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April Exhibit: Local Clay “Still Here, Better Than Ever!”

April Exhibit: Local Clay “Still Here, Better Than Ever!”
Posted on by Linda Knudsen
April 1 - May 1, 2022 Opening Reception April 1, 2022  5pm - 8pm By Hand Gallery is proud to present more work from Local Clay Potters Guild members. Throughout the pandemic, the artisan members have continued to create new work, but due to public health restrictions have been unable to co-host the Local Clay Show at the Monroe County Convention Center This exhibit will be an opportunity ...
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March Exhibit: Local Clay, “Still Here, Better Than Ever!”

March Exhibit: Local Clay, “Still Here, Better Than Ever!”
Posted on by Linda Knudsen
This March and April, By Hand Gallery will be hosting a gallery exhibition by members of Local Clay Potters’ Guild. Local Clay, ‘Still Here, Better than Ever!’ : Part I March 4 - March 27, 2022.  Opening Reception, March 4th 5-8pm   Local Clay, ‘Still Here, Better than Ever!’ : Part II April 1 - May 1, 2022.  Opening Reception, April 1st 5-8pm   For the past two years, du...
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February Exhibit: Stories from the Acestors

February Exhibit: Stories from the Acestors
Posted on by Linda Knudsen
In a 1988 interview with Bill Moyers, Joseph Campbell quoted the Hindu Upanishad: “In the beginning there was only the great self, reflected in the form of a person. Reflecting, it found nothing but itself, and its first word was, ‘This am I.'”   All cultures have sought to express and impart stories that communicate the inexplicable “This am I” — verbally transmitted through myth, lege...
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Still Crazy After All These Years II

Still Crazy After All These Years II
Posted on by Linda Knudsen
By Hand Gallery Exhibit Dates: September 3-24, 2021 Opening Reception: September 3rd from 5–8 pm Artists have been responding to the chaotic threats to our health, the uncertainty of our livelihoods, and our collective political and social upheaval with introspection and creative action. By Hand Gallery has been showing its artists’ recent works that were made in this fragile environment in Sti...
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June 4th: In Celebration of Limestone Quarries and Carvers

June 4th: In Celebration of Limestone Quarries and Carvers
Posted on by Linda Knudsen
Opening Reception: Friday, June 4th, 5-8 PM On Display:  June 4th - July 31st   Limestone is the heart of Bloomington. The availability of the finely grained Oolitic Limestone of the Salem Formation has been our bedrock economic, aesthetic, and structural resource for centuries. June is Bloomington’s Limestone Month and in July the Indiana Limestone Symposium will host its 25th Anniver...
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May 7th: Transitions: A Grateful Farewell

Posted on by Tova Lesko
By Mary Hambly In the summer of 1988, Mary Hambly arrived in Bloomington to begin her Master of Fine Arts program in Studio Art/Textiles at IU. Having obtained her degree, Hambly then infused herself into many facets of the Bloomington arts scene for the next three decades. Mary’s spent 5 years as Adjunct Art Instructor at Ivy Tech State College, Vincennes University and IUPUI-Columbus a...
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March: Vessels, maybe not Vessels

March: Vessels, maybe not Vessels
Posted on by Tova Lesko
On Display: March 7th - 28th Vessels — do they hold? house? protect? conceal? Vessels may be the most ubiquitous and useful objects in human history. They are important both because they hold and because they can assign meaning to the contents that they hold as well as to the being using them. This iterative web of meaning has forever inspired artisans to explore the potentials of a vessel’s...
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February: Love Drops

February: Love Drops
Posted on by Tova Lesko
On Display: February 5th - 28th Share the love with a gift from the heart. Hand-made cards, jewelry, glass hearts, special boxes and much more! We welcome you to come to the gallery to find the valentine spirit in the air with gifts of art and crafts that will exude love to those you give them to.    
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December: 2020: The Year of Silver Linings!

Posted on by Tova Lesko
On Display: November 16th - January 24th As we near the end of an almost inconceivable year, we at By Hand Gallery are wishing for all of you and yours and all of us and ours to find 2020’s silver linings — in both the grand and the small ways, the nuance of the ordinary and the richness of the beautiful, and most importantly — the joys of each other. Here’s to celebrating friendship and experi...
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October: A Change in Light

October: A Change in Light
Posted on by Tova Lesko
By Tom Rhea On Display:  October 3rd - November 11th A Change in Light:  As a continuation of his interest in painting the limestone architecture in Indiana, Tom began a series of paintings from his last trip to Florence, Rome, and Puglia (on the Adriatic coast of Italy). Puglia contains some of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world, like Matera carved out of and into t...
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