Learn how to help monitor and maintain the quality of streams in our community. This workshop teaches water quality monitoring methods that include physical assessment, biological sampling, and chemical testing. Participants will be certified to perform tests and contribute to a statewide water quality database. No previous experience with water quality monitoring is required. Bring a sack lunch and a water bottle. Snacks are provided. Instructors: Kriste Lindberg and Cathy Meyer. For ages 18 and up.

Register by June 29 on website link provided.

The Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center features a new exhibit for the month of July: the works of Claire Swallow, Dale Gardner, Sarah Wain, Jessica Lucas and Alex Straiker. British painter Claire Swallow is inspired by everything from childhood trips to the seashore to small household appliances. Photographer Dale Gardner saves turn-of-the-previous-century portraits and gives them new lives in new settings. Art teacher and baker Sarah Wain whips up candy for the eyes that may create cravings in the stomach. IU researchers Alex Straiker and Jessica Lucas present color-enhanced stills and videos taken of digital microscopy. Who knew mouse tissue could be this beautiful?

The exhibit, running until July 28, is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm. Closed Sundays.

Painter John Thom’s exhibit “From Warhol to Rothko we shared, but I disagreed” will be on exhibit at The Gallery Group, during weekday business hours, through July 26th. A friend of Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, Thom’s works have been described as “Dali-cartoons”. John now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, living next to his brother and best-selling author, James Alexander Thom.

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs. It is free and open to the public during regular museum hours, and will run until August 27.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines history on a large scale, through exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins. It is open weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from May 8 to August 26, 2012, and is free.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

Sara is a signature member of the Bloomington Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Society of Indiana. A graduate of the Indiana University Printmaking Department of the School of Fine Arts, and a Monroe County Middle School Art teacher for almost 30 years, Ms. McQueen enjoys working in collage and printing as well as being a plein air painter. For this exhibit, she shows some leaf stamps in her compositions and abstract explorations with hand made and international papers.

Exhibit runs until July 29. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 am – 5:30 pm (8 pm on First Fridays.)

Indiana Festival Theatre presents “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs”, a children’s musical based on the book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.

The long-suppressed account of the Big, Bad Wolf is brought to light in Piggsylvania’s Trial of the Century, where the audience as the jury must decide the Wolf’s fate. Parents and children will delight in this thrilling courtroom dram-edy… with music! and ham!

June 23, 26-30, July 2, 3, 5-7 at 11:00 a.m.
Studio Theatre

See web link for tickets.

The Brown County Art Guild exhibit for July features Gerrie Govert (pastels) and Hattie Stanton (oils). Exhibit will run through July 30th. An artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, July 14, from 5-8 pm, during the Village Art Walk.

Gallery hours:
Tues – Sat: 11 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm
Closed Monday

Heritage Village features reenactors from the 1760s through 1890s, skill demonstrations, historic crafts, and activities. Visit our website and download the July Program Schedule for details. Admission: $5 per vehicle (Indiana resident); $7 per vehicle (out-of-state).

Watch and talk with photographer Michael Finger as he demonstrates how to develop paper prints from negatives using traditional chemical processes. Watch and talk with photographer James Kellar as he demonstrates how computer software is used to enhance digital photos. Related hands-on activities include making a mini pinhole viewer, creating sun prints, and using computer software to alter a raw digital photo before printing it. A small plate dinner of a turkey or cheese wrap, with a serving of crisp baby carrots and half a banana, prepared by Bloomingfoods Deli will be available to purchase ($2.50) on site in the WonderLab cafe.