WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University Galleries will open a new season with an exhibit titled “Living Stone: The Cast Project,” which will be on display in the Stewart Center Gallery from Aug. 31 to Oct. 11.

Jim Dine, Untitled, from the Glyptotek portfolio, 1989, glacies transferes etching and aquatint on chine colle, The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Living Stone: the Casts Project (Courtesy of The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky)

Inspired by Jim Dine, a contemporary American artist who created a series of drawings reinterpreting works of sculpture in the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, the display will recreate the ambience of a studio. With a series of prints by Dine as the backdrop, plaster casts originally used in studios will be displayed allowing visitors to draw inside the gallery. Artworks by visitors will be exhibited in the gallery in a salon-style display.

Local artists and art classes in the community are invited to come and draw in the gallery, which is located on the main floor of Stewart Center. Instructors are encouraged to schedule their class visits with the gallery staff.

Purdue Galleries will host a reception and open drawing session for “Living Stone” at 6 p.m., Sept. 11 at the Stewart Center Gallery.

Future exhibits at Purdue Galleries include:

• Hard Rain: The late works of Mary Hambleton, Oct. 26-Dec. 6. Painter Mary Hambleton’s work chronicled her journey of living with cancer. This exhibit is presented in collaboration with the Purdue Oncology Science Center’s “Cancer, Culture and Community” program.
• Dream Deferred, Jan.11-Feb. 21. An exhibition of contemporary art inspired by Langston Hughes’ poem, “The Dream Deferred,” and by the current socioeconomic challenges facing minorities in the U.S. Purdue Galleries is collaborating with the Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette to present this show.
• Sixty Square Inches: 17th Biennial North American Small Print Exhibition, March 8-April 25. A review of North American graphic artists working in an intimate format.



• Ninth annual art teacher professional day, Sept. 2. Art teachers in K-12 programs are invited for a daylong session, discussing upcoming art exhibits and events and networking among themselves.

The Stewart Center Gallery and the Robert L. Ringel Gallery – both managed by Purdue Galleries – are open 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. on Sundays. All exhibits organized by Purdue Galleries are free and open to the public.

For class and group visits, contact Mary Ann Anderson at Purdue Galleries at 765-496-7899.

For more information, visit www.purdue.edu/galleries.

LAFAYETTE, Ind. -– In celebration of its 5th Anniversary of achieving zero landfill status, Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) will be presenting a recycled art exhibit to be displayed May 1 through May 15 at the SIA Training and Reception Center.

On May 4, 2004, SIA became the first US Auto Assembly Plant to achieve zero landfill status.

SIA invites the entire community to submit art pieces for the exhibit in three categories including youth, adult and professional. The majority of the materials used in the artwork should be recycled materials. Art pieces should be submitted by the artist no later than 5:00 PM on Thursday, April 30. Ribbons will be awarded on May 4 during the SIA Excellence in Environmental Stewardship Award Ceremony.

“What started out as an idea for a more environmentally-friendly choice of decorations for our Zero Landfill Anniversary celebration has become an outlet for creativity and a showcase for recycled art”, stated SIA Corporate Communication Group Leader, Jennifer McGarvey, “This is an opportunity for artists of every age and level to transform everyday items around them into beautiful works of art.”

For more information or to submit an entry form, visit www.subaru-sia.com.

LAFAYETTE, Ind., — Local artists received information on professional practices and marketing from marketing specialists at Tippecanoe Arts Federation’s “Guerrilla Marketing” workshop.

Artists from around Tippecanoe County learned how to promote the arts to local media and to the public.

Around a dozen artists from throughout Tippecanoe County met with Bob Kennedy, Thom Davis, and Brant Baumann from Indiana Design Consortium to learn how to better promote themselves and their work to the public. Contacts with local media, internet marketing, and networking were just some of the topics covered.

“This is great information… we tend to focus on the creative aspects of our work, but we seem to fall short when it comes to getting that work into the public eye” commented one participant.

The “Guerilla Marketing” workshop was part of an ongoing series of technical assistance workshops provided by the Tippecanoe Arts Federation to serve local and regional artists and cultural organizations.

For information on this or upcoming workshops, please contact the Tippecanoe Arts Federation at 765-423-2787 or rsd@tippecanoearts.org.

Activities of the Tippecanoe Arts Federation are provided, in part, with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, with funds from the Indiana General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.