OCT.-DEC. INto Art magazine

FREE Oct.– Dec. 2012

Wyatt100LeGrand Paintings in a Week?

Romancing the Era DO at NOT USE

Zaharakos INSIDE COVER Craft Show Sculptures Old Tobacco Barn

by the

The Indiana Boys

in the Moment

Flight Club

Aerial Silks Sport

Also: B3 Gallery Kids Make Art at kidscommons Frank and Onya’s Gifts Déjà Vu Art and Fine Craft Show Discardia ReFashion Boutique Gealt at IUAM Doodle Away for CAAC Julia’s Fiber Show at CLC Small is Big at Grunwald Gallery Brown County Back Roads Tour Knitting to Heal Fall and Holiday Events

Art News • Artists Directory • Calendar Detail of “Purple Haze” by Wyatt LeGrand, oil on canvas

We’re DO NOT USE INSIDE COVER

Zaharakos (Zuh-HARE-uh-koes) is unlike any other ice cream parlor in the nation. Experience the world of soda fountains, mechanical music and iconic items from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.

329 Washington Street Columbus, IN 812-378-1900 www.zaharakos.com M-F 8am-8pm • S-S 9am-8pm Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Sodas & Sundaes Breakfast, Banquet Facilities, Museum & Country Store

South Central

INDIANA ART TRAIL

ArtsRoad46

L

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

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

T

Bloomington

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.

Nashville and Brown County F

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.

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

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

C

Columbus

olumbus, Indiana is a small town with a modern twist.

Forget everything you think you know about the Midwest.

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

Cindy Steele, publisher A Singing Pines Projects, Inc. publication also bringing you Our Brown County copyright 2012

Four Quarterly Issues

Winter: January/February/March Spring: April/May/June Summer: July/August/September Fall: October/November/December

Thanks to Mom for making it happen!

SUBSCRIBE Four Issues for just $10 for postage and handling.

Name:

Address:

Send with check or money order to:

INto ART P.O. Box 157 Helmsburg, IN 47435

Art Guild of Hope....................................15 Dr. Lisa Baker, DDS..................................29 Back Roads of Brown County Tour....29 Bistro 310 Restaurant.............................29 Bloomingfoods.........................................23 Bloomington Clothing Company......40 Bloomington Gallery Walk...................44 Bloomington Holiday Market.............23 Bloomington Spinners & Weavers Annual Fiber Show.................................... 9 Blue Moon Consignment Shop..........40 Brown County Art Gallery....................14 Brown County Art Guild.......................... 7 Brown County Craft Gallery.................15 Brown County Visitors Center............... 7

4 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

P.O. Box 157 Helmsburg, IN 47435 812-988-8807 • INtoArt@bluemarble.net on-line at www.INtoArtMagazine.com

Features

5 Zaharakos, Romancing the Era

by Lee Edgren 8 Wyatt LeGrand, 100 Paintings?

by Tom Rhea 10 Craft Show by the Sculptures

by Bill Weaver 12 The Indiana Boys

by Lee Edgren 16 Flight Club Aerial Silks

by Laura Gleason 20 kidscommons Kids-at-Art

by Nicole Wiltrout 22 Deja Vu Fine Art & Craft Show

by Marilyn Brackney 24 Discardia

by Laura Gleason 26 Back Roads of Brown Co. Tour

by Michele Pollock COVER BY WYATT LEGRAND Detail from “Purple Haze” See article on page 8

Brown County Winery............................26 B3 Gallery..................................................... 7

By Hand Gallery.......................................23 Cathy’s Corner...........................................13 Columbus Learning Center..................29 Columbus Visitors Center.....................21 Country Mouse Weaving......................27 Deja Vu Fine Art and Craft Show........43 Ferrer Gallery.............................................17 Gallery North Nashville.........................19 Goods for Cooks......................................... 9 Homestead Weaving..............................17 Hoosier Artist............................................15 IU Art Museum.........................................17 Jacksson Contemporary Art................14

28 Barry Gealt at IUAM

by Tom Rhea 30 B3 Gallery

by Lee Edgren 31 Knitting to Heal

by Chris Gustin 32 Frank and Onya’s Gifts

by Lee Edgren 33 Fiber Show at CLC

by Geri Handley 40 Small is Big at Grundwald

by Tom Rhea 41 Doodles

by Geri Handley 41 Holiday Art Markets 42 Area Art News 34-35 EVENTS CALENDAR 36-39 ARTISTS DIRECTORY Michael’s Massage...................................21 Muddy Boots Cafe...................................27 New Leaf/Amy Greely Jewelry............13 pictura gallery...........................................15 Pine Room Tavern....................................27 Pygmalion’s................................................13 So. Indiana Center for Arts SICA........... 7 Spears Pottery............................................ 8 Stillframes Photography & Imaging.25 Stone Belt Holiday Art Sale..................11 Vance Music Center................................23 Village Art Walk........................................40 Laurie Wright Studio + Framing.........25 Yarns Unlimited........................................13 Zaharakos..................................................... 2

Romancing the Era

Zaharakos

I

~by Lee Edgren

magine. It’s Christmastime in the early 1900s, let’s say 1908. Horses are what most people use for transportation. There are no movies, no TV, no internet, no cell phones. Entertainment is homemade, and Christmas itself still pretty simple. Think of being thrilled to get an orange as a present!

In Columbus, Indiana the Zaharako brothers installed their Welte orchestrion pipe organ just three years after they brought their Mexican onyx soda fountains all the way from St. Louis World’s Fair. Zaharakos is decorated in Victorian style for Christmas, and all the neighbors are invited in to see the decorations and hear the music.

“That’s what we want people to feel when they walk in, uniquely in touch with that era,” says Debra Slone, creative consultant, decorator, and chief cheerleader for Tony Moravec’s latest addition to Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum—an upstairs suite of Victorian Exhibit Rooms that will be done late this fall, just in time for the Christmas season. The rooms will occupy much of the space lived in by the Zaharako family from 1900 to 1914 and will also house the more than 200 orchestrion paper rolls as well as a library of rare soda-fountainrelated trade books and publications.

Debra Slone, in period clothes, next to the Zaharakos pipe organ in the main dining area. photo by Cindy Steele

According to Debra, “The upstairs is going to be like walking into a museum that you can sit in and use. It really is high end, over the top. We have museum-quality Renaissance revival furniture and fixtures. We want people to walk right into 1900, want people to feel that atmosphere, and the history. We are definitely romancing the era, with the same level of attention to historic detail that we have downstairs, or maybe even higher.”

The rooms will be available to rent for special events.

The dining room will feature a nine foot table and 12 chairs in an area that will accommodate only 15 to 20 people.

Debra notes that it will be a wonderful meeting area for corporations, and for individuals or businesses for wine tastings, very special dinner parties, and theme dinner parties.

Continued on 6

Chris Velez staining the custom white oak trim for the upstairs museum. photo by Cindy Steele

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 5

ZAHARAKOS continued from 5

Debra Slone explaining the fabric choices for the new upstairs rooms. photo by Cindy Steele

Many of the same craftspeople involved in the reconstruction of the downstairs business and its expansion are also involved in this project. Brown County’s Loran Roberts, who coordinated the two-year-long renovation, has spearheaded the construction of the upstairs rooms, assisted by Jake Kinnet and Chris Velez.

Museum Conservator Charles Baker,

courtesy photo

“I think it would be fun to have a historic character show up for dinner, Mark Twain, maybe, or Buffalo Bill.”

Debra plans on programs about the history of soda fountains, and also would love to do small historic teas accompanied by programs on life in the 1900s—manners, dress, as well as the interrelationship between fashion and social evolution. “You have to put yourself in people’s shoes to understand what it was like to live in that era. The industrial revolution created immense changes.”

The Victorian Exhibit Rooms were a year in the planning and have been months in construction. Debra was recruited to oversee the design of the space and purchase Victorian furniture.

She quickly involved Franklin, Indiana antiques and historic restoration expert Raymond Turner. “I can take it to the top,” Debra noted, “but this gentleman can take it over the top.” Debra glows as she shows samples of the rich brocaded fabrics that will become heavy window treatments and cover the upholstered dining chairs and settees.

6 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

who has lovingly done everything from refurbishing the tin ceiling tiles to restoring the marble soda fountains, is also involved.

“Every detail is important to Tony,” Debra notes, “For example, since the downstairs is done in white oak, everything upstairs was done in white oak that had to be custom milled. Our fretwork is from Pennsylvania; our custom tiles are from South Carolina.

Tony really likes to buy (and sell) things made in the United States whenever possible.”

The old Zaharakos was famous for its Christmas decorations and it is predicted that the new Zaharakos will be, too. Decorating for Christmas starts the day after Halloween. It takes two people at least a full week. There are three trees downstairs and lush, heavy garlands. “We try to make it faithful to the period with one exception. Tony loves bubble lights, so there is one ‘50s tree, shiny ‘50s ornaments, tinsel, and all.”

Debra cannot say exactly how much the restoration has cost. “This is all possible because of Tony’s vision and generosity. It is really Tony’s gift to the community.” Debra adds, “We found a receipt—the Zaharakos rented the entire original building for all of 1900 for $50. “Just imagine! 

Think of us when you shop for the Holidays Give a Christmas gift of art

Members’Art Members Art Show

Featuring artwork by local and regional artists and artisans

November and December, December Main Gallery

Everything on sale—Great art for a great price.

SICA Gallery Hours Tues.-Fri. noon–5 pm, Sat. 11 am–3 pm Closed Thanksgiving weekend and Christmas 2001 N. Ewing St. Seymour, Indiana 3 miles south of I-65 exit 55 (SR 11 Jonesville/Seymour)

Southern Indiana Center for the Arts Visit wwwSOINARTcom www.SOINART.com • (812) 522-2278

The Art and Soul of Nashville

Plan your escape today at BrownCounty.com.

Brown County

Art Guild

• SINCE 1954 •

Featuring

The Marie Goth Collection and works by 50 Contemporary Member Artists visit www.BrownCountyArtGuild.org for our seasonal hours 48 South Van Buren Street in the historic Minor House PO Box 324 • Nashville, IN 47448 • (812) 988-6185

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 7

BVB-017-IntoArt-Ad-3.5x4.5-09.14-FNL.indd 1

9/14/12 12:25 PM

RES: JOB: BVB-017-IntoArt-3.5x4.5-09.14-FNL.indd

DATE: 09/14/12

press ready

MEDIA: Into Art 1/4 page ad

NAME:

EM

KC

SW

DM

CLIENT

LIVE:

3.5'' x 4.5''

APPROVAL:

OK

OK

OK

OK

OK

TRIM:

3.5’’ x 4.5’’

Wyatt LeGrand 100 Paintings in a Week?

~by Tom Rhea

I

courtesy photo

8 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

“Tallboys.”

n the plein air painting circles of southern Indiana, Wyatt LeGrand is busy making a name for himself through participation in workshops, demonstrations and exhibitions.

He had two paintings accepted at the recent Indiana Heritage Arts Show in Brown County. The theme of his upcoming show at the Waldron, performed with his painting partner A native of Bloomfield, LeGrand trained in art through Roy Boswell, involves the creation of one hundred paintings the School of Education at Indiana University. “Even between the two of them in a week, after an arduous trek though you are in training to be a teacher, they have around multiple painting sites in Indiana. you taking regular studio courses in almost the same number as for a regular art degree,” he explained. He taught art classes for two years in the Linton-Stockton school system to high school students and a nine-week rotating class of ninth graders. He found the experience enjoyable, saying. “A lot of them had developed an interest in art and really wanted to be there. I was able to share a wide range of my expertise.” Besides teaching the basics of art practice like drawing and painting, he was able to include a segment on art history as well, from cave painting to modern, through a curriculum of his own design. He was gratified to see students awaken to his idea that “the production and techniques in art relate closely to the events of regular world history and American history,” and so his topics had a direct bearing on what they were learning in other classes.

As a substitute for a teacher on extended maternity leave, LeGrand subsequently found it difficult to secure “Show me the Monet.”

another teaching position in the area. He has happily continued teaching at irregular intervals to folks in his hometown now that he has established his art studio in Bloomfield. He teaches 8-week courses in painting that include a lot of beginners. “I think they respond to the brightness of my color palette. I have a heightened intensity to my work, and I paint fast. People seem to like that,” he said.

As he worked on-site at various locales around the state, the ability to finish a painting in the space of a few hours seemed like a real asset. He met Greenwood artist Roy Boswell at an outdoor painting event in Brookville, and the two hit it off. “We’re both the same age and also quite a bit younger than most of the other painters we meet on the circuit,” LeGrand said. Together they decided to put their skills at painting swiftly to an ultimate test. “We set aside a week we each had free in August, and tried to see if by painting all day, every day for a week, we could together come up with one hundred finished paintings. We visited downtown Bloomfield, Roy’s farm near Vernon, Nashville, Columbus (because of Roy’s interest in architecture), Bloomington and Indianapolis. It was exhausting driving to a different place every day, and working outdoors in the heat of the summer, but we did it.” The two will open a show of selected paintings at the John Waldron Art Center on December 7, 2012, “as many as will fit in the gallery.”

In addition to a large portrait of his girlfriend, LeGrand placed another painting in the recent Indiana Heritage Show that was unusual for not being a landscape. Rather, “Show Me the Monet” depicts a gallery in the Art Institute of Chicago surely familiar to any fan of impressionism, representing Caillebotte’s large street scene, “Paris Street: Rainy Day.” Besides being a sly pun on the catchphrase from “Jerry McGuire,” his title refers to the public’s annoying habit of ignoring great painters in favor of names with more “star power.” “I love Caillebotte, and I have seen people walk right past his street scene in Chicago, just because they don’t recognize his name.”

LeGrand will be presenting a three-day workshop on painting at the Waycross Retreat with artist Rena Brower October 26–28. From Friday through the Sunday, the artists will offer demonstrations and one-on-one instruction. He and Ms. Brower will also lead interested attendees into downtown Nashville on Saturday night for a painting demo and critique at the fundraising auction held by the Art Guild, the Annual Guild 12. The evening includes wine and jazz, as well as a raffle to win a distinguished Carl Graf painting from the Guild’s permanent collection.

The painting workshop weekend at the Waycross Retreat in the northwest part of Brown County costs $175 for three days and two nights. Overnight accommodations are priced separately. For more information or to register call 1-800-786-2267, or visit <www.browncountyartguild.org>.

Registration payment is due by October 19. 

BLO

OM I NG T ON

Spinners

Weavers

GUILD

27th Annual Fiber Art Show & Sale Friday, November 9 5 PM – 9 PM Saturday, November 10 10 AM – 5 PM First United Church ∙ 2420 E. 3rd Street ∙ Bloomington west of the College Mall between St. Charles and IU Credit Union Free Admission · All Hand Crafted Goods Woven Clothing, Shawls & Scarves Knitted Sweaters, Socks, Hats, Mittens & Scarves · Rugs · Runners Dish Towels · Tapestries · Dolls · Pillows · Stockings · Yarn · Fiber Roving · Quilting · Felting · Needle Felting · Spinning

bloomspinweave.org

812-876-9477 ∙ naturalsbymarla@gmail.com OR 812-876-9583 · robin@morenna.com

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 9

Old Tobacco Barn

Craft Show by the Sculptures

Sculpture and barn photos by Bill Weaver

~by Bill Weaver

O

ften overlooked for its more glamorous neighbors, Greene County contains many treasures deep within its valleys and along its meandering roads. The Old Tobacco Barn near Solsberry is one of these treasures The nearby Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum is another.

The Old Tobacco Barn’s 17th Annual Craft Show takes place Sat., Nov. 3. “It’s a unique and different type of sale,” says Dianne Masse.

“This was a dream of mine,” she continues. “I’d been making crafts for many years but always put them in other people’s shows or on consignment. We had this tobacco barn that we used to rent out. It was empty and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t that be an idea to put all my stuff in “Portrait of the Artist as Janus Garrett Krueger,” part of the International Cast Iron Exhibition of 2010. there?’ It had no windows or doors

10 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

“Indiana Visionary” by Caro Sweet.

and wasn’t really fit but I put the idea out there. One day I went to work and when I came home there were all these windows waiting for me in front of the barn with a note that said, ‘Thought you might need these!’ That began the whole thing. We put the windows in and then someone left us some chairs with a note, ‘Thought you might need these,’” she laughs, “that’s how it began.”

She says her husband was afraid she’d be disappointed by the turnout. “He kept thinking, ‘Poor thing, she’s going to have a show way out in the middle of nowhere.’

He felt so sorry for me. He went off to

teach—he teaches at Ivy Tech—and he was coming home and all these cars kept passing him. He was thinking, ‘Why is there so much traffic?’ When he passed the barn the parking lot was packed with cars. It’s been like that ever since.”

There will be 21 crafters with handmade baskets, bird houses, beeswax candles, paper crafts, collectables, fiber art, soap, and jewelry, as well as Dianne’s dolls and Santa Clauses.

There are also homemade salsas, jams, jellies, local honey, and the much sought-after caramel apples. For the first time two wineries are represented—Owen Valley Winery and Cedar Creek Winery from Martinsville.

“The Secret Garden is where we set up the cafeteria area,” she says. “The ladies make all different kinds of lovely food, all very homemade. You can do all your Christmas shopping all day right here in the good old USA,” she smiles.

The barn, built of loose slats that let in light and air, with drying racks vaulting high overhead, contains a cozy campfire in the middle of the large space with a festive Christmas tree on one side sitting amongst twinkling lights as musicians sprightly roam the landscape. “I originally started it for people who made things but had no outlet to sell them—little old ladies making quilts and knitting scarves—but now it’s grown into quite a nice variety of items.”

From Massachusetts, Dianne and Gerard moved to Bloomington for his job at Otis Elevator but soon heard the call of the wild, settling near Solsberry. “It’s just as pretty as driving through Brown County,” she says enthusiastically.

“Winding roads—you’d never expect to come across this jewel of a barn. It has a lot of atmosphere.

“On the day of the show you can shop, go for a hike, come back for lunch, shop some more, sip wine, listen to music, and shop some more,” she promises. “You can spend the entire day here and you won’t get bored.”

The Tobacco Barn sits at the entrance to Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum, which stretches deep into the hills beyond. A short hike through a beautiful wood rewards the visitor with metal sculpture that seems to have grown with the forest surrounding it. The art is humorous, brooding, and at times downright scary.

The park was first established in 2002 by Gerard as a way for his son Gerry—who had graduated from Eastern Greene High School and the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, followed by a Master’s degree at the University of Kentucky—to display the often massive artwork created by him and his friends.

Over the years the Sculpture Trails have enticed an international community of artists to display their works amongst the quiet wooded acres. Today 80 sculptures grace the property along a mile of meandering paths through the forest. “We never sat down and said we were going to build a sculpture park,” Gerry remembers, “it was just something that

Holiday Art Sale celebrating the artistry of individuals with disabilities

• original framed & unframed art works by Stone Belt artists • craft items from the global disabilities arts community • 2013 Stone Belt art calendars • blank note cards & holiday ornaments Saturday, December 8 10 am - 4 pm Stone Belt Art Gallery 107 West 9th Street in Bloomington www.stonebelt.org | artgallery@stonebelt.org

Continued on 18

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 11

The Indiana Boys She grew up in a Indiana town, Had a good lookin’ mama who never was around.

But she grew up tall and she grew up right With them Indiana boys on an Indiana night.

-Tom Petty, “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”

Gist, Rainwater, Bilger, Todd (Elkins), and Bolinger at Muddy Boots in September. photo by Cindy Steele

T

~by Lee Edgren

he Indiana Boys are Kenan Rainwater (vocals, guitar, harmonica) Dick Gist (vocals, guitar, mandolin), and Joe Bolinger (vocals, banjo), with mandolin virtuoso Barry Todd (Elkins) and “Picker” Dan Bilger (bass) along, when they aren’t playing for The White Lightning Boys.

The Indiana Boys fit loosely into the acoustic roots, progressive bluegrass genre. Bluegrass is the dominant “root,” creating the fairly tight constraints of their musical form. But their music is definitely of this time.

The acknowledged philosopher of the band, Joe Bolinger, notes, “We’re doing original music with a pretty wide range of content and fairly traditional forms. That’s kind of a unique thing.

There are not a lot of bands like us.” Here Dick Gist quips, “there’s NO band like us.”

The Indiana Boys have two CDs out now, Muddy Boots released on the spring equinox, 2012 and October Nights, released on the fall equinox, 2012. No accident that these releases tie to the rhythm of the earth, the movement of the heavens.

12 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

”I just hope that we can continue to have the fun that we had in the living rooms and around the campfires.”

—Kenan Rainwater The chorus from the first song on the first CD, Kenan Rainwater’s “The Hadza,” gives a clue to the complexity of the songwriting that continues to unfold in surprising ways over both CDs.

We’re gonna live in the moment This moment’s why we’re here Like the Hadza have done in the bush For the last ten thousand years.

Irony. Longing. Admiration. Resolve.

Loss. The inevitability of time and change. In four short lines.

Rainwater laughingly points to “angst,” as a shaping force in both his and

Bolinger’s songs, then adds, in serious counterpoint, “Being a deep thinker is both a blessing and a curse. Telling about life like it is—is not always happy. And then too, the happy songs may seem a little cheesier.”

The angst is startlingly and originally present, for example, in Bolinger’s “The Crows,” “America,” and “Reap” from October Nights, and Rainwater’s “Concrete Town,” from Muddy Boots. They write songs about ambivalent patriotism and about the alloyed pain and joy of family life. And they have fun with the cheesiness, poking fun at it, just enjoying it in the moment.

The Indiana Boys started out in 2004 as a rotating ensemble of musicians, centered around singersongwriter and guitarist, Dick Gist and mandolin player-vocalist Barry Elkins. For years, Gist notes, they had a different sound for every show.

Dick married into a talented musical family, where, he says, he learned nearly everything he knows

Continued on 14

Amy Greely

Estate Jewelry Antiques Paintingg

Jewelry Designs NEW LEAF in Nashville, IN NEW LEAF

Featuring locally handcrafted jewelry by owner Amy Greely.

An eclectic mix of creative items from local, regional, and global artists.

Located in Calvin Place, Franklin & Van Buren (812) 988-1058 • www.amygreely.com

Things you can’t find anywhere else!

39 E. Franklin St. (next to train) in Nashville

Painting Lessons available, call for times 812-988-4091• cathyscorner@att.net Also buying estate and vintage jewelry gold and silver (will travel).

PYGMALION’S Art Supplies, Inc. 108 N. Grant St. Bloomington, In 812-332-0025 www.pygmalions.com

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 13

INDIANA BOYS continued from 12 about music. His wife, Harmony, and lead singer Kenan Rainwater had been friends “since before they could talk.”

She introduced the two. Kenan brought in Bolinger, and they became a band about a year ago.

They played with renaming the group, contemplating 25 to 30 names. But The Indiana Boys are Indiana boys, steeped in the idiosyncratic Brown County ethos that merges love and family and church and God with rugged individualism, deep connection to the beauty of the natural world, the love of a good story well-told and, of course, a little rebelliousness on the side. The name stuck.

They began playing local music venues, especially Nashville’s Muddy Boots and The Pine Room Tavern (both currently managed by Gist). The group became a favorite of two of the co-owners, Betsy and James Oblack, who have provided encouragement and material support.

And they are getting attention. They opened for Academy of Country Music’s top vocal group, Rascal Flatts, at Indianapolis’s Klipsch Music Center in late August. They played to a mobile crowd of 12,000 to 15,000 people. “People were stopping to listen. They were saying, ‘Who ARE these guys?’” They also played at the Indiana State Fair this year. And they are playing farther and farther from home—Evansville to Ft. Wayne—as word gets around.

They hope to head back into the studio again this winter or spring. “Maybe we’ll have a release on the solstice,” Rainwater says, only half joking. But the future is, as it always is, clearly uncertain. Joe is only two years away from his Ph.D. from Indiana University in public policy studies. Dick and his wife have a baby on the way.

Rainwater has a five-year-old daughter.

Repeatedly mentioning the gratitude they have for the life and friends and family they have now, they focus

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

14 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Gist, Rainwater, and Bolinger opening for Rascal Flatts at Klipsch Music Center. photo by Seth Rainwater

on the near-term. “We want to stay around here, we have no desire to move to a bigger city,” Rainwater says. “I just hope that we can continue to have the fun that we had in the living rooms and around the campfires. You only get so many hours in a life, and you’ve really lost something big when you start to just value it in dollars.”

You can find their CDs at Muddy Boots, Pine Room Tavern, Weed Patch Music, Big Woods, and Designscape. They have a website: <www.theindianaboys.com>. 

• a c k Jsson CONTEMPORaRY aRT

oct-nov: Linda Adele Goodine nov-dec: James Wille Faust 1030 Jackson St. Columbus, IN 812 447-8787

www.facebook.com/jackssoncontemporaryart

open daily 10–5 • 812-988-7058

(next to Brown County Courthouse)

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

www.browncountycraftgallery.com

A Cooperative Gallery of Fine Artists and Craftsmen

58 East Main Street Nashville, Indiana

Adam Thorman & Laura Plageman Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 2 Show Runs Nov. 2 – Dec. 29

picturagaller

Christmas of Yesteryear

November 16 • 5 to 8 pm

on the Square in Hope Serving hot cider and coffee

Best of Winter Scenes Contest –penny votes 308 Jackson St. P.O. Box 188 188, Hope Hope, IN 47246

122 W. Six th St. Bloomington, in

A short drive from Columbus, SR 9 North from SR 46 East

812-336.0000 | picturagallery.com

Hours: Tues., Thurs., and Sat. 10:00–2:00; Fri. 10:00–2:00 By chance or by appointment 812-344-4711 • www.hopeartguild.com

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 15

~by Laura Gleason

”The people who do it well make it look like, ‘Oh yeah, I could do that,’ but it takes incredible strength to actually do it. ”

T

hey fly through the air with the greatest of ease, those daring, lithe people on the aerial silks. They wind themselves up like silkworms in a cocoon, only to come tumbling down again, seemingly out of control, before catching themselves in a split or similarly acrobatic position.

Aerial silk is a form of gymnastics that originally debuted through Cirque du Soleil, an artistic circus company that originated in Quebec. Now it has come to Bloomington as an art form and route to fitness, and people are getting in on the act in classes run

by Ebeth Feldman, an IU alumna and professional aerialist who has come back to town to share her love of the gravity-defying sport.

Feldman, 47, originally got into aerial sports when she was attending IU in the mid-eighties.

She learned her skills with a group called the High Flyers, which was started and continues to be run by local trapeze artist Bernadette Pace.

“Thousands of people over the years have come and flown on my trapeze in the yard,” Pace said.

After several years, the members of the group decided they needed to branch out and master a variety of acts if they were going to put together compelling performances. Aerial silks were getting popular at Cirque du Soleil, and the group hired an expert to come give a workshop in 2000.

“The people who do it well make it look like, ‘Oh yeah, I could do that,’ but it takes incredible strength to actually do it,” Pace said.

Feldman, who had become a professional circus performer, took off with the new discipline. She found work teaching aerial arts for a New York City-based company which hired her to open a branch in Los Angeles, where she lives today.

16 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

—Bernadette Pace

Flight Club

photo by Kyle Spears

Then she branched off and started Flight Club, her own company which teaches people the art of doing aerial silks through a rigorously thought-out breakdown of all the skills necessary toward mastering it.

“I wanted to do something that was more accessible to the regular person who wanted a workout that was fun, exciting, and something they were passionate

about— not limited to gymnasts and circus performers,” Feldman said.

After developing her program in LA, Feldman decided to open a wing of her school in Bloomington; the first rounds of classes are currently being held at the Twin Lakes Recreation Center.

“I’m from Bloomington, so I wanted to bring something back, because I love my hometown. It’s such a diverse community with the university. At first my partners in LA were like, why Bloomington, Indiana?

At Twin Lakes we want to start small and see how it goes, how the community likes it, if they’re ready for it,” Feldman said.

The first step was hiring some trusted instructors. Feldman reached out to Pace and another High Flyer and circus alumna, Juliana Burrell, to learn her teaching methods and run the Bloomington school.

Teaching people aerial arts is all about isolating the movements and teaching them one by one. “You break it down into really small chunks, the basic moves that are part of bigger moves,” Burrell said.

Developing strength and flexibility also plays an important role in becoming an accomplished aerialist.

“Some of our clients come to us with an extensive background in dance, gymnastics, or diving, so they’ve put their time in with other coaches, they’ve exercised, stretched,

Continued on 18

Homestead

Weaving Studio Quality Handwovens

by Chris Gustin

Representing over 30 local and regional artists Fine Art • Pottery • Jewelry • Fiber • Glass • Wood and more

Owners, Dixie and Dick Ferrer

61 West Main • Nashville, IN • Historic Village Green Building • 2nd level

www.ferrergallery.com • 812•988•1994

Visit us on the Studio Tours

Southeastern Brown County 6285 Hamilton Creek Road Open 11 to 5 most days

(812) 988-8622

www.homesteadweaver.com

Barry Gealt: Embracing Nature

Thirty-five vibrant paintings, representing three decades of work, illuminate this much-esteemed landscape artist’s embrace of the natural world.

Pioneers and Exiles: German Expressionism at the Indiana University Art Museum

IU Art Museum contains one of the finest collections of German Expressionist art to be found on any university campus in the country, as revealed in this groundbreaking look at how these treasures came to Bloomington.

Threads of Love: Baby Carriers from China’s Minority Nationalities

With their intricate, animated patterns and refined stitchery, these baby carriers reflect the diversity of China’s ethnic populations while reinforcing the common threads of love that bind all mothers and their children.

Special Exhibitions Gallery and the Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery October 6–December 23, 2012

Admission is always free. www.artmuseum.iu.edu

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 17

FLIGHT CLUB continued from 16 they have done a lot of work to get their muscles conditioned and flexible. They will progress more quickly. Someone who comes to us without that, who has just done general exercise, is going to need more time,” Feldman said.

Regardless, most people in reasonable health can start learning skills on day one. “When you’re actually able to do the move, it’s very rewarding, even with a small movement. You think it’s going to be very hard, and then when you’re able to do it,” said Giselle Martins, a lecturer at IU, after her first day in class.

Moises Crus, the only man at the Wednesday class I visited, was similarly enthusiastic. “That feeling when you are out, just hanging from your arms, or from the ceiling, is really good— it’s like freedom,” he said.

Having access to unusual workouts like those on the aerial silks is one more selling point for Bloomington, as far as Crus is concerned.

“I travel, I go to New York and

Anneka Nelson Laird in a position called “the angel” with instructor Bernadette Pace. photo by Kyle Spears

many other cities, but when I talk to my colleagues about the things I’m doing in Bloomington, they’re impressed. This is just a perfect example of the things we can find in Bloomington that are unexpected. It’s one more reason to love Bloomington,” he said.

For more information visit the website <www.flightclubfitness.com>, e-mail to btown@flightclubfitness.com, or call is (812) 269-6359. You can also view a YouTube video of “Edith Feldman Silks” to see aerial silks in action. 

CRAFT SHOW continued from 11 happened … it snowballed.”

“In June we have artists from all over the world,” Dianne adds. “They build their sculptures right here in the studio.”

For four weeks artists attend the iron sculpture workshops using Masse’s 11-foot-tall blast furnace. Artists and students come to learn how to shape molds, prepare and fire the large iron furnace, and safely pour the brutally hot metal using techniques little changed over the last 200 years.

The public is invited to watch these pours as well as participate in the popular Aluminum Pour, a one day event where you can watch as dozens of professional artists create aluminum relief castings for the public in a festival atmosphere.

The Old Tobacco Barn Craft Sale at 6764 N. Tree Farm Road in Solsberry, Indiana is from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Nov. 3.

Directions (you’ll need them) are available at <http:// oldtobaccobarn.com/>, or visit the Old Tobacco Barn’s Facebook page. The Sculpture Trails are open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to sundown. For a map, pictures, video, and information for visiting the Sculpture Trails, attending the annual Aluminum Pour, and next summer’s Iron Sculpture Workshops visit <www.sculpturetrails.com>.  Student Sue Rall in a position called “layback” with instructor Juliana Burrell. photo by Kyle Spears

18 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Gallery North Nashville

Mon.–Sat. 10 to 6 Sun. 12 to 5

NORTHWOOD (pseudonym) Neo-abstract expressionism/ contemporary impressionism Carol Clendening www.carolclendening.com interiorscc@aol.com (812) 825-1803

CATHY KORINEK Watercolor paintings of nature, people and nostalgia from around Indiana and the rest of the world Commissions welcomed (812) 339-6168

CAROL KOETKE Fine Art Photography (812) 322-5180 www.carolkoetke.com carol@carolkoetke.com

www.gallery-north.org Facebook as Gallery-north

Old School Way south from Main Street across from the courthouse • 812-988-6855

Gallery North Nashville is an artist owned and operated art gallery. The gallery moved to Nashville after nine years on the square in Bloomington. You will find a variety of work by these local southern Indiana artists: Pryde Bayless ceramics, silks

Elizabeth Busey printmaking

Glenn Carter metal sculpture

Carol Clendening oil on canvas

Tom Duffy fine art photography

David Gahimer wood turning

Teresa Hayden fine art jewelry

Pam Hurst fine art jewelry

Brenda Jackson painting

Carol Koetke fine art photography

Cathy Korinek watercolor

Jennifer Mujezinovic painting

Mary Riley painting

Linda Spier woodblock prints

Gallery-North also shows work by guest artists, participates in the Second Saturday Village Art Walk, and hosts special exhibits.

JENNIFER MUJEZINOVIC Stylized figurative paintings in oil www.jmujezinovic.com (812) 360-8500

DAVID GAHIMER Turned and decorated items in the designs of the Classic Greeks and Mediterranean Artisans of Antiquity (765) 592-3723

PAM HURST Metals, gems, and fun Custom fine silver charms (317) 459-3581 www.pamhurst.com pamalahurst@yahoo.com

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 19

kidscommons Kids-at-Art

T

~by Nicole Wiltrout

he concept of introducing the arts to your children always seems like a good idea in theory. But then the cost, the amount of time, the mess and the cleanup become stumbling blocks. Understandably, many busy parents rarely venture past crayons and coloring books. kidscommons, a children’s museum in downtown Columbus, provides an answer to these challenges for its guests, young and old alike. The Kids-at-Art Studio, which takes up a sunny corner on the first floor of the museum, features a multitude of artistic supplies, materials, and ideas to prompt kids in their creative exploration.

“We want kids to have a chance to express themselves artistically and to try something new when they visit. We want parents to know that it’s ok to be messy here. In fact, we encourage it. And we clean up!” said Anna Barnett, the museum manager.

At kidscommons, art programming is offered in several ways, both formal and informal. The studio space is always open during museum hours. Here there are several projects offered on the table tops each day, or kids are free to create masterpieces of their own choosing.

If visitors are looking for something a bit more structured, each Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., a slightly more complicated project is taught and led by museum staff. These projects typically take 15–30 minutes and are applicable to all ages.

“Young kids can participate, but we also find ways to challenge older kids during this time. We encourage parents to

The laser harp. photo by Nicole Wiltrout.

20 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

kidscommons Kids-at-Art Studio. photo by Nicole Wiltrout

participate also. Art is not just for children,” she explained.

While this studio space may seem simple, it is one of the more popular exhibits. According to museum staff, it gets high marks on visitor comment cards, and is often where guests spend the most time.

“This is an exhibit where we can really get in deep with learning because kids stay put in one place for a longer period of time,” Barnett said. kidscommons recently expanded its arts offerings beyond just the visual. With the addition of a laser harp, musical exploration is now possible.

The harp consists of 12 lasers that point down toward photo resistors. Each resistor is programmed to play a different note when the laser is interrupted by curious hands passing through the beam.

“The harp is tailored for kinetic learning and learning by trying. It’s a great example of the crossover between science and art,” said Liz Peterson Damm, museum educator. “It’s very hands-on. Anyone can play with it, even babies. Adults seem to love it even more than the kids.”

All of the above mentioned activities are included with museum admission ($6 for guests age one year and older).

But additional programming offered by the museum allows kids to spend even more time pursuing artistic interests.

While kidscommons has always offered summer camps and workshops, “the new prolonged fall break in Columbus is providing a lot of interesting opportunities to offer additional programming to families,” Peterson Damm said.

During October 15–19, a Wearable Art camp will be held for kids ages 8–12. The same camp offered last summer was extremely popular and had a wait list.

“Our staff found fabulous activities for tying in different types of art in an effort to make almost an entire outfit out of various materials. Children learned to operate sewing machines, how to sew on a button, and do a simple stitch.

They did tie-dye and made jewelry from Shrinky Dinks,” she explained. The cost for this camp is $110 for members and $125 for non-members.

There will also be a sculpture workshop offered on October 9. This three-hour program is designed to reach kids ages 5–7 who may not have an entire week to devote to a camp, or for families that don’t have the budget for a camp experience. Cost for the workshop is $30 for members and $36 for non-members.

“One of our staff members, Audrey Schulte, who is also an artist and sculptor, will lead the workshop,” Peterson Damm said. “Her background is in three-dimensional art, and attendees will make a sculpture from found objects. The kids will get to learn from a real artist.”

Space may still be available for these programs. To inquire, call kidscommons at (812) 378-3046. While the museum is typically closed on Mondays, it will be open Monday, October 8 and Monday, October 15 during Bartholomew County School Corporation’s fall vacation. If you miss the fall programming options, summer camps and activities will be announced in February.

More information on museum hours and admission is available at <www.kidscommons.org>. The museum is located at 309 Washington Street.

With Columbus’ focus on the arts and architecture, the museum takes seriously its role to encourage young visitors to develop an interest in these areas.

“People come to our town because of architecture. We want to continue the love of art in our young citizens and the guests who come,” Barnett said. “Those four- year-olds who visit today are tomorrow’s artists.” 

Michael’s Massage Michael Rebman, Mi Certified Therapist

$155 138 South Jefferson St. (around back) • Nashville by appointment only

812-988-4447 www.michaels-massage.com

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 21

Déjà Vu Y

Fine Art and Craft Show

~by Marilyn Brackney

ou may be a gourmet cook, but if you invite sculptor Gary Hovey to dinner, don’t expect him to “ooh” and “ahh” over the food you’ve prepared. He’s more likely to be interested in the way the table is set, because Hovey creates all his fantastic sculptures from forks, knives, and spoons.

The Ohio artist will join dozens of other amazing professionals who repurpose materials to create beautiful work for the Déjà Vu Art and Fine Craft Show. Held on Sat., Nov. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at The Commons in downtown Columbus, Indiana, the event is free and open to the public.

Several of those participating are members of Indiana Artisan program or Kentucky Crafted, prestigious organizations that require rigorous jurying processes in order to receive

22 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

the designation. Some of the art and fine crafts include assemblage, jewelry, sculpture, weaving, wearable art, book arts, leatherwork, and mosaics.

This year, a new category was added to recognize artists who use sustainable, natural materials to create their work. For example, Donna Jo Copeland, wool producer and owner of Breezy Manor Farm, will exhibit weaving and products shorn from her animals and Bloomington’s Karen Cherrington will show her beautiful, wearable art created from feathers.

Nearly one-third of the exhibiting artists are participating in their first Déjà vu Art and Fine Craft Show. One of the more unusual new entries is that of Indianapolis artist Larry Agnello who reuses toys, gears, and other found objects to create fanciful assemblages.

Catering to the younger crowd, Fishers artist and art teacher Nicole Lewis recycles scrap crayons to make new ones in fun shapes such as dinosaurs, robots, and alphabet letters.

Roxy Lentz of Clarksville rescues old copper and silver trays, which she cuts

into pieces and fashions into beautiful jewelry. In speaking about her creative process, Lentz says, “My jewelry is mysterious, and it has a mind of its own. The piece determines for itself what the final patina will be, and I have little control over that.”

Fiber artists include Brown County’s Anna Brown who sews stunning jackets from old kimonos, and Chris Gustin who weaves mill ends into beautiful scarves and wraps and textile waste into recycled rugs. Much to the delight of farmers in the Rising Sun area, Jan West gives new life to their used baling twine to knot amazing animals and characters.

Returning for her eighth show is Déjà Vu favorite Martina Celerin who weaves gorgeous, three-dimensional work featuring nature themes. The Bloomington artist says, “I came upon my style when I was looking for a way to break away from the more traditional, relatively flat, twodimensional weaving. I like to integrate found objects into the work and build forward into the space that normally separates the viewer from the artwork.”

Also from Bloomington, popular mosaic artist Cappi Phillips will exhibit funky clocks, animals, and assemblages.

Her work is closely tied to the theme of Déjà Vu Art and Fine Craft Show, as mosaic lends itself naturally to the

Continued on 25

ER Not a member? Not a problem!

Stop in at the co-op for fresh, delicious, affordable food - to eat in or take away.

VA NC EM

Store Hours: Mon. Tue. Thurs. Fri. 9:30 to 5:30 Wed. 9:30 to 7:00 Sat. 9:30 to 5:00

US IC

Acoustic and Electric Guitars: Taylor, Fender, Washburn, Seagull, Indiana Keybords: Yamaha, Korg Amps: Fender, Line 6

CE NT

Lessons, Accessories, and Repair

3220 E THIRD ST

near College Mall

419 E KIRKWOOD

right up the alley

316 W SIXTH ST

2 blocks west of courthouse square

Northside of Bloomington’s Square 112 W. Sixth St.

BLOOMINGTON IN BLOOMINGFOODS.COOP

Your locally grown co-op since 1976

812-339-0618

By Hand Gallery

City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department

City Hall, 401 N. Morton St.

Fine Crafts from Bloomington and Beyond

Saturday, November 24 10 a.m.–3 p.m. FREE

LIVE ENTERTAINMENT INSIDE & OUT 1:30 p.m.—Harvey Phillips’ TubaSantas LOCAL FARM VENDORS Produce, dried flowers, cheeses, honey, and more!

ARTS AND FINE CRAFTS Unique, locally made holiday gifts (Inside/outside City Hall)

GREENERY AND WREATHS

Special THANKS to Downtown Bloomington, Inc. and The Herald-Times.

Jack and Marian Forney

101 W. Kirkwood Ave. #109 Downtown Bloomington

Fountain Square

Inside Fountain Square Mall

(812)334-3255 • www.byhandgallery.com

For more information, call 349-3700 or visit www.bloomington.in.gov/farmersmarket.

Herald-Times:

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 23 Cindy Steele—IntoArt magazine

3.5" x 4.5" (1/4-page)

Size:

Jeanne Smith, steering committee member. photos by Cindy Steele

Discardia

S

tepping into Discardia—A ReBoutique, you might not notice that there is something different about the merchandise. Necklaces dripping with brightly-colored beads gleam in the jewelry case. Fanciful shirts, dresses, and skirts hang from clothing racks. Original art decorates the walls. It looks new, but it is all made from recycled materials.

Discardia, a little shop on the B-Line trail off North Fairview Street, has been open since May. It is run by volunteers, and its mission is to give new life to objects that would otherwise be thrown away, providing opportunities for artists and educating consumers along the way.

“People come in the store all the time and have no idea that the stuff is made from upcycled materials, and I always tell them that the stuff is locally made, too,” said Jeanne Smith, one of the driving forces on Discardia’s steering committee.

24 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

“Upcycle” means to elevate an object to a new, more interesting purpose. Picking apart a broken electric watch and using its circuit boards to make a pendant is upcycling, as is melting down the ends of used crayons together to make large rainbow crayons in whimsical shapes. You can find both at the shop.

~by Laura Gleason

Discardia offers a shopping alternative for consumers with an environmental conscience. “A lot of people think of something new if they want a gift or something, but I think there’s a movement of people seeing upcycling something as being more valuable and being more in line with their values,” said Gail Hale, another member of the steering committee.

The idea for the shop originated from the Trashion Refashion Show, an annual event sponsored by the Center for Sustainable Living.

For Smith, helping organize Discardia involved picking up a thread from earlier in her life. In 1975 she opened ReCycles, a company which built recycled bikes. When inexpensive bikes from Taiwan began flooding the market in the next few years, she transitioned to new cycles and renamed the shop Bikesmiths—it has been flourishing ever since. But she sustained her interest in recycling, and

go home and make things on their own, it opens their eyes,” Leimkuhler said.

They have a web page at <www.simplycsl.org/discardia. html> and you can contact them through Facebook or by phone at (812) 361-1351. 

DEJA VU continued from 22

Look for the bike rack landmark by artist Joe Masek, north end of the B-Line.

at Discardia, she is known for her earrings made from bits of bicycle chain and rubber.

Hale, a professional artist, was similarly magnetized by her first contact with Trashion Refashion. “I wanted to be involved in the Trashion Show from the first time I heard of it,” because of the opportunities it offered to explore working with a variety of materials, she said. Her first contribution to the show was a dress made of bubble wrap.

The Discardians were accepted as a project of the Center for Sustainable Living, which means they get the advantages of being part of a nonprofit. “We keep them updated on what we’re doing, and we give them five percent of our profits to support the main mission,” said Jeanne Leimkuhler, a contributing artist and steering committee member.

Finding their location, which they subleased from the Trained Eye Arts Center, an artists’ co-op with an independent gallery space for rent, seemed fortuitous. “It was spring and we felt this was a happening place that was going to be a good spot for us. It’s the nicest woods in all Bloomington,” Smith said.

Since business can be pokey along that end of the B-Line, the Trained Eye artists and the Discardians have been working to attract people to the area. One experiment is the new Saturday artists’ market, in which artists from the Trained Eye, Discardia, and beyond set up little stalls to display their work. They see it a fun compliment to the farmer’s market.

“If it gets going, we’ll have bands. Our goal is to make it something that really draws people down here,” Smith says.

Part of the concept behind Discardia is to show people how they can get creative with their own unwanted possessions. Half of the 500-square-foot space, therefore, serves as a workspace dedicated to creating things and teaching classes. So far several workshops have been held, teaching things like re-styling old t-shirts and “yarn bombing,” a playful practice of knitting that involves decorating outdoor objects with custom-made wrappers.

More workshops are being planned.

Merely shopping at Discardia can serve as an educational experience in and of itself. “People get really motivated to

challenge of using scrap to create art. In speaking about her work, Phillips says, “If our trash is to come back and haunt us, it should be in a form we can enjoy!”

In addition to the art show, employees from kidscommons Children’s Museum and the Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District are working together to present free children’s activities with an earthfriendly theme in celebration of America Recycles Day. The Bartholomew County Solid Waste Management District, Columbus Area Arts Council, Columbus Area Visitors Center, Papa’s Deli/Papa’s Grill, Pentzer Printing, Puccini›s, Hotel Indigo, and The Kroot Corporation sponsor the event.

For more information about Déjà vu Art and Fine Craft Show and the children’s activities, call the Columbus Area Arts Council at (812) 376-2539. A complete list of participating artists may be found at the show’s Web site at <www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/dejavu2012.html>, and to learn about the history of the show, visit <www.facebook.com/ DejaVuArtAndFineCraftShow>. 

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 25

BackStudio Roads of Brown County Tour all month of October, 2012 H

ave you ever wanted to see inside a working artist’s studio? During the month October, you can.

On the Back Roads of Brown County Studio Tour, artists open their home studios to the public. Drive down scenic back roads decked out in fall colors, stop along the way to visit 16 local artists, and buy artwork directly from those who made it.

The variety of artwork is impressive. Potter Larry Spears develops his own glazes, and his highly textural work, including teapots, vessels, and birdfeeders, is a beautiful combination of careful planning and pure chance.

~by Michele Pollock

Brown County WINERY

Just down the road from him, Carrie Foley wraps semi-precious gemstones and fossils with silver and gold wire to create unique pendants, earrings, and rings.

Nearby, the Henderson family works in a studio next to where their miniature donkey grazes. Joe and Sawyer are both fine woodworkers, and Peggy fashions jewelry from wood, stone, metal, and pearls, and hand-dyes fabrics.

Weaver Chris Gustin turns industry scrap into beautiful rugs in a studio filled from floor to ceiling with yarns and other fibers. If you ask, she’ll even let you weave a few rows on a hand loom.

2 Locations:

7 Days a Week Year Round

Winery / Tasting in Gnaw Bone

5 minutes East of Nashville 4520 State Road 46 East

812-988-6144 888-298-2984 Downtown Nashville Tasting Room

Locally Made Grape & Fruit Wines

Complimentary Wine Tasting Gift Shop • Cheese • Gourmet Food Items

Corner of Main Street and Old School Way

812-988-8646

www.browncountywinery.com

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

Mon.–Thurs. 10 to 5, Fri. & Sat. 10 to 5:30, Sun. 11 to 5

Member of the Indiana Uplands Wine Trail

26 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Country Mouse Weaving Studio Joan Haab Hand Woven Chenille Designer Garments

7965 Rinnie Seitz Road • Nashville, IN • (812) 988-7920

Open Weds., Thurs., Fri. and by appt. • countrymouseweavery@gmail.com

Also available at Brown County Craft Gallery and Spears Gallery in Nashville

Not far away, weaver Joan Haab demonstrates how she turns chenille yarn into garments and accessories on her hand loom.

Michele Heather Pollock hand-binds journals and photo albums, and uses her sewing machine in unusual ways to create stitched paper artwork.

Up Salt Creek Road, Bradley Cox recycles metal into uniquely designed artwork for your garden and home.

Around the corner, the Platters work together to make unique jewelry. Dallas creates lampwork glass beads, and Cheri adds precious metal clay pieces and gemstones to create necklaces and earrings. Cheri also paints silk scarves.

It’s worth a drive up to the north end of the county, where Rosey Bolte paints gourds she grows in her own garden, creating folk-art birds and other mixed media pieces.

Closer to Nashville, Brown County’s resident primitive painter, Amanda Mathis, works in acrylic to create scenes in all sizes from miniatures to murals.

Around a few bends, Judy and Tom Prichard create functional pottery in their own blend of clay. Judy enjoys carving leaves and other designs inspired by nature into her work. Tom specializes in decorative sawdust fired pottery.

In Tom and Judy’s studio, you can also find the widely varied work of guest artist Monique Cagle, who paints, creates hand-painted glassware, makes jewelry and works in fiber.

This self-guided driving tour is free to the public. All you need is a map, which can be downloaded from the website or picked up at the Visitor Center in Nashville. Studio hours vary, so it is important to check the map for details. More information can be found at <www.BrownCountyStudioTour.com>. 

porcelain and stoneware pottery by Larry Spears fine art photography by Kyle Spears handcrafted jewelry • handpainted silk scarves

Next to the Nashville House, Downtown Nashville www.spearspottery.com • 812.988.1286

Muddy Boots

Cafe

June–Nov.: 7am–Midnight • Dec.–May: 7am–10 pm Sun.: 8am–8pm

Scrumptious Entrees • Vegetarian Selections Handmade Desserts • Specialty Coffee Drinks Breakfast Served All Day

Live Music Daily

812-988-6911

www. muddybootscafe.com

136 N. Van Buren Street • Nashville

Pine

Room

fine dining in a relaxed setting

51 E. Chestnut St. • (behind Salt Creek Inn) State Road 46, Nashville

Promoting good service, a friendly atmosphere, and satisfied patrons

Friday: Dinner Music Sunday: Jazz Saturday: Anything Goes

812-988-0236 • www.PineRoomTavern.net Lunch: Tues.–Sat. 11 to 4 • Dinner: Tues.–Sun. 4 to 10 Late Night Sat. 10 pm to Midnight

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 27

Barry Gealt Exhibit at IUAM

I

n their opening show of the season, “Embracing Nature: the Landscape Paintings, 1985–2012,” the Indiana University Art Museum presents a retrospective of paintings by Barry Gealt that is unusual in that it treats one aspect of his painting career.

During the 1970s, Barry Gealt was a popular instructor with his undergraduate classes. Having started at IU in 1969, he was closer in age to his students, and he truly seemed to enjoy teaching. He shared his struggles and his discoveries with his students. In regular exhibits at the Ruschmann Gallery in Indianapolis, Gealt showed figure paintings and drawings of great sensitivity, but from them, it was not hard to discern a restlessness or lack of conviction. The present show includes three late figure studies that show well the discontinuity that led to a career turning point.

Show curator Linda Baden quotes Gealt as saying, about the figure studies, “These are paintings about them, about their biographies. I want to do paintings that are about me and my feelings.”

Though none are included in this show of paintings, Gealt began a crucial series of woodcuts in the eighties that showed him a way forward in his work. Treating landscape on large format panels, the woodblock prints often involved dozens of imprints, with a strikingly visceral build-up of pigment. Gealt found a new freedom in his treatment of the forests around his Spencer studio, and particularly in the expressive tactile and sculptural dimension to his color.

Those who saw some of these early breakthrough paintings, dramatic scenes of light breaking through clouds or high mountains (such as The Reddening Glow of Night from 1994), saw Gealt making full contact with his subject. He painted mountain passes the way Turner painted storms at sea, with little indication of human scale or orientation. “I am very interested in a landscape space that offers

28 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

~by Tom Rhea

“Indiana Waterfall.”

no room for a human presence,” Gealt said at the time.

The waves of oil paint in these works approach a sculptural density that occludes the usual transparency of paint to describe its subject. Gealt painted beaches in long, narrow horizontal panels.

He set in motion a viewing journey that somehow negates the idea of panorama.

The viewer is not rotating through a circle of degrees, but, as if stationary, is overtaken by a series of explosive changes that continually place him in a new center.

The Normandy paintings, too, imply a curious viewpoint, almost aerial as if seen from a great height. Without the orienting horizon, the viewer is forced to find a center everywhere in the painting.

There is great unity and consistency in Gealt’s pursuit of his landscape ideal, and not just because of the preponderance of water in his work. The experience of light and space in his treatment of water is similar to his treatment of a forest: both contain torrents that reflect an interior, emotional experience as well.

The exemplary painting in this regard combines the rush of water with the forest, the Indiana Waterfall of 2011. On his property in Spencer, Gealt has a waterfall, a subject that has occupied him for years.

“For me, the waterfall is a symbol of fury and agitation,” he has said.

Gealt does not offer a set of objects on the canvas, nor detailed description.

The only object is the painting, and its reality overtakes every detail. But Gealt evokes an experience of the ocean that is very familiar and intimate, and memory provides the details: the low light of dawn poking through lowering clouds, a rush of storm clouds drawn across the horizon like a curtain, a deepening, luminous jade at the root of a wave.

The Gealt exhibit will be on display from October 6–December 23, 2012. The Indiana University Art Musem is located on the Indiana University campus at 1133 E. 7th St. in Bloomington. 

Lisa J. Baker, DDS

Dr. Lisa Baker, tooth artist and smile specialist

NEW

Amazing While-you-wait Crowns!

Family Cosmetic Preventive Dentistry

Call for an appointment today:

812-332-2000 • www.drlisabaker.net 4217 E. 3rd Street • Bloomington, IN 47401

Now on Exhibit

Julia Sermersheim, Fiber Artist August 30, 2012 to January 4, 2013

Abstract, Collaged Wallart…

A casual place, a social place, a place to come to relax, talk & eat 310 fourth street • columbus 812.418.8212 • www.Bistro310.com

Traditional Quilt Techniques Evolve into Fiber Art Fabric Scraps Transform into Textile Collage From Humble Beginnings to Contemporary Design

Columbus Learning Center Galleries Check out our website for hours

www.educationcoalition.com • (812) 314-8507 4555 Central Avenue • Columbus, Indiana

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 29

B3 Gallery W

~by Lee Edgren

hen you walk into Nashville’s B3 Gallery at the top of the stairs in the Artist Colony shops, you are walking into a space made of family love and of passion for art and the artists who make it.

The new gallery opened in late June and arose synchronistically. Photographers Sharon and Jessica Bussert needed a new venue for their photography. Heather Bussert, a jewelry maker, had been in California and wanted to come home. And the three Busserts creatively became the B3 gallery.

Everything in B3 is made in Indiana, and all the artists in the space are new to Nashville and not featured elsewhere in town. The 20 artists were solicited based on a unanimous liking for the work. It is an eclectic collection.

“It’s important to me to feel passionate about the pieces in our gallery, otherwise they’re just things….We select what we feel drawn to, I’m particularly attuned to the feelings evoked when a piece dances in front of your senses. I love the play of colors, the way a piece of jewelry feels on your skin,” Jessica notes.

Examples of the art available include Doug Arnholter’s “Fertile,” an abstract, three-

30 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

courtesy photo

dimensional fresco. Composed on distressed wood with pigmented mortar, a thin-lined cross transects a turquoise pool surrounded by an orange and red field. The wood has been burned at the edges of the pool.

For Jessica, the field is reminiscent of Mark Rothko’s work.

Sharon and Jessica had bought a piece from fabric artist Lisa Boots about 15 years ago for their private collection. In the gallery they have several pieces of her hand-dyed, hand-pieced wall hangings, the largest of which is a vibrant black carousel horse with flying mane on a red and gold background.

And there is the exquisite “Drowning Woman” a lithophane by Hannah Blackwell. The lithophane process was popular in the 1800s, but is little

used today. An image is carved in wax and then cast in porcelain.

The porcelain slip is translucent and the beauty of the work can be seen only when the piece is backlit.

“Hannah makes pieces that are both biographical and autobiographical.

When you know the stories of the pieces it makes them that much more powerful,” Jessica observes.

Sharon is quick to add that the gallery also has beautiful and practical pieces, handmade rolling pins and

cutting boards, mugs and other pottery. “I feel we’re a place where both tourists and locals can find really nice and affordable things.”

Jessica and Sharon are the only photographers currently represented in the gallery, although they do have a rotating show of photographs by members of the Brown County Photography Club, to which they belong. Supporting fellow members and giving them an opportunity to show their work is important to them.

Knitting to Heal

Continued on 33

~by Chris Gustin

M

iddle Way House teams up with local businesses and fiber and textile artists to decorate Bloomington’s Downtown in a project called, “Knitting to Heal.”

Local businesses are sponsoring local artists to dress trees for the winter by wrapping them in sweaters in October 2012, Domestic Violence Awareness month.

Knitting to Heal will raise awareness against domestic violence but will also serve as vibrant public art for the downtown. All donations collected are going toward the childcare program at Middle Way House, which serves children who live in the New Wings Emergency Shelter and at The Rise, a two-year transitional housing facility.

The Middle Way House Childcare program provides children from eight weeks of age to five years a warm welcome, caring staff, and stimulating activities to fill their days and help them grow into strong, confident, compassionate, and skilled kindergarteners and first graders. The staff to child ratio is never less favorable than 1:3 so that each child can get the attention needed to overcome whatever deficits accrued as a consequence of experiencing domestic violence, whether they be social, emotional, cognitive or physical.

And notably, the club work is also selling.

Sharon and Jessica love to travel and do photography together. They have striking images from Ireland, Scotland, as well as the desert southwest signed by both of them.

Since they were both there, it was not important who actually fired the shutter. They even do “travel photography” here in Brown County.

“We seem to see things from a different perspective. We showed staff members

There’s reading and writing, counting and reciting, singing and drumming, dancing, running, jumping and hopping, painting and pasting, cooking and eating, learning about inside voices, and napping. Many mothers have expressed their gratitude for this special program; one mother said, “Thank you for loving me and my kids. They loved going off in the morning [to childcare] and they babbled happily about everything they’d done during the day when I picked them up. There was a big—and good—change in my oldest, too. Their happiness means everything to me.”

Knitting to Heal was officially kicked off at the Farmers’ Market during Worldwide Knit in Public Day on June 16th where many knitters and crocheters came, stayed to work on their projects and signed up to volunteer to create sweaters for the trees. The original tree sweater created

by Yarns Unlimited was on display and provided inspiration.

A special thanks to the following sponsors to date: Yarns Unlimited, Relish, Bloom Magazine, Pictura Gallery, Argentum Jewelry, Goldcasters Jewelry, Massage on the Square, Elan Salon, Crazy Horse, Irish Lion, Sustainability Dashboard, Malibu Grill and Coach Tom and Joani Crean. We need more sponsors in order to raise more dollars—please contact Toby Strout at Middle Way House, <tobystrout@ middlewayhouse.org>, (812) 3337404. To volunteer, please contact Mary Ann Gingles at Yarns Unlimited, <yarnsunlimited@comcast.net> or call (812) 334-2464. Your support will help provide much needed services to the innocent victims of domestic violence.

For more information go to: <www.knittingtoheal.org> or <www. yarnsunlimited.com/knittingforcharity/ knittingtoheal.html>. 

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 31

Frank and Onya’s Gifts Pastel of Onya LaTour by Neil Dunnigan.

Hohenberger’s photo of Diner and Doc Biesel .

D

espite all that Nashville and Brown County have on the calendar there is still a wormhole into another time to be found here, if you allow yourself to find it.

I recently found myself lingering at the Brown County Public Library, first with the Hohenberger photos, then upstairs with the artist files.

Since it is tucked back at the east end of Gould Street, I think the library is not often visited by tourists. I hope I am wrong. In the hallway of the lower level are photos that I take all my out-of-town guests to see. There is nothing like this work to quickly reveal the flavor of life in early 20th century Peaceful Valley.

Frank Hohenberger moved to Nashville and established his own photography studio in 1917. In addition, he wrote a column in the Sunday Indianapolis Star from 1923 to 1954 called “Down in the Hills o’ Brown County.” Hohenberger’s pictures capture the land and the life of the people who lived here, revealing both the communion and the tension between the locals and the artists. On the lower level you can see beautifully printed photos of locals like Chris Brummett; Grandma

32 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Barnes; boarding house hostess Allie Ferguson; and musicians Doc and Diner Biesel, as well as the artists who settled here:—Ada Shulz, Gustave Baumann, Adolph Schulz, Carl Graf, and Marie Goth.

Excerpts from Hohenberger’s writings accompany each picture. Often amusing, they illuminate like the photographer’s flash. Shrewd, eccentric Allie Ferguson is quoted as saying to a late-arriving boarding house customer (1920): “Wait until I light a lamp. I never did like to do business in the dark.” Hohenberger observed of famous printmaker Gustave Baumann, “When Baumann found that the floods had hemmed him into Nashville he got desperate and smoked up all the cigars he had saved as gifts from friends. He never smoked before and really wished to do something desperate—got sick of course.” Grandma Barnes, whose beautiful gardens were often painted, was aware that the art travelled far from the county, “felt she was keeping her garden up for the world.”

Also on the wall, a drawing of Onya LaTour, whose bequest to be used for a community center was ultimately enfolded into the building of the library and the Onya LaTour Community Room.

~by Lee Edgren

Realizing how little I knew about Onya, I headed upstairs to the brown enveloped files of newspaper clippings collected for most of the notable artists.

While Onya, strictly speaking was not an artist, her life was her art. She had a file.

Although born in Indiana, Onya travelled the world, had an art gallery in New York City, was painted by many artists, and, to the horror of most of the Nashville art colony, loved and collected modern art. In fact, she opened the first Museum of Modern Art in Indiana. Famed Indiana journalist Ernie Pyle wrote a column about LaTour in 1940. “Last spring, Onya LaTour closed her gallery in New York and came back home to Indiana after all these years. She bought a 118 acre farm way off over the hills, about 11 miles from Nashville, and in the farmhouse opened a gallery.

Pictures aren’t especially for sale….

The local people—her hill neighbors— come on weekends. And she says they appreciate the exhibit most of all. The local art colony is not at all sympathetic.”

She denied the existence of weeds.

In God’s world, everything that grew and “had ever so small a bloom” deserved to be called a flower. Thus, not ragweed, but ragflowers. Not milkweed. Milk-pod flowers, instead.

According to one written reminiscence, as she grew older, Onya favored large, even massive, pieces of jewelry. “The older you get, the larger they should be,” she is quoted as saying.

“The object is that the viewer will be attracted to the adornments instead of the wrinkles.” Ah, adornments.

LaTour was described as “a woman of mystery,” who always dressed in costume. Her residences were named “Blue Cloud” and “Spellbound.” She was a famous hostess, who dared to ignore social and cultural boundaries

in mingling her guests. She had a tower room built on her hilltop house where, according to one local artist, she was fond of having “atmospheric” gatherings on nights when storms raged and lightening illuminated the tumultuous sky. Imagine lingering then, with not one electronic device to divert your mind. 

Fiber Show at CLC

B3 GALLERY continued from 31

at the Visitors’ Center a photograph of the covered bridge at the north entrance to the park. They couldn’t believe it was ‘our’ bridge.”

“There are a few pieces of my own that I’m particularly passionate about,” Jessica adds. They start as digital images, and through a transfer printing process that I originated, they end up as one-of-a-kind pieces that are more reminiscent of pen and ink or watercolor, or batik, or screen print, than they are of photographs.” These “Bleary-Eyed Exercise IV” and “Kaikoura Bathing Beauties.” include a crow on a branch in strong black and white and a delicate bouquet ~by Geri Handley of small flowers in color.

Heather makes a wide variety of ragonflies with gossamer wings, landscapes, structures, and 3-D flowers jewelry, and really enjoys repurposing currently adorn the walls of the Columbus Learning Center in an art quilt old jewelry, much of it given to her by show by Julia Sermersheim. her older sister. She is also learning to Traditional quilting techniques, machine stitching, and hand embroidery cast metals and to carve leather, which as well as hand-dyed fabrics and newsprint, are features of multi-colored and she found surprisingly difficult. “I really shaped textiles . like beading, so I’ll probably always go Julia Sermersheim grew up in Jasper, Indiana in the 1950s where there were back to that. And with casting, I can no i-phones or i-pads and very few televisions but plenty of imagination. combine cast pieces with my bead Julia’s mother and grandmothers were quilters and sewers. Julia’s mother work.” always had scraps of fabrics about the house leftover from her apparel or quilt They are not concerned about making projects. After receiving a doll one Christmas, Julia discarded its clothing being a little off the main street. “We’re and made assorted outfits for the doll to wear from fabric remnants—from her not selling trinkets. We’re selling pieces hat down to her shoes. that we want people to embrace Julia has a Bachelors Degree and two Masters Degrees in education. She also and bring into their hearts and their completed many classes in textiles and fiber manipulation. Julia was a scecretary homes—so someone looking for that and a speech therapist before becoming a teacher of the deaf and a teacher/ kind of piece will go out of their way to consultant for the deaf for 30 years. find us.”

Julia created clothing for herself and made quilts with her mother.While B3 is located at 125 S. Van Buren St., assembling one of the quilts, she realized she had made too many blocks. The Nashville, IN (On the second floor of blocks were cut-up into several pieces and arranged on a wall. Not having had the Artist Colony Shops). The gallery is any formal training in the principles and elements of art design, Julia visited the open Sunday through Thursday 10-5; wall throughout the day and rearranged the blocks until she had what seemed a Friday and Saturday 10-6; longer hours pleasing arrangement. And after that experience, she was led to create art quilts. in the busy season. Phone 812-988Julia laments that her ideas always outnumber the amount of time she can 6675 devote to creating her works.

You can find B3 on Facebook and on The Columbus Learning Center is located at 4555 Central Avenue. Hours and the web at <www.b3.bussert.com>.  other information can be found on <www.educationcoalition.com>.

D

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 33

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

Second Saturdays April–December 5 to 8 pm. 14 participating galleries.

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

Holiday Open House

Dec. 1 & 2, Spears Gallery, 10-5 5110 State Road 135 S. (812) 988-1287

Brown County Art Guild

Oct.: Pam Newell and Patricia Rhoden Oct. 13 Reception 5-8 with music by Cheryl Kaldahl at the baby Grand piano Oct. 13 Pastel painting from 2-4 Oct. 26-28 at Waycross facility Back Roads of Brown County “Painting Concepts and Composition” Studio Tour Workshop by Wyatt LeGrand and Entire month of October Rena Brouwer Oct. 27 Guild 12 Fundraiser Create it with Gingerbread at Rick and Brenda Kelly’s home Log Cabin Competition Nov.: Senior and Patron Exhibits Houses on display Nov. 18-Dec. 1 Dec.: Guild Member Holiday Show 3rd Annual Create It with Gingerbread Log 48 S. Van Buren Street Nashville, IN Cabin Competition and Show, (812) 988-6185 Brown County History Center, 46 East www.browncountyartguild.org Gould St., Nashville.

Adults (at least 18) will be competing Brown County Art Gallery for a first place prize of $300 and second Oct. 13 Collector’s Showcase Fundraiser place prize of $200. Teens (12 to 17) can Oct. 14 Open to public noon-5 win a first place prize of $75 and gift Oct.: Sandee Hazebaker Russell basket or a second place prize of $50 and Oct. 15-Feb. 2013 Fall/Winter Exhibit gift basket. Children aged 11 years and Oct. 27-Nov. 4 Fall Patron Show younger will have a first place prize of $25 Artist Dr. and Main St. in Nashville, IN and gift basket and second place will win Info (812) 988-4609 a gift basket. All entrants under the age www.browncountyartgallery.org of 18 on the day of competition require a signature from a parent or legal guardian. Ferrer Gallery The entry that is judged “Best of Show” Oct-Dixie Ferrer featured artist will win $500. Visitors can vote for the Oct. 13, 5-8 Reception and celebration full “People’s Choice” Award, with this winner of suprises receiving $125. The Founder’s Award will Village Art Walks Second Saturdays be $125 and the Best Interior Award will 61 W. Main St., Village Green Building receive $100.

2nd level. Ferrer Gallery represents local, Application deadline Nov. 1 regional and national artists. www.createitwithgingerbread.com (812) 988-1994 ddferrer@att.net or at the visitors center www.ferrergallery.com

Brown County Winter Art and Craft Fair Nov. 23 & 24, Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-5 Seasons Conference Center Nashville

34 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

BLOOMINGTON: Farmers’ Market

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

Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

Oct. 13, 10-3 Monroe County Courthouse lawn Choose from 250 handmade blown glass pumpkins. (cash, check, and credit cards)

27th Fiber Art Show and Sale Nov. 9 & 10, Fri. 6-9, Sat. 9-5 Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild’s Annual Fiber Art Show and Sale Fellowship Hall of First United Church at 2420 East 3rd Street in Bloomington

Local Clay Potters’ Guild 15th Holiday Pottery Show and Sale Nov. 9 & 10, Fri. 5-9, Sat. 9-5 St. Mark’s United Methodist Church 100 N. Hwy 46 Bypass in Bloomington

Holiday Market Nov. 24, 10-3, Free City Hall 401 N. Morton St.

Holiday Art Sale Dec. 8, 10-4 Celebrating the artistry of individuals with disabilities In conjuction with Global Gifts: Original framed and unframed works by Stone Belt Artists Crafts by Global artists with disabilities 2013 Stone Belt art calendars Cards and ornaments Stone Belt Art Gallery 107 W. 9th St. in Bloomington www.stonebelt.org

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

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

By Hand Gallery

Oct: Microcosmic drawings and monoprints by Martha Kaplan Oct. 5 Reception celebrating

By Hand Gallery’s Grand Re-opening!

......................................................................................

Début of remodel includes music, h’ors d’ourves and raffle give-aways.

Nov. 1-15: Wendy Bethel Nov. 2,5-8pm Artist demonstration and show by Wendy Bethel on making lively and whimsical dolls.

Dec. 7-31: “A Holiday of the Arts” 70 local and regional artists with a focus on Hoosier Fine Crafts.

Dec. 7, 5-8pm Reception #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 Oct. 5-27: Sandy Hill, contemporary fabric art; Tom Rhea, landscape paintings; James Alexander Thom, wood carvings.

Ellen Starr Lyon, still-life paintings.

Oct. 5, 5-8 Opening Reception Nov. 2-Dec. 1: William Fillmore, figure sculpture. Barry Barnes, ceramic vessels and sculptures. Carol Myers, drawings with encaustic. Ivy Tech art students show fall semester work.

Nov. 2, 5-8 Opening Reception Dec. 7-28: Mia Beach, photographs and small-scale sculptures. Catherine Chi & Hyejin Kang, video animations. Wyatt LeGrand & Roy Boswell, plein air paintings and pastels. Sherry Redman, multimedia abstractions.

Dec. 7, 5-8 Opening Reception 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

COLUMBUS:

“Autumn Fantasies” by Yelena Yahontova First Fridays for Families Nov.-April at The Commons known as “Photographer of Joy” Children are entertained by theater 206 N. Walnut (812) 333-9591 troupes, magicians, and musicians pictura gallery Oct.:“Cuba Libre” work by Tyagan Miller (sponsored by Old National Bank) and David Moore plus travel images from Dr. Geraldo Gonzalez, Dean of IU School Deja vu Art and Fine Craft Show of Education who came from Cuba Nov. 17, the Commons, 10-4 Oct. 17 Gonzalez talk Book arts, fiber arts, jewelry, mosaic, Nov. 2-Dec. 29 Adam Thorman and weaving, sculpture, leatherwork, Laura Plageman woodworking Nov. 2 Opening Reception 122 W. 6th St. (812) 336-0000 Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7 Jacksson Contemporary Art www.picturagallery.com Oct.-Nov.: Linda Adele Goodine The Venue, Fine Arts & Gifts Nov.-Dec.: James Wille Faust “Dark and Ethereal,” a Halloween Exhibit 1030 Jackson St. Columbus, IN 47201 Gallery hours: Wed.-Fri. 12-6, Sat. 10-1 by mixed media artist Lydia Burris and by appointment 114 S. Grant. St. (812) 447-8781 Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7, Sun. 12-5 dkadlec@casaverdellc.com (812) 339-4200 www.TheVenueBloomington.com

Wellness Arts Gallery Oct. 5, 1-8 1st Anniversary Celebration Oct. 21 “Tasting Quilter’s Comfort Tisanes” Taste the locally blended herbal teas Nov. 2-Dec. 29 Mark Totte’s Mixed Media Nov. 2, 5-8 Opening Reception Dec. 7, 5-8 Closing Reception, talk at 7:00 Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café & Quilter’s Comfort Teas 725 W. Kirkwood Ave. Tues.-Sat. 11-6, and First Fridays 11-8 (812) 334-8155 www.hartrock.net/cafe.htm

IU Art Museum Oct. 6-Dec. 23: -Barry Gealt: Embracing Nature -German Expressionism at IUAM -Baby Carriers from China 1133 E. 7th Street on the campus of IU (812) 855-5445 iuam@indiana.edu www.artmuseum.iu.edu

Columbus Learning Center Now-Jan. 4, 2013 Julia Sermersheim, Fiber Artist “Abstract, Collaged Wallart”

HOPE:

Christmas of Yesteryear Nov. 16, 5-8 on the Square in Hope Serving hot cider and coffee Best of Winter Scenes Contest-penny votes www.hopeartguild.com

SEYMOUR:

Southern Indiana Center for the Arts (SICA) Nov. -Dec.: Members’ Art Show Works by local and regional artists and artisans. Everything on sale.

Gallery Tues.-Fri. noon to 5, Sat. 11-3 2001 N. Ewing St., Seymour, IN www.soinart.com (812) 522-2278

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 35

............................................................Artists Directory

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

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

PATRICIA C. COLEMAN

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

36 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Paintings, Fiber Art, Botanical Dye, Mixed Media, UpCycle, Masks, Dolls and Dollmaking Workshops, Poetry, Reconnective Healing, Ho’oponopono, Reiki, Green Lifestyle Coaching, Quilter’s Comfort Teas.

Herbal, Beer, Wine, and Coffee Jellies, Seasonings and Spices. Themed Tea Parties, Private and Small Group Classes, Wellness Arts Gallery and soon a Morning Market Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café & Quilter’s Comfort Teas 725 West Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN (812)- 334-8155 www.hartrock.net/cafe.htm

MARLA DAWSON Naturals by Marla Fiber Artist Original hand-woven, hand-knit designs ~ An Indiana Artisan ~ Work at Brown County Craft Gallery and Homestead Weaving Studio Home studio in Ellettsville, IN (812) 876-9477 www.weavingbymarla.com mcdweave@bluemarble.net

......................................................................................

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

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

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

Also available at Spears Gallery, Nashville, IN chris@homesteadweaver.com www.homesteadweaver.com

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

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

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

ANABEL HOPKINS Landscapes in pastel and oil Also Abstract Expressionism Lessons at Les Nympheas Studio in rural Brown County (812) 340-8781 Art available at: Hoosier Artist Gallery, Nashville, IN Hoosier Salon Gallery, Broad Ripple, Indianapolis, IN (812) 988-6888 www.anabelhopkins.com anahoppy@hughes.net Continued on next page

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 37

............................................................Artists Directory

CAROL KOETKE Fine Art Photography

LINDA KNUDSEN Fiber Artist

Carol’s museum quality fine art photographs are available from:

By Hand Gallery in Bloomington, Gallery North - Nashville, and www.carolkoetke.com (812) 322-5180 800-560-2940

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

SHARON JUNGCLAUS GOULD–Trained SoulCollage® Facilitator “ Discover your Wisdom, Change your World with SoulCollage®” SoulCollage® is an intuitive, visual process for the discovery of your creative ANN LANKFORD Gourd Artist Inner Self. Join us for a powerful and fascinating learning experience as Homestead Primitives you create your own personal deck of co-owner Debbie Myers cards. Delightful and amazing!

Antiques and Rug Hooking Workshops, retreats, classes, and Gourd painting workshops individual coaching.

Rug hooking supplies and Classes www.artandspiritstudio.com Hooking group meets 10 to 12 Saturday slj41@earthlink.net —All levels welcome (812) 343-5285 or (812) 988-0597 28 N Main St inside Berries and Ivy Country Store On the Westside Courthouse Square Open 6 days a week Martinsville, IN 46151 (765) 342-8097 www.homesteaddesigngourds.com

38 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

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

......................................................................................

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

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

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

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

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

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 39

“Planes” by E.M. Saniga.

Small is Big A

~by Tom Rhea

cross a variety of styles, the “Small is Big” show at the Grunwald Gallery of Art (on display October 19–November 16) addresses an often-overlooked category of painting. The selected artists produce works on a smaller scale, not as studies but as finished pieces.

The physical terms of confronting a small painting are quite different from the approach to a large painting. The space of a large painting can envelop or contain a viewer—architectural in a way, like a room. The small painting exists at a permanent distance, its space accessed as if through a portal.

Ken Kewley throws down his broken forms like oracle bones, and requires the viewer to act as diviner. Dancing back and forth across a shape-shifting, interpretative border, his 2012 dates: April 14, May 12, June 10, July 13, August 10 Sept. 14, Oct. 12, Nov. 10, Dec. 14

forms accommodate multiple changes of scale and subject, from still life to figure to landscape.

The small painting often mimics the shock of a sight quickly seen, before cognitive habits break down the elements into the familiar.

Catherine Kehoe, in her “Self-portrait with Red Glasses” balances the odd precision of squared edges on hair and ear against a dashing generality of description across the face.

It may take just moments to interpret the backyard scene in Eve Mansdorf’s Cookout, the lawn chairs and the grille. Still, the viewer brings more to an understanding of legs and shadows, provides more of the mortar to hold together the bricks.

Tim Kennedy chooses slightly more offbeat still life elements (as in “Cone and Claw”) in order to delay the final resolution that follows decipherment. One may look a long time before realizing that the diagonal stripes are shadows of a horizontal door panel, not a pattern on a tablecloth.

Even more unfamiliar is the white box afield in E.M. Saniga’s “Groundhogs in a Meadow,” or the tabletop shapes in “Country Sausage.” “Planes” holds a lesson about how resilient our perception can be in the face of novelty. With a few sure touches to exaggerate the essentials of the scene, highlights of sun glinting on metal, the red of spinners and blur of props, we execute a search algorithm on our visual memory.

Catherine Kehoe, in her sepia-toned renderings of family members from Poland, exploits a different aspect of the snapshot— the talismanic preservation of family or friends lost to divergent paths of time or destiny.

Lectures by the participating artists take place each night in the week preceding the opening, beginning on Tuesday, October 16 with a Tim Kennedy lecture at 5 p.m. in Fine Arts 238. Visit the gallery website: <www.indiana. edu/~grunwald> for the complete schedule. 

Two businesses under the same roof 100 % Con Consignment Shop

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

40 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

Rare Fin ds NOT a N Garage Sale!

Gara

Gently-used Upscale Household Furnishings Local Art, Stained Glass, and Pottery Museum quality items— more than 500 consignors Yes! ved o !

We m ain —ag

BLOOMINGTON

CClothing ompany a women’s boutique

New carefree clothing made from natural fabrics and made in the USA Casual and Business Attire Fun fashion and accessories Accessories are Fair Trade or Made in USA—one-of-a-kind

2nd and College Mall Rd. • Bloomington • 2656 E. 2nd St. (behind Wendy’s and across from O’Malia’s) open TUES.–SAT. 812.334.8119 • www.bluemoonemporium.net

Doodles I

~by Geri Handley

n recognition of National Arts and Humanities Month, the Columbus Area Arts Council (CAAC) is planning the first annual community art project that guarantees to bring a smile to everyone’s face. “Downtown Doodles is a way we can engage the public and help to create more visibility of the arts in Columbus,” says Karen Shrode, executive director of the Arts Council.

The event is in cooperation with Downtown Columbus Independent Restaurant Association (DCIRA). During October 1–15, anyone visiting one of the specified restaurants will be provided a cocktail napkin for the purpose of doodling.

If you have ever doodled, you are not alone. Many American Presidents (including Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton) were known to doodle during meetings. Poet and physician John Keats doodled in the margins of his medical notes.

The word “doodle” first appeared in the early 17th century to mean a fool or simpleton. This meaning was intended in the song title “Yankee Doodle,” originally sung by British colonial troops prior to the American Revolutionary War. Even though getting caught in class doodling might have led to disciplinary actions, according to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person’s memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming. It acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little.

At the end of the project, Arts Council staff will collect the doodles and assemble them into a public exhibit to be held at Hotel Indigo. The show will hang during the month of November with a reception planned for Thursday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m.

For more information visit: <www.artsincolumbus.org>. 

..........Holiday Art and Craft Markets.........

Holiday Pottery and Fiber Art Shows November 9 and 10, 2012

Two active guilds gather in Bloomington for one weekend. This is the 15th year for the Holiday Pottery Show sponsored by the Local Clay Potters’ Guild and is held at St. Mark’s Methodist Church at 100 N. Hwy 46 Bypass. Just a short distance away, the Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild will hold their 27th annual Fiber Art Show and Sale at First United Church, 2420 E. 3rd St. Hours are 5 to 9 Fri. and 9 to 5 Sat. Free. Visit <www.bloomspinweave.org> and <www.localclay.net>.

Bloomington Handmade Market November 10, 2012

The Handmade Market at the Bloomington/Monroe County Convention Center (302 S. College Ave.) on Sat., Nov. 10 brings together more than 50 craft artists from all over the Midwest, many of which making their only appearance in the area.

You can find wearables, jewelry, bath & body products, children’s apparel and toys, and home décor, all with a fresh, urban attitude. If you’ve got college students and young professionals on your holiday shopping list, this is the perfect stop. 10 to 5.

Free. <www.bloomingtonhandmademarket.com>.

Winter Art and Craft Fair November 23 and 24, 2012

The Winter Art and Craft Fair in Nashville has been the laid-back one-stop shopping experience for almost 30 years. More than 40 artists will display their work. The show runs 10 to 6, Fri., Nov. 23, and 10 to 5, Sat., Nov. 24, at the Season’s Conference Center. There is ample free parking and admission is $1. The show is sponsored by the Brown County Craft Guild.

Bloomington Holiday Market November 24, 2012

Holiday Market is Sat., Nov. 24 from 10 to 3 at Showers Common, located at 8th and Morton Streets in Bloomington. Free. Farm vendors come with a variety of products: prepared food and baked goods, Christmas trees, dried flower bouquets, ornamental wreaths, bread, goat cheese, honey and maple syrup; and more than 40 local and regional artists and craft vendorsl. Saint Nick will be on hand to greet visitors, and visitors. A holiday tradition, the TubaSantas performance is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Check <www.bloomington.in.gov/farmersmarket> nearer the date.

Spears Gallery Holiday Open House December 1 and 2, 2012

New stoneware and porcelain works by potter Larry Spears and recent works by photographer Kyle Spears. Light refreshments. Dec. 1 and 2, 10 to 5. Free.

5110 State Road 135 S. in Brown County. (812) 988-1287.

Holiday Art Sale December 8, 2012

Stone Belt and Global Gifts are partnering for a holiday sale to celebrate the artistry of individuals with disabilities with original framed and unframed art by Stone Belt artists, craft items from the global disabilities arts community, 2013 Stone Belt Calendars, cards, and ornaments. Dec. 8 from 10 to 4 at Stone Belt Gallery, 107 W. 9th St. in Bloomington. <www.stonebelt.org>.

Oct.–Dec. 2012 • INto ART 41

..........Area Arts Newsletters................... Bloomington Entertainment........

and Arts District (BEAD)

Columbus Area Arts Council

T

he Columbus public library was designed by I.M. Pei. In front of this library sits a massive bronze sculpture entitled Large Arch, created by Henry Moore. These are just two of nearly 70 buildings and public art pieces in Columbus that were designed by notable architects and artists. These buildings and pieces of public art are the roots of Columbus.

They not only bring thousands of tourists from around the world annually.

Formed in 1972, one year after Pei’s library and Moore’s sculpture were dedicated, the Columbus Area Arts Council fosters and supports the growth of the arts in our community.

We provide leadership in the arts by planning and promoting arts-related events that build upon that decades old foundation. We believe the arts should be accessible to everyone at every level of society. To that goal, most of our programming is offered at very little or no cost.

One no-cost program we provide the community is First Fridays for Families. Sponsored by Old National Bank, this event is meant to engage grade-schoolers in the performing arts.

On the first Friday evening of the month, November through April, children are entertained in The Commons by theater troupes, magicians, and musicians. This event draws several hundred children and their families for the purpose of being engaged in the arts.

It isn’t just Columbus Area Arts Council that is helping to grow the arts in Columbus. IU Center for Art+Design Columbus attracts students and educators from around the country to study Columbus’ public art and architecture.

Through the end of November, IUCA+D is hosting a series of free Salon Talks. These bi-weekly talks, open to the public, have one theme: engage the public in a discussion of art and design.

Another event hosted by IUCA+D has its roots far from Columbus in the French Surrealist movement. Through December 21, 18 artists, musicians, architects, painters, sculptors, and dancers will participate in a collaborative and cumulative installation, The Exquisite Corpse. This installation involves creating a ‘corpse,’ or foundation, that participants will add to over the course of ten weeks, ending in one large body of work. The only rule is that nothing can be removed.

As Columbus continues to evolve and grow, Columbus Area Arts Council, as well as our partner organizations and individuals, must look to our rich cultural foundation as a source of inspiration for growth in the arts.

Submitted by Arthur Smith, Marketing & Media Director of Columbus Area Arts Council. He can be reached at <asmith@artsincolumbus.org>. Event details can be found at <www.artsincolumbus.org>. 

42 INto ART • Oct.–Dec. 2012

B

EAD 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. With more than 100 restaurants, 90 retail shops, galleries, live theatre and music, public art, trails and places to stay, there’s never a shortage of things to do and seE. Here are a few from the “must do” list: On every First Friday you can find “The Science of Art” at WonderLab Museum (308 W. 4th Street). Art meets science as visiting artists interpret a monthly theme (i.e. The Science of Fire) with demonstrations while visitors have the opportunity to participate hands-on. A small plate meal by Bloomingfoods Deli, is also available to purchase on-site in the WonderLab Cafe. 5:30–8:00 p.m. Special half-price admission and members Free. <www.wonderlab.org>.

The Downtown GalleryWalk anchors First Fridays on both October 5, and December 7. This every-other-month visual arts event features all the downtown galleries (conveniently located within walking distance) each of which offers a new exhibit, an opening reception, an opportunity to meet the artist, live music and more. 5–8 p.m. Free.

On Saturdays in October Trained Eye Arts Market (615 N. Fairview along the B-Line Trail) offers visitors an opportunity to purchase a variety of handcrafted work including wearables, bath and body products and other objects d’art. Live music and dance demonstrations. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Free. Also in October is an event that even Charlie Brown could love. The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch comes to the Monroe County Courthouse Lawn southeast corner on Saturday, October 13. Come pick out your very own handmade blown glass pumpkin from more than 250 glass pumpkins in the patch. All pumpkins are made by members of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center and proceeds from the Pumpkin Patch support the Center’s other activities through the year. Come early for best pick. Rain or shine! 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Free.

November’s chill brings to mind holiday gift-giving and BEAD offers up two great holiday shopping events. The Handmade Market at the Bloomington/Monroe County Convention Center (302 S. College Ave.) on Saturday, November 10, brings together more than 50 craft artists from all over the Midwest. The second event is the Holiday Market on Saturday, November 24 at City Hall - Showers Building (401 N. Morton Street).

There’s much, much more to see in do in BEAD every day of the week. You’ll find it on our new 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!

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

THE COLUMBUS AREA ARTS COUNCIL PRESENTS AN

Art and Fine Craft Show

featuring artists who creatively reuse and recycle materials

Book Arts

DO NOT USE Fiber Arts INSIDE COVER Jewelry Mosaic Weaving Sculpture Leatherwork Woodworking And Much More!

SAT. NOV. 17 • 10 AM - 4 PM The Commons

3rd & washington streets • cOLUMBUS, INDIANA FOR MORE INFORMATION: 812.376.2539 SPONSORED BY the Bartholomew county solid waste management district columbus area arts council • COLUMBUS AREA VISITORS CENTER PAPA’S DELI/PAPA’S GRILL • Pentzer Printing • PUCCINI’S • THE KROOT CORP.

hand gallery, ry hambly / By llery406, © Ma ga / es hand gallery, ev By re / d Kendall rilyn greenwoo Ma Left to right: © er, © ry, lle ga tura ldon Arts Cent © Jun itoi / pic © ivy tech Wa gallery. ur / the Venue, no nd de ha ri By e / ue ay © Jacq © ruth Conw

n.com

bloomingto

gallerywalk

s ie r e ll a g r e b m 8 me

d to funky te a c ti is h p o s love from on u o y rk o w ion from 5-8pm rt pt a ce re k al find w ry ecember 6 d a special galle

and d atten e of the year or ust 2, october 4, g m ti au y 7, e an n k ju al w 5, l ry ary 1, apri stroll the galle 7 2013: febru r be em ec d d an 2012: october 5

galleries

ll 812-334-3255 Fountain Square Ma 09 #1 e, Av d oo kw 101 W Kir

ry

By Hand Galle 812-333-0536 6 116 W 6th St, Ste 110 2 gallery40 2-330-4400 122 S Walnut St 81 r te n e C s rt A hn Waldron 3 Ivy Tech Jo 6-0000 ry 122 W 6th St 812-33 lle a g ra tu ic p 4 339-4200 ifts 114 S Grant St 812G & s rt A e in F e, 5 The Venu

1

s auxiliary gallerie 6 7 8

7377 llege Ave 812-589-

224 N Co co-op & gallery e tiv ea cr e in el blu 2-333-9591 206 N Walnut St 81 ry le al G o eñ El Nort 4-9700 109 E 6th St 812-33 p u ro G ry le al G

e year ed throughout th h is er ch e b ill w gifts that r special holiday fo s rie le al g r u o Visit intoartGalleryWalkAd10.2012.indd 1

9/12/12 3:03 PM