Enjoy a 30-minute performance by students from IU’s Jacobs School of Music followed by a free light lunch. This series is made possible through a partnership with the IU Office of International Services. Free and open to the public.

Sue Tuohy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She has conducted research on and in China for over three decades, including on music and society in Northwest China, cultural heritage, and music in social, political, and environmental movements. Her 2017 Instruments of Culture talk will address the interactions between musical instruments and broader social, political, and artistic phenomena. While focusing on musical instruments, the talk will highlight the human, musical and cultural diversity within China and its interactions with others. She will introduce three case studies–ancient bronze bells, the guqin, and “foreign” instruments from the west, both Central Asia and Europe and North America. These cases will illustrate some of the diverse ways people have used instruments as forms of self-cultivation, entertainment, “soft power,” and symbols of identity. The event will be free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Folklore and Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series.

Free visitor parking is available by the Indiana Avenue lobby entrance. Metered parking is available at the McCalla School parking lot on the corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue. The parking lot also has spaces designated for Indiana University C and ST permits. During the weekends free parking is available on the surrounding streets.

An access ramp is located at the Fess Avenue entrance, on the corner of Ninth Street and Fess Avenue. Reserved parking spaces are available on Ninth Street, between Fess Avenue and Indiana Avenue. If you have a disability and need assistance, special arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-6873.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s BFA Group Show. The BFA Group Show will open on Wednesday, February 22nd and continue through Thursday, March 9th. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 24th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery.

The MFA and BFA Group Shows include works created by first and second year MFA students and non-graduating BFA students from the Studio Art Department, School of Art and Design. These exhibitions feature student works that utilize traditional and non-traditional styles and techniques in a variety of media from all studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University is pleased to announce this year’s MFA Group Show. The MFA Group Show will open on Wednesday, February 8th and continue through Saturday, February 18th. An opening reception will be held on Friday, February 10th, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm at the Grunwald Gallery.

The MFA and BFA Group Shows include works created by first and second year MFA students and non-graduating BFA students from the Studio Art Department, School of Art and Design. These exhibitions feature student works that utilize traditional and non-traditional styles and techniques in a variety of media from all studio areas: ceramics, digital art, graphic design, metalsmithing and jewelry design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles.

The Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University Bloomington is pleased to present After All (Mending the Sky), an installation by visiting artist Beili Liu.

After All (Mending the Sky) is a site-specific installation which will occupy the east wing of the Grunwald Gallery as part of China Remixed: Arts and Humanities in Contemporary Chinese Culture. The global festival is sponsored by the Indiana University Bloomington’s Arts and Humanities Council.

Emphasizing gentle movement, the energy and transformative properties of sunlight, and repeated organic forms, After All (Mending the Sky) is comprised of suspended raw silk half domes. These domes or “stones” have been imprinted upon using the cyanotype process to lend rich indigo tones to their forms. True to her use of humble, yet metaphorically charged, materials, Beili Liu’s use of raw silk makes reference to the tradition of cultivating silk in China where Liu was born. After All (Mending the Sky) poetically draws upon the Chinese fable of Nüwa, goddess and creator of mankind. After a tear in the sky brings suffering and calamity to her creations, Nüwa faces heroically difficult tasks to mend the tear, and return order to the world.

In mid-January, in Miami, Florida, at The National Art Show on the campus of the University of Florida, we first saw the paintings of Sharon Spillar. We seized as many as we could in the moment, and look forward to having enough for a full show, in the not to distant future. In the meantime, we are so excited about what we have that we can’t resist putting them on our walls.
Sharon, whose studio is in St Louis, creates paintings are abstract, vivid, and dynamic. She coats all of them with a thick layer of UV protectant infused high gloss resin, which adds an unusual and engaging dimension.
Sharon currently has a show at the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis.
Join us this Friday, the 24th, beginning at 6:00 p.m. for a teasing reception for this opening. Something new, shiny, beautiful, and unique from The Venue.

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Henry Woronicz.

Prospero and his daughter Miranda are stranded on an island by his jealous brother Antonio, but their new home is inhabited by spirits. The Tempest offers the best of both drama and comedy in Shakespeare’s enchanting tale of shipwrecks and romance, masters and servants, betrayal and forgiveness. And wondrous magic.

Production dates:
February 24, 25, 28 – March 3, 2017 @ 7:30 p.m.
March 4 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.