The Good Catholic—a 2017 release by Bloomington-based Pigasus Pictures—set the stage for the Bloomington Academy of Film & Theatre, a new venture from Pigasus’ nonprofit arm, the Pigasus Institute.
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The subject of the upcoming WTIU and Naptown Media documentary Bob Hammel & Bloomington: A 50-Year Love Affair prefers asking questions to answering them. “I was the guy watching things happen, not the guy doing them,” says Bob Hammel, former sports editor of Bloomington’s daily newspaper, The Herald-Times.
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Since July, WFIU-FM has been airing PorchLight with Tom Roznowski in which the local musician and author discusses finding the extraordinary in the everyday. Topics include Indiana history, local places, literature, and lots of unfamiliar deep cuts.
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Since 2016, the Monroe County History Center has set aside a day to celebrate puzzles as part of International Puzzle Day.
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When Chad Rabinovitz became the producing artistic director of Bloomington Playwrights Project (BPP) in 2009, the financially strapped organization was unable to afford even basic upkeep on the building it rented at 107 W. 9th St.
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Keeping the doors of a comedy club open in a small city for a decade could be seen as reason enough to celebrate, but Jared Thompson, owner of The Comedy Attic, says it’s more than longevity that makes his club special.
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In Tricky Dick and the Man in Black, Richard Nixon invites Johnny Cash to perform at the White House in 1970 and issues a press release stating that Cash will perform Guy Drake’s “Welfare Cadillac” and Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee,” songs about small-town Americans who don’t wear long hair, use drugs, or burn draft cards. Cash performed neither.
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Evil has visited upon the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. The 2018–19 Ivy Tech Student Productions theater season “explores the eternal question of evil with a wide range of approaches,” says Artistic Director Paul Daily.
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Maybe it’s because she grew up in an artistic home—her father was a painter, her mother, a sculptor— but Jaime Sweany keeps circling back to art as a vocation. Her new enterprise is Juniper Art Gallery in Spencer.
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Growing up, Robin Edmundson was focused on the codes and puzzle-solving involved in learning new languages. It wasn’t until she was in graduate school working toward a Ph.D. in linguistics that her attention shifted to the vernacular of art.
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How an opera star overcame the loss of her singing voice and is helping others
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When it comes to sports stories, many are like fish tales—exaggerated beyond recognizable truth. But writers John C. Decker, Pete DiPrimio, and Doug Wilson present 11 unusual stories about Indiana University sports, all of which are true.
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As American men were heading to the frontlines during World War II, Mexican braceros, or “manual laborers,” were heading to the United States to take on the jobs soldiers had left behind. A new photography exhibit at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center tells that mostly forgotten story.
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Out of Easy Reach, an exhibit at the Grunwald Gallery of Art on the Indiana University campus, explores the theme of abstraction in different artistic media and, specifically, the distinctive approaches to abstract art taken by women of color.
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In The Wellness Lifestyle: A Chef’s Recipe for Real Life, Chef Daniel Orr talks about his struggle to keep weight off. His co-author, Kelly Jo Baute, a wellness coach who suffered many complications after breast cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and reconstruction, struggles to keep weight—or more precisely, muscle—on.
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The second piece of the Stages Bloomington American Mosaic Theatre Series arrives in November with the musical Quilters. Nominated for five Tony awards, Quilters tells stories of pioneer women’s lives through archetypical quiltmaker Sarah and her daughters.
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Movie monsters and robots replace portraits and landscapes at Bloomington’s latest addition to the art scene. That’s because Delinquent Gallery co-owners Chris McVillain and Brian Aldridge wanted a space where they could showcase what they call “lowbrow art.”
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Historically, more often than not, artists have been men, while their subjects have been women. That’s why the reversal of those roles, in a short film shot in Bloomington and currently making the rounds on the international film festival circuit, still surprises contemporary audiences.
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Until he was nearly 30, Jerry Smith had never painted, but he wondered what it would be like to be an artist. “I just felt this need, this desire, to paint without even knowing much,” he says. Still, it wasn’t until his wife, Cindy, bought him a set of oil paints as a Christmas gift in 1971 that he finally picked up a brush.
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Monique Cagle—painter, photographer, fabric artist, and jewelry maker—knew it was time to find a dedicated studio space when her work started taking over her house.
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