events calendar

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.

The Hoosier to Hoosier (H2H) Community Sale will officially kick off its collection of reusable items from students on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22. The sale — now in its third year — accepts used clothing, furniture, housewares, books, electronics and nearly everything else except mattresses. Drop off items at IU residence halls. Website provides list of donation locations.

In a new feature for the Hoosier to Hoosier sale, IU’s Forest Residence Hall will kick off collections with its Green Your Moveout Party from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. The event, intended to raise awareness of how to donate reusable items and provide a boost for H2H, will include music and free food.

Check website for more information.

A day of plant-based activities will be held at Patricia’s Wellness Arts Cafe. There will be an exchange of open pollinated seeds, herbs and shrubs, as well as talks about compost, gardening in small spaces, and other related topics.

IU Women’s Tennis will host Northwestern at the IU Tennis Center at 11:00 am.

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

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

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 exhibit will focus on air. Visitors learn how to use air to blast a block city, power a mini sailboat, and heat it to lift a mini hot-air balloon. Other interactive components of the exhibition include an air ball showing the Bernoulli effect, a flowing liquid streamliner, a clear air fountain, and a monkey parachute drop. Each part of the exhibition demonstrates how air moves and affects objects in its path. Nonmembers entry fee costs $7, members get in free.

Runs daily during museum hours.