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.
812-882-4316
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.
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.
(812) 882-7422
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.
(812) 882-7422
Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites Offers Free Admission on Presidents’ Day!
Visitors can explore Angel Mounds, New Harmony, Vincennes historic sites.
INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 13, 2024) — In celebration of Presidents’ Day on Feb. 19, the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites will offer free admission at nearly all 12 of its locations across the state, including two historic sites in southwest Indiana: Angel Mounds, New Harmony and Vincennes.
Although the museum system is typically closed to the public on Mondays, these historic sites will be open from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. as a way to celebrate the holiday with the community.
At Angel Mounds in Evansville, visitors can learn the story of the Mississippians, a Native American society that called this location home between the years 1000-1450. Although the site’s visitors center is undergoing renovations and the exhibit portion and gift shop are currently closed, the grounds will be open for people to explore the mounds, village site, and hiking trails.
At New Harmony, visitors can walk the halls of historic buildings, including the Fauntleroy House, Community House No. 2 and Thrall’s Opera House to learn about the early utopian communities — the Harmonists and the Owenites — that once called them home. Plus, visitors will find natural beauty waiting around every turn of the Harmonist Labyrinth. Tours will be offered at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. CST.
Visitors can explore Indiana’s time as a territory at Vincennes, which is the state’s oldest town and also served as the territorial capitol from 1800-13. During guided indoor and outdoor tours, visitors can discover original structures, including the Territorial Capitol and Old French House, and learn what life was like during the territorial period. Building tours will be offered at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. while an outdoor tour will take place at 11:15 a.m.
Advance registration is encouraged for guided tours. Visitors can go to www.indianamuseum.org to find more information about Presidents’ Day offerings at other Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites locations across the state.
(812) 882-7422
The Knox County Seed Library is being restocked for the new year! Get ready for your new gardening year by finding free seeds to use during Big Seed Saturday on February 17. Master Gardeners and others will be available from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm to help with using the seed library and answer questions about seeds and gardening.
The Knox County Seed Library is located in old card catalog cabinets near the Sun Room on the main floor of the Knox County Public Library (502 N. 7th St., Vincennes, IN) A wide variety of vegetables, herbs, flowers, and native plant seeds are available to check out by anyone simply by using the check-out form. The seed library is open and available during all Knox County Public Library hours.
February 16 – March 15, 2024
Opening Reception and Artists’ Talk: Friday, February 16, 12pm
VINCENNES, IN. – The Shircliff Gallery of Art at Vincennes University is proud to present In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light, a traveling exhibition of seven Black American artists working in drawing.
Patrick Earl Hammie, Curator:
In Blackest Shade, In Darkest Light is an exhibition that 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.
Drawing serves as an instant gateway for dreaming, recording, and sharing ideas. It moved from a mainly private practice to a form that asks questions as equally bold as other media. Today, artists utilize drawing as a method to hack into and build networks that engage across scholarship, art, and community.
The show’s title takes inspiration from DC’s Green Lantern Corps’ oath, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil’s might, beware my power, Green Lantern’s light,” from which members of the fictional space guardians access magical strength and gather the will to challenge adversaries using their imagination.
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.
Attached:
– Image: The Amazing Black-Man, 128, by Kumasi Barnett
– Image: Grace Jones, by Stacey Robinson
Join us for a night of laughter at our Comedy Showcase! Six hilarious comedians will go head-to-head, competing for the Red Skelton “Skelty” Award. This is the third competition of the season and all the winners will compete in July at the upcoming festival for a chance to take home the title! Get ready for a rib-tickling evening filled with witty jokes and side-splitting performances. Don’t miss out on the fun – reserve your spot now!
of Vincennes and Knox County with a glimpse of history at every turn.
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