Visit a dozen studios, featuring the work of more than 20 artists. Meet artists, watch them work, explore the spaces that inspire them. Get a glimpse into the working lives of artists. Pottery to painting, woodworking to weaving, metal, jewelry, fiber arts, broom making, bookbinding and more.

FREE. All you need is a brochure and map, available at the Nashville Visitor Center, local businesses, or at www.BrownCountyStudioTour.com. Studios open every day in October.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce an exhibition of projected images by award-winning photographer Edward Burtynsky. This exhibition will open Tuesday, October 6 and continue through Saturday, October 17. Edward Burtynsky will present a public lecture on Wednesday, October 14 at 7pm in Fine Arts 015. In addition, the IU Cinema will screen Burtynsky’s film, Manufactured Landscape, on October 10 at 7pm. Burtynsky will also meet with students and faculty for a conversation about his work on October 14 (the day of his public lecture) at 4pm (location to be announced).

Edward Burtynsky’s work is an extended meditation on labor, land, beauty, and violence. The extraction of natural resources and the exploitation of human labor have transformed (and often enough, insulted) our shared planetary home. Burtynsky travels the globe photographing such sites of intensive industry—from quarries and nickel tailings in North America, to scenes shipbreaking off the coast of Bangladesh, to his more recent work in China, the epicenter of global industrial expansion. Burtynsky is a master photo-colorist, and his large-format images mix beauty and terror in a unique and powerful way. Art is testimony, and Burtynsky is testifying, eloquently, to the world we live in. He makes us see.

These events are sponsored in part by Themester 2015: “@Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet,” an initiative of the College of Arts & Sciences. Further assistance comes from the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies, with additional support from the Integrated Program in the Environment, the Grunwald Gallery and the IU Cinema. The lecture by Edward Burtynsky is a Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Speaker Event.

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.

Chris Kraus (feminist, fictionalist, DIY filmmaker) will read from her new book about Kathy Acker. This event takes place at the I-Fell Building as part of the annual Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media. Sponsored by Ledge Mule Press. Ticket price is $5, or purchase a festival pass at the Buskirk-Chumley (buys admission to five events, including three Buskirk-Chumley shows): http://www.bctboxoffice.com

Come see over 600 blown glass pumpkins made by volunteers at the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. Learn how glass is made and how pumpkins are shaped. Glass drawing, hands on education and more.

On Friday, October 9th, The Venue will host a Reception for the Exhibition and Sale of paintings by Wyatt LeGrand.
Wyatt LeGrand has continued to garner recognition as one of Indiana’s young art treasures, his plein air paintings having brought him recent awards from The Hoosier Salon, Indiana Heritage Arts, The Indiana Artists Club, Plein Air Magazine, and Oil Painters of America, . His paintings are now in the permanent collection of The Indiana State Museum. In Wyatt’s own words, “My inspiration and drive comes from nothing other than the experience of putting brush to canvas, letting the things I see before me flow from eye, to heart, to hand, to brush.”
For this show, Wyatt has created and selected paintings for his life partner and wife, Brittany. Thus inspired, they are intimate, and dynamic, but also supported by a complex of emotions and expressions that create depth and significance. This show is a major step toward Wyatt’s ascent from Indiana art treasure to Art Treasure.
Refreshments will be served at The Venue. You can visit the following link for free parking options near The Venue: http://bloomington.in.gov/parksmart.
This show will run at The Venue until November 5th. Join us.

Our evening of contemporary LGBTQ shorts, curated by filmmaker Russell Sheaffer, takes place at the IU Cinema as part of the annual Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media. Check out the full line-up below!
How does one go about creating mythologies of non-normative experience while exploring history in a markedly queer way? The films in this experimental shorts block work to address this central questions. Whether engaged in an exploration of human bodies, of untold histories, or of a mythological landscape with new potential, these films understand their characters, their subject matter, and their form in original and markedly queer ways. This shorts program is comprised entirely of contemporary work and includes: All Under (Gunilla Leander, 2003 (U.S. Premiere)) Ink Deep (Constance Levesque, 2012) Shift (Juan Carlos Zaldivar, 2012) Wildblood (Jonesy, 2011) But I’m a Genderqueer (Lauren Soldano, 2011) In the Open (Albert Sackl, 2011) Maya Deren’s Sink (Barbara Hammer, 2011).
Event is FREE but ticketed

Live music at Topo’s!

“Mr. Marmalade is a dark comedy for adult audiences that explores the power of imagination to create the world we grow into. Be wary what you imagine!” -Director Paul Daily. The show runs October 2, 3, 8 – 10. Tickets: www.bctboxoffice.com.

NORTH AMERICAN CONCERT PREMIERE! Cyclobe (Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown) performs at the Buskirk-Chumley with their hurdy-gurdy, duduk, and border pipes for the annual Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media! Matmos opens. Tickets are $30, or purchase a festival pass at the Buskirk-Chumley for admission to FIVE different Wounded Galaxies events (including three at the Buskirk-Chumley): http://www.bctboxoffice.com

Support provided by a CAHI Institute.