Celebrate Live United stories from our community captured in the stunning imagery of Kendall Reeves. Through this collection of compelling photos, United Way of Monroe County highlights the many ways community members choose to LIVE UNITED. Promoting involvement and engagement, LIVE UNITED encourages individuals to work together to make our community stronger. This exhibition serves as a reminder that as a group, we have the power to bring about positive and lasting change. The photographs in the exhibition are stories of people who are making an impact as they LIVE UNITED. For more information and to read Live United community stories, visit www.monroeunitedway.org.

The City of Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District (BEAD) will showcase the artworks created by the Bloomington Boys and Girls Club in the Showers Atrium of City Hall. The Boys and Girls Club is located at 311 South Lincoln Street. For more information on the Lincoln Street Boys and Girls Club or the Visual Art Program, email Jenna Beasley at [email protected]. Runs until January 31. Open every weekday, 9 am – 5 pm.

Opening January 4, the new exhibits at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center include “Tropical Beauties” by Karen Holtzclaw, featuring floral paintings; “Windowscapes” by Becca Jones, featuring sprawling mixed media pieces that combine printmaking, drawing, and collage; and numerous entries from the 2013 Visual Arts Competition & Exhibition of Emerging Artists.

The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 9 am to 7 pm, and Saturday 9 am to 5 pm.

Explore the world of science with the diverse people who do have made it their career! WonderLab is open from 9:30 am to 5 pm for the holiday with half-price admission. Enjoy a rare opportunity to meet and talk with IU scientists in many fields of science sharing their research and technology. Hands-on activity stations from 11 am-3 pm.

The Hinkle-Garton Farmstead of Bloomington Restorations, Inc. will host its annual MLK Day of Service on Monday, January 21, from 10 am- 2 pm. The day will feature winter activities focusing on the site’s Volunteer Vegetable Garden. Volunteer service opportunities will continue throughout the spring during the 40 Days of Peace. Also opening on MLK Day will be a new exhibit at the farmstead highlighting volunteers and volunteer activities at the site during 2012. Volunteer with us on MLK Day and help with activities that will include readying the seed starting station and planting seeds for the 2013 Volunteer Garden, and creating educational signage for the native and perennial plants to be sold at the annual Daisy Day Plant Sale in April. The farmstead is located at 2920 E. Tenth Street in Bloomington. For more information call BRI at (812) 336-0909.

Drawing on the Kinsey Institute’s permanent collections, Naked Spaces investigates the ways artists manipulate architectural representation to communicate ideas about sex, gender, and the erotic. Architectural form is used by artists working around the globe—and across time—as an invitation to view, but also as a plea for privacy; architectural space is used a framing device as well as screen. The diversity of artworks included in the exhibition creates an opportunity for viewers to consider the role played by the built environment in the construction of their own private and public identities.

The exhibition will include works by Toby Kaufmann, Andrey Avinoff, Michael Fingesten, Herbert Ascherman, Suzuki Harunobu, Clarence John Laughlin, Tom Bianchi, Clifford Raven Ingram, Max Kislinger, Rita Koehler, Emilio Sanchez, Edie Fake, Lehnert & Landrock, Arthur Tress, Félicien Rops, D. Keith Furon, Anne Roecklein, Ronald Searle, and Spencer Tunick.

Guest curator: S. N. Johnson-Roehr, Rutgers University.

Visiting hours are Monday thru Friday, 1:30 to 5 pm. Tours are available for 6 or more people. Call (812) 855-7686 for more information. Guides are provided when one is available.

Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Chateau Thomas Winery is glad to present exhibition of art portraits “Winter Fairytales” by a professional photographer Yelena Yahontova, a native of Belarus and resident of Bloomington. Known as a “Photographer of Joy,” Yelena’s portraits tell stories, reflecting the miraculous and special qualities she explores in each subject. “Winter Fairytales” is an exhibition which reflects individuals joyfully interacting, surrounded by the snow and white and blue colors of a winter landscape.

The exhibit runs December 6-February 28 at the Chateau Thomas Winery on the downtown Square. Store hours are Monday-Thursday 2 pm-10 pm, Friday 2 pm-11 pm, Saturday noon-11 pm, and Sunday noon-6 pm.

Join the artist and her friends for a public reception on Friday, December 7 at 5:30-8 pm.

For more information about Yelena Yahontova and her photography, contact Yelena directly:

Website: www.PhotographerOfJoy.com
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKbT36HJUU
Facebook: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY
Facebook Fan Page: www.facebook.com/YELENA.PhotographerOfJOY.Studio

Email: [email protected]
Phone #1: (812) 333-8178
Phone #2: (812) 322-1912
Studio/Office Address:
924 West 17th Street,
Bloomington, Indiana, 47404

The keynote speaker for the 2013 Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration is Carlotta LaNier, one of the “Little Rock Nine” who, in 1957, were the first African American students to attend Little Rock Central High School. LaNier’s actions, along with those of the other members of the “Little Rock Nine,” had an enormous impact on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The event will be held at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater and is free and open to the public.

Every Monday evening at The Player’s Pub, the Songwriter Showcase series displays the talents of local and regional artists. No cover is charged, but donations are appreciated. Player’s Pub has an all-ages section, as well as the main 21-and-up area, and serves a wide variety of entrees, sandwiches, appetizers and drinks.

Creator, writer and producer of hit comedy series such as “Community” and “The Sarah Silverman Program”, Dan Harmon is one funny dude. Harmon, along with fellow funny man, Jeff Davis (Whose Line Is It Anyway?), can currently be heard on their comedy podcast “Harmontown”. The podcast fulfills Harmon’s dream to found a colony for like-minded misfits where he serves as mayor and has appointed the suit-clad Davis as his trusty comptroller (i.e. co-host). The show is part stand-up comedy and part traditional podcast, featuring anecdotes from Harmon’s storied life, classic tweets, rambling thoughts, musical interludes and so much more.