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.

Back by popular demand! Coffeehouse Nights provide campus and community members alike an opportunity to explore all that the IU Art Museum has to offer with extended evening hours. Experience an exciting fusion of live music, coffee, and art from around the world.

On Thursday, October 15th, beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Venue Fine Art & Gifts will host a presentation by Rosanna Warren, One of the Most Prominent Poets in America Today, as part of Indiana University’s Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Series.
Rosanna Warren has established her prominence in literary and academic circles through her poetry, prose, translations and criticism. She is an honored member of virtually every major American Poetry and Literary Organization, and has received awards and recognition for her writing, far too numerous to mention. She has published books and articles, and her writings have been widely praised in both the academic and popular media. She is presently the Hannah Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the elite Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She is truly a Literary Super Star.
In her presentation, Rosanna will read her original poems, and translations of French and Italian poems.
Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited. You can visit the following link for free parking options near The Venue: http://bloomington.in.gov/parksmart. Do not miss this opportunity to hear and meet this poet, writer and critic, who is so unquestionably important on the national scene today.

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

Cinda Crull, MS, MDiv, MFT, is a Channel, Therapist, Educator, Writer, and Visionary, and is channeling her family of Master Teachers. The topic of the significance of the latest surge of Consciousness on this planet, particularly this past month, will be explored. The energy in the room is palpable during these events, and questions will be addressed. It’s an amazing time for our planet and for us as individuals. Clients have said of JourneyWork with Cinda: “Life Changing,” “Wow,” “Amazing.” Please RSVP by 5 p.m. on the 15th.

The Buskirk-Chumley Theater is proud to present Loudon Wainwright III on Thursday, October 15, 2015. Tickets are $25-30 and will be available to BCT donors on Monday, April 20. Tickets will go on sale to the public at 11am on Friday, April 24 and can be purchased at buskirkchumley.org, at 812-323-3020, or at the BCT Box Office and Downtown Visitors Center at 114 E. Kirkwood Ave.

Emerging into the nation’s consciousness with novelty hit “Dead Skunk (In the Middle of the Road)” and guest starring on M*A*S*H, Loudon Wainwright III’s long career as a singer, songwriter and actor has only grown more illustrious. Wainwright has persisted as a leading American songwriter, highlighted by more than two dozen album releases, including 2014’s Haven’t Got the Blues (Yet), and High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, for which he won the 2010 Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. Admired by audiences, critics, and peers, Wainwright’s songs have been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Johnny Cash, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mose Allison, his son Rufus Wainwright, and others.

Wainwright is also a sought-after soundtrack composer and artist for TV and film such as ABC’s Nightline, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, FX’s Justified and Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, among others. As an actor, he has appeared in films directed by Martin Scorsese, Hal Ashby, Christopher Guest, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow.

Join Loudon Wainwright III at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater for what promises to be a night chock full of charming, vibrant, topical music and entertainment.