events calendar

The Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is located at 401 N. Morton St. next to City Hall – Showers Building. Locally grown produce, annual and perennial plants, and a variety of prepared foods are available. Purchase your food directly from farmers and ask them questions about their products. Local entertainment adds to the shopping as well as socializing experience. Tantalizing scents and the inviting atmosphere may cause you to make the Market a weekend tradition.

The Bloomington Coin Show, at the Bloomington Convention Center, features 33 tables of coins, currency, tokens, and the like. Free admission; door prizes and hourly raffle drawings.

Floral/Still Life workshop will take place from 9 am – 4 pm in lower gallery of The Art Sanctuary in Martinsville. Pre-registration is required. A link to sign up for the workshop online, and more information, including a supply list, is provided.

Sculpturer Martin Beach & Photographer Lynne Medsker will have their works on display in the Miller Gallery during the month of April. Stop by on April to meet the artists. The Ivy Tech Waldron galleries are open Monday through Sunday, 9 am until 7 pm, unless otherwise specified.

If you’ve ever wanted to try watercolor, here is your chance to do it in a one-day workshop with supplies provided. The class will provide the paint, the paper, the brushes and the instruction on basic watercolor techniques such as washes, color mixing and brushwork. You bring your sense of adventure and creativity, and you’ll leave with several small paintings!

Register on website.

An art exhibition of photos by Jami Scholl showcasing the natural beauty found in edible produce from nature and from the kitchen garden.

Running daily (Tue – Sun) at WonderLab through May 31

Volunteer for a workday at the Campus Garden Initiative’s new plot at Hilltop: learn and practice skills for planning, planting and tending to edible plants and meet fellow volunteers passionate about growing food for our campus! Tools and gloves are provided. Volunteers may use Hilltop’s bike racks and parking spaces, too! For more information, visit iugarden.wordpress.com or contact Stephanie Hopkins at iugarden@indiana.edu.

A variety of skills will be taught at this workshop. The choices include (but are not limited to) card making, rug making, beginner crochet, scrapbooking, and cake decorating. The workshops will be held at the Monroe County Farigrounds, Community Building on Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm. The cost is dependent on the workshops selected. A light lunch will also be available: baked potato bar or sloppy joe sandwiches are the two main choices, served with a drink and dessert. For more information, and to register, please visit the Purdue Extension – Monroe County website, http://www.ag.purdue.edu/counties/monroe or call (812) 349-2575.

Paper cut designs have a long and venerable history concomitant with the development of paper in China, with the earliest extant examples dating to the seventh century. Auspicious and decorative, they often are associated with festivals and celebrations and are given as gifts or purchased to be affixed to doors, walls, lamps, or any surface that would be improved by decoration. This installation features the paper cut work of Qiao Xiaoguang, a professor and deputy dean of the Cultural Department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, and director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center.

Exhibit runs until May 27

Two recently acquired color photographs by contemporary performance artists/photographers Lilly McElroy and the artistic team of Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger explore the complications of modern human relationships: one, by playing with gender role-reversal, casual bar-scene encounters, and the use of social media in “hook ups”; and the other, by revealing the unbreakable bond—both in life and in death—of a committed gay couple.

Exhibit runs until June 3