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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BY OLIVIA DORFMAN Local history takes the stage October 11–14 in Resilience: Stories of Monroe....
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A new memoir by Gerardo González, Indiana University School of Education dean emeritus, is a tribute to openness—the kind that happens when a nation welcomes new citizens and a person welcomes new ideas.
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An acoustic guitar player, Caesar Pacifici founded The Flying Cloud with British-born bouzouki player Brian Brooks. The group recorded an album for Adelphi Records and toured the British Isles and the United States. Then, the band split up and the two men fell out of contact for more than 30 years.
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In 1977, a group of Bloomington artists had a vision: to create an annual festival where local residents could enjoy and buy high-quality arts and crafts. Now, 41 years later, the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts draws more than 42,000 patrons from the Midwest to its two-day juried show, held each year over Labor Day weekend.
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The Brown County Art Guild features the artwork of its members in shows throughout the year, and each fall collaborates with other community groups to host the Brown County Art Colony Weekend. This year the weekend will be held September 7–9.
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Music festivals are booming across the country, but the vast majority of acts still feature men. MidWay Music Festival is breaking that trend, giving female musicians more of a place on the stage.
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When Indiana University alumni make the trek back to Bloomington this year, they and their families will have even more to explore. That’s because the Quarry Festival of Books, sponsored by IU Press and Bloom Magazine, has moved from an end-of-summer event to one that coincides with homecoming weekend.
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