Holiday Show
Shop local this holiday season and help to support the vibrant Bloomington community. Our annual holiday show highlights work from local Bloomington artists that you can then share with your friends and loved ones, knowing that each piece is handmade and from the heart.
Opening Receptions: Friday, November 25th, during The Canopy of Lights
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Visual Meditations
Tom Duffy
Tom has always been fascinated by the rich and diverse character of our earth. His goal is to share his perception and visualization of this. Of course he cannot capture reality; rather, as with any artist, he seeks to reveal his perception and understanding of the environment in a way that will stimulate the imagination and emotions of the viewer. The beauty of morning and espe...
Paper and Stitch: Mixed Media Creations
Michele Heather Pollock
At Lost Lake Studio, Michele Heather Pollock turns her love of paper and stitching into beautiful functional objects and fine art. Her work includes mixed media stitched paper work; mixed media paper sculptures; as well as hand bound books, bookmarks, greeting cards and more. Paper and stitching provide a consistent thread connecting all of her works.
Michele hol...
Tattoo Dreams: Modern Heirlooms
TattooDreams
By Hand Gallery will be highlighting the art boxes and tattooed vessels of Jon & Patricia Hecker for the month of July.
Opening Reception: Friday, July 8th, 5-8 PM
On Display: July 8th - July 30th
Keep It Simple: Working with Porcelain
Karen Green Stone Pottery
Karen’s porcelain and stoneware pottery is wheel thrown, often altered and decorated with thick slip and by carving, appliquéing and incising. She uses fossils, seashells, fabric and kitchen tools for decoration. For color, she applies glaze over glaze, uses wax resist brush decoration and touches up with metallic oxide washes. She also uses local Indiana clay slip...
May Flowers
Donna Cooney Fabric Art Bowls
By Hand Gallery will be highlighting Donna Cooney's petal bowls and other reversible, fabric bowls for the month of May.
Opening Reception: Friday, May 6th, 5-8 PM
On Display: May 6th - May 28th
Birdz Returning
Watercolors by Lois Barber
In 2013, while painting a watercolor landscape in Provence, Lois Barber tested her colors on a vertical strip of paper taped to her easel. A few weeks later, the test strip fell from her portfolio and landed horizontally on her desk. In an instant, she saw the strip of colors as a collection of birds and added a few pen strokes to bring them to life. Soon to follo...
Street Level: Community Scenes
Gouache Paintings by Tom Rhea
Tom Rhea was trained as a painter at Indiana University, where he graduated with a BFA. After twenty years in the demanding field of medallic arts, his paintings still retain a very sculptural feel, with an emphasis on the unique limestone architecture that distinguishes the IU campus. Besides providing celebrity portraits for publications such as The Wall St...
Hearts Entwined
Limestone by Albert Nelson
For the past 40 years, Albert Nelson has made annual pilgrimages to Indiana Limestone Country to collect stone with which to work. During this time, he has fallen in love with the people, the material, and the process of stone carving.
This show is a collection of his most recent works. As with all his art, the subject centers around family, relationships, an...
Favorite Things Holiday Show
Annual Holiday Show
Featuring a variety of holiday gift ideas and ornaments to deck your halls.
Join us in celebrating this holiday season with local artists and help keep Bloomington vibrant.