Ivy Tech’s 12th annual O’Bannon Institute for Community Service features a conversation with Shiza Shahid, Co-Founder of the Malala Fund, entrepreneur, and social activist, and Bob Zaltsberg, editor of The Herald-Times. Institute events also include a panel discussion and workshops on the Institute theme: “Be the Change: Discover Your (Super) Power.”

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

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

Talks are free and held on Friday afternoons at Wylie House Museum’s Morton C. Bradley, Jr. Education Center, located next door to the museum at 317 E. Second St.

Ann Fierst, Wylie House Museum Docent

Before the 1850s when synthetic dyes were first introduced, indigo, black oak bark (cuercus) and madder root were three of the natural dyes used in Indiana. Local sources, imported materials, techniques, and examples will be discussed and displayed.

May 1st First Friday at the I FELL will be feature handmade books, art, poetry, and music, as well as putting the Fairview students’ books up for exhibit! Also will include a chance for viewers to get involved by getting a chance to Add YOUR words to the Ledge Mule Press poetry wall, as well as having The Artist in You station, Bookmaking workshop with Carmel Montoya, and music provided by DJ Old Dirty Bryce Martin.

Join in an intergenerational exploration of the connections between art and science during First Friday Evening! Meet and talk with Brown County artist Donna Whitsitt as she demonstrates how she uses watercolor and ink to depict nature. In related visitor activities, explore this medium by experimenting with absorption properties of watercolor, using a microscope to make a tiny watercolor painting, and creating a magnet on watercolor board to take home. Expressions of Nature, an exhibition of artwork by Ms. Whitsitt, is on display at WonderLab through May 15.

In addition, there will be a display on First Friday Evening of watercolor art by residents of Bell Trace Senior Living Community, as well as a selection of their handmade watercolor notecards available to purchase in the museum gift store. Outside the museum, Lilly Meister, a teenage Bloomington artist, will be singing and playing guitar. A small plate meal, freshly prepared by Bloomingfoods, will be available to purchase on site in the WonderLab café.

This event is part of the 2015 Creative Aging Festival and also First Fridays.

Every spring IU Art Museum collaborates with the Hope School of Fine Arts and the Grunwald Gallery to present thesis exhibitions of graduating SoFA MFA candidates. Three exhibitions, lasting twelve days each, will be presented this year. At 6:30 p.m. during the opening receptions, each exhibitor will give a brief talk about his or her work.

Taylor Leaman, painting
Carolyn Watkins, ceramics

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s BFA Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts students in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University. Each exhibition features student work from a variety of the studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles. To gain professional experience, exhibiting students participate in the planning of their shows and installation of their pieces.

BFA 6 will open on Wednesday, April 29 and continue through Saturday, May 2. An opening reception will be held on Friday, May 1 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. This exhibition features the work of Rachel Ankney (Photography), Kayla Dunscombe (Painting), and Nelson Elliot Kaufman (Sculpture).

For further information, please contact the Grunwald Gallery at (812) 855-8490 or [email protected]. We invite you to visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~grunwald/. The Grunwald Gallery is accessible to people with disabilities. Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday, noon – 4:00 pm, closed Sunday and Monday. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts at Indiana University, please visit www.fa.indiana.edu.

Unwind and add some sparkle to your weekend!

In this 2 hour jewelry making session you will make a ring with any stone you choose from our crystal shop!

This class includes:

One Healing Crystal
Magical Thinking: 101 mini-book
Complimentary wine or tea
All the supplies needed to create your one-of-a-kind piece of jewelry

This class is taught by jewelry designer and healing crystal expert, Jessica Ann Miller. Because she a crystal healer, you will be able to ask any question you have ever had about crystals!

How the piece is made:

Electroforming is a type of modern alchemy where particles of copper form a coating through electrodeposition. Pure copper is known to amplify crystal energy, boosts flow of chi and brings vitality and luck. Once you design your piece, you leave it with us to complete the electroforming process. It takes 12-36 hours to get a nice copper deposition. You can take a peak in our studio to see what’s ‘cooking’. Your jewelry piece will be available for pick up approximately one week after class date.

A young man is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence. Rated PG. BC beer and wine sold in the auditorium. Sponsored by the Brown County Democrat.

There are plenty of reasons to come out to this poetry slam besides it being the last one of the school year, so I shall list them:

1) IU’s poets are freakin’ amazing so you’ll definitely have an amazing night!!!
2) This will be the last poetry slam with myself and Michael Hazel Mlekoday as your cohosts. :-(
3) BUT we will introduce you to who will be taking over the poetry slams. EXCITING!!!
4) Our features are IU’s very own CUPSI poetry slam team who did wonderfully at the national competition.
5) You will see the CUPSI poetry slam team’s group poem!
6) AND, there is room for a few of you to get on the open mic.

SO BASICALLY, you need to come out! Oh, and my birthday is that week so let’s make it an early bday/farewell celebration! :-)