Visual Arts – Arts and Music

Arts interviews, reviews, and features from WFIU Public Media from Indiana University.

Crawling To The Aid Of A Fading Monument

The Bloomington community gets creative as it tries to save the Alexander Memorial in Courthouse Square.

06-20
07:52

A Beautiful Place To Paint

For the past 40 years, Indiana Heritage Arts (IHA) has promoted the tradition of this painting style as it was practiced by T.C. Steele and others in Brown County.

06-04
11:25

Artist Bharti Kher Opens Exhibit at Grunwald Gallery

The Grunwald Gallery presents Messengers, an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and works on paper by internationally known artist Bharti Kher

02-23
06:20

Women Behind the Camera Create ‘Stardust and Moonbeams’

Film and Gender scholar Madelyn Ritrosky tells the story of a thoroughly modern 1920s woman, in her new short film “Stardust and Moonbeams.”

11-03
15:49

A Social Art: Isabel Berglund’s Hand-Knit Sculptures

Danish fiber artist Isabel Berglund calls her large installations "social art," for the way groups of people produce and the interact with them.

09-26
05:00

Breaking Home Ties — Prelude To A Masterpiece

Critics complained that his work wasn’t serious. He was cornball. He was just a calendar artist. His first artwork to be acquired by a museum went for $100.

05-08
15:55

Quilts of China: From Practical Craft to Valued Art

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04-24
08:34

Finding A Missing Piece In The Local Arts Scene

"My first puzzles, the back side of the puzzle could actually be a hand-painted set piece that you might’ve seen onstage at a Cardinal performance."

03-24
11:42

Siosi Design: Blending Art, Lifestyle and Work

Furniture maker Siosi Design blurs the lines between art and craft, and lifestyle and work.

03-02
11:20

Fountain At 100: Decommissioned Functionality Into Art Icon

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02-21
12:05

Above Ground: Taking Shots Against Gender Discrimination

A photography exhibition showcases a new generation of feminist activism in China.

02-11
10:03

Coming Soon, To A Theater (Or An Architecture Tour) Near You

Donna Sasse's dream is for all residents of Columbus, not just visitors, to take the architecture tour.

02-07
09:03

Titan Of The West: Dude Ranch Reveries And Everyday Life

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01-14
11:52

We’re Caught In A Trap: Melanie Pennington’s Gentle Giants

Securing the perimeter of her home place are Pennington’s own hulking forms, equally redolent of anatomy and primal energy, possibly demanding a blood meal.

11-12
09:16

Rosamond Purcell Strives To Find Beauty In Unlikely Places

"Greatest living 17th-Century photographer" find treasure in others trash

11-11
06:12

Mark Ratzlaff: More Paintings About Buildings And Cars

Mark Ratzlaff has made paintings of possums and pizza boxes, but he's being hailed by the most staid arts organizations in Indiana. It turn

09-30
14:16

Exhibit Columbus Coaxes City Beyond Historic Preservation

Architects, designers, and community stakeholders convene for the launch of Exhibit Columbus, to further the city's identity as an aesthetic standard-bearer.

09-23
06:48

IU Sculptors Stage Architectural Intervention For ArtPrize

Before it is razed and reënvisioned, a derelict neighborhood in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan is being occupied by artists competing in ArtPrize 2016.

09-16
11:26

Giving A Wildly Popular Art-Making Activity The College Try

Whether stress reliever, creative outlet, antidote to screens, or happy hour pastime, coloring has become popular among adults and lucrative for publishers.

09-03
12:24

Painting At The Core, Across Decades And Continents

Regardless of the vagaries of time and place--no matter how dramatic--Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger identifies with the art she has made since the age of three.

07-23
16:14

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