Come celebrate National Donut Day at Cresent Donut on June 03, 2016 starting at 8am. The Salvation Army and Cresent Donut are teaming up to offer complimentary donuts and coffee as well as games for children.

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.

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.

We invite you to join us June 3rd to kickoff a weekend of artistic activities!
Friday from 5 to 8pm will be the June Gallery Walk, and we are thrilled to dedicate an entire ROOM to a fresh lineup of creative jewelry works by Lori McDonald of Charmhouse Designs.
Lori’s mission is to collide the old and the new, pairing vintage items, natural materials and hypoallergenic metals to create singularly unique designs.
We will also host Lori for the Bloomington Open Studios Tour on Saturday and Sunday. This annual event invites patrons and enthusiasts to visit with artists within their creative space while they work and produce. Visit http://www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com/ for show details and a directions.
Finally, this will be an oportunity to visit our gallery and experience two pieces of Brown County Heratage Art History. The Venue is proud to host two original oil paintings from Adolf and Alberta Shultz, two founding members of the impressionist art movement that put our community on the map!
We look forward to hosting you for this wonderful weekend of the arts!

Redeveloping Downtown explores the evolution of Columbus’ modern urban form from 1950 to the present.
Columbus, like many American cities after the Second World War, grappled with maintaining an old and decaying business district as the city rapidly expanded and new shopping areas were created. Columbus’ response was to “start over” by redeveloping a major section of downtown.
As time and circumstances changed, so did downtown. Initial and subsequent efforts to maintain a strong retail base in the downtown eventually have given way to a focus on offices, entertainment, and the arts.
Redeveloping Downtown has been made possible through the support of CSO Architects, Lochmueller Group, Hitchcock Design Group + Blue Marble Design, CWC Latitudes, and the Columbus Area Visitors Center.
Redeveloping Downtown will open Friday, June 3rd with a reception from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the IU Center for Art+Design Gallery. The exhibition will continue through August 26th. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Friday, 1-5 pm.
For more information, contact the Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives at 812-379-1297 or IUCA+D at 812-375-7550.

Come join us at the Fell Gallery from 6-9 on June 3rd for the Bloomington Open Studios Tour featuring selected works by local artists. This is a free event!

For the month of June The Venue is pleased to feature a painting by Adolf Shultz and a painting by Alberta Shultz.
Adolf Shultz (1869-1963) is well known as the founder and “Dean” of the Brown County art community.
Shultz studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before heading to the Art Students League of New York to study with William Merritt Chase and Henry Siddons Mowbray. He later traveled to Paris for further study at the Academie Julian and Colorossi under LeFebvre, Constant and Laurens. After maintaining a studio in Germany, Shultz moved permanently to Brown County to pursue his passion, landscape painting. He founded the Brown County Art Association, which attracted some of the finest American landscape painters to his art colony in Nashville, Indiana.
Shultz’s landscapes feature a soft, delicate palette and expressive, painterly brushwork and have been met with great critical acclaim. Enjoying an active market, his paintings are highly prized, selling for prices as high as $25,000.00. The piece on display is typical of the style of his smaller paintings, and is being offered at a very attractive price.
Alberta Shultz (1892-1980) was the second wife of Adolf. She was an Indianapolis native, who studied art at Indiana University, Butler University, the University of Texas, the John Herron Art Institute and the Ringling School of Art.
Alberta spent a summer in Nashville, Indiana, painting with her good friend, artist Marie Goth. There she became a student of Adolf, and they later married. Alberta was known for her broken palette, impressionistic landscapes of Brown County, paintings that look very similar to those of Adolph. Alberta was always conscious of her debt to her husband’s instruction. As Alberta said herself, “I owe my painting skill to [Adolph]. I could never have accomplished what I have had it not been for his help and encouragement.”
Alberta’s painting offered for sale may be an example of the student transcending her teacher. It is representative of her own style, and obviously shows the influence of her mentor. It benefits from a hand-carved Brown County gilded frame. It too is priced to sell.
The Venue is pleased to offer these collectable painting to Bloomington.