Several downtown arts venues will premier new exhibitions and offer one-off events Friday as part of the February Gallery Walk.
Ten art spaces will participate in the Gallery Walk, with some seasonally themed shows and events scheduled.
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Blueline Gallery will have a live printmaking workshop in which visitors can make Valentine’s Day cards, according to a press release from Gallery Walk of Bloomington. Romantic films of the 1950s will also be projected, and the gallery will feature poetry readings and work by photography and printmaking students.
The Vault Gallery will offer a chocolate-focused exhibition from the Bloomington Watercolor Society in celebration of Bloomington’s Week of Chocolate. Like most Week of Chocolate events, proceeds from the show will go to local nonprofit LIFEDesigns, the Week of Chocolate’s host.
“Just in time for the month of Love,” according to the release, Gather Handmade Shoppe & Co. will present a gallery of bridal gowns by local designer Liby Ball. Ball focuses on “hard-to-fit” clients, according to her website.
By Hand Gallery will showcase “Hearts Entwined,” a limestone carving collection by Albert Nelson. The show is not explicitly Valentine’s Day-themed but deals with “the importance of faith, hope and love in our daily lives,” according to the release.
Among other exhibitions, Pictura Gallery will show urban photography Kai Caemmerer and Noah Addis.
Caemmerer’s exhibition “Unborn Cities” focuses on the dominance of steel and concrete in cities, according to the Gallery Walk’s website.
Addis’s “Future Cities” focuses on the landscape and architecture of slums and informal settlements across the world, according to his website. Both exhibitions will be on display through March 26.
The Gallery Walk will also include venues with ongoing exhibitions, including “What Does Bloomington Look Like to Me?” at Pictura Gallery and Ed Bernstein’s “Angels, Ghosts, & Inconvenient Events” at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center.
Jack Evans
