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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

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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.

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March 1, 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.  Opening Reception and Artists’ Talk: Friday, February 16, 12pm

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

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

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August 29, 2023 @ 8:00 am – September 1, 2023 @ 5:00 pm

During the months of September and October, The Open Gallery will welcome photographer Christopher Schneberger to exhibit his award-winning series titled, The Wanderers. This series takes the viewers on a twilight journey with young explorers that is at once contemplative, worrisome, dreamlike, and arresting.  Are they really exploring or are they lost?  Where do they want to go?  What do they hope to find?  What becomes of them?  Schneberger leaves us with this notion:  “This series is in some ways my own processing of being lost and finding my way, and gaining an appreciation of getting lost as a deliberate act.”   We hope you will come and take the journey for yourself.

Christopher Schneberger is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vincennes University and is director for the gallery at Shircliff Humanities Center.  Come welcome him to The Open Gallery this Friday, September 1 from 5 -8 p.m.  Light refreshments and live music will make it a festive evening. 

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April 1, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

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April First Friday Art Walk 2022

Join friends at three downtown galleries and Vincennes University’s Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, April 1.  Downtown galleries and a new venue, the Democratic Headquarters on Main Street, will be open 5 – 8 pm.  Shircliff Gallery will be open until 8.

Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Lumiére Horizon, photographs by Erick Rowe. Rowe taught photography at Vincennes University from 2007 – 2009 before moving to the Chicago area.  He now teaches photography courses at the College of Lake County in Grayslake IL.  He earned his BA at Purdue University and MFA at Columbia College. The exhibit as a whole is a study of how the abstract idea of utopia, interpreted so differently across the spectrum of human thought, is expressed both in the architecture Rowe photographs and through his careful selection of vantage points and sensitivity to the impact of momentary changes in light. Erick Rowe will be present at the First Friday opening to talk with visitors to the gallery.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm.  Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will show works by the Green Door Watercolor Painters group.  These area artists meet weekly to paint together at the Nancy Ford Green Door studio in Bruceville.  A variety of subjects and approaches to the use of the watercolor medium will be seen in their artworks. New spring and summer-themed work by Guild members will also be on display and for sale. The Guild has a display of sunflower works in the front window to honor Ukraine.

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

The Open Gallery 329 Main presents Open for Common Good, a retrospective exhibition of poster design work by Vincennes University Professor Pravin Sevak. Professor Sevak will retire from teaching in May and will be leaving our community. This exhibition highlights his brilliant career in the design field, offering a chance to celebrate and express appreciation for his work as an educator and artist. Sevak’s works are tightly composed, masterful in their simplicity, and powerful in the interconnections of design elements.  He writes: “Each aspect of a composition is significant, significant enough to carry the entire weight of the message. Every visual element is considered both independently and compositionally to achieve aesthetics in the final design.”  Professor Sevak will be present during the reception to discuss his work with gallery visitors.

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, is presently hosting the Knox County High Schools Student Art Exhibition.  Art students from North Knox, South Knox, and Lincoln High Schools are exhibiting works selected by their instructors.  Juried awards in several categories were presented at a public reception on March 29th.

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 6 pm. The gallery will extend hours on April 1 to 8 pm. 812-888-4316

The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 Main Street will be open First Friday, presenting the first installment of a four-part series titled Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote, in which artist Fernando Lozano addresses the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.  This exhibition will be comprised of 13 stretched canvas pieces, each 20.5” x 30”. For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.  

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March 4, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Join friends at three downtown galleries and Vincennes University’s Shircliff Gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, March 4.  Downtown galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.  Shircliff Gallery will be open until 7.

Art Space Vincennes, LLC

Art Space Vincennes LLC,  521 Main will open Lumiére Horizon, photographs by Erick Rowe. Rowe taught photography at Vincennes University from 2007 – 2009 before moving to the Chicago area.  He now teaches photography courses at the College of Lake County in Grayslake IL.  He earned his BA at Purdue University and MFA at Columbia College.  Rowe’s subject of focus is architecture, i.e., buildings and their surrounding spaces. The exhibit as a whole is a study of how the abstract idea of utopia, interpreted so differently across the spectrum of human thought, is expressed in the architecture itself and through Rowe’s careful selection of vantage points and his sensitivity to the impact of momentary changes in light.

Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm.  Additional hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145

Northwest Territory Art Guild

Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will welcome the spring season with Marsh Madness, photographs by Sullivan, Indiana artist John Adams.  Appropriate to the season, these are birds and other wildlife subjects, many from the Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area in Greene County.  Included are images of the camouflaged boat from which his images are taken. New spring and summer-themed work by Guild members 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

The Open Gallery 329 Main will present March for the Common Good, an exhibition of themed posters by Vincennes University Professor Pravin Sevak’s Art and Design students. In these students’ two years of study, Professor Sevak encourages the design of at least one project that addresses issues regarding social or common good.  This exhibition offers a special opportunity for viewers to see a selection of some of the best examples of such works done over the past 14 years.  Subjects include concerns relating to the environment, social problems, food, diet and other health-related topics. It is hoped that the young voices heard through these colorful posters will impact our perspectives for the common good of our community, both locally and more broadly.

Regular gallery hours: Tue, Thu 12 – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm and by chance. 812- 881-6475

Shircliff Gallery

The Shircliff Gallery First and Harrison Streets, will be exhibiting Libby Rowe – Like Panes of Glass, photo-based wall pieces. Rowe earned her BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and MFA from Syracuse University.  She lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.  Rowe’s work addresses the disjunction between the idealization and the reality of the American Dream of family life.  Images from family albums are printed onto stencil-created shaped grounds based on familiar domestic items such as a lawn chair, a laundry basket, a sock monkey.  As the stenciled shapes are cut out, parts of the photo image disappear.  As Rowe states, “neither the memory nor the present can possibly conform to an ideal without fracturing”.

Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. The gallery will extend hours on March 4 to 7 pm. 812-888-4316.

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March 4, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – March 25, 2022 @ 8:00 pm

The Open Gallery welcomes Professor Pravin Sevak, Art and Design department of Vincennes University, to exhibit his former students’ classroom projects titled – March for Common Good.

Professor Sevak will soon be retiring and The Open Gallery is honored to do a retrospective of his many successes with his Art and Design students over the last fourteen years.  During the two years of their study, Sevak has always encouraged his students to design at least one project that addresses design for social good/common good. 

These designs not only reflect the talent, creativity, and passion within the student body, but aim to challenge perceptions of their chosen issues. Hopefully, the voices of these graphic design students are heard and will impact your perspective for the common good of our community, both locally and globally. The exhibition is family-friendly and will provide plenty of discussion about important issues that the artwork is representing.

A First Friday reception will be held on Friday, March 4 from 5-8 p.m.  Patrons are encouraged to mask as they feel comfortable doing so.  The exhibition will run through the month of March.  Free and open to the public.

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