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Fine Arts Archive

A dialogue between artists at Mathers

By editor • Oct 1st, 2008

Just as the panels of “Obituaries” fold and unfold, layer and delayer, Baldner and Krondorfer have to piece together and pull apart history and what they were told about it in order to have a clearer dialogue. Eve Eisenberg

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Fair Trade Exhibition

By admin • Sep 6th, 2008

Gird your loins for another Art Hospital/Big Car collaboration. Brian Kelley

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Bloomington Artists Go Fourth

By Dawn K. Shanks • Aug 1st, 2008

In a matter of weeks, the most delicious nook of the street, overwrought with weedy Tree-of-Heaven saplings and cars parked on both sides of its narrow street-flanks for the sparse, tootling traffic-will yield to the annual transformation, the tradition over three decades in the making, of Fourth Street Festival. Dawn K. Shanks

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Meet Picasso: Bloomington’s most down-to-earth artist

By Tyler Perry • Jul 1st, 2008

A town like Bloomington being home to a painting dog is not quite an eyebrow-raiser. With programs like Drool in the Pool, the Read to Dogs program at the library and adoptable dogs patrolling the Farmers’ Market entrances each Saturday, the town touts an outlook of utter infatuation with Fido. Tyler James Perry

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Celebrating the young at heART–March is the month to celebrate pee-wee painters

By Dawn K. Shanks • Jun 24th, 2008

Ahh, Art class. During the first few years of compulsory education, it seemed like I was getting away with something: a class where I’m encouraged-praised!-in my epic mess-making (of which I rarely had to clean up after, not having time before being shunted off single-file with my peers to first lunch or Language [...]

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An art-filled night on the (down)town.

By Cultureweek Reports • May 4th, 2008

If you missed the first gallery walk, you’re in for a long wait until the next one scheduled for July 11. However, take it from us, it’s worth the wait for your inner art critic (and stomach; free food is offered at each gallery). Cultureweek Reports

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Jet-set Fashion Show at Buskirk-Chumley

By Sarah Fargo • Apr 7th, 2008

Just in time for spring, members of the Black Student Union (BSU) are making a concerted effort to shake the campus out of its dreary sweatpants and size it for style. Sarah Fargo

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Celebrating the young at heART–March is the month to celebrate pee-wee painters

By Dawn K. Shanks • Mar 6th, 2008

Visions of macaroni sculptures past have been so heavy on my mind-I can practically taste the glue again (yes, I was that kid in art class).

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Fine with 29—a sneak peek at Art Hospital’s Leap Year exhibit in February

By Dawn K. Shanks • Feb 2nd, 2008

Wondering what to do with that extra day at the end of this month? On Friday, February 29 at 8 p.m., Art Hospital will hold a Leap Year Event featuring a collection of new and collaborative works from artists, zine writers and friends mperfect and pLopLop, known outside the gallery as Jason Pierce and John [...]

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And These Walls Can Talk

By Dawn K. Shanks • Jan 19th, 2008

Talk about a wailing wall! “Writing on the Wall,” part of Indiana University’s Moveable Feast of the Arts program, encourages people to pick up some paint and tag a wall with anything that’s on their minds—an act usually looked upon as vandalism.
There is, of course, a method to the madness. There are two [...]

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