28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: ‘Maiolica, Not Majolica’ at the Farmer House Museum

10:00 am to 02:00 pm
Farmer House Museum (529 North College Avenue)
http://bloomington.in.gov/locations/viewLocation.php?location_id=250

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.

Hours are 10 am -1 pm Wednesday-Friday, 10 am – 4 pm Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm Sunday

Exhibits

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Cider Fest

11:00 am to 02:00 pm
Bloomington Community Orchard 2120 S. Highland Ave., Bloomington, IN, 47401
http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/

The weather is cooling, and the apples are crisp. That can only mean one thing: Cider Fest! Bring the family to this Orchard tradition and enjoy live music, delicious baked goodies made with local fruit, apple bobbing, and face painting. This year, come in costume, and join the costume parade!

The event is BYOM–so bring your own mug! (It’s the perfect hand-warmer.)

A $5 to $10 suggested donation is appreciated. It’s our second Cider Fest, and this year we’re amping up the fun.

Festivals

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: ‘Intimate Models: Photographs of Husbands, Wives, and Lovers’

12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
IU Art Museum (IU Campus, 1133 E. 7th St.)
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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.

Exhibits

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: ‘French Printmaking in the Seventeenth Century’

12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
IU Art Museum (IU Campus, 1133 E. 7th St.)
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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.

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28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: Joe Tilson and the News of the World

12:00 pm to 05:00 pm
IU Art Museum (IU Campus, 1133 E. 7th St.)
http://www.artmuseum.iu.edu

Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor. The British Pop artist Joe Tilson used tabloid journalism and news photography as the basis for many of his prints and multiples of the late 1960s. Becoming increasingly political, he saw the pictures of revolutionary leaders and current events as a means for social commentary. This installation will include several of his works from this turbulent period.

Runs until December 30. Open during regular museum hours (Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm, Sunday 12 pm – 5 pm.)

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28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Melchior Marionette Theatre presents The Slightly Haunted Puppet Theatre

01:00 pm
Melchior Marionette Theatre (West Side of S. Van Buren St., Nashville, IN)
http://melchiormarionettes.com/

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.

Children / Entertainment / Theater

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: 7th Annual Dia de Los Muertos Community Altar

01:00 pm to 04:30 pm
Mathers Museum of World Cultures (416 N. Indiana Avenue)
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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.

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28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Exhibit: The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer’s Journey through Midcentury America

01:00 pm to 04:30 pm
Mathers Museum of World Cultures (416 N. Indiana Avenue)
http://www.mathers.indiana.edu

This exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures is a companion piece to the book by Eric Sandweiss, and presents a survey of 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. It will run until December 21.

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

Exhibits

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Melchior Marionette Theatre presents The Slightly Haunted Puppet Theatre

02:00 pm
Melchior Marionette Theatre (West Side of S. Van Buren St., Nashville, IN)
http://melchiormarionettes.com/

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.

Children / Entertainment / Theater

28 Sunday / October 28, 2012

Halloween Family Fun Fest—Day of the Dead

02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology, 416 North Indiana Avenue
http://www.mathers.indiana.edu

The museum’s annual Halloween celebration will explore activities and traditions surrounding the Day of the Dead. The event will be free and open to the public.

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