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April 5, 2024 @ 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, March 1, 5 – 8 pm. 

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Fragments/Discoveries, an exhibition of new and past artworks by gallery directors Andrew Jendrzejewski and Amy DeLap.  DeLap will be showing collage/mixed media works that focus on the communicative power of color and composition.  Jendrzejewski explores in his mixed-media pieces the way families are shaped by defining moments. 

Coming in April: Cosmic trace, an exhibition of Henry Dean’s preparatory drawings and photographs for Now and then, his eclipse-related installation which can be seen now at Fox Ridge Nature Park.

Regular gallery hours Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm

812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present in the front gallery a themed exhibit of artworks based on celestial bodies done by guild members in anticipation of the April eclipse.  The show will run through the end of April.  In the back gallery visitors can enjoy artworks by guild members that celebrate the advent of spring.

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

The Open Gallery, 329 Main will show The Dark of the Sun: Astrophotography by Chuck Reinhart during the months of March and April.

Photos of the eclipse will be featured in “The Dark of the Sun,” a new show at the Open Gallery. Chuck Reinhart’s photos of the 2017 total eclipse taken from Princeton, Kentucky, will show how the sun’s appearance changes dramatically from initial contact to totality. These 2017 photos will give Vincennes residents a chance to anticipate what to expect during this year’s solar eclipse. Related photos of the moon and sun will also be featured.

Reinhart has had two showings of his photos at the Open Gallery, and his photos are often on display at the Northwest Territory Art Guild. In 2022 his photo of the Milky Way earned first place recognition in the photography category of the Guild’s juried show.  Chuck’s photos have been shown on WTWO, WEHT, and WVUT-PBS. His work has been featured on the astronomy website EarthSky. He has also given talks discussing his photos at events sponsored by Vincennes Tourism and the Vincennes Camera Club.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 10 – 4:30 pm.

812- 881-6475.

The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light, a traveling exhibition of seven Black American artists working in drawing, curated by Patrick Earl Hammie. Hammie states: The exhibition centers around drawing as a technology from which artists speculate, recover, and collect communal histories, manifesting stories of desired futures from the margins of imagination into the realities of the everyday… The artists in this exhibition revel in horror, Afro-futurism, magical realism, Ethno-gothic, fantasy, Black Quantum Futurism, utopias and dystopias, and superheroes. They draw from cultural aesthetics and philosophies of science and history to explore and improvise within set boundaries and beyond. Their work speculates toward un-fixing the physical, political, and social knowns and imagine otherwise how we will be and become. 

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

Gallery will be open until 6 pm First Friday March 1.

Main Street
Vincennes, IN 47591 United States
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March 30, 2024 @ 10:30 am 1:00 pm

The Vincennes Park and Recreation Dept along with the Vincennes Kiwanis will again be hosting the Annual Community Wide Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30th starting at 11:00.  Registration for door prizes including bikes for boys and girls in 4 age groups will begin at 10:30. Easter Bunny available for photos. 

Prior to the Hunt the Vincennes Kiwanis will also hold their annual Sidney Gelb Pancake Breakfast at the Washington Learning Academy from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. for $6 you have all the pancakes you can eat, sausage, juice, milk, and coffee.  All proceeds support youth and early education projects throughout the community. 

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March 24, 2024 @ 2:00 pm 4:00 pm

Come out and construct a beautiful suncatcher with dried flowers.

Meet at the Office/Nature Center.

Register by calling Stacie at 1-812-882-4316.

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

3500 North Lower Fort Knox Road
Vincennes, IN 47591 United States
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812-882-4316
https://knoxcountyparks.com/

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March 23, 2024 @ 3:00 pm 6:00 pm

Celebrate the variety of cultures that call Vincennes and Knox County home by learning about customs, music, dance, games and more. Discover the different cultural groups that contributed to the history of Knox County including the early French community, the African American community, the Jewish Community, the Irish and others. Registration required by March 23 before start of fair. This event will take place at the Knox County Public Library’s Fortnightly Building, 421 N. Sixth St., Vincennes. 

Price: $5/person, 25% discount for members

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March 18, 2024 @ 8:00 am 5:00 pm

The Quilters of Wabash Valley will be displaying quilts and quilt blocks, along with other quilted related items, at the Knox County Public Library sunroom (Vincennes) from March 18, 2024, through April 13, 2024, during regular library hours. Information concerning the name and historical significance of the quilted patterns will be included with the display. This event is being offered as part of National Quilting Month (March 2024) and Knox County’s celebration of the Total Eclipse (April 8, 2024). The event is free to the public.

Free
502 North 7th Street
Vincennes, IN 47591 United States
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(812) 886 – 4380
http://kcpl.lib.in.us/

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March 9, 2024 @ 1:00 pm 2:30 pm

Come along as we hike on our trails to investigate the many different signs popping up showing us that spring is on the way!

Meet at the grotto/lower loop!

All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free
3500 North Lower Fort Knox Road
Vincennes, IN 47591 United States
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812-882-4316
https://knoxcountyparks.com/

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March 7, 2024 @ 5:00 pm 7:30 pm

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March 2, 2024 @ 10:00 am 12:00 pm

Pottery Workshops are at the 1972 Community Center! We offer Intro to Pottery Wheel and Pottery Painting Workshops. For more information, contact Trudy Mccormick at 1-812-316-0641.

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February 24, 2024 @ 2:00 pm 4:00 pm

Little Princesses will have a lot of fun learning all things royal (and some real history!) while attending a royal academy — the Princess Academy to be exact! Discover dances and play games, plus enjoy teatime, create a royal craft, and receive a royal makeover — complete with a princess picture and presentation of crowns.

For ages 4-9.

Alternate Time: February 16th, 10 am – noon.

Registration is required by February 16th.

$12 /child. 25% discount for members.
120 W. Harrison Street
Vincennes, Indiana 47591
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812-882-7422
https://www.indianamuseum.org/historic-sites/vincennes/

family friendly

February 24, 2024 @ 10:00 am 12:00 pm

Little Princesses will have a lot of fun learning all things royal (and some real history!) while attending a royal academy — the Princess Academy to be exact! Discover dances and play games, plus enjoy teatime, create a royal craft, and receive a royal makeover — complete with a princess picture and presentation of crowns.

For ages 4-9.

Alternate Time: February 16th, 2-4 pm.

Registration is required by February 16th.

$12 /child. 25% discount for members.
120 W. Harrison Street
Vincennes, Indiana 47591
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812-882-7422
https://www.indianamuseum.org/historic-sites/vincennes/
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