The Balalaika and Domra Association of America will be in Bloomington for their 38th annual convention and festival concert July 17-23. During this week, musicians from all over the world will convene in Bloomington to do workshops and perform, and many activities that will culminate in the festival concert Saturday, July 23, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at 7:30 p.m. The highlight of the concert will be the 80-person festival orchestra along with ensembles from cities throughout the United States and virtuoso soloists from Europe.
For ticket information, call 812-323-3020 or the website buskirkchumley.org.
The BDAA is a multi-ethnic, nonprofit, all-volunteer organization comprised of lovers of ethnic folk music.

Bike to School is a family-friendly cycling event supporting the Back to School efforts of The Salvation Army and area churches which outfits over 600 Monroe County elementary students with backpacks stuffed with school supplies. Salvation Army staff work closely with MCCSC and RBB school systems to ensure that area children are ready to learn.

This event is a proud part of the Tour of Bloomington, a national cycling event that if you haven’t seen, this is the year you should attend!

Karen’s porcelain and stoneware pottery is wheel thrown, often altered and decorated with thick slip and by carving, appliquéing and incising. She uses fossils, seashells, fabric and kitchen tools for decoration. For color, she applies glaze over glaze, uses wax resist brush decoration and touches up with metallic oxide washes. She also uses local Indiana clay slip on some of her stoneware pieces. Karen high fires her work in a gas reduction atmosphere to the temperature of approximately 2350F.

“I’m guided by the concept taught to me by my teacher Nan McKinnnell at Loretta Heights College in Denver, ‘the first 100 don’t count’. I’m moving into to keeping it simple, as well, being patient with the process. Repetition helps me understand a form, a glaze, a texture. I strive to create pieces that stand alone as beautiful, are sensuous to the touch and function for every day use.”

Karen is a founding member of Local Clay Potters’ Guild. She is also a founding member of Artisan Guilds of Bloomington.

Gallery Hours
Tues-Sat 10:00-5:00 p.m.
Sun 12:00-5:00 p.m.
(Closed Mondays and major holidays)

After Yale: Pupils of Josef Albers
A renowned instructor at the German Bauhaus, Josef Albers (1888‒1976) immigrated to the United States in 1933 and was chair of the Department of Design at Yale University during the 1950s. This installation reveals the breadth of his teachings, which emphasized experience and material studies over theory. It features paintings by Albers and his students William Bailey, Ronald Markman, and Richard Anuszkiewicz. Andrew Wang, graduate assistant for European and American art at the IU Art Museum, is the guest curator.

Allegories of Artistic Genius
The seventeenth century saw the rise of a new theme: the genius of the artist. This installation features two works by the Italian printmakers Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Salvator Rosa that heralded their creators’ accomplishments, not through straight portraiture, but through classical allusions.

Camille Pissarro: Father of Impressionism
Nicknamed “Father Pissarro” by Gauguin, Camille Pissarro was an inspiration and mentor to a generation of Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist artists. He was also the movement’s most prolific printmaker. This installation of four works illustrates how Pissarro successfully captured atmosphere, movement, and the fleeting quality of light with a monochromatic palette.

Famous Faces: Portraits by Warhol
Although we tend to think of Andy Warhol as the cultural arbiter of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, he drew inspiration from popular imagery of the past as well as from his own time. This installation features several of the artist’s large silkscreen portraits of famous people.

Käthe Kollwitz: An Advocate for Women and Children
German Expressionist artist Käthe Kollwitz often depicted the physical and emotional tolls of war and poverty. This installation features two of her self-portraits, an image of death pulling a child from its mother’s arms, and a rare proof for a 1923 poster dealing with women’s reproductive rights.

Men in Turbans: Head Studies by Castiglione
Although the Italian artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione had seen traders from Africa and the eastern Mediterranean around the port of Genoa, his studies of men in “Oriental” headdresses was likely based in the northern tradition of “character heads” and a Baroque fascination with exotic types. This installation features eight small head studies and one large head study from Castiglione’s popular series.

Modern Sculptors in Indiana
Several modern sculptors of national and international prominence were born in Indiana, worked in the state, or came here to study. This installation features the work of artists Robert Laurent, David Smith, George Rickey, David Hayes, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, and (from October onwards) William Wiley, all of whom have Indiana connections. This installation is presented in conjunction with the Indiana State Bicentennial and has been endorsed as an official Bicentennial Legacy Project.

On the Move: The Advent of Modern Transportation in Photography
Advancements in transportation at the start of the twentieth century were recorded by the relatively new medium of photography. This installation features photographs of early experiments in air travel by a young Jacques-Henri Lartigue and C. Malcuit, as well as images of the explosion of the Hindenburg by Charles Hoff and the abstract beauty of a spoked automobile wheel by Paul Strand.

Pietà: A Mother’s Love
In celebration of Mother’s Day, this installation features three prints–by Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius, Italian Annibale Carracci, and Frenchman Jacques Bellange–representing the ultimate expression of a mother’s love and sacrifice through the theme of the Pietà. A variation on the Lamentation from the Passion of Christ, the Pietà depicts an intimate, poignant moment as the Virgin Mary cradles the body of her dead son Jesus.

Rembrandt’s Ecce Homo Prints
One of the pivotal moments in the Easter story comes with the presentation of Jesus Christ to Pontius Pilate and the people, also known as Ecce homo (“Behold the man”). This installation features two large prints of this subject by Rembrandt. Completed twenty years apart, they reflect a change in the artist’s style, as well as a different interpretation of the New Testament episode.

Remembrance: Cemeteries in Modern Photography
The funerary practices of America, particularly in the South, are explored in this installation of five photographs of cemeteries, from New Orleans to El Paso, by artists as varied as Walker Evans, Edward Weston, John Gutmann, and Clarence John Laughlin.

Join the nationwide even to help end pet homelessness. Help “Clear the Shelter” at the Brown County Humane Society where, for one day only, all adoption fees are FREE.

Big and small, young and old, calm and active…the right cat or dog is waiting to join your family. Adoption counselors will be available to help you find just the right one.

Be part of the solution, and experience the joy of adopting a shelter pet.

Taught by Allana Radecki who has been teaching Hatha Yoga since 1988. Her “Yoga from the Inside Out,” draws upon the foundation poses of Hatha Yoga, guided by the breath, to develop a balanced, mindful practice. Allana’s method adapts easily to all ages and levels of practice and is helpful to people with special needs, injuries and joint replacements.

A Self Improvement Workshop put on by Renaissance Life & Wellness

Are you:

Feeling Stuck, Lost, or Confused?
Emotionally Drained?
Having Relationship or Family Challenges?
Living with Stress or Anxiety?
Having Career or Work challenges?
Experiencing a Life Transition?
Seeking a Deeper Understanding of Yourself?

Where: Monroe County Library (Main Branch)
When: Saturday, July 23rd from 1-4 pm or Sunday, July 24th from 1-4 pm

Space is limited. Spots are first come, first serve. Call Today.

Renaissance Life & Wellness
812-821-3626
[email protected]

Kade Puckett

Kade Puckett, AKA Pickin’ Puckett, is a songwriter and a fingerstyle guitarist with 30 years of experience playing music. A third-generation picker with a dedicated love of music, his musical mastery allows for the innovative meeting of sound and emotion. Spontaneous, magical, laughable, and honest, his live performance is both engaging and entertaining. Puckett also holds the 2013 Indiana Fingerstyle Contest title. His musical repertoire includes jazz, rock, country, blues, and funk.

Saturday, July 23 , 5:00 PM

Price: Free

A night of mystery, movement, and magic! Enjoy a night of high quality performances and storytelling through acrobatics, hoop dance, poi, and other circus acts.

A Blues Brothers Tribute with the Blues Revue Band Featuring members of the Stardusters “little Big Band The Blues Brothers had a lasting effect on us bringing in foot stomping, swingin’ music to listen and dance to. The Blues Revue Band brings you some of the original arrangements of tunes as performed by the Blues Brothers as well as Aretha Franklin, Cab Calaway, Ray Charles and others. Performing with the Blues Revue Band will be Janiece Jaffe, Robert Stright, Lauren Robert, Curtice Cantwell Jackson and David Bass Whether in a concert setting or a dance event this high energy show gets the feet taping and makes it hard not to get up and dance.

Saturday, July 23 , 8:00 PM

Price: $7