CMAD (Columbus Museum of Art & Design) is happy to present “Upon My Recent Validation…” an exhibition of paintings by Chad Serhal at Hotel Indigo. This exhibition will be on display at Hotel Indigo from April 27 through June 30.

Chad Serhal provokes thought using nostalgia; a mother’s kitchen wallpaper design, a father’s favorite actor, or a line from a grandparent’s favorite book. He makes statements using play on words, juxtaposition, and defining titles to force a mundane scene into your consciousness. His work is all within a few inches big because the materials he uses are small.

CMAD will host an artist reception on May 18, which will feature a gallery talk by the artist at 6 PM.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present STATIONTOSTATION: New and Visiting Faculty. The exhibit has been organized by Amanda Lechner and will open on May 12th and continue through July 21st, 2017. STATIONTOSTATION features fresh work by new and visiting faculty in the Studio Art Department, in the School of Art and Design who are transitioning to or from life at Indiana University. Works in the show represent a wide range of schemes and methods in media including film, kinetic installation, painting, printmaking, design, and sculpture. A panel discussion with participating artists will begin at 5:00 pm immediately followed by an opening reception in the Grunwald Gallery from 6:00 – 8:00pm .

This exhibit documents the efforts off Indiana Senator Birch Bayh to, first, reform the Electoral College and then, almost immediately despairing of that, to abolish it in favor of direct popular election of the President.

The barriers encountered by Bayh and his staff over a sixteen-year period reveal the complex mix of historical fissures, party politics, congressional alliances, personal relations, political ambitions, and, finally, the coalitions of unlikely bedfellows that can ultimately decide the fate of even a reform supported by the overwhelming majority of the American people.

Documents in the exhibit are from the Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers, which are part of the IU Libraries’ Modern Political Papers collections. Originals of official documents of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments had to be returned to the National Archives, so some of the documents in the exhibit are copies made to preserve the completeness of the collection.