On display in the Upper Loft Gallery June 1- 30, pastel & oil paintings by Brown County Art Guild member artists,Roger Ambrosier & Joel Knapp. Reception: Second Saturday, June, 14, 5-8 pm during the Village Art Walk.

About Roger Ambrosier:
Roger Ambrosier was born in Maysville, Missouri and now resides in Evergreen, Colorado. He studied at the Northwest Missouri State University (BS) and the University of Colorado (Boulder), the Metropolitan State College (Denver) and received his Masters Degree from the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley).
Roger’s artwork can be found in the Brown County Art Guild, the American Legacy Gallery (Kansas City, MO), and the Strecker-Nelson Gallery (Manhattan, KS), as well as in museum and private collections. He is a signature member of the Colorado Pastel Society, and a Master Pastelist with the Mid- American Pastel Society.
Ambrosier has participated in many exhibits throughout the Midwest and Western United States, including the Denver Art Museum in Colorado. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions many times throughout his career. His work won “Best of Show” awards at the Mid-American National Pastel Exhibition at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum in St. Joseph, MO (2007); the Colorado Pastel Society Mile High National Exhibition, Aspen, CO (2007); the Mountainside Miniature Exhibition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO (2005); and the Western Spirit Exhibit (Pastel Category), Cheyenne Frontier Museum, Cheyenne, WY. Roger has been a member of the Brown County Art Guild since 2004.
About Joel Knapp:
Joel Knapp is “a painter in motion,” restless to capture nature in all its moods and seasons. He is devoted to plein air painting because of its urgency and authenticity. He feels that the essence of a place may only be captured by the artist experiencing it directly. So, he may be found traveling in his camper with easel and paints deployed in front of mountains, rivers, and landscapes of all types, and in cities painting sidewalk cafes and cityscapes both by daylight and streetlight.
Joel and his wife travel throughout North America and Europe attempting to capture nature’s moods firsthand. His award-winning oil paintings have been displayed at the Hoosier Salon and numerous other art shows and “paint-outs” and are a permanent part of corporate and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Joel uses lively color with oil paint in an impressionistic style to capture a feeling of time and place as he sees it. He says of plein air painting, “It’s such an honest approach to see the light as it hits the scene. The wind in your face; flies in your paint and two hours to create a painting; one must paint fast and loose, go in with your feelings, but using your brain and experience to balance colors, to vibrate and sing, Hallelujah!”
Joel has been a member artist with the Brown County Art Guild since 2011.
Artist’s Statement: “I love to paint and share my blessings with you. I paint both plein air and in the studio. My wife and I love to travel and share our adventures with others through my paintings. I hope you enjoy what you see and experience.”

The Symposium was founded in 1996 by two master stone sculptors, Amy Brier and Frank Young. It is based on the Greek model of coming together for discussion and celebration, and continues the tradition of sculpture symposia that have proliferated in Europe and Asia. Symposium instructors believe that anyone with the desire to carve can learn how. The atmosphere is relaxed, congenial, and non-judgmental. Instructors are available at all times to guide participants through the process of carving from start to finish. The 2014 symposium will be June 8-28 and is made up of two main sessions participants can register for, as well as several other instructional courses. For more information and to register, visit http://limestonesymposium.org/sessions

Bybee Stone Company, Inc., the sponsor, generously provides an outdoor working area near their mill building, up to 8 cubic feet of limestone per participant, forklift assistance for moving stones, and a compressor to operate pneumatic hammers.

Session I—June 8-14, 2014
Session II—June 22-28, 2014

Each session consists of seven days of immersive instruction in the art of 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.

$800 per session

Included in Sessions I and II:

Up to 8 cubic feet of limestone per session (approximately 1,200 pounds), compressed air, electricity, water, and forklift. Continental breakfast, lunch, and snacks. One Limestone Symposium t-shirt.

See website for all necessary information and to register.

Ladybugs are the target of the summer research project for Citizen Scientist volunteers at Monroe Lake. New volunteers are invited to get involved by joining a training session at Paynetown SRA on Friday, June 13 at 7 p.m. (register by June 10) or Sunday, June 22 at 10 a.m. (register by June 20).

You can register for either training session by emailing [email protected] with your training date selection, name, phone, and # of people in your group, or call the Paynetown Activity Center at 812-837-9967. The Property Entrance Fee will be waived for registered participants.

“This summer research project is all-ages friendly,” observed Jill Vance, Monroe Lake’s Interpretive Naturalist. “It’s a great opportunity to volunteer with your children or grandchildren.”

Information collected by Citizen Scientist volunteers will be used to build a species inventory for Monroe Lake. It will also be submitted to a larger research initiative, the Lost Ladybug Project, run by entomologists at Cornell University.

This 90-minute training session will cover the basics of ladybug biology, where and how to look for ladybugs, how to photograph ladybugs for scientific purposes, how to record and submit data, and an intro to ladybug species identification.

The research period runs through the end of September. Trained volunteers are asked to commit a minimum of 4 hours to the project (in addition to the training session). Volunteers can set their own schedule, and/or participate in scheduled group research days.

The Bellevue Group is pleased to present Awake To A Dream, a solo exhibition of new work by Lena Burkett.

Burkett is a native of southern Indiana and has considered Bloomington her home since 2001. Her art is informed by her interest in world myth and religions and the intertwining of culture, history, music and poetry. She has a true passion for painting. Her paintings strive to create an imaginary world of forms on top of the real world. She has said about the exhibition that she is pleased and excited to share her work with the community that she has grown to love and hopes that they enjoy viewing them as much as she has enjoyed creating them.

Exhibit runs until the end of July. Operating hours are 10 am – 3 pm Wednesday-Sunday.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries: Spanish Painting in the 1960s: Works from the Collection of Doris Steinmetz Kellett
May 6–September 7, 2014
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
Works by members of the Catalan-based group Dau al Set and artists associated with the avant-garde Galeria Juana Mordo in Madrid are featured.

New in the Galleries: ‘Max Beckmann’s Woodcuts’
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
February 4–June 22, 2014
Although the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann was a prolific graphic artist (producing 374 prints during his lifetime), he created fewer than 20 woodcuts. Most were produced during the 1920s, when Germany was experiencing a revival of interest in the medium. Seven prints from this period will be featured in this installation.

Special Exhibition: Matisse’s Jazz and Other Works from Indiana University Collections
April 2–June 29, 2014
Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor
In addition to highlighting the IU Art Museum’s rare complete suite of twenty color stencil prints from Jazz—Matisse’s last and greatest book project—this exhibition will include more than thirty other works by this modern master from the holdings of the Art Museum and Lilly Library. Special attention will be paid to the artist’s works on paper and book illustrations from the 1920s through the end of his career.

Special Exhibition: Francesco Solimena: Picturing the World for an Eighteenth-Century Royal Wedding
April 2–June 29, 2014
Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor
Through a selection of pieces coming from the Getty Research Institute, the IU Fine Arts Library, the Lilly Library, and the IU Art Museum collection, this exhibition focuses on one of the IU Art Museum’s masterpieces, Francesco Solimena’s Allegory of the Four Parts of the World, highlighting the painting’s history, patronage, and iconography. This exhibition features a thirteen-minute documentary, The World around Solimena.

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Summer Garden Walk with tours of five outstanding private gardens plus IU’s Hilltop Garden and Nature Center. Visit the Monroe County History Center’s exhibit honoring Bloomington Garden Club’s 75 years, and see “Silver Anniversary” flower arrangements by Club members at Hilltop.

Tickets are good for both days and provide access to all locations on the walk. Proceeds benefit community gardening projects sponsored by the Bloomington Garden Club. Tickets will be available after June 1 at various locations and on the days of the event- please check the website for a list of vendors.

The Bloomington Battle Games Club, a chapter of the national foam-fighting organization Belegarth, meets every Sunday at Bryan Park (weather permitting) to fight. Medieval and fantasy – inspired combat is re-enacted using foam weapons of several varieties. Multiple styles of gameplay are practiced, including team-based and free-for-all. Visit the Facebook page for further information.

Nano: Small Science, Big Fun
Explore the science of the very, very small! The interactive science exhibition brings to life nanoscale phenomena in nature, as well as nano technology and products. Some of the exhibition experiences are part of a national touring collection, which is making its first appearance in Indiana at WonderLab.

Nano Art
An exhibition of fourteen images that show the compelling beauty of biological and physical structures on the nano- and micro-size scale. WonderLab visitors will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite image for the People’s Choice Award.

This free recital of the Student Orchestra features Derek Maninfior, piano, and Nicholas Hersh, Conductor.