Dine at Lennie’s Restaurant or stop in for a pint at the Bloomington Brewpub at Lennie’s during business hours and get an eyeful of what the Stone Belt artists have been up to. Works in a variety of media by Stone Belt client artists from Bloomington, Bedford, and Columbus will be on display and available for sale.

Celebrate this holiday season with local art and help keep Bloomington vibrant! For the holiday months, By Hand Gallery has put together a special show featuring our local Bloomington artists. The show highlights more than 45 artists and a variety of media, with choice fine art pieces by Rudy Pozzatti.

The Kinsey Institute Gallery is open 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm weekdays or by appointment 8 a.m. to Noon weekdays. Admission is free. Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. Guided group tours of The Kinsey Institute may be scheduled by calling 812-855-7686. The Kinsey Institute is closed for all IU holidays.

“The Taste of Seduction: Arousing Desire with Edible Aphrodisiacs”
Taste of Seduction examines the rich tradition of linking the enjoyment of food and drink with romance and sex, through a display of works of art and cultural artifacts from the Kinsey Institute. Curators combed the collection for depictions of food and beverages and selected more than 50 photographs, prints, paintings, ceramic and glass objects, and artifacts that relate to the consumption of food and beverages and its association with sexual desire, romantic love and seduction. This exhibition is part of the 2014 Themester: Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science.

Featured artists include Albert Arthur Allen, Herbert Ascherman, Lynn Bianchi, Gili Chen, Ian Cook, David Deaubrey, Anthony Droege, Beryl Fine, Gene Greger, Bill Haigwood, Naomi Harris, Danielle Kaltz, Maureen Kaveney, R. Leftwick, Henri Monnier, April Renae, Feodor Rojankovsky, Mark Sawrie, Sam Steward, Betsy Stirratt, and Marie Weichman.
The exhibit runs through December 19.

“Undress Me”
Undress Me presents a selection of playful vintage photographs of women in lingerie from the Kinsey Institute art collection paired with period underclothes such as corsets, petticoats, brassieres, drawers, robes, and other garments on loan from the Sage Collection at Indiana University. Ranging in date from the late 19th century through the 1920s, the clothing on display illustrates the dramatic shift in desired body shape from the hourglass, to the S-curve, to the straight boyish lines of the Roaring Twenties. Tight-fitting corsets were eventually replaced by simple brassieres, and the volume and number of undergarments worn by women dramatically diminished. While the historic undergarments on view served the functional purposes of shaping and protecting, their decorative elements reveal that undergarments, though private, were also meant to be seen and appreciated for their erotic possibilities.

Overseen by the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design, the Sage Collection serves as a resource for students, professionals, and the public. The Collection contains both a high-quality permanent museum collection intended for exhibition and research and a hands-on collection used in classroom instruction and fashion design studios. The Sage Collection was founded by Elizabeth Sage, the first professor of Clothing and Textiles at Indiana University. For more information, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~sagecoll or call 812-855-4627.
The exhibit runs through December 19.

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all—on Christmas Eve! His sense of responsibility has kept him from living the adventures that he always dreamed of. As the angels discuss George’s plight, we see his earnest, yet remarkable life in flashback. Clarence, George’s guardian angel, is sent to show him what things would have been like if he was never there. Will Clarence be able to convince George that he truly had a wonderful life? (2K DCP presentation)

Day With(out) Art was launched by Visual AIDS in 1989 as a day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis in recognition of World AIDS Day. In 2014 Visual AIDS worked with filmmaker Tom Kalin to commission seven artists/collaboratives—Rhys Ernst, Glen Fogel, Lyle Ashton Harris, Derek Jackson, Tom Kalin, My Barbarian, and Julie Tolentino—to create new and provocative work about the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, focusing on the issues of today. For more information, contact Catherine Johnson-Roehr, [email protected], or call 812-855-8890.

Sponsored by The Kinsey Institute, GLBT Student Support Services Office, Health
& Wellness Education at the IU Health Center, and Positive Link

Please join the Community AIDS Action Group of South Central Indiana for the annual World AIDS Day Ceremony of Celebration and Remembrance. The hors d’oeuvre reception will begin at 5:30 pm with the program starting at 6:00pm. The program will include time for reflection and remembrance of those lost to HIV/AIDS and performances by local talent including; the Quarryland Men’s Chorus and students from the IU Musical Theater program. This event is FREE and open to the general public. For more information please contact [email protected].

“To eat good food is to be close to God,” Italian chef and immigrant Primo says. He and his brother Secondo have one last chance to save their failing New Jersey restaurant in a plan to impress famous bandleader Louis Prima. This understated comedy celebrates brotherly love and uncompromising standards. Roger Ebert wrote that it “is about food not as a subject but as a language—the language by which one can speak to gods, can create, can seduce, can aspire to perfection.” (35mm presentation)

An open singing circle for people who like to sing and listen to traditional songs of Ireland, Scotland, and rest of the British Isles and their related traditions in Canada and the USA. The BSC follows the traditions of singing circles/sessions found in Ireland and the British Isles. The songs are primarily unaccompanied and sung from memory, but the occasional accompanied song is not out of the ordinary.

Held on the first of every month.