The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is located at 401 N. Morton St. next to City Hall – Showers Building. Locally grown produce, annual and perennial plants, and a variety of prepared foods are available. Purchase your food directly from farmers and ask them questions about their products. Local entertainment adds to the shopping as well as socializing experience. Tantalizing scents and the inviting atmosphere may cause you to make the Market a weekend tradition.

The City of Bloomington Department of Parks and Recreation hosts the displays and demonstrations of visual arts and fine crafts by local and regional artists during the second Saturdays of the season. Visit the Farmers’ Market in Showers Common and then browse for the beautiful and well crafted objects available at the Fair. Join us for this celebration of art and community.

This all-you-can-eat breakfast at American Legion Post 18 will benefit local animal rescue organization WildCare Inc. Cost is $6 per person; make checks payable to American Legion Post 18.

October brings four new exhibits to the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. All exhibits are available for viewing during regular gallery hours (Mon-Fri 9 am-7 pm, Sat 9 am-5 pm).

Contemporary fabric artist Sandy Hill splashes the walls with jewel-toned swirls and flourishes. Her freestyle forms employ silky-sheen fabrics and light-catching metallic threads, making a joyous quilting tour-de-force that celebrates the colors of the rainbow.

Tom Rhea takes us on a painterly tour of Bloomington’s best-loved landmarks, both town and gown. An eye for detail, a heartfelt connection with his subject matter , and an uncanny ability to render light on limestone make Rhea’s watercolors a delight for locals and visitors.

Sculptor (and writer) James Alexander Thom hand-carves fallen trees to reveal their spirits as sinuous, self-referencing, and graceful.

Fascinated by pattern and the negative space between objects, Ellen Starr Lyon says her current work is about “lushness of the commonplace.” A conservator at the IU Art Museum, Lyon is especially drawn to elements of Asian art, which are often found in her still-lifes.

Registration REQUIRED by 4 pm on October 12, call 812-837-9546.

Program Location: Service Area at Paynetown State Recreation Area

This is a 2-day class; attendance on both days (9 am to 4 pm) is required. Hunter Education is required for anyone born in 1987 or later, and recommended for everyone else, who wishes to purchase a hunting license in Indiana. All participants must pass a written test at the end of the second day to successfully complete the class. Children who are under 16 years of age should be accompanied by an adult.

Participants should bring a sack lunch, or plan on making a trip into Bloomington for fast food during the lunch break. Dress appropriately for the weather, as a portion of the class will likely be held outside.

This installation presents the work of three contemporary Native American artists. It is part of the series, Contemporary Explorations, which features focused, rotating displays from the museum’s permanent collection that explore aspects of art from the 1950s to the present.

Runs until October 14

Bloomington Fading, an online community led by Derek and Jen Richey and dedicated to preserving information about Bloomington’s past, shows our rich architectural heritage by overlaying images of current infrastructure on historic photographs. Exhibit runs until October 27.

Visit website for more information.

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 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.

Come pick out your very own handmade blown glass pumpkin at the 3rd annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch! We will have over 250 glass pumpkins for display and sale. All of the pumpkins are made by the members of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. This event is for all ages, rain or shine.