Maya Angelou: A poet, artist for the ages
Guest post courtesy of IU Newsroom colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: Modern Renaissance woman Maya Angelou – published poet, memoirist, singer, professor and civil rights activist – took the IU Auditorium stage on March 1, 2009, speaking of her difficult childhood growing up in rural Arkansas during the time of Jim Crow laws. Her visit to IU […]
Indie Film Con contributes to IU filmmaking community
Guest post courtesy of IU Newsroom colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: For the second year, the Indiana Filmmakers Network is partnering with IU Cinema to present the 2014 Independent Filmmakers Convention for two days of panel discussions, presentations and 25 new feature-length films and shorts. Music, horror, comedy, documentary, animation, science fiction and other genres will be […]
Guitarist Nathan Salsburg collaborates with IU Libraries Film Archive to lead film program
Guest post courtesy of IU Newsroom colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: Cajun cowboys, moonshiners, fife-and-drum ensembles and fiddlers – these were the crowds famous folklorist Alan Lomax hung around to get what is arguably one of the most comprehensive records of traditional American Southern music to date. Around the early 1980s, Lomax and a video crew traveled […]
Bestselling author Jami Attenberg to lead workshop at IU Writers’ Conference
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: For the past 74 years, the IU Writers’ Conference has brought in a new set of writers, each offering their own set of experiences and expertise to a range of students eager to perfect the art of writing. Jami Attenberg, author of the bestselling novel “The […]
Musicians to honor Southern Indiana artist Lotus Dickey at Mathers Museum
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Brittany Aders: The Mathers Museum of World Cultures will be hosting a one-day event “Remembering Lotus Dickey” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 20. Stephen and Nancy Dickey, the son and daughter-in-law of the late Lotus Dickey, will be performing Lotus’s music and holding a discussion about his life […]
Healing with art: IU School of Medicine to host public art installation
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Brittany Aders: The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute on the IUPUI campus will host “An Afternoon of Art” show featuring a public art installation from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Some artists featured in the installation will be present to discuss their works, and artwork […]
IU professor Stacie King receives grant to build a digital museum, organize workshops
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: Libraries, newspapers, classrooms — everything is supposedly going digital. Some say that’s a bad thing; but Stacie King, associate professor in IU Bloomington’s Department of Anthropology, has a pretty good argument for why museums should go digital, too. King, a faculty curator for the Glenn A. […]
The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show opens May 16
Unique is one way to describe the annual Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show. Its thought-provoking and memorable contemporary art — paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, videos, sculpture, ceramics and fiber art — converges on the Grunwald Gallery of Art at IU Bloomington after an internationally known competition.
MFA student incorporates IU Art Museum pieces in thesis exhibit
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: It’s one thing to read the artist’s statement accompanying an exhibition – it’s quite another to hear the artist himself talk about the process behind creating each piece. I recently got the chance to talk with MFA student Jared Gelormino about his thesis exhibit currently up […]
IU Jacobs School to offer recording arts certificate through online courses
Guest post courtesy of IU Communications colleague Jaclyn Lansbery: IU Jacobs School of Music professor Michael Stucker has worked with some of music’s biggest artists and bands – John Mellencamp, Tori Amos, The Fray and Eddie Kramer, to name a few. His work as a technical engineer in music studios allows him to merge two […]
