Nell will be present at the opening reception on Friday evening November 3rd from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

Nell Devitt’s modular ceramic wall tiles continue to be used by designers and in architectural settings throughout the country.
In this exhibition Nell has integrated early and current clay work — attempting to show her changing aesthetics and technical abilities, different clay bodies and firing techniques from 1978 until today.

Commissions welcome — contact information on website:
www.nelldevitt.com.

You wont want to miss this inaugural event through Terre Haute’s historical brewing district hosted by the Immanuel Lutheran Church!

The Brat Trot has 2 awesome 5k races and a 1 mile fun run for you to choose from!

If you would like a mail in registration please follow this link to access and print off a mail in form: Brat Trot Mail In Form

The main event is the Beer Challenge where participants will run our 1 mile loop course through the brewing district. At each lap you must consume a 4 ounce shot glass of beer and have the volunteer place a check mark on your bib# before continuing on to your next lap. After 3 laps you will then cross the finish line and should have consumed a total of 12 ounces / 1 beer!

Beer Challenge Rules
– You must be 21+ to participate. (IDs will be checked and participants in this race will receive a different bib# / non-removable bracelet)
– No ID no race
– If you do not wear your bib# and/or do not have your 21+ identifying bracelet you also
will not be allowed to participate
– No strollers are allowed in this event. Strollers are allowed in the non-beer Brat Trot
– In order to be eligible for awards you must consume all 3 of the 4 ounce beers and have a volunteer place a check mark on your bib# for each lap/beer. (You definitely do not have to consume all 3 drinks. Feel free to skip one if you do not want it. You just will not be eligible for awards.)
– You can only consume 1 drink per lap

We also will have a non-beer Brat Trot 5k with all of the fun but none of the course beer. This event is open to all ages. You will still compete 3 laps of our 1 mile course for your 5k and we will also have post-race awards for this event.

All Participants Will Receive
– An awesome Brat Trot 5k race t-shirt*
– A custom race bib#
– 1 free post-race beer (participants 21 & Over)
– 1 free Brat
– Post-race refreshments
– A total of 4 timing splits so you know your split for each mile
– Post race beer stein and glass awards (For the Brat Trot 5k and the Beer Challenge 5k)

*You must register by October 22nd to be guaranteed a race shirt

Event Schedule
7:00 a.m. – Packet Pickup / Race Day Registration Opens (All Races)
8:30 a.m. – Brat Trot 5k – Packet Pickup / Race Day Registration closes
9:00 a.m. – Brat Trot 5k Start
9:01 a.m. – 1 Mile Fun Run Start
9:30 a.m. – Beer Challenge – Packet Pickup / Race Day Registration closes
10:00 a.m. – Beer Challenge 5k Start
10:15 a.m. – Brat Trot 5k Award Ceremony
11:15 a.m. – Beer Challenge Award Ceremony

There will be a $5 price increase for race day registrations.

The Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, headquarters of Bloomington Restorations, Inc., will serve as tour headquarters during the Monroe County Barn Tour. The self-guided driving tour is a fund raising event for the Indiana Barn Foundation.

The 1892 main house will be open to visitors and will feature live music provided by members of Friday Musicale, jams and jellies for sale made by site volunteers, and the photography exhibit of Jon Benson. A nonprofessional, photography has served as a lifeline for Benson since about 1997. His black and white photographs, much of them take around the farmstead, were shot using medium and large format film cameras. Benson states, “Folk architecture, light and shadow, as well as randomly forgotten objects appeal to me. I hope that when a person sees my photography they find something in it which is uniquely their own to enjoy.”

The four outbuildings at the farmstead, including the c.1920 gambrel roof barn, will also be open. Inside the c.1900 grain barn will be the exhibit, “Harvesting at the Farmstead,” a collection of small farm implements both donated and original to the site along with photographs and diagrams explaining their use.

Visitation to the farmstead is free and a tour ticket is not required. However, those desiring to attend the tour may purchase tickets in advance or the day of the tour. Advance tickets (cash or check) are available at the Visit Bloomington Visitors Center, 2855 N. Walnut Street; the Monroe County Purdue Extension office, 3400 S. Walnut Street; or online with credit card at the Indiana Barn Foundation website at www.indianabarns.org. Day-of tour tickets will be sold at two of the tour sites only, the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, and the Munson Family Barn at 6707 W. Rockeast Road. Credit card purchases must be made online.

The Farmstead is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned and maintained by Bloomington Restorations, Inc. It is free and open to the public. For more information about the site call BRI at (812) 336-0909 or visit www.facebook.com/Hinkle-GartonFarmstead. For more information about the Monroe County Barn Tour visit www.facebook.com/MonroeCountyBarns.

Sobremesa Farm, one of the locations on the Monroe County Barn Tour, is pleased to announce their special offerings to tour goers. In addition to making available fresh produce for sale through a vegetable market at the site, the farm will also host a few local artists and musicians.

One of those who will be exhibiting their artwork will be nature photographer, Jeff Danielson. As Danielson’s bio reads, “He grew up in both Britain and the U.S and ended up in Bloomington, IN, after working on a doctorate here in classical archeology. Branching out a bit he started the first gourmet coffee roaster in the midwest which grew into a bakery and restaurant known as the Runcible Spoon. After 25 years of that he got bored and sold the business (which is still thriving) and accidentally began doing nature photography. This has since become an addiction. He doesn’t do the art fair circuit but his work can be purchased at Spears Gallery in Nashville, IN, and thru his pages on Facebook – Jeff Danielson’s browncountyphoto and ‘Jeff Danielson’. This year he did a talk for the DNR on eagle photography and the DNR uses his work extensively to promote Monroe Lake. The natural side of this area is his chief concern.”

Musical entertainment will be provided during the day by Upfolk, a Bloomington-based acoustic trio (plus friends) that plays gently rousing mid-west folk songs from the past and present. Members Travis Puntarelli, Ben Handel, and Aaron Comforty comprise the rhythm section, and they “sing songs about animals, babies, and gettin’ out and doin’ stuff.” The band has two studio albums that are available through their website, www.whatupfolk.com.

The Monroe County Barn Tour will be a self-guided tour to benefit the Indiana Barn Foundation. Nine locations throughout the county will be included during the tour. For more information and tickets, visit the Foundation website at www.indianabarns.org

The Upland Plein Air Painters (UP) are thrilled to create a special painting exhibition for the Monroe County Barn Tour. The exhibition will feature a wide array of rural-themed paintings by artists who work in watercolor, oil, pastel, and other medium. Barns are a favorite theme of this artist group, and have become popular destinations for their weekly painting trips. The exhibition will be held during the tour hours in one of the historic barns at Whippoorwill Hill Farm.

In addition, artists from UP and the Bloomington Watercolor Society (BWS) will be painting at the Whippoorwill Hill location. This “paint out” will occur during the tour hours. Please stop in to visit this unique exhibit and see the artists at work.

“The barn tour is a perfect partner for Upland Plein Air Painters” says Kristen Stamper, the group’s founder, “as every week we usually visit a rural destination to paint, and old farm buildings are a preferred subject. In the two years we have been painting together, more than 30 of our paint outs have been at rural locations throughout Monroe County. Upland Plein Air Painters is part of the Bloomington Watercolor Society.”

The Monroe County Barn Tour will be a self-guided tour to benefit the Indiana Barn Foundation. For more information and tickets, visit the Foundation website. UP welcomes artists working in any medium to visit as a guest or join by becoming a member of BWS. The group meets to paint outside at various locations from April to November. For more information contact them at [email protected] or visit bloomingtonwatercolor.org

The term “plein air” refers to painting outside from life. It was first coined to describe the French Impressionist’s unique approach. The idea of painting outside grew in popularity in the United States as American artists who had trained in France returned. Art colonies sprung up along the East Coast, in Indiana, California, and other locales. Today, plein air groups are gaining popularity across the country.

The Monroe County Barn Tour, a fund raising event to benefit the Indiana Barn Foundation, will be a self-guided tour will featuring 13 barns and outbuildings at 9 locations, from Bloomington and its environs to the county’s outlying corners.

The barns vary in age, type, and use, from a dairy barn converted for horses and named an Indiana Bicentennial Barn to a dairy barn reused as the studio of limestone sculptor, Dale Enochs. The artistic traditions of the area will also be featured at Whippoorwill Hill, a historic working farm that is home to a rare c.1840s double crib log barn. The second barn on the property, a historic barn relocated from Shelbyville, IN, for reuse as event space, will host the Upland Plein Air Artists exhibit and paint-out. Kyle Clifton, owner of Indiana Barns LLC, will also be on hand to talk about his company’s work relocating and rebuilding the barn.

Other stops on the tour include a rehabilitated 1855 English threshing type barn, a c.1885 Transverse frame barn originally part of a dairy operation, a small c.1940 log barn made from a re-purposed cabin, an 1850s barn relocated from Northern Indiana for use on a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm and also named a 2016 Indiana Bicentennial Barn, and an early 1900 Transverse frame barn that is part of the 7th generation family farm of Purdue Extension-Monroe County’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Educator. The dairy barn and three farm buildings at the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead Museum & Historic Site are also part of the tour, with the corn crib housing the “Harvesting at the Farmstead” exhibit. Inside the 1892 main house will be live music and the rural still life photography exhibit of Jon Benson.

Tour goers are also invited to visit the 2016 Bicentennial Barn Project Traveling Tour from October 2nd through November 13th at the Wylie House Museum’s Morton C. Bradley, Jr. Education Center, a relocated barn at 307 E. Second Street. Exhibited will be ten framed barn plaques by Scott County’s Indiana Artisan, Dorrel Harrison. Admission to the barn plaque exhibit is free.

Advance tickets (cash or check) are available at the Visit Bloomington Visitors Center, 2855 N. Walnut Street; the Monroe County Purdue Extension office, 3400 S. Walnut Street; or online with credit card at the Indiana Barn Foundation website at www.indianabarns.org. Day-of tour tickets will be sold at two of the tour sites only, the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead, 2920 E. 10th Street, and the Munson Family Barn, 6707 W. Rockeast Road. Credit card purchases must be made online.

A block of rooms has been reserved at a reduced rate until September 20th at the Fairfield Inn, 120 S. Fairfield Drive, (812) 331-1122. Mention Monroe County Barn Tour. Those traveling from out-of-town or who wish to make a weekend stay in Bloomington are encouraged to take advantage of the offer as hotel availability is at a premium in October.

For updated information about the tour, follow the Barns of Monroe County Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/MonroeCountyBarns/. Follow us on Instagram at #monroecountyinbarns. Thank you to our tour sponsors, Visit Bloomington, Steve, Kathy and Sarah Headley with Headley Quarter Horses, Scott McDonald with Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, Joseph Aldridge with Northwestern Mutual, and Whippoorwill Hill.

In this retreat, we will learn a special meditation, known as Mahamudra, to help us discover the clear nature of our mind. Mahamudra is a deeply relaxing, spacious, and profoundly illuminating meditation. By training in Mahamudra, your mind will become progressively more peaceful, causing you to experience a profound inner stillness and tranquility.  Includes guided meditation, practical instruction, and time for discussion. Perfect for all levels of experience. Everyone is welcome.

This class will be taught by Buddhist Teacher, Tom Mitchell. Tom will lead each session, giving clear insightful instructions and sharing techniques from his own experience.

Wrap up your October on a delicious note at our Food Truck Alley! Join us in the Event Center Plaza for a variety of some of the best regional food trucks. While the line-up is still being developed, you can expect a diverse sampling of foods and flavors. This event is open to the public and does not require tickets. Bring the family and enjoy the final weekend of our Fall into Autumn programming.

Abandoned by his creator, Frankenstein’s Creature seeks affection…and revenge. Mary Shelley’s still-shocking gothic thriller is produced in partnership with IU’s 2017 Themester: Diversity, Difference, and Otherness.

Visit cardinalstage.org for more information.

You are invited to Afternoon Tea at Cup & Kettle! Join us for a delightful afternoon of tea & pastries. Menu
*Unlimited Organic Earl Grey & Organic English Breakfast tea
*Cucumber Mint Tea Sandwich
*Salmon Dill & Cream Cheese Tea Sandwich
*Toasted Oat Scone with Lemon Curd
*Cranberry Orange Scone
*Strawberry Tart
*Raspberry Green Tea Truffle
*Earl Grey Cookie