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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.

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his 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.

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or 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.

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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 postmodern 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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Elder Heart

Veterans Healing Veterans through Public Art “At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer...”

—Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

~by Lee Edgren

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Magnus Johnson and Jim Connor welding steel for a sculpture. photo by Sara Dawdy

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hen 32-year-old former Green Beret Magnus Johnson left the Army’s Special Forces a little over a year ago, he had a passionate desire to do something to reduce the suicide rate among veterans and a passionate desire to be on the side of creation for a while.

The life he was looking forward to after his eight years in the service, which included one tour of duty in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, did not immediately occur.

He suffered severe headaches, depression, apathy, and isolation. His own healing path led him to Brown County and to learning the art of sculptural steel and stone from Nashville-based artist James Connor.

To come out of his isolation, Johnson began to hang out at Muddy Boots Cafe, slowly befriended Connor, and began helping him with his work. Johnson’s hours of discussion with Connor, more hours of discussion with his military mentor Tom Spooner, and his reading of The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell and War and the Soul by Edward Tick, Ph.D., led to his creation of Elder Heart.

Elder Heart treasurer and former Green Beret Mike Kissel. photo by Sara Dawdy

While Elder Heart is most easily characterized as veterans helping veterans to heal from the effects of war through the creation of public art, the vision is definitely more complex. More about that a little later.

Meanwhile, Nashville artists, involved citizens, and the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau had collaborated to pursue becoming one of the state’s five named cultural districts, an honor they won in December, 2012. The Nashville Arts and Entertainment Commission (NAEC) came into being to guide the development of the district, including the selection and placement of public art.

A consultant to the NAEC created a leaf-themed symbolic identity for Nashville. The centerpiece of the theme was an approximately 20-foot-tall steel sculpture of sycamore leaves swirled upward by the wind that would rise at the heart of town.

Last March, Connor, an integral part of Elder Heart, approached Tom Leaf sculpture model for the Town of Nashville.

Tuley, current president of the NAEC, about taking on the project of building the sculpture.

Tuley, who is both an artist and a former newspaper editor, knows a compelling story when he hears one. “This may be nationally significant. It’s quite an ambition to want to heal veterans through public art. I don’t know of anything else like it.” In June, 2013 the NAEC recommended Elder Heart to begin working on the construction of the sculpture.

The Nashville Town Council immediately approved the recommendation.

According to Johnson, both “elder” and “heart” have resonate meanings. At the time of the civil war, what is now referred to as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was known as “soldier’s heart.” One of the symptoms is a feeling of absolute isolation.

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20 Years of Community Radio

WFHB founders. courtesy photos

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~by Laura Gleason

FHB, Bloomington’s community radio station, has been on the air for 20 years, and much has changed, but not the spirit of the organization, which remains deeply embedded in the culture of Bloomington.

“Bloomington’s such an awesome place, and what it comes down to is that we’re just a reflection of the community we’re a part of,” said Jim Manion, the station’s music director, who has been involved since the early days.

The concept behind WFHB started coming together in 1975, when local radio enthusiasts Jeffrey Morris (who remains the station’s chief engineer to this day) and Mark Hood attended a radio conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

When they returned home, organizational meetings were held, and an enthusiastic group began the process of applying for a radio license from the Federal Communications Commission.

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Spot the Firehouse Dog and mascot.

This proved to be an arduous 18-year process, but at long last the license was obtained. The station went on the air on January 4, 1993.

“It’s just a marvelous feeling for me to wake up and realize that WFHB has been on the air for 20 years,” Manion said.

Before relocating to its present home in the old firehouse on 4th Street in 1994, the station was based in the cinder block shack where the

transmission tower is located, out on Rockport Road.

Day after day, the 30+ volunteers drove 11 miles out of town to get to the station with their own vinyl and cassettes, staying for two and three hour shifts.

“Jim claims that the volunteers in the first year collectively drove 30,000 miles,” said Chad Carrothers, general manager for the last two and a half years.

Compare that with today, when the radio station has six paid staff (three full-time) and more than 180 regular volunteers. The station has expanded to include three more translators in addition to 91.3, its main frequency (98.1 FM Bloomington, 100.7 FM Nashville, and 106.3 FM Ellettsville). The shows are put together by a diverse group of volunteers.

“It’s a motley crew,” Carrothers said.

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Events have been taking place each month in celebration of the station’s 20th anniversary. “It’s a big party all year. We’re trying to do one big event every month,” Carrothers said.

Manion is especially excited about the upcoming local production of the radio show eTown, a music and news show which is normally based in Boulder, Colorado, but which occasionally goes on the road. The event will take place at the Buskirk Chumley on September 26, during Lotus Festival.

“The resulting program, will air on more than 300 radio stations, will put the spotlight on Lotus and Bloomington in general, and WFHB,” Manion said.

One adjustment WFHB is going through this year is the departure of Carrothers, who, after 14 years of involvement with the station, is moving to Seattle.

“It calls me,” Carrothers said of the city.

The first time Carrothers tuned in to WFHB, he heard a DJ announce, “‘I’m going to play two hours of my favorite band, Ween.’ I heard that and I was like, ‘What? There’s a radio station where you can play two hours of Ween?

That’s my favorite band. Awesome!’” Carrothers said.

The interim director, Cleveland Dietz, arrived at WFHB in early 2011, looking to learn about news radio. Then a student in journalism at Ivy Tech, Dietz learned about the medium as he went.

Carrothers said that most volunteers haven’t had any experience in radio and come to WFHB to expand their horizons and learn new skills.

“If you were a carpenter by day, you probably wouldn’t work for Habitat for Humanity by night; we’ve had a lot of volunteers who have done this to challenge themselves,” Carrothers said.

One of the secrets behind the station’s robustness, Carrothers said, is its partnerships with local organizations.

“We don’t have a lot of staff and we don’t have a lot of money, but we have people power and ideas. So we’ve got five or six fundamental organizational partnerships that are really important to us, and we wouldn’t be able to do what we do without them,” Carrothers said.

The support and encouragement of individual community members has also been key. “The last five fund drives have been consecutive record breakers,” Carrothers said.

Something the station wants to work on, Carrothers said, is pursuing grant money and foundational support.

Until now, grant writing has fallen under the general manager’s responsibilities, but the board designing a

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Brian Kearney and volunteers Delia Gillen, Cindy Beaule, and Dan Shaffer building the music library in 1993. courtesy photo

RADIO continued from 9 development director position to specifically focus on that task.

Keeping WFHB fresh and relevant for its listeners is an important way of keeping the community engaged, and one way the station has been doing that is by embracing new technology.

“In the digital age, people have a lot more options for how they acquire their content, and they’re increasingly used to having what they want on demand,” Carrothers said.

To meet that demand, podcasts of several of the shows are now available on the website, and there’s a code on the website (an XML feed) that will automatically download the shows to a podcast player like iTunes, Carrothers said.

The website also includes the written scripts for the radio, in case someone prefers to read, rather than listen to, those shows, and plans for including more video on the website are in the works.

“We’re not just a radio station anymore,” Manion said.

Is new technology nudging radio as a form into obsolescence? Carrothers thinks not. He sees radioinspired websites like Pandora as whetting potential listeners’ appetite for the kind of content that stations like WFHB have to offer, which is background and context for the music they’re listening to, something that mainstream commercial radio stations rarely offer.

Besides, “we’re not really worried about Sirius or XM developing a channel to compete with us, because there’s no financial incentive for that,” Carrothers said.

“There’s not ever going to be an XM channel that puts an hour of discussion of Bloomington City Council about chickens in the city on the air,” he added. 

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included a line of transmission from elder to brave and reconnection with the larger tribe through story. “That’s why the soldiers didn’t crumble under the effects of war,” Johnson explains. “The whole community would share the burden.”

Since the war in Vietnam, Johnson believes, we have not had a way for warriors to share their stories, or ways to disperse the shame and guilt. “Soldiers,” Johnson reflects, “simply do a job for a nation that decides to go to war. Now, 22 veterans a day commit suicide. I want to do something about that. It absolutely has to be positive.”

While works of art can express an aesthetic truth or feeling and can point to a realm of knowledge and experience through visual symbols, art also can have ritual and ceremonial functions. This is the mission of Elder Heart. “There’s a lot of depth to what I’m doing. It’s not just the art. The process itself is the healing. It’s the group effort, the willingness to engage in community, and to create a project that is beautiful,” Johnson notes.

Stone and steel were right for Johnson. “I’ve always been involved in hard work. I’ve worked on oil fields and in logging camps and I was drawn to the medium. It felt good to twist metal, to break rock, and it feels even better to do that and make something beautiful.”

Working with equipment and materials donated by Kroot Corporation, Miller Electric, and Indiana Oxygen, Johnson and Connor have already created one sculpture symbolizing the healing of individual and cultural wounds that was sold to Adminovate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to finance the developmental stages of Elder Heart.

Now that the critical first piece of public art has received official approval, the next steps will be engineering for public safety and fundraising. The initial fundraising target is somewhere between $60,000 and $70,000. About five area veterans are already hoping to be involved in the work.

“If it weren’t for Brown County and Jim Connor, I would not have formulated these ideas.

“If you don’t know or care about veteran’s issues, I want to remind you in a beautiful way. Elder Heart is not political. It’s not conservative or liberal. It’s warriors helping warriors through beautiful community art projects that bring veterans and communities together again.”

Johnson can be contacted through Elder Heart’s facebook page Elder Heart, or through the website <elderheart.org>. 

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ndy Miller’s creative designs can draw both children and adults into a whimsical and sometimes imaginary universe.

Miller, whose father works for Cummins, attended college in Northern England while his father was on a work-related assignment. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Huddersfield in graphic design. He is the creator of the Indie Rock Coloring Book, NOD Drawing Project, and the Color Me ___ Exhibition.

His imagination and artistry is visible in all of his work.

But his incredible success started with a coloring book.

The Indie Rock Coloring Book pays tribute to the Indie (independently produced music) bands, with mazes, connect-the-dots, and coloring pages. The book began as a class project in college and turned into a fundraiser for charity.

“In my last year of college, the project was to make your own dream commission,” he explains. “I came up

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with the coloring book. It was just a fake project and I wasn’t going to sell it, but I emailed it to Pitchfork Media and they featured it on their website. After that, tons of places starting asking me about it and the fake project became a real one.”

The Montreal-based nonprofit Yellow Bird Project, an organization that creates t-shirt designs that benefit various charities, contacted Miller about the coloring book. It was published in 2009 by Chronicle Books, and is available on Amazon. All royalties go to charity. A follow-up poster book was published in 2011.

Miller took a year off to do research once the coloring book project was off the ground. The subject of his research was himself.

“After we moved back to Columbus, I took a year off to research me,” he says. “I wanted to tap into who I really was and what I wanted to make. I watched all my favorite shows from childhood again, like Dr. Seuss, Charlie Brown, and Fraggle Rock. There are a lot of adult emotions in those. I spent a year doing that and came up with my own universe. Each weekday I drew a new character and put it on my blog. I called it NOD Drawing Project.”

Miller came up with the name NOD from a story he remembers in the Old Testament of the Bible. The Land of Nod refers to a mythical land of sleep.

“I’m really just a dreamer.

It’s really crazy, but all of my projects for myself end up turning in to real work.”

With 260 new characters, some created from people he knew, he screen printed the characters onto 4x6 postcards which he continues to sell online and at art shows.

Recently, Miller was contacted by an independent publisher in Switzerland to design a children’s book using the characters.

“It’s really cool, because that’s what I really wanted to do,” he says.

“Writing kid’s books and making art through kid’s media.”

Miller thrives on multiple solo projects, but he also enjoys working with other artists on creative projects.

One of those projects is the Color Me ___ Exhibition. He collaborated with Andrew Neyer, Cincinnati illustrator and product designer, on the interactive exhibition featuring a 24 foot mural and 5 foot markers.

“The idea was a giant coloring book on a wall,” he explains.

Neyer designed the giant markers and Miller created the mural for the wall. Viewers helped to color it with the markers. The exhibit was held in 2011 in Cincinnati at the YES Studio and in 2012 at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. In April, they took the exhibition to New York to help launch Zynga’s Draw Something application for mobile phones. Neyer and Miller plan to take the exhibit to universities and art galleries across the country.

Miller’s passion for creative people pursuing their own passion, led to his new project, Art Directions- a blog for artists.

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MILLER continued from 13 “I consider it a pep talk for creative people,” he says. “I write most of it, but sometimes it’s hard for me. It’s like a personal journal. My hope is that when creative people are feeling lost, stuck, frustrated or even on the verge of quitting that they would visit this blog and leave feeling inspired, uplifted, and focused.”

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“I’m really just a dreamer,” he adds. “It’s really crazy, but all of my projects for myself end up turning in to real work.”

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Clay Day offers the public an opportunity to participate in the glazing of raku bisque ware, and a chance to observe the firing process of this ancient method of creating pottery. The raku glazes and firing process can create an exciting range of color, a variety of surface interest, and many one-of-a-kind pieces.

Larry, along with some other fellow potters, will offer several sizes and shapes of thrown and bisque-fired raku ware, to be glazed and decorated by anyone with an artistic desire to do so. Following glazing each piece, the potters place the glazed pieces in raku kilns, with a firing time ranging from 20 to 30 minutes. The pottery is then removed from the kiln, while still glowing red, and placed in a container filled with various combustible materials. The material instantly ignites and the potters proceed with the “reduction” aspect of the firing process, by covering the containers and cutting off the oxygen supply to the piece. The piece is then submersed in a water bath to cool, and lastly cleaned.

Reservations are not necessary and all the glazing supplies will be furnished.

Clay Day is hosted by Spears Gallery, located in southern Brown County 5110 St. Rd. 135 South, Nashville, Indiana, just seven miles off of Indiana State Road 46 on Indiana State Road 135 South just beyond the Horseman’s Camp entrance to Brown County State Park and on your way to Story. For additional information call (812) 9881287, or e-mail <spearspottery@sprynet.com> or visit <www.spearspottery.com>. 

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Spectrum Art Studio and Workshop ~by Lee Edgren

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re you wanting to explore rug making?

Dancing? Blacksmithing? Weaving?

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Storytelling? Basketry? Or another of the traditional arts that were a necessary part of life in the 1800s through early 1900s? Then the newly established Spectrum Art Studio and Workshop is for you.

Located about a mile-and-a-half from the center of Nashville at 1963 Greasy Creek Road, the Spectrum Art Studio and Workshop is the creation of the members of Brown County Artisans, especially Mary Pendergrass, Pete Bullard, Ruth Wert, and Terri and Jim Schultz, who also own the property where the school is located.

Carolyn Rogers Richard painting on silk. courtesy photo

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First Nantucket basketry workshop with John McGuire. courtesy photo

“All you have to bring is your interest,” says Mary Pendergrass, “We provide the teacher, the materials, and all the equipment, a model initiated by Bullard. Students pay a studio fee, tuition determined by the teacher, and sometimes a materials fee. They just need to bring themselves.”

Minimizing what the student needs to bring maximizes the possibility that someone, longing to return to a passion left behind, or looking for a new interest and skill, will actually pursue that desire. Pendergrass notes, “We have all these wonderful people in our community who are either already artists, or who are looking for new passion. We want to encourage them and we want to make it easy to get started.”

The values at work in Spectrum Art Studio and Workshop seem in many ways related to the values of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as to the preservation of traditional arts. The social aspect of the school is important, as is the theory that making beautiful, useful objects for home (as well as for sale), has an impact on the heart and mind of the maker.

An essential part of the vision is multigenerational mixing, with grandmothers (or grandfathers) working alongside grandchildren and children, since so many of the traditional arts were necessarily passed from generation to generation.

They opened this spring, and had their first big Nantucket basketry workshop with John McGuire in May. There will be a workshop in Cherokee basketry in the fall, and on September 21 the group is bringing in Lois Mueller, internationally known decorative painter and gold medalist from Decora, Iowa.

This summer, Spectrum is offering a children’s art camp, in which students come for a morning immersed in one medium.

So far classes have included paper making, paper casting, surface decoration (including glitter!), and more.

Depending on interest, this may morph into an afterschool program in the fall.

On Tuesday morning there is beginners’ silk painting followed by a Tuesday afternoon open studio time for experimental silk work. On Wednesday, Pete Bullard teaches an all-levels stained glass workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A complete list of classes and the phone numbers of key personnel can be found on: <browncountyindianaartisans.com>.

Spectrum is also open to new teachers. The only requirement is that all those who teach at the Studio and Workshop become members of the Brown County Artisans. The school is a place that welcomes the teaching of any traditional art from any culture.

The opening of the school this past March satisfied a nine-year longing to create a permanent teaching location, one in harmony with the many studios of artists who teach in their own spaces throughout the county.

At a public discussion with the newly established Arts and Entertainment Commission, the strong spark of creating a permanent school arose as participants discussed what Brown County needed.

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electrical contracting business became a school. A special delight for the Schultz’s is that “99 percent” of the finish work was done by their son Abe, his second big finish carpentry project. Light wood and walls painted in watery blues and greens and open rooms make it an inviting space, complete with handicapped access.

“We want to teach not just the traditional arts of our country, but also the arts of other countries. Part of our philosophy to share skills that will enrich lives or help people make a living.” And they want to teach them in an enthusiastic, supportive way.

One of the great rewards of the space and the organization is the sparking of ideas from person to person, leading to richer teaching and experimentation in their own discipline.

“This is a wonderful way for artists to work together as a group. This past year we merged pottery with stained glass, dyed silk with glass, and decorative painting into stained glass. The fluid feedback is fantastic.”

Jim Schultz is delighted to be experimenting with a workshop in sustainable living, describing himself laughingly as, “the mad scientist in the basement.”

Pendergrass was a nurse for 40 years, who always managed to combine teaching art with her nursing; Wert has had a particular bent for the big vision created from multiple interests; and Bullard has been a life-long teacher.

Now, with its creators in the company of peers and free to experiment, to share, and to build on their current vision, the school has opened like an origami bird, made thoughtfully, with skill, and essentially beautiful. 

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Bloomington Print Collective ~by Tom Rhea

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anielle Urschel belongs to a two-generation printmaking family. She took a BFA and an MFA in printmaking from IU in 1995 and 2001 respectively, and her daughter Izzy Jarvis is currently enrolled in the BFA program at IU as well. Izzy had fond memories of growing up around the smell of damp paper, hot metal plates, and thick printer’s ink. “I had taken classes at the Art Institute in Chicago,” Urschel said. “The IU printmaking program had a great reputation, and a lot of my friends recommended it to me.” When she visited Bloomington, she was floored by the facility, which is one of the best in the country. “Rudi Pozzatti had just retired, I believe, so I worked with Marvin Lowe, Wendy

Calman, and Ed Bernstein,” she said.

“I took my time getting my degree because I just loved being around the print shop so much. I learned so much from the other students.”

Urschel lived out in the country, pursued ceramics, and managed to create a small printmaking area in her home. She purchased a Conrad multipress 6 years ago with the help of an Indiana Arts Council grant. It converts

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Danielle Urschel printing. courtesy photos

easily from intaglio to lithography. Still, she longed for a genuine print studio, both for the space, the equipment and the camaraderie. “Printmaking takes a lot of space!” she said. Urschel was working at the Paper Crane gallery on West 6th Street when it closed, and she and fellow printer Luke Woodaman (one of the founders of Paper Crane) both shared the same thought: “We should take over this space and start a print studio.” Urschel had visited a thriving print cooperative in Providence, Rhode, Island called AS220 and used its structure as a model for their new collective.

The Bloomington Print Collective has been operating as a non-profit in that space for the past two years. A group of founding members pooled their resources, lending or donating equipment and materials, presses, paper, inks, and tools, to create a versatile and comprehensive printmaking studio.

“We have a darkroom for exposing screens. We have computers for using Photoshop. We have just taken the loan of an old letterpress,” Urschel said.

When they first opened, they tried to preserve the gallery function by being respectful of the white walls. “On gallery days, we were shoving all the presses into our closets, so that it took us an hour to drag everything back out when we wanted to work later,” Urschel said.

The BPC has six working printmakers enlisted as “key” members with unlimited access to the space. They contribute time to the shop and pay a $100 monthly fee. In addition, nearly 70 associate artists use the facility irregularly, taking classes or paying an hourly fee to work independently. Until recently, the BPC had walk-in hours for the public on Wednesday, but those were stopped when an application for a BEAD grant was (again) unsuccessful this year. Urschel said, “The great thing about this collective is that we all come from such different backgrounds. Our members range in age from 21 to

Izzy Jarvis helping people print during Community Print Open Hours.

75. Luke Woodaman ran a screen-printing outfit called Opera Press. Jeremy Hurley has years of experience screen printing posters and packaging design. We still learn so much from each other. Everyone does the same things in different ways.”

The Bloomington Print Collective schedules workshops once a month covering instruction in various printing methods. The cost of their workshop on relief printing is $50 and covers materials including a linoleum block and two three-hour sessions on successive

Saturdays. Participants come to the first session with a drawing that they transfer to the block and begin to carve. During the week, they are sent home with tools to complete the cutting, and they spend the second session printing. The instructors are volunteers culled from the Collective membership. Printed results from members, students, and visitors line the walls of the main print room.

The high-ceiling print shop continues to accrue donated supplies, materials, equipment, and services.

Urschel showed off new outlets and wiring recently installed at cost by a generous volunteer. Mike Cagle, a local graphic designer, recently loaned a large vintage letterpress that awaits new parts to be operational. Their current letterpress features a magnetic bed that allows type to be arranged and stabilized easily without the need for furniture or quoins. Their type drawers have multiplied and plans have been drawn for wall space to store them.

Sometimes all it takes is for people to try their hand at one screen print, an etching plate, or linoleum block to be hooked for good. Urschel speaks often of their “five-year plan” and fully intends to be around for the long term. Bloomington Print Collective is located at 401 W. 6th St. Suite J. They can be reached at <bloomingtonprintcollective@gmail.com> and on Facebook. 

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Gourmet Marshmallow Treats

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~by Karen E. Farley

or most people, a marshmallow is a white puffy confection that is placed on a square of chocolate between two graham crackers, and then roasted over a campfire.

Columbus food artisans, Chef Alexa Lemley and partner Samanatha Aulick, are out to turn a camper’s delight into a gourmet treat.

Alexa and Samantha grew up in the food business. Both had parents in the food service industry and worked together over summer vacations helping with food preparation and

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Samantha Aulick and Alexa Lemley owners of 240 Sweet. photos by Greg Clarke

catering for Lemleys’ Catering, a family owned and operated caterer in Columbus since 1968. After high school, the two left for college, but remained friends over the years. After college, Lemley worked as an executive chef for a Louisville restaurant, but returned to Columbus to work full-time in the family business.

In 2006, the two took over operations and changed the menu from country fare to Euro-Asian cuisine. The catering business flourished until the recession hit.

“When the recession hit, we needed to do something,” says Samantha, sales manager for 240sweet. “I was getting my hair cut and noticed that the salon was full. We noticed that people were spending money on small indulgences, so we started making smaller party platters. We didn’t have money for advertising, so we decided to make something sweet, attach it to menus, and take it to hair salons. Alexa had made marshmallows earlier that summer, so we put our marshmallows in little bags and tied a ribbon around them. Within a week, they were all gone. People started calling us to buy the marshmallows.”

At first, the two weren’t interested in selling marshmallows. But after an overwhelming response, Lemley began creating different flavors. She added flavors native to the Midwest and international seasonings. In 2008, they formed 240sweet, a division of Lemleys’ Catering.

Their marshmallows are crafted with Michigan beet sugar, Ohio glucose, and Indiana cornstarch. The tasty sweets only contain natural ingredients and are handmade in Columbus.

“I believe people should indulge in food, not chemicals,” Alexa says. “I craft my treats with all-natural and organic ingredients.”

In 2009, Indiana Artisan, an organization that brings together Indiana’s talented artisans’ one-of-a-kind art and food creations, recognized Lemley for her craft and as an artist.

“As an Indiana Artisan, my craft is legitimized for many who didn’t understand that marshmallows could be something more than mass-produced puffs from the grocery store,” she says.

Because of her recognition as an Indiana Artisan, she has been chosen as Artist in Residence several times at the Indiana State Museum. According to Aulick, Lemley has the ability to turn food into art.

“Food is an art,” Aulick explains. “Our marshmallows are hand-cut and each batch is different. There is a lot of variation in them and it takes a high level of skill to produce them.”

In May, Lemley received the Hoosier Hospitality Award.

Each year, the lieutenant governor, in conjunction with

the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, honors those individuals for exemplary service in the tourism and hospitality industries. Last year, 240sweets welcomed over 600 Future Farmers of America to the shop. Lemley was one of 20 Hoosiers presented with the award by Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann.

When she is not creating one-of-a-kind marshmallows, Lemley and Aulick travel to art festivals around the country and sell their sweets. They will be at the Indiana State Fair on August 4 for the Marshmallow Making Demonstration in the DuPont Pavilion, and sampling will be on August 5.

Lemley also teaches classes on making her awardwinning treats. Classes last about an hour and there is a 25 person capacity. Private classes for 15 or less are also offered. Participants must be ages eight and up, and persons under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. The cost is $8 per person and includes a bag of marshmallows.

In the shop, visitors will also find different lines of food on consignment from other Indiana Artisans. They offer items such as Coe’s Noodles, Chocolate for the Spirit, and Best Boy Hot Fudge Sauce. Artwork by local artists is also available for purchase at the shop. There is also a farmer’s market in the parking lot every Thursday through Sept., from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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4th Street Festival

of the Arts and Crafts August 31 and September 1, 2013

~by Laura Gleason

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n its 37th year, the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts, scheduled for Labor Day weekend (August 31 and September 1), is Bloomington’s longest-running outdoor art fair.

“My understanding—and of course everything starts to turn into lore—is that two local ceramicists were sitting around and said, ‘Hey, we should make an art fair,” said Martina Celerin, who has been involved with the festival for nine years and is currently on the planning committee.

“It was a very low-key thing, and it’s just grown into this wonderful, nationally-recognized event,” she said. This year, the organizers expect more than 40,000 attendees from around the region.

Every year, the organizers try to include something novel at the festival, while retaining its core identity, Celerin said. This year, the new element will come in the form of two labyrinths painted in water-soluble white tempera on Dunn Street by local conceptual artist David Ebbinghouse.

Unlike a maze, there will be only one path to

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follow in each labyrinth, one of which will be circular and the other triangular, Ebbinghouse said; it’s about contemplation, and tapping into a tradition that is thousands of years old.

Every year there’s also an interactive activity for children, Martina added, and this year it will include origami-folding activities.

More than 400 artists from across the nation applied to be in the festival this year, and 120 were accepted by the jury of artists who also are spread around the country. “It’s very competitive to get into the Fourth Street festival, and we think that’s a really good thing, because it selects for a really high-caliber artists,” Celerin said, adding that a number of local artists, including herself, made it into the show.

Martina is excited to see the art in person. “I enjoy walking through an art fair and looking at amazing art that I’ve never seen before—it’s motivating, it gets my creativity going,” she said.

The art community that runs the festival is very close-knit, Celerin said, and passionate about the event. “We do a survey of the artists that participate in the show, and one of the things we frequently get positive feedback about is that this is such a unique event, and that’s because it is run by artists,” she said.

Artists understand the nuances of running such an event, since many of them depend on such events for their livelihood.

“The closer you are to the process, the more intimately you understand it,” she said.

Since they’re not making money for an external entity, “Everything we collect for booth fees and artist fees goes directly back into promoting the event,” she added.

The festival also benefits the local economy, Celerin explained.

“People travel to Bloomington on Labor Day weekend anyway, but many are coming specifically for the festival.

Of course when they get here, they are spending the night, staying at hotels, eating at restaurants, and experiencing the uniqueness of our town as an art destination,” said Martina.

Publicity is important, because artists count on having a

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“We had tropical storm Isaac coming through the Midwest, and it wasn’t clear if Isaac was going to come straight up or into the jet stream,” Celerin said.

Isaac ending up missing Bloomington, and although it rained on Sunday, Saturday was beautiful. One of Martina’s best memories was her relief at “seeing the sun come out, seeing the patrons come out smiling, saying, ‘Oh my gosh, we are so happy, this is a family tradition of ours for years and years.’ It was just a festive, festive environment last year,” she said.

For Celerin and her cohorts on the planning committee, the fair represents a year’s worth of preparation and organizing. “It’s very dramatic in so many ways for us to have this all come to fruition. It’s a year-long process we go through,” she said.

A few weeks after the last of the change has been counted, the tents have been taken down, and the labyrinth has been washed away by the rain, it will be time to start organizing once more. The first planning meeting for 2014’s fair will take place in October.

“It takes us honestly a year to put this show together, every year,” Celerin said. 

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Early Brown County Artist

Lucie Hartrath

Lucie Hartrath photo taken by Frank Hohenberger in the 1920s.

~by Julia Pearson

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significant number of the Brown County artists came from Chicago and maintained professional ties there, participating in the Hoosier Salon exhibition held annually in Chicago before it moved to Indianapolis. The Artists of Brown County by Lyn Letsinger-Miller states that over a hundred professional artists had traveled to Brown County to paint alongside the resident artists of the Midwest Art Colony.

Lucie Hartrath is considered by many to be one of the most talented Chicago artists in the early twentieth century. She was born in 1868, the only child of a cultured Bostonian family and spent her girlhood in Cleveland. When her father died, she stayed in Cleveland to finish her education, even though her mother remarried and moved to Chicago.

Lucie studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was

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Creek scene, oil painting, Brown County Art Gallery permanent collection.

a student of John Vanderpoel from 1894–95 and 1898. From 1898–1900 she studied in Paris, France. (It was such an impressionable year, that she often said later in her career that she loved Brown County because it reminded her of the countryside in northern France.) In 1901, Hartrath attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. That same year she exhibited her impressionist landscapes at the Paris Salon and also in Berlin, Dusseldorf, and Munich.

During this early part of her rich career, she served as a teacher and head of the Department of Drawing and Painting at Rockford College in Illinois from 1902–04. She traveled widely for a year in Europe, Palestine, and Egypt before she returned to Munich in 1906 and studied under Angelo Jank.

Upon returning to Chicago in 1908, Hartrath established a studio

in the Tree Studio Building. Around 1910, she began the first of her annual trips to Brown County.

Staying in rented cabins, like other visiting Chicago artists, she would stretch her productive painting season throughout the spring, summer, and autumn, staying in the hills “till the last leaf lets loose.”

Working in oils and watercolor, her landscapes of the times in southern Indiana led her to be considered one among the Brown County artists.

Her paintings were exhibited widely in Chicago, including the Chicago Municipal Art League and the Hoosier Salon. She was a founding member of the Chicago Women’s Salon In 1904; and she exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Expo at the St. Louis World’s Fair.

Brown County landscapes were included among many of her prizewinning paintings.

She never married, devoting her life to art. Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana’s Historical Women Artists

by Judith Vale Newton and Carol Ann Weiss gives more personal information about Hartrath than can be found in other sources. It reports that a Brown County friend said she suffered from some kind of bone disease. And it quotes from the Chicago Tribune, which stated in 1931 that Hartrath “was working with a sturdy cheerfulness in the face of difficult domestic odds”— but does not give details. Hartrath was a devoted daughter who cared for her aging mother till her mother’s death in 1933.

She was a member of the Painters and Sculptors of Chicago, the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors of New York, the Hoosier Salon, the Chicago Galleries Association, the Chicago Water Color Club, the Indiana Artists Club. As a charter member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, she was active from 1926 to 1946, and as an honorary member from 1948 to 1962.

Lucie Hartrath died in Chicago on August 12, 1962 after living 94 years. Her will named only two relatives—a half brother and a second cousin. Among the 57 other benefactors were colleagues and peers of the Brown County Art Colony: Gustave Baumann, L.O. Griffith, C. Curry Bohm, Dale Bessire, Marie Goth, Alberta R. Shulz.

Other benefactors were the Brown County Art Guild, the Brown County Art Gallery Association, the Nashville Public Library, and the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association.

The Brown County Art Gallery has three pieces by Hartrath in its permanent collection. One piece, “After the Frost,” 36 x 36 was a Hoosier Salon Winner in 1931.

Two other pieces are: “Village in Germany,” 16 x 12, oil on canvas; and “Creek Scene,” 27 x 27 oil on canvas. It is said that your treasure lies where your heart is. It is evident from Hartrath’s will that her time and associations in Brown County were central to her life. 

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You can browse and shop the artwork of more than 75 local, regional and national artists, featuring paintings, ceramics, jewelry, sculpture, photography, and much more!

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This year ArtFEST has a special guest. The nation’s most non-traditional abstract artist will be giving painting demonstrations and book signings. Justin’s artistic talent has earned him national and international attention not only because of his technique but because he is a horse. Be sure to stop by Justin’s booth. 

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The Women of Indiana University D

uring the recent refurbishment at Franklin Hall, IU President Michael McRobbie had a vision for the spacious room on the first floor that once housed registration. After removing the drop ceiling and restoring the light from high windows, Franklin Hall 101 now houses the Presidents’ Hall: beautifully displayed portrait paintings of each past president of Indiana University. Most of the paintings were removed form the East Lounge of the Memorial Union, leaving a vacant room in need of an installation. This remaining issue Vice President Morrison assigned to curator of campus collections, Sherry Rouse.

The concept for an exhibit of portraits of “The Women of Indiana University” evolved slowly over the time it took to move the presidential portraits.

One inspiration was the completion of the Ostrom portrait, also meant to hang in the Union. Rouse had facilitated the introduction of recent Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom to Bonnie Sklarski, Professor Emerita of painting. “I knew they would hit it off,” Rouse said.

“Lin (Ostrom) had already started treatment for her cancer and had lost her hair. She said, ‘It’s too late to have my portrait done.’ Bonnie told her, ‘Oh, no it’s not!’” With her typical penchant for research and attention to detail, Sklarski included a small portrait of Ostrom’s husband, an epic landscape of Nepal (where Ostrom did her most important work), and of course, her Nobel medal (and a full head of hair). “I believe Bonnie even researched Lin’s work beforehand,” Rouse confided.

About the time the Ostrom portrait was ready, the painting in honor of Charlotte Lowe Bryan, IU’s tenth first lady, was nearing the end of its conservancy. The painting titled “Alma Mater” had been off the wall for almost two years, for cleaning and conservation in the Museum’s lab. “Having two portraits ready to hang at the same time of two incredibly accomplished women started me thinking: what other women’s portraits could I pull together?” Rouse said. So from a variety of places around campus, Rouse began assembling portraits of women that had an indelible impact on the

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William Kennedy’s portrait of Alice McDonald Nelson.

~by Tom Rhea

history of IU. About the paintings on extended loan, she said, “I will fix them up while I have them: new frames and Margaret (Contompasis, IUAM conservator) did a little cleaning. So they get back a nicer piece.”

Part of the fun of the collection lies in it sheer range, from the gauzy impressionism of Brown County artist Marie Goth, who drapes her sitters in transparent wraps, to the polyester colors of Edmund Brucker’s portrait of first lady Patricia Ryan, posed in a sky blue dress against clouds and a blue sky. J. William Kennedy was a favored portrait painter of distinguished Hoosiers in the 1950’s, and he is represented here with portraits of Nellie Showers Teter and Kate Milner Rabb. Each graduated IU in the 19th century. One has the Teter residence hall named for her, in which the Rabb House is named for the other. Both portraits appear to have been painted posthumously and bear striking resemblance to hand-tinted black and white photos.

Kennedy’s third portrait is of Alice McDonald Nelson who became director of the Halls of Residence and for 45 years was responsible for the development of the majority of dormitories, dining halls and residential apartments on campus.

Many of the included artists have ties to Indiana and IU. Bonnie Sklarski and Robert Kingsley spent their careers as art faculty at IU and DePauw respectively. Kingsley earned his MFA at IU in 1976. Marie Goth had a significant impact on regional art in Southern Indiana through her own artistic achievements and her many legacies. As a portraitist, she was the first female

artist to be commissioned to paint the official Governor’s portrait. She is represented here by three portraits: Anna Bernice Harting Wells, Herman Wells’ mother, Betty Foster, who pioneered with Wells the first international education travel program, and Charlotte Lowe Bryan, IU’s tenth first lady. With her husband William, she wrote three books on Plato.

As curator of campus collections, Sherry Rouse has had little occasion to curate art exhibits over the course of her career. “But then suddenly I’ve mounted four exhibits in the last six months,” she said. These include the President’s Hall in Franklin Hall, the Women of IU, and two versions of the geometric sculpture of Morton Bradley, at IU Northwest and an expanded version at IUPUI’s Culture Center. The “Women of IU” exhibit in its current configuration will stay in the East Lounge at the Memorial Union for at least a year. “Eventually Teter has to go back to Teter, and Showalter back to Showalter House” Rouse said. “These women have homes. But this is going to be an ongoing thing. I already have five more portraits in mind.” Rouse hopes to draw paintings in and out of the exhibit for the foreseeable future. The scope of the exhibit is limited only by the continuing, immeasurable contributions of women at Indiana University. 

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Iron Pour and Glassblowing Workshops ~by Karen E. Farley

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n 2006, the Columbus Area Arts Council (CAAC) presented its first Iron Pour event in Mill Race Park.

It was held in conjunction with the Sculpture Invitational, a program that brought local, regional and national artists to Columbus. This year marks the 7th Iron Pour and will include glassblowing workshops for the public.

According to the CAAC, the Annual Open Iron Pour celebrates artwork created by people in the community. A roaring, flameshooting furnace turns 1,000 pounds of recycled iron into artwork, and community members watch as artists turn metal into art objects.

This year’s iron pour will bring back Chicago sculptor, Jim Brenner to Columbus to head the crew. He is the founder of Chicago Sculpture Works and has studios in both Chicago and Minneapolis. He received his master’s in fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has designed sculptures for corporate campuses, private collections and gallery exhibitions. His work engages the viewer through observation and interaction with his pieces.

“Jim and his team of artists will lead workshops where community members will create scratch blocks that will be poured by Jim and his team,” says Arthur Miller, marketing and media director for CAAC. “Once the pieces are cool, they will be able to take them home.”

The scratch blocks are made of sand held together with resin.

Community members can scratch or carve a design into the block that will later be cast in iron. Metal engraving tools will be provided by the iron

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courtesy photos from CAAC

Glass studio and gallery in Clayton, Ind., will teach the workshops and demonstrate how to roll the glass.

Community members will create a paperweight that can be taken home after the workshop. Pelo is an Indiana Artisan and a member of the Glass Art Society. She teaches group classes and private lessons. Studio rentals, tours and group demonstrations are also offered in her studio. Art has always been a part of her life and she enjoys sharing her passion for glass with the community.

“Glass is its own inspiration,” she says. “There is no other medium like it. The challenge of controlling it better and making more elaborate and complex forms: this is a lifelong project. Color in glass is fascinating.

When the light can come in and out of the form through the color to create its own visual interest regardless of the form is a skill that has to be honed and sometimes never understood by other glass workers.”

The iron pour and glassblowing workshops will be held on August 23 and 24 at Casa Verde, an empty lot next to Jacksson Gallery on Jackson Street in downtown Columbus. These workshops are being held in conjunction with ArtFEST, an annual juried art show held on Washington Street in downtown Columbus. The fair features artwork from local, regional and national artists. The pour crew, and volunteers will be on gallery will also have an exhibit of Jim Brenner’s work and other iron artists hand to help participants with their who will be accompanying Jim on the blocks. A limited number of blocks are available at the arts council office. Iron Pour project.

Along with this year’s events, Last year, the arts council added Brenner and Pelo will also create a a glassblowing workshop and prototype for a permanent art project exhibition to the event. Lisa Pelo, for the Columbus Arts District. glass artist and owner of Hot Blown

“The art project will include the two artists creating five cast-metal and 3D pieces with collaboration from Columbus residents,” Miller explains. “This will result in five pieces of public art displayed within the Columbus Arts District. The pieces will become part of a permanent collection and serve as companion pieces to pieces brought in for our Sculpture Biennial.”

In April, the arts council was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Efroymson Award for Excellence in Cultural Tourism Development for the Columbus Indiana Sculpture Biennial. The grant will be used to create pieces for the biennial in 2014, which will include a collection of eight to ten large outdoor sculptures.

“This award allows the Arts Council to once again bring the work of regionally and nationally recognized artists to our community,” says Karen Shrode, executive director for the arts council. “It will help to energize the newly-formed Columbus Arts District and serve as a tool to engage local residents and tourists in conversations on public art.”

For more information about the iron pour or the glass blowing workshops, call (812) 376-2539, or visit their website at <www.artsincolumbus.org>. For information on ArtFest, visit <www.columbusartfest.com>. 

Columbus Learning Center

June 1 through August 31:

Columbus RoundABOUT Art Co-op Sept. 9 through Dec. 20:

Jerry Points, Painter Tricia Wente, Painter Laurie Wright, Printmaker 4555 Central Avenue • Columbus, Indiana For information (812) 314-8507

www.educationcoalition.com

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Art on Fire

Anne Ryan Miller at work. photo courtesy Marty Garvey

~by Lyn Letsinger-Miller

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magine an artist whose medium is something that you can’t touch, needs to be heated to two thousand degrees to manipulate, and can break into a thousand pieces if a tiny bit of sand gets in the way.

This July, the state of Indiana is celebrating a long history of glass art. Nashville became a part of that glass culture beginning in the late 1960s.

According to Jim Lawrence, the history of working with glass dates back over 5,000 years beginning in Afghanistan. Tribesmen discovered a crystal like substance under their campfires which turned out to be molten sand turned to glass. They soon learned how to manipulate the molten glass into vases and other items they could use.

The process spread to Europe where large ovens were heated with wood. A cauldron of molten glass was accessed with long tools that would capture a glob of glass to be manipulated.

When the supply of wood from the forests became scarce, small oil lamps were used to heat tubes. Workers blew into the tube causing the flame to flare. A piece of glass was then held in the flame and manipulated into items with small tools.

During the Renaissance period much of the work was done by women to make decorative items like jewelry. The process became known as lamp glass and is the precursor to the artists of today who use butane torches.

In the days before plastics, there was a great need for all kinds of containers, drinking glasses and dishware, eye glasses etc. A large supply of natural gas discovered in central Indiana led to a glass industry that at one time employed 100,000 workers. From Winchester to Kokomo, glass factories lined up along the reservoir, drove a pipe into the ground, and lit it. Experts assured the factories there was gas enough for a lifetime, but in 50 years or so, the gas ran out and the big batch glass factories shut down.

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In the 1960s the studio glass art movement got its start when large gas furnaces were redesigned with the individual artist in mind. Artist Ron Schuster observed a small molten glass furnace operation in Ohio and fell in love with the process. He came back to Brown County and set up his own molten glass furnace.

He made paperweights and other items for his Sweetwater Gallery shop in Nashville.

Ron is amazed he still has all his fingers and no serious burns despite working with two thousand degree ovens and molten glass on a large scale for more than 30 years.

For glass artist Anne Ryan Miller, the process of heat and glass is a bit different.

She uses sheets of glass upon which she solders metal to create a three dimensional effect. A tiny flaw in the glass or an error on her part and hours of work can end up as a candidate for the trash can. She also has taken many years to perfect the skill along with cutting glass for the more traditional stained glass.

Jim Lawrence, his brother John and his father Dick make up the Lawrence family glassblowers of Nashville. Jim and John grew up in the shadow of the old glass factories in Winchester, Indiana and began making glass items at the early age of ten years old. The family moved to Nashville and formed a landmark business.

The artists observe that glass art holds a special fascination for people. It is the third most collected item behind stamps and coins.

Other glass artists in Nashville who turn glass to jewelry and other creations will bring their best to the Brown County Art Gallery from July 1–15, 2013 for a special show called “Art on Fire.” The exhibit will feature a new video produced by Vision Ventures Video Productions of Indianapolis in association with the Brown County Convention and Visitors’ Bureau called “Art on Fire,” showing the artists at work. On July 13 and 14 there will be demonstrations by various glass artists in downtown Nashville as part of the Indiana Glass Trail celebration.

Visit the <www.browncounty.com> website for more information. 

Brown County History Mural to be Unveiled

July 13, 2013

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Mural panel by Rosey Bolte showing Brown County today, a place for arts, nature and adventure.

n Saturday, July 13, a new public art project will be unveiled in downtown Nashville.

Over the past year, nine local artists have each been recreating a scene from Brown County’s past on four foot by eight foot panels. These panels, which feature moments in Brown County›s history from the time of the Native Americans to today, will be hung together on the back wall of the parking lot at the corner of Van Buren and Gould Streets. The Brown County

Established in 1926, Brown County’s original art gallery offers for sale artwork by contemporary artists and consigned early Indiana art. Selections from the Permanent Collections are also on display.

Open Year-Round Monday – Saturday 10 am–5 pm · Sunday Noon–5 pm

306 E. Main St · Nashville, IN 47448 · 812-988-4609 www.browncountyartgallery.org

Historical Society recently purchased the parking lot, and was interested in having a history mural installed there.

The public is invited to the unveiling ceremony, which will be held July 13 at 4:30 p.m. After the unveiling, a reception will be held at Iris Garden Gallery, which is the featured art gallery for the Second Saturday Village Art Walk, being held from 5 to 8 p.m. that same night.

The artists who created the mural include: Rosey Bolte, Dick Ferrer, Ann Francis, Anabel Hopkins, Amanda Mathis, Michele Heather Pollock, Martha Sechler, and Brett Volpp. In addition, Patricia Rhoden Bartels led her Brown County Junior High art classes in creating a panel based on the iconic early 20th century photographs of Frank Hohenberger. Other moments in history featured include the traveling huckster wagons of early days in Brown County, the arrival of artist T.C. Steele to Brown County, and the founding of Brown County State Park.

The Brown County History Mural is sponsored jointly by the Art Alliance Brown County and the Brown County Historical Society, and was funded in part by grants from the Brown County Community Foundation and the Indiana Arts Commission. 

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The Great Outdoor Art Contest

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ine art, fine music, and fine food—What better way to celebrate T.C. Steele’s birthday? The annual Great Outdoor Art Contest at T.C. Steele State Historic site will take place on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. with fun-filled day of art, music, food and nature.

Bring the family and spend the day at this 211-acre Brown County site. Watch artists create original artwork for judging, stroll the beautiful grounds, enjoy live music, and indulge in some locally produced specialty food and drink.

Great Outdoor Art Contest activities are free of charge to the general public, with a $2 parking donation.

The contest, which the Indiana Plein Air Painters Association has called the “granddaddy of Indiana paintouts,” will this year celebrate its 25th year. Gates open at 7 a.m., with artists working throughout the morning and early afternoon. An outdoor concert will begin at 1 p.m. with local bluegrass favorites The White Lightning Boys. Artwork will be gathered together at 2 p.m., and while the judges are hard at work, visitors may vote for their favorite People’s Choice award. In celebration of

Free self-guided walking tour of 11 downtown Nashville Art Galleries featuring original local and regional art and crafts in all price ranges Gallery list and map of participating downtown galleries and restaurants available at the Visitors Center Gallery open houses, refreshments, entertainment, demonstrations, and hands-on opportunities Many local restaurants offer discounts and free add-ons to Art Walk patrons www.villageartwalk.com (812) 340-8781 for information

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statewide “Going Local” week, the art contest will also partner with area vendors to provide specialty desserts and beverages—art for the palate as well as the palette.

The beauty of the Brown County countryside inspired Hoosier Artist Theodore Clement Steele (1847–1926) to create some of his best-known works.

One hundred years later, T.C. Steele remains one of Indiana’s most celebrated artists. The event gives today’s artists—and visitors—a unique insight into Steele’s art and method of painting, creating work en plein air, out-of-doors, sketching and painting their subjects quickly. The contest is open to artists of all ages, whether amateur or professional. First place winning artwork will be displayed in T.C. Steele’s Large Studio for thirty days following the event, for all to enjoy.

While you are visiting the Great Outdoor Art Contest and Local Tastings event, don’t miss a glimpse into the life of this famed early 20th century artist. Guided tours of T.C. Steele’s studio and historic home, the “House of the Singing Winds,” are available throughout the day. There is a small fee for the building tour. In addition, nature lovers can experience the serenity of the Steele estate by strolling the flower gardens, winding trails, and the nature preserve.

For more information contact (812) 988-2785 or <tcsteeleshs@indianamuseum.org>. Visit <www. tcsteele.org> or <indianamuseum.org/tc_steele>.T.C. Steele State Historic Site is located off State Road 46 just west of Nashville in Brown County. 

240 SWEET continued from 32 With over 150 flavors ranging from Thai Chili to Blackberry Merlot, visitors to the shop are sure to find a favorite.

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“Mine is Lemonade, which is one of the first ones Alexa made. Hers is Bourbon Sugar Churro with Cajete- a Mexican caramel.”

Visit the shop at their new location at 9600 U.S. 31 N. in Columbus near the outlet mall, or call 812-372-9898 to order the gourmet marshmallows and other Indiana Artisan food. To order large quantities for parties or gifts, email info@240sweet.com. Join their Marshmallow of the Month Club, or sign up for their monthly newsletter at <www.240sweet.com>. 

Hoosier ARTIST

ANABEL HOPKINS Abstract and Impressionist Paintings www.anabelhopkins.com

JULIE TABORN Fused Glass Artist www.allthingsglass.org (269) 375-3234 • (812) 988-0729

45 S. Jefferson St. • Nashville, IN 812-988-6888 • HoosierArtist.net

A Cooperative Gallery of Fine Artists and Craftsmen Barb Bonchek • black and white Dizzy Art, tables Dana Burns • wood bowls and sculptures Carol Clendening NORTHWOOD • oil paintings Margie Cleveland • functional pottery ANNE RYAN MILLER Stained Glass and Metal Overlay www.AnneRyanMillerGlassStudio.com (812) 988-9766

CHERYL DUCKWORTH Acrylic and Watercolor Paintings www.cherylgreggduckworth.com (812) 334-8421

Linda Comstock-Teel • weaving Cheryl Duckworth • acrylic paintings Anabel Hopkins • paintings–abstract, impressionist Sharon Jungclaus Gould • mixed media, paintings Tom Lowe • scroll work in wood Jennifer Mujezinovic • portrait paintings Elizabeth Parrock • jewelry Mary Pendergrass • Nantucket baskets, textiles Martha Powell-Jungclaus • art dolls, paintings

CAROLYN ROGERS RICHARD Watercolor, Acrylic, Mixed Media (812) 320-2200 crichard@homefinder.org

BARB BONCHEK Acrylic and Epoxy Tables, Wall Hangings Pen and Ink Drawings www.dizzyart.com • (812) 876-1907

Carolyn Rogers Richard • paintings, fabric art Anne Ryan Miller • stained glass, photography John Sodrel • photography Julie Taborn • fused glass Brett Volpp • abstract paintings RKELLY Ruth Wert • jewelry, stained glass over silk

ELIZABETH PARROCK Jewelry (812) 498-8972 SHARON JUNGCLAUS GOULD Gourds with Mixed Media Embellishments slj41@earthlink.net • www.artandspiritstudio.com

RKELLY RUTH WERT Antique/Old Jewelry, Stained Glass over Dyed Silk (812) 345-6719

MARTHA POWELL-JUNGCLAUS Art Dolls, Paintings, Hand-Knit Items (765) 342-3235 • (765) 343-2716 bitsyart@gmail.com

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.......................................................Area Arts Calendar BROWN COUNTY: Village Art Walk

Second Saturdays April–December 5 to 8 pm. 11 participating galleries.

Many restaurant discounts and add-ons www.villageartwalk.com (812) 340-8781

61 W. Main St., Village Green Bldg. 2nd level in Nashville, IN Represents local and regional artists (812) 988-1994 ddferrer@att.net www.ferrergallery.com

Brown County Art Guild

July: Wyatt LeGrand & Roger Merkel Reception July 13, 5-8 pm Art on Fire July 1-15 Glass artists exhibit at the Brown The artists will be present to discuss their latest works of art with you.

County Art Gallery in Nashville July 13-14 Demonstrations by glass artists Aug.: Thom Robinson & Donna Shortt Reception Aug. 10, 5-8 pm at various venues around Nashville.

Now-Aug. 23: Summer Exhibit by Member A part of the Indiana Glass Trail.

Artists. Two floors of all new artwork!

Sept. 14 Guild 13 Unveiling of the Brown Annual Art Guild Gala fundraiser County History Mural 6:30-9:00 pm July 13, 4:30, the parking lot at the corner 48 S. Van Buren Street Nashville, IN of Van Buren and Gould Streets. Reception (812) 988-6185 at Iris Garden Gallery. www.browncountyartguild.org

Clay Day Aug. 3, Spears Gallery 9:00-5:00 5110 State Road 135 South Experience glazing raku pottery

T.C. Steele State Historic Site Sept. 14 Great Outdoor Art Contest 25th Anniversary of the event.

Artists compete in various categories.

Concert by local Bluegrass favorite The White Lightning Boys at 1:00 T.C. Steele SHS located in Belmont Register (812) 988-2785 tcsteeleshs@indianamuseum.org

Ferrer Gallery Village Art Walks Second Saturdays July: Photography by Jeff Danielson and Anne Ryan Miller Aug.: Marcy Neiditz-clay Sept.: “Warm Colors of Fall” New home accessories made from overdyed recycled vintage wool. by Barb Brooke Davis.

Her signature line of pumpkin pillows, landscaped and leaf design pillows and much more. Visit with Barb during the Village Art Walk Sept. 14, 5:00-8:00.

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Brown County Art Gallery July 1-Oct. 7: Artists Association Summer Exhibit July 28-Aug. 25: Assoc. Small Treasures Exhibit Artist Dr. and Main St. in Nashville, IN (812) 988-4609 www.browncountyartgallery.org

BLOOMINGTON: Fourth Street Festival

Labor Day Weekend, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 Sat. 10:00-6:00, Sun. 10:00-5:00 4th Street—Grant Street to Indiana— downtown Bloomington Regional, national artists, craftspeople www.4thstreet.org

Farmers’ Market Sat. 8 am-1 pm April-November 8th and Morton Streets in Showers Common next to City Hall

Gallery Walk Downtown April 5, June 7, Aug. 2, Oct. 4, Dec. 6

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

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

Blueline Creative Co-op and Gallery 224 N. College Ave. (812) 589-7377 www.bluelinestyle.com

Blue Studio Gallery 116 1/2 S. College Ave. #10 (upstairs) (812) 361-7504 www.bluestudiogallery.com

By Hand Gallery

July 1–30: “Doing the Dance”: Woodcut prints by Dale Enochs . Sets of four woodcuts that when displayed together make a single composition or tetraptych.

“Paper Art Quilts” by Mary Hambly.

Aug. 2–Sept. 28: “Recent Explorations in Form and Color” Porcelain by Scott Frankenberger Reception Aug. 2, 5-8 pm #109 Fountain Square Mall Hours: Mon-Sat, 10-5:30 101 W. Kirkwood Ave. (812) 334-3255 www.byhandgallery.com

gallery406

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

Gallery Group

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

Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center Galleries

July: Joyce Jensen, watercolor Robert Mirek, sculpture Annie Young, paintings Katie Vernon, drawings and paintings Sept.: Lotus World Festival of Music presents World Blues: Shades of Indigo, indigodyed textiles from around the world Roy Boswell & Donna Shortt, plein air oils

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and pastels Fileve Palmer, South African Childrens’ Photography Project Oct.: Vincent Edwards, Nathan Hunter & Friends, contemporary furniture design Crush II, contemporary jewelry group show Paths and Patterns, prints and drawings

by Indianapolis area artists Kelly Novak, jewelry Open M-F, 9-7, Sat, 9-5 122 S. Walnut St. Corner of 4th and Walnut (812) 330-4400 www.ivytech.edu/bloomington/waldron

El Norteno

206 N. Walnut (812) 333-9591

pictura gallery

June 7-Aug. 31: In “City Space”, Clarissa Bonet’s photographs employ stark light, deep shadow, muted color, and Chicago’s urban area as a stage.

In “Umbra” Julie Renee Jones’s photographs mine her experiences of everyday life in Ohio.

Sept.-Nov. 26: Opening Reception September 6, 5-8 pm James Nakagawa’s series “Gama” puts the viewer into the interior of dark Okinawan caves where people took refuge during the war. Nakagawa often says that he is “painting with light.”

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

Royale Hair Parlor Gallery Inside the Wicks Building 116 W. 6th St. Ste. 101 (812) 360-1860 www.royalehairparlor.com

The Stone Belt Gallery Showcasing the artistry of individuals with developmental disabilities July: July 5, First Friday: Open House, 5-8 pm Aug. 2-Sept. 27: Featured Artist Haley Franklin of Bedford

Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-8 pm Sept.: Sept. 6, First Friday: Open House, 5-8 pm 107 West 9th Street Hours: Mon-Fri. 10-4, 5-7:30 First Fridays

ArtFest Fine Art Festival

July 5, 6:00-Birthday Party featuring flag paintings and other art honoring America.

July 9, 5:30-Presentation by Dr. Lesa Lorenzen Huber, 10 Simple Tips for Ageing Well.

114 S. Grant. St. Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7, Sun. 12-5 (812) 339-4200 www.TheVenueBloomington.com

Columbus Learning Center

The Venue, Fine Arts & Gifts

IU Art Museum Jazz in July July 5, 12, 19, & 26, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Sculpture Terrace, second floor 1133 E. 7th Street on the campus of IU (812) 855-5445 iuam@indiana.edu www.artmuseum.iu.edu

COLUMBUS: Farmers Market

Aug. 24, (10-5) Washington St., Downtown Columbus. More than 75 local, regional, and national artists. www.columbusartfest.com

June 1-Aug. 31 Columbus RoundABOUT Sept. 9-Dec. 20 Jerry Points, Tricia Wente, Laurie Wright 4555 Central Avenue, Columbus (812) 314-8507 www.educationcoalition.com

Columbus Museum of Art and Design at IUCA+D July 9-Sept. 7 Mark Cooper, 3D exhibit with public input. Reception July 9.

Jacksson Contemporary Art Now-July 20: Nhat Tran “See the Unseen” paintings and sculpture 1030 Jackson St. Columbus, Indiana 47201 (812) 447-8781

HOPE:

June-Sept., 9 to Noon

Art and Antiques Fair

JCB NeighborFEST!

Heritage Days

every 1st Thursday night of the month, July-Sept., Downtown Columbus, FREE July 11, Gordon Bonham with Gene Deer and Benito DiBartoli - tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughn

Biggest Block Party Ever

Aug. 25, at the square in Hope Sept. 27-29, Town Square Hope, IN Ham and bean dinner, plein air painting demonstrations www.hopeartguild.com

SEYMOUR:

Southern Indiana

July 27, (5:30-midnight) downtown Center for the Arts (SICA) Columbus-$8 adults (12 and under FREE) Now-July 12 Summer Art Camps Fundraiser for Columbus Area Arts July 13, Paint the Town, a social painting Council event—participants do not have to have previous experience to join the fun.

Iron Pour and Glass Blowing SICA Open Tues.-Fri. noon to 5; Sat. 11-3 Workshops 2001 N. Ewing St., Seymour, IN Aug. 23 and 24 www.soinart.com Create paperweights and scratch blocks (812) 522-2278

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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

ROSEY BOLTE The Uncommon Gourd Gourd Art – Mixed Media Hand painted gourds, Jewelry and other unique folk painting ~An Indiana Artisan~ 4021 Vaught Road Nashville, IN 47448 (812) 322-3398 Studio open most days, best to call ahead Also available: Ferrer Gallery, Nashville, IN roseyzw@gmail.com facebook.com/roseys.uncommon.gourd

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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

PATRICIA C. COLEMAN

Local Arts and Crafts, International Artist, including Paintings, Prints, Ichiyo Meditation Supplies, Fiber Arts, Botanical Dyes, Art Dolls, Quilts, Green Lifestyle Coaching, Jellies, Herbal, Coffee, Wine, Beer, Wellness; Arts Appointments for Reiki, Hoponopono and Reconnective Healing, Classes, Workshops, Talks, Demonstrations, Tastings at Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café & Quilter’s Comfort Teas 725 West Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN (812-334-8155 www.hartrock.net/cafe.htm

BUSSERT IMAGES Jessica Bussert Sharon Bussert Fine Art Photography Local and world images. Specializing in landscape, wildlife and florals.

Available from B3 Gallery-Nashville, IN

By Hand Gallery-Bloomington, IN www.bussert.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

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CATHY HAGGERTY CHRIS GUSTIN Homestead Weaving Studio Painting Instruction CARRIE FOLEY Woman’s Way Gallery Metalsmithing and Jewelry Design Silver, Gold, Copper, Fine Gemstones, Fossils At the Brown County Craft Gallery in Nashville, IN Visit the studio on the October Back Roads Tour 3276 Valley Branch Rd., Nashville, IN (812) 320-1201

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 Spears Gallery, Nashville, IN chris@homesteadweaver.com www.homesteadweaver.com

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

“Strength of the Elder Women”

AMY GREELY Amy Greely Studio Creative Metalwear Fun, lightweight earrings fabricated with a variety of metals, enhanced with gemstones, crystals, pearls, and patinas.

Available at New Leaf in Nashville, IN ~ An Indiana Artisan ~ amy@amygreely.com www.amygreely.com (812) 988-1058

JOAN HAAB Country Mouse Weaving Studio

SHARON JUNGCLAUS GOULD–Trained SoulCollage® Facilitator

“ Discover your Wisdom, Change your World with SoulCollage®” Hand woven chenille designer garments SoulCollage® is an intuitive, visual 7965 Rinnie Seitz Road process for the discovery of your creative Nashville, IN 47448 Inner Self. Join us for a powerful and Also available at Brown County Craft fascinating learning experience as Gallery and Spears Gallery in Nashville, IN you create your own personal deck of (812) 988-7920 Continued on 38

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cards. Delightful and amazing!

Workshops, retreats, classes, and individual coaching. www.artandspiritstudio.com slj41@earthlink.net (812) 343-5285 or (812) 988-0597

LINDA KNUDSEN Fiber Artist

JOE LEE Illustrator, Painter, Clown

NORTHWOOD

Pen and ink, watercolor illustrations Book illustrator “...for Beginners” series Editorial cartoonist for Herald Times Children’s illustration INto Art and Our Brown County Bloomington, IN (812) 323-7427 joelee@bluemarble.net

Paintings

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

CAROL KOETKE Fine Art Photography Award-winning fine art to live with Available from: Gallery North Nashville – Nashville, IN

By Hand Gallery – Bloomington, IN and online at www.carolkoetke.com carol@carolkoetke.com (812) 322-5180

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NORENE MARA Oil Paintings– Figures and landscapes Brown Co. Art Gallery 306 E. Main St. Nashville, IN (812) 988-4609 nmarastudio@localnet.com www.norenemara.com (812) 988-1654

(pseudonym)

A journey through neo-abstract expressionism as well as contemporary impressionism with a touch of mystery See at Hoosier Artist Gallery, Nashville, IN Carol Clendening www.carolclendening.com interiorscc@aol.com (812) 825-1803

CHERI PLATTER Faerie Hollow Studio Precious Metal Clay Jewelry Lampwork Beads, Silk Scarves Classes available 1650 Salt Creek Rd. Nashville, IN Open Tues.–Sat. ~ An Indiana Artisan ~ (812) 988-8378 cheri@cheriplatter.com www.cheriplatter.com

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LARRY SPEARS Spears Gallery Porcelain and Stoneware MARY RILEY Fine Artist Oil Paintings at Gallery North Nashville 50 E. Main on Old School Way maryrileyart@gmail.com www.zhibit.org/maryriley

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

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

SUE WESTHUES Mixed Media Gourd Art 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 A Fair of the Arts at the Bloomington Farmers Market Sue Westhues P.O. Box 1786 Bloomington, IN 47402 (812) 876-3099

TRICIA HEISER WENTE Fine Artist Oil, Acrylic, Pastel, Watercolor Studio / Gallery 1000 W. 17th St. Bloomington, IN 47404

By Hand Gallery, Bloomington, IN Hoosier Salon Gallery, Indianapolis, IN The Gallery on Pearl, New Albany, IN www.triciawente.com (812) 333-3907

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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News from the Brown County District

D

uring a public discussion with artists and entertainers at the Brown County Inn last March, members of the Nashville Arts and Entertainment Commission asked assembled artists and entertainers what the commission could do to help them.

More than once, the response went, “Help people find us,” or “Tell people where we are playing,” or “Help get people to our studios.”

As a result, after several months of work with an Indianapolis marketing firm, the Three-Sixty Group, the Arts and Entertainment Commission is poised to launch a marketing effort to not only call attention to Nashville’s new arts and entertainment district, but also guide people to the individual arts, entertainment and historic venues.

Centerpiece of the program will be a dramatic piece of public art—an 18-foot tall, metal sculpture of soaring leaves that appear to be caught up and lifted into the air by the wind—which will be located in the heart of the village. It will serve as the symbolic gateway to the district, officially named “Arts Village Brown County”.

“Since Brown County is famous for its fall foliage, the leaf theme was a natural,” said Tom Tuley, president of the Arts and Entertainment Commission. “And the leaf theme will be carried out in everything we do, including our district logo.”

The sculpture will be lighted at night with colorful lights at its base, and the base will also carry a QR code, which smart phone users can scan. That will take them to a district website, which will not only talk about the district’s history and purpose but will include maps showing the district’s special arts, entertainment and historic venues, as well as public art sites.

In addition, each of the special venues will have a large, colorful leaf on the outside of the building, designating it as an arts, entertainment or historic venue. The leaves will be colorful maple leafs similar to the ones on the 18-foot public sculpture.

“Ideally, we hope that web site will not only have the location of all those venues, but also specific information about what’s going on each week,” said Tuley. “For instance, we want information that says this bluegrass band is playing Friday night at 8 p.m. at Muddy Boots, or

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this group will perform Tuesday at 7 at the Playhouse, and so on.”

For those who are not into smart phone technology, traditional brochures and pamphlets will be available with similar information. And, of course, the web site can be accessed with computers.

A well-known Brown County sculptor, James Connor, will be working with a group of veterans to create the large sculpture. About $65,000 must be raised to fund the work, even though some of the labor and materials will be donated.

In addition to that sculpture, the Arts and Entertainment Commission has put out a call for artists to commission another piece of public art to be located on a pad that is already poured on Franklin Street near Jefferson Street in the village.

To make a donation to the fund drive for the leaf sculpture, or to ask questions about either piece of public art or other activities of the Nashville Arts and Entertainment Commission, Tuley can be reached at <naec@townofnashville.org>. 

Gallery North Nashville

New Traditions in Fine Art & Craft Collecting Old School (Alley) Way, south from Main Street, across from courthouse in Nashville, Indiana

www.gallery-north.org • (812) 988-6855

News from the Columbus District

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s summer temperatures rise, so do the number of arts programs happening within the Columbus Arts District.

JCB NeighborFEST, Columbus Area Arts Council’s popular after work concert series, ushered in the summer on June 6 and continues through September. On July 11, Gordon Bonham returns to Columbus, joined by Gene Deer and Benito DiBartoli, to perform a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. It’s a favorite show for them and a time for many to pay respect to the great. Max Allen Band, whose music can best be described as an 8-up combination of musical genres, makes their Columbus debut on August 1. We wrap up the summer concert season on September 5 with Rusty Bladen Band. All JCB NeighborFEST concerts are free and begin at 5:30 p.m. on Fourth Street in downtown Columbus.

Johnson-Witkemper Insurance Biggest Block Party Ever is an annual fundraiser for the Arts Council. Held on the last Saturday of July in the heart of the Arts District, the block party includes three music stages and 12 bands performing throughout the night. The entertainment line-up includes local and regional acts playing a range of musical styles from rock and country to blues and soul.

Headlining this year’s event is Hunter Smith Band, led by ex-Indianapolis Colts punter Hunter Smith. Other groups performing are Hudson Hornet from Bloomington, Extra Cash, a Johnny Cash tribute band from Franklin, and Shiny Penny, an indie-rock group from Kokomo.

This annual community event begins at 5:30 p.m. and ends at midnight. This event attracts nearly 3,500 people of all ages to the streets of downtown Columbus.

Downtown restaurants prepare special block party food and set up shop on the sidewalks. Bartholomew County Beverage offers beer and wine along 4th Street. Children can enjoy the Kids Zone with special activities that include a rock climbing wall and bounce houses. Admission to Biggest Block Party Ever is $8. Children 12 and under are admitted free of charge.

August 23 and 24 is a big weekend for the arts in Columbus that includes glass blowing and iron pour workshops, a community art project, and an annual art festival. Produced by local artist Bob Anderson, ArtFEST returns bigger than ever for its fourth year. This juried

art show features nearly 120 local, regional, and national artists displaying their art on Washington Street, from 4th to 5th, and the newly redesigned 4th Street from Jackson to Franklin.

In conjunction with ArtFEST, Columbus Area Arts Council brings back the popular community iron pour led

by Chicago-based artist Jim Brenner. Jim and his team of artists will lead workshops where community members create scratch blocks that are poured by Jim and his team.

The Arts Council will also offer glass blowing workshops, led by Lisa Pelo from Hot Blown Glass Studios in Clayton, IN. Beginning in July, participants will be able to sign up for time slots to create a glass paperweight and to create a scratch block.

Beginning on July 9, Columbus Museum of Art and Design will host Boston-based, 3D artist Mark Cooper.

Cooper will exhibit his sculptures and installation work at IUCA+D through the first week of September, with an opening to his exhibition on the evening of the July 9. Community members will assist in the installation of Cooper’s work by contributing artifacts to the installation in collaboration with the artist. Anyone will be able to contribute more artifacts and elements, of their choice, to the installation throughout the length of the two month exhibit.

Other events being planned for the August 23 and 24 dates include screen printing and a temporary art installation led by two local arts enthusiasts.

There are many arts activities that take place in the Columbus Arts District, regardless of the time of year or day of the week. Many of these arts-related activities can be found on our website’s arts calendar at <www. artsincolumbus.org>. While you’re browsing, sign up for our weekly e-newsletter. It is sent out every Thursday afternoon and not only lists our programs for the weekend, but other arts-related events hosted by other organizations in and around Columbus.

Arthur Smith is Marketing & Media Director of Columbus Area Arts Council. He can be reached at <asmith@artsincolumbus.org>. Find out more about the arts in Columbus by visiting <www.artsincolumbus.org>. 

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News from the Bloomington District

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he Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) is an officially designated Cultural District by the State of Indiana and offers 60 blocks of attractions to explore and enjoy all in the heart of downtown Bloomington. There’s never a shortage of things to do and see—for a day, a week or longer.

July’s First Friday celebration is Friday, July 5. On First Friday, galleries and shops stay open late and other pop-up music and other special events occur. The nexus of activity this month is Fourth Street where the Ivy Tech – John Waldron Arts Center hosts an opening reception for its three new July exhibits. Oliver Winery will also on hand serving up wine by the glass. 5 to 8 p.m.

Just down the street at WonderLab, the Science of Art features Hoop Dancing! Watch The Hudsucker Posse use centripetal force to defy gravity during spectacular hoop dancing performances at 6 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Related visitor activities include practicing the physics of hooping with the performers, creating spin art using paint, and making a wooden spinning top. A small-plate meal, freshly prepared

by Bloomingfoods, will be available to buy in the WonderLab café. 5 to 8 p.m. Free for members, half-price ($3.50) for nonmembers. More at <www.wonderlab.org>. Down the street at the I Fell Building (4th and Rogers Street) will be the First Friday at Fell Street Festival with live entertainment food trucks, exhibits, artist open students, and more.

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On Friday, August 2 downtown galleries throw a collective party complete with new exhibitions, visiting artists, live music, refreshments and other surprises, all designed to create a festive and communal atmosphere celebrating the wealth of visual and performing arts in the area. Visitors will find an exciting selection of artwork at each gallery along with a vibe that ranges from sophisticated to college-town funky. Whatever your taste in fine art and craft, you’re sure to find something you love at the Downtown Gallery Walk. <www. gallerywalkbloomington.com>.

On Labor Day weekend, August 31 and September 1, the annual 4th Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts displays an eclectic array of fine art and craft to enjoy (and take home). This annual two-day art show extravaganza is nestled under the shady trees on the 4th Street between the Indiana University campus and downtown. The show was founded, and is still managed by artists. The 4th Street Festival combines artists who hail from the area with fine arts and craftspeople from around the country to create a one-of-kind-festival experience.

Performances including a spoken word stage are interspersed throughout the day along with other surprises. Numerous area arts and cultural attractions are also in attendance, sharing information on their upcoming seasons and soliciting volunteers. The 4th Street Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Local theater’s in the spotlight when Cardinal Stage Company kicks off its sixth full season with Lord of the Flies at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater September 11–15. Schoolboys crash-land on an uninhabited island and clash over how best to govern themselves in Nobel Prize-winning William Golding’s acclaimed novel.

The annual Lotus World Music and Arts Festival celebrates the diversity, beauty, and joy of music and arts from cultures around the world, and this year, Lotus’ 20th anniversary, is no exception. Mark your calendar for a four-day celebration on September 25–29. The Festival is proudly based in downtown Bloomington and named in part for Indiana musician Lotus Dickey (1911–1989). Stages range from the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to standing-room-only street tents, to churches where traditional music shines. Saturday’s Lotus in the Park is packed with live performances, hands-on art projects, and interactive workshops with Festival artists. For details and more visit <www.lotusfest.org>.

There’s much, much more to see in do in BEAD every day of the week.

You’ll find it on our website at <www. visitbead.com> along with featured blogs on dining, shopping and other arts events you’ll want to check out while you’re here!

—Miah Michaelsen, Director of BEAD, City of Bloomington, <michaelm@bloomington.in.gov>. 

of the Arts and Crafts

DO NOT USE INSIDE COVER • Arts • Crafts • Music • Kids Zone • Labyrinth

August 31 and September 1 Saturday 10 to 6 • Sunday 10 to 5

Downtown Bloomington 4th Street Grant to Indiana 4thstreet.org

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DOWNTOWN bLOOmiNgTON

WALK GalleryWalkBloomington.com

eleven member galleries find artwork you love from sophisticated to funky stroll the gallery walk any time of the year and attend special gallery walk receptions from 5-8pm on these six firsT friDAys: April 5, June 7, August 2, October 4 and December 6.

fuLL member gALLeries

 Blueline creative co-op & Gallery

 pictura Gallery

 Gallery Group

224 N. College Ave. 47404 [812] 589-7377 bluelinestyle.com

122 W. 6th st. 47404 [812] 336-0000 picturagallery.com

109 e. 6th st. 47408 [812] 334-9700 gallerygroup.org

Tues–fri 12-6, sAT 12-4

Tues–sAT 11-7

mON–fri 9-5

 By Hand Gallery

 tHe venue, fine arts & Gifts

101 W. Kirkwood Ave. 47404 #109 fountain square mall [812] 334-3255 byhandgallery.com

114 s. grant st. 47408 [812] 339-4200 thevenuebloomington.com

 royale Hair parlor Gallery

Tues-sAT 11-7, suN 12-5

mON–sAT 10-5:30

 Gallery406 inside the Wicks building 116 W. 6th st., ste. 110 47404 [812] 333-0536 gallery406.com

AuxiLiAry gALLeries

 Blue studio Gallery 116 1/2 s. College Ave. #10 [upstairs] 47404 [812] 361-7504 bluestudiogallery.com

mON–fri 9-6, firsT friDAys 9-8, sAT by AppT

WeD-sAT 12-6 Or by AppT.

 ivy tecH Waldron arts center

 el norteño Gallery

122 s. Walnut st. 47404 [812] 330-4400 ivytech.edu/waldron

206 N. Walnut st. 47404 [812] 333-9591 elnorteñorestaurant.com

mON–fri 9-7, sAT 9-5, CLOseD suN

mON–Thurs 11-10, fri–sAT 11-10:30, suN 11-9

inside the Wicks building 116 W. 6th st., ste. 101 47404 [812] 360-1860 royalehairparlor.com mON 11-4, Tues-fri 11-7, sAT 11-4 11 stone Belt  art Gallery

107 W. 9th st. 47401 [812] 332-2168 x. 269 artgallery@stonebelt.org mON-fri 10-4, firsT friDAys 10-4 AND 5-8

timidity i sculpture by devin Balara [ivy tech Waldron arts center] Weaving by suzanne Halvorson [By Hand Gallery]

pottery by ruth conway [By Hand Gallery]