Jenny Kander is showing a variety of her handmade primitive dolls, animals, birds, strange beings and ornies at the Meadowood Gallery. The exhibition opens at 4.30pm on Friday and will remain open daily from 9.00am – 6.00pm until November 25th–collection day for all items sold. Jenny has developed her own whimsical style and each prim has an accompanying brief legend.

Tom has always been fascinated by the rich and diverse character of our earth. His goal is to share his perception and visualization of this. Of course he cannot capture reality; rather, as with any artist, he seeks to reveal his perception and understanding of the environment in a way that will stimulate the imagination and emotions of the viewer. The beauty of morning and especially evening light and the resulting shadows are an important component in representing that perception.

Of course, people and their artifacts are an important part of our environment. Indeed, while continuing with his nature photography, his two current projects focus on the interaction between man and environment.

“Nurturing the Heartland” was an 18 month project in which Tom photographed two farmers who were committed to sustainable pasture farming. His goal was to tell, in photographs as well as words, the story of life on a small family farm where the goal was to improve the health of the land as well as the people who eat their food.

The second project, which is ongoing, is “Harvesting Limestone.” It focuses on the workers in the limestone quarries that are part of Indiana Limestone Company.

In this show, Tom focuses on nature photography but include samples from these two projects.

Blue Hugh and the Quarry Dogs is an upbeat rock & roll band with an urban vibe. Born and raised in and around Chicago, “Blue Hugh” Kremer soaked up the music of the city and brought a little bit of it with him to Bloomington to form Blue Hugh and the Colourtones back in the 20th century. His new band, the Quarry Dogs, is a tight five-piece group of top notch musicians. Blue Hugh and the Quarry Dogs plays covers along with some of their own. Influences and set lists include Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, the Dave Matthews Band, Little Feat, early Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, early J. Geils, Bob Dylan, and The Band. “Blue Hugh” Kremer – guitar and vocals Tyler Ferguson – vocals and guitar Leif Madsen – drums Bob Tamborrino – keyboards and alto sax Dave Withered – tenor sax, harmonicas and other Brian Wymore – bass guitar

We play your favorite guitar-rock, dance-rock and diva-rock from the 70s, 80s, 90s and the millennium. We love classic and southern rock, but on any given night you’ll hear some blues, funk, R&B, pop, or country. Impasse — the band who agrees to disagree — can’t decide on just one genre, so we play them all!