From the builders of some of America’s earliest railroads and farms to Civil Rights pioneers to digital technology entrepreneurs, Indian Americans have long been an inextricable part of American life. “Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation” explores the Indian American experience and the community’s vital political, professional, and cultural contributions to American life and history. The exhibition moves past pop-culture stereotypes of Indian Americans to explore the heritage, daily experience, and diverse contributions of Indian immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Weaving together stories of individual achievement and collective struggle, “Beyond Bollywood” uses photography, narrative, multimedia, and interactive stations to tell a uniquely American story, while conveying the texture, vibrancy, and vitality of Indian American communities.

“Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation” was created by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The Mathers Museum’s presentation of the exhibit has been generously funded by Indiana University alumnus Robert N. Johnson, the Madhusudan and Kiran C. Dhar India Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Department of American Studies. Gallery is open 9am-4:30 pm Tues-Fri and 1pm-4:30pm Sat/Sun.

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Drawing Upon Drawing, curated by Jennifer Riley, will go on display April 7 – May 27 at the Indiana University Center for Art+Design.

This exhibition features seven acclaimed practitioners of drawing who approach problems of representation, imagination, modeling, rendering, and expression in remarkable and diverse ways. These works draw upon art, architecture, urbanism, history, psychology, myth, and cultural lore. Drawing Upon Drawing artists include: David Braly, Will Bruder, Anthony Fisher, William Gwin, Frank Harmon, Patricia Heyda, Thomas Lyon Mills, and Caleb Weintraub. The artists have been selected to support specific concerns to be addressed in the conference.

This exhibition coincides with Drawing and the Brain, a symposium gathering artists, architects, and scientists to discuss the primacy of the sketch as a creative tool of invention and discovery in architecture. The symposium addresses questions of authorship and mark-making; drawing and the human voice; the relationship between hand and brain; and the potential for creation of “digital/tactile machines” able to emulate touch and mark-making.

The symposium commences with a reception for Drawing Upon Drawing on April 7 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Jennifer Riley will deliver a gallery talk from 6 to 7 p.m. during the reception. The gallery talk will draw upon the histories of these approaches; it will offer interpretation (analysis of the formal and conceptual aspects) and illumination of these specific examples of handmade drawing to further the understanding of how they may relate to current research on the brain and drawing.

For a complete list of events, please visit drawingandthebrain.org.

Drawing Upon Drawing and corresponding programs have been made possible by SOA+D, Indiana University School of Art + Design; The College Arts and Humanities Institute in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University; New Frontiers in Arts and Humanities, Indiana University; and the Indiana University Center for Art+Design.

For further information, contact Marla Roddy, Center Coordinator, at 812-375-7550 or [email protected]. Please visit our website at indiana.edu/~iucad/. IUCA+D is accessible to people with disabilities. All events are free and open to the public.

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