The Environmental Fair is an opportunity for community members to learn more about their impacts on the environment. This year’s theme, Food For Thought, is concerned with helping people learn about and reduce their carbon footprint through the food choices they make.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

Tenth Annual Daisy Days Plant Sale and Museum Open Day

Bloomington Restorations, Inc. invites you to the 2015 Tenth Annual Daisy Days Plant Sale and Museum Open Day on Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday, April 26, from 1-4 p.m. Native perennials sourced from Spence Restoration Nursery, Indiana’s premier native plant supplier, will be a primary emphasis of the plant sale. The plants will include those suitable for rain gardens, butterfly gardens and as primary pollinator food sources. Also available will be landscape flowers, spring-planted bulbs and miscellaneous trees and shrubs. Pure maple syrup and jellies will also be available for purchase. The proceeds from the sale will benefit ongoing gardening efforts at the site. Friday Musicale will sponsor musical performances inside the 1892 main house which will also be open to visitors. On Saturday, the farmstead will also host the Bloomington Watercolor Society from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. for a paint-out. Visitors to the site are welcome to wander the grounds and watch the artists at work. The Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned and maintained by Bloomington Restorations, Inc. It is free and open to the public and is located at 2920 E. Tenth Street in Bloomington. For more information call BRI at (812) 336-0909 or go to www.bloomingtonrestorations.org.
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The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of the studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles. To gain professional experience, exhibiting students participate in the planning of their shows and installation of their pieces.

BFA 5 will open on Wednesday, April 22 and continue through Saturday, April 25. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 24 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. This exhibition features the work of Thao Le (Graphic Design), Tracey Jen (Painting), Lena Reifinger (Metalsmithing & Jewelry Design), and Brenna Sharp (Photography).

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Unity of Bloomington invites you to Cleanse and Clear, a workshop led by healer Cindy Sommers of Lifeline Healing in Lexington, KY. The workshop includes guided meditation and other practices designed to cleanse participants of thoughts and feelings that no longer serve their highest and best good. For more information and to register, visit www.unityofbloomington.org

If one story isn’t enough for you, this musical mash-up brings together all of Grimm’s Fairy Tale characters into one twisted tale of cows and curses, beanstalks and bakers, princes and princesses, and of course an evil witch.

“Careful the things you say, Children Will Listen…”

Ticket prices are $15 for students, $20 for seniors, and $25 for adults.

Into the Woods runs April 17, 18, 21-24 at 7:30 p.m. and April 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Unwind and add some sparkle to your weekend!
In this 2 hour jewelry making session you will make a ring with any stone you choose from our crystal shop!
This class includes:
• One Healing Crystal
• Magical Thinking: 101 mini-book
• Complimentary wine or tea
• All the supplies needed to create your one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry

This class is taught by jewelry designer and healing crystal expert, Jessica Ann Miller. Because she’s a crystal healer, you will be able to ask any questions you’ve ever had about crystals!
How the piece is made:
Electroforming is a type of modern alchemy where particles of copper form a coating through electrodeposition. Pure copper is known to amplify crystal energy, boosts flow of chi and brings vitality and luck. Once you design your piece, you leave it with us to complete the electroforming process. It takes 12-36 hours to get a nice copper deposition. You can take a peak in our studio to see what’s ‘cooking’. Your jewelry piece will be available for pick up approximately one week after class date.

One day Donato Giuranna sends his three sons a telegram informing them of the death of their mother. Raffaele, a judge in Rome, Nicola, a factory worker in Turin and Rocco, a teacher in a reformatory in Naples, return home for the funeral without freeing themselves from their own personal and professional problems. Raffaele, involved in combating terrorism, fears for his life. Nicola, separated from his wife, does not know how to overcome the marital crisis, and political strife. Rocco, an idealist, is very troubled by worldwide poverty. The night before the funeral they have different dreams that reflect their existential situation. In Italian language with English subtitles. (35mm presentation)

This comical allegory begins when a Sho in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time, in the shape of a Coke bottle. As his community tries to decipher the purpose of this seeming gift from God, they encounter a humorous collection of human representatives of modern civilization, including a scientist, a teacher, and a band of revolutionaries. The film explores the strangeness of “civilization” and its products—human and otherwise. (Digital presentation)

If one story isn’t enough for you, this musical mash-up brings together all of Grimm’s Fairy Tale characters into one twisted tale of cows and curses, beanstalks and bakers, princes and princesses, and of course an evil witch.

“Careful the things you say, Children Will Listen…”

Ticket prices are $15 for students, $20 for seniors, and $25 for adults.

Into the Woods runs April 17, 18, 21-24 at 7:30 p.m. and April 25 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.