Bloomington Parks and Recreation hosts a celebration of art and community with the displays, sales, and demonstrations of visual arts and fine crafts by local and regional artists.

Free plant swap hosted by the Bloomington Organic Gardeners Association (BOGA). Bring plants and seeds to share and/or swap. Native plants, tree saplings, and seeds are encouraged but all non-invasive plants are welcome.

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Come pick out your very own handmade blown glass pumpkin at the 6th annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! We will have over 600 glass pumpkins for display and sale spread out on the Monroe County Courthouse lawn like a real pumpkin patch. All of the pumpkins are made by the members of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. Rain or shine! Cash, check and credit card accepted.

The Bloomington Songwriter Showcase will be represented by Steev Wisher, Brandon Pfeiffer, Tom Marshalek, Will Cleary and maybe Rick LeDune will show up too! 10-11:00 a.m. Stop by and share the love!

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.

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio will be screened at the IU Cinema as part of Bloomington’s annual Wounded Galaxies Festival of Experimental Media. The documentary looks at the previously unexplored story of Brooklyn’s BC Studios, where Martin Bisi worked with musicians like Herbie Hancock, John Zorn, Sonic Youth, and the Dresden Dolls. Panel following screening: BC Studio co-founder Martin Bisi, directors Ryan Douglass and Sara Leavitt. Support provided by IU’s Ethnomusicology Institute

As part of his featured exhibit at the Brown County Art Guild, Jerry Smith will host a live painting demonstration on Saturday, October 10, in the Brown County Art Guild lobby from 3-5 p.m.

Jerry Smith finds inspiration for his paintings traveling back roads. Most of his paintings depict the Indiana landscape or the Maine coast, where he makes frequent painting excursions. His work also encompasses varied subject matter including still-life and cityscapes. Smith is a lifelong Indiana resident. After graduating from Indiana State University he worked in human resources until he decided to pursue his interest in painting. While basically self-taught as an artist, he was greatly assisted and influenced by such people as Indiana artists Louise Hansen, Floyd Hopper, and Omer Seamon. He has attained signature member status in the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society, the International Society of Acrylic Painters, the American Society of Marine Artists, the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, the Watercolor Society of Indiana, and the Small Painting Society of Brown County. Jerry has been a member of the Brown County Art Guild since 1989.

Located in the heart of Nashville, Indiana, the Brown County Art Guild is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m. You can view the work of our featured artists all month long during our regular business hours. A reception for the artists will be held during the Second Saturday Village Art Walk on October 10, from 5-8 p.m. at the Brown County Art Guild at 48 S. Van Buren St. in Nashville, Indiana.

For more information, call 812-988-6185 or visit browncountyartguild.org

The sixth annual Taste of East Africa combines a tasty buffet dinner (maandazi, samosas, vegetable salad etc.) and silent art auction. Bernard Woma and the African music group will entertain will traditional songs and dances. Sponsor of this family-friendly party is the non-profit Kilimanjaro Education Outreach (a.k.a. KILEO). Proceeds will help orphans from a ferry disaster or HIV/AIDS, and young people challenged by disabilities and poverty in East Africa. Buy tickets in advance at BCT box office phone 812-323-3020. More about KILEO at www.kileo.org.

Guests are invited to an interactive multimedia lecture and sing-along event for an evening to benefit Middle Way House’s Women Rock! event. IU’s highly acclaimed professor of rock ‘n’ roll, Glenn Gass, will present the lecture. The event is a way for Middle Way to spend time with its supporters, who have never failed to enjoy themselves at its events.