“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.

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.

Unwind and add some sparkle to your weekend!

In this 2 hour jewelry making session you will make a custom gemstone necklace 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’s a crystal healer, you will be able to ask any questions you’ve 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.

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

Pre-Festival Concert: HPI goes POP!
Pop music in early music style, directed by Brady Lanier

By Jay Stull
Directed by Timothy O’Neal

Comedic Drama Series
Anna Capable is a hoarder. The stacks of McDonald’s happy meal toys, beanie babies, and useless junk pile straight up to the ceiling, forcing her daughter, Jessy, to call a TV network in hopes of clearing the mess and curing her mother. But the TV network’s producer, David, is looking for more than just another cluttered home to get the ratings he needs. With his career on the line, he’s hungry to expose the Capables’ dirty laundry—whether it’s in their house, or their personal lives—at all costs.

Back Bones of Music Series -Live Jazz
with Sarah’s Swing Set
May 21st 8:00pm – 11:00pm
$5 Cover Charge

Back Bones of Music is a NEW Music Series Serendipity Martini Bar is starting. It showcases the “back bones” of music in a major way, giving you amazing musical talent in the Jazz, Blues & Soul genres. These styles of music are populated by complex rhythms, melodies & improv, truly showing what great musicians can do!

Don’t forget to look for more bands in our Back Bones of Music Series performing the Blues & Soul Style as well as guest Jazz bands!

For more info about the Sarah’s Swing Set visit their Facebook page
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