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.

Produced by the Jewish Theatre of Bloomington.

Sunday, April 15, noon – 4 P.M.

2 roles for women ages 30’s to 50’s; 1 role for a man in his 20’s.

Auditions are by appointment. To schedule an audition and for more details,
email the Director, Mark Kamie at [email protected].

This installation presents the work of three contemporary Native American artists. It is part of the series, Contemporary Explorations, which features focused, rotating displays from the museum’s permanent collection that explore aspects of art from the 1950s to the present.

Runs until October 14

This year marks the 10th Anniversary of Homeward Bound, Bloomington’s annual 5k walk to end hunger and homelessness in our community. Each year the Homeward Bound steering committee recruits local performance artists to perform in the 3rd Street park before the walk, along the walk route during the walk, and back in the 3rd Street park after the walk.

Registration and pre-walk entertainment begins at 12pm, the walk is from 1pm-2pm, and post-walk festivities occur until 3pm.

To learn more about Homeward Bound Indiana, visit the website.

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

This retrospective presents the work of Perle Fine (1905-1988), one of the few women artists in the inner circle of the Abstract Expressionists. Fine’s exploration of abstraction is traced through a selection of paintings, prints, drawings, and wood assemblages dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. A selection of photographs by Fine’s husband, the photographer Maurice Berezov, depict Fine and her artist friends, and will be on view in the Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery.

Runs through May 27

Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, Focalpoint, third floor Locally produced cotton and indigo dyes continue to play prominent roles in West African myths, beliefs, and ritual practices, in spite of the availability of inexpensive fabric woven and printed in factories. Through this most personal means of expression, West Africans use their indigo-dyed cotton wraps to communicate a wide range of social, political, and religious messages. Visitors to this small installation will gain insight into the meanings of those messages as well as an understanding of the technologies, innovations, and marketing strategies employed by West African weavers and dyers.

Recurring daily until July 1

A workshop teaching the use of natural, plant-based dyes.

IU Men’s Tennis takes on Wisconsin at the IU Tennis Center. Coached by Randy Bloemendaal. With recent victories over Butler, Eastern Kentucky, Harvard, Vanderbilt and Notre Dame, 2012 looks like a promising year for Hoosier tennis.