John Johnson (Cherokee) will teach Cherokee basket weaving and all participants will create a traditional Cherokee basket to take home during this workshop sponsored by the First Nations Education and Cultural Center. All basketry materials and instruction will be provided free of charge, and a light lunch will be served at noon, but participants must pre-register with the FNECC. Email FNECC at [email protected] or call the FNECC office at 855-4814.

Explore the instruments of the symphony orchestra, plus world music and the science of sound! This two-day festival includes hands-on experiences with musical instruments, performances by local musicians, musical craft activities, and science of sound exploration stations. See WonderLab’s website or Facebook page for the list of presenters and schedule of events.

Seven Bloomington maiolica artists are showing work at the Farmer House Museum from Oct. 5 to Dec. 6, 2012. They are leExposition Universelle. Susan Snyder, who learned the tradition and art of maiolica in Faenza, Italy from traditional artisans, and began to share her knowledge with ceramic artists in Bloomington upon her return, by way of England, in the 1990s. “Majolica”, spelled with a “j”, is the word for a 19 century English and French style, that has little to do with the Italian style, except for the use of metal-based glazes. Snyder practices and teaches the original craft of maiolica, which began in Italy in the 1400s. It is a folk style, in which linear designs are painted in bright colors on plates, bowls and other vessels.

Hours are 10 am -1 pm Wednesday-Friday, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm Sunday

This installation, running from September 11 to December 31, will focus on three photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, who used their romantic partners as their subjects. Whether portraits or nude studies, these images reveal a sensitivity that comes from the artists and sitters’ close personal relationships.

This installation is presented in conjunction it the special exhibition “A Place Aside: Artists and their Partners,” on view at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, September 28–December 20.

Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor. The British Pop artist Joe Tilson used tabloid journalism and news photography as the basis for many of his prints and multiples of the late 1960s. Becoming increasingly political, he saw the pictures of revolutionary leaders and current events as a means for social commentary. This installation will include several of his works from this turbulent period.

Runs until December 30. Open during regular museum hours (Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm, Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm.)

Artists working in Paris and Lorraine during the Baroque period developed distinctive styles—which focused on the vibrancy of the line—that differed markedly from their Italian and Dutch contemporaries. The two print kiosks in the early part of the gallery feature French works by Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Jacques Callot, and Claude Mellan, whose engraving is a tour de force of printmaking that creates the face of Christ using a single line.

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures is a companion piece to the book by Eric Sandweiss, and presents a survey of Cushman’s extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer—14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. It will run until December 21.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

IU Opera and Ballet Theater will be performing Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillion”, an adaptation of the classic Cinderella story. Showing at 7pm on November 8, 8pm on November 9 and 10, and 2pm on November 11. Visit website for tickets and more information.

Conductor: Ronald Zollman
Stage Director: Albert-Andre Lheureux
Set & Costumes: C. David Higgins

Adapted from Hitchcock’s celebrated 1935 film, Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” is the story of the dashing Richard Hannay and his heroic efforts to solve the riddle of the 39 Steps while staying a step ahead of desperate Nazi spies.

Equally inspired by Hitchcock and Monty Python, this entertaining thriller is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the spy thriller genre and all things Hitchcock (you’ll have fun spotting the sly references to Hitchcock’s many films throughout the show). With four actors playing 100 + roles, train chases, missing fingers, and onstage plane crashes (yes!), Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps” is, in the end, a joyous celebration of the power of theatrical imagination!

Playing October 8,9,10,11,15,16,17, and 18. Visit website for ticket information.

The film is a riveting exploration of the complexities of racial conflict and the limits of human will. The legendary Isabelle Huppert is Maria Vial, a fearless French woman attempting to run her family’s coffee plantation in an unnamed African country. Torn violently apart by hate-fueled civil conflict, this unforgiving setting soon turns against the foreign family, declaring them outlaws in their new home. In a brash effort to save her family and livelihood, Maria risks everything, fighting with every shred of her will to buck the rebel forces wrestling for control of local power. French language with English subtitles. (35mm presentation)

Claire Denis is scheduled to be present.