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. -– A reception showcasing the works of local Indiana artists will be held at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette, Indiana on Monday, July 20 at 4:30 pm in the Grand Hall.

The 4th annual Art on the Wabash will be held at West Lafayette’s Tapawingo Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, September 20, 2009.

The 2009 Art on the Wabash juror chose artists from 15 different counties across Indiana. Their works will be displayed at the reception as well as the 4th annual Art on the Wabash fair in September.

Techniques on display include watercolors, pottery, sculpture, and jewelry.

Ivy Tech Community College is located at 3101 S. Creasy Lane, Lafayette. For more information about the reception please contact Melissa Godsey at (765)269-5266.

Ivy Tech Community College is the state’s largest public post-secondary institution and the nation’s largest singly-accredited statewide community college system with more than 130,000 students enrolled annually. Ivy Tech has campuses throughout Indiana. It serves as the state’s engine of workforce development, offering affordable degree programs and training that are aligned with the needs of its community along with courses and programs that transfer to other colleges and universities in Indiana. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Mementos, artifacts and personal papers from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni will be on display July 20 to Oct. 30 as the university celebrates its rich space heritage and the 40th anniversary of the historic first walk on the moon.

Purdue Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections will present the exhibit “Purdue’s Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon.” The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be on display in the new Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives & Special Collections Research Center on the fourth floor of the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Library in Stewart Center.

Sammie Morris, professor, Purdue University archivist and head of the division of Archives and Special Collections, shows artifacts from astronaut Eugene Cernan that have been framed for display. Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the moon, and items in the frame traveled with him into outer space. (Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock)

“Forty years ago, Neil Armstrong left his footprint in history. As we join the nation in celebrating that landmark occasion, we also reflect on Purdue’s own large role in U.S. space flight,” said Purdue President France A. Córdova, an astrophysicist and NASA’s first female chief scientist.

“Purdue is known around the world in part because of what our alumni have accomplished as astronauts. But this university’s contribution to space travel goes beyond our 23 alumni who have been chosen as NASA astronauts. Many of the sharpest minds who have played key roles in U.S. space travel have roots at Purdue. And we’re not done. Who will be the next Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan, Gus Grissom or Janice Voss, to name a few?”

Building on the university’s strong tradition in air and space travel, Purdue’s Archives and Special Collections is quickly becoming a center of attraction for flight historians, researchers and enthusiasts.

The university is home to the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart papers, the world’s largest compilation of papers, memorabilia and artifacts related to the late aviator who once worked as a Purdue staff member.

Within the past year, both Armstrong and Cernan – the first person to walk on the moon and the most recent to do so – have begun the process of donating personal papers to the university. Archives and Special Collections also houses the personal papers of Ralph Johnson, a 1930 Purdue graduate in mechanical engineering and a flight pioneer who was the first person to document aircraft landing procedures that are still used today.

Córdova signed a resolution in April declaring the Archives and Special Collections division of Purdue Libraries as the university’s official repository for its historical record.

“We are pleased that we are able to offer the public a glimpse into history,” said Purdue Libraries Dean James L. Mullins. “It’s possible because some of our most famous alumni have chosen to make Purdue the landing spot for their personal papers.”

Professor Sammie Morris, university archivist and head of the Division of Archives and Special Collections, said the exhibit will include artifacts that were carried on space flights, mementos signed by astronauts, photographs, a portion of a heat shield from the Gemini mission, a slide rule from Armstrong as well as handwritten notes from his course assignments, and Purdue textbooks.

The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Groups wanting to schedule a tour may call 765-494-2839.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue Galleries will present an art exhibition of “Urban Legends and Rural Myths,” from March 9 to April 26 in the Stewart Center Gallery.

Fifteen contemporary artists from across the United States are represented, with works that suggest new myths and tall tales.

Ranging from famous examples of cryptozoology like Bigfoot to new interpretations of invented entities and events, these artists explore the public’s collective imagination with campiness and sociological references, said Galleries Director Craig Martin.

SuttonBeresCuller (John Sutton, Ben Beres, Zac Culler of Seattle), 'Have You Seen Patches?,' photograph (Courtesy of the artists)

The exhibit includes inkjet photographs by Milana Braslavsky of Reisterstown, Md.; cinematic-style beast images by SuttonBeresCuller – John Sutton, Ben Beres and Zac Culler, of Seattle; Victorian-style mixed media installations by Kristen Gallerneaux of Detroit; mixed media sculptural totems by Ronald Gonzalez of Johnson City, N.Y.; assemblage sculptures by Gary John Gresl of Brown Deer, Wis.; enigmatic C-print scenes by Joe Johnson of Columbia, Mo.; wistful dinosaur paintings by Joshua Kaplan of Astoria, N.Y.; photographs of floating deities by Colin Kim of Sunnyside, N.Y.; praying mantis dioramas by Judith G. Klausner of Somerville, Mass.; lithographs of amalgamated creatures from the “Association for Creative Zoology” by Beauvais Lyons of Knoxville, Tenn.; wolf-themed multi-process prints by Florence Alfano McEwin of Green River, Wyo.; C-print images by Tiff Mich of Safety Harbor, Fla.; mythic mixed media sculpture by Rob Millard-Mendez of Evansville, Ind.; paintings of the artist’s dog “Button in the Garden of Earthly Delights,” by Catya Plate of Brooklyn, N.Y.; and drawings by Michael Wong of Minneapolis.

Artwork was selected for the exhibition by Martin, Elizabeth K. Mix, contemporary art historian at Butler University, and Tess Cortés, gallery coordinator of the Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University.

Beauvais Lyons (Knoxville, Tenn.), 'Association for Creative Zoology: Micropterus trichopilaris,' lithograph, (Courtesy of the artist)

From 6-8 p.m. March 6, Galleries will present an opening reception for “Urban Legends and Rural Myths” in the Stewart Center Gallery. Several of the exhibiting artists are expected to attend, Martin said.

A printed handout will be offered, which features notes from a discussion on the exhibition by the curators.

In conjunction with “Urban Legends and Rural Myths,” Purdue Galleries and Tippecanoe Arts Federation are presenting a communitywide project called “Tippecanus Rex” (Tipp-eh-can-us Rex). The two exhibits are a joint project supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

“Tippecanus Rex” will highlight the invented history of the Tippecanoe County region through visual, performing, musical, and literary art. It will be presented from April 1 through May 10 at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation.

Artists, writers and performers of all ages in the 14 counties served by the Tippecanoe Arts Federation are invited to participate. The entry form for “Tippecanus Rex” can be downloaded at http://www.tippecanusrex.com, http://www.purdue.edu/galleries or http://www.tippecanoearts.org.

On continuing display in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Purdue Memorial Union is an exhibit of objects from the Galleries’ permanent collection titled “Shrouds, Masks and the Floating World.” Textiles from Pre-Columbian South America, ceremonial masks from the West Guinea Coast of Africa and Japanese relief prints from the era of ukiyo-e (the “Floating World”) will be on extended display through 2009.

The Robert L. Ringel Gallery and the Stewart Center Gallery are open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday; and 1-5 p.m. on Sunday. For class or group visits, contact Mary Ann Anderson from Purdue Galleries, at (765) 496-7899. All Purdue Galleries exhibitions and events are free and open to the public.

The Tecumseh piano trio reunites… Greg Kostraba, Regan Eckstein and Karen Kruse will perform together again at Duncan Hall on Sunday, January 18, 2009. Their music is a blend of Gypsy, Spanish, Jewish and Latin American musical idioms, and the program evokes folk music from around the world.

Location: Thomas Duncan Hall, 619 Ferry Street, Lafayette, IN
Cost: $11 in advance; $12 at the door; $6 College students with ID; FREE for all students K-12

Concert tickets are available at Von’s Books, Tippecanoe Arts Federation (423-ARTS), and at the door. For information, see http://www.tippecanoechambermusic.org or call 765-409-3516