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.

Special Program: Show & Tell: A Collaborative Art Exhibit
Continuing through February 28, 2015
IU Art Museum and U Bring Change 2 Mind have invited IU students to participate in an art project that aims to illuminate the challenges, hopes, and fears of our campus community through a month-long display of artworks, poems, and prose.

“Moco’s Prehistoric Past”
Come see and examine fossils of plants, organisms, and animals found in the Hoosier state and learn how they contributed to Southern Indiana’s natural landscape. The history center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00am-4:00pm. Runs through March 31.

The History Center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4pm.

What: Improving Your Balance Exercise Class

When: 10:00 – 11:00 am, (Four) Fridays, February 6 – 27

Who: Tricia Oxford, Endwright Center Fitness Coach

Additional Information:
Falling is currently the number one cause of serious injury in older adults, so good balance is an extremely important aspect of maintaining an active lifestyle as we age. Fortunately, balance can be improved through a variety of strength and flexibility exercises. This class will teach and reinforce basic skills to help maintain and improve balance in order to prevent the occurrence of falls. Therabands will be used to help strengthen muscles associated with balance and coordination. Payment options are available upon request. Call: 876-3383 ex. 515.

This four week session is a perfect opportunity to discover your inner guitarist! Whether you have played before or not, you’ll enjoy Nathan Dillon’s enthusiastic and playful approach to music. You will be guided through the basic gestures of playing the instrument and learn songs in the process. Songs by artists such as Woodie Guthrie will be covered as well as songs chosen by workshop participants. A limited number of guitars are available to use in class, so register soon. Call: 812-876-3383, ext 515

12:30 – 2:30 pm, (Four) Fridays, February 6 – 27. If you have some basic experience with watercolor and would like to experiment further, this class is an opportunity to have fun while learning a new watercolor technique! Come prepared with a photo or picture to paint from. Focus is on the technique of overlaying color to create dimension, which works beautifully on all subject matter. This class assumes students possess a very basic knowledge of watercolor. Call for a supply list; the center has limited supplies on hand. $40 ($35 for Endwright Center members). Register: 812-876-3383, xt 515. Sponsored by the IAC, NEA, Bloomington Community Foundation and Ivy Tech.

The Kinsey Institute art and library collections contain thousands of examples of erotic imagery produced over centuries by artists around the world. Secret Impressions presents a selection of lithographs, engravings, etchings and woodblock prints from the mid-19th century and earlier. These artworks from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Japan illustrate the means by which pornographic and erotic images were mass produced before the invention of the camera. Wealthy collectors could commission paintings, but others could purchase prints at a lower cost. Once photography was invented in the 1830s, it quickly became a popular medium for depictions of the nude figure, as well as erotic imagery. The first photographic process to become widespread was the daguerreotype, which produced a unique image. With the invention of a process that used a negative to make multiple photographs, the mass production of erotic images became possible. Hold That Pose features daguerreotypes, tintypes, albumen and gelatin silver prints, stereocards, and other examples of photographic processes that were used in the 19th century by professional photographers to produce and distribute erotic material.

The Kinsey Institute is open to visitors from 1:30 to 5:00 pm weekdays or at other times during office hours by appointment only. Admission is free. Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. To schedule a group guided tour of The Kinsey Institute, please call 812-855-7686.

Visitors should meet in the museum’s third floor office. No pre-registration is required, but space is limited. Admission will be on a first come-first served basis.

In 1935 the US government began an ambitious photo-documentary project under the auspices of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), intended to show the hardships of the Depression and the benefits of the New Deal. Curator Nan Brewer will discuss works by artists including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Wolcott, and Russell Lee.

Yoga Classes: Chair or Floor Yoga: NEW time of Day!
Experience the peace that comes with gentle stretching and connecting with your breath; 4–5:00pm, Wednesdays & Fridays, February 4 – 27. Endwright Center, 631 W. Edgewood Dr, Ellettsville; Certified yoga instructor, Lee-Ann Assalone will guide you through yoga’s healing, calming and physical benefits. All ability levels welcome.
8 Classes: $45 (pre-register/pd) $40 Members (pre-register/pd) or $7/pay per class. Register: 812-876-3383, xt 515

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s MFA Group Show. The MFA Group Show will open on Thursday, February 19 and continue through Saturday, February 28. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 20, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery.

The MFA Group Show includes work created by first and second year MFA students from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. This exhibition features student work that utilizes traditional and non-traditional styles and techniques in a variety of media from all studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

Several sponsors, including the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Friends of Art, and the Grunwald Gallery, will give awards for individual student works.

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.

Set a century apart, two Chicago love stories of a deaf woman and a hearing man converge in Davis’ feature debut to contemplate Black experiences across lines of class, gender, and ability. Inventive use of sign language and intertitles makes the film accessible for deaf and hearing audiences. Daydream Therapy, the first short by fellow UCLA “L.A. Rebellion” filmmaker Bernard Nicholas, utilizes the limitations and possibilities of silent, small-gauge cinema to poetically render the escapist fantasies of a hotel worker. (16mm/Digibeta.)

Director Zeinabu irene Davis is scheduled to be present.