Viewing: Visual Arts
December 30, 2014
Art Changes Career Path of Veteran
Veterans and members of the community recently gathered at Herron School of Art and Design for Combat Paper workshops. One of the veteran participants, Shanna Reis, appreciates using something old to make something new.
Read MoreAugust 28, 2014
IMA Set To Celebrate New Roy Lichtenstein Sculpture
A Block Party is planned for the official unveiling of the new, huge, colorful Lichtenstein sculpture.
Read MoreAugust 12, 2014
Kin Killin' Kin Exhibit At Central Library 'Powerful'
The Indianapolis Public Library is launching an initiative against violence. Stand4Peace encourages the community to engage in conversations that address how to combat, particularly, black on black crime. The centerpiece of the project is a new art exhibit that opened, Tuesday.
Read MoreJuly 25, 2014
Former Green Beret Finds Healing In The Creative Process He Shares With Other Veterans
Magnus Johnson served three tours of duty in Iraq, and Afghanistan. After 8 years in the service, and those three combat tours, he crashed when he got home. He finally found a creative outlet for his stress after befriending Brown County artist, metal and stone sculptor Jim Connor.
Read MoreJune 27, 2014
Heartland Film To Host Mini Film Fest In Fountain Square
Heartland Film is gearing up for its big event in the fall by sharing some cinematic love this weekend. 90. 1 WFYI's Jill Ditmire tells us about the Summer Rewind Mini Film Festival taking place in Fountain Square this weekend.
Read MoreApril 29, 2014
Century-Old Jewish Mural Was Hidden For Decades In Vermont
In the late 1800s, Jewish immigrants brought the Eastern European tradition of synagogue murals to Burlington. Now one such mural, painted in 1910, is being restored.
Read MoreApril 16, 2014
New Deal Treasure: Government Searches For Long-Lost Art
During the Great Depression, the federal government purchased hundreds of thousands of works by American artists. But in the decades since, much of that art has gone missing.
Read MoreJanuary 31, 2014
Local Photographer Captures Plight Of Children Caught Up In Swaziland's AIDS Pandemic
An exhibit featuring the work of Hoosier photographer Josef Kissinger will open Feb. 5 in the Marsh Gallery at the IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design.
Read MoreJanuary 10, 2014
High Art Exhibit Up In Indy
The project displays the work of local artists plastered on billboards all around town.
Read MoreJanuary 5, 2014
Robert Indiana: A Career Defined By 'LOVE' No Longer
In 1968, the Museum of Modern Art bought his painting LOVE and made him a star. It became a sculpture, a stamp, greeting cards - and it obscured the rest of his career. Now the first major retrospective of Indiana's work has begun a national tour at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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