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Capturing the Spirit

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Barry Beeker Must Paint

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ocated among the colorful hills of Southern Indiana is a 40-mile stretch of scenic highway that connects three distinctly different communities, each known for its rich arts heritage.

Along Indiana’s twisted trail, State Road 46, traveling from East to West, Columbus, Nashville, and Bloomington offer some of the most inspiring art, architecture, museums, galleries, wineries, small farms and natural beauty in the Midwest. There is perhaps no other place to experience three cultural destinations that are so completely different along such a short expanse of road.

Bloomington This quintessential college town at the foot of the Southern Indiana Uplands has quite a reputation as a destination for artists and art enthusiasts. From museums to galleries, wineries to the largest farmers’ market in the state, Bloomington proudly marches to the beat of its own drum and, in the process, provides residents and visitors alike with an endless list of culturally-enriching activities and events.

Bloomington’s thriving arts scene is directly correlated to the presence of the flagship campus of Indiana University and the overwhelming influence and resources afforded by its students, faculty, staff and facilities.

Nashville and Brown County For more than a century, Brown County has been a haven for artists of every medium from all over the United States. Its natural beauty, seclusion, local charm and hospitality have won the hearts and loyalty of many.

In the early 1900s, Theodore Clement “T.C.” Steele, an Indiana artist, “discovered” Brown County. Steele invited his friends and fellow artists to visit and the word of this special place soon spread. Brown County quickly became The Art Colony of the Midwest.

Nearly 200 working artists and craftsmen seek inspiration from the tranquil hills of Brown County today.

Visitors and locals agree it is the place for arts, nature, and adventure.

Columbus Columbus, Indiana is a small town with a modern twist. Forget everything you think you know about the Midwest.

Columbus is home to the largest collection of modern architecture outside of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Columbus has been called “a veritable museum of modern architecture” by Smithsonian magazine.

Six post-modern buildings in Columbus have been named National Historic Landmarks. This city is one of Indiana’s treasures.

From two Dale Chihuly glass sculptures to a 20-foot tall Henry Moore statue, the public art creates added visual interest throughout the city.

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Features

5 Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café

by Laura Gleason 8 The Spirit of Brown County

by Bill Weaver 12 The Hudsucker Posse

by Laura Gleason 16 Barry Beeker Must Paint

by Geri Handley 20 Pete Bullard, Artisan

by Julia Pearson 22 Indiana Heritage Arts

by Tom Rhea 24 Yes Film Festival

by Issac Wilkins 26 The Breeze Bends the Grass

by Bill Weaver 28 The Art of Perle Fine

by Tom Rhea

30 “Back to the Land” Fundraiser 31 Arts Week Everywhere 31 Spring Blossom Arts Festival 32 Brown Co. Studio & Garden Tour 32 Legally Blonde at Playhouse 33 Indiana Limestone Symposium 33 Arts Fair on the Square 41 Festival of Flowers Paint Out 41 Bloomington Open Studios Tour 42 Gallery North Moves to Nashville 42 History Mural Project

34-35 EVENTS CALENDAR 36-40 ARTISTS DIRECTORY

COVER BY PATRICIA COLEMAN “Gathering of Crows” A quilt wall haninging at Patricia’s Wellness Arts Cafe in Bloomington, Indiana.

Art Guild of Hope...............................15

Cathy’s Corner......................................13

Bloomington Open Studios Tour..25

Dr. Lisa Baker, DDS.............................29

Columbus Learning Center.............29

pictura gallery......................................15

Bloomingfoods....................................19

Columbus Visitors Center................21

Pygmalion’s...........................................13

Bloomington Gallery Walk..............44

Country Mouse Weaving.................25

So. Indiana Center for Arts SICA....19

The Breeze Bends the Grass............23

Homestead Weaving.........................17

Spears Pottery.....................................10

Brown County Art Gallery...............10

Hoosier Artist.......................................15

Talbot Street Art Fair..........................43

Brown County Art Guild..................... 7

Indiana Heritage Arts........................11

Taste of Columbus..............................21

Brown County Craft Gallery............15

IU Art Museum....................................17

Vance Music Center...........................19

Brown County Visitors Center.......... 7

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Village Art Walk...................................17

Brown County Winery.......................27

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Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café and Quilter’s Comfort Teas

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Patricia Coleman. photo by Kyle Spears

~by Laura Gleason

n an age of pre-fab and virtual reality, people react strongly to things that are genuine.

Patricia Coleman, owner of Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café and Quilters Comfort Teas, sees a lot of joyful responses when new people walk into her little shop full of original art and quirky charm.

“We have so much information suggesting to us that we all want to have the same hairstyles or clothing; there’s all this advertising to get us to move in certain directions. But individually, if you look at people, they’re wanting something that is more real and not scripted for them,” she said.

The café opened in October in the Near West Side neighborhood of Bloomington. Coleman sells work by local artists, locally-blended teas and other handcrafted goods, and offers a variety of classes and workshops.

The classes cover an array of creativity and wellness-oriented subjects. Many meet once and last a few hours, but some are ongoing.

The café also hosts a variety of informal gatherings, including open mic nights, art openings, and groups that read through books aloud.

“We’re exploring different ways of having fun together,” Coleman said.

Coleman, a Washington, DC transplant, has been making art her whole life. “I grew up in an environment where we were always Continued on 6

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PATRICIA’S continued from 5 encouraged to make things, and I took to heart the saying, ‘Follow your bliss.’ For me that was a very healing thing,” she said.

While raising her three children in Bloomington, Coleman taught homeschooling classes for a living, but the dream of opening some kind of small business that would bring people together was always in the back of her mind.

“I have always loved people, and take a lot of joy in seeing people do things that make them happy,” she said.

Another passion of Coleman’s is blending teas, which she started decades ago as a way to bolster her health. Coleman attributes the fresh and intense flavors of her teas to the fact that she blends them in small batches from ingredients that are largely organic or locally grown.

Certain blends have developed a bit of a cult following. Roots on the Square, a health and sustainabilityoriented restaurant in Bloomington, has started serving her Chocolate Chamomile tea, and employees have had to restock several times already.

“There are a few of them that are really hot, but it is super-hot,” Coleman said.

Because Coleman is a first-time business owner, the nitty-gritty details of managing the shop have presented a steep learning curve.

Fortunately, she has friends with business savvy.

“There are so many things that I don’t know, but rather than stressing about what I don’t know, I see it as a great opportunity to connect with people who do know. I’m finding that there are a lot of business people who are really generous with their knowledge,” Coleman said.

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photo by Kyle Spears

She also has an informal cheerleading squad. A few friends stop in regularly and ask “Are you still having fun? And so far I say, ‘Yes, I am,’” Coleman said.

Coleman is working to make every aspect of the business thrive.

She’d like to represent more artists in her shop. She wants to sell more tea. New flavors are being unveiled regularly. She looks forward to

seeing the workshops and classes take on a life of their own. Plans are in the works for a Quilter’s Comfort Market, which would offer local produce and pastries as well as Coleman’s signature teas on the street outside the shop in the mornings and after work.

Long-term, Coleman is looking forward to the day when her business is larger and more self-

sustaining. “I’m looking forward to being able to say, ‘These are my employees,’ and for them to be able to say, ‘Yes, and we receive a fair wage,’” she said.

The store is also meant to serve as a community hub, a place where people can see their neighbors and soak up the tranquil, unassuming atmosphere.

“I think people want to connect, they want to have something that makes them feel slower, so even though things are racing around them, there’s someplace where they can actually be for a moment,” Coleman said.

Above all, the café is meant as a place for nurturing creativity.

When people admire the art at the café, Coleman reminds them that the capacity to create beauty and express oneself creatively isn’t the province of a few natural-born artists; it’s available to everyone.

photo by Kyle Spears

“I think everybody’s a creative person in some way or another, and have things they want to bring into the world. They may not want to open a store, but I encourage people to explore, play,” Coleman said.

Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café and Quilter’s Comfort Teas is located at 725 W. Kirkwood Avenue in Bloomington. Artists interested in selling can contact Coleman. Events are listed and Coleman can be reached through the café’s website: <http://www.hartrock.net/cafe.htm>. 

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Capturing The Spirit of ~by Bill Weaver

Brown County

T

he mystique of Brown County has attracted people for many generations. Artists paint it, writers examine it, filmmakers explore it—each one adding their own interpretation to the legend.

Jim Krause is the most recent to try his luck by producing The Spirit of Brown County for WTIU, exploring the people, the landscape, and the legend that makes Brown County unique.

“It’s coming along well,” he says of the video project while sitting in Bloomington’s Runcible Spoon Cafe.

“People say, ‘I’m looking forward to seeing it,’ and I say the same thing!

I’ll probably have a rough cut by the end of summer and some segments,” he knocks on wood, “by late spring.

We’ll premiere in December.”

Jim, a teacher and producer for Indiana University’s Radio and TV Services, produced Elkinsville: Washed Away by Progress, his 2003 Emmy-nominated look at the making of the Monroe Reservoir from the viewpoint of those most affected —the residents of the little town in southwestern Brown County removed during its construction.

“It’s funny how these things evolve,” he remembers. “The reason I started was because Bob Cross (author of Elkinsville, Indiana: The Town That Was) and Bill Miller (host of the yearly Elkinsville reunion) Jim Krause films potter Larry Spears in downtown Nashville. photo by Kyle Spears

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wouldn’t leave me alone. They kept knocking on my door, phoning me, until finally I said, ‘Okay, I’ll pitch this to WTIU.’” To his surprise they agreed to the project. “So I went out there with the whole crew.” Krause thought he’d be interviewing folks angry about the way the Army Corps of Engineers had taken their homes and property, but found something else instead.

“The first person I asked said, ‘Well, I kinda like the lake, I caught a big fish there the other day.’ Every person I talked to thought the lake was a good thing. The story about angry people disappeared. I rewrote the whole structure. I didn’t think I was going to like the project but as soon as I started doing it, it had a life of its own. I’m proud of it.”

His new project, capturing the history and people of Brown County, seems almost impossible in an hourlong program, but he’s undeterred. “In a way it would be easier to write a book about Brown County than to produce a video,” he admits. “I realized I could do a whole documentary on just the musicians—I wish I could do more in that sense,” he adds. “But we are going to spend time with Kara Barnard and the White Lightning Boys and we went to Uncle Otis’s for their Thursday night jam session. We brought our cameras and taped and then I got to play mandolin. It was a blast!

“Really, this documentary is by the people of Brown County and for the people of Brown County. I want things that are true to its nature and art.”

Jim, who prepares thoroughly for every project, has his outline and treatment completed. “The more that I have a plan, the more I have structure, the greater freedom I have to leave the structure and experiment,” he says. “If you have a good strategy you can see the side roads for what they are, instead of getting lost. The challenge is finding the golden thread that ties it all together. Then it has a life of its own.

“It’s a collaborative process,” he concludes. “It’s not me doing this. It’s a vehicle for the wonderful folks I’ve bumped into. I’m a vehicle that’s making that possible for the people in Brown County. It’s a labor of love.”

Krause not only produces video for WTIU but for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the Chinese Flagship program, and many others. “I wear a lot of different hats,” he says. “I’m a musician, a teacher, a video producer, a sailor, a carpenter—but the things I’m pretty good at are producing videos and teaching kids how to produce videos. I think the world of the folks over at IU Radio and TV Services. They produce relevant local programming that will stand the test of time.”

Jim takes a break after shooting some background footage. photo by Kyle Spears

Born in Schenectady, New York, Jim “spent my misspent youth in Louisville. I had some friends in Bloomington when I was in high school, so I came up here in the spring and summer to go swimming in the lake and quarries. I loved the area and when I was considering music school it seemed like a no-brainer.”

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KRAUSE continued from 9 After changing majors several times he settled into Telecommunications. “I always loved the performing arts so I ended up going into video partially so I could be close to artists. I still like to dabble in performance.”

In fact, Jim will be joining the cast of the musical The Breeze Bends the Grass for their premiere at The Brown

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The Hudsucker Posse Finds Flow

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~by Laura Gleason

n the summer of 2008, Paula Chambers was watching the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival parade and was captivated by the hoop dancers in the March Fourth Marching Band.

“I took one look at them and said, ‘I want to be one of those girls,’” she said.

Chambers and several friends founded the Hudsucker Posse hooping group in the spring of the following year. Since then it has grown into a diverse, fun-loving community that plays and performs together year-round.

When Chambers and her friends got together to try hooping for the first time, everyone was a rank beginner. “We could hardly do anything. We could hardly keep the hoops on our waists,” Chambers said.

The group called on YouTube videos of more experience hoopers to provide instruction. “To this day I still remember sitting around the

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A Sunday jam session at Bryan Park in Bloomington. photos by Cindy Steele

computer and saying, ‘How is she doing that?’” Chambers said.

The group’s name is an homage to the Coen Brothers film The Hudsucker Proxy, a fable about the invention of the hula hoop. They host weekly “jams,” or open sessions,

Wayne Britton.

at Bryan Park and move inside to the Stone Belt gymnasium when the weather gets cold or wet.

Everyone is welcome at these jams. On a recent Sunday there were parents, children, experienced dancers, neophytes, casual chitchatting hoopers, and others focused on mastering new moves.

A few passer-bys got intrigued, including a basketball player. “If they stand around long enough, we’ll throw a hoop at them and invite them to try it,” Chambers said.

On Wednesdays a troupe gets together to practice choreography for future performances. The group is self-selecting. Anyone who has the desire to perform and shows up regularly to practices gets incorporated into the choreography. They have performed at Lotus, the Pride Film Festival, and other local and regional events.

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HUDSUCKERS continued from 12 Hoop dance is considered one of the “flow arts,” a term that was popularized by author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi who wrote a bestselling book called “Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.” The book discusses activities which have the capacity to absorb people’s attention and bring them to a state of happiness beyond everyday consciousness.

“It’s about total engagement, where everything goes away except the thing you’re doing,” Chambers said.

That may explain why many hoopers mention a sense of something spiritual in their hooping practice. “It’s become my movement meditation that really helps me center,” said Clara Kallner, a Hudsucker troupe member.

Kallner sees herself as a poster child for people who don’t think they ever could or would get into the sport. But when she saw a friend hooping at a social gathering two years ago she was taken with it.

“I was mesmerized. I thought it looked so cool, but it also looked like, ‘Hey, I could do that,’” she said.

It turned out to have great health benefits. “I had a two month old baby when I started going, so I was ready to exercise and lose some baby weight; I had never really exercised much before in my life,” Kallner said.

But within a few months of hooping, she had lost all sixty pounds that she had gained during her pregnancy. “I look better than I did pre-baby, because I’m more muscular now,” Kallner said.

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said Britton, who is the only man in the performing group.

A self-described hoop junkie, Britton practices every day. “I like the fluidity. I like the constant movement it requires, it made me really expand my kinesthetic awareness. It puts me in a very meditative place,” he said.

As a child, Britton wasn’t known for his coordination. “I was the kid who you’d throw a softball to, and I would catch it with my knee cap and fall over backward,” he said.

You wouldn’t know it to see him today. Britton not only performs with the Hudsuckers, he sometimes gets hired for gigs on his own, including a fundraiser in Indianapolis this month.

Still, as good as he gets, hooping keeps him on his toes. “Sometimes when you’re hooping you can look amazingly elegant, and in the next moment, look like a total buffoon.

It’s a strange challenge,” he said.

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Paula Chambers tosses her hoop up like a baton.

Hooping brought Kallner—who never imagined performing in front of others—out of her shell.

“It unleashes the dancer in me; I’m a musician and I’ve always liked to dance in private,” she said, but having a hoop as an accessory made her feel less self-conscious.

“It opened the door to just dancing without hoops, too,” she said.

It brought out the dancer in Wayne Britton as well. “I dance everywhere; when I’m in the kitchen doing dishes, and putting them away.

I didn’t think that sort of thing was really in me, and then there it was,”

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photo by Bob Anderson

Barry Beeker Must Paint

~by Geri Handley

A

s I entered the kitchen of the small, wood-framed house in downtown Columbus, I caught sight of brushes and paint cups with traces of green, blue, red. In the dining room, the table was partially covered with newly printed black and white illustrated cards portraying models wearing the most exquisite haute couture fashions. Canvases leaned against the legs of the furniture

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and the walls. In the living room, I saw yet more canvases and a portfolio containing large-scale black and white drawings of faces—faces that appeared mask-like, faces depicting various emotions, and faces from other cultures. The coffee table was covered with a dozen five-pound-size metal cans that had been transformed by the faces and mixture of designs covering their exteriors. A large board positioned on the floor in the center of the room featured 6 x 6 inch “mosaics” of brightly colored florals and patterns.

This could be the home of almost any artist—evidenced by completed and partially completed canvases, the progression of a variety of ideas and designs, and the sense of creativity everywhere. Except, this artist is legally blind and only began creating these works of art this past November. I was awed by the sheer volume of canvases, the vivid colors, the range, and the unexpected attention to detail.

The artist, Barry Beeker, was born in Columbus and grew up in Hope. A graduate of Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, he received a BA in Fine Arts. The fashion illustrations on the dining table were part of his creations while attending school. After returning home, he worked for Baskin Robbins in Indianapolis and then in Huntington, West Virginia. Reflecting on those years, he admitted that like so many young graduates he forgot about his passion and took a job that enabled him to earn a living.

His self-proclaimed “gypsy years” ensued—taking him to six states and Canada. While in New York, he was hired

by Esprit to work in their cosmetics department. Since he had never applied make-up to anyone, he drew from his art training. Making up a face, he discovered, was much like painting. Instructing his clients on the proper application of their products fulfilled his longtime desire to teach. Barry’s love of people, creative flair, and teaching skills quickly distinguished Continued on 18

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BEEKER continued from 16 him from the other cosmetic sales staff and eventually led to an opportunity to do the make-up for Ronnie Milsap’s backup singers.

During his travels throughout the South and along the East Coast, he encountered individuals of various faiths and cultures.

While not actively pursuing his art, he drew and created simple crafts—sometimes to maintain his sanity while working at mundane jobs.

In 1991, he made the decision to return to Columbus to care for his aging parents. A year later he joined Elder-Beerman (now Carson’s) as their Visual Manager and continues to work there on a part-time basis. In 2000, Barry was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a genetic eye condition that leads to incurable blindness. In the progression of symptoms of RP, night blindness generally precedes tunnel vision.

Many people with RP do not become legally blind until their 40s or 50s and can retain some sight all their lives, while others go completely blind, in some cases

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Detail from one of Barry’s faces pieces.

as early as childhood. Progression of RP is different in each case.

Understandably, he became fearful when he could not see the walls where he had previously created his displays. Desperation overcame him as he convinced himself “I can’t” and at that point truly became handicapped. But, being able to change his position at ElderBeerman enabled him to maintain a stable lifestyle until last fall when he again experienced a difficult time.

It occurred to him that creating something would ease some frustrations. He called Gretchen Marks, a good friend and Columbus artist, and expressed his feelings.

She wasted no time and that afternoon they were in a local crafts store purchasing art supplies. Barry had not painted for nearly 40 years, but she encouraged him by saying, “even a dot on the canvas makes it yours; whatever happens, it’s yours.”

His first works were clowns and his work with faces is really special— depicting a variety of emotions

and diverse ethnic peoples. “When I was young, I knew I had talent,” Barry explained. “Now, I must create; I must paint. It happened when I turned 60 and it’s wonderful!”

Somewhat seriously, Barry jokes that he has more “vision” today than ever. His intrigue of faces, clowns and characters arise from the myriad people he met during his nomadic years. His spiritual awareness of other faiths and people is derived from his jobs which were service oriented with a creative flair. His motivations have always been service, interaction, and creativity— not money. He insists he is a very wealthy person with no money, but not a starving artist. His friend, Chef Jim Gregory, supplies him with glorious meals and assists him with arranging his paints and cleans up when he is finished creating.

When asked, he states he wants to take his art as far as it will go and wants his life to be a motivation for others. “It’s all about those you touch and who touch you,” he nods. 

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Pete Bullard

Brown County Artisan

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~by Julia Pearson

photos by Kyle Spears

f you don’t know Pete Bullard by name, you might recognize his smiling face. He takes a daily walking tour through Nashville and greets everyone with a direct, friendly gaze.

He grew up on the south side of Indianapolis and graduated from Carmel High School in 1961. It was during his student days at Indiana Central College (now the University of Indianapolis) that Pete met his future wife, Ginnvor McAdams. The year was 1964 and Pete was president of the Circle K Club. Ginnvor helped decorate for the club’s winter dance and was Pete’s date to the event.

They both received baccalaureate degrees in physical education and were married April 9, 1966.

After earning an MS in Health and Physical Education from Indiana University in1971, Pete and Ginnvor both started their teaching careers in the Franklin Schools— Ginnvor at the high school and Pete in Franklin Junior High.

He brags that he “got to teach phys. ed. in the gymnasium made famous by the Franklin Wonder Five,” the high school basketball team from Indiana’s “Hoosier Hysteria” era in 1920.

After two years of teaching there, Pete moved to Belzer Junior High School in Lawrence Township of Marion County. He taught health and physical education for 31 years, serving as head of the department for 20 years. His

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career at Belzer included football coach and track coach for 15 years, and athletic director for 13 years.

Pete and Ginnvor developed an interest in German folk dancing in the early 1970s. Pete served as president of the North American German Folk Dancers. The couple traveled with the dance organization to Germany four times and to areas within the United States including Connecticut, Michigan, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington State.

The Bullard’s’ folk dancing experiences widened to include Scandinavian folk dancing. Pete took his first decorative arts painting class during the Norwegian

Folk Dance Festival in Folklore Village at Dodgeville, Wisconsin.

Pete’s other art, stained glass, began when he put together a hanging lamp shade from a kit his wife had purchased. Pete then worked with Bill Gottwalles at the Glass Menagerie formerly located in Nashville’s Traditional Arts Building. Pete finds the work of putting glass pieces together a satisfying process, like solving a puzzle. His interest grew in the craft as he attended shows, festivals, and art fairs. Partial to blue glass, Pete allows the colors of the design pieces to play or work with light. He creates his own designs and also produces custom work based on client specifications.

Commissions have included Victorian transom windows for a home in Franklin made from over 400 pieces of glass and a large abstract piece that was 72 inches high by 30 inches wide.

In 1990, the Bullards moved back to Ginnvor’s childhood home, a mid-1930s log home in northwest Brown County. Local lore has it that an asthmatic child lived there so it was the first home to have electricity in that area since power was needed for the child’s oxygen.

For the last 20 summers, Pete has been taking decorative painting lessons in Indianapolis with Lois Mueller. Decorative painting feels like art to his eye and hands as he brings elements together to make his own designs. His studio has several spinning wheels that are being decorated with flowers and ivy. He has added painted decoration to pieces as large as a storage chest, and as small or functional as Shaker boxes and serving trays. His talents and skills have been recognized by awards each year at the State Fair since he started entering in 1998.

You can see some of Pete’s work at the Brown County Historical Society’s Traditional Arts Building at 46 East Gould Street in Nashville. He teaches stained glass and decorative painting classes there from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesdays. For the past three years Matthew Allen, a local high school student, has been learning the stained glass craft from Pete through the Brown County mentoring program.

Pete has been in the Brown County Artisans since 1998, and is a past president. He is currently the first Vice President of the Brown County Historical Society and received the Abe Martin Award for outstanding service last December. He has designed a distinctive stained glass piece using traditional quilt motifs etched with donors’ names for the new Brown County History Center.

The Bullards have a daughter, Kathy, a son, Will, and granddaughters Katya and Gabriella. 

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Indiana Heritage Arts Show ~by Tom Rhea

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he 34th annual Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibition and Sale will open in June at the Brown County Art Gallery. This event is always greatly anticipated, well attended, and held in high regard by participants and collectors alike.

With a deadline for entries of May 19, the exhibit promises $20,000 in prize money to be distributed among winning entrants, with much more anticipated by way of purchases.

Show chairman Jim Ross, of Eckert & Ross Fine Arts in Indianapolis, said that the approximately 20 works sold from last year’s show brought in nearly $60,000.

While the other important annual show in Indiana, the Hoosier Salon, aims at a comprehensive survey of contemporary artists and their multiple styles, the IHA adheres more closely to the realist and impressionist styles bequeathed by the Brown County painters.

This group, Jim Ross advised me, “has a rabid following. As part of its mission statement, Indiana Heritage Arts seeks to preserve and extend the legacy of the historic Brown County artists by promoting the contemporary artists who continue in their style.

In his role as an art dealer specializing in the Brown County artists, Ross said he believes that the group is undergoing “a second renaissance” in recent years. “Each of the regional schools around the country has its adherents, and while ours may be less well known nationally, it has begun to emerge onto national consciousness.” When buyers can no longer find a Singer Sargent or a Merritt Chase painting

This year’s judge is Jill Carver, a plein-air painter from Austin, Texas.

to purchase, they might take a look at several Indiana painters and find something to love. “Collectors have been pushing up the prices noticeably,” Ross said.

The triumph of this type of painting, pure landscape done in an impressionist style, involves a long history of American art struggling against European ascendancy, spread out across the 19th century, and into the first half of the 20th.

When the earlier painters of the Hoosier group, like T.C. Steele and William Forsyth, trained in Munich, the emphasis was on portraiture.

Whatever landscape painting

they did, they did on their own.

A younger generation of Brown County artists began studying in Paris in the closing years of the century where they witnessed the Impressionists making rapid inroads on the receding academic style. Impressionism in America was accepted more slowly, however.

“William Merritt Chase was from Indiana,” Ross said, “but he wanted a national career and so settled in New York. Pure landscape painting was not entirely respectable, much less from regional areas like rural Indiana.”

In the end, loyalty to a Brown County style stems, as it must have for the original painters, from an experience of the area and painting outdoors in its unique landscape. I asked Jim Ross if he thought the “style” had become a new sort of academic art, or if the Heritage loyalty to a single style was limiting in any way.

“I love it all,” he said. “In my home I have Brown County artists and I have pieces by Jeff Koons and Robert Rauschenberg. I love it all.” The survival of a regional art style does not preclude or subtract from other styles.

The strength of an artistic style is best judged by the vibrancy of its adherents. “We bring judges in from around the country every year, and they are always impressed with the number and quality of artists who participate,” Ross said.

The Indiana Heritage Arts show has a single judge every year to jury the exhibit (in contrast with the Hoosier Salon which employs several). This year’s judge is Jill Carver, a plein-air painter from Austin, Texas. Ms. Carver moved to the US from England in 2002 after working for twelve years at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Her work has been the subject of a feature article in Southwest Art Magazine in June 2010 after it named her one of the nation’s top ten artists to watch in

January 2009. She divides her time between Austin and Rico, Colorado.

From an expected 450 works of art submitted, Ms. Carver will select approximately 120 pieces to hang for the exhibit. (All works are judged in person rather than from slides or digital versions.) Substantial cash prizes and awards of merit are then awarded to dozens of entries. An enthusiastic audience will supplement the awards with their purchases when the exhibit opens to the public from June 9 to June 23.

As a final thought, Jim Ross said, “In the marketplace there is a real yearning for quality work that shows traditional training and skill. If I were a working artist, I think it would be crazy to miss these two shows [the Hoosier Salon and the IHA exhibit], because that’s where the buyers are.”

Organizers are accepting entries for this year’s show.

All artists with a connection to Indiana are invited to enter. You must be 18 years of age and each artist can enter up to three pieces. All the rules can be found on the Entry forms which can be downloaded from Indiana Heritage website at <www.Indianaheritagearts.org > or can be requested by mail by calling the Brown County Art Gallery at (812) 988-4609. 

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YESFest – The YES Film Festival May 18–20, 2012

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~by Issac Wilkins

or decades, the American film festival was an event primarily native only to large metropolitan areas like New York or Chicago or out-of-the-way destinations like Telluride or Park City, Utah—home of Robert Redford’s legendary Sundance Film Festival.

Since the mid-90s, however, even as the big names in the festival world have only gotten bigger, local film festivals have sprung up across the country and begun to flourish in the own right. In Indiana alone, since the turn of the millennium, the number of annual film festivals has grown from one (the venerable Heartland Film Festival) to the nineteen currently listed on the state’s official filmmaking website <www.in.gov/film>. And in an age in which the technology to make films is now open to anyone who can hold a cellphone and use a laptop, that number is only set to grow.

Located on the corner of Jackson and 4th Streets in downtown Columbus, just one short block from the headquarters of international engineering giant Cummins, Inc, YES Cinema is preparing for a festival of its own that its organizers hope will become a new fixture of the Southern Indiana arts scene.

YES Cinema is an independent theater that is home to a diverse selection of art-house films, second-run Hollywood blockbusters and live comedy and musical events. The YES is owned by a local United Way-affiliate—the Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center (LCNFC), a non-profit that provides advocacy, information, and resources for residents of the town whose voices might not otherwise be heard.

The first YES Film Festival was launched in November of 2010 as a fund-raiser for the LCNFC. Featuring a combination of shorts and features, the festival showed both mainstream independent films like the Robert Duvall-starring “Get Low” and new discoveries such as the documentary “Piano with Wind and Trains,” directed by local photographer Andrew Laker. This first festival created enough of a buzz for LCNFC Executive Director Randy Allman to want to continue the festival as an annual event.

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Scene from “All She Can.” courtesy photo

In 2011, filmmaker Diane Danner Mason, a Columbus native now based in Florida, began work as the festival’s Artistic Director with a mission to expand and further define the festival. Mason, whose documentary “Bullfrogs on My Mind” was a highlight of the 2010 festival, used her industry connections to pull together a selection of films that is international and diverse, while including work that has strong local ties.

This year’s YES Film Festival (or YESFest 2012 as its organizers affectionately call it) will showcase eleven feature films and another nine short films—all of which will be screening for the first time for Columbus audiences.

The feature films are a mixture of award-winning documentaries and narratives with a highly diverse range of topics including: a surreal tale of time travel to a sweetly musical romantic comedy; the process of healing and forgiveness in the new Rwanda to neighborhoods in New Delhi; the exploitative model industry in Tokyo; the redefinition of beauty in the annual Miss Wheelchair America Pageant; Sierra Leone; and a farm in Indiana.

The YESFest 2012 shorts program is similarly diverse in subject matter, tone, and setting. From Spain and Mississippi, Iran, and Canada, these films tell the stories of an aspiring Muslim American detective, an unsolved murder in the deep South and the animated journey of a teddy bear named Awful. Finally, the short feature “Nathan and the Luthier,” written and directed by Indiana University graduate student Jacob Sherry, tells the story of a young and his transformative acquaintance with a violin repairer in a small town in central Indiana.

This year’s YESFest also includes work by Susan Kirr, who grew up in Columbus and whose parents still reside there, is the producer of “All She Can,” an official selection

at the Sundance film festival this year which tells the story of a Latina high-schooler looking for a way out of small-town Texas through an athletic scholarship in powerlifting. Kirr has become a well-established independent Producer and Line Producer with a wide body of work that includes Terence Malick’s multi-awardwinning feature “The Tree of Life” and the Angelina Joliestarring “A Mighty Heart.”

Isaac Wilkins, whose family has deep roots in Columbus, is the Line Producer of “My Last Day Without You,” a New York-based romantic comedy about a German businessman who falls in love with a beautiful singer-songwriter from Brooklyn, all the while hiding a secret that may tear them apart if revealed.

Both Wilkins and Kirr will appear at the festival to present their films, discuss the process of making movies in the real world—and even attempt to explain what exactly a Line Producer does.

The YES Film Festival will take place from May 18 through May 20, 2012. More details can be found on the Festival’s website at <http://yesfilmfestival.com> and at the YES Cinema home-page at <www.yescinema.org>. 

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or the second year, Taste of Columbus will showcase the best of the Columbus independently owned restaurants. Presented by members of the Downtown Columbus Independent Restaurant Association, the event is scheduled for Saturday, May 19, 2012 on the upper level of The Commons. The delicious array of food served at the event will be complemented by music provided by two local bands.

Unlike many chain restaurants, the local independents focus on ingredients furnished by area farmers and purveyors. Salad greens, chicken, eggs, mushrooms, pork and beef, and a variety of cheeses are examples of ingredients produced in Indiana and utilized by local chefs. Craft beer and native wine will also be featured.

Many of these restaurants offer vegetarian, gluten-free, and low sodium options on their menus. A splattering of ethnic choices can also be found in Columbus—such as Japanese, Mexican, and Italian.

Enjoy the feeling of dining in big-city restaurants, but with an intimate, friendly small-town attitude. Tickets for the event are $10 and may be purchased at participating restaurants, Viewpoint Book Store or at the door the evening of the event. The event will take place from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Guests must be 21 years of age. 

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The Breeze Bends the Grass

Art Guild Fundraiser ~by Bill Weaver

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ast summer, to celebrate Father’s Day, The T.C. Steele State Historic Site invited Arbutus Cunningham and friends to perform her Anvil, Garden, Canvas, Clay, a music and spoken word examination of the lives of Selma Steele, Marie Goth, and six Indiana women artists.

Commissioned by Marcia Bradford the show, “was so well received,” says collaborator Krista Detor, “that we decided, at the urging of Jaime Sweany, to turn it into a full-blown musical.”

The Breeze Bends the Grass debuts Memorial Day Weekend at the Brown County Playhouse, featuring Detor as Marie Goth, soprano Amanda Biggs of the IU School of Music as Selma Steele, with Lara Weaver, Anne Hurley, Dave Weber, Jim Krause, with Arbutus Cunningham as Mary Frances Overbeck. The production is to benefit the Brown County Art Guild and the Selma Steele Garden Fund.

Cunningham, a poignant, folksy, humorist, has garnered recognition for her entertaining readings, CDs, and weekly appearances with the phlegmatic Colonel Kelsey on WFHB’s popular Old Time Train 45 on Saturday mornings. She remembers that the audience at T.C. Steele, “gave us a very warm reception, I thought, ‘Hot dog, that’s over!’ and went home to sleep. The thing took nine

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Krista Detor. photo by Jim Krause

months of research and six weeks of sustained writing to finish.”

But there is no rest for the weary.

“A couple weeks later, Krista said I should tear the narrative apart, script it out, and make it a real musical play. ‘We’ll have lots of fun!’ I said no way but Krista replied, ‘How do you know what you can do if you don’t try? I think we can pull it off!’”

“The theme,” says Detor, “is the plight of women artists at the turn of the century. They had to have a ton of tenacity and good fortune.”

“Most were, in one way or another, influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement,” Arbutus adds, “with its emphasis on the value and dignity of hand work and its commitment to making art accessible.”

The Overbeck sisters lived in Cambridge City, Indiana, where they built, fired, glazed, and painted

original ceramics noted for their brilliant and subtle glazes. “The Overbecks were fiercely determined to live by the work of their hands,” Arbutus says. “They didn’t want to be famous—they wanted to be artists.”

Janet Paine Bowles was born in Indianapolis and intended to be a concert pianist, but became a jeweler and metalsmith instead.

“By all accounts she was a brilliant teacher who continued creating her own pieces.”

Marie Goth studied at the Art Students League in New York City, moving to Nashville to become a renowned portrait painter. Her sister Genevieve taught in Indianapolis and painted on weekends and in the summers. Selma Neubacher graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1905 and was the assistant superintendent of art in the Indianapolis public schools. In

1907, she married T.C. Steele, helping him build the small cabin on a hilltop known as the House of the Singing Winds. “Lots of folks think Selma was a sort of drudge who raised a few flowers—nah,” Cunningham scoffs “She was an artist. She and Steele worked together to transform their home into a work of art in harmony with the natural wonders of the site.”

Krista Detor enjoys working with Arbutus. “It’s fun,” she says with a laugh. She and I have a cantankerous banter that seems to work for us. I establish deadlines and she may or may not meet them and she draws lines in the sand that I may or may not cross. She’s a brilliant writer and brilliant spoken word performer.

“We have an amazing cast,” she continues. “Amanda Biggs has come out of the IU School of Music, an internationally winning soprano;

she’s competitive all the time with a bright future. Lara Weaver is a multiinstrumentalist, wonderful voice, wonderful writer.”

Anne Hurley plays cello with husband Jim Krause on mandolin and guitar, joined by Krista’s husband David Weber of Airtime Studio. Bobbie Lancaster, who— with Krista and Lara—wrote the music, is unable to appear due to prior commitments. “Each one is a brilliant performer who brings their own unique gifts to the project,” says Arbutus. “I am truly grateful for their participation.”

“It’s so much more uplifting and interesting than a dry documentary,” says Jaime Sweany, Director of the Brown County Art Guild. “Anyone who is familiar with Arbutus’s work knows that she is vitally entertaining.

It runs the gamut of emotions—from

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funny to very touching. Best of all, it will not only be entertaining but people will get a sense of history.”

The Breeze Bends the Grass takes place Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26, starting at 7:30 p.m. Tiickets are $18 for adults and $15 for seniors (over 65), students (if college, withcollege id), and children. On Friday before the show Krista Detor will appear in costume to play Marie Goth’s grand piano at the Brown County Art Guild, 48 South Van Buren Street.

The Brown County Playhouse is at 70 South Van Buren Street in Nashville, (812) 988-6555 or email <info@browncountyplayhouse. org>. The Brown County Art Guild is on the web at <www. browncountyartguild.org>. See Arbutus Cunningham’s TEDx talk at <http://youtu.be/d1D2SGSBhlA>. 

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~by Tom Rhea

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Perle Fine (American, 1905-1988). Impact, 1961. Oil on canvas. Gift of David T. Owsley via the Alconda-Owsley Foundation and Friends of the Museum. David T. Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

lovely, small traveling show, “Tranquil Power,” opened in March at the Indiana University Special Exhibitions Gallery that may introduce a little known artist named Perle Fine to a wider audience. Organized

by Hofstra University (where she taught for twelve years), the retrospective exhibit covers Fine’s entire career, which fell across the exceedingly fecund decades when New York became the center of the art world. Dozens of portrait photographs taken by her husband, Maurice Berezov and featured in the Hexagon Gallery, attest to her acquaintance with the most influential artists of the era. An aesthetic give-and-take with the most prominent artistic styles of the era are featured in almost every work in the main gallery. The true mark of Fine’s achievement

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is that she finally wrestled a purely personal style away from a maelstrom of influences in a golden age of American art.

In the late 1930s Perle Fine studied with Hans Hofmann.

With avid ambition, she absorbed the major styles of European abstraction, with particular attention to the biomorphic shapes of Miro and Masson, and the grid structures of Piet Mondrian. The IU Art Museum’s own example of Fine’s work, In Staccato, is exemplary in its use of a diagonal grid, a close palette of gray, black and blue, and a complicated system of overlaps that create a woven surface that resembles the cubism of Juan Gris.

After several visits to Mondrian’s studio, Fine was commissioned to do a precise copy of his last work, Victory Boogie Woogie, left unfinished at his death in 1947. The

careful planning and premeditation inherent to the grid structure remained a technique and an armature throughout her career.

Even in simple and spontaneous works like Untitled from 1935, we see the fine pencil marks of an under-drawing guiding the brush strokes.

It is the premeditated quality that comprises the uniquely personal element in works that otherwise seem dominated by influences from other artists. Fine objectifies her brushstrokes by keeping them contained and well defined. Though she recalls the bold, black strokes of Franz Klein in works like Winter (Charcoal Red) and Impact, we notice how clean the edges are on shapes in the latter, almost like cut paper.

Indeed, she literally makes her strokes into objects with collaged

red and black strips of paper in the small Untitled (Study) from 1960 that closely follows the spirit of Winter. Fine’s temperament leads her to make her shapes so discrete and clear that one could imagine a flat, pierced metal sculpture made from Wide to the Wind.

As Fine begins to move toward abstract expressionism, she seems to require a more limited palette to explore a greater freedom with her brush.

The near monochrome of Silver Night is matched with the greatest use of impasto in her early work. (One still detects a suggestion of a grid in the linear markings on the surface, like fingers in wet concrete.) In an ink sketch like Untitled (1957) she uses foil collage and bits of plastic overlay to modify her marks, a format similar to The Early Morning Garden in oils.

The violent brushwork in Summer I finally bursts into a freer use of color, perhaps inspired by the rolling, crashing surf that constitutes a forceful presence in the Hamptons. She modulates panels, spots and ribbons of blue to suggest alternations of surf and sky. One marvels at Fine’s subtlety and stealth in crafting wizardly effects with the gray and white folding and merging forms in Unfurling. The off-white of exposed, unprimed canvas provides a counterpoint to the predominant white paint, and even appears in meticulous, tiny lines. The woody brown background lifts and defines the forms in ways that she will make literal in the constructed relief surfaces of the later series on Masonite (such as Unequivocably Blue).

At the end, the exhibit makes an elegant summation.

By facing paintings from the end of Fine’s career with those from the beginning, we understand the prominence of the grid and the triumphant place it holds in her artistic practice. Her limited palette turns poetic with the use of gorgeous pastels and drawing strategies of such exceeding subtlety as to defy reproduction. One tries to verify the regularity of pattern in the large blue painting, The Far Side of a Thought, and fails. One marvels at the incredibly fine yellow and blue lines separating segments in A Woven Warmth (Accordment Series #3), only to be stunned at the discovery of one missing. These irregularities keep your eye moving, activating her surface and complicating her procedures.

In the quiet poise of the final works, one senses a marvelous resolution to an artistic sensibility—a stripping away of the distractions and noise of competing influences, leaving only the calm of solitude and the steady rhythm of the waves. 

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“Back to the Land” Benefit for the New Brown County History Center May 19, 2012

Jon Kay. courtesy photo

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ickets will soon be available for “Back to the Land,” a benefit concert for the new Brown County History Center. It will be a great night for lovers of American traditional folk music. The evening will be filled with talent, musical inspiration, and living history—with the emphasis on “living”—when these phenomenal performers come together.

Grey Larsen and Bob Lucas. courtesy photos

Jon Kay is a nationally known dulcimer-player, who began his musical journey singing a cappella hymns at church in southern Brown County. While in high school, he began playing guitar at the Daily Grind, a local coffeehouse. He learned banjo and dulcimer while working for an instrument builder in his hometown of Nashville, Indiana. An academically trained folklorist, Kay directed the Florida Folk Festival before returning to Indiana to work at Indiana University, where serves as the director of Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana’s state folk life program.

Brown County citizens and friends will recognize Dillon Bustin, the author of If You Don’t Outdie Me (Indiana University Press, 1983), a volume that has reached iconic places of distinction on coffee tables and family bookshelves. Bustin’s first

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album as a songwriter, Dillon Bustin’s Almanac (June Appal Recordings, 1983), chronicled the back-to-the land movement in southern Indiana during the 1970s. His most recent album for adults, recorded to benefit Musketaquid Arts and Environment Program at Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, is Willow of the Wilderness: Emersonian Songs (2003). He also wrote an introduction to The Lotus Dickey Songbook (Indiana University Press, 1996, 2005). He contributed entries on musical topics to the Encyclopedia of Appalachia (University of Tennessee Press, 2006). Currently he is an essayist for Wild Apples: A Journal of Nature, Art, and Inquiry, published in Harvard, Massachusetts. Bustin is also a wellknown filmmaker and playwright. His most recent publication is a children’s book based on one of the Tidebook songs. Thirty Dirty Sailors, and the Little Girl Who Went a-Whaling is illustrated by Susan Foltz (Vineyard Stories, 2007).

Playing with Bustin will be Grey Larsen and Bob Lucas. Grey Larsen is one of America’s finest players of the Irish flute and tin whistle, as well as an accomplished singer and concertina, fiddle, piano and harmonium player.

Bob Lucas is a songwriter, actor, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He has lived in Logan County, Ohio for the last 15 years working for the locally known as well as nationally famous Mad River Theater Works. While at Mad River he has written music for and performed in 25 original plays.

The concert will take place in the Brown County Playhouse in the center of Nashville at 7:30 p.m. on the evening of May 19. Tickets will be available at the Playhouse, the Brown County Visitors Center, and the Brown County Historical Society office at the Traditional Arts Building at 46 East Gould Street for a suggested donation of $25. For those who would like to meet the performers after the show and share refreshments, a special patron donation of $50 is being asked. For more information, phone the Brown County Historical Society at (812) 988-2899.  ~Julia Pearson

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he 28th Annual Arts Week Everywhere (AWE) is truly an arts month. Events begin with the kickoff party Sunday, April 1 and they just keep going—plays, concerts, dances, workshops, public art installations, a riotous springtime effervescence of all the beauty, skill, provocation, fun, quirkiness, innovation, community, reflection, and surprises from Bloomington’s diverse artists.

This year, the faces behind the scenes are new. For the first time, much of the organization and promotion is being done by a class of forty Arts Administration Students. Their goal is to make Arts Week Everywhere an experience that involves students.

Arts Weeks always features projects sponsored by IU grants—this year through the Office of the Provost. In the past, the Week has been themed and so the grant applications were tailored to that topic. This year, instead of focusing on content, the theme is about process.

On-campus events include “Why Are You Here?” an interactive public art project in Dunn Meadow put on

by Trained Eye Arts Collective, and “Reverse BUSking,” spontaneous performances of music, poetry, and movement on campus buses.

“The B-town arts community is so diverse in its media and content and interests, that what we’re trying to do is highlight that. So I think it’s great that we are not using a theme this year,” says Emily Hellmuth, one of the students on the Community Promotions team. She also mentions that one of the happy surprises of the experience has how eager the organizations are to help us.

It’s not a competitive arts scene here, it’s very collaborative.”

One of the kickoff events is a collaboration between the Henry Radford School of Fine Arts and the Jacobs School of Music, featuring 3-D animation projected onto the Sample Gates to live music.

Of course, a major goal is to increase student awareness. The smartphone

app developed by the social media team makes browsing for an interesting event easy. “We have over 70 events and keep adding them almost by the day,” says team member Jessica Reed.

Karyn McNay, a professional actress getting her degree to pursue theater administration, is on the campus promotion team. “Personally,” she says, “my life is so busy that I can’t usually plan more than a day in advance. And there is so much going on during Arts Week that it could be overwhelming. But with the mobile app, I can realize I have time tonight, and just grab my phone to look for an interesting event going on right then.”

Karyn’s team has focused on the kickoff event at the IU Art Museum, a mini-sampling of all that AWE has to offer, as well as raising awareness on campus. “It’s about interpromotion, so that whether you see a poster, a play, or a flashmob, you get the message that this is part of Arts Week. And Arts Week becomes the linking brand that amplifies everyone’s access and everyone’s exposure.”

From the arts community’s point of view, AWE experiences create a mutually supportive and collaborative environment. And from the individual point of view, one art experience opens a door to a wealth of others.

Comparing AWE to the Bloomington Area Arts District (BEAD), Karyn remarks that creating an Arts Week brand is

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like creating a virtual counterpart. “You don’t have to go on a quest to find Bloomington’s hidden treasures. We’ve laid them all out for you.”

AWE provides an access point and introduces you to other opportunities— it is a gateway to art.

Deb Kramer, who works for the Office of the Provost, explains the mission of AWE, “to have a festival, but also to give participants the tools to continue experiencing art in their lives and community.” She believes the student team ideas have enriched this year’s Arts Week Everywhere. And just as AWE itself is a mutually nourishing experience for community members, artists, and arts organizations, the experience of organizing it will benefit the students. Emily Hellmuth says, “besides connecting people here in Bloomington, experiencing art is something students will carry with in their future lives, and that’s something we want as Arts Administrators. As someone from a non-arts family, I’m very interested in what happens when those who don’t consider themselves ‘into the arts’ go to a play and have an opinion.”

People can be surprised. “Understanding how an event like this can be successful is really important to what we can do in the future….”

Arts Week 2012 will be full of new experiences for everyone. To begin discovering, visit <www.artsweek. indiana.edu>. ~Emma Young

Spring Blossom Arts Festival

he Spring Blossom Arts Festival committee invites you to participate in the 2012 juried art festival. The Spring Blossom Arts Festival will be held on Mothers Day weekend May 12 and 13, 2012. The event will be hosted by the Brown County Historical Society on State Rd. 135 North and East Gould Street in downtown Nashville. Nashville is a high traffic tourist destination, one of the top spots in the state of Indiana. The committee sincerely hopes you will join us in producing a quality art festival for the Village of Nashville.

Anyone wishing to participate can contact Pete Bullard for more information or to receive an application packet. Pete can be reached at: (812) 988-2899 or (812) 597-4932. Our new venue will limit us to 30- 35 participants.

Hours on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

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alleries and museums are great places to visit and enjoy pieces of art and craft. But nothing beats being able to see how these lovely works of art are actually created.

The Brown County Studio and Garden Tour will connect you with the creative source on June 22–24, 2012. If your interest is painting, pottery, glass, jewelry, or fiber, you will enjoy a closeup look at the process though studio demonstrations.

Now in the 14th season, there are nine open studios plus T.C. Steele State Historic Site, which serves as tour headquarters. Within those 10 stops, 23 artists will be displaying and demonstrating. Since most studios are less than 10 minutes apart, you can experience it all in one day, or take your time and talk to the artists, shop their studios, and maybe even take part in the process.

The tour covers the gamut of art and craft: painting (oil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic and mixed media); jewelry (precious metal, gemstone and wood);

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fiber (weaving, painted silk scarves, knitting and crochet); glass (lamp worked and fused); pottery (porcelain and stoneware); gourds (painted and pyrography); wood, metal and mosaics.

A new studio on the tour this year is metalworker Bradley Cox who has built a water-wheel feature at his Cox Creek Mill. Painter Anabel Hopkins rejoins the tour with guest artists Bev Chafey (watercolor) and Elizabeth Parrock (jewelry). Jeweler Amy Greely will be a guest at the Uncommon Gourd.

Other artists taking part in the tour this year are: Rosey Bolte, gourds; Chris Gustin, weaving; Douglas Runyan, oil painting and pastels; Amanda Mathis, acrylics; Ron Newton, copper and scrimshaw; Cheri and Dallas Platter, jewelry, lampwork beads and painted scarves; Connie Simmonds and Susan Threehawks, mosaics; Judy and Tom Prichard, pottery; Dick and Dixie Ferrer, mixed media, oil and acrylic paintings; Monique Cagle, painting, fiber and jewelry; Larry Spears, pottery; Joe, Peggy

and Sawyer Henderson, wood, jewelry and painted fabric.

Cheri Platter serves as the executive director for the tours and has participated in every event since the inception. “We get to talk to people who are interested in seeing the workings of our studios while we trade ideas on how items are formed. We sometimes get feedback from clients as to what they would like to see on our shelves— items that we haven’t thought of yet.

It’s a great experience for artists and the public.”

The studios are open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Brochures are available at the Visitors Center in downtown Nashville, many local businesses and restaurants, all of the participating studios, and map pickup sites throughout the county.

The tour website, <www.

BrownCountyStudioTour.com>, has informational pages for each of the artists, copies of the brochure to download, and information about patrons and map pickup sites.

Information on accommodations and dining can be found at the CVB website, <www.BrownCounty.com>.  ~Chris Gustin

Legally Blonde at the Brown County Playhouse

he venerable Brown County Playhouse has been through many changes in recent years. For more than 60 years IU ran a summer theater season in the building providing college theater majors with summer opportunities.

When IU announced that it was moving its program back to campus, things started to look a bit bleak for Brown County thespians and theater lovers.

Happily, the show goes on.

The Playhouse has a full Spring season of events, including several types of music, Steven Ragatz, pithy humor on surviving adult relationships with your parents from funny lady Polly Frost, and a new musical “The Breeze Bends the Grass” featuring local music stars Krista Detor and Lara Weaver.

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cherish the summer musical tradition will be the June production of the hit Broadway musical Legally Blonde, about a bubbly sorority sister who sets out to prove she’s “serious enough” to impress the law-student boyfriend who dumped her…and ends up proving that a girl really can have it all.

Chad Rabinovitz, the guest director, enthuses “This production is going to be a ton of fun. The first time I saw this musical, I wasn’t expecting much. Most movie-to-Broadway productions just aren’t that strong. So I left amazed by how great and infectious it is.” Rabinovitz brainstormed with Brown County Playhouse head of programming Jeff McCabe to select a musical that would be equally fun and fresh for local kids to perform and audiences to enjoy.

Rabinovitz is also the Artistic Director of Bloomington Playwrights Project, devoted exclusively to new work.

Open auditions will fill the cast with students from area schools—”it’s a musical with many really strong female roles,” notes the director—and local musicians will provide the live orchestra.

And the bottom line? The show keep the local tradition alive and thriving for a new generation while giving audiences something new. Says Rabinovitz: “To me, the most important thing, ultimately, is keeping the Brown County Playhouse as a place where theater happens.”

Visit <www.browncountyplayhouse. org> for the casting call announcement, as well as details, times, and tickets for all Playhouse shows.  ~Emma Young

Indiana Limestone Symposium June 3–23, 2012

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h, limestone, Indiana’s signature building material.

Limestone has been a favorite medium of architects and artists since the time of the pharaohs, and with good reason. It is plentiful; it is relatively easy to quarry; it is a dream to carve; its dust is nontoxic. (Limestone is mostly calcium carbonate. So is a Tums.)

Here in southern Indiana, we’re surrounded by the stuff. That stone on the Empire State Building?

Quarried right here. Likewise that of the Pentagon, the National Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, the Flatiron Building, and a whole bunch of state capitols around the country.

In fact, some of the finest limestone in the world lies in a narrow 30-mile band from Bedford to Bloomington to Ellettsville. And every June, sculptors from around the country converge on the grounds of Bybee Stone Company in Ellettsville to explore the artistic possibilities of this versatile stone.

Bloomington sculptor Amy Brier, who co-founded the annual Indiana Limestone Symposium, puts it this way: “Indiana limestone

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is so easy to carve—it’s like butter!”

The Limestone Symposium is based on a simple premise: Anyone can carve limestone, and everyone should have the chance to try.

Beginners are welcome, even if they have never picked up a hammer and chisel before. “Along with our experienced stone

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carvers, we’ve had potters, jewelers, watercolorists, woodcarvers, writers, you name it,” says Sharon Fullingim, a New Mexico sculptor who has attended the symposium since 2000 and who will direct the symposium this year. “Not to mention doctors, business people, stonemasons, corrections officers, teachers, scientists, and musicians. All you need is some curiosity and a willingness to get a little dusty.”

Instructors at the symposium— professional sculptors like Sharon— show beginners the basics, answer questions, and give advice. The curious can try their hand for $50 a day. Loaner tools and roughly a cubic foot of stone are included. Kids aged 10–17 are also welcome; they work on a smaller stone.

“It’s a whole lot of fun,” says Brier, “no matter what your age. You get to bang on a rock and make some gravel, and when you’re done, voila!

You’ve made some art to take home with you.”

The more adventurous can sign up for a full week of carving for $800; that price includes up to 8 cubic feet (1,200 pounds!) of stone. Creativity, camaraderie, change of routine: It’s like summer camp for adults!

The 2012 Indiana Limestone Symposium runs from June 3–23. To learn more, or to sign up, visit <www. limestonesymposium.org>.  ~Bill Holladay

Arts Fair on the Square also includes interactive arts activities for children and entertainment from loomington’s 32nd Arts Fair on the Square will local artists for the whole family. The event runs in be held June 23, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on conjunction with the Taste of Bloomington which the picturesque grounds surrounding the Monroe offers sampling opportunities from over 35 local and County Courthouse. The Bloomington Playwrights regional restaurants, special music and children’s Project organizes the event, bringing visual artists activities. Together Arts Fair on the Square and Taste of and craftspeople together with the local and Bloomington draw thousands of visitors to downtown regional buying community. This juried art show Bloomington. features over 60 regional and national artists. The Arts Fair on the Square features artists from a wide mission of Arts Fair on the Square is to showcase variety of media including painting, woodworking, fine art and craft of the highest quality, to connect photography, metal, jewelry. There will be music and artists with the art-buying community, and to dance performances throughout the day. Visit <www. promote commitment to the arts through a variety artsfair.org> for more event information and artist of interactive arts experiences. applications. 

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BROWN COUNTY:

Brown County Art Gallery

April 1 Victorian Tea Village Art Walk April 1-June 2: Spring Exhibit Second Saturdays April–December April featuring Thelma Frame 5 to 8 pm. 11 participating galleries.

April 14-29 Mabel B. Annis Student Art Many restaurant discounts and add-ons to Exhibit, Reception April 15, 2-3 Art Walk patrons May featuring Sharon Steiner www.villageartwalk.com May 12-20 Foundation Patron Show (812) 340-8781 June 9-23 IHA Show and Sale Artist Dr. and Main St. in Nashville, IN Spring Blossom Art Festival Info (812) 988-4609 May 12-13 in downtown Nashville www.browncountyartgallery.org Next to Traditional Arts Building at N. Van Buren and Gould Streets T.C. Steele State Historic Site Sunday Hiking Series: The Birds and the Trees for Nature Lovers. Interpreter-lead Benefit for Brown County History Center trail hikes will take place from 1-3 on May 19, Brown County Playhouse, 7:30 the first Sunday of April, May and June.

The hikes will be $3 per person and will “The Breeze Bends the Grass” include a reception with snacks and a Fundraiser for Brown County Art Guild historic buildings tour after the hike.

May 25, 26 at Brown County Playhouse April 27-29 Wildflower Foray featuring the music of Krista Detor May 19 Festival of Flowers PaintOut T.C. Steele SHS located in Belmont Indiana Heritage Arts Show Register (812) 988-2785 June 9-23,Brown County Art Gallery in tcsteeleshs@indianamuseum.org Nashville www.indianaheritagearts.org Ferrer Gallery Village Art Walks Second Saturdays Brown County April:“Painting into the Future” Studio and Garden Tour Dick Ferrer exhibiting latest paintings June 22-24 including landscapes of Brown County.

Fri. and Sat. 9 am-6 pm, Sun. 10 am-5 pm Having retired in January he is now painting everyday in his studio at Ferrer www.BrownCountyStudioTour.com Gallery and on location. After commuting five days a week for the last 14 years he Brown County Art Guild is thrilled to spend his time doing what April 1-28 Sally Kriner Retrospective brings him joy. Come celebrate Dick’s new Reception April 14, 5-8 May 25, 26 “The Breeze Bends the Grass” art works during the reception April 14, Fundraiser at The Brown County Playhouse 5-8.

June: Dick and Dixie Ferrer guest artists at Reception at Guild on opening night Oak Grove Pottery during the Studio Tour 48 S. Van Buren Street Nashville, IN 61 W. Main St., Village Green Building (812) 988-6185 2nd level. Ferrer Gallery represents local, www.browncountyartguild.org regional and national artists.

(812) 988-1994 ddferrer@att.net www.ferrergallery.com

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BLOOMINGTON:

Arts Week Everywhere Starting April 1. Fun experiences involving IU students. Over 70 events planned including interactive public art, plays, concerts, workshops, music. www.artsweek.indiana.edu

Bloomington Handmade Market April 7, 10-5, Bloomington Convention Center at 302 S. College www.BloomingtonHandmadeMarket.com

Open Studios Tour June 1-3, 5 to 8 on Fri., 10 to 4 Sat., Sun.

Limestone Symposium June 3-23, Series of outdoor stone carving workshops held at Bybee Stone Company. Instruction offered in styles and techniques by master carvers. www.limestonesymposium.org amy@limestonesymposium.org

The Bloomington Playwrights Project’s Arts Fair on the Square June 23, 10-6, Monroe County Courthouse in conjunction with Taste of Bloomington www.artsfair.org

Gallery Walk Downtown www.visitbloomington.com or www.gallerywalkbloomington.com Stroll any time of the year!

Special receptions [First Fridays] from 5-8 pm at the following:

By Hand Gallery

APRIL 3-29: Tim Shown…Utilizes Natures Warm and Sensually Figurative Woods to Create Fine Furniture and Accessories.

Reception April 6, 5-8 MAY 2-27: Wooden heads by Dale DeLong with a carving demonstration on May 4, 5-8

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JUNE 1-30: New Works by Illustrator Bonnie Gordon-Lucas. Reception, June 1, 5-8 #109 Fountain Square Mall Hours: Mon-Sat, 10-5:30 101 W. Kirkwood Ave. (812) 334-3255 www.byhandgallery.com

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The Wicks Building 116 W. 6th St. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9-6 First Fri. 9-8, Sat. 11-6 I(812) 333-0536 www.spectrumstudioinc.com

Gallery Group 109 E 6th St, 47408 (812) 334-9700

Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center Galleries APRIL:Martin Beach, sculpture & Lynne Medsker, photography Sarah Wilson, photography Ivy Tech ARTS Students, Spring Show Ivy Tech Student Volunteers in Guatemala, photo exhibit MAY:Benjamin Pines, painting Yang Chen, photography Angela Hendrix-Petry, photography Nate Johnson, painting JUNE: Chris Toalson, photography John Shearer, multi-media exhibit in conjunction with Brain Extravaganza Ivy Tech Center for Lifelong Learning, group show 122 S. Walnut St. Corner of 4th and Walnut Open seven days a week 9-7 (812) 330-4400 www.ivytech.edu/bloomington/waldron

pictura gallery

April 6-May 26:“Tiksi” by photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva, whose series documents her childhood home in Siberia before economic stress forces residents to abandon it.

June 1-July 28: Work by photographer Ayumi Tanaka. Opening is June 1, 5-8.

122 W. 6th St. (812) 336-0000 Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7 www.picturagallery.com

Sublime Design Gallery & Gifts

April 6 Gallery Walk: Fantabulous Fabric Designs–All local artists,wall art, jewelry, rugs, stuffed animals, baskets, throws, aprons. Up until May 31.

May 4, 5-8 Opening for “A night of a 100 Brains” (Brains designed by local school children K-12) Fantabulous Fabric Designs still up June 1 Gallery Walk, 5-8 Local Artist Showcase by Mark and Carol Hedin. Fine woodworking by Mark Hedin.

Including Clocks, Tables, Picture Frames, Shelves. Fine art tables, Lamps, Picture frames, and Light switch plates by Carol Hedin.

514 W. Kirkwood Ave. Hours: Tues.-Sat.11-7, Sun. 12-5 (812) 335-3524 www.mysublimedesign.com

Farmers Market June-Sept., 9 to Noon

Columbus Learning Center Jan. 16-May 11: Christopher Jordan Exhibit Landscape and nature photography May 15-Aug. 30: Columbus Viewfinders Photography Club

HOPE:

1st Annual Hope Art Fair on the Square May 18-19, Town Square Hope, IN www.hopeartguild.com

SEYMOUR:

Southern Indiana Center for the Arts The Venue, Fine Arts & Gifts Southern Indiana Festival of Now thru April 12: Artistic creations, in Wine and Brews wood, by James Alexander Thom, Max Monts, and Roger Kugler.

April 3, 6:30 Concert by violinist Brendan Shea 114 S. Grant. St. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7, Sun. 12-5 (812) 339-4200 www.TheVenueBloomington.com

June 16, 2-7 Wine and craft beer tastint, music.

Open Tues.-Fri. noon to 5; Sat. 11 to 3 Free Just three miles from the SeymourJonesville exit off I-65 on Highway 11 (812) 522-2278 www.soinart.com

IU Art Museum

MARTINSVILLE:

Now–May 27: Tranquil Power: The Art of Perle Fine Now-May 6: MFA Student Exhibits 1133 E. 7th Street on the campus of IU (812) 855-5445 iuam@indiana.edu www.artmuseum.iu.edu

COLUMBUS:

Yes-Fest Yes Film Festival May 18-20 at Yes Cinema

Taste of Columbus May 19, Upper Level at the Commons 5:30 to 9. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at restaurants, Viewpoint Books, and at the door. Must be 21.

Art Sanctuary

2nd Friday Open Studio Night 6-9 New—“A Different Kind of Show” Instead of a judge, the artists themselves will choose who receives the awards. Any artist 18 years of age and older no matter what medium is eligible—all media. Best of Show, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards.

Entry April 9,10, in the main gallery 10-7 April 13, 6-9 Show Opening Info Linda Barrett (765) 349-2894; cell (765)346-4944 and Sandra Gray, Studio (765) 342-8807 www.artsanctuaryindiana.com

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ROBERT N. ANDERSON Stillframes Photography and Imaging 810 Brown Street Suite A Columbus, IN 47201 (812) 372-0762 / 866-221-2939 www.stillframesoncanvas.com banderson@stillframes.com

BARB BROOKE DAVIS Vintage Textile Artist Pillows, framed wall art, table runners, personal accessories, scarves, pins, one-of-a-kind/original over-dyed felted wool decorative accessories 61 W. Main St. in Ferrer Gallery (812) 360-0478 www.ferrergallery.com

RUTH CONWAY Wood Fired pottery Available at By Hand Gallery 101 West Kirkwood # 109 Fountain Square Mall Bloomington, IN 47404 (812) 334-3255 www.byhandgallery.com

BARB BONCHEK Dizzy Art Geo motion designs drawn free hand in pen and ink. Originals, prints, cards, custom designs. New to Dizzy Art— custom tables with hand drawn designs and a durable epoxy finish. Each table one of a kind. Available at Venue Gallery for Fine Art and Gifts in Bloomington, IN www.thevenuebloomington.com, and Hoosier Artist Gallery in Nashville, www.hoosierartist.net Contact Barb at bbonchek@gmail.com, (812) 876-1907 9817 N. Black Dog Ln Solsberry, IN 47459 www.dizzyart.com

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AMY GREELY Amy Greely Studio Creative Metalwear Fun, lightweight earrings fabricated PATRICIA C. COLEMAN with a variety of metals, enhanced with Paintings, Botanical Dye, UpCycle, Resist Painted Fabric Arts, Mixed Media, Pillows, gemstones, crystals, pearls, and patinas.

Dolls, Poetry, Reconnective Healing, Reiki, Available at New Leaf in Nashville, IN ~ An Indiana Artisan ~ Quilter’s Comfort Teas, Tea Jelly and Tea Syrup. Private or Small Group Classes. amy@amygreely.com www.amygreely.com Work inVenue, By Hand Gallery and (812) 988-1058 Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café 725 West Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN (812) 334-8155 http://www.hartrock.net/cafe

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CHRIS GUSTIN Homestead Weaving Studio Handwoven “Recycled Rugs,” clothing, household items. Yarn, looms, spinning wheels, supplies for every fiber fanatic. ~ An Indiana Artisan ~ 6285 Hamilton Creek Rd., Columbus, IN 47201 Southeastern Brown County (812) 988-8622 Studio open 11 - 5 most days.

Also available at Brown County Craft Gallery, Nashville, IN chris@homesteadweaver.com www.homesteadweaver.com

DICK FERRER Paintings on Canvas Landscapes of Southern Indiana, wildlife, coastal, and plein aire paintings in his unique style. Works represented by Ferrer Gallery in Nashville, Indiana. 61 W. Main St. and Hoosier Salon Gallery, Indianapolis, IN. www.ferrergallery.com ddferrer@att.net (812) 988-1994

DIXIE FERRER Mixed Media Collage Classes Available Artist exploring the combination of painting, mixed media and collage.

Classes available by appointment Works represented by Ferrer Gallery, Nashville, Indiana, 61 W. Main St. 2nd level and Hoosier Salon, Indianapolis, Indiana www.ferrergallery.com ddferrer@att.net (812) 988-1994

DAVID GAHIMER Turnings from Antiquity Turned and decorated items in the designs of the Classic Greeks and Mediterranean Artisans of Antiquity.

Available at Gallery North Nashville, IN on Old School Way Dave @ (765) 592-3723 cell

JOAN HAAB Country Mouse Weaving Studio Hand woven chenille designer garments 7965 Rinnie Seitz Road Nashville, IN 47448 Also available at Brown County Craft Gallery and Spears Gallery in Nashville, IN (812) 988-7920

CATHY HAGGERTY Painting Instruction Painting lessons for individuals or small groups (812) 988-4091 cathyscorner@att.net 39 E. Franklin St. in Nashville, IN (next to train)

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PAUL HAYES Pottery Original, functional pottery in stoneware and porcelain. Hand crafted in Nashville, Indiana.

Available at The Clay Purl (claypurl.com) 90 West Franklin St. Nashville, IN 47448 (812) 988-0336 pguitar87@gmail.com

Inner Self. Join us for a powerful and fascinating learning experience as you create your own personal deck of cards. Delightful and amazing!

Workshops, retreats, classes, and individual coaching. www.artandspiritstudio.com ANABEL HOPKINS Landscapes in pastel and oil slj41@earthlink.net Also Abstract Expressionism (812) 343-5285 or (812) 988-0597 Lessons at Les Nympheas Studio in rural Brown County (812) 340-8781 Art available at: Hoosier Artist Gallery, Nashville, IN Hoosier Salon Gallery, Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, IN (812) 988-6888 www.anabelhopkins.com anahoppy@hughes.net

JUSTIN THE ARTISTIC HORSE AND ADONNA COMBS Contemporary Paintings RUTH HAYES Pen & Ink , Mixed Media 4116 White Rd. Spencer, IN 47460 (812) 322-6215 www.ruthsartwork.wordpress.com ruthhayes53@hotmail.com Pen and ink with color overlay of architectural subjects. Custom portraits of homes and businesses.

Studio in rural Western Monroe County.

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“Women Connected”

SHARON JUNGCLAUS GOULD–Trained SoulCollage® Facilitator “ Discover your Wisdom, Change your World with SoulCollage®” SoulCollage® is an intuitive, visual process for the discovery of your creative

This talented painter is a horse. Justin expresses himself through color and varying brush strokes—bold, confident, and playful. Each painting is a unique expression of Justin’s equine energy and is signed with his signature hoof print.

Exhibit “Straight From The Horses Mouth” Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, Seymour, IN June 1-31, 2012 Flying Colours Studio, Columbus, Indiana by Appointment www.artistichorses.com (812) 216-5516 Adonna@artistichorses.com

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NORTHWOOD LINDA KNUDSEN Fiber Artist Available at By Hand Gallery 101 West Kirkwood # 109 Fountain Square Mall Bloomington, IN 47404 (812) 334-3255 www.byhandgallery.com

ANNE RYAN MILLER Glass & Metal Overlay Open Daily. Call for Hours P.O. Box 566 Nashville, IN 47448 Member of Hoosier Artist Gallery in Nashville, IN (812) 988-9766 (812) 325-7485 (cell) www.AnneRyanMillerGlassStudio.com

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Paintings A journey through neo-abstract expressionism as well as contemporary impressionism with a touch of mystery As seen at Gallery North Nashville Carol Clendening www.carolclendening.com interiorscc@aol.com (812) 825-1803

ELIZABETH O’REAR Fine Artist Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor— Animals, Still life, Landscapes Visit Elizabeth O’Rear Studio/Gallery 8850 SR 135 S in Southern Brown County (812) 988-1090 (812) 390-7216 on line at www.elizabeth-orear.com and Brown County Art Gallery, Nashville, IN

WALT SCHMIDT BETTY WESTHUES Hickory Tree Studio & Country Loom Functional stoneware pottery, blacksmithing, furniture, colorful recycled rag rugs, tapestries, socks and paintings Also: By Hand Gallery-Bloomington, IN and Brown Co. Craft Gallery-Nashville, IN Local Clay Guild Show every November in Bloomington, IN 5745 N. Murat Rd. Bloomington, IN 47408 (812) 332-9004 hickorytreestudio@att.net www.hickorytreestudio.com

LARRY SPEARS Spears Gallery Porcelain and Stoneware Hours: Open daily from 10 to 5 5110 St. Rd. 135 S. Nashville, IN 47448 Located just 10 miles southeast of Nashville, IN, and just beyond the Horseman’s Camp entrance to Brown County State Park, on scenic Indiana State Highway 135 South (812) 988-1287 spearspottery@sprynet.com www.spearsgallery.com Continued on next page

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SUE WESTHUES Mixed Media Gourd Art

Martinsville Artists

PAM HURST Pam Hurst Designs Artisan Jewelry Designer Metals, Gems and Fun. Custom Fine Silver Fingerprint Charms. Workshops and private sessions available, see website for details.

Studio 203 at Art Sanctuary 190 N. Sycamore St. Martinsville, IN 46161 (317) 459-3581 www.pamhurst.com pamalahurst@yahoo.com

A wide variety of functional and decorative items created by combining gourds with other media. Available at: Brown Co. Craft Gallery, Nashville, IN Weed Patch Music Co., Nashville, IN Ferrer Gallery, Nashville, IN

By Hand Gallery, Bloomington, IN Sue Westhues P.O. Box 1786 Bloomington, IN 47402 (812) 876-3099

SARAH A. (SALLY) HEDGES Fine Art, Murals Face painting

LAURIE WRIGHT Printmaker Laurie Wright Studio 810 Brown Street Suite A Columbus, Indiana 47201 (812) 343-3209 By appointment or by chance www.lauriewright.com

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Gallery at Boondoggle Barn Winery (The Green Barn) 2667 Burton Lane Martinsville, IN 46151 (765) 792-0328 Indystar3@comcast.net

ANN LANKFORD Gourd Artist Homestead Primitives co-owner Debbie Myers Antiques and Rug Hooking Gourd painting workshops Rug hooking supplies and Classes Hooking group meets 10 to 12 Saturday —All levels welcome 28 N Main St inside Berries and Ivy Country Store On the Westside Courthouse Square Open 6 days a week Martinsville, IN 46151 (765) 342-8097 www.homesteaddesigngourds.com

T.C. Steele Festival of Flowers Paint Out May 19, 2012

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rtists and art lovers of all ages are invited to enjoy the Festival of Flowers Paint Out at the T.C. Steele Historic Site in Brown County on Saturday, May 19, 2012.

The event will feature artists painting on the site grounds from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., followed by display and judging of completed artwork. The public is invited to watch artists at work and enjoy a day of relaxation and fun. An outdoor concert will begin at 1 p.m., and Artist in Residence John Bradley will present an afternoon demonstration. The event is free of charge to the general public, but a $1 parking donation is suggested.

Participating artists must preregister and pay a fee. First-place winning artwork created during the Festival of Flowers Paint Out will be displayed in T.C. Steele’s Large Studio for thirty days following the event, for all to enjoy.

The Festival of Flowers Paint Out provides a unique insight into the methods of T.C. Steele, an artist inspired by his natural surroundings. Artists will work much as Steele did - outside, in the open air. Artists and visitors who come to enjoy the Festival of Flowers Paint Out will be able to enjoy the artistry of two famous

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Steeles. While T.C. Steele occupied his time painting the landscape around him, Selma Neubacher Steele was creating her own “landscapes.” Selma’s gardens in May are a dazzling display of peonies, irises and foxgloves massed in garden beds and naturalized across the hillsides.

Guided tours of Steele’s studio and historic home, the “House of the Singing Winds” will be available throughout the day for an admission fee. In addition to the art contest, nature lovers can experience the serenity of the Steele estate by strolling flower gardens, winding trails and the nature preserve. Boxed lunches will be available for purchase for your own picnic in the garden.

The Festival of Flowers Paint Out is co-sponsored by the Friends of T. C. Steele.

T.C. Steele State Historic Site is located on Hwy 46 just west of Nashville in the heart of artistic Brown County. The home, studio and gardens of this noted Hoosier artist still provide inspiration today through site tours, outdoor painting competitions, and artist-in-residence programs. For more information, call 812.988.2785 or visit <www. indianamuseum.org/tc_steele>.  ~Andrea deTarnowsky

June 1–3, 2012

allery Walk Group and the Greater Bloomington Arts Alliance’s Visual Arts Guild United Enterprises (VAGUE) present an arts weekend like no other!

The weekend will begin Friday evening, June 1, with the Downtown Bloomington Gallery Walk. Galleries located in the Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) will be open 5 to 8 p.m. (some later) featuring new exhibits, and the usual hospitality, food, refreshments, etc. On Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3, a new Bloomington tradition begins: Visual artists throughout the city and county will open their art studios to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each day. Art lovers will have many colorful opportunities, not only to meet artists and acquire artworks, but also to get a rare, intimate look at works in progress and experience the creative storm that precedes what we normally see in galleries and shops. Many artists will offer demonstrations or be working on new pieces, and some will host kid-friendly art space. Organizer Marcy Neidetz, a ceramicist, plans to be working on new sculptural pieces, while setting out chalk so visitors can decorate her cement patio and update the decoration on her graffiti-mural retaining wall.

Altogether, the tour will include twenty or more individual artists’ studios, plus multiple artists showing in a number of collective art studios: Trained Eye, Bloomington Print Collective, Blue Studio, and Textillery Weavers. Artists from the county will also be opening their doors.

“What’s particularly exciting is that this is really open,” says Neidetz, who together with painter Sarah Pearce has been working hard to make this vision a reality. “There are a lot of events in Bloomington that are medium- or

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fter nine years on the Bloomington square, Gallery North has found a new location in Nashville, IN. They closed the doors of the Bloomington gallery on January 28 and opened in their new location in the Main Street Shoppes Complex on Old School Way in March.

The artists’ co-operative had considered moving for some time. When a suitable location became available across from the courthouse in downtown Nashville, and this coincided with the expiration of their Bloomington lease, the co-op eagerly made the move, even though the relocation has required some reorganization.

Their membership roster currently consists of 10 artists, down from 17.

Several of their artists already had gallery representation in Nashville and so declined to make the move with the co-op. They hope and expect to build membership back up to 20 or so artists in an area famous for its thriving arts community. This community is backed and supported by an avid audience of buyers, collectors and visitors. “Traffic has been great in Nashville,” said

member artist Tom Duffy, who sells his photographs in the gallery. “A weekday is busier in Nashville than a Saturday in Bloomington.”

Contrary to Bloomington and its university schedule (where the town empties out in the summer), for Gallery North in Nashville business picks up in mid-April, stays strong through the summer and peaks in October and November. Duffy said that the member artists who man the gallery through the summer can usually handle the store with a single person, but the gallery will add personnel and extend their hours from mid-September to November (when they plan to be open 10 am to 6 pm, Wednesday through Monday, instead of 5 pm).

Gallery North will continue their schedule of changing out shows every two months. Duffy said the group was in discussions about how to portion out the schedule for individual shows. The members are all excited to be joining in the rich history and creative ferment in one of Indiana’s premier centers for the arts.  ~Tom Rhea

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rt Alliance Brown County and the Brown County Historical Society are pairing up to create a series of murals depicting significant moments in Brown County’s history.

After recently purchasing the parking lot on the northeast corner of Van Buren and Gould Streets, the Historical Society decided it would be a perfect place to install some public art. Art Alliance agreed, and the two groups are planning to install nine mural panels, each 4 feet x 8 feet in size and created by a different local or regional artist. The panels will be mounted high up on the back wall of the parking lot, so they will remain visible even if the lot is full of cars.

The groups have applied to the Indiana Arts Commission for a matching funds grant, to be used to purchase materials and pay artist stipends.

“The goal is to pay artists $500 per panel,” said Art Alliance president Anabel Hopkins. “Artists in Brown County have been very generous in the past, in giving of their time and artwork to great local causes. It will be great to compensate them for their work this time.”

Starting in April, the Brown County Public Art Committee, a group started

by Art Alliance and comprised of local artists, government representatives, and businesspeople, will meet with Historical Society representatives to create a list of moments in Brown County History that would make great murals. In May, a meeting will allow interested artists to look at Historical Society photos and documents and discuss possible mural subject matter.

Over the summer, a call for proposals will be published, and interested artists

will submit sketches of their proposed panels. There is no restriction on style or medium, as long as the panel can be hung outdoors. A jury of historians, artists and art devotees will choose artists based on the artistic and historical merit of their proposals.

Artists will be provided prepared signboard on which to create their panel, and will be able to work in their own studio or home to complete the panels over the winter of 2012–2013.

“The panels will be unveiled at the Spring Blossom Arts Festival in May of 2013,” said Anabel Hopkins. “The Historical Society now runs this art fair, which will be held in the very parking lot where the mural will be installed.”

Anyone interested in working on the Public Art Committee that will coordinate this project can contact Michele Pollock at michelepollock@gmail.com .  ~Michele Pollock

TOUR continued from 41 guild-specific. This will be something that is open…to anyone who is a visual artist.” This interest in an inclusive event grows out of discussions by VAGUE, a group that initially formed to help unite artists. “What was Bloomington missing?” members asked.

Open Studio Tours have been extremely successful in other towns, such as Boulder, Colorado offering a community experience that is tons of lively fun, great for networking and education, and economically beneficial.

Miah Michaelsen, Assistant Economic Development Director for the Arts, saw potential and encouraged the Open Studio idea. VAGUE and the Gallery Walk Group have consequently partnered with the Visitors Bureau, which is planning on offering special hotel packages for outof-town guests, late-night arts activities at the convention center, and possibly a bike tour opportunity for the studios in the downtown area.

After lots of hard work, Neidetz says the word of mouth is stirring up excitement! So save the dates, check www.bloomingtonvague.com for more announcements, and look forward to the inauguration of uniquely beautiful summer weekend experience.  ~Emma Young

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101 W Kirkwood Ave #109 Fountain Square Mall [812] 334-3255 byhandgallery.com byhandbloomington@gmail.com PHoTo I jESSICA BAISDEn

Located inside Fountain Square Mall, By Hand Gallery is a 30 year young fine crafts cooperative showing the work of local, regional and national artists. We feature jewelry, pottery, knitting, weaving, wood, glass, photography, paintings and more.

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116 W 6th St [812] 333-0536 gallery406.com

Seven days a week, 9-7 Summers: Mon–Sat 9-7

Five traditional art galleries located in a beautiful Beaux Arts historic setting, plus a large-scale projection gallery for video art and sound. To receive monthly show announcements & calls for submissions, email jroberts51@ivytech.edu.

Spectrum Studio of Photography & Design Inside the Wicks Building

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Tues–Sat. 11-7, Sun 12-5 Sublime Design is a fine art gallery and teaching space. We offer classes by local artists, children’s art classes, and children’s birthday parties. Carol Hedin, owner and artist specializes in custom epoxy tables and stained glass. The gallery highlights new artists and has special events every month. In addition to the gallery, the back room displays vintage furniture, jewelry, and art.

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122 W 6th St [812] 336-0000 picturagallery.com

gallery406 showcases local and regional artists focusing on, but not limited to, photography. The gallery features the work of Kendall Reeves with additional artists rotating every two months.

Located on the courthouse square at the corner of 6th and College, pictura gallery specializes in fine photographic art. Exhibits showcase work by acclaimed local, national and international artists. Styles range from contemporary to traditional.

S. BILLIE MAnDLE

The Venue, Fine Arts & Gifts 114 S Grant St [812] 339-4200 TheVenueBloomington.com Venue.Colman@gmail.com

Tues-Sat 11-7

Mon–Fri 9-6, First Fridays 9-8, Sat 11-6

Sublime Design Gallery and Gifts 514 W Kirkwood Ave [812] 335-3524 mysublimedesign.com carolsublimedesign@yahoo.com

122 S Walnut St [812] 330-4400 ivytech.edu/waldron

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Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center Galleries

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The venue brings you original, award winning oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, and limited edition prints from acclaimed local, regional, national, and international artists. Also showcased is a wide array of uniquely crafted jewelry, pottery, glass, and metal/mineral sculpture.

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blueline creative co-op and gallery 224 N College Ave

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[812] 589-7377

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Tues–Fri 12-6, Sat 12-4

El Norteño Gallery 206 N Walnut St [812] 333-9591 elnortenorestaurant.com Mon–Thurs 11-10, Fri–Sat 11-10:30, Sun 11-9

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Gallery Group 109 E 6th St

[812] 334-9700

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Mon–Fri 9-5

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