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John Waldron Arts Center
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City Seeks Proposals for Management of Waldron Art Center
The City of Bloomington has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the management and operation of the John Waldron Arts Center.
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(UPDATE) Mayor Appoints Committee to Assess Future of John Waldron Arts Center
Mayor John Hamilton has appointed Miah Michaelsen and Valerie Peña as co-chairs of the Waldron Recommendation Committee, which will advise the City of Bloomington…
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WFHB’s Live ‘Saturday’s Child’ Celebrates 25 Years on the Air
WFHB-FM’s live monthly music broadcast, Saturday’s Child, aired for the first time in March 1994 from the Rose Firebay at the John Waldron Arts…
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Sense of Belonging & Community Take Center Stage at Granfalloon
Granfalloon, a convergence of independent music, theater, out-of-the box creative local events, and literary scholarship—all inspired by Indiana author and luminary Kurt Vonnegut—is returning.…
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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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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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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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Galleries of Bloomington 2018
Among Indiana communities, Bloomington has a well-deserved reputation as a thought leader in the arts. It was the first city in the state to…
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Bloom’s Greatest Hits: James Alexander Thom—Historical Novelist
James Alexander Thom, acclaimed historical novelist, has the wispy white hair and bushy beard of a biblical prophet. In fact, he jokes that he…