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Harpeth Rising: Four Jacobs School Grads Make a Name in Nashville

First Posted: 5/23/13 04:30 PM EDT Updated: 5/23/13 04:31 PM EDT
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Harpeth Rising

BY CAIRRIL MILLS The Nashville, Tennessee-based band Harpeth Rising, a quartet made up of IU Jacobs School of Music alumni, has been on one long road trip, from Bloomington to Hawaii to the United Kingdom. The quartet’s achievements are wide-ranging, too, from being named Nashville’s top local band in 2010 to having their third and latest CD, The End of the World, at the top of an international folk chart. Harpeth Rising’s genesis was a trip from Bloomington to California made in 2007 by co-founders Jordana Greenberg and Rebecca Reed-Lunn, with a stop in Colorado to attend the Telluride Bluegrass festival. The pair busked across the country and then shipped Greenberg’s car to Hawaii for a year-long stint playing gigs [...]

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Pictura Turns 5: A Little Midwest Gallery Attracting Top Talent (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 5/15/13 03:12 PM EDT Updated: 5/15/13 03:12 PM EDT
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Pictura

BY JEREMY SHERE Five years ago, Pictura Gallery opened for business on the corner of West 6th Street and North College with the goal of bringing fine art photography to the Midwest. Today, Pictura has succeeded not only in introducing Bloomington and surrounding areas to the latest in avant-garde photography but also in establishing itself as an up-and-coming gallery on the national scene. “That’s been surprising,” says co-owner Martha Moore, who runs the gallery with her husband, David. “We thought we were just going to be the little gallery on the corner.” The idea for opening a gallery began with David, an amateur photographer with an interest in art photography, who’d been harboring a desire to bring to Bloomington what [...]

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Rock for the Red Cross Concert to Star Bluesman Anthony Gomes

First Posted: 5/3/13 11:15 AM EDT Updated: 5/3/13 11:15 AM EDT
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Rock for the Red Cross

BY MANDY CLARKE This year’s Rock for the Red Cross Benefit Concert, Saturday, May 4, is starring Anthony Gomes, identified by Billboard Magazine and ReverbNation as a top blues artist. Sharing the bill with Gomes is Larry Crane, a native of Seymour, Indiana, who arranged, recorded, and toured with John Mellencamp for 16 years. This is the second Rock for the Red Cross concert; the first was held last year at Players Pub and was such a success that this year’s event is moving to the 600-seat Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Tickets range in price from $10 to $30, with proceeds going to support the Monroe County Chapter of the American Red Cross. “We felt the event last year was very successful [...]

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Jenny Kander’s Dolls: in Search of a Patron (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 4/19/13 12:39 PM EDT Updated: 4/19/13 12:39 PM EDT
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BY KELLY KENDALL There’s Hattie, who likes embroidering daisies and ladybugs onto aprons and writing her favorite words down in a little book (the list includes “pinafore” and “porridge”). Max II, who has a secret love of lighthouses and isn’t sure he wants to know what might be hiding beneath his big dark cupboard. And Blackbird, who hates being overdressed with too much bling, signifying her approval of simple accessorizing with the gleam of a golden eye. All three of these handmade, primitive-style dolls rest in the home of Jenny Kander, along with the rest of the “tribe,” as she calls them. But now Kander, a poet who began making the dolls on a whim a year ago while medically [...]

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Conduit Press: Turning Books into Other Things (Photo Gallery)

First Posted: 4/10/13 09:16 AM EDT Updated: 4/10/13 09:16 AM EDT
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BY LIBBY PETERSON While working as a nanny in 2009, Talia Halliday came up with the idea of making notebooks as an engaging activity for kids. It was from this simple beginning that she built her “book art” company, Conduit Press. Using a “trade secret” tool, Halliday, 33, carves hearts and other shapes into book pages she’s glued together. She also fashions books into clutch purses, jewelry boxes, even lamps and clocks, nestling the mechanics into the hollowed pages. Giving a clever twist to the battle between print and digital, she makes books into cases for e-readers, iPads, and smartphones. She’s also recently started creating miniature houses using books. Converting volumes into decorative (and useful) artwork came naturally to Halliday; [...]

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