• Program fee is $5 per person.
• Limited to 12 people; minimum age of 14.
• Preregistration required by April 28; sign up at http://bit.ly/sparrow2015

Struggling with your identification of all those LBBs, little brown birds? Even practiced birders often have trouble with sparrow ID, as there are so many species that look so similar. Wendy Anderson, local birder, spent a whole summer working on a field project which required her to do just that – and she’s ready to share her tips and tricks for sparrow ID with you! Part of this workshop will be held outside; please wear good walking shoes and bring your binoculars (if you have a pair). 90 minutes

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.

My Indiana Home: Music of Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter celebrates two Indiana musical giants. Quarryland Men’s Chorus is proud to premiere new arrangements of some of Hoagy’s best-known tunes, including “Heart and Soul,” “Skylark,” “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” and “Stardust.” The chorus will also present some Al Cobine arrangements of well-known Cole Porter tunes. You won’t want to miss this fun night of finger-snapping and heartfelt music from Indiana’s native sons.

The Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, accompanied by the Bloomington Chamber Singers, is proud to present a spectacular multi-media performance of Gustav Holst’s masterpiece, The Planets. The music will be paired with breathtaking images from NASA and narration by members of Indiana University’s Astronomy Department.

Also featured on the program is our 2015 Youth Concerto Competition Winner Zoie Hightower, performing the first movement of Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto in D minor.

5 Bands! Cari Ray, U-Station Agents, Ghost Mice, Paris, Kimmie & Johnny Trailer Trash Combo. Potluck & Dinner Music, Johnny Profane, 6pm. Open Mic 6:30 pm.

5 Bands! Potluck! Open Mic!

• Cari Ray, Americana/Roots/Blues artist from Nashville, IN sounds unapologetically authentic because she is. Born into a musical family and raised on a rural Indiana farm, her musical roots were planted in bluegrass, blues & southern gospel. Reviewers have mentioned her alongside the likes of Jamey Johnson, Lucinda Williams and Willie Nelson. Nashville, IN.
• Paris: Indianapolis-based Post-Grunge Beautiful Music. Project of Kip Newby, guitarist for Ecstasy. Columbia/Indianapolis, IN.

• Marta Jasicki & the U-Station Agents, at the forefront of the Neo-Folk movement, these singers/songwriters are institutions of the Bloomington music scene, as former hosts of The Bloomington Short List Variety Show at Café Django, Marta, also loved as “Sketchy Genderson,” is the front person, Robert McCormick slaps the bass, and Steven Thomas strokes his guitar and backup vocals. Bloomington, IN.
• Ghost Mice​, a first wave Folk-Punk band from Bloomington, Indiana and Paris, France. Hannah on violin, Chris Clavin on guitar, Pascaloo on “various,” Emily on mandoline, melodica, concertina… In his spare time, Chris heads Bloomington’s own, Plan-It-X Records.
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• Yer hosts, The Kimmie & Johnny Trailer Trash Combo​ Bedford-based Country Punk band. We steal from everybody!

Plus the acoustic guitar instrumentals of Johnny Profane​ during our community potluck.