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Paul Gauguin’s 1903 painting “The Invocation” is on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. One of Gauguin’s final works, “The Invocation” was painted while the artist was living in the Marquesas Islands. Nearby in the gallery, three prints by Gauguin from the IU Art Museum’s permanent collection are installed to complement this visiting painting.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce 24/7/365 a video work by Kevin O. Mooney. This exhibition will open Friday, October 23 and continue through Wednesday, November 18, 2015. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. Kevin O. Mooney will give a gallery talk about 24/7/365 on Friday, November 13 at 12 noon in the Grunwald Gallery.

365247•2012 is a time-based piece created by Kevin O. Mooney. Rooted in still photography, the work is presented as a video projection. The more than 250,000 still images, presented as a photographic stop-motion animation, allow the viewer to witness the artist’s day-to-day routines, the same activities that are experienced by many on a daily basis. When interacting with the piece, the past and future are viewed simultaneously. Ultimately, a year in the artist’s life is presented in under an hour, offering others the opportunity to vicariously participate and find meaning in mundane activities while also reexamining their own unrecognized minutes, hours and days.

Mooney states: “I have been fascinated with self-portraiture since the mid-seventies. I began photographing myself as an undergraduate student while attending Southern Illinois University in the cinema & photography program. Throughout my career as a commercial/editorial photographer, I continued to do self-portraits, often with the subjects that I photographed for a specific assignment or job, primarily as a record of who I had photographed, especially if the person was famous. I then decided to challenge myself by making a photographic self-portrait every day for an entire year. When 1997 was over I continued with the daily self-portrait, incorporating it into my daily routine, and do so to this day.”

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.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce The Wunderkammer: Curiosities in Indiana University Collections. This exhibition will open Friday, October 23 and continue through Wednesday, November 18. An opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery. A series of noon talks will be presented by the curators and collection managers of several special collections on Friday, October 30 and Friday, November 6 in the Grunwald Gallery.

The Wunderkammer highlights the practice of private and institutional collecting of art, artifacts, specimens, and objects through the special collections on Indiana University’s campus that are not typically seen by the average visitor. Indiana University has a number of well-known collections on public display, including the IU Art Museum and the Lilly Library. But there are other collections that are often overlooked or unknown to most visitors, such as the Department of Biology’s Herbarium, The Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection, and the University Archives, among many others.

The public museums at Indiana University are easily accessible and often feature objects from their collections that are the most well known, valuable, and historically and culturally important. However, each collection also contains items that are unusual or non-traditional, which the public rarely sees. It is in the context of the Wunderkammer that we display these items, as a cabinet of curiosities similar to the traditional collections amassed by individuals in the sixteenth century. This tradition continued well into the nineteenth century, with individuals collecting art, natural history specimens, cultural artifacts and ephemera, and there is a resurgence of interest in this today.

Special collections at IU were invited to partner with the Grunwald Gallery to select unusual or non-traditional items for the exhibit. Because of this focus, the information about how these objects came to be part of these collections is as important as the items themselves. This exhibit addresses the psychological motivations behind both institutional and private collecting, why and how special collections end up with unusual items, the stories that these unusual items have to tell, and the information and background they add that may not be obvious in more celebrated works. Some objects in the exhibit include Herman B Wells handmade underwear from the Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection; A petrified hen’s egg from 1835 trapped inside the walls of the Wylie House Museum; the original 1955 Relax-A-cizor device from the Kinsey Institute Collections; and Diana Ross’s lunchbox and gold record from the film Bustin’ Loose from the Archives of African American Music and Culture to name only a few.

Collections that will be represented are the Archives for African American Music and Culture, The Herbarium and Zoology Collections in the Department of Biology, The Black Film Center Archives, Campus Collections, the Indiana University Art Museum, the Glenn Black Laboratory, The Kinsey Institute, The Mathers Museum of World Cultures, The Elizabeth Sage Costume Collection, The University Archives and The Wylie House Museum.

This exhibit and corresponding programs were made possible by the participating institutions and the Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University.

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.

It’s November 3, at 5:30 p.m. It’s the first Tuesday in November at The Venue, and so it’s Bloomington Unplugged featuring the unamplified musical renderings of Cathy Gutjahr.
Cathy has emerged as one of Bloomigton’s finest acoustic performers, playing and singing covers and original music in a style that is all her own. In The Venue’s intimate environment, her unamplified songs are sure to please. And it’s free.
Cathy will perform songs from her exciting new release, Motorcycle Man, now available online and at CDBaby.com. Her new release has been described as “a mixture of folk, pop, blues, and jazz, with plenty of catchy hooks and a good measure of sass.”
Refreshments will be served, and The Venue’s fine selection of paintings, jewelry, ceramics, and artistic gifts will be on display for purchase, buy early Holiday shoppers.
Come early to get a good seat.

“Work out your brain as you soak in beer. Six rounds of trivia. Thirteen taps. You do the math.”

Weekly Free Blues Dance Lessons before the Blues Jam by Josh Davis

Wind Ensemble

Stephen W. Pratt, conductor

Repertoire to be announced

About the Conductor

Stephen W. Pratt is professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he teaches graduate courses in wind conducting and wind band history. Currently in his thirtieth year on the Jacobs faculty, he serves as chairman of the Department of Bands/Wind Conducting, personally conducting the internationally acclaimed Wind Ensemble. His appearances with the IU Wind Ensemble in the past several years include the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) divisional convention in Normal, Ill., the CBDNA national convention in Ann Arbor, Mich., the Music Educators National Conference national convention in Milwaukee, Wis., and the American Bandmasters Association national convention in Indianapolis. He is in constant demand as a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator across the nation and internationally.

Recent appearances have included guest conducting the U.S. Army West Point Chamber Winds, the U.S. Army Field Band, and all-state orchestras and/or bands in South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and Nevada, as well as at the International School in Beijing, China. An advocate for new music, as well as a specialist in standard works from the wind band repertoire, Pratt has received praise from many contemporary composers for his interpretive conducting of their compositions. His conducting students hold prominent positions at some of the leading colleges and universities in the United States and internationally, and at outstanding high schools and academies.

Weekly all-ages Blues Jam. Host band will play the first set, then invite you & others to join in.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND Panache Dance will be offering our Salsa expert Sandy’s beginner class. All levels of experience welcome. No partner required. PANACHE DANCE is proud to be Bloomington’s independent inclusive partner dance community. Every Panache class is a chance to have fun and improve your rug cutting skill sets. We look forward to seeing you on the dance floor!