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The Summer 2011 issue of Indiana Alumni Magazine features a story about a businessman who, after going through bankruptcy, finds his voice while studying opera at the IU Jacobs School of Music.
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The Kinsey Institute Gallery's latest exhibit, "Storytellers," runs through Sept. 2. The exhibit provides a rare opportunity for gallery visitors to view a wide range of material pulled from The Kinsey Institute's extensive library collection, with an intriguing selection of pulp fiction paperbacks from the 1960s, illustrated erotic novels, underground comic books, Japanese pillow books and other narrative texts. Admission is free. Because of adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.
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Independent filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee John Sayles will deliver a lecture, answer questions and introduce screenings of three of his films at Indiana University's IU Cinema Sept. 8-9. Sayles' visit is one of the highlights of the IU Cinema's 2011-2012 season. Known as one of the "godfathers" of the U.S. independent film movement, the director of Lone Star (1996), Eight Men Out (1988) and most recently, Amigo (2010), among many others, Sayles will deliver a Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker lecture at 3 p.m. Sept. 9.
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A new book by IUPUI Professor of English Jonathan R. Eller, Becoming Ray Bradbury (University of Illinois Press), offers a unique look into the mind of an iconic writer who has been called America's "prose poet for the space age." "I always wanted to write about how he learned, how he read and how he became a writer," Eller said.
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Sculptor Don Gummer recently installed his 18-foot tall stainless steel and colored glass sculpture, titled "Open Eyes," in front of the new Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute on the Indiana University-Purdue University campus.
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The IU Art Museum continues the celebration of its 70th anniversary -- and re-opening after a summer of repairs and renovations -- with a new season of Thursday Coffeehouse Nights. On the first three Thursday nights in September (7 p.m. to 9 p.m.), the museum will offer a fusion of art and music, with coffee samples at Angles Café and sweet treats compliments of Bloomingfoods in the museum's Thomas T. Solley Atrium.
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Four of the six recipients of the 2011 Indiana Governor's Arts Awards are affiliated with Indiana University. This year's recipients include Distinguished Professor of Harp Susann McDonald and Sylvia McNair, both faculty members of the Jacobs School of Music at IU Bloomington; Alexander Toradze, a Distinguished Professor and Martin Professor of Piano at IU South Bend; and June Edwards, vice president of the Arts Foundation Board at IU South Bend.
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Independent filmmaker and recent Indiana University Northwest graduate Walt Robinson has wrapped filming on his first full-length movie, Basic Cable -- one scene of which was shot on the IU Northwest campus in July. In August, Robinson traveled to Los Angeles for an internship with De Line Pictures along with Jesse Howell, a former RedHawks basketball player who also plans to work in the film industry.
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The Aug. 18 issue of Live at IU featured a top story on an interactive art exhibit titled "Inter:Facing," opening at Grunwald Gallery of Art at IU Bloomington Sept. 9. Also in this issue were stories on a new book series by IU Press that focuses on books set in the Midwest; the play Happily Ever Chloe, presented by the Department of Theatre and Drama; construction of new and updated Herron School of Art and Design facilities at IUPUI; faculty appointments at the Jacobs School of Music; the merger of collections of the Mathers Museum and Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology; and a new fashion design major in the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Alumni, friends and students of Indiana University can now connect with each other and IU through a new IU Alumni Association website. The site contains frequently updated information about campus news, alumni, faculty and students. Along with a vibrant new look, the site features enhanced tools such as an online alumni directory and integrates social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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