Artistic workshop offers new venue to interact, imagine, work
Some artistic visions stop with a painting. But for three IU alumni, one vision started a community within a room.
Some artistic visions stop with a painting. But for three IU alumni, one vision started a community within a room.
The John Waldron Arts Center bustled with music and chatter Saturday when Bloomington residents filled the gallery in anticipation for the unveiling of the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s 2010-2011 season.
Gallery Director Hannah Carmichael and three other graduate students were pulled from their assistantships at the John Waldron Arts Center.
The list of nominees for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards also serves as a veritable who’s who of IU alumni and faculty members.
The sixth annual Art of Chocolate exhibit will feature live chocolate art from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the IU Art Museum. This year local Collaborative Artist Joe LaMantia will be creating a masterpiece by painting chocolate onto a canvas. Tickets are $45 and all proceeds benefit OPTIONS, a Bloomington non-profit that provides services to people with disabilities.
The PRIDE Film Festival, Bloomington’s premier Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer film festival, began its 2010 run yesterday with a meet-and-greet party at Farm.
In the back room of Bear’s Place, Comedy Caravan has made Bloomington residents and IU students laugh for 27 years.
The 13th Annual Competition in the Performance of Music from Spain and Latin America will take place 4 p.m. Sunday at Auer Hall and is free and open to the public.
The John Waldron Arts Center has hit another hurdle. All paid staff were laid off yesterday, leaving the organization to rely on volunteerism, Executive Director Rob Hanrahan said. Hanrahan has chosen to stay on as a volunteer director without pay.
Indiana Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman is now accepting submissions for the fourth annual Celebration of Hoosier Women Artists competition.
Similar yet different – sculpture, photography, digital art and printmaking meet at the School of Fine Arts Gallery in “IU School of Fine Arts Student Shows 2.”
I am one of those people who doesn’t become a football fan until Super Bowl season, and even then I am more into it for the commercials. But last Sunday, after I got tired of counting all the Peyton Manning ads, I heard the Feb. 7 Super Bowl halftime performance will be headlined by the classic rock band, The Who.
Sneaky and underhanded, car salesmen are sometimes characterized as enemies of the consumer who are not to be trusted. The stereotype might assert that any honest car salesman just hasn’t had the temptation to cheat yet – but give him time.
All paid staff at the John Waldron Arts Center were laid off today at a 1:30 p.m. meeting, Executive Director Rob Hanrahan said. Hanrahan has chosen to stay on as a volunteer director without pay.
Evelyn Powers kept waiting for the protesters to come, but they never did. More than 100 artists, performers and community members came out Tuesday in support of saving the John Waldron Arts Center and maintaining its use as a haven for the Bloomington arts community.
Elizabeth Eckert had her fingers glued to the keys of a piano from age two. On track to become a classical pianist, she was on her way to realizing her dream until her junior year of college, when the keys were ripped from beneath her hands.
For more than a year now, my worst nightmare has been sent down runways and displayed in store windows around the world. They’ve been out in public, and apparently fashion designers still want you to buy them because they’ve been in several menswear collections this year.
Author Michael Pollan will appear 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at the IU Auditorium, in an event for IU’s 26th annual ArtsWeek, which is themed “Arts and the Environment.”
The recipient of the prestigious Georgina Joshi International Fellowship,awarded to a graduating IU Jacobs School of Music student, was finally announced on Jan. 19.
The John Waldron Arts Center is a home for theater in Bloomington – a home that might be closed March 1 if the Bloomington Area Arts Council, the organization in charge of the center, cannot raise $120,000.