This is the Bloomington Volunteer Network’s 38th year connecting you to the community!
Everyone is invited to explore opportunities for service and engagement at the Bloomington Volunteer Network’s Community Volunteer Fair, held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, August 25th on the Showers Plaza at the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market. Join staff and volunteers from over 50 local nonprofits on the Plaza to learn more about how they engage individuals and groups to fulfill their mission and deliver needed services in our community. This year both the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation and the City’s Latino Programs will host hands-on, family-friendly, all-ages, volunteering activities at their booths! Discover something new, share a skill, or fill a need – connections await.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present the exhibition Out of Easy Reach, guest-curated by Allison Glenn, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The exhibit contains over 40 works by twenty-four U.S. based, female- identifying contemporary artists from the Black and Latinx Diasporas. Working across a variety of media, these artists counter conventional accounts of abstraction in art history that have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color.

Friday, August 24ths events:

Lunch roundtable, Curating a New Canon, Participants: Allison Glenn, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Kellie Romany, Lorelei Stewart. 12:00-1:30pm, Fine Arts 015.

Public gallery tour with Curator Allison Glenn, 2-3pm, Grunwald Gallery.

Abstraction as a Strategy of Refusal, Part I:
The Circulation of Images, Participants: Edra Soto, Ayanah Moor, Malcolm Mobutu Smith, Vivian Halloran. Moderated by Faye Gleisser. 3:00-4:30pm, Fine Arts 102.

Abstraction as a Strategy of Refusal, Part II:
The Language of Abstraction, Participants: Steffani Jemison and Caroline Kent.
Moderated by Allison Glenn. 5:00-6:00pm, Fine Arts 015

This project was partially supported by the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University and Indiana University’s New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities Program. Further assistance comes from the College Arts and Humanities Institute and the Robert E. and Avis Tarrant Burke Lecture Series in the Department of Art History. The exhibition and symposium are also supported by the Cultural Studies Program at Indiana University. The Grunwald Gallery would like to thank the lenders to the exhibition.

Both children and adults will be guided through the arts of sand painting, making “medoc” — the flowers usually put on a Sacred Butter Sculpture (using Play Doh), coloring images of Tibet and Eight Auspicious Symbols, painting Mani Stones (please bring your own flat stone), and making prayer flags.

Unity of Bloomington, in partnership with the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, invites the public to five days of sacred learning, spiritual enlightenment and interaction with the Tibetan Buddhist monks visiting on the 2018-2019 Tashi Kyil Tour. The monks are from Tashil, a Tibetan refugee monastery located in Dehra Dun, India.

Featuring: Davis and Devitt

Live musical revue & variety show by Indiana’s own Nettle Creek Players. Listen to Hoagy, Cole and even the Hoosier Hotshots, and maybe even a little tongue-in-cheek Michael Jackson! This comical, talented team will sing and dance their way through Indiana’s songbook history. $19.50/$18.50/$7.50