Save the Date- September Gallery Walk

It's that time again! Join us for our final Gallery Walk of the season and for our opening reception with new work by the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society, Stacy Bogan, and FibR.

Check out our Save the Date email here! We hope to see you there!

September Arts Intersect

Here's our latest Arts Intersect with events for September!  Be sure to check it out! Click Here!

Another Event by the Kokomo Art Association: Call for Artists!
The Kokomo Art Association is calling all artists and artisans!

ART ON MAIN in Downtown Kokomo, Indiana
We are so excited to be hosting Art on Main in conjunction with the Indiana Historical Society's Bicentennial Train stop in downtown Kokomo. The Indiana Bicentennial Train will be making stops throughout Indiana and we are looking forward to its stop in Kokomo. You don't want to miss this very special event. Art on Main will be held Saturday September 28, the last day of the Bicentennial Train stop in Kokomo. We will be on Main Street just east of the train. Set up fee for KAA members is $35 and $50 for non-members. This is a great opportunity to exhibit and sell your work! Don't miss out! For more information contact Lynn at celarekb@yahoo.com or Cheryl at kokomoartassociation2012-kaa@yahoo.com.   

Correction: 5th Annual Sidewalk Chalk Festival!

If you're looking for something fun to do September 4th through the 8th be sure to attend the 5th Annual Sidewalk Chalk Festival!  This event is sponsored by the Friends of the Education Building.  Click this link for more information!

Mosey for the Arts this Saturday!

2013 Mosey for the Arts  This Saturday!   a free street celebration featuring visual and performing artists and cultural organizations.

Mosey for the Arts joins Mosey Down Main Street this Saturday, August 10 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.  Mosey for the Arts presents family-friendly live performances, hands-on art activities, and cultural information highlighting regional artists and arts organizations. Participants will enjoy all the Mosey favorites including live music on three stages and a wonderfully varied assortment of entertainment and food. The event will offer the audience a close-up look at the broad range of arts in our community.   Mosey for the Arts is an arts partnership between Friends of Downtown, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, and the Cultural Plan Education Committee. This program of the Lafayette/West Lafayette Cultural Plan Education Committee is designed to address Goals 3.2 and 3.3 of the Community Cultural Plan. The goals of the plan include improving community awareness of cultural offerings and exploring ways to increase participation in arts and culture. For more information on the Community Cultural Plan click here! Information about area arts and cultural educational opportunities in our community can be found by visiting Art Connection here. Check out our Arts Village Sponsored by Wabash Valley Mental Health Center (located across from Lafayette Brewing Company).  Those participating in Mosey for the Arts include: Stacy Bogan, Grateful Heart Gallery and Gifts, Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Songwriters Association of Mid-North Indiana - SAMI, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Morton Community Center, Tippecanoe County Historical Association, Purdue Convocations, Purdue Galleries and Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette, Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, Bach Chorale, West Lafayette Public Library, Tippecanotes, Adam Cantor, Andrew Nuss, Midwest Fife, Pipes, and Drums, Adam Vanderwielen, Old Tippecanoe Quilt Guild, Friends of Bob Live Music Co-op, Friends of the Education Building, Red Poppy Studios and Gallery, and more! Mosey Down Mainstreet is a free street festival made possible by the Friends of Downtown. Hours are 6pm - Midnight.

Save the Date! New Gallery Exhibition and Opening Reception!

Come visit us next Friday night!

Make plans to join us at the Wells Community Cultural Center on Friday, August 9, for an opening reception! Come to the reception from 6:00-8:00 to meet the artists and see their work. The exhibition will run from August 9 - September 13.

Reflections, Dreams & Insomnia

Nicole Paraskevas

East Gallery

Mixed Media Glass

A collection of works inspired by life, fantasy and somewhere in between. Artist Nicole Paraskevas depicts these ideas through a series of mixed media glass creations. This colorful show fusing reality and fantasy plays with perceptions, and is inspired by the artist's own experiences and interpretations.  This show is a visual adventure of reality and beyond through the eyes of the artist.

Oil and Ink

Jeff Smith and Don Seybold

Northwest Gallery

Oil Painting and Poetry

Jeff Smith and poet Don Seybold explore the tension and equilibrium between oil painting and poetry. The collection includes poems which interface in multiple ways with the paintings, poems inspired by paintings, and paintings inspired by the written word. Sometimes the connection is direct, more often oblique, provocative, and/or playful. 

They address and foreground, making more transparent when possible, the aesthetic challenges that are encountered by the painter and the poet and how those issues resonate with even greater complexity and pleasure when addressed [and experienced] in tandem. They hope to replicate, as much as possible their creative challenges and experiences for those who come to the exhibit as they encounter the paintings and poems, if not exactly simultaneously, in close chronological sequence.

county fair  

zach medler

east gallery 

installation

zach medler's "county fair" is a multimedia interactive installation featuring toys and games built into the framework of a pop-up sidewalk street fair cart.  the short film 'county fair' featuring all the different parts of the installation also accompanies the work.  the audience is invited to participate by playing the games, turning cranks, and twisting knobs to animate the sculpture.  this installation has been shown in chicago, madison, louisville, and ft. wayne.