Tom Miller on piano
He will be performing two sets of jazz standards on piano.
All ages.

Several new exhibits can be seen at the Indiana University Art Museum. The galleries are open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm, and Sunday, 12 pm to 5 pm.

Paul Strand’s “Street People”
Continuing through May 5, 2013

Paul Strand’s revolutionary photographs, published in the final double-issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work, shocked the art world not only with their unadulterated approach to the medium, but also with their gritty, realistic subject matter. This installation features three close-up portraits of some of the “invisible” beggars, hackers, and passersby found on New York City’s sidewalks.

“The Many Faces of a Master”
Continuing through May 5, 2013

Pablo Picasso (1888–1975) was not only one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, but he was also one of the most recognizable. The IU Art Museum has a large collection of portraits of artists. This installation features several photographs of Picasso at work or play by Lucien Clerque, Robert Capa, and Brassaï.

Contemporary Explorations: Reviewing Nature in the 1980s
February 4‒May 19, 2013

Drawn from the museum’s collection of works by graduates of IU’s fine arts department (now the Hope School of Fine Arts), this installation examines the artists’ interpretations of the natural world. Reviewing Nature takes a look at the balance sought between structural composition and the role nature plays in co-defining the space we both share. This installation was organized by Emily Wood, graduate assistant for Western art after 1800 at the IU Art Museum.

Featuring works of art by K–6 Monroe County students, selected and submitted by area art teachers.

Youth Art Month Opening Reception
Saturday, March 2, 1–2 pm
Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor

The Mathers Museum of World Cultures presents a new exhibit for the year 2013, “In The Kitchen Around The World”, which will be on display in addition to the already-installed exhibits from 2012. This exhibit will run until November 15, 2013.

“In The Kitchen Around The World”: an exhibit that presents objects used in preparing food and food service from different areas of the world. It breaks down into two categories: what the viewer perceives as familiar, such as plates, cups, and dishes, and what is unfamiliar, such as a Peruvian corn toaster and an Ecuadorian grater. The goal of the exhibit is to look at what other cultures have come up with as solutions to help them in cooking or eating food, allowing the viewer to make comparisons to the solutions that are similar or dissimilar to their own.

Other exhibits include:

“Picturing Archaeology”: Described in their words and illustrated by their images, the research and fieldwork of 13 Indiana University archaeologists is presented in Picturing Archaeology at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology.

“Rhythms of the World”: a free audioguide tour of musical instruments from around the globe featured in exhibits throughout the museum. The audioguide includes narration and musical clips of the highlighted instruments.

“Living Heritage: Performing Arts of Southeast Asia”
This exhibit highlights some of the performing arts in Southeast Asia, including artifacts of the manohra dance (from Thailand), Sudanese puppet theater from Indonesia, and folk music from Vietnam.

“TOYing with Ideas”
Toying with Ideas examines toys across cultures, as well as throughout decades of American history, to analyze and question how toys have come to influence social roles, gender roles, and early childhood identity.

“The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer’s Journey”
This exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman’s extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1968, Cushman—a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye for everyday detail—travelled constantly, shooting everything he encountered as he ventured from New York to New Orleans, Chicago to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. His photos include portraits, ethnographic studies, agricultural and industrial landscapes, movie sets and media events, children playing, laborers working, and thousands of street scenes, all precisely documented in time and place. The result is a chronicle of an era almost never seen, or even envisioned, in color.

“Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture?”
Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture? examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs.

“From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything”
This exhibit examines history on a large scale, through the exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins.

“Unfinished Business: One Hundred Years of Quilt Blocks”
An exhibit presenting elements from unfinished quilts will be presented in conjunction with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show.

Museum is open Tuesdays through Fridays, from 9 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 pm. Check website to see all of the Mathers Museum’s exhibits.

Discover Balinese shadow puppets and create a craft during this fun and free family event. Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, is one of the most popular and most mystical performance forms of the island of Bali. These stories combine heroes, villains and comedy in a dynamic performance that will be given by Jennifer Goodlander, Assistant Professor of Theater.

The Friends of Art is hosting an event titled Work in Progress on Sunday March 3, 2013 from 2 to 4 pm in studio room 174 of the Fine Arts Building at Indiana University. The event will allow Friends of Art and other interested community members to meet several recipients of Friends of Art scholarships and awards, and learn about their academic ambitions, research methods, studio practices, influences and inspiration. Light refreshments will be served while award recipients give brief presentations about their studies.

The event is free and open to the public, and offers an opportunity to see the talents of students studying in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. Seating is limited. For more information call the Friends of Art at (812) 855-1333 or email [email protected].

Stages Bloomington is excited to bring a pop culture phenomenon to the musical stage! The Emmy Award-winning 1970’s Saturday morning cartoon series covers history, grammar, math, and more through clever, tuneful songs. Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! follows Tom, a nerve-wracked school teacher who is nervous about his first day of teaching. As he prepares, various characters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show him how to win his students over with imagination and music.

The Caswell Sisters are first-rate musicians who have a sound and blend all their own. The riveting performances of the Caswell Sisters, vocalist Rachel and violinist Sara, are the culmination of years of working together. Their seamless sound combined with their unique interpretation of repertoire ranging from the “Great American Songbook” to contemporary jazz, including their own compositions, is propelled by arresting improvisation.

Rachel Caswell, vocals
Sara Caswell, violin
Zach Lapidus, piano
Jeremy Allen, bass
Jason Tiemann, drums

Tickets available for purchase at the door.

Tickets are now on sale at Hair Arts Academy and My Sister’s Closet for the Masquerade Hair Show on Sunday, March 3rd at Bloomington High School South (Carmichael Hall). Grab your girlfriends, sisters, aunts, and moms and be ready for a fun evening out! Come see the amazing hair styles competing for prizes, visit the silent auction, and see ANOTHER ROUND perform during our MSC Style Show. All this for only $2/ticket–with all proceeds benefiting the work of My Sister’s Closet!

The mission of My Sister’s Closet of Monroe County, Inc. is to provide at-risk, low-income women pursuing employment with free workforce attire.

ADMISSION : ONE NON-PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM FOR BACKSTREET MISSION

Come one come all to a special film screening of Courageous (2011) presented by the Southern Indiana Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Riveted moviegoers will find themselves laughing, crying, and cheering as they are challenged and inspired by everyday heroes who long to be the kinds of dads that make a lifelong impact on their children. Protecting the streets is second nature to these men. Raising their children in a God-honoring way? That’s courageous.