We are so excited to announce that the 37th Annual Community Book Fair is back on, bigger and better than ever! Last year we had to cancel the Annual Book Fair due to the global pandemic but this year we are working hard to make up for the lost year. We continued to collect donations throughout 2020 so this year we have at least one third more books and twice as much media! Please join us at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in the Commercial Building West and East on October 14 – 19, 2021.

Dates/Times:
• Thur, Oct. 14th 9am-7pm
• Fri, Oct. 15th 9am-7pm
• Sat, Oct. 16th 9am-6pm
• Sun, Oct 17th 9am-6pm
• Mon, Oct. 18th 9am-6pm
• Tue, Oct. 19th 9am-6pm

We hope to see you there!

The Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program presents Eve Mansdorf and Tim Kennedy, in the gallery at The Republic Building (333 2nd Street, Columbus, IN 47201). An opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 14 from 6–8 PM. Light hors d’eouvres and a cash bar will be provided. The exhibition will run from October 14 – December 3, 2021.
The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm.
Please note, IU requires masks for all guests including those vaccinated against COVID-19. Masks and hand sanitizer will be provided onsite for those who need to use them.
Eve Mansdorf / Bio
Eve Mansdorf received her MFA in Painting from from Brooklyn College and her BA in Psychology from Cornell University. She teaches Painting at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She is known for large paintings of figures in interiors, still lifes and on site paintings that draw from the landscape and the neighborhood in Bloomington where she lives.
Eve Mansdorf paints perceptually and often her work is done close to home – even when her “home” relocates to other countries and parts of the US. The group of paintings in this exhibition were done while living in Berlin and Rome. She has shown her work at First Street Gallery and Gallery Henoch in New York and at various venues in the Midwest.

Tim Kennedy / Biography
Tim Kennedy received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Brooklyn College and he attended the Skowhegan School. Kennedy has received individual artist grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Indiana Arts Commission, the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Clark Hulings Fund. His work has been reviewed in The New York Sun, The New York Observer and the Indianapolis Star. Articles on his work have appeared in The Artist’s Magazine, American Artist Magazine and Watercolor Magazine. An interview with Tim Kennedy was featured on Larry Groff’s blog Painting Perceptions. He exhibits his work at First Street Gallery in New York and is a Senior Lecturer of Painting at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Kennedy’s work embraces all of the genres but he has repeatedly returned to themes of domestic interior and landscape. He works primarily from observation and directly from the motif or from painted or drawn studies done directly from the subject. His goal is to work directly and without an intervening filter.

Please add an event for MCCT.org -the Monroe County Civic Theater-for the date of October 14 -October 31st -to see MCCT’s plays, watch films and listen to our spooky podcasts-Edgar Allen Poe

Join us on October 14th for the first of our monthly, Lotus Latin Nights, taking place on the second Thursday of every month from 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. at the Lotus Firebay, 105 S Rogers.
Dance to salsa, bachata, cumbia, timba, and merengue, curated by DJ Maria.