Bloom Archives
Category: Arts & Entertainment
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The Comedy Attic Celebrates 10 Years Of ‘Comedy as Art’ in Bloomington
Keeping the doors of a comedy club open in a small city for a decade could be seen as reason enough to celebrate, but…
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New B-town Resident Is Noted Film Producer
In Tricky Dick and the Man in Black, Richard Nixon invites Johnny Cash to perform at the White House in 1970 and issues a…
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Ivy Tech Student Theater Explores the Evil Among Us
Evil has visited upon the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center. The 2018–19 Ivy Tech Student Productions theater season “explores the eternal question of…
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Juniper Art Gallery: A New Destination Shop in Spencer
Maybe it’s because she grew up in an artistic home—her father was a painter, her mother, a sculptor— but Jaime Sweany keeps circling back…
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Artist Robin Edmundson: Inspired by Southern Indiana’s Raw Beauty
Growing up, Robin Edmundson was focused on the codes and puzzle-solving involved in learning new languages. It wasn’t until she was in graduate school…
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Birdena Oakley-Carlisle: A Tale of Two Lives
How an opera star overcame the loss of her singing voice and is helping others
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‘Unknown, Untold, and Unbelievable Stories of IU Sports’
When it comes to sports stories, many are like fish tales—exaggerated beyond recognizable truth. But writers John C. Decker, Pete DiPrimio, and Doug Wilson…
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New Exhibit at Waldron — How Mexican Workers Aided the U.S. in WWII
As American men were heading to the frontlines during World War II, Mexican braceros, or “manual laborers,” were heading to the United States to…
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Grunwald Gallery Exhibit Features Abstract Works By Women of Color
Out of Easy Reach, an exhibit at the Grunwald Gallery of Art on the Indiana University campus, explores the theme of abstraction in different…