Celebrate Live United stories from our community captured in the stunning imagery of Kendall Reeves. Through this collection of compelling photos, United Way of Monroe County highlights the many ways community members choose to LIVE UNITED. Promoting involvement and engagement, LIVE UNITED encourages individuals to work together to make our community stronger. This exhibition serves as a reminder that as a group, we have the power to bring about positive and lasting change. The photographs in the exhibition are stories of people who are making an impact as they LIVE UNITED. For more information and to read Live United community stories, visit www.monroeunitedway.org.

The City of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) will showcase the artworks created by the Bloomington Boys and Girls Club in the Showers Atrium of City Hall. The Boys and Girls Club is located at 311 South Lincoln Street. For more information on the Lincoln Street Boys and Girls Club or the Visual Art Program, email Jenna Beasley at [email protected]. Runs until January 31. Open every weekday, 9 am – 5 pm.

Opening January 4, the new exhibits at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center include “Tropical Beauties” by Karen Holtzclaw, featuring floral paintings; “Windowscapes” by Becca Jones, featuring sprawling mixed media pieces that combine printmaking, drawing, and collage; and numerous entries from the 2013 Visual Arts Competition & Exhibition of Emerging Artists.

The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 am to 7 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm.

Brown County Art Guild’s Annual Member Artists’ Winter Exhibit on Display in the Upper Loft Gallery December 1– February 23. Artists’ reception: Second Saturday, December 8, 5– 8 pm during the Village Art Walk. The exhibit features small paintings by Guild member artists to fit holiday gift budgets. Our Fine Artisans’ Shoppe is brimming with a great selection of handmade artisan wares perfect for holiday gifts, all handcrafted by Indiana artisans! The shoppe features ceramics, jewelry, glass mosaics, wood turnings, books, Member Artist and Marie Goth Collection reproductions, and much more!
Give the gift of art this holiday season! For more information, please visit: http://www.browncountyartguild.org

Dima Gavrysh opens a space where the boundary between photojournalism and fine art photography becomes unclear, and perhaps unnecessary. In 2009, he embedded with the U.S. Army in Afghanistan as a photojournalist for the Associated Press. In visually representing the war, Dima moved from direct reportage to a more emotional presentation of his experiences. Eventually, his work evolved into abstracted images that reflect the complicated fog of war. The resulting black and white photographs are personal and haunting, and in their obscurity, they tell a different kind of truth. The exhibition, Inshallah, opens at Pictura on January 4th and will include a set of black and white prints and a video installation. The exhibition will be on view until January 26.

Pictura Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm.

The Grunwald Gallery of Art is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit “SoFA Revisited: Alumni from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts.” This exhibition will open to the public with a Panel Discussion on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 4 pm followed by an Opening Reception from 6 pm to 8 pm and will be on view through Saturday, February 8, 2013. All events are free and open to the public.

The Grunwald Gallery is pleased to present this exhibit for the first time in the gallery’s history. This show will feature the work of nine alumni from the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts who have graduated within the past 15 years. Each artist has been nominated by faculty in their area based on the quality of their work and their outstanding accomplishments after graduation. The alumni show presents a wonderful opportunity to incorporate the knowledge and experiences of former students into the ongoing conversation about art at IU. At the same time, the work of these highly regarded alumnae serves as a valuable model for our current students as they look to continue engaging the world through art post-graduation.

Gallery is open Tuesday – Saturday, 12 pm to 4 pm.

Drawing on the Kinsey Institute’s permanent collections, Naked Spaces investigates the ways artists manipulate architectural representation to communicate ideas about sex, gender, and the erotic. Architectural form is used by artists working around the globe—and across time—as an invitation to view, but also as a plea for privacy; architectural space is used a framing device as well as screen. The diversity of artworks included in the exhibition creates an opportunity for viewers to consider the role played by the built environment in the construction of their own private and public identities.

The exhibition will include works by Toby Kaufmann, Andrey Avinoff, Michael Fingesten, Herbert Ascherman, Suzuki Harunobu, Clarence John Laughlin, Tom Bianchi, Clifford Raven Ingram, Max Kislinger, Rita Koehler, Emilio Sanchez, Edie Fake, Lehnert & Landrock, Arthur Tress, Félicien Rops, D. Keith Furon, Anne Roecklein, Ronald Searle, and Spencer Tunick.

Guest curator: S. N. Johnson-Roehr, Rutgers University.

Visiting hours are Monday thru Friday, 1:30 to 5 pm. Tours are available for 6 or more people. Call (812) 855-7686 for more information. Guides are provided when one is available.

Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Chateau Thomas Winery is glad to present exhibition of art portraits “Winter Fairytales” by a professional photographer Yelena Yahontova, a native of Belarus and resident of Bloomington. Known as a “Photographer of Joy,” Yelena’s portraits tell stories, reflecting the miraculous and special qualities she explores in each subject. “Winter Fairytales” is an exhibition which reflects individuals joyfully interacting, surrounded by the snow and white and blue colors of a winter landscape.

The exhibit runs December 6-February 28 at the Chateau Thomas Winery on the downtown Square. Store hours are Monday-Thursday 2 pm-10 pm, Friday 2 pm-11 pm, Saturday noon-11 pm, and Sunday noon-6 pm.

Join the artist and her friends for a public reception on Friday, December 7 at 5:30-8 pm.

For more information about Yelena Yahontova and her photography, contact Yelena directly:

Website: www.PhotographerOfJoy.com
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKbT36HJUU
Facebook: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY
Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY.Studio

Email: [email protected]
Phone #1: (812) 333-8178
Phone #2: (812) 322-1912
Studio/Office Address:
924 West 17th Street,
Bloomington, Indiana, 47404

Parvez Sharma is a Muslim gay filmmaker born and raised in India. He has degrees in English Literature, Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism, and Film and Video Production. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for Asia’s premier news network and a print journalist for several prominent Indian newspapers. As an activist, he was instrumental in setting up the first organized LGBT effort in West Bengal and speaks internationally on issues crucial to LGBT communities in a Muslim context. A Jihad for Love is his first feature film.

Events are sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program, Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services (GLBTSSS), The Kinsey Institute, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Wafa Amayreh.

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims. “A Jihad for Love” looks beyond a war-torn present to reclaim the Islamic concept of a greater Jihad, whose true meaning is akin to ‘strive in the path of God’ – allowing its subjects to move beyond the narrow concept of Jihad as holy war. (HD Cam presentation)

Director Parvez Sharma is scheduled to be present.

The screening is sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program, Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Student Support Services (GLBTSSS), The Kinsey Institute, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Wafa Amayreh.

Parvez Sharma is a Muslim gay filmmaker born and raised in India. He has degrees in English Literature, Mass Communication, Broadcast Journalism, and Film and Video Production. He has worked as a broadcast journalist for Asia’s premier news network and a print journalist for several prominent Indian newspapers. As an activist, he was instrumental in setting up the first organized LGBT effort in West Bengal and speaks internationally on issues crucial to LGBT communities in a Muslim context.