Come join us at Indiana University’s Campus Children’s Center for a fun filled morning of celebration of the arts and aging through the generations. Families are invited to bring children, grandparents, grandchildren, and others important to their family to explore photography, wood working, quilting, singing, and other creative art activities together. Help us celebrate with the City of Bloomington’s Commission on Aging the wonderful people who make up our community!

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

New in the Galleries:

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.

Are you looking to try something new? Do you like the outdoors? Have you considered rowing? Come to the Riddle Point Rowing Association’s (RPRA) Open House. We’ll have club members on-hand to show you our equipment and facilities on the south shore of Lake Lemon. We’ll also have rowing demos on land and on the water. RPRA rowers will be able to answer any questions you might have, and you’ll have the opportunity to sign up for one of our Learn-to-Row classes this summer.

Directions to Camp Rock from Bloomington: Take 10th St/SR 45 East to Tunnel Rd. Turn Left onto Tunnel Rd. Camp Rock is on the Right after 2.9 miles, after South Shore Dr, but before Riddle Point State Park.

Stephan Fuchs, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, will examine the evolution, interrelation, and current state of history, anthropology, folklore, natural science, and art-disciplines that helped to define museums, and that today offer both benefits and drawbacks to our efforts to arrive at a fresh understanding of global cultures. This free public lecture is being presented as part of Museums at the Crossroads: Local Encounters, Global Knowledge, a new international museum institute, funded by IU’s College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Global and International Studies, bringing together leading scholars of social and cultural theory and museum practice with museum professionals and Indiana University Bloomington scholars, graduate students, and staff.

Free visitor parking is available by the Indiana Avenue lobby entrance. Metered parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. The parking lot also has spaces designated for Indiana University C and E permits. During the weekends free parking is available on the surrounding streets. An access ramp is located at the Fess Avenue entrance, on the corner of Ninth Street and Fess Avenue. Reserved parking spaces are available on Ninth Street, between Fess Avenue and Indiana Avenue. If you have a disability and need assistance, special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-6873.

The Kinsey Institute is holding an Open House from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, in Morrison Hall on the Indiana University campus. This event coincides with The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2015 at the Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University. This exhibition will open Friday, May 15 and continue through Saturday, July 11. An opening reception for the Juried Art Show will be held on Friday, May 15, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery in the Fine Arts Building. The Kinsey Institute has two art exhibits: Secret Impressions: The Mass Production of Erotica Prior to the Camera The Kinsey Institute art and library collections contain thousands of examples of erotic imagery produced over centuries by artists around the world. Secret Impressions presents a selection of lithographs, engravings, etchings and woodblock prints from the mid-19th century and earlier. These artworks from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Japan illustrate the means by which pornographic and erotic images were mass produced before the invention of the camera. Wealthy collectors could commission paintings, but others could purchase prints at a lower cost. Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography Once photography was invented in the 1830s, it quickly became a popular medium for depictions of the nude figure, as well as erotic imagery. The first photographic process to become widespread was the daguerreotype, which produced a unique image. With the invention of a process that used a negative to make multiple photographs, the mass production of erotic images became possible. Hold That Pose features daguerreotypes, tintypes, albumen and gelatin silver prints, stereocards, and other examples of photographic processes that were used in the 19th century by professional photographers to produce and distribute erotic material. You also have the opportunity to see a beautiful display of artifacts from The Kinsey Institute’s library and archives; research posters; and historical photographs of Dr. Kinsey, Kinsey staff and early pioneers in the field of sexuality; and other pieces of artwork. For further information, please contact Catherine Johnson-Roehr at (812) 855-8890 or [email protected].

“After A Miracle: Coptic Ex Votos from the Birnbaum Collection,” features a selection of votive offerings from Egypt.

“Food is Work: Tools and Traditions” explores the tools and traditions used in the production of food. The exhibition is also sponsored by Themester 2014’s “Eat, Drink, Think: Food from Art to Science,” an initiative of the IU College of Arts and Sciences.

“Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-Votos From Italy” explores votive objects offered to a saint or divinity, in gratitude for a favor, blessing, or healing.

“Instruments of Culture” provides an overview of how musical instruments around the globe are classified and studied, and why.

“Still/Moving: Puppets and Indonesia” presents puppets, one of the oldest types of Indonesian performing arts which still persists today in many forms, as a way to better understand the dynamic peoples and places of Indonesia–focusing on Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese cultures.

“Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture?” explores the nature of culture.

The Mathers Museum exhibition hall and Museum Store are open Tuesdays through Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 p.m.

Free visitor parking is available by the Indiana Avenue lobby entrance. Metered parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. The parking lot also has spaces designated for Indiana University C and E permits. During the weekends free parking is available on the surrounding streets.

Join members of Windfall Dancers as they explore the human experience through movement and dance in “Expressions” at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Art Center Auditorium on May 16th at 2 and 8pm. The Windfall Youth Company will present a special performance based on the Wizard of Oz prior to the evening performance beginning at 7pm. Your ticket purchase for the evening performance includes both shows! Tickets may be obtained at the Buskirk Chumley Theater Box office (www.BCTboxoffice.com) or at the door.

The Bloomington Peace Choir is celebrating its fifth year as a community choir! The choir will present a wonderful array of music and will host a reception to follow the concert. All are welcome. Please bring canned goods to be collected at the door for the Hoosier Hills Food Bank.

Want to get in better shape, learn some self defense, or just always wanted to try martial arts? Then, come on out to the Lee’s Martial Arts Open House.

There will be snacks, beverages, door prizes, martial arts demonstrations (techniques, forms, self defense, and breaking), and rate specials. All are welcome!

Lee’s Martial Arts has been in the Bloomington community for over 40 years providing family oriented martial arts instruction in Tae Kwon-Do and Hapkido. All of our classes are taught by either black belt instructors, Master Level instructors, or Grandmaster level instructors. We encourage families to train together and offer special rate for families that do.

Please email: [email protected], or call 333-3002, and chat with us for more information. We hope to see you there!

You are invited to our Monthly New Moon Party!

Saturday, May 16 from 7-9pm.

Wood Merkaba 1504 S. Walnut St.

Free Chakra Assessments, Tarot & Crystal Cocktails and more!