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December 6 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, December 6th, 5 – 8 pm. Enjoy art and refreshments at the downtown galleries and catch the Shircliff Gallery before it closes at 6.

Art Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue John Puffer: Photographs for Lulu, Photographs for My Daughter through December 6. John began taking photographs at the age of 12, borrowing his mother’s Christmas present, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. He is now retired from Vincennes University after teaching there and at other colleges for over 40 years. At his daughter’s request, he has assembled a group of photographs that chronicle his career as a photographer. He shares this collection of works in this exhibition.

John will be present during the First Friday reception to speak with visitors.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. 812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will host their annual Christmas Market, featuring handmade Christmas and winter gift items, cards and seasonally themed artworks in a variety of media. There will also be a “flower wall” showcasing this popular subject matter. This is an excellent opportunity to shop for unique Christmas gifts.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.

The Open Gallery 329 Main will continue the Spouse Series exhibition of works by Barry Barnes and Randi Frye. New works not shown in November will be added.

The goal of the Open Gallery Spouse Series is to explore the way two working artists influence, encourage and enlighten each other’s artistic endeavors while inhabiting the same spaces.

Sculptor Barry Barnes, who has worked on all new pieces for this event, is a former Professor of Art at VU and has shown his work around the country. He has enjoyed exhibitions at ArtSpace Vincennes and the Shircliff gallery as well as being honored with an Outdoor Installation at the Art and Design Center on the VU campus. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Franklin College.

Randi Frye is chair of the Franklin College Art Department and works in Visual Communication Design, Illustration, New Media Art, including Animation and Digital Art. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in the Indianapolis and surrounding areas.

The artists suggest that “this exhibition serves as a tribute to collaboration—not just between us as artists, but also between the various materials we work with. We firmly believe that creativity flourishes in shared spaces, where ideas can merge and evolve. Through our work, we aim to illustrate the power of art to unite and inspire.”

This show will be a good chance to pick out some one-of-a-kind Christmas gifts for the whole family! Live Irish music will be offered by the Open Gallery Players.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm. 812- 881-6475

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets will be showing Opusilva: Woodland Works, mixed media pieces by Sarah Wolfe. As the title suggests, these sculptures are composed of materials found in nature. This First Friday, December 6, is the last day of the exhibition.

A native of southwestern Indiana, Wolfe has lived and studied in Savannah, GA (Savannah College of Art and Design), Bellingham, Washington and Bloomington, Indiana. She owned and managed the Farmer’s Daughter Bakery and Café in Princeton and the Dapper Pig in Evansville before moving to Vincennes.

Wolfe is actively involved with the Vincennes community. This year she headed up the Vincennes Eclipse Festival. She and Tiffany Muranaka manage the Knox County Public Library’s recently established Community Learning Kitchen. She is a contributing writer for the local Life Along the Wabash magazine and a member of the Historic Review Board. She and co-coordinator Matt Ramsey have assumed leadership of the Public Sculpture Program project established in 2020.

Wolfe has exhibited her work locally and in California, Washington, Missouri, and Illinois. She was a 2021 member of the On-Ramp Art Cohort of the Arts Council of Indiana.

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm. 812-888-4316. Gallery will be open until 6 pm First Friday December 6.

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November 1 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

First Friday Art Walk, November 1st, 2024

Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, October 4, 5 – 8 pm. Enjoy art and refreshments at the downtown galleries and catch the Shircliff Gallery before it closes at 6.

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main, will open John Puffer: Photographs for Lulu, Photographs for My Daughter. John began taking photographs at the age of 12, borrowing his mother’s Christmas present, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. He is now retired from Vincennes University after teaching there and at other colleges for over 40 years.

At his daughter’s request, he has assembled a group of photographs that chronicle his career as a photographer. He shares this collection of works in this exhibition.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm

812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main, will feature a collection of both past and recent works by local artist Amy Lane. Amy is an art teacher at North Knox.

Seasonal works by Guild members in a variety of styles and media will be on display and for sale in the back galleries, along with hand-made ceramics and jewelry.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.

The Open Gallery, 329 Main, will be welcoming two artists for the months of November and December in a second installation of their Spouse Series.

Sculptor Barry Barnes, who is working on all new pieces for this event, is a former Professor of Art at VU and has shown his work around the country. He has enjoyed exhibitions at ArtSpace Vincennes and the Shircliff gallery as well as being honored with an Outdoor Installation at the Art and Design Center on the VU campus. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Franklin College.

The goal of the Open Gallery Spouse Series is to explore the way two working artists influence, encourage and enlighten each other’s artistic endeavors while inhabiting the same spaces.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm. 812- 881-6475.

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, Over the past year and a half, while serving as Eclipse Director in Southern Indiana, Sarah Wolfe experienced a realized that there was a disconnection between people and the natural world. Her enthusiasm for the awe of celestial events, such as the total solar eclipse, was met with indifference from some, prompting her to reflect on our society’s growing detachment from nature. This inspired Wolfe to create art that reconnects individuals to the environment. By using materials gathered from her surroundings—like catalpa pods and dried okra—each piece is a tactile invitation to rediscover childhood wonder and the simple beauty of nature. Sarah stated that she strives to make these experiences accessible, especially for communities historically excluded from safe outdoor spaces. Through her work, she hopes to evoke a sense of awe and awareness of our environment, reminding viewers of their connection to the earth and encouraging a collective appreciation for its transformative power.

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; 812-888-4316

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October 4 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

First Friday Art Walk October 4, 2024

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open John Puffer: Photographs for Lulu, Photographs for My Daughter. John began taking photographs at the age of 12, borrowing his mother’s Christmas present, a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera. He is now retired from Vincennes University after teaching there and at other colleges for over 40 years.

At his daughter’s request, he has assembled a group of photographs that chronicle his career as a photographer. He shares this collection of works in this exhibition.

John will be present during the First Friday reception to speak with visitors.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm

812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will feature a collection of both past and recent works by local artist Shirley Truelove. Shirley will show a variety of floral-themed paintings, vibrant in color with energetic surface textures created through expressive impasto technique. She works in both oil and acrylic media.

Seasonal works by Guild members in a variety of styles and media will be on display and for sale in the back galleries, along with hand-made ceramics and jewelry.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.

The Open Gallery 329 Main will be opening “Spiracies”, recent work by artist and writer Coleman Stevenson. Stevenson uses hand-rendered text as image and chance-based monoprinting techniques in works based on lines from poems in Rainier Maria Rilke’s Book of Hours and excerpts of other significant texts. These works address the dilemma of solitude, the nature of prayer and devotion, and the difference between habit and meaningful repetition as we cross thoughts together and weave our lives with the lives of others, creating in that inadvertent layering many tiny openings for spirit to enter.

Stevenson is the author of three collections of poems and several books about the Tarot including The Dark Exact Tarot Guide. In addition to her work as a designer of tarot and oracle decks through her company The Dark Exact, her fine art work, has been exhibited in galleries around the US. She has been a guest curator for various gallery spaces and has taught poetry, tarot, design theory, and cultural studies for many educational and community organizations across the country, as well as online. She currently resides in southern Illinois.

Stevenson will be on hand at the First Friday event to greet guests and talk about her artwork, which will be showing through the month of October.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm. 812- 881-6475.

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Uprooted, works by Laura Greenwood and Margaret LeJeune through October 20. There will be a reception for the artists Thursday October 17, 12 pm.

Laura Greenwood is a visual artist working across photography, printmaking, fibers and time-based media. Her work investigates relationships between humans and the environments they inhabit, modify and adapt to.

Margaret LeJeune’s creative practice explores the relationship between art, science, and environmental studies. As a lens-based creator, she produces works that probe shifting landscapes, symbiotic relationships, and the nature of the photographic medium. In 2023 she was named the Woman Science Photographer of the year by the Royal Photographic Society.

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; 812-888-4316

Gallery will be open until 6 pm First Friday September 6.

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October 3 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

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Artrageous is a troupe of misfits artists, singers, dancers and musicians who started as friends doing street theatre in Vancouver. Together they started the “All and Everything Theater”, a non-profit Children’s Theater focusing on Children’s Entertainment, Street Theater and Life-sized Bunraku Puppetry.

In the late 80’s on Christmas Day, their hand built theater building, with all their props and puppets, burnt to the ground. Instead of packing it in, they created a new act; this troupe has performed for the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Steve Forbes, General Colin Powell… and in venues and events all over the world from India to Thailand, Paris to Austria performing at over 2000+ events in their History.

As people who live and breathe the Arts, Creativity, Community, and Inspiration, they created Artrageous to pay tribute to their roots and share their passion with the world. A Show that focuses on all the things they believe in and everything that got them to this place.

Art, Music, Theater, Singing, Dancing, Audience Interaction…
All on one stage. All done as a team of friends seeing the world and sharing a love of the Arts.

Imagine witnessing the creativity of an artist creating a masterpiece before your eyes in mere moments. Combined with captivating vocals, intricate choreography and exciting music, Artrageous takes you on a visual journey and a high energy ride of inspiration, creativity, and engagement.

Our troupe of artists, musicians, singers and dancers pay tribute to a variety of art forms, icons and musical genres throughout the evening. The result ~ A uniquely entertaining, Masterpiece show culminating in a gallery of fabulous finished paintings.

A signature of the Artrageous Troupe, from the very beginning of their long history, is interaction and engagement… so be prepared to be a part of the show.

Each show is as unique as each
audience and we can’t do it without you!

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Performance starts at 7:30pm
in the Red Skelton Performing Arts Center.

To order Individual or Season Tickets, please
visit our website at vinu.edu/communityseries

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For more information, please contact us
at vualumni@vin.edu or call us at 812.888.4354

Vincennes University Alumni Association

812-888-4354

https://www.vinu.edu/web/vu-alumni-foundation-site

vualumni@vinu.edu

Red Skelton Performing Arts Center

20 Red Skelton Boulevard
Vincennes, IN 47591 United States + Google Map

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October 1 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

Head to Apple Hill Orhard for their annual fall festival! There will be things for people of every age to do, including a pumpkin patch, pumpkin painting, bounce houses, face painting, kids activities, live cider pressing, and a caramel apple station.

Apple Hill Orchard

(812) 324 – 9010

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079659348232

theapplehillorchard@gmail.com

Apple Hill Orchard

6235 North Ford Road
Bruceville, Indiana 47516 United States + Google Map

812-324-9010
https://www.facebook.com/Apple-Hill-Orchard-110772970702285

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September 28 @ 8:00 am – September 29 @ 5:00 pm

The Friends of Sandborn Fall Festival are coming together for the annual festival for the community! September 28th & 29th, 2024 at the Sandborn Community Building and Park. We will have a car show, live music, food trucks, mobile petting farm, youth baseball tournament,vendors inside the community building and throughout the park, a special area for kids activities, Jonah Fish Fry, FIREWORKS, a community church service, and lots lots more!! See the attached flyer or visit the website www.sandbornfallfestival.com or the facebook event page: https://facebook.com/events/s/2024-sandborn-fall-festival/287610810948177/ for more information.

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September 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Tap into your artistic talents on Thursday, September 19^th while entering the fall spirit with our September Canvas Painting Class at 1972. Brandi Moore will be instructing the class and all supplies are provided. We will be creating a beautiful fall Pumpkin picture. Text or Call Brandi at 1-812-699-9532. The cost is $30.00 a person and will meet on Thursday, September 19th from 6-8 PM. This class will meet at the 1972 Community Center at 711 Old Wheatland Road in Vincennes. Join us!

1972 KCARC

711 Old Wheatland Road
Vincennes, Indiana 47591 United States + Google Map

812-316-0640
https://www.1972kcarc.com/

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September 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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September 6 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

New Season, New Art

First Friday Art Walk September 6, 2024

Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, September 6, 5 – 8 pm. Enjoy art and refreshments at the downtown galleries and catch the Shircliff Gallery before it closes at 6.

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Whiskers of Memory: Intimate animal portraits by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis with new works traded in to offer an expanded experience of her work.

The exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Petrulis’ past ten years of work. During this time domestic animals have been her focus, through which she has explored the power of visual decisions in delivering content. She favors zoomed in views of her subjects, which result in intimate portrayals. Quirky shapes and negative spaces help the viewer perceive characters and relationships.

Petrulis received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana State University. Retired as curator at the Swope Art Museum (after work as registrar and preparator), she is also involved with Wabash Valley Art Spaces, all three institutions in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The artist will be present during the First Friday reception to speak with visitors.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm

812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present the Guild’s annual Members Exhibition, running through September 27. Guild members will be submitting up to three entries in the categories of 3-dimensional Media, Photography, Works on Paper and Works on Canvas. Monetary awards will be given for Best of Show and First, Second and Third Place awards in each of the four categories. Honorable Mentions may be given at the judge’s discretion. This year’s judge is Sara Rhoades, a jewelry artist who owns her own jewelry making business, S.K. Rhoades as well as a retail boutique, The Confectionary. She is adjunct professor of metals and jewelry at the University of Evansville.

This highly anticipated annual show offers an excellent opportunity to see art in a wide variety of subjects and media done by local artists. Guild members will be on hand to discuss their works with the public.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.

The Open Gallery 329 Main will present an exhibition of works by members of the Knox County Photographers’ Club, whose members meet monthly at the Pantheon to critique photos, learn, and discuss photography as a hobby and profession. The club was formed June 23, 2022 and now has 210 members.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm. 812- 881-6475.

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Leopold Segedin: Chicago 2000-2024 through September 16. Segedin has been painting since 1942. While he has explored a variety of subjects, he always returns to his beloved city of Chicago. In his artist statement he notes: “When I began painting, Chicago was the world I lived in, but today that Chicago exists only in my memory, and memory is always a reconstruction. Every time I paint it, I create it all over again. And now even the memories have their history.

The empty rooms, the streets and sidewalks I paint, remind me of the people who once lived and walked there. Gritty side brick and wallpaper embody the passage of time on their surfaces and thus remind me of the passage of my own life. As I look back on my life – my work – what strikes me is how fast time passes, the temporary, fragile quality of all life.”

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; 812-888-4316

Gallery will be open until 6 pm First Friday September 6.