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(06/10/12 9:58pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The El Norteño restaurant in downtown Bloomington is now displaying the Bandana Project gallery, which is part of an incentive to end workplace violence and sexual harassment against female farm workers. The gallery is on display from May 22 to July 22.Elizabeth Lopez, bilingual domestic violence advocate for the Middle Way House, and Leah Fithian, a senior social work intern at Middle Way, organized the Bandana Project in Bloomington. The project launched nationally in 2007.Lopez and Fithian said they wanted to have the gallery opening coincide with the third Gallerywalk in downtown Bloomington, which started June 1. The walk features nine galleries that are open to the public for special events and festivities on six specific Fridays. Those Fridays include Aug. 3, Oct. 5 and Dec. 7. It features white bandanas decorated with words of encouragement. The bandana symbolizes solidarity, since many female farm workers use bandanas to cover their faces in order to ward off attention. Lopez asked members of the Monroe County Domestic Violence Task Force to participate in the Bandana Project, and use pens, paints and colored pencils to decorate the bandanas with words of encouragement and artwork, according to the City of Bloomington website. “The Bandana Project is designed to provoke a conversation about workplace sexual violence and sexual harassment against women and men through a public display of white bandanas ‘decorated’ with words of encouragement for victims, motivational statements, and inspirational art,” according to the Middle Way House website.The Middle Way House website also said the project has branched out to address sexual harassment in a variety of workplace environments. Project sponsors of the Bandana Project hope this will bring attention to the importance of anti-harassment policies in all workplace environments. — Sarah Boyum
(06/07/12 12:23am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Commission of Higher Education in Indiana has approved the new associate of fine arts degree at Bloomington’s Ivy Tech Community College. The creation of the degree aims to meet the demand for arts employment in the region and will allow students to transfer to four-year universities to pursue a bachelor of arts degree.The program requires 64 credit hours. Amy Brier, Ivy Tech instructor and a master stone sculptor, will teach many of the required courses. Brier is also the co-founder of the Limestone Symposium. Required courses include drawing, intermediate drawing, color and design, 3-D design and painting. Currently, Brier has her students collaborate on art pieces for community events such as the Lotus Festival. The AFA degree program transfers to many area schools, including the Herron School of Art and Design, the School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana State University and Saint Mary of the Woods College.Martin Wolfger, dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Ivy Tech in Bloomington, explained that all of the general education courses, as well as some drawing classes, involved with the AFA degree will transfer to IU, allowing a student to begin working on a bachelor of fine arts degree. Wolfger mentioned that several theater and dance courses might become a part of the AFA degree in the future.This degree will allow Ivy Tech to offer more art courses in response to a growing community interest in art. The new AFA degree will also “further advance Ivy Tech Bloomington’s mission to serve as a truly comprehensive community college and allow us to strengthen our partnerships with IU Bloomington and other four-year partner institutions,” Wolfger said.“Since we have acquired the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center, interest in the arts at Ivy Tech has exploded,” said Paul Daily, artistic director for the Ivy Tech Waldron, in a press release. “The Ivy Tech Waldron currently houses student art exhibits, student productions and student music. Offering an associate of fine arts degree and courses in the arts are natural steps to expanding opportunities for our students.”Bloomington’s region is home to 493 art-related businesses that employ 1,734 individuals. The nonprofit arts in Bloomington compose a $4.5 million industry, and the new AFA degree can help support aspiring artists.“Offering an associate of fine arts degree at Ivy Tech-Bloomington will allow us to support the growing number of aspiring artists who are combining their talent with entrepreneurship to form businesses and employment in the arts,” Wolfger said.— Sarah Boyum
(06/07/12 12:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts is only a small part of Indiana University. Sam Kampelman, who just completed his master of fine arts in painting from IU, attended Maryland Institute College of Art for his undergraduate studies. Kampelman taught two undergraduate courses at IU while completing his MFA. At the Maryland Institute, undergraduate studies placed heavy importance on studio arts, Kampelman said. Students were required to take a variety of studio and literature courses and only one course in math or science. “If you went to college specifically for art, you’re expected to make it your life,” Kampelman said.At IU, fine arts courses are often viewed more as elective courses, he said.Kampelman also noticed that his undergraduate students had heavy course loads in other liberal arts classes besides studio courses.“Less importance was placed on the fine arts school,” Kampelman said. “Students had more obligations in other classes. It might be harder to push your work where you want it to be because of all these other obligations.”However, Kampelman did acknowledge that where a student attains theirundergraduate degree and education is not as important as where they complete their MFA work.Kaitlan Cole, a junior pursuing a bachelor of arts in studio art with a concentration in textiles, transferred from School of the Art Institute of Chicago to Bloomington’s Ivy Tech Community College and finally to IU this spring.Cole found that the foundations courses for a fine arts degree are similar at any school with a fine arts program. IU and the Chicago Art Institute have comparable textile facilities, Cole noted, and textile introduction courses offered at each school are similar. The undergraduate program at the Chicago Art Institute was not very structured, Cole said. Classes were graded on a pass/fail scale for every assignment, and students were expected to be very independent and self-motivated. The undergraduate program at IU is more structured, building up a student’s motivation and setting specific guidelines for each degree program.The IU BFA program requires 62 credit hours and 12 hours of art history, while the BA program requires 33 hours in studio art and 12 hours of art history. The BFA program also requires that students start their work in the BA program and then apply for the BFA, said Sue Miller, academic advisor for the School of Fine Arts.“Students begin their work in the BA, then apply for the BFA in their area of concentration once they have built a suitable portfolio,” Miller said. Cole said any student who creates a solid portfolio and gains the technical skills in his or her foundation courses should be able to thrive in a masters program aftergraduation. “I don’t think a (bachelor of arts) degree from an art school puts you that much far ahead of a student graduating from a school with an art program,” Cole said. “The education for an undergraduate is not that much different, whether it’s from an art school or a school that has an art program."
(06/03/12 10:47pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A crowd gathered outside the WonderLab Museum of Health, Science & Technology on Friday evening to watch local artists carve into blocks of limestone. Letters and intricate flowers formed as the artists chiseled away at the rocks’ surfaces. Inside the Wonderlab, children learned about limestone through various hands-on activities. On the first Friday of every month, the WonderLab offers a “Science of the Art” themed evening from 5 to 8:30 p.m., with free admission for Wonderlab members and $3.50 admission for non-members. The events include interactive, hands-on activities and feature guest artists or scientists.The Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District, the city of Bloomington Arts Commission and a private donor provided grants that helped make First Friday events possible. June’s First Friday event was “Science of the Art: Limestone Carving,” appropriate for the beginning of Limestone Month in Indiana. Local limestone artists Amy Brier, Dale Enochs, Sharon Fullingim and Delaine Gertsbauer demonstrated carving techniques and talked to visitors about Indiana limestone.Participants made their own toothpaste using a mixture of flavored antacids, baking soda and water. Bars of soap were provided for children to test their carving abilities, and WonderLab employees helped visitors create petroglyphs, which are symbols carved on the surface of rocks and stones.Sarah Lempke, WonderLab employee and IU student pursuing a masters in arts and administration through the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, helped develop the limestone program. With a staff interested in science, Lempke hoped to generate some interest in art and expose children to art from a different perspective.“I wanted to bring a bit of an arts background to a science museum,” she said. Lempke also helped create the activities market. The goal of the event was to draw in young families and to let children make something they could take home. “It’s fun because parents seem to have as much fun as the kids do,” Lempke said.Andrea Oeding, assistant gallery director at WonderLab who is also Lempke’s adviser, also helped plan the event, create the activities and write the grants. Oeding hopes the First Friday events attract all ages and created the events so older children and adults could also enjoy the activities.“I enjoy seeing a little 5-year-old working at the same table as a 65-year-old,” Oeding said.Many of the visiting artists take part in the 16th annual Limestone Symposium in Ellettsville, Ind. The symposium will run until June 23 on the grounds of Bybee Stone Company.Brier, founder of the Limestone Symposium, has professionally carved limestone for more than 20 years and has demonstrated carving techniques for WonderLab in the past. Brier has taught classes at the Symposium and offers courses at Ivy Tech Bloomington.“(Limestone) is a part of our culture,” Brier said. “I want to reveal it to as many people as I can, make it accessible.”Delaine Gertsbauer, a Bloomington resident and wood carver who spoke to visitors at the event, took Brier’s class at Ivy Tech and “got bit by the bug.” Gertsbauer said she enjoyed working with the children at the WonderLab demonstration. Gertsbauer believes it is important to teach children about limestone because it is a part of their heritage. Gertsbauer also hopes children can appreciate the art oflimestone carving.“They can do this,” Gertsbauer said. ”It’s not a lost art.”
(05/31/12 12:18am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts is offering four-week classes for the first time, during the three summer sessions. Previously, the school offered six- and eight-week courses during the summer.The shortened course length might strengthen enrollment in fine arts courses, fine arts assistant professor Martha MacLeish said. The program aims to offer four-week courses that will fit better into students’ summer schedules.“With our new format, students have the same amount of contact hours but move through the course at a more accelerated rate,” MacLeish said.Kasey Ramirez, who just received her masters of fine arts in printmaking, is teaching her first summer session of F100, a fundamentals course focusing on different drawing techniques. The course is offered 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday during the first four-week summer session.Ramirez also taught the same class during the school semester. The summer session is more intense than the semester-long course, which is taught twice a week in three-hour sessions.“We’re able to get a really high level of concentration and tons of time spent on drawings,” Ramirez said. “I’m not sure how good the retention will be.”Ramirez, who completed her undergraduate at Rhode Island School of Design, is used to the longer class sessions since she took a similar class that was seven to eight hours long, once a week.The summer session spends about the same amount of time on teaching as the semester course but less material is covered, and students can complete four main projects. Time spent outside of class is also greater in the summer session. “During the semester, there are more distractions,” Ramirez said. She thinks the ideal summer session length for F100 would be five weeks because students could have an extra week to learn different drawing techniques and spend more time on projects.Lindsey Kitchell, a junior majoring in anthropology, has taken six-week summer courses and is taking F100 with Ramirez during the current summer session. Kitchell said she finds the 8 a.m. time harder to handle than expected. Summer session courses have limited offerings, as opposed to semester courses that are offered at various times.Kitchell also said she enjoys having four weeks of homework and class in the summer but admits the four-hour class every day is intense.“Though less material is covered in these summer courses, the same essential course goals and concepts remain,” MacLeish said, explaining that many students find the schedule intense yet hopeful.“It may be too soon to know for sure how this new format will compare to the previous one, but I am glad that we are trying it.”
(05/21/12 12:20am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Kinsey Institute threw an opening reception for its 7th Annual Juried Art Show from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Grunwald Gallery of Art. The show is on display until Saturday, July 21, and features contemporary works by artists from the United States and Canada who explore themes of gender, sexual identity, eroticism and sexuality.Catherine Johnson-Roehr, curator of art, artifacts and photographs at the Kinsey Institute, was one of three jurors for the event. For this year’s show, 713 entries were submitted, and the jury panel selected work from 101 artists.“Every year we hold a competition for the Juried Art Show,” Johnson-Roehr said. “We invite artists to submit one to three pieces for consideration by a panel of three judges. The pieces that receive the highest rankings by the jurors are accepted for the exhibition.”Best in Show and Gallery Visitor’s Choice are two awards artwork is considered for. Artist Mary Mazziotti won Best in Show with her piece “Death Gets Married,” a multi-panel cloth embroidery. Gallery visitors vote to determine Gallery Visitor’s Choice, which has not yet been announced. Oil painting, sculpture, metalwork, jewelry and photography were just a few of the varied methods artists used when creating their pieces. Testicle-shaped cupcakes in bright colors were displayed next to a nipple-adorned necklace titled “My Eyes are Up Here.” Pieces of a chess set represented different reproductive body parts. Heather Saunders’ “Gender Reveal Cake” consisted of a brown lingerie-covered cake with a pink tutu on the inside. This work is a commentary on the trend of parents asking that their baby’s sex be revealed through a cake, which is typically neutral on the outside with either pink or blue icing on the inside to signify the gender.Julia Kozerski used photography to focus on the weight-loss struggle and how people chase after the dream of becoming the “perfect person.” Devin Balara observed the excessive display of male strength in society and used this idea to construct a “protruding obtrusive phallic form” using steel, wood and 290 bolts.Aiden Smith, a graduate student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, displayed a photograph of a naked and shaven Smith posed in child-like fashion.“The only visual part of my body that signifies me as a male is my body hair, and it is so easily removed,” Smith said.Smith uses photography to analyze the relationship between himself and his camera. He explores different layers and identities of himself, both as a person and aphotographer.Jay Burton also displayed a photograph, titled “Anticipation.” This work features a series of 16 separate photographs, each portraying a different view of a tulip. Burton said he enjoys creating a “controlled ambiguity” in his work and would not explain the meaning behind it, hoping viewers would create their own interpretation of the piece.“(‘Anticipation’) is a Kinsey piece,” Burton said. “It’s obviously sexual and sensual.”The Kinsey Institute also organized other events that connected with the gallery opening of the Juried Art Show. An open house and artist talk were staged Saturday afternoon, and the artists were invited to the Burlesque Ball on Saturday at Jake’s Nightclub. Attendees were encouraged to dress up.The artist talk allowed artists to offer a more in-depth explanation of their work and field questions from the audience and other artists. Tom Hill, whose art was featured in the show, praised the show and the artists during his presentation.“I feel very akin to the people in this room being able to present themselves in certain ways, to be honest and authentic and try to reflect that in your art,” he said. “I just feel like I’m in very good company.”
(05/20/12 11:25pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Brightly colored yoga mats covered the second floor of the IU Art Museum atrium Saturday morning. Barefoot participants twisted into different poses on the mats. Music playing from Angles Café nearby mingled with the voice of a yoga instructor, directing the group in a series of stretches.The Art Museum offers a weekly program called Yoga in the Atrium. It began April 7 and runs 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Saturdays until October 27 on the second floor of the Thomas T. Solley Atrium. This program is sponsored by the Orthopedics of Southern Indiana and IU Health Southern Indiana Physicians. The Museum partnered with Lynda Mitchell Yoga Studio and Vibe Yoga Studio to start the program.Haley Gluesenkamp, yoga instructor at Lynda Mitchell Studio and Btown Gym in Bloomington, directed the session Saturday. Although accustomed to the comfort of a studio, Gluesenkamp said she enjoys the museum’s environment with natural sunlight.The program attracts 20-50 participants from a broad age range every week. Many people are regular attendees. Mallory Trescone, Bloomington resident and IU graduate, attended her third session Saturday.“I liked it because it flowed more than other beginners courses I’ve taken,” Trescone said. “(Gluesenkamp) adapted it based on the crowd that was there.”Rachel Mehringer, IU sophomore and first-time attendee, also said she enjoyed the session’s pace. “It was really good, especially for a beginner class,” she said. “It had a cohesive flow and didn’t have a lot of down time.” The only negative aspect Mehringer pointed out was the noise in the museum due to chatter of people walking in and out of the museum, which grew especially loud near the end of the session. Mehringer found herself straining to hear Gluesenkamp’s intructions over the noise. Trescone said she liked the location but also noticed the noise during the end of the session.Gluesenkamp acknowledged this aspect of the location but viewed the situation positively.“It’s a good opportunity for people to use the real concept of yoga, channeling out the noise and distraction,” Gluesenkamp said. Gluesenkamp, a yoga instructor for about a year, just started teaching at Btown Gym, a brand-new fitness facility. Btown Gym implements Gluesenkamp’s You Only Live Once Method, a program designed to teach people about health and fitness.The YOLO Method takes a holistic approach to health and fitness. Gluesenkamp created this six-month project to help her clients implement changes in lifestyle and food choice to achieve greater energy, balance and health.Gluesenkamp will continue leading the yoga sessions in the museum’s atrium for the duration of the program.
(05/17/12 12:46am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU Art Museum will receive a $500,000 endowment grant through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This grant will help fully fund the senior academic officer position and allow the Art Museum to provide students with more courses and programs.The Mellon Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, makes grants in six program areas: higher education and scholarship, art history, conservation and museums, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and communication and information technology. Recipients of the grant are often “leaders in fields of Foundation activity” or newcomers with potential, according to the Mellon Foundation website. The philosophy of the Foundation is “to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities, rather than be a source for narrowly defined projects.”The senior academic officer focuses on pairing academic experiences with the museum’s collection of artwork. The officer also works with the entire IU community to integrate the museum’s collections and resources into class curricula. Jennifer Wagelie is the current senior academic officer and the second person to hold the position.Wagelie, who has worked with the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, which are both located in Washington D.C., will continue teaching classes and working to engage more of IU’s non-arts students and staff in utilizing the Art Museum as a resource for their research and classes. “With the addition of a dedicated staff position, we are able to offer new courses that utilize the museum’s collections,” Wagelie said. The grant has allowed the IU Art Museum to offer new courses in the fall and spring semesters. The classes used the museum’s collection of art and offered students other opportunities to experience the subject more in depth through utilizing the museum’s resources. A new class offered next spring, titled “On Exhibit,” will allow students to work on a small exhibition and use a part of the museum’s collections.In spring 2012 , new programs were also offered in conjunction with special exhibits and installations. An afternoon workshop focusing on the Perle exhibition titled “What is Ab Ex?” and an in-gallery presentation titled “Kabuki Night in the Galleries” are two examples of new opportunities the museum was able to offer the IU community.“This is a truly transformative opportunity for the IU Art Museum,” IU Art Museum Director Adelheid “Heidi” M. Galt said in a press release. "We are very proud that IU has joined other prestigious university art museums ... as a recipient of a Mellon endowment challenge grant.”
(05/14/12 12:11am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>White tents were pitched Saturday morning in Showers Plaza, directly in front of the steps of City Hall. A crowd of people milled among the different tents, perusing the handmade art on display. The artists, housed in each tent, interacted with passersby, explaining their creative processes and showcasing their artistic efforts.The Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department sponsored the season’s first A Fair of the Arts. The event, located in Showers Plaza at Eighth and Morton streets, was from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is scheduled to repeat once a month through October. The adjoining Showers Commons is home to the Bloomington Community Farmer’s Market each Saturday.Thirty vendors were selected through a juried process to display their work at the fair. All art was hand made with a variety of materials and processes. Jewelry, woodworking and handmade soap were some of the goods offered.Kay Daniel displayed her handmade origami earrings in one tent. This is the fifth year Daniel has participated in the fair. Each pair of earrings takes her about one hour to complete, and she said it is a tedious process. Sales are not great at the fairs.“I’m happy if I sell over two pairs,” Daniel said.But she enjoys the creative process, using beads paired with wrapping paper, traditional origami paper or scraps of old maps to create the earrings. “I really like to see how the paper matches the bead,” she said. “There’s a huge variety. It keeps it fresh for me.”Joe Henderson of Hickory Hill Studios in Brown County, Ind., occupied another tent in the fair. He crafts his wood art into clocks, cats and birds, using hard sugar maple as his medium.Henderson uses splated wood, which is created when a fungus causes black lines to form. These black lines in the wood create shapes, which Henderson then fills with colored ink.A shared box of strawberries sat between Henderson’s tent and the adjoining tent, where his wife sold T-shirts and handmade wire jewelry. Local artist Abby Gitlitz of Tweetle Beetle Glass creates handmade blown and stained glass. Colorful coasters and other glass shapes sat on white shelves in her tent.Printmaking is integrated into her work and then integrated in her coasters. “Anything you can do to another medium, you can do to glass,” she said.She also implements steel wool and baking soda. One method she uses when creating her work is dipping the glass into water combined with baking soda and watching the resulting reaction.“Go in your cabinet, see what you can find, play with it. Sometimes it doesn’t work out, but that’s part of the fun of experimenting,” Gitlitz said.
(05/10/12 12:33am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The two and three-dimensional works of Virginia Patrick, Paul Smedberg, John Terril and Roast Hoggmann on display at Blueline Gallery are all part of the newest gallery called “Mixing it Up — Collage.” Jim Andrews, the gallery’s art curator, chose this theme when piecing together the show.Blueline Gallery is a creative co-op featuring local artists’ work on a one- to two-month rotation. The four artists with work on display are all local, using different mediums to create their collages. Roast Hoggmann, an IU graduate who majored in fine arts in painting, creates 3-D collages. Photo remixing is Paul Smedberg’s approach to collaging. He takes a photograph and alters it in Photoshop and other photo editing programs. The next two artists, John Terril and Virginia Patrick, have been partners for seven years. The couple collaborated on one piece of art and also separately displayed their work for the show. Their art is displayed on one wall of the gallery, connected by the piece they both created. “John thinks of it as us holding hands,” Patrick said. Patrick focuses on handmade collages. Her collages are very personal and often have a political flavor to them. One piece features a pig figurine in an old cigar box surrounded by paper money. Terril uses a handmade method similar to Patrick’s. Some of his work features a collage of two to three different images meshed together. Andrews said the best thing about multiple artists at one show is “given the variety of the show, there is almost something for everyone,” Andrews said. IU freshman Lexie Greitzer said she found the artists’ work to be very unique. “They take something ordinary and throw in a random element,” Greitzer said. She also said the pieces reminded her of old art projects she had completed in high school. “It inspires me to go look at my old work and use it to decorate my room.”Patrick said she feels compelled to do art but has never made a living from it. She does it for herself.“(Art) is more of a life work than a career,” Andrews said.
(11/15/10 1:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU campus is recognized as one of the five most beautiful college campuses in the country, according to Thomas A. Gaines’ book, “The Campus as a Work of Art.” This picturesque landscape includes the widespread use of limestone.Indiana limestone is used on many campus buildings, including the Indiana Memorial Union, Rawles Hall and Simon Hall, according to “Follow the Limestone: A Walking Tour of Indiana University,” compiled by Brian D. Keith of the Indiana Geological Survey.Indiana limestone is prevalent in Monroe and Lawrence counties because it is exposed at the surface and is easiest to quarry in these locations due to the erosion of rock layers formed during the Mississippian Era.Salem limestone, referred to as Indiana limestone, has been locally quarried in Monroe and Lawrence counties since 1827 and was accessible for building on the IU campus.Todd Thompson, member of the Indiana Geological Survey, said the formation of this particular limestone in Indiana began approximately 340 million years ago, when parts of southern Indiana were covered with warm and shallow tropical waters.After the tropical waters receded, the different layers of rock, including limestone, formed. Similar to most limestone, Indiana limestone is primarily composed of calcium carbonate.Unlike other types of limestone that include fossils or big shell materials, Indiana limestone is fine-grained and uniform in all directions. Thompson said this is why it’s used for building purposes.The rock itself is relatively soft and easy to cut and carve into shapes. Because of the uniformity of grains, Indiana limestone doesn’t fall apart into layers when it is drilled out of the ground.To quarry it, holes are drilled along the edge of the stone and huge blocks of the limestone are broken off. But only a small amount of quarried stone is usable.“If they can get 25 percent recovery in a quarry, they are ecstatic,” Keith said. Much of the quarried stone is unusable due to blemishes or fossils in the limestone.Additionally, many residential areas sit atop the Indiana limestone in many parts of Monroe and Lawrence counties. The limestone, buried underneath new houses, is lost as a resource. Still, there isn’t a lack of Indiana limestone.“We’ve got 100 years of stone to quarry,” Keith said.Kathryn Shaffer, minerals statistician at the Indiana Geological Survey, said Indiana is one of the biggest suppliers of limestone in the nation.“Indiana usually ranks first in the nation in dimension limestone production,” Shaffer said. “It is considered a premier building stone that has been used extensively in construction of many of our nation’s best-known buildings.”Famous buildings bearing Indiana limestone include the Pentagon, the National Cathedral and the Empire State Building.