The first session of the Limestone Symposium runs from June 3 through 9. Each session consists of seven days of immersive instruction carving limestone, including design, moving stone, splitting blocks, roughing out, using hand and pneumatic tools, lettering, and much more. Different guest instructors are featured each session. For beginners an introduction to using basic tools, roughing out, and working from a maquette or drawing is given on the first day. Techniques for carving and basic principles of sculpting are covered on day two. Tools are not provided.

Included in Sessions I and II:
Up to 8 cubic feet of limestone per session (approximately 1200 pounds), compressed air, electricity, water, and forklift. Continental breakfast, lunch, and snacks. One Limestone Symposium t-shirt.

$800 per Session

Register at link provided by May 1

The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is located at 401 N. Morton St. next to City Hall – Showers Building. Locally grown produce, annual and perennial plants, and a variety of prepared foods are available. Purchase your food directly from farmers and ask them questions about their products. Local entertainment adds to the shopping as well as socializing experience. Tantalizing scents and the inviting atmosphere may cause you to make the Market a weekend tradition.

The City of Bloomington Department of Parks and Recreation hosts the displays and demonstrations of visual arts and fine crafts by local and regional artists during the second Saturdays of the season. Visit the Farmers’ Market in Showers Common and then browse for the beautiful and well crafted objects available at the Fair. Join us for this celebration of art and community.

This sale, held in a 22,000 square-foot warehouse at 1300 S. Patterson Dr., will be filled with everything from LPs to holiday decorations, and possibly even a sailboat or car. The items will be neatly arrayed on tables below signs defining them by category—“Fabrics and Crafts,” “Furniture,” “Musical Instruments,” “Art,” and others. There are common items, such as everyday dishware and vintage picture frames, along with oddities such as an old accordion and several pairs of doll tights. This year’s sale will also feature a number of gently used upholstered armchairs from the old French Lick Springs Hotel at just $25 apiece. Occasionally there’s even a valuable antique, such as an original woodblock print by artist Gustave Baumann, who was a friend of T.C. Steele. Just off of the main space is a separate room filled with tools for workshop and garden, fishing rods, and other equipment for sports and exercise.

A few things you won’t find are mattresses, clothes, computers, and other electric appliances that are not in working condition.

Proceeds will benefit the Monroe County History Center.

June 8 and 9

Co-sponsored by Bloomington Parks and Recreation and the Lake Monroe Sailing Association, these lessons teach safe sailing skills to participants 18 years of age or older. No previous sailing experience is required. Instruction includes rigging, sailing upwind and downwind, docking, terminology, safety, and the rules of the road. For sailing details, call LMSA at 824-4611. For registration information, call 349-3700. *Ten percent discount for LMSA members. Recommended text is Sailing Fundamentals by Gary Jobson, available from local bookstores or from the Monroe County Public Library. This class is also appropriate for those who may have physical limitations that make the handling of smaller boats difficult.

Classes are held from June 9 until October 7. Register at least three days in advance.

The 2012 Bloomfield Art Festival will take place on Saturday, June 9th in the Bloomfield Town Park and will feature live entertainment, food, and art exhibitions/competitions throughout the day. The festival will be open from 9 am to 5 pm and will be a rain or shine event. Vendors may start setting up booths, tents, and exhibits at 7 am and must complete set-up by 9 am.

Vendor exhibits must remain set-up until the conclusion of the festival at 5 pm. Tear down must be completed by 7 pm on Saturday. Additional rules and regulations are stated in the vendor contract.

The Bloomfield Art Festival is sponsored by the annual Bloomfield Apple Festival. Bloomfield Apple Festival Inc. and its members are the organizers and directors of the 2012 Bloomfield Art Festival. All vendor fees are direct contributions to Bloomfield Apple Festival Inc.

If you are interested in being a vendor at the 2012 Bloomfield Art Festival, please print the contract and indemnification forms on the website, return the contract, indemnification forms, and a check or money order made out to Bloomfield Apple Festival Inc. to: Bloomfield Apple Festival Inc., P.O. Box 211, Bloomfield, IN 47424-0101. Also, please enclose images of the fine art or fine crafts you plan to exhibit.

Ivy Tech offers community art classes to the general public year-round at The Waldron through the Center for Lifelong Learning program. This exhibit displays the art created by some of the talented area artists who teach these classes. The exhibit is viewable during regular gallery hours (Mon – Sat, 9 am – 7 pm). Runs through June 28.

The Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center presents this exhibit, “True West”. Epic landscapes, myths, and stereotypes collide as Ball State University photography instructor Chris Toalson explores what the American West truly is, and never was. The exhibit is viewable during regular gallery hours (Mon – Sat, 9 am – 7 pm). Runs through June 28.

The Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center presents this exhibit, a behind-the-scenes look at the costume and poster design for Ivy Tech’s highly-acclaimed debut student production about Depression-era taxi drivers contemplating a strike. This exhibit, along with others, runs from June 1 to 28 and is viewable during regular gallery hours (Mon – Sat, 9 am – 7 pm.)

Lift it! Move it! Explore the science of pulleys and levers as you effortlessly pull yourself high off the ground in a pulley chair, lift a heavy block of stone with the strength of your little finger, design a catapult to lay siege to a castle, build a model of an amusement park ride and more! This exhibit on simple machines will remain at WonderLab from June 05 until September 23.

WonderLab’s hours are 9:30 am to 5 pm Tue-Sat, 1 pm – 5 pm Sunday. Open extended evening hours until 8:30 pm the first Friday of the month.