Seven Bloomington maiolica artists are showing work at the Farmer House Museum from Oct. 5 to Dec. 6, 2012. They are leExposition Universelle. Susan Snyder, who learned the tradition and art of maiolica in Faenza, Italy from traditional artisans, and began to share her knowledge with ceramic artists in Bloomington upon her return, by way of England, in the 1990s. “Majolica”, spelled with a “j”, is the word for a 19 century English and French style, that has little to do with the Italian style, except for the use of metal-based glazes. Snyder practices and teaches the original craft of maiolica, which began in Italy in the 1400s. It is a folk style, in which linear designs are painted in bright colors on plates, bowls and other vessels.

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The Hoosier women’s field hockey team will play Villanova. The Field Hockey complex is located next to Bill Armstrong Stadium and to the west of St. Paul’s Catholic Church on 17th Street. Admission is free.

This installation, running from September 11 to December 31, will focus on three photographers Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Weston, and Harry Callahan, who used their romantic partners as their subjects. Whether portraits or nude studies, these images reveal a sensitivity that comes from the artists and sitters’ close personal relationships.

This installation is presented in conjunction it the special exhibition “A Place Aside: Artists and their Partners,” on view at the Kinsey Institute Gallery, September 28–December 20.

Artists working in Paris and Lorraine during the Baroque period developed distinctive styles—which focused on the vibrancy of the line—that differed markedly from their Italian and Dutch contemporaries. The two print kiosks in the early part of the gallery feature French works by Jacques Bellange, Claude Lorrain, Jacques Callot, and Claude Mellan, whose engraving is a tour de force of printmaking that creates the face of Christ using a single line.

A ghoulish cast of traditional Halloween characters. ..a Juggling Scarecrow, Dancing Skeleton & Ghost, Alien, The Flying Purple People Eater, a Kitchen Witch, Concert Pianist & Dracula…all will amaze you with their trickery while they perform on a charming Halloween set.

Showing multiple times per day. Runs from September 29 to October 28.

The Hoosier women’s soccer team takes on Wisconsin at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Free admission!

The Mathers Museum of World Cultures hosts the 7th Annual Dia de los Muertos Community Altar installation. This year’s altar will be curated by Rachel DiGregorio and Michael Redman with support from Wandering Turtle Art Gallery On-Line. Community members are invited to add gifts to the altar in honor of their deceased loved ones over the course of the exhibit (October 16 – November 4). During this Mexican holiday, it is customary to leave those who have preceded us in death small offerings of items they would have enjoyed during their lifetime; thus nurturing the memory of their lives and letting them know they have not been forgotten and remain a part of our lives today. Each year the Community Altar is built on the foundation of the previous years’ offerings.

Recurring daily during regular museum hours: Tue – Fri, 9 am – 4:30 pm; Sat – Sun 1 – 4:30 pm.

A ghoulish cast of traditional Halloween characters. ..a Juggling Scarecrow, Dancing Skeleton & Ghost, Alien, The Flying Purple People Eater, a Kitchen Witch, Concert Pianist & Dracula…all will amaze you with their trickery while they perform on a charming Halloween set.

Showing multiple times per day. Runs from September 29 to October 28.

Eric Sandweiss, Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington and author of The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer’s Journey through Midcentury America will discuss the companion exhibit to his book during this free event. The exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman’s extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1969, Cushman—a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye for everyday detail—travelled constantly, shooting everything he encountered as he ventured from New York to New Orleans, Chicago to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. His photos include portraits, ethnographic studies, agricultural and industrial landscapes, movie sets and media events, children playing, laborers working, and thousands of street scenes, all precisely documented in time and place. The result is a chronicle of an era almost never seen, or even envisioned, in color.

Last Train to Nibroc, written by Arlene Hutton and directed by Tom Evans, will be showing at the Brown County Playhouse October 4-7, 10-14, 17 and 21. Sunday Matinees at 2 pm on October 7, 14 and 21. Purchase tickets at website and check for full showtime and ticket price list.

“A funny, touching portrait of two people searching for happiness,…a gently charming little play, reminiscent of Thornton Wilder in its look at rustic Americans who are to be treasured for their simplicity and directness…” —Associated Press. “NIBROC’s jokes are funny and its couple endearing because their emotional struggles ring true.” —Time Out NY.