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This quintessential college town at the foot of the Southern

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

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

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

Forget everything you think you know about the Midwest. Columbus is home to the largest collection of modern architecture outside of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Columbus has been called “a veritable museum of modern architecture” by Smithsonian magazine. Six post-modern buildings in Columbus have been named National Historic Landmarks. This city is one of Indiana’s treasures.

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

For more than a century, Brown County has been a haven for

artists of every medium from all over the United States. Its natural beauty, seclusion, local charm and hospitality have won the hearts and loyalty of many.

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

Nearly 200 working artists and craftsmen seek inspiration from the tranquil hills of Brown County today.Visitors and locals agree it is the place for arts, nature, and adventure.

Located among the colorful hills of Southern Indiana is a 40-mile stretch

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“I’ve always made art,” says Tamar Kander. “My mother tells stories about me when

I was sick in bed painting on her walls. She’d say, ‘That’s fine but clean that up!’” she laughs. “I was lucky because I was encouraged. When I finished high school and said I wanted to study art, nobody said, ‘Get a real job.’”

Kander was born in Israel, living there for seven years before her parents moved to South Africa for a respite that became a stay. She finished her schooling there, including a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, before continuing her studies in Italy and London, where she was awarded a Masters of Fine Arts as well as a degree in Art Therapy at Goldsmiths, University of London.

In the meantime, her hobby of collecting vintage clothing had become something of a career when she began selling her discoveries to Ralph Lauren in New York. “I realized that if I was

really going be serious about painting and do the work, I had to focus, so I jumped off the deep end.”

The deep end was in New York City where she studied at the Art Students League, living near Times Square. “It was weird,” she says. At the school she met artist Joe Lee, who had entered the Students League after a stint with Hoxie Brothers Circus. Lee suggested they visit Bloomington. “It’s exhausting living in New York!” she continues. “All of the energy I put into just living there, in Bloomington I could put into my work. It was so much easier to live and so much cheaper. However it’s important to maintain contact with large cities, especially galleries, museums, and just to be in an urban environment.”

While feeling compelled to devote all her time to art, the reality was that she also had to make a living, working for Jill Schaffer at Cactus Flower in Bloomington. “I agreed to one afternoon a week—I was too dedicated to have a job that would take me away from the studio,” she laughs. “I wound up working three days a week for her. I came here knowing no one. Bam! Here I

Looking out from the Brown County studio. photo by Jamas

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”I realized that if I was really going be serious about painting and do the work, I had to focus, so I jumped off the deep end.”

Tamar KanderThe Art of


am in the middle of the Midwest. ‘What am I doing here?’ I had no connection to Indiana University. It was such a contrast from New York and England. I was always grateful to Jill for hiring me.”

At first she would drive around the countryside near Bloomington getting to know the place, taking photographs of landscapes reminding her of the Highveld of South Africa. She filled notebooks with pictures, sketches, and photos, collecting ideas that would later be useful to her work. One day Tamar realized she’d found a home.

Kander then found galleries for her work and early champions like Rosemary Fraser in Bloomington and Mark Ruschman in Indianapolis. Eventually Tamar’s work was represented in Louisville, Chicago, Atlanta, Santa Fe, and Santa Barbara; gracing public and private collections throughout the world.

In 2005 she and her husband, ceramicist and teacher Jamas Brooke, bought a home on a small lake in the country. “We didn’t know anything about Brown County but found so many nice people here, such a nice environment, and lots of good artists,” she says.

Tamar works in a studio overlooking the lake. “I usually start with an idea and it becomes a conversation between me and the painting,” she says. “When I paint I try to make conscious and literal what is in my unconscious. It’s a dialogue between me and the painting. When I was a student I was quite a bit more rigid in terms of sketches, photographs, sketchbooks. I was a planner because art school was so didactic. Maybe because I’ve been doing it so long, I can be freer and more intuitive.”

Her influences are mostly drawn from European sources, although she admits to loving iconic

Looking out from the Brown County studio. photo by Jamas

“Deep Pool,” 72” x 48” mixed media on canvas.

American painters like Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly. “I love the minimalists,” she says. “You wouldn’t know it but I’m old fashioned in that I think you really need to know how to draw.

“It’s not a straight line but a circle,” she says of the influence that living in the country has had on her art. “It’s never a direct influence—I’m not a plein-air painter. It seeps in.” Often she’s surprised at what she finds emerging from her work—water, trees, “the woods in the snow. It’s fun to see what comes out.”

You can find out more about Tamar and view her art at <www.tamarkander.com>. Jacksson Gallery in Columbus will be presenting her work later this year or in early 2014. In June she will participate in a three-person show in Santa Fe, with a solo show opening in Chicago in September.


The Americana Music Series is, if not a well-kept secret, “consciously a little bit under the radar,” according to Tim

Grimm. The Columbus, Ind.-based concert series was the brainchild of Grimm and his wife Jan Lucas, who began organizing the performances 10 years ago.

“Americana” wriggles out of attempts at a tight definition. Wikipedia says it is “contemporary music that incorporates elements of various American roots music styles, including country, roots-rock, folk, bluegrass, R&B and blues, resulting in a distinctive roots-oriented sound that lives in a world apart from the pure forms of the genres upon which it may draw.”

All of these elements, and even a slightly jazz-tinged songwriter-vocalist, have been represented. Many are not well-known performers, but the Americana Music Series audience has come to trust Grimm’s musical taste and so will come to shows even when they are not personally familiar with the artist.

The commonality among the artists is that Tim and Jan know and respect their music. Top-notch musicianship and a unique way into the song’s story seem to be two major criteria. “I’ve always been drawn to songs that you want to listen to…songs that tell a story,” Tim notes, and

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Among the more than 100 musicians who have participated in the series are Carrie Newcomer, White Lightning Boys, Jason Wilber, Small Potatoes, Greg Trooper, Eliza Gilkyson, Buddy Mondlock, Don Stiernberg, and Mustard’s Retreat.

Tim and Jan arrange six to 10 Americana Music Series shows a year, depending on their touring schedule. In the first years, shows were only at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Goeller Road on weekends. The Grimms now have additional midweek shows at the Jacksson Contemporary Art Gallery in downtown Columbus to provide more performing opportunities for artists. The concert series is a labor of love, designed to break even and to reward the musicians and the church for their contributions.

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Tim and Jan are notable musical artists themselves, well-known in the Columbus-Indianapolis-Bloomington area for their strong story-oriented songs. Tim, who spends about half his time touring, has a following in many parts of the United States, as well as in the Netherlands and Germany.

About a decade ago, Tim and Jan made a conscious decision to leave the “successful” life of LA movies, television, and commercials for a return to their roots in the heartland.

Tim, who had been writing songs and performing in Chicago before the move to LA, wrote no music at all in the years they were in what their friend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott calls “Hollyweird.”

“The muse returned with the move,” Jan laughs, as they jointly describe how fruitful the last 10 years have been.

Since their return, Tim has written and recorded eight CDs. All of his past four recordings have appeared on the Folk, American-root,s or Euro-Americana charts. He and Jan have embarked on several large performance collaborations with other Indiana-based artists. The Hoosier Artist series brings notable Indiana musicians together to interpret songs of one nationally prominent artist or group. These have included Hoosier Dylan, Hoosier Springsteen, and Hoosier Beatles.

Another remarkable collaboration was Wilderness Plots, a group of songs based on Scott Russell Sanders’ short darkly humorous, historical tales of drunks, judges, lovers, and other characters belonging to the 1750–1850 Ohio River Valley settlement. Collaborators included Krista Detor, Carrie Newcomer, Tom Roznowski, and Michael White, as well as Sanders himself.

Life is changing for the Grimms as they enter the empty-nest phase. Son Connor is a bass player living and working in Bloomington, who often plays music with them. Son Jackson is at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina and has picked up guitar. Oldest son Lucas lives in Seattle and works for REI, climbs mountains, and skis.

With the boys at college, Jan has become more available to tour. They are crisscrossing Florida in April, doing a series of “house concerts” and folk festivals. This fall, Sept. 20–29, they will lead “a tour for people who hate tours, but love music,” to counties Cork, Kerry, and Clare in Ireland. Then Tim will spend more time abroad in Germany and the Netherlands. And in between will be the next Hoosier Artist collaboration, Hoosier Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash at the Brown County Playhouse on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

For more information see <www.timgrimm.com>. Tickets to Hoosier Young, Crosby, Stills & Nash are available at <www.browncountyplayhouse.org>

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Seth Moorman, L’erin Cross, and Daniel Cross hope to bring a new experience to downtown Columbus.

Last November, the trio organized their first art house event. They booked musicians, artists, and writers to perform and show their work at their home on Washington Street.

ArtHouse Columbus is a gathering of local artists and musicians. The group meets quarterly to share their creativity with one another and the community. The Crosses and Moorman share a passion for both music and art and want to attract artists with a positive message.

“Last summer, the three of us were at a music festival called Cornerstone in Bushnell, Illinois,” explains L’erin. “It was the final year that they were holding the festival after 29 years. Someone said it was time to bring that experience back to our home towns and Daniel took that very literally.”

L’erin, who has a B.S. in Art Education, has her own line of stuffed animals and paints for friends and family. Moorman, a student at IUPUC, is a songwriter, plays the acoustic guitar and does sound for bands and concerts. Daniel is working on his B.S. in Vocal Music. He has been in several choirs as well as playing bass guitar in bands over the years. The Crosses met Moorman when he ran sound for Daniel’s band four years ago.

After living in Nashville, Tenn. for a short time, the couple moved back to Columbus in 2011. Their music experience in Nashville led them to begin planning a venue of their own.

“We have some friends that have an art house in Nashville, so Daniel talked to them about starting one here in Columbus,” she says. “After planning for four months and buying a house to have it at, we had our first event in November,” L’erin says.

The Crosses circa-1907 home on Washington Street, with 2,500-square-feet, is an ideal venue for the events. Individual artists and musicians are starting up these venues across the country. At their first performance, almost 50 guests toured their home while listening to music and enjoying coffee and pastries.

The quarterly events include music, visual and literary genres. Music entertainment includes individual artists and full bands.

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~by Karen E. FarleyL’erin Cross, Daniel Cross, and Seth Moorman. photo by Kyle Spears

Matthew Jackson and Barbara McGuireat November’s event. courtesy photos


Columbus musicians Barbara and Max McGuire (The McGuires) performed recently at one of the events.

“Our experience at ArtHouse Columbus was very reminiscent of the house concerts where we performed while living in Nashville, Tennessee,” says Barbara McGuire. “It brings musicians from all levels together for sharing and networking, and you won’t find a more appreciative audience than an audience of your peers.”

Along with music, two visual artists are selected to show their work. The style can be print, illustration, photo, video, sculpting, carving, and other forms of visual art.

Columbus artist and massage therapist Steven Newlin was one of the artists chosen to display his work at the second art house in January. He uses mixed media to create collages on canvas, paper, and flesh. He feels the poetic, musical, and visual arts interact with each other and ArtHouse Columbus is a great environment to experience that interaction.

Along with visual arts, each show features literary works. All forms of writing, including short stories, flash fiction, and poetry are welcomed at the events. The literary artists read or perform a piece between the musicians’ sets.

Matthew Jackson is a member of the Indiana poetry troupe, Reservoir Dogwoods. He also co-founded the rock/poetry/talk music band known as The PaperBack Riot.

“It was a great experience and well-attended,” Jackson says. “There was such a broad age range, from teens to late sixties. Anytime there is a community event open to everyone, it just makes the arts more accessible and provides opportunities to new artists.”

The goal of ArtHouse Columbus is to build community. It is a place where artists can grow in their art in a non-competitive environment. The group hopes to foster a community of creativity in Columbus and the surrounding area. For now, they want to encourage and support local artists in a family-friendly environment.

“As long as it isn’t anything vulgar, we accept everyone,” explains L’erin. “The art house is one of our passions, so we plan on continuing it until people just stop showing up.”

There have only been two events so far, but both have been very successful. The next art house event will be May 31 at 1602 Washington Street in Columbus. For booking, email Daniel, Seth or L’erin at <[email protected]> with a sample of work.

Volunteers are also needed for set-up and tear down, art installations and other various projects.

Visit their Facebook page at <www.facebook.com/ArtHouseColumbus>, and follow them on Twitter: @ArtHouseCbus.


Each member of the Nashville, Indiana-based Americana band The Whipstich Sallies brings her

own musical influences to the group, including punk.

“A few of our songs we’ve taken to calling ‘old-time punk.’ We’ve heard a few people refer to us as ‘riot bluegrass’ before,” says vocalist and mandolin player Sam Roberts, adding that the influence comes out in the band’s driving rhythms.

The group got its start when Sam and Allie Burbrink, a fellow vocalist who plays the guitar and banjo, performed together as part of a friend’s music event.

“Our set was pretty well received and people gave us ideas about

where we could play locally. It was a fun way to hang out at first, and then we realized we could go further with it,” Burbrink says.

Once Katie Burk (fiddle and vocals) and Kat Erickson (bass and vocals) joined the group, it was time to pick a band name. “We wanted a memorable name—a word that people didn’t hear very often. When we thought of ‘Whipstitch,’ we liked how it had the association with

homemade, quickly-put-together handicrafts. The word ‘Sallies’ just refers to how we are all girls,” says Allie. Today they perform at venues around the area. “Last year, we played about 120 shows. It definitely gets a little crazy since all of us work or are in school full time. Technology is our friend; we couldn’t survive without Google Calendar. We all happen to be very ‘type A’ people, so we stay pretty organized,” Roberts says.

The band’s followers tend to hail from a few different demographics. “Our fans range from middle-aged folks who know their bluegrass but appreciate our take on it to the younger, mid-twenties crowd who

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The Whipstich Sallies: Sam Roberts, Katie Burk, Allie Burbrink, and Kat Ericksonperforming at the 2013 Brown County Music Awards. photo by Cindy Steele

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sees us as part of the indie/folk scene,” says Allie. The Whipstitch Sallies have their theories as to how

twenty-somethings got enamored with old-time music. “I think a big part of why Americana has resurged was

the movie ‘O Brother Where Out Thou?’ It introduced this music to a new generation and it seems like ever since then the popularity has taken off,” Sam says of the Coen brothers film released in 2000.

Although their sound has things in common with traditional bluegrass music, the band members refer to their style as Americana, which is more all-encompassing.

“It’s definitely more of a melting pot genre than just straight bluegrass, where there are definitely certain rules and certain sounds are expected,” says Burbrink.

“Although it’s rooted in the past, and there’s an appreciation of older-time music, there’s also a lot of encouragement for blending from other genres and creating new things,” she adds.

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“There is no diva archetype in our band. We’re committed to being The Whipstitch Sallies, and I believe we’ve gotten where we are because we work hard to ensure that we all have equal input, both on stage and off,” she says.

All four women have busy lives outside of their musical engagements, so getting together to practice can take some coordination. To make time for uninterrupted creative work, they have started a tradition of scheduling songwriting retreats at Roberts’s home out by Lake Lemon a few times a year.

“Generally, one of us has an idea and she brings it to the rest of us who then play with chord progression, grooves, and riffs. Sometimes those things happen in a group, sometimes we exchange our ideas and then go off to work on our own. It’s really interesting to see how each of us interprets things differently,” says Kat.

The Sallies have high hopes for the future of the group. “We have our sights set on playing regional music festivals and opening for larger traveling acts. We want to continue to gain ground in the roots and Americana music scene locally, and aim to be players within that community on a national level one day,” says Katie.

“I would love to be on the road opening up for a national touring act in the next couple years. In my dream world, we are on the road opening up for Trampled by Turtles—my favorite band. But no matter what happens, we are having a blast at the moment, and I can’t complain about that at all,” Sam says.


June in Brown County is always a welcome getaway, but when you combine the scenery with an

open invitation to visit the studios and gardens of 15 working artists, you have an event.

The Brown County Studio & Garden Tour will be held June 28–30. It is a free, self-guided journey of 10 sites located throughout the county. All art is original and includes acrylic paintings, painted glass, watercolors, mixed media and folk-painted gourds, jewelry, metal art, handwoven garments and accessories, fiber art, traditional stoneware, sawdust-fired and raku pottery, crystalline glazed porcelain, and glass art. The artists are Rosey Bolte, Amy Greely, Brad Cox, Adam and Barbie Egenolf, Carrie Foley, Joan Haab, Amanda Mathis, Judy and Tom Prichard, Monique Cagle, Elizabeth Parrock, Martha Sechler, Anne Brahaum, and Larry Spears.

The Brown County Studio & Garden Tour was created 15 years ago by artists and it continues to be sustained by the participating artists. These artists plan, execute, and bear the majority of the cost of the tour with some additional help from sponsors. Brown County’s century old art colony tradition is being carried on by the current tour’s artists and

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Although the tour is not one’s only access to this art, it is a unique way to explore rural Brown County and experience a more personal connection with art. This June tour, and the month-long Back Roads tour in October, make it possible to build a personal history with artists and studios—to watch the evolution of an artist’s work over time, to see the growth and changes in their environment inside and outside the studio, and to gain insight into the creative process. As a result, the buyer may find the art purchased has been invested with a greater, more personal value rooted in memory, insight, and relationship. Art is a very personal thing.

Participating tour studios are open Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maps and signage make it easy to navigate along the Brown County roads. The studios and gardens will be spruced up for your visit and the artists will welcome the opportunity to speak and listen to those who come.

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LuAnne Holladay has watched the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival grow up.

“I’ve been to every single Lotus festival that ever there was,” she said.

The festival, planned for September 26–29, 2013 is now in its 20th year. Holladay, the marketing and communications director for the Lotus Education and Arts Foundation, is proud of the festival’s vibrancy and longevity.

“This is a huge milestone for any nonprofit, to be around for 20 years. We all know how difficult it is to sustain and keep going in this economy when you’re trying to provide arts of a high quality, and outreach,” Holladay said.

That first Lotus festival was held at the John Waldron Arts Center, the Rose Firebay, and a night club across the street, Holladay said. “I think about 800 people came,” she added.

Compare that to last year’s festival, where organizers estimate that around 12,000 people came out during the week of events.

Some people return to Bloomington each year to see loved ones in conjunction with the festival.

“It has become a sort of arts homecoming destination for a lot of people,” said Holladay, who has spoken to attendees who have planned family and friend-group reunions around Lotus weekend.

Longtime Lotus fans are generally anxious to know the lineup of performers booked for the festival, and Holladay said that news will be formally announced around mid-July. Until then, Holladay can safely say she’s enthusiastic about the prospective lineup, and said that it will include “a nice mix of artists people are familiar with and exciting new artists.”

Starting in March, a special concert series called “Lotus at 20” began, the net profits of which are going into the Lotus Foundation’s endowment.

Lotus at 20~by Laura Gleason

“We’ve been around for 20 years and we want to be around for a lot more, so we’re building for the future,” Holladay said.

In March, a Malian/French chamber music duo performed as part of that series, and Paris Combo, which has performed at multiple Lotus festivals, will be playing on April 20 at Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

“They do this Django Reinhardt-inspired jazz, they’re super stylish and the Buskirk is going to be a really good place for them to perform,” Holladay said.

The series will conclude with a free outdoor concert by Christine Balfa & Balfa Toujours, a Cajun

A panel from “The Power of Pattern.” Paris Combo to perform at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in April.

2012 outdoor concert at Third Street Park. courtesy photo


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wayside in recent years, such as the festival procession, will be revived for this year’s festival, and there will be a strong focus on public art, Holladay said.

Over the years, backdrops have been created by local artists for Lotus performers at the Buskirk-Chumley, and this year the design will be a community effort.

To create the backdrop, Lotus organizers solicited design suggestions from the community in an initiative called “The Power of Pattern.” They got more than 400 submissions, which are now being incorporated into one tapestry.

“It’s a lot of fun and a real privilege to be able to translate designs from everybody from kids in elementary school to artists and designers who have been sending us amazing symbols,” said LuAnne.

Another design highlight for this year’s Lotus will be the festival T-shirt, which traditionally features work by local artists. The 20th anniversary design comes from Karen Combs, the same artist who designed the shirt for the first-ever Lotus Festival. Combs, who used to live in Bloomington, is now nationally recognized in the interior design world for her boutique wallpaper company, Nama Rococo.

T-shirts featuring Combs’s design for the original festival are also being re-released as a fundraiser for the festival endowment. “It’s a really striking design,” Holladay said.

A major part of what makes Lotus great, Holladay said, is the Bloomington community, which creates an appealing performing environment for musicians who might never have heard of Bloomington before.

“Our audiences are really good; they are into it, they’re willing to try new things, they’re incredibly welcoming. Because we’re not a giant festival out in a field somewhere—even our bigger tent venues are still relatively intimate—there’s a sense that you can get up close to people,” Holladay said.

An especially committed faction of that community comes together to make the festival happen. Holladay said there are about 500 volunteers who help out each year. “Every single one of those people is an ambassador for what we do,” she said.

According to Holladay, support from the community, volunteers, sponsors, the city of Bloomington, and IU have all been critical to the festival’s success in the last two decades.

“It takes a village. All these things coming together to carry us through the next 20,” she said.


The Bohall family’s tradition of making baskets was as long as the seven-and-a-half-foot-multiplied-by-a-hundred splints used to make their unique bushel-sized baskets.

The Bohall brothers of Brown County: Levi, George, Charles, John and Joe, learned the craft from their father James who had lived along the Muscatatuck River in Jackson County.

In 1924 Frank Hohenberger wrote about his visit to the Joe Bohall family in his column “From Down in the Hills o’ Brown County.” Home for Joe and his family was off the Little Blue Creek Road, down a long lane “back into

the hollow” southeast of Nashville by about 16 miles. The basket making supplemented the farm that supported his family. A workshop for weaving white oak splints was located right next to the house.

Joe made the splints exclusively of white oak. He could make enough splints and weave two bushel baskets in one day. William, Bohall’s son, made the splints and two small baskets in the same length of time. The Bohall basket weavers all used the same method for sizing their splints, or reeds. The family would carry timber on their shoulders down from the hillsides. Splints were then pulled through dies cut in the blade of a cross cut saw, of which there were five sizes. Flower baskets, fruit baskets, corn baskets, clothes baskets, and market baskets were the styles for which the Bohalls were known. Their basket markets were in Bloomington, Columbus, and truckloads were sent to department stores and mail-order firms in Indianapolis. At one time there were 450 baskets stored in the loft that were sold during one tourist season in Nashville.

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John Bohall in the late 1920s taken by Frank Hohenberger, Lilly Library Indiana University.

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because I put a quart of moonshine in the baskets.” William Robert made some little baskets alongside his father and grandfather as they made the larger ones. He remembers his grandfather’s 1917 four-door touring car. He also recalls the furniture and crossties being made, as well as the baskets by his hard-working grandfather.

We are fortunate that Frank Hohenberger chronicled the Bohall basketmakers in several iconic Brown County photographs. Hohenberger noted in an August 1924 visit to observe the basket weavers, “At the left were several horses munching the hay and on the right was a cow looking rather inquisitive.” There was also an article by Bloomington Herald reporter, Victor Green, printed May 14, 1927, which said that “the secret of weaving white oak baskets has been in the Bohall family for generations and probably will be for generations to come. It is a family institution and the Bohalls are proud of their profession.”

Unfortunately, the family tradition did not pass on to the next generation of Bohalls as they moved to larger towns in the region in search of jobs to support their own families. All that many of us will ever see of the Bohall basket makers rests on the images in the Hohenberger photographs.

All the Bohall brothers used the same method for sizing their basket splints—by pulling them through dies cut in a cross saw blade. Brown County Historical Society archives.


For 85 years, the Brown County Art Gallery has persevered, surviving wars, the Great

Depression, the recent recession, and a couple of fires. Through all those years, supporters have always come together to preserve and protect “the little gallery that could.”

Now supporters are taking the next step forward—a major expansion. It is necessary growth brought about by a decade of hard work and escalating success. The public campaign will kick off the weekend of June 28 and 29, with a Nashville Paint Out, an exhibition and sale, free drawing lessons for beginners, and a workshop for children. It also includes a gala reception featuring food, music, and wine tasting provided by Oliver Winery of Bloomington. All the proceeds will go toward a major campaign drive which is already underway.

The historic gallery is home to the Brown County Art Gallery Artists Association which is bursting at the

seams and now has a waiting list for entry. Another gallery resident is Indiana Heritage Arts (IHA), which stages an annual art exhibit and sale. IHA has been buying a painting each year from the exhibition so that the work of present day Hoosier Masters is preserved. Now this collection needs more space.

The building, the land, and the Permanent Collection of early Indiana art are owned and maintained by the non-profit Brown County Art Gallery Foundation. A growing list of foundation events such as Collector’s Showcase, the Victorian Tea, and the Mabel B. Annis student art competition, along with a

consignment art business, has created the need for additional room.

The fund drive steering committee is headed up by businessman and foundation board member Bob Stevens, a leader in the redesign of the Columbus Commons center. The committee has been meeting with art patrons, collectors, and generous donors about the project and has made major progress. Stevens has worked closely with Nashville architect Steve Miller, the grandson of early artist Dale Bessire, to produce several options for growth.

“Sunny Messengers,” 1913 (left) and “Lilac Year,”1951by Gustave Baumann, gifts of Ann Baumann.

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The steering committee has been rewarded for its efforts by families who have histories of supporting Indiana artists. These families follow in the tradition of many art patrons. Without their help, major pieces of art history and beautiful works of art would have been lost or never created. These Indiana patrons have pledged not only money but two major attractions that board members hope will make the Brown County Art Gallery a major cultural destination of a national scale.

Plans include the Sexton Gallery which will be home to the Gustave Baumann Collection: the Indiana years. The gallery is a gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sexton, avid collectors of the work of Gustave Baumann, who is one of the country’s premier woodblock artists of the last century. Baumann got his start in Brown County in the early 1900s before moving to New Mexico. The gift has triggered support from the Baumann estate as well. The gallery foundation was recently given two priceless woodblock prints from the Baumann estate, valued at over $30,000, and the promise of more when the addition is finished. The gallery’s permanent collection contains a significant number of Baumann originals and the new additions, along with works on loan, will create a major art exhibit.

A gift from the family of Richard Johnson will result in a special gallery that will attract both art and nature lovers. The Zimmerman Gallery, dedicated to the work of bird artist Bill Zimmerman, will display original work by the Brown County artist. Bill spent most of his life creating a body of work illustrated in many important books including The Birds of Indiana.

Other major donors include the George and Peggy Rapp family who represent two generations of early Indiana art collectors. They have financially supported a long list of artistic and cultural venues throughout the state of Indiana. The new addition will feature a Rapp Family Gallery in their honor.

Another important aspect of the fund drive is an endowment fund to help carry the additional expenses that will come with a larger facility. A trust set up by Brad and Zee Hirst along with a generous donation in the name of Abe and Cheryl Eyed have given the endowment fund a solid start. There are other names on a steady growing list of supporters who will be recognized in a special display in the new addition.

Expansion designs include a large working art studio where artist association members and others can hold

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Those interested in the process of art and not just the end product may find many points of interest in the upcoming Open Studios Tour scheduled for April 27 and 28 in Bloomington. All around the city—

arranged in six clusters—over forty artists in 22 locations will display their art in a studio or gallery setting. In its second year, The Open Studios Tour hopes to improve upon its excellent public showing from last year of over 500 attendees. Painting, ceramics, sculpture, fabrics, metals and jewelry, printmaking, and letterpress will all be represented. The tours will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 28.

The Tour was paired with a first Friday Gallery Walk in June last year. Organizer Marcy Neiditz said they have moved the date up this year to stand alone and take advantage of the student presence before the end of the school year. An excellent website, credited to the creative efforts of Paul Smedberg, allows patrons to view participating artists at a glance and navigate easily to individual artist pages with selected images. When I remarked on the quality and completeness of the images, Neiditz said that having a set of decent images was a requirement for artists to participate.

The organizers of the tour became acquainted with one another after working with the Bloomington Arts Alliance, an arts advocacy group that formed after the demise of the BAAC. They wanted to create a unique event that would enlist the many local working artists who might not have gallery representation but still wished to interface with the public. After consulting with the City’s arts office and Miah Michelson, the Open Studios idea was conceived.

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Visit the website at <www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com> or call Marcy Neiditz at (812) 332-8554 or Sarah Pearce at (812) 323-9745.

workshops, demonstrations, and exhibits. Space has been included for small performance programs and for the gallery’s important Permanent Collection.

This campaign kickoff weekend features the Nashville paint out. Artists are invited to spend the weekend painting Nashville and Brown County. Art lovers are invited to spend a couple of days watching the artists at work.

The drawing workshop and the children’s art event will take place at the new Johnson Family Pavilion on the Village Green in Nashville.

On Saturday evening, the artists will bring their work to the gallery for the gala reception and sale with the proceeds going toward the capital fund drive. Special exhibits will be set up showing the gallery plans.

Updated information about the event will be posted on the foundation website at <www.browncountyartgallery.org> and on Facebook. You can also call the gallery at (812) 988-4609.

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Throughout the year, thousands of children are exposed to music at school and in their

communities. The Columbus Indiana Philharmonic (CIP) plays an integral part in music education of the youth in Columbus and surrounding areas.

The Philharmonic believes in the power of music and makes education a priority in their programming.

Vanessa Edwards, education director for the CIP, believes that music is powerful and gives children a chance to express themselves. She is also the production manager for the Philharmonic and conducts the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

“As music teachers, we encourage kids to produce, play, and learn about music,” she says. “It is our passion.”

Edwards has been playing the violin since fifth grade. She is Principal Second Violin with the Philharmonic and comes from a family of musicians. Edwards has been the driving force behind the music education programs at the Philharmonic for the past nine years. She is also the director of the annual strings camp.

The 2013 Philharmonic Strings Camp will be held June 17–21at Ceraland Park in Columbus. It is a one-week interactive experience for young musicians of all levels.

“We encourage beginners,” Edwards says, “It’s a full day and we work them hard, but they have a good time.”

Each day is filled with musical experiences, including classes in conducting, composer- and music- recognition, making musical instruments and musical games with Kathy Dell, music teacher and CIP’s Principal Flute. The campers also swim, tie-dye a souvenir camp shirt, and participate in other arts and crafts during the week. A final concert is held on Friday afternoon and families are invited to attend.

“It’s a lot of fun for everyone,” Edwards says. “The adults have just as much fun as the kids do.”

The PHIL’s Adventures with Kids

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2012’s Strings Camp. courtesy photo


Another music program is the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir (CICC), a cooperative effort of the CIP and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. The choir performs in choral festivals around the world.

Deb Eikenbary, music teacher and CICC administrator at the Philharmonic, grew up in Bartholomew County and remembers her limited experience with music in elementary school.

“Growing up, we didn’t have music in the public schools,” she says. “I would have loved to sing in a group like the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir.”

On April 21, the children’s choir will present their annual Voices of Spring Concert at First Christian Church. They will also perform at the 13th Annual Salute! Concert on May 24 on the Columbus courthouse lawn.

In June, Eikenbary and other music professionals will participate in a summer camp for kids who love music.

The 2013 Choral Festival Camp will be June 3-7 at Central Middle School. The camp provides an opportunity for young singers in grades four through eight to work with internationally recognized choral directors.

“It gives the kids a break they need from everyday life,” Eikenbary adds. “We challenge them to be all they can be while making new friends.”

Ruth Dwyer, artistic director for the CICC and festival director, will work closely with the children during the five-day camp. Dwyer is also director of education and associate director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. She is an internationally-known treble choir specialist.

Another children’s program is Jammin’ with the PHIL, free for kids and their families. It is an interactive and instructive musical event. The Philharmonic’s mascot PHIL helps young children (ages two to nine) discover the joy of music.

There are two performances remaining in the season. The first one is April 5 at 4 p.m. at the kidscommons with an instrument petting zoo. The final one is April 26 at 4 p.m. at Foundation for Youth with the CICC Choir.

The Philharmonic’s Adventure Concerts are another educational outreach of the CIP. The concerts are performed annually for thousands of third and fourth graders. According to their website, over 5,000 children and educators from 32 schools in the South-Central Region of Indiana participated in the Adventure Series last spring.

On April 9, there will be three Adventure Concerts performed by the CIP. David Bowden, the music director and conductor for the Philharmonic will educate and inspire the students with his passion for music.

“David will talk about music and how it makes us feel,” Eikenbary explains. “This series gives some students their first opportunity to see a live orchestra.”

With so many opportunities for exposure to music, children can experience the magic of playing an instrument or singing a song. The Columbus Indiana Philharmonic continues to bring music to children and provide an environment for learning both in school and throughout the community.

For information on the Strings Camp or Jammin’ with the PHIL, contact Vanessa Edwards at (812) 376-2638 ext.123. For information on the Choral Festival Camp, contact Deb Eikenbary at (812) 376-2638 ext.122. You can also e-mail either one of them at <[email protected]>.

Scholarships are available for both camps with a deadline of May 31.

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2012’s Choral Festival Camp. courtesy photo


An extraordinary set of life stories emerge from a painting in the IU Art

Museum collection that will be the subject of a series of interdisciplinary studies in March and April. On March 22, Museum Director Heidi Gealt gave an introductory talk on the friendship of “Three Remarkable Women” as embodied in the “Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery” by the most important female French portraitist of her age, Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.

The story of “Three Remarkable Women” begins with Le Brun. Born into an artistic family in 1755, her father, Louis Vigée, was a pastel artist and minor portraitist who provided her first instruction in art. In 1775, she married Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, also an artist and art dealer whose great-great uncle was the first Director of the French Academy under Louis XIV. Growing up near the Court and receiving advice and tutelage from noted artists like Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Le Brun opened a portrait studio in her late teens and was admitted to the Académie de Saint Luc in 1783.

As her circle of clients among the nobility expanded, she was invited to the Palace of Versailles to paint Marie Antoinette. She would eventually paint more than 30 portraits of the queen and her family. By showing the queen in domestic situations, tending her children, Le Brun hoped to soften the image of an otherwise unpopular queen. At the urging of his wife, the king probably had a hand in Le Brun’s admission to the Royal Academy, which had been

opposed on the grounds of her husband being an art dealer.

In addition to her paid portrait work, Le Brun produced dozens of self-portraits. This would prove a liability with the onset of the French Revolution. After the arrests of the royal family, the artist fled the country in disguise as a workingwoman, fearing that her face was too well known from her paintings. She became an exile for the next 12 years, traveling to Italy, Austria, and Russia. She was well received everywhere she went, gaining admission to several foreign art academies and painting high nobility and royals, including Catherine the Great and her granddaughters.

The husband Le Brun left behind in France worked diligently to rescind her classification as a royalist to allow her to return to Paris. She returned in 1801 to a ruined city where many of her friends and colleagues were dead. She abandoned the despoiled capital for England in 1802, where she stayed at Gillwell House, the country estate of Margaret Chinnery who would sit for her famous portrait.

The “Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery” in the IU Art Museum’s collection breaks with convention by not portraying its subject in a typically feminine pursuit, such as sewing or tending children. She is reading, and what she is reading is likewise unusual and introduces the third person of the “remarkable” trio. The book is a handwritten treatise on innovative techniques of child rearing that was a gift of the author, Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis. At an early age, de Genlis became

governess in a royal household that included the boy who became the future King Louis Philippe. She was also obliged to flee the country during the factional fratricide of the French Revolution (during which her husband was beheaded). She wrote several influential works on education, some in the form of morality plays. Mrs. Chinnery became a long-time friend and advocate of her methods, raising her own children by them.

The friendships and connections captured in this one painting lasted for most of the women’s lifetimes (although de Genlis had a falling out late in life with Mrs. Chinnery for reasons unclear). In 1812, William Chinnery caused enormous scandal for the family when he was convicted of embezzling £80,000 and sentenced to a term in Newgate prison. The Prince Regent later pardoned him, and he fled to France, beginning an import business. In 1819, Margaret Chinnery bought a residence in Châtillon-sous-Bagneux outside of Paris, in which Vigée Le Brun had her own room.

Much of the information on the Three Remarkable Women has been summarized in a short film produced by Susanne Schwibs that will play nearby the Chinnery portrait in the gallery until August. In her introduction to the painting, IUAM Director Heidi Gealt described new initiatives in interdisciplinary programming that have grown out of a pilot grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. An additional challenge grant from the Foundation allowed her to add Senior Academic Officer Dr. Jennifer Wagelie full-time to the

“Three Remarkable Women” at IUAM~by Tom Rhea


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Museum’s education department to develop programs for academic outreach between departments all across the campus.

Each year, departments are invited to create curriculum-structured gallery programs that use objects in the Museum to support and enrich their classroom teaching. The Chinnery portrait was the subject of a seminar in Spring 2011 that brought in faculty from the Department of French and Italian, the Lilly Library, and the Jacobs School of Music. Kathleen Rowold from the Sage Costume Institute gave observations on the sitter’s apparel (she wore the height of current French fashion) and Museum conservator Margaret Contampasis explained the architecture of the painting.

On April 7 at 2 p.m. in the Museum atrium, Dr. Massimo Ossi of the Jacobs School of Music will give a lecture as introduction to a performance of works by Giovanni Viotti, who became director of the Paris Opera in 1819. On April 11 at 5:15 p.m. in Fine Arts 102, author of the canonical book on Vigée Le Brun, Professor Mary Sheriff, will present a keynote lecture titled “Reading, Writing, and Representing: a Tale of Three Women.”

The “Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery” will travel to the Louvre in 2015 for a major exhibit on the work of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.

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The vision of a vibrant arts district in Downtown Columbus is coming to fruition with the

completion of the Fourth Street construction project.

The downtown area was was chosen as the site of the arts district due to its large concentration of cultural assets. Recent investments in infrastructure, including public facilities, office complexes, a hotel, apartments, parking, and other amenities have formed a solid foundation for expanded activities.

What makes this district significant to local residents and visitors? The most noticeable is the physical change that occurred to Fourth Street. It recently received a $1.78 million renovation transforming it into a multi-functional street—friendly to vehicles and pedestrians alike and allowing for its use as a venue for outdoor festivals and events.

Fourth Street is an integral component of the larger district model which includes four corridors and promotes synergy among them. Fourth Street is the basis of the Entertainment Corridor and consists of The Commons which features the Nugent-Custer Performance Hall, Hotel Indigo, and Mill Race Park. Washington Street comprises the Commerce Corridor; Jackson Street forms the Arts and Education Corridor; and Fifth Street, recognized as one of the most architecturally significant streets in America, forms the Architecture Corridor.

There will be a Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting celebration of the 4th Street renovation on April 19, 2013 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. (rain

date: April 26). The East Jazz Band, Columbus North Choirs: North Stars and 25th St. Singers, the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Columbus Indiana Children’s Choir, and 40 Years of College will perform. There will also be artisan demonstrations, face painting, magic by Travis Easterling, and the Mill Race Clowns.

The Columbus Area Arts Council has been recognized as the backbone support organization of the arts district’s myriad partners. Executive Director Karen Shrode shared, “the Columbus Arts District unifies the work and visions of all the various arts organizations, educational institutions, economic agencies and social services. The potential to increase the variety of arts experiences that are appealing, affordable and accessible to all

area residents is huge.” The Arts Council will launch its 2013 outdoor programs in June when JCB NeighborFEST! returns. Scheduled for the first Thursdays in each month of June–September, the popular series highlights a variety of music genres. In addition, the Johnson-Witkemper Insurance Biggest Block Party Ever is scheduled for Saturday, July 27. The Hunter Smith Band will headline one of the best parties of the year. Local and regional bands will be featured on three stages as well as food booths with offerings from downtown restaurants.

The renovation of Fourth Street has already fostered the creation of two new activities. Located between Jackson and Washington streets, a spring farmer’s market will begin April 27 and continue through May 25. Approximately 20 vendors will offer spring vegetables, fruits, and plants. A mid-week market launches June 5 and continues every Wednesday through September 25. Becky Church, market chairperson, commented that downtown employees will be the target audience of the market which will be open from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., but invites all area residents to venture downtown, shop the market, and visit retailers and restaurants. The Saturday morning summer market will continue in the Cummins’ parking lot. Church is a member of Columbus in Bloom which is the organizer and overseer of the original Columbus Farmer’s Market as well as the two new markets. Columbus in Bloom was instrumental in Columbus’ national recognition in the America in Bloom contest in 2006 and was honored with the Unforgettable,

Columbus 4th Street Project~by Geri Handley Ribbon Cutting

April 19, 2013

photo courtesy Dave Hayward, City Engineer, City of Columbus


Unexpected Award from the Columbus Visitors Center in 2010 for their work with the Columbus Farmer’s Market.

The goals of the Arts District include, not only the physical renovation to Fourth Street to facilitate arts festivities, but the opportunity to emphasize arts production; attract artists, designers and artisans; provide support to the IU Center for Art+Design; attract and expand arts education for children of all ages; re-vitalize performing arts facilities; and compliment state tourism programs. A master plan will be developed to define and maximize existing performance facilities as well as explore possible new facilities, promote the culinary arts, and incorporate technology. Art and design education will be realized by the expansion of IU Center for Art+Design’s lecture series, providing hands-on workshops, growing Ivy Tech’s fine arts and design program, establishing an artist/designer residency program at IUCA+D, and supporting youth programming for exposure to the design arts, as well as several others.

The Arts District is the current incarnation of an ever evolving downtown Columbus. It continues to transform in an effort to accommodate the needs and wants of its citizens. Today’s downtown Columbus reflects the current leaders’ visions for a vibrant and nurturing community center.

Plays performed by local actorsComedy nights with Indiana’s funniest

Tickets available at Harlequin Theatre, the FairOaks Mall info desk,or Viewpoint Books on Washington Street in Downtown Columbus

Flexible seating / staging available for lectures and conferences • Bar facilitiesContact: Robert Hay-Smith (Artistic Director) (812) 343-4597

PLAYS

Music events–all genres in the“Jazz Avenue Music Series”

This intimate 120 seat theater is locatedin the FairOaks Mall 25th Street in Columbus, IN

One man/woman shows, touring artists

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Free self-guided walking tour of 11downtown Nashville Art Galleriesfeaturing original local and regionalart and crafts in all price ranges

Gallery open houses, refreshments, entertainment,demonstrations, and hands-on opportunities

Many local restaurants offer discounts and free add-onsto Art Walk patrons

www.villageartwalk.com (812) 340-8781 for information

Gallery list and map of participating downtown galleriesand restaurants available at the Visitors Center


The 35th annual Indiana Heritage Arts (IHA)Exhibition and Sale will open in June at the Brown County Art Gallery. The IHA will soon issue its call for entries for this popular show, set to run this year from June 8 to June 22, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, June 7.

This year’s judge will be Dawn Whitelaw, a landscape and portrait painter out of Franklin, Tennessee. Whitelaw taught painting for 25 years at David Lipscomb University and was featured in the 2012 American Impressionists Society exhibit held in Indianapolis.

Last year proved to be a record year for the IHA exhibit in terms of sales and prizes, topping out at around $90,000, with $20,000 of that given in awards and prizes. The $5,000 Gold award went to Jerry Smith for his painting “Valley Revival.” A large format seascape by C.W. Mundy called “Shipwreck at Malta” took second prize. The young Bloomington artist, Wyatt LeGrand, won a $1,000 award of excellence for his painting, “Periphery: Show me the Monet.” This work was also chosen for the Board of Director’s purchase prize and will enter the gallery’s permanent collection.

During each show, the public selects a People’s Choice winner, and the gallery has recently established an Artists’ Choice award as well, to bring recognition to an artwork that may have been overlooked. Judging is always a difficult and contested matter at the IHA.

Ross, who also works as a gallerist at Eckert and Ross in Indianapolis, said that he has been encouraged by steady sales in the last few years of the IHA exhibit, years that could easily have been disappointing. While the economy has not recovered altogether, Ross observed that artists began adapting to circumstances by offering smaller, less expensive works, a strategy that seems to have succeeded.

The Indiana Heritage Arts, Inc. exists to promote and preserve the legacy of the great early Indiana artists by supporting today’s Hoosier masters. For more information contact Lyn Letsinger-Miller at (812) 988-6934.

The Indiana Limestone Symposium will present another season in supervised limestone carving of all skill levels beginning June 9 with various sessions throughout the month.

The Symposium roster of instructors includes an impressive array of experienced carvers including: Dr. George Bauer, Sharon Fullingham, and Janey Westin. Dale Enochs, Patrick Plunkett, and Ned Cunningham will be returning this year. Register by May 1, 2013. To register, view artist videos, and for more information visit <www.limestonesymposium.org>.

June 9–29, 2013

Indiana Heritage Arts Exhibition and Sale

June 8–22, 2013

“Artists for Animals,” a Brown County art gala and benefit, will be held at the Chateau Thomas Winery in Nashville on May 5, 2013 from 5 to 8 p.m. featuring animal-themed pieces with the proceeds benefitting PetsAlive/dwtc and the Brown County Humane Society.

Enjoy an evening of fine art, live and silent auctions, live music, hors d’oeuvres, and award-winning wine. Admission is $10 at the door which includes food and a glass of wine. Music will be provided by Janiece Jaffe and Curtis Cantwell Jackson.

Chateau Thomas Winery is located at 225 S. Van Buren Street in Nashville’s Coachlight Square. For information contact Ingrid Skoog at <[email protected]> or (812) 333-1982.

Artists for Animals May 5, 2013

Bring the entire family for the annual Taste of Brown County. Enjoy live music, great food, yummy sweets, and delightful drinks. Vote for your favorite taste from the samples around the village.

This year features some top-notch entertainment. Headliner is country cutie, Clayton Anderson, whose gigs include opening for Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, and Easton Corbin. Radio personality and homegrown regional star, Sheila Stephen, will be playing in the late afternoon. All entertainment and a Beer and Wine Garden will be located at Coachlight Square. Friday night will include a Pub Crawl. Fri. 5–8 p.m. ; Sat. Noon–5 p.m.

Taste of Brown County

May 17, 18, 2013


The 33rd Annual Arts Fair on the Square will take place from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 22, 2013. Over 60 regional and national artists will participate. The Fair also includes interactive activities for children and entertainment. The Fair runs concurrently with the Taste of Bloomington, offering

sampling opportunities for the wares of over 50 local restaurants, wineries, and breweries.

This year includes an expansion from the Courthouse Square with 30 additional booths along East 6th Street. The entertainment includes the Bloomington Community Band, the Windfall Dancers, the Dark Side Tribal dancers, and the Different Drummer Belly Dancers.

The Taste of Bloomington begins at 3 p.m. and runs until 11 p.m. at the Showers Commons at 7th and Morton. While the Arts Fair is entirely free, the Taste will charge a $6 admission with additional charges at the individual tasting booths (generally less than $5 each). A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Hoosier Hills Food Bank and the Community Kitchen of Monroe County.

The Bloomington Playwrights Project sponsors this event and is celebrating 31 years of operation. It is located at 8th and Walnut Streets.

Visit <www.artsfair.org> or <www.visitbloomington.com/taste>.

Arts Fair on the SquareJune 22, 2013

The inaugural Simply Music, Simply Mushrooms Morel Festival will be held in Brown County, Indiana at the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Campgrounds in Bean Blossom on April 19–20, 2013—two days of live music, guided forays, lectures, and craft beer.

Events offered are by skill level, from novice to experienced hunter. Educational seminars hosted by some of the most knowledge mushroom hunters in the Midwest will take place each day. Topics include: tree identification, how to find the best hunting locations, and cooking with morel mushrooms. Guided mushroom hunts will also be offered.

Music plays daily from noon to the early morning hours featuring bands such as The Cox Brothers, Chicago Farmer, New Old Calvary, Indiana Boys, Rusty Bladen, White Lightning Boys, and many more. Locally produced craft beer will be served from Big Woods Brewery during these hours.

Experienced morel hunters should enter the first “Indiana State Morel Hunting Championship,” being held on Sunday, April 21. Participants will have two hours to collect as many mushrooms they can find at a secret designated location. Whoever collects the most mushrooms will be crowned the first Morel Hunting Champion.

For more festival information visit the website <www.morelfestival.com> or Facebook: <www.facebook.com/ SimplyMusicSimplyMushrooms>.

Overnight camping is available on-site by contacting Bill Monroe’s Music Park & Campground at 812-988-6422 or by visiting <www.beanblossom.us>.

Simply Music,Simply Mushrooms Morel Festival

April 19, 20, 2013

The 35th Brown County Historical Society Quilt Show has a new home this year. The previous location’s property was sold to raise funds for a new history

center in town. This year’s event will be held in the Brown County High School’s cafeteria on June 7, 8, and 9, 2013.

Quilt entries are both hand- or machine-quilted, and include bedsize creations, wearable quilts, miniature quilts, and original wall art. Techniques of entries include appliqué and traditional pieced quilts. Crafted items include quilted table runners, place mats, tote bags, purses, pillows, as well as wearable art clothing. The “antique” quilts are ones made before 1950.

Entry forms for this year’s show must be submitted by May 23. You can pick up a form in Nashville at the Brown County Visitor’s Center or at the Brown County History Center located at 46 East Gould Street, or get one online at <www.browncountyhistory.info>. Members of the Pioneer Women’s Club can also supply the forms. Anyone may enter, with an entry form submitted for each individual item.

The Quilt Show will be open to the public Friday, June 7 and Saturday, June 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission fees are $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, and 12 years and younger are free.

Brown County Historical Society Quilt Show June 7–9, 2013


EARTH DAY CELEBRATIONApril 21, 2013Come together in the great outdoors to make eco-friendly arts and crafts and celebrate Earth Day. Activities will begin at 1 p.m. at Steele’s large studio, the formal garden, and fields. The theme for this year’s event is sustainability and the environment. A garden sketch scavenger hunt will also be held. The cost is $5 per person and light snacks and beverages will be provided with a complementary tour of the buildings.

WILDFLOWER FORAYApril 26, 27, 28, 2013The Foray is a three-day, celebration of natural history and the arrival of spring. Activities include wildflower hikes and programs, birding, an evening program with owls, a boat trip on Lake Monroe, “wildflower yoga,” and a nature photography workshop for kids. The Foray coincides with Arbor Day and some tree-planting and native shrubs activities have been added this year.

Saturday’s program features two book signings: Sally Weeks with her new book, Shrubs and Woody Vines of Indiana and the Midwest and Jeffrey Belth with his new field guide, Butterflies of Indiana.

Wildflower hikers help create a spring wildflower census for local natural areas. Everything in bloom is counted and identified, and the information collected builds a database of wildflowers and habitat The wildflower census began in 1983.

T.C. Steele State Historic Site, Brown County State Park, Bloomington Parks & Recreation, Hoosier National Forest, IU Research & Teaching Preserves, Monroe County

Parks & Recreation, Monroe Reservoir, DNR Forestry, DNR Nature Preserves, Return to the Wild, Bird Country US, and The Nature Conservancy all participate.

Event activities are made possible in part by Friends of T.C. Steele, Friends of Brown County State Park, South Central Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society, Sassafras Audubon Society, Brown County Garden Club, Douglas Bookkeeping, and volunteers.

FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS PAINT OUTMay 18, 2013The Festival of Flowers Paint Out features artists painting on the site grounds from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Artists will work much as Steele did—outside, in the open air. The event is free of charge to the general public, but participating artists must pre-register and pay a fee.

The public is invited to watch the artists at work and to enjoy a day of relaxation and fun. Selma Steele’s gardens in May are a dazzling display of peonies, irises, and foxgloves massed in garden beds and naturalized across the hillsides. Boxed lunches will be available for purchase, for your own picnic in the garden.

An outdoor afternoon concert will begin at 1 p.m., and artwork will be gathered together for judging at 2 p.m. near the Formal Garden. Visitors may vote on their favorites for a “People’s Choice” award. First-place winning artwork created during the Festival of Flowers Paint Out will be displayed in T.C. Steele’s Large Studio for thirty days.

Guided tours of Steele’s studio and historic home, the “House of the Singing Winds” will be offered for an admission fee.

Spring Events at T.C. Steele Site

The eighth annual Women Exposed (WE) Art Happening will be held April 27, 2013 at the Back Door at 207 S. College in downtown Bloomington. This year’s theme is “Past, Present, Future,” a musing on the continuum of womyn’s experience. WE will donate all profits from the show to Middle Way House, a non-profit Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Shelter serving five counties in Indiana.

The Art Happening will kick off at 7 p.m. with a gathering in 3rd Street Park—music by the Jefferson Street Parade Band, weather permitting. The band, dancers, and guests will set off at 7:30 p.m. on a sidewalk parade around the downtown square and to the Back Door, a new Bloomington queer-safe dance club. The procession will honor the spirit of Sophia Travis, a community leader who passed away last year.

Bring an open mind, curiosity, and an appetite for hors d’oeuvres by local chefs, music and performance, along with installation and studio art. At 8 p.m, the Back Door will open its club space for drinks, dessert, living art, burlesque, drag, music, and dancing. The show will go late into the night. To learn more visit: <womenexposedbloomington.wordpress.com>.

Women Exposed Art Happening

April 27, 2013

T.C. Steele State Historic Site is located on Hwy 46 between Nashville and Bloomington. The home, studio and gardens of this noted Hoosier artist still provide inspiration today through site tours, outdoor painting competitions and artists-in-residence programming. For more information, call (812) 988-2785 or visit <www.indianamuseum.org/tc_steele>


BACK TO THE LANDAGAIN

a benefit concert for

The NewBrown CountyHistory Center

Saturday, June 8, 20137:30 pm Brown County Playhouse

Dillon Bustin

Cindy KalletJon Kay

Grey Larsen


BROWN COUNTY:Village Art WalkSecond Saturdays April–December 5 to 8 pm. 11 participating galleries. Many restaurant discounts and add-ons www.villageartwalk.com (812) 340-8781

Simply Music, Simply Mushrooms Morel FestivalApril 19-20 at Bill Monroe’s Music Parkin Bean Blossom. Music, forays, lectures, and craft beer. www.morelfestival.com

T.C. Steele State Historic SiteApril 21 Earth Day CelebrationApril 26-28 Wildflower Foray May 18 Festival of Flowers PaintOutT.C. Steele SHS located in Belmont Register (812) 988-2785 [email protected]

Artists for AnimalsMay 5, 5-8 at Chateau Thomas Winery in Nashville. Benefit for PetsAlive and Brown County Humane Society featuring animal-themed pieces. Music by Janiece Jaffe and Curtis Cantwell Jackson

Taste of Brown CountyMay 17, 18, NashvilleMusic with Clayton Anderson and Sheila Stephen, food, sweets, and drinks. Entertainment and beer and wind garden at Coachlight Square.

Brown CountyHistorical Society Quilt ShowJune 7-9, Brown County High School cafeteria. Fri. and Sat. 10 to 5, Sun. 10 to 3

“Back to the Land Again”Benefit for Brown County History CenterJune 8, Brown County Playhouse, 7:30 Dillon Bustin, Jon Kay, Cindy Kallet, Grey Larsen

Indiana Heritage Arts ShowJune 8-22,Brown County Art Gallerywww.indianaheritagearts.org

Brown County Studio and Garden TourJune 28-30, Fri. and Sat. 9-6, Sun. 10-5 www.BrownCountyStudioTour.com

Brown County Art Gallery Expansion Campaign KickoffJune 28, 29 Nashville Paint Out, free drawing lessons for beginners, workshop for children, and a gala reception with food, music, wine.

Ferrer GalleryVillage Art Walks Second SaturdaysApril: “Sweet Spring Showers” Brown County artist Monique Cagle Art Walk, April 13, 5-8May: “Blooms in May” Brown County metal smith Amy Greely Art Walk, May 11, 5-8June: “Sunshine in June” Dick Ferrer will demonstrate his painting techniqueArt Walk, June 8, 5-861 W. Main St., Village Green Bldg. 2nd level in Nashville, IN Represents local and regional artists(812) 988-1994 [email protected]

Brown County Art GuildMarch 1-April 30 “Spring Tides” paintings from the Permanent Collection works by: Marie Goth, VJ Cariani, Carl Graf, C. Curry Bohm, E.K. Williams, Frederick W. RigleyMay: Chris Newlund and Robert Hoffman June: Brian Gordy and Jim Faulkner48 S. Van Buren Street Nashville, IN(812) 988-6185www.browncountyartguild.org

Brown County Art GalleryApril 1-June 1 Artists Assoc. Spring ShowApril 14 Victorian Tea Reserve by April 9 April 20-May 2 Mabel B. Annis Student Art Exhibit, reception April 21, 2:00-3:30

June 8-22 IHA Show and Sale June 24-Oct. 7 Artists Assoc. Summer ShowJune 28,29 Expansion Campaign KickoffArtist Dr. and Main St. in Nashville, IN Info (812) 988-4609 www.browncountyartgallery.org

BLOOMINGTON:Open Studios TourApril 27 and 28, 5 to 8 on Fri., 10 to 4 Sat., Sun.

Trashion Refashion ShowApril 21, Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 7:00Showcasing designs from upcycled clothing and discarded materials.Live music , runway competition, celebrity dress-off. Benefit for Sustainable Living.

Women Exposed Art HappeningApril 27, Back Door downtownSidewalk parade, music, art, dancing www.womenexposedbloomington.wordpress.com

Limestone SymposiumJune 9-29, Series of outdoor stone carving workshops held at Bybee Stone Company. Instruction offered in styles and techniques by master carvers. www.limestonesymposium.org [email protected]

The Bloomington Playwrights Project’s Arts Fair on the SquareJune 22, 10-6, Monroe County Courthousein conjunction with Taste of Bloomingtonwww.artsfair.org

Gallery Walk DowntownApril 5, June 7, Aug. 2, Oct. 4, Dec. 6www.visitbloomington.com or www.gallerywalkbloomington.comStroll any time of the year! Special receptions [First Fridays] from 5-8 pm at the following:

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.......................................................Area Arts CalendarBy Hand GalleryApril 5-May 18 “Metal and Mud” Sculpture and Pottery by Jim HalvorsonOpening reception Friday, April 5, 5-8May 23-July 20 “Doing the Dance”Wood cuts by Dale EnochsOpening reception Friday, June 7, 5-8#109 Fountain Square Mall Hours: Mon-Sat, 10-5:30 101 W. Kirkwood Ave. (812) 334-3255 www.byhandgallery.comgallery406April 5-May 31: “The Beautiful and the Good” works by artist Jennifer MujezinovicThe Wicks Building 116 W. 6th St. Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9-6 First Fri. 9-8, Sat. 11-6(812) 333-0536www.spectrumstudioinc.comGallery Group109 E 6th St, 47408 (812) 334-9700Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center GalleriesApril 5-27: Stefan Petranek: “It Came From Within”Thomas Harris: “Vessels vs. Vassals”Ivy Tech Fine Arts Students: Spring Semester 2-D and 3-D art projects.Ivy Tech Alternative Spring Break 2013: In Words and Pictures.Open M-F, 9-7, Sat, 9-5122 S. Walnut St. Corner of 4th and Walnut(812) 330-4400 www.ivytech.edu/bloomington/waldronEl NortenoApril 5–30: Art of Patricia C. Coleman206 N. Walnut (812) 333-9591pictura galleryApril 5-May 25: “Local Weather” photographs by Joe JohnsonOpening reception Friday, April 5 at 7pictura gallery is celebrating its 5th Anniversary. The landscapes in Local Weather reveal a world that has been transformed by snow and ice. 122 W. 6th St. (812) 336-0000Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7www.picturagallery.com

The Stone Belt GalleryShowcasing the artistry of individuals with developmental disabilitiesApril 5-May 31: featuring Justin Phillipsfrom Columbus and other artists from Bloomington, Columbus, and Bedford.107 West 9th StreetHours: Mon-Fri. 10-4, 5-7:30 First FridaysThe Venue, Fine Arts & GiftsApril: Paintings by Galina Herndon114 S. Grant. St.Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11-7, Sun. 12-5(812) 339-4200 www.TheVenueBloomington.com

Wellness Arts GalleryApril 5-May 31: “Native Land”Photography of Ai Takahashi featuringImages of landscapes and people. Opening reception, April 5, 5-8June 7-28 Fiber Art ExhibitOpening reception June 7,5-8 Patricia’s Wellness Arts Café & Quilter’s Comfort Teas 725 W. Kirkwood Ave.Tues.-Sat. 11-6, and First Fridays 11-8(812) 334-8155www.hartrock.net/cafe.htm

IU Art MuseumMarch 2-May 5:“Richard Bell: Uz vs. Them”Activist. Painter. Provocateur. Filmmaker. Bell works primarily as a painter, but he also creates photographs, films, and installation pieces; all of these mediums are represented in the exhibition. 1133 E. 7th Street on the campus of IU(812) 855-5445 [email protected]

COLUMBUS:Farmers MarketJune-Sept., 9 to Noon

4th Street Grand Opening and Ribbon CuttingApril 19, 5:30-9 (rain date April 26)East Jazz Band, North Stars and 25th St., artisan demonstrations, Phil. Youth

Orchestra, Col. IN Children’s Choir, Mill Race Clowns, face painting, 40 Years of College

Columbus Learning Center Now-May 27 Martha Kaplan “Spectrums” June 1-Aug. 31 Columbus RoundABOUT4555 Central Avenue, Columbus (812) 314-8507 www.educationcoalition.com

Harlequin TheatreApril 6, 7:30 Jazz Ave. Music Series presents: Girls just wanna Play Jazz! April 27, 7:30 Comedy Night presents:D.J. Dangler, Brent Terhune, Matt Bachus“Flirting with the Deep End”a comedy by Suzanne Maynard MillerMay 17, 18, 24, 25 at 7:30May 19 and 26 at 2:30Located in the FairOaks Mall 25th St. (812) 343-4597www.theharlequintheatre.com

HOPE:Hope Art Fair on the Square Exhibition and Sale and Com. Ctr. Hope Kid’s Art ShowMay 17, Town Square Hope, IN www.hopeartguild.com

SEYMOUR:Southern Indiana Center for the Arts (SICA)April 10, 4-7 open house and meet-the-artist reception. Also, say goodbye to executive director Warren Baumgart Jr. and welcome Rose Ann Dunlap who is taking his place. April featured art is the photography of John and Bobbie Walker. Southern Indiana Festival of Wine and BrewsJune 15, 2-7 Wine and craft beer tasting, music.SICA Open Tues.-Fri. noon to 5; Sat. 11-32001 N. Ewing St., Seymour, INwww.soinart.com(812) 522-2278

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BARB BONCHEKDizzy ArtGeo Motion Designs features black and white hand painted tables and wall hangings with acrylics and durable epoxy finish. Custom and reclaimed bottoms. Game boards. Commission work welcome.Pen and Ink originals, prints, [email protected](812) 876-1907Available at Hoosier Artist Gallery in Nashville, IN andThe Venue Gallery for Fine Art and Gifts in Bloomington, IN

BARB BROOKE DAVIS Vintage Textile ArtistPillows, framed wall art, table runners, personal accessories, scarves, pins, one-of-a-kind/original over-dyed felted wool decorative accessories61 W. Main St. in Ferrer Gallery(812) 360-0478www.ferrergallery.com

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

RUTH CONWAYWood Fired pottery Available at By Hand Gallery101 West Kirkwood # 109Fountain Square MallBloomington, IN 47404(812) 334-3255www.byhandgallery.com

ROBERT N. ANDERSONStillframes Photography and Imaging810 Brown Street Suite A Columbus, IN 47201(812) 372-0762 / [email protected]

ROSEY BOLTEThe Uncommon GourdGourd Art – Mixed MediaHand painted gourds, Jewelry and other unique folk painting~An Indiana Artisan~4021 Vaught RoadNashville, IN 47448(812) 322-3398Studio open most days, best to call aheadAlso available: Ferrer Gallery, Nashville, [email protected]/roseys.uncommon.gourd

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

CATHY HAGGERTYPainting InstructionPainting lessons for individuals or small groups(812) 988-4091 [email protected] 39 E. Franklin St. in Nashville, IN (next to train)

“Protection of my Sacred inner Self”

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 creativeInner Self. Join us for a powerful and fascinating learning experience asyou create your own personal deck of cards. Delightful and amazing!Workshops, retreats, classes, and individual [email protected](812) 343-5285 or (812) 988-0597

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AMY GREELYAmy Greely StudioCreative MetalwearFun, 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 [email protected] www.amygreely.com(812) 988-1058

CHRIS GUSTINHomestead Weaving StudioHandwoven “Recycled Rugs,” clothing, household items. Yarn, looms, spinning wheels, supplies for every fiber fanatic.~ An Indiana Artisan ~6285 Hamilton Creek Rd.,Columbus, IN 47201Southeastern Brown County(812) 988-8622Studio open 11 - 5 most days.Also available at Spears Gallery, Nashville, [email protected]


JOE LEEIllustrator, Painter, ClownPen and ink, watercolor illustrationsBook illustrator “...for Beginners” seriesEditorial cartoonist for Herald TimesChildren’s illustrationINto Art and Our Brown CountyBloomington, IN(812) 323-7427 [email protected]

NORTHWOOD (pseudonym)

PaintingsA journey through neo-abstract expressionism as well as contemporary impressionism with a touch of mysterySee at Hoosier Artist Gallery, Nashville, IN Carol Clendeningwww.carolclendening.com [email protected](812) 825-1803

LINDA KNUDSENFiber ArtistAvailable at By Hand Gallery101 West Kirkwood # 109Fountain Square MallBloomington, IN 47404(812) 334-3255www.byhandgallery.com

CAROL KOETKEFine Art PhotographyAward-winning fine art to live withAvailable from:Gallery North Nashville – Nashville, INBy Hand Gallery – Bloomington, INand online at www.carolkoetke.com [email protected](812) 322-5180

ELIZABETH O’REAR Fine ArtistOil, Acrylic, Watercolor—Animals, Still life, LandscapesVisit 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

MICHELE HEATHER POLLOCKLost Lake StudioHandmade books, 2D & 3D contemporary framed fine artAvailable at the Brown County Craft Gallery in Nashville, [email protected] N Lost Lake Rd Columbus, IN 47201(812) 988-0198

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LARRY SPEARSSpears GalleryPorcelain and StonewareHours: Open daily from 10 to 55110 St. Rd. 135 S. Nashville, IN 47448Located 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) [email protected] www.spearsgallery.com

TRICIA HEISER WENTEFine ArtistOil, Acrylic, Pastel, WatercolorStudio / Gallery1000 W. 17th St.Bloomington, IN 47404By Hand Gallery, Bloomington, INHoosier Salon Gallery, Indianapolis, INThe Gallery on Pearl, New Albany, INwww.triciawente.com (812) 333-3907

MARY RILEYFine ArtistPaintings atGallery North Nashville50 E. Main on Old School Way in Nashville, [email protected]

WALT SCHMIDT BETTY WESTHUESHickory Tree Studio & Country LoomFunctional 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 [email protected] www.hickorytreestudio.com

SUE WESTHUESMixed Media Gourd ArtA 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, INA Fair of the Arts at the Bloomington Farmers Market Sue Westhues P.O. Box 1786 Bloomington, IN 47402

(812) 876-3099LAURIE WRIGHT PrintmakerLaurie Wright Studio810 Brown Street Suite AColumbus, Indiana 47201(812) 343-3209By appointment or by chancewww.lauriewright.com

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About 50 artists and entertainers from Brown County gathered at the Brown County Inn the evening of March 11 to talk about the town’s new Arts and Entertainment District and the new Arts and Entertainment Commission.

Both the district and commission were created last year by separate town ordinances, and the meeting, called by the commission, was billed as a “public discussion” of the ongoing efforts.

A presentation was made to start the evening, outlining the boundaries of the district, and the discussion then turned to the commission itself and what it had been charged to do by the town.

In the ordinance that created the commission, the town said its duties included “developing and maintaining relationships within the art community of the town of Nashville and its region; encouraging, assisting, advising and coordinating an arts, cultural and entertainment district within the town of Nashville; studying and recommending guidelines and procedures to develop and encourage education, events, innovation and community participation in visual, literary and performing arts, and encourage and develop public art.”

With that charge, the commission adopted this mission statement: “To build on Brown County’s spirit and history by connecting, supporting and promoting its artistic community in order to enhance the quality of life for our residents and visitors.”

At the March 11 meeting, the commission spent the last half of the 90-minute session inviting artists and entertainers in the audience to give their input on what the commission could do that would benefit them.

“It was a lively and rewarding discussion,” said commission president Tom Tuley. “They had a lot of good ideas, and we’ll be working with them as we move forward.

“The thing that was particularly interesting to the commission, I think, is that most of the things the artists and entertainers told us would be of benefit to them were also things we had been batting back and forth at commission meetings.“

Tuley added that the commission hopes to hold another public meeting this year, perhaps in the late-summer or fall.

News from the Brown County District

News from theColumbus District

Between now and then, the commission will take the input the audience provided and use that information to help put together a marketing plan, and then a strategic plan to move the arts district ahead over the next 3–5 years.

The commission is already making plans to soon put out a call for interest from artists involving two areas where public art is planned.

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-RoundMonday – Saturday 10 am–5 pm · Sunday Noon–5 pm

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

Gallery North Nashville

Old School (Alley) Way, south from Main Street,across from courthouse in Nashville, Indianawww.gallery-north.org • (812) 988-6855

New Traditions in Fine Art & Craft Collecting


News from theColumbus District

As spring (hopefully) settles in for good, Columbus Area Arts Council’s winter programming schedule comes to an end. Spring and summer events are now popping up on our calendar, showcasing the array of opportunities within the Columbus Arts District.

Our signature winter program, First Fridays for Families, comes to an end on Friday, April 5 with Dancer’s Studios performance of “Mixed-Up Fairy Tales Ballet.” The ballet, featuring a cast of local dancers, tells the story of a young girl that falls asleep in her dance studio’s costume shop and dreams of a magical world where characters from several fairy tales make an appearance. This free event begins at 6:00 p.m. at The Commons in downtown Columbus.

On April 19, the city of Columbus will host a grand re-opening of Fourth Street, the Entertainment Corridor of the newly designated Columbus Arts District. The family-friendly event will showcase the redesign of Fourth Street from an ordinary city street into a multi-functional space. The event is free and begins at 5:00 p.m.

April winds down with Columbus Area Arts Council’s Annual Report to the Community. Anita Lauricella, Principal at Lauricella & Associates in Boston, Massachusetts, will be our featured guest speaker. Ms. Lauricella is a consultant working to develop connections between community and the arts. Notably, she was instrumental in organizing and developing Boston’s largest artist live/work space. With the development of the Columbus Arts District, the feasibility of creating an arts center and artist live/work space within the district is currently being considered. Our annual meeting is open to the public and will begin at 4:30 p.m. on April 27 in The Commons.

JCB NeighborFEST, our popular after work concert series, returns on Thursday, June 6 and continues on the first Thursday of the month through September. Jai Baker, who began playing music at the age of 7, kicks it off at 5:30 p.m. with his version of pop-country music. This free event is held outside on Washington Street in front of The Commons and brings regional musical acts to the streets of downtown Columbus.

Although August is several months away, now is the time to mark your calendars for Columbus’ biggest

concert of the year, Rock the Park. Grammy-nominated REO Speedwagon, known for their number one hits “Keep On Loving You” and “Can’t Fight This Feeling” will perform at Mill Race Park on August 17 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale June 17.

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

Submitted by Arthur Smith, marketing and media director of Columbus Area Arts Council, <[email protected]>.

Columbus Learning Center

4555 Central Avenue • Columbus, IndianaFor information (812) 314-8507

Columbus RoundABOUT Art Co-op

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June 1 through August 31

Martha Kaplan “Spectrums”Now through May 27


The Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) is an officially designated Cultural District by the State of Indiana and offers 60 blocks of attractions to explore and enjoy all in the heart of downtown Bloomington. 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—for a day, a week or longer.

The spring thaw brings a burst of all sorts of colorful arts happenings in downtown Bloomington. Here are just a few you’ll want to check out.

The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market gears up for another season Saturday, April 6. Fresh produce, flowers, herbs, meats, and prepared foods are available in a marketplace setting while live music from various areas throughout the Market encourages socializing and relaxing. On the second Saturday of each month the Market hosts a celebration of art and community with the displays, sales, and demonstrations of visual arts and fine crafts by local and regional artists at A Fair of the Arts. Hours for both 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Once you come once, you’ll be hooked!

The art of fashion design meets trash in the third annual annual Trashion Refashion Show, April 21 at 7 p.m. at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The Trashion Refashion Show is a community fashion event that challenges designers of all levels by showcasing designs from upcycled

clothing and discarded materials—everything from pull-tabs from soda cans to plastic bags to door mats are the materials of inspiration being crafted into fun, fashionable and fantastical clothing. The evening features a runway competition, live music, an onstage celebrity “dress-off” and more. The Trashion Refashion Show serves as a fundraiser for the Center for Sustainable Living and is one of the community’s most popular springtime events.

The second annual Bloomington Open Studios Tour Saturday, April 27 and Sunday, April 28 is a fun two-day event in which 40 area artists open their studios to visits from the general public. Visitors can see artists demonstrate their creative processes in their studios and can visit as many studios as they like. There is no charge for the event. Tour hours are Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m. and Sunday, April 28, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. For a list of participating artists and a map visit <www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com>.

WonderLab’s Science of Art: Fiery Foundry, Friday, May 3 brings artists from the Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Greene County to town to demonstrate the dramatic process of hot metal casting using a large traveling foundry. Visitors who carved a scratch block mold in advance and returned it by May 2 (Available for sale and beginning April 6) can see their own art being created at the molten aluminum pour. Related visitor activities include making a

metal-relief pendant and making a metal souvenir by carving a miniature plaster mold for a low-temperature foundry. A small-plate meal, freshly prepared by Bloomingfoods, will be available to buy in the WonderLab café. 5–8 p.m. Free for members, half-price ($3.50) for nonmembers. More at <www.wonderlab.org>.

Friday, June 7 marks the third Downtown GalleryWalk of 2013. At this Bloomington favorite (now in its 12th year), downtown galleries which are conveniently located within walking distance of one another, throw a collective party complete with new exhibitions, visiting artists, live music, refreshments and other surprises, all designed to create a festive and communal atmosphere celebrating the wealth of visual and performing arts in the area. Visitors will find an exciting selection of artwork at each gallery along with a vibe that ranges from sophisticated to college-town funky. Whatever your taste in fine art and craft, you’re sure to find something you love at the Downtown GalleryWalk. <www.gallerywalkbloomington.com>

There’s much, much more to see in do in BEAD every day of the week. You’ll find it on our website at <www.visitbead.com> along with featured blogs on dining, shopping and other arts events you’ll want to check out while you’re here.

Submittd by Miah Michaelsen, Director of BEAD, City of Bloomington, <[email protected]>.

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June 8th & 9th, 2013

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Blueline creative co-op & Gallery224 N. College Ave. 47404 [812] 589-7377

bluelinestyle.com

Tues–fri 12-6, sAT 12-4

By Hand Gallery101 W. Kirkwood Ave. 47404#109 fountain square mall[812] 334-3255

byhandgallery.com

mON–sAT 10-5:30

Gallery406inside the Wicks building 116 W. 6th st., ste. 110 47404[812] 333-0536

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ivy tecH Waldron arts center122 s. Walnut st. 47404[812] 330-4400

ivytech.edu/waldron

mON–fri 9-7, sAT 9-5, CLOseD suN

pictura Gallery122 W. 6th st. 47404[812] 336-0000

picturagallery.com

Tues–sAT 11-7

tHe venue, fine arts & Gifts114 s. grant st. 47408[812] 339-4200

thevenuebloomington.com

Tues-sAT 11-7, suN 12-5

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Blue studio Gallery116 1/2 s. College Ave. #10 [upstairs] 47404[812] 361-7504

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el norteño Gallery206 N. Walnut st. 47404[812] 333-9591

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Gallery Group109 e. 6th st. 47408[812] 334-9700

gallerygroup.org

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royale Hair parlor Galleryinside the Wicks building 116 W. 6th st., ste. 101 47404[812] 360-1860

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stone Belt art Gallery107 W. 9th st. 47401[812] 332-2168 x. 269

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on these six firsT friDAys: April 5, June 7, August 2, October 4 and December 6.

Weaving by suzanne Halvorson [By Hand Gallery]

pottery by ruth conway [By Hand Gallery]

timidity i sculpture by devin Balara [ivy tech Waldron arts center]

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