The 2023 Bicknell Halloween Parade.
Event will start at North Knox Primary bus parking lot.
Special guest performer guaranteed to make you wanna dance!
Kids will travel down Main Street and follow parade route to the
French Club in Bicknell where food and festivities await!
Candy givers will set up only between 1st and 3rd!
Astronomy Night is October 21 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm for kids of all ages. Activities, games, and stargazing will be part of the fun for all ages. Kids can earn the Night Explorer patch and preview programs for the 2024 Solar Eclipse.
Kids between ages 5 and 14, will receive a Junior Ranger patch for attending their first program or a commemorative badge for their second program. For questions about these events please reach out to rangers by calling (812) 882-1776 or email at GERO_Ranger_Activities@nps.gov. To learn more and get updates on future park events visit nps.gov/gero or facebook.com/GeorgeRogersClarkNationalHistoricalPark .
Natural Resource Day will be from 1 to 4 pm on August 26. Although set aside as a historical park in 1966, the George Rogers Clark National Historical Park still provides a green space to the community. Kids will be able to connect with the natural resources with activities like track molds, owl pellet dissection, water testing, and tree identification.
Kids between ages 5 and 14, will receive a Junior Ranger patch for attending their first program or a commemorative badge for their second program. For questions about these events please reach out to rangers by calling (812) 882-1776 or email at GERO_Ranger_Activities@nps.gov. To learn more and get updates on future park events visit nps.gov/gero or facebook.com/GeorgeRogersClarkNationalHistoricalPark .
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
Enjoy the holiday light show at Oubache Trails Park every Friday from 6 – 8 pm while on a hay ride!
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
See what is being showcased in our downtown galleries during the “First Friday” Art Walk held each month! The Art Space Gallery, the Open Gallery and the Northwest Territory Art Guild Gallery offer a chance to view and purchase work by accomplished artists with changing exhibitions each month. From 5:00pm – 8:00pm, the public is invited to browse through the galleries, enjoy light snacks and good company. *Check the events listings from this website for the next “First Friday” coming up!
Enjoy the holiday light show at Oubache Trails Park every Friday from 6 – 8 pm while on a hay ride!
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, Open Gallery, Northwest Territory Art Gallery, Shircliff Gallery, Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery, and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, November 4. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Terminable Landscapes/Small Dramas, digital drawings, and photo montages by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Jim Pearson. The exhibition has two interrelated themes. Long horizontal rectangular compositions reflect the complexity of the natural world and our impact upon it. Smaller works include figurative imagery and are vignettes of dramas, tragedies, and questions about human life. They are not intended to be literal, but to leave open possibilities for viewers to consider. Both bodies of work demonstrate Jim’s sensitivity to the expressive power of tonal value. The exquisite refinement of meaning that results are impacted by his intense focus on his work during retirement, his long history of teaching drawing and printmaking, and his education in printmaking, a discipline whose exacting demands were passed on to him via his excellent teachers, including Rudy Pozzatti, at Indiana University, Bloomington where he earned his MFA degree.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145. Closed Thanksgiving weekend, 11/24 – 11/28.
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Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will be showing fall and winter-themed works by Guild members, as well as a special sale of works that will continue into December.
These will be in a variety of styles and media and will offer a great opportunity to start thinking about Christmas gift-giving.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
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The Open Gallery, 329 Main will open These Roads Don’t Move, works by Christina Zimmer Robinson and Sarah Wolfe. Both artists recently participated in the Indiana Arts Commission On-Ramp program. Robinson’s works focus on her interest in aligning control, structure, and harmonious relationships between colors. She explores various mediums and styles, including abstraction, portraiture, sculpture, and textile work.
Wolfe characterizes her work for this exhibition as exploratory and flights of freedom from the many duties both women juggle as wives, mothers, and working artists. While Wolfe agrees that the two bodies of her work for this show may seem disparate, the abstract floral pieces are “a joyous, freeing exploration of color and textures gleaned from the outside world. The anatomical works are simply the inverse–an examination of our potentially gloriously interesting innards.” The show will run until mid-December.
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
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Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters, 314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas in his series Our Rights, Our Freedom, Our Vote. These 13 pieces, each 20.5” x 3” address the historic difficulties many groups have faced in striving for the right to vote.
For more information, please contact Marsha Fleming, at 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, at 323-559-1954.
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Dragoon (a “pop-up” gallery) at 517 Main Street will feature photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk. New works are added each month.
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The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will present Flood and Pull, a two-person exhibition of works by Jay Ryan and Ryan Stander, two artists using printmaking techniques in their contemporary practice.
Ryan begins with illustration, creating whimsical and imaginative images with pen and ink. The images frequently depict mischievous wilderness creatures cavorting in ways which serve to reflect on and question our own human behavior.
Stander’s series, Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid explores social and cultural topics through the use of indirect visual symbols. Viewers are encouraged to piece together meaning through loose associations, rather than explicit illustration. He draws upon various cultural frameworks, including his past theological education to express ideas, questions, and critiques.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on the First Friday, November 4.
The United Way of Knox County is pleased to announce the return of its 4th Chili cookoff entitled the Chili Bowl sponsored by Farbest Foods. It will be a family-friendly event in downtown Vincennes. The Free Taster’s choice/sampling of chili will be held on Patrick Henry Square from 4:30 – 7:00 with live music provided by the Buck Rogers Clark group, food trucks, kids games/bouncy houses, and a beer garden provided by the Vincennes Brewing Company. 25 celebrity chefs will be seeking your support of United Way by donating in advance of the event site by texting the word Heat to 30306. You will be able to tip chefs as well as vote for your favorite by purchasing taster’s choice tickets for $1, 6 for $5, or 12 for $10 the night of the event.
(812) 882 – 3624
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