Fine Arts
Scottish painter and paper crafter David Constable, an international Visiting Artist-in-Residence, will discuss his current work and artists who have influenced his art-making during a free lecture from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, in IU's Collins Living-Learning Center.
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The latest Strategic National Arts Alumni Project or SNAAP survey based at Indiana University is now collecting data to go into its data management and institutional improvement system designed to enhance the impact of arts-school education.
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This Friday (Sept. 16), film producer Angus Aynsley will return to his Indiana University alma mater to present a lecture and introduce a screening of his Academy Award-nominated documentary film Waste Land (2010) at IU Cinema. Produced by Aynsley and directed by Lucy Walker (Devil's Playground, Blindsight) Waste Land was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature film earlier this year. This will be Aynsley's first visit back to Bloomington in more than 20 years.
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An upcoming photography exhibition -- featuring images of Holocaust survivors and of remains of the once-vibrant Jewish culture in Slovakia that was destroyed by the Nazis -- will be staged in honor of the newly designated namesake of Indiana University's Grunwald Gallery of Art.
Indiana University will host the 2011 Picturing John James Audubon Institute in July. The institute is made possible by a $204,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, funded by NEH's Picturing America summer seminar series designed for high school teachers. One source of reference for the institute will be the Lilly Library's Double Elephant Folio of John James Audubon's Birds of America, containing 435 meticulously detailed, hand-colored illustrations. An identical edition of Birds of America sold for a record $11.5 million at Sotheby's in December.
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The Indiana University Art Museum will host a weekend of free afternoon workshops and activities for families on Saturday, Feb. 26 and Sunday, Feb. 27. The events are in conjunction with IU's ArtsWeek 2011.
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