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It's September, and the Grunwald Gallery of Art is ready to dazzle you with our fall shows. Two extraordinary shows open Tuesday at the Grunwald, with an opening reception Friday, September 6 from 6-8 pm. Pictured: it's Jake Elwes' "The Z**i Show -- A Deepfake Drag Cabaret," on view in "Blurring the Lines: Art at the Intersection of Human and Artificial Creativity." Also opening, "Intimate Alchemy" showcases a different kind of deepfake--David Levinthal's # # # Polaroids. Plan your visit at https://eskenazi.indiana.edu/exhibitions/grunwald-gallery/index.html

One week away! The Eskenazi School is getting geared up for the monthly campus arts extravaganza that is the IU Arts and Humanities Council First Thursdays festival. Join us Thursday, September 5 around the Showalter Fountain from 4-7 pm for
*T-shirt upcycling with Fashion Design
*previews of fall shows at the Grunwald Gallery of Art
*previews of a student photo show at the Tangent Gallery
*talk at 5 by painting prof Caleb Weintraub, co-curator of Crossroads: The Paintings of John Mellencamp at the Eskenazi Museum, followed by a reception
See you there!

Join us this evening in Columbus for a cookout on the lawn of the Republic Building from 6 to 8 pm. We're celebrating the Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program's accreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), honoring founding director Associate Professor T. Kelly Wilson, and presenting the program's new director, Assistant Professor Daniel Martinez.

Plus: check out an exhibition of student work made over the summer, on view in the Miller Gallery! Food and drink will be available.

Read the accreditation announcement here: https://news.iu.edu/live/news/35882-ius-j-irwin-miller-architecture-program-earns

Plans for diverting stormwater from Shoals, Ind.'s public park, creating a more inviting passageway to the town square of Linton, Ind., and a self-guided walking tour of Washington, Ind. were all revealed at last night's Rural Placemaking Studio Showcase. Through the IU Center for Rural Engagement IU Eskenazi students are working with 13 communities in the southern part of the state to make them more liveable, walkable, sustainable, and exciting.

Connect with Bloomington's artistic community at the City of Bloomington, IN's sixth annual Black y Brown festival on Saturday, September 14 at Switchyard Park. Artists: the deadline for submissions has been extended to Monday, September 2! Read more about this opportunity below:

Calling all local artists! We're delighted to announce the 6th annual Black y Brown Arts Festival, a vibrant celebration supported by City of Bloomington, IN - Community and Family Resources Department, City of Bloomington, IN - Parks and Recreation, and the City of Bloomington, IN - Commission on Hispanic and Latino Affairs.

Creatives who identify as African, African-American, Hispanic, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, or Indigenous American are encouraged to showcase their talents. Whether you’re into painting, crafting, dancing, singing, or spoken word, there’s a place for your art. Plus, you’ll have the chance to sell your beautiful creations and merchandise!

Join us on Saturday, September 14 at Switchyard Park - City of Bloomington, IN for a day bursting with creativity and community. Ready to join the fun? Apply now at bloomington.in.gov/byb.

The Eskenazi School is the proud home of seven of IU College of Arts and Sciences' more than 50 new tenured and tenure-track faculty. Welcome! Meet them here:

College of Arts and Sciences welcomes over 50 new tenure-track faculty The College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington welcomes more than 50 new tenured or tenure-track faculty in and across dozens of disci...

Tuesday night at the Mill Eskenazi School Comprehensive Design students shared the ways design can celebrate and grow our neighboring communities in Southern Indiana. The 13 projects in development have been facilitated through the IU Center for Rural Engagement and Eskenazi's ServeDesign Center. In nearby Owen County, one project proposes to create signage and a mural for community nonprofit Spencer Pride.

What makes a house a home? Maybe it’s the same thing that turns a set of geographical coordinates into a place you’re proud to call your hometown. The art of placemaking pivots on this same set of intangible qualities: a sense of shared identity, comfort, belonging, and pride, for starters. Learn how IU Eskenazi students are helping rural Southern Indiana communities lean in to their unique identities at tonight's Rural Placemaking Studio Showcase at the Mill, in Bloomington. IU Center for Rural Engagement IU College of Arts and Sciences

The public is invited to attend the Rural Placemaking Studio's final showcase of innovative design projects by IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design students. For two months, the students have dedicated their talents to creative placemaking and reimagining public spaces in rural communities.

The free event will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on August 27 at The Mill in Bloomington.

Register to attend at https://go.iu.edu/8q63.

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The Eskenazi School hosts a talk Wednesday, September 4 at 6:30 pm (Fine Arts 102) by artist Kozo Miyoshi, whose photographs have received international acclaim for their unique and sincere approach to his fleeting subjects. Born in Chiba, Japan in 1947, Miyoshi graduated from the Department of Photography at Nihon University College of Art in 1971. He began his photographic career in the 1970s and started shooting with an 8×10-inch large format camera in 1981. In 2009 he upgraded to an ultra-large-format 16×20-inch camera which he continues to use on his travels. Miyoshi's talk will be followed by a question-and-answer session. The talk is free and open to the public. Plan around the Eskenazi's full calendar of fall events, when you visit https://eskenazi.indiana.edu/events/index.html
(Image: #21, gelatin silver print, printed in 2018,20x24 in, ©Kozo Miyoshi)

Bloomington's legendary Lotus Festival brings a dazzling array of the world's musicians to our city every fall, inspiring us and strengthening our sense of connectedness to one another. The Eskenazi School is thrilled to partner with the Lotus Education & Arts Foundation for this year's festival (Oct 3-6) as sponsor of the Lotus galleries at the John Waldron Arts Center, where exhibitions celebrating the festival's 30 years and a retrospective of the work of Nigeria's Osogbo School of Art will be on view September 22 - October 13, with viewing hours till 11 pm on festival nights.

Join us for an exciting array of Lotus memories and international art at the 2024 Lotus Galleries at the Waldron Arts Center.

The galleries are sponsored by the IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, + Design and will be open Sunday, September 22 - Sunday, October 13.

There will be three galleries for you to enjoy:
Miller Gallery: Osogbo Nigeria Retrospective

Spotlight Gallery: Lotus@ 30 Our Community Fabric

Education Gallery: Lotus Volunteer HQ Past, Present, and Future

The galleries will be open during normal Waldron Arts Center hours.

Thursday 12–5 PM
Friday 12–5 PM
Saturday Closed
Sunday Closed
Monday Closed
Tuesday Closed
Wednesday 12–5 PM

The galleries will be open until 11:00 PM on Friday, October 4, and Saturday, October 5 (Lotus Festival Weekend).

Find more information about the galleries by heading to lotusfest.org/event/lotus-galleries-at-the-waldron-arts-center/



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Public speaking isn't just about words; the speaker's attire tells its own story. Women's Wear Daily asked Eskenazi Associate Professor of Fashion Design Heather Akou for her interpretation of the navy blue suit and pinstriped blouse Vice President Kamala Harris wore at the Democratic National Convention. See

What Was Kamala Harris Trying to Relay With Her Chloé Designer Suit at the DNC? The Democratic presidential nominee chose a European brand for the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

Happy first day of classes from Eskenazi School!

The fall semester at Indiana University officially begins today, but some students got a headstart in one of four Intensive First-Year Seminar courses taught this month by Eskenazi faculty. Whether in Deb Christiansen's "Fashioning Identity: Art + Artifacts +Fashion Theory," Carissa Carman's "Exploring 'Otherness' ArtX," Mary Embry's "Fashion Consumption in a Climate Emergency," or Spencer Steenblik's "AI and Making," IU students spent two and a half weeks getting their critical thinking cap on, acclimating to campus in a focused environment, and showcasing their projects in a program-wide Academic Forum in Alumni Hall. IU College of Arts and Sciences

When Eskenazi alum Justin Carney's (M.F.A. '23, Photography) grandmother died, his siblings didn’t see much of each other for a while. When Justin started taking pictures of his family, that changed. On this week's Inner States podcast from WFIU Public Radio, Justin, now Assistant Professor of Photography at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, shares how making art helped his family work through the grief. (Photo: Justin Carney, Cookout, 2022)

Justin Carney’s Photography Reworks Family Grief When Justin’s grandmother died, her siblings stopped getting together. Then Justin started taking pictures, and things changed. Justin Carney is an artist who uses photography to think through family grief. It seems to be helping.

Hyperallergic reports on generative tools' incorporation into studio art classes, pointing to a class Eskenazi faculty Caleb Weintraub and David Ondrik introduced at IU at "the beginning of the buzz" 18 months ago: https://hyperallergic.com/944834/school-is-back-in-session-and-so-are-ai-art-classes/ "Weintraub and Ondrik challenged their students to find generative AI’s faults," Hyperallergic reports, "and in doing so, to find their strengths as artists."

Drop by the Grunwald Gallery of Art September 6 for the opening of an AI art exhibition co-curated by Weintraub: "Blurring the Lines: Art at the Intersection of Human and Artificial Creativity."

School Is Back in Session, and So Are AI Art Classes New university programs are incorporating generative tools into studio art courses while attempting to address the murky ethics of the technology.

As the 2024-25 academic year gets underway, we cordially invite you to join us Thursday, August 29 from 6-8 pm on the grounds of The Republic Building to celebrate the Indiana University J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program's accreditation by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB), to honor founding director Associate Professor T. Kelly Wilson, and to present the program's new director, Assistant Professor Daniel Martinez. Plus: an exhibition of students' summer projects and artwork will be on view in the Miller Gallery.

Food and drink will be available and the event will proceed rain or shine. (In case of rain, the party moves inside The Republic Building.) Read more in today's Republic:

https://www.therepublic.com/2024/08/21/architecture-program-to-host-a-community-celebration/

Over the summer, Eskenazi’s interior design program partnered with Bloomington design-build firm Loren Wood Builders to develop hands-on educational modules. The collaboration was spearheaded by Lecturer Kim Dutkosky and funded by a grant from the IFDA Educational Foundation. Built from discarded materials, the wall systems will enable students to manipulate and build with real-world materials using diverse construction practices. (Photo: Loren Wood's Jesse Harris and Interior Design Program Director Bryan Orthel. Photo courtesy Loren Wood Builders.)
https://eskenazi.indiana.edu/news/2024/2024-08-20-hands-on-learning-modules.html

How is the art of motorcycle maintenance related to that of letterpress printing? Explore this thriving medium on a visit to the Eskenazi School's letterpress studio, where our students learn the time-honored craft with graphic design area head, lecturer Alexander Landerman on WTIU Public Television's Journey Indiana.

Pressing Matters Dive into the captivating world of Alexander Landerman, a modern-day Renaissance artisan whose talents span traditional print press, letterpress, and paintin...

The The FAR Center for Contemporary Arts seeks Hispanic-identifying artists in the Bloomington area whose artwork explores the possibilities of digital connection, self-expression, voice, action, and creativity that the Internet provides. What role does digital culture and the Internet play in the creation of your identity, worldview, and awareness of others? Submissions to Repost should incorporate some aspect of online digital culture, hardware, or software. Artists will be invited to participate in a panel on Latine Art in October to be held in conjunction with the Eskenazi School.

Artists may send submissions by filling out a form at bit.ly/repost-submissions or scanning the QR code in this graphic. 2D and 3D pieces are preferred. Submissions are due August 23.

Check your mailbox for artwork by recent Eskenazi alum Matt Rushton (B.A. ‘24, Studio Art). The graphic design grad’s winning submission to the City of Bloomington’s 2024 Arbor Day poster contest is featured on the city’s fall 2024 Parks and Rec program guide! Congratulations to Matt, who was a 2023-24 Eskenazi School ambassador and our social media intern!

The Lilly Endowment has made a $16 million grant to the IU Foundation that will help spark economic growth and opportunity in Bloomington.The grant will, among other initiatives, engage Eskenazi School faculty and students alongside Bloomington's creative community in creating new artwork, arts pathways and cultural programming. IU College of Arts and Sciences Dimension Mill
https://news.iu.edu/live/news/37693-iu-bloomington-partners-celebrate-college-and-communit?

IU Bloomington, partners celebrate College and Community Collaboration Grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The grant will help IU Bloomington and key community partners accelerate the development of Bloomington’s Trades District into a thriving hub for innova...

An exhibition of watercolor paintings by current Eskenazi MFA painter Andreea Alunei opens with a reception this Friday, August 2 from 6-8 pm at the FS Fountain Gallery on the lower level of Fountain Square, 101 West Kirkwood in Bloomington.

A Romanian-born multimedia artist who previously earned a master's degree in social psychology from Texas A&M University, Alunei uses the "notoriously unruly" medium of watercolor "to exercise relinquishing control and finding acceptance in a complicated ambiguous, and often challenging world." Each of the watercolor portraits in her series "Mindscapes," Alunei explains, is a piece of an expanded self-portrait. Visit the artist's website at www.andreea-alunei.com

Next Wednesday 07/31 in Santa Fe: No Name Cinema shows the films of Eskenazi School Visiting Assistant Professor of Digital Art Dominick Rivers. Dominick has been spending the month of July as the cinema's inaugural artist in residence. Dominick is an experimental filmmaker and moving-image artist whose video work, framed by larger installations, examines the popular media used to capture and sentimentalize memory. His research is focused on developing eco-friendly substitutions for alternative photographic processes that can be implemented with motion-picture film. Learn more at the link:

Theater | No Name Cinema | Santa Fe A microcinema showcasing experimental, avant-garde, and arthouse repertory films.

Third-year MFA photographer Leni Wiegand has been named by LENSCRATCH magazine as one of the top 25 photo students in the US to watch. In their photos, Wiegand "databends" the binary code of the files, resulting in glitching that serves as a visual correlative to the struggles of living as a nonbinary person in a binary world. Wiegand is the fifth Eskenazi photo student in five years to be recognized by Lenscratch's student prize awards. (Pictured: From the series, "The Whole Preposterous Ideology" by Leni Wiegand.)
https://eskenazi.indiana.edu/news/2024/2024-07-21-wiegand-lenscratch.html

Together with original creations by Hoosiers Bill Blass and Halston, and costumes Glenn Close wore in Hollywood movies, the Eskenazi School's Sage Collection is the premier repository of senior cords. A uniquely Hoosier tradition, senior cords are keepsakes made by Indiana high schoolers and college students in the early and mid-twentieth century by personalizing their trousers, skirts, and jackets. See a broad selection of these beloved artifacts at the Monroe County History Center on East Sixth St. starting July 30.

Find out how Eskenazi School students are working in tandem with nonprofits across southern Indiana, using design to keep rural communities vibrant and moving forward.

The public is invited to attend the Rural Placemaking Studio's final showcase of innovative design projects by IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design students. For two months, the students have dedicated their talents to creative placemaking and reimagining public spaces in rural communities.

The free event will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. on August 27 at The Mill in Bloomington.

Register to attend at https://go.iu.edu/8q63.

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Climbing trees, exploring with a best friend, hiding out, discovering new situations. Current B.F.A. painter Lily Belle Nuest situates her paintings in the space between childhood and what comes next. Lily is the Bloomington Arts Commission's featured artist for July. See more at https://mailchi.mp/31b216bf2b0e/mid-august-arts-newsletter-10328918?e=fd3145e90e

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? Read more about the MyMachine program and how it's helping to build the workforce of tomorrow.

The United States branch of MyMachine was launched by Indiana University professors Jon Racek, IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design and Adam Maltese, Indiana University School of Education. The program teaches STEM education opportunities while asking students of all ages - what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? Read more about the inspiring program and how it's helping to build the workforce of tomorrow: https://bit.ly/3xxEdJX.

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Shape Shifter Cookie Roller? Boost Buddy Stair Helper? What would you invent to make life easier? Comprehensive Design students at the Eskenazi School asked second graders that question, then made real live machines based on the children's drawings. It's the third year of our school's participation in the international design challenge MyMachine Global. (Pictured: Comp Design students present their ideas. Photo by Wendi Chitwood, IU) Read more at https://news.iu.edu/live/news/36728-elementary-students-dream-machines-come-to-life

Remember when we were trapped indoors and could only experience others in little boxes on a screen? For Nanette Vonnegut, who often paints things in grids, it offered the perfect mise-en-place. See her paintings, including this one of the Young@Heart Chorus’ pandemic practice at Cook Hall, where Nanette will be speaking Thursday at 5 pm, then attend the chorus’ performance Friday night at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at 7 pm. It’s all part of this year’s Granfalloon, the IU Arts and Humanities Council’s Vonnegut-palooza. See the festival schedule at https://granfalloon.indiana.edu/festival-schedule/index.html
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