage to share his talent one last time, as the melancholy “Man in Chair”. As he listens to his favorite record, his drab apartment gives way to the sparkling sets and lavish costumes of The Drowsy Chaperone.

Production dates:
April 14, 15, 18-21, 2017 @ 7:30 p.m.
April 22 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Join Tony Brown at Talkers Tap Room on East Winslow Road for a night full of great music and delicious food! All ages are welcome!