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With the extensive history that Knox County and Vincennes have, some may have the idea that our sites, attractions, and festivals are not family-friendly, but that could not be further from the truth! There is a multitude of family and kid-friendly events in Knox County—some happen every week!
See what is being showcased in our downtown galleries during the “First Friday” Art Walk held each month! Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Gallery, and Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, March 3. Downtown galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm, Shircliff gallery closes at 6 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Journey through Monotype Prints, Amanda Barrow and Elizabeth Busey. Barrow, originally from Indiana but now working in East Hampton, Massachusetts and Busey, from Bloomington, Indiana met at a workshop in Brooklyn in January 2020. Both artists work non-objectively with a focus on the interaction of geometric shapes. Barrow’s pieces, influenced by her travels in India, offer ethereal organic abstractions inspired by nature, architecture and the human body. In contrast, Busey’s works are collage based, constructed with clean-edged tesserae of monotype prints, cyanotypes, vintage maps and gold leaf. Busey also draws inspiration from travel, with references to topography and plant forms evoking feelings of memory, longing and connection. Both artists will be present at the March opening.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm and by appointment: 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present Goose Pond Marsh Madness, featuring over fifty wildlife photos by Guild Member Steve LaRoche. These will include many of waterfowl and other wildlife from the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area south of Linton. Staff from Goose Pond have created a window display at the Guild depicting Goose Pond. Spring themed artworks created by Guild members in a wide variety of styles and media will also be on display and for sale.
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 a retrospective exhibition of works by John Baeder. Michael Mullen, gallery co-director, has been collecting Baeder’s artworks over the span of a life-long friendship with the artist, and is now sharing this collection. It offers the rare opportunity to witness the trajectory of this nationally recognized artist’s career, including his diner watercolors, photocollage pieces, and more recent vintage airplane paintings and matchbook paintings. Yale Professor of Art Vincent Scully wrote that it’s his emotional attachment to his subject matter that sets Baeder’s work apart from many of the other Photorealists: “John Baeder’s paintings seem to me to differ from most of those of his brilliant Magic-Realist contemporaries in that they are gentle, lyrical, and deeply in love with their subjects.”
The First Friday Players will again provide rollicking good Irish music for visitors to enjoy.
Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm and by chance.
812- 881-6475.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Diminution of Light: Alternative Photographic Process. The exhibition presents works by Larry Gawal, Mark Schoon & Casey McGuire, Antonio Martinez and John Steck, Jr. Alternative process photography is a term used to describe any non-traditional photographic printing processes such as cyanotype, salt prints, photograms and pinholes. A reception for the artists will take place at the gallery on Thursday, March 2. The exhibition will continue through March 10.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on First Friday March 3. 812-888-4316
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the fourth movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “The Apartment.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winners:
Best Motion Picture and Best Director: Billy Wilder
Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen: Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
Best Art Direction – Black-and-White: Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle
Best Film Editing: Daniel Mandell
Nominees:
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Kruschen
Best Cinematography – Black-and-White: Joseph LaShelle
Best Sound: Gordon E. Sawyer
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
There is a Red Skelton connection.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the third movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “Roman Holiday.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winner:
Best Actress: Audrey Hepburn
Best Story: Dalton Trumbo
Best Costume Design – Black-and-White: Edith Head
Nominees:
Best Motion Picture and Best Director: William Wyler
Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Albert
Best Screenplay: Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton
Best Art Direction – Black-and-White: Hal Pereira and Walter H. Tyler
Best Cinematography – Black-and-White: Franz Planer and Henri Alekan
Best Film Editing: Robert Swink
A bucket list for visitors and locals alike to complete this year.
On their wedding night, Bob reveals to Betty that he has purchased an abandoned chicken farm. Betty struggles to adapt to their new rural lifestyle, especially when a glamorous neighbor seems to set her eyes on Bob.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the second movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “The Egg And I.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Nominee:
Best Supporting Actress: Majorie Main
Discover holiday traditions from the bygone days during this family-friendly program.
Adults will join local historian Richard Day to learn about the holiday customs of early Vincennes – including traditions of the early French, American settlers, and German immigrants. See old photos from holidays of yesteryear while exploring more recent holiday history from the 1920s to the 1990s during a presentation by local historian and historic photo collector Norbert Brown.
Youth will enjoy holiday crafts, play old-fashioned holiday games and listen to holiday stories.
End the evening with a festive sing-a-long for adults and youth.
Tickets are $10/per person, 25% discount for members. Registration is required by Dec. 9.
(812) 882-7422
The holidays are just around the corner but our calendar of events is still full! Keep reading to find out all that’s going on this weekend in Knox County.
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