October 14, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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October 7, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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, October 7. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm. The Autumn on Main festival will run from 6 – 10 pm and will include food trucks, live music, beer and wine tasting, and “Touch a Truck” sponsored by State Farm agent Andrew Hinz. Participating Main Street businesses will be open for extended hours.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Personal Perspectives, monoprints, collage, and watercolor artworks by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. These recent works express this artist’s love of nature; the subject matter is often landscape, at times with a focus on a single tree. Deborah states, “The tree acts as a metaphor for life and rebirth through seasonal dying and renewal.” There are also abstract pieces reflecting inspirational life experiences, revealed through the artist’s deep understanding of expressive color and her expertise in the many-layered processes involved in creating a monotype print. This month offers a unique opportunity for gallery-goers to have an in-depth experience of Deborah’s work; see the information on the Northwest Territory Art Guild’s October show.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Due to the continued high rate of COVID infection in Knox County, masking is recommended, but not required.
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present an exhibition of sculptures by Bernard Hagedorn and prints by Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. The exhibition will be an overview of works by both artists. Some works have not been previously exhibited. This month offers a unique opportunity for gallery-goers to have an in-depth experience of Deborah’s work; see the information on Art Space Vincennes’ October show.
Works by Guild members in a 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.
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The Open Gallery, 329 Main will continue Drive-by Shootings, photographs by former Vincennes University Professor of Photography Arthur Fields. Fields conceived this series idea during the lonely hours of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown as a way to stay in touch with those things that brought him joy, including the art of photography. The exhibition features a variety of people on their front porches, photographed from a street vantage point, framed by the outlines of their homes where they were obliged to remain for weeks. The collection has at one and the same time a sameness about the small-town folks, and yet, upon closer inspection, the portraits reveal a varied and arresting cadre of individuals living together, separately, during a time of great worldwide upheaval. Arthur will be coming from his new home in Texas to be at the First Friday reception.
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 be showing Ebb and Flow, a two-person collaborative exhibition by painter/photographer Betsy Stirratt and printmaker Tracy Templeton. The artists have explored sites in Indiana for the last several years, searching for and documenting little-known places where water is central to the landscape and culture.
The exhibit consists of framed photographs, painting/photo collages, chine collé prints, and hanging translucent image scrims that create an atmospheric and experiential encounter for the viewer. Exploration of the region is ongoing, with more works to be made in the next few months. The beauty and hidden history of these places are revealed in these artworks.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316; the gallery will be open until 6 pm on First Friday, October 7.
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Family-Friendly Events this Month
Spooky season is here and our October calendar is jam-packed with events! Fall is also the perfect time to go out and be with your family. Keep reading to see all of the family-friendly events happening this October!
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September 2, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join friends at Art Space Vincennes, the Open Gallery, the Northwest Territory Art Gallery, the Shircliff Gallery, the Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, September 2. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Personal Perspectives, monoprints, collage, and watercolor artworks by retired Vincennes University Art Professor Deborah Hutchinson-Hagedorn. These new works express this artist’s love of nature; the subject matter is often landscape, at times with a focus on a single tree. Deborah states, “The tree acts as a metaphor for life and rebirth through seasonal dying and renewal.” There are also abstract pieces that reflect inspirational life experiences, revealed through the artist’s deep understanding of expressive color and her expertise in the many-layered processes involved in creating a monotype print.
Due to the continued high rate of COVID infection in Knox County, masking is recommended.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will open their annual Members Juried Art Exhibition. Guild members will exhibit works in a wide variety of media and styles. An outside juror will select awards which will be announced during the First Friday reception.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat 11 am – 2 pm. Additional hours by appointment; contact the gallery via Facebook.
The Open Gallery, 329 Main will open Drive-by Shootings, photographs by former Vincennes University Professor of Photography Arthur Fields. Fields conceived this series idea during the lonely hours of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown as a way to stay in touch with those things that brought him joy, including the art of photography. The exhibition features a variety of people on their front porches, photographed from a street vantage point, framed by the outlines of their homes where they were obliged to remain for weeks. The collection has at one and the same time a sameness about the small-town folks, and yet, upon closer inspection, the portraits reveal a varied and arresting cadre of individuals living together, separately, during a time of great worldwide upheaval. The exhibition will run through October 30. A reception for the artist, who will visit from his new home in Texas, will be held during October’s First Friday Art Walk.
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 new 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, 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
The pop-up gallery space at 517 Main Street will feature the exhibition Dragoon, photographs with sound interpretations by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available during the First Friday Art Walk.
The Shircliff Gallery, First and Harrison Streets, will be showing Bone Deep, paintings by Michael K. Paxton. Paxton, a well-established Chicago fine artist whose career spans more than forty-eight years, is also a sixth-generation West Virginian from the coalfields of deepest Appalachia. In his series, Bone Deep, he plumbs his Appalachian roots. Slides of coal miners’ black lungs are translated first to sketches, then larger drawings, then immense canvases. The dark source images transform into richly colored compositions, bordering on abstract expressionism. They seduce the eye while raising awareness of a people and culture underrepresented in contemporary art.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316
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August 5, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join friends at three downtown galleries, the Democratic Headquarters, and the Dragoon pop-up gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, August 5. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Otherside Visions, colorful calligraphic non-objective watercolor paintings on panel, and mylar by Gwaylon Leaf. Leaf is an emerging artist whose work embodies multicultural complexity. Raised in the US but surrounded by the Taoist philosophy and Chinese art that influenced his father, artist Bill Leaf, he embraces a “sense of otherness that experience with his cultures has granted him.” His awareness of traditional Chinese art merges with the “aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary western artists such as Cy Twombly and Mark Toby.” Gwaylon Leaf earned his BFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno. He currently lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Due to the current COVID rise in numbers, masking is recommended.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will feature works of members of the Watercolor Society of Indiana. This organization, headquartered in Indianapolis, seeks to educate Indiana residents about the discipline of the watercolor medium through exhibits, juried competitions, classes, discussions, demonstrations, outreach programs, and community service. Work by Guild members in watercolor and other 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 continue The Faces Behind Peace, Artwork by Fernando Lozano. Lozano writes this about his work: “Art became my saving grace after the devastating tragedy of losing my son, and it is from that inspiration that I am presenting this series. The idea to read and research about people who selflessly dedicated their lives to promoting peace and who had won the Nobel Peace Prize was a welcoming subject after finishing the series The Faces of Torture. Their characters surface slowly over the word ‘PEACE’, dictating the colors and composition of the canvas. It was and still is a subject that I go back to when I need a reaffirmation of humanity, knowing that I am just scratching the surface because there are still so many great humans to know and celebrate.”
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 new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 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.
The pop-up gallery space at 517 Main Street will feature the exhibition Dragoon, photographs by Ken Park. This exhibition will only be available on First Friday.
Coming up: The Shircliff Gallery First and Harrison Streets, will open Bone Deep, paintings by Michael K. Paxton on Wednesday, August 17 at 11:00 a.m. Paxton is a well-established Chicago fine artist who is also a sixth-generation West Virginian from the coalfields of deepest Appalachia, with a career that now spans more than forty-eight years. In his series, Bone Deep, Paxton plumbs his Appalachian roots. Beginning with slides of coal miners’ black lungs, he translates them first to sketches, then larger drawings, then immense canvases where the dark source images transform into richly colored compositions, bordering on abstract expressionism, which seduces the eye while raising awareness of a people and culture underrepresented in contemporary art.
Regular gallery hours: weekdays 9 am – 5 pm. 812-888-4316
Free
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July 1, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join friends at three downtown galleries, the Democratic Headquarters, and the Dragoon pop-up temporary gallery for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, July 1. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will open Otherside Visions, paintings by Gwaylon Leaf. Leaf will be exhibiting colorful calligraphic non-objective acrylic paintings on panels and mylar.
Leaf is an emerging artist whose work embodies multicultural complexity. Raised in the US, but surrounded by the Taoist philosophy and Chinese art that influenced his father, artist Bill Leaf,
Gwaylon embraces a “sense of otherness that experience with his cultures has granted him.” His awareness of traditional Chinese art merges with the “aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary western artists such as Cy Twombly and Mark Toby.” Gwaylon Leaf earned his BFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his MFA degree from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is currently living and working in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will present Be My Guest, an open exhibition of artworks by local artists. Area artists who are not guild members and who may never have exhibited in a gallery setting are invited to bring in work for this show. Guild President John DeCoursey was inspired to offer this opportunity to local artists after seeing an episode of Journey Indiana which featured a northern Indiana gallery doing this form of outreach. Visitors to the gallery will enjoy never-before-seen works by local talent, in a wide range of media. Space permitting, 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 329 Main will open The Faces Behind Peace, Artwork by Fernando Lozano. Lozano writes this about his work: “Art became my saving grace after the devastating tragedy of losing my son, and it is from that inspiration that I am presenting this series. The idea to read and research about people who selflessly dedicated their lives to promoting peace and who had won the Nobel Peace Prize was a welcoming subject after finishing the series The Faces of Torture. Their characters surface slowly over the word ‘PEACE’, dictating the colors and composition of the canvas. It was and still is a subject that I go back to when I need a reaffirmation of humanity, knowing that I am just scratching the surface because there are still so many great humans to know and celebrate.”
The Open Gallery 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
Dragoon 510 Main, a “pop-up gallery” will show photographs by Ken Pack, only during this July First Friday evening. Pack will include new work along with pieces he has shown during the last two Art Walks.
The new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 Main Street will continue to show Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas from 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, 812-890-1688, or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
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June 24, 2022 @ 9:00 am – June 26, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Experience the early years of aviation on the first all-metal, multi-engine commercial airliner!
The Ford Tri-Motor led to the construction of the first airline terminal for passengers and was the first regularly scheduled passenger airliner to operate. Among its places in history, the Ford Tri-Motor led to the creation of the first paved runway and to the first hotel, designed and built for the air traveler.
For more information about the Ford Tri-Motor tour, Tri-Motor history, and to book your flight, visit flytheford.org.
| Advance Online | Walk-Up | |
| Adult | $80 | $50 |
| Child (17 & Under) | $85 | $55 |
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June 23, 2022 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Experience the early years of aviation on the first all-metal, multi-engine commercial airliner!
The Ford Tri-Motor led to the construction of the first airline terminal for passengers and was the first regularly scheduled passenger airliner to operate. Among its places in history, the Ford Tri-Motor led to the creation of the first paved runway and to the first hotel, designed and built for the air traveler.
For more information about the Ford Tri-Motor tour, Tri-Motor history, and to book your flight, visit flytheford.org.
| Advance Online | Walk-Up | |
| Adult | $80 | $85 |
| Child (17 & Under) | $50 | $55 |
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June 3, 2022 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Join friends at three downtown galleries and the Democratic Headquarters for the First Friday Art Walk and Spring on Main Festival, Friday, June 3. Galleries will be open 5 – 8 pm. Galleries will not be providing refreshments, as food and drink vendors will be part of the Spring on Main Festival.
Art Space Vincennes LLC, 521 Main will continue Improbable Spaces, painting, and sculpture by Amy DeLap and Andy Jendrzejewski. This show continues a series of exhibitions occurring over the last year that have explored the various directions of the gallery owners’ art careers. DeLap will show non-objective enamel and collage paintings on paper. Jendrzejewski will show mixed-media sculptures that originated as concepts for large-scale environmental installations.
Outdoor music will be provided at the gallery entrance by the duo Grey…matter, Bob Kemp, and Mike Boyer. They will play clean electric guitar at an acoustic volume between 6 and 7.
Regular gallery hours: Tue – Sat Noon – 5 pm. Other hours by appointment; call 812-887-6145
Northwest Territory Art Guild, 316 Main will open two one-person exhibitions. Photographs by Matt Ramsey will be presented in a show titled the Little Woods on the Wabash: a Celebration of the Landscapes of Ouabache Trails Park. The result of a four-year project, the exhibition is an all-seasons collection of woodland landscape photography highlighting the unique riparian environment of the Wabash River forest corridor in Knox County. Work ranges from film to digital, in art paper and metal presentation, in editions from one to five. 20% of First Friday sales are committed to supporting park improvements. More information at Ramsey’s website.
Matt returned home to Vincennes from Naval service in 2018. Since then he has been completing a BA at Indiana State University and building a fine art photography practice and business. He participated in the On-Ramp Creative Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program for Working Artists sponsored by the Indiana Arts Commission and has been working with Pantheon Theater services to develop a new venture, “Opti-Viz Media”.
Victoria Kramer’s exhibition Spirit of Collaboration will present ceramic works featuring raku glazes, which produce earthy colors and surface textures. Victoria, a graduate of the University of Evansville, lives outside of Vincennes. She considers herself a groundskeeper and potter. She states: “It is the act of doing and to keep moving that drives me forward. It is an exciting act to pull the wares from the flames of fire to see the results that the spiritual forces influence has deposited on the completed ware.
In this exhibition, Victoria has collaborated with her sister-in-law, Susan Vieck, a floral designer and Master Gardner, with many years of experience. Susan has created floral arrangements that harmonize with the pottery. Victoria states: “Our work is simply a statement of working in tandem with people and natural elements to augment the presentation of the wares. Susan has an innate and speedy way to pull the natural elements together.”
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 329 Main will continue through June One Thing Leads to Another, and another: Recent Paintings by Ryan McKain, with new works not previously exhibited brought in for this month’s show. McKain, an Evansville artist, uses an energetic color palette to create gestural abstraction based on the human face and figure. 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 new Knox County Indiana Democratic Headquarters314 Main Street will give viewers another chance to see Fernando Lozano’s powerful prints on stretched canvas, the first group of works in his series titled 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, 812-890-1688 or Fernando Lozano, 323-559-1954.
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May 21, 2022 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Discover the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of colonial French Vincennes. Learn about the daily life of a French fur trader while taking a tour through the Old French House, explore what early life was like in the area, find out about old French gardening techniques, and more.
This event takes place at the Old French House, 509 N. First St., Vincennes.
$5 – $7
$5/youth (ages 3-17), $7/adult. 25% discount for members.
(812) 882-7422
