The Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center features a new exhibit for the month of July: the works of Claire Swallow, Dale Gardner, Sarah Wain, Jessica Lucas and Alex Straiker. British painter Claire Swallow is inspired by everything from childhood trips to the seashore to small household appliances. Photographer Dale Gardner saves turn-of-the-previous-century portraits and gives them new lives in new settings. Art teacher and baker Sarah Wain whips up candy for the eyes that may create cravings in the stomach. IU researchers Alex Straiker and Jessica Lucas present color-enhanced stills and videos taken of digital microscopy. Who knew mouse tissue could be this beautiful?

The exhibit, running until July 28, is free and open to the public during regular gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 9 am to 7 pm. Closed Sundays.

Painter John Thom’s exhibit “From Warhol to Rothko we shared, but I disagreed” will be on exhibit at The Gallery Group, during weekday business hours, through July 26th. A friend of Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol, Thom’s works have been described as “Dali-cartoons”. John now resides in Bloomington, Indiana, living next to his brother and best-selling author, James Alexander Thom.

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs. It is free and open to the public during regular museum hours, and will run until August 27.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines history on a large scale, through exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins. It is open weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from May 8 to August 26, 2012, and is free.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs. It is free and open to the public during regular museum hours, and will run until August 27.

Mathers Museum hours are:
Tuesday-Friday: 9 am-4:30 pm
Saturday-Sunday: 1-4:30 pm

Sara is a signature member of the Bloomington Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Society of Indiana. A graduate of the Indiana University Printmaking Department of the School of Fine Arts, and a Monroe County Middle School Art teacher for almost 30 years, Ms. McQueen enjoys working in collage and printing as well as being a plein air painter. For this exhibit, she shows some leaf stamps in her compositions and abstract explorations with hand made and international papers.

Exhibit runs until July 29. Open Monday through Saturday, 10 am – 5:30 pm (8 pm on First Fridays.)

Indiana Festival Theatre presents “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs”, a children’s musical based on the book by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith.

The long-suppressed account of the Big, Bad Wolf is brought to light in Piggsylvania’s Trial of the Century, where the audience as the jury must decide the Wolf’s fate. Parents and children will delight in this thrilling courtroom dram-edy… with music! and ham!

June 23, 26-30, July 2, 3, 5-7 at 11:00 a.m.
Studio Theatre

See web link for tickets.

The Brown County Art Guild exhibit for July features Gerrie Govert (pastels) and Hattie Stanton (oils). Exhibit will run through July 30th. An artists’ reception will be held on Saturday, July 14, from 5-8 pm, during the Village Art Walk.

Gallery hours:
Tu-Sat: 11 am-5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm-5 pm
Closed Monday

Kid Kazooey and The Ballroom Roustabouts (story singing, dance music for young and young at heart)

Stroll Downtown for a toe-tapping lunch break at Peoples Park! Grab some lunch from a local restaurant or brown bag from home, but spend your Tuesday lunch break at Peoples Park!

May 1st- Cindy Kallet and Grey Larsen
May 8th- Starkraven
May 15th- dwBrykalski
May 22nd- Sharlee Davis and Will Devitt
May 29th- Craig and Lori Brenner
June 5th- Kevin Reynolds June 12th- 64 Colors
June 19th- Gordon Bonham
June 26th- The Mundies
July 3rd- Kid Kazooey and the Ballroom Roustabouts
July 10th- Scott Frye
July 17th- Pan USA
July 24th- Sad Sam Blues Band
July 31- Monika Herzig and Peter Kienele
August 7th- The Mizfits
August 14th- Don’t Call me Betty
August 21st- Fiddle “n” Feet
August 28th- The Gospel Gurlz