Art

Ron Bias at 111 Arts Gallery Angel Gillette at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Angel Gillette at Cornerstone Center for the Arts @workhorse_for_pennies at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Muncie Makers Market at Cornerstone Center for the Arts

111 Arts Gallery 
111 E. Main
111 Arts Gallery will have our huge collection of Ron Bias Tattoo flash. He was an Indiana artist- rest in peace. They are homemade frames hand drawn flash from the 1970s. For more information, stop by the shop and check out the artwork. We put a book out with his art a couple years ago. The books have long sold out, but the flash is still up. Vintage Americano. 

Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
Join us from 5 - 8 pm for a relaxing evening celebrating the arts. Explore the work of this month's gallery artist, Angel Gillette, listen to live music from Kevin Klinger, and shop our local arts vendors. 

The first First Thursday of 2025 will fall on January 2. Ring in the new year supporting Cornerstone Center for the Arts community of artists and makers! Shop our vendors, listen to music by tba, and explore and shop the artwork of Angel Gillette. Muncie’s bold and colorful outsider artist, come see this painter’s extensive collection of paintings. If you love non traditional paint strokes and contemporary art you will be amazed. 

Musical guest: @workhorse_for_pennies :: feat. Kdog and Freyberger is an experimental band that fuses raw, improvisational energy with eclectic sonic textures. The duo, Kdog and Freyberger, crafts a dynamic soundscape that blurs the boundaries between punk, folk, and avant-garde noise. Known for their unconventional instrumentation and unpredictable live performances, they thrive on the tension between chaos and control. Their upcoming gig promises a visceral, immersive experience, blending guttural rhythms, layered loops, spontaneous lyricism, background noise, and echoes of terrazzo surfaces, hardscapes, and hard scales. For fans of bold, boundary-pushing music, @workhorse_for_pennies is a rare and electrifying act not to be missed, nor remembered.

Muncie Makers Market: It’s Winter, so the Muncie Makers Market is on hiatus for our sidewalk setup until warmer weather - but we still have a fun First Thursday planned! We will have many items from our local Growers & Makers for sale on Thursday, January 2nd from 5-8p at Cornerstone Center for the Arts! Join us and many other local Artisans and shop INDOORS with FREE parking on First Thursday!

January 8-30, 2025

Reception: January 15, 4-6 p.m.

• Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.

About the Show

A two-person exhibition featuring work by Michael Lorsung, Assistant Professor of Art (Sculpture) at Ball State University, and Duane McDiarmid, Area Chair and Professor of Sculpture & Expanded Practice at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Lorsung works in craft-based media (metalsmithing, glass, ceramics, wood working) to incorporate those methodologies into contemporary forms of digital fabrication, time-based initiatives, installation, and kinetic work. He views the use of new technologies and methods as extensions of existing fields and modes of (art) making rather than expecting those newer processes to supplant tradition and history. Lorsung was previously employed as a Studio Coordinator of Sculpture at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

McDiarmid constructs sculptures, designs performances, and initiates social intersections in fine art venues, digital communities and within remote landscapes. He has worked collaboratively with communities and individual artists. For example, he created a blanket dispenser for the homeless in New York City; fed the public ice cream from a solar work embellished with high-tech interactive gizmos in remote deserts across the American southwest; and bathed in used motor oil for an audience of animals in a Maryland wetland swamp. His recent projects have involved wearing a towering French-court inspired wig of script describing the pleasures of powers and luxury while traversing mountain passes with a Mr. Coffee pot and an entourage of minions; in London he dressed as a “Gimp Skunk” to discuss American foreign policy and personal failings; and he outfitted an Arabian horse in western saddle gear reconfigured into ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ inspired garb. With the support of the Santa Fe Art Institute, he made custom-designed ritual objects for squatter communities in derelict buildings. McDiarmid’s work has been supported by grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation, NY; and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY, as well as numerous academic institutions.

January 8-30, 2025

Reception: January 15, 4-6 p.m.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 A.M. - 4 P.M. Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.

About the Show

A two-person exhibition featuring work by Michael Lorsung, Assistant Professor of Art (Sculpture) at Ball State University, and Duane McDiarmid, Area Chair and Professor of Sculpture & Expanded Practice at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Lorsung works in craft-based media (metalsmithing, glass, ceramics, wood working) to incorporate those methodologies into contemporary forms of digital fabrication, time-based initiatives, installation, and kinetic work. He views the use of new technologies and methods as extensions of existing fields and modes of (art) making rather than expecting those newer processes to supplant tradition and history. Lorsung was previously employed as a Studio Coordinator of Sculpture at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

McDiarmid constructs sculptures, designs performances, and initiates social intersections in fine art venues, digital communities and within remote landscapes. He has worked collaboratively with communities and individual artists. For example, he created a blanket dispenser for the homeless in New York City; fed the public ice cream from a solar work embellished with high-tech interactive gizmos in remote deserts across the American southwest; and bathed in used motor oil for an audience of animals in a Maryland wetland swamp. His recent projects have involved wearing a towering French-court inspired wig of script describing the pleasures of powers and luxury while traversing mountain passes with a Mr. Coffee pot and an entourage of minions; in London he dressed as a “Gimp Skunk” to discuss American foreign policy and personal failings; and he outfitted an Arabian horse in western saddle gear reconfigured into ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ inspired garb. With the support of the Santa Fe Art Institute, he made custom-designed ritual objects for squatter communities in derelict buildings. McDiarmid’s work has been supported by grant money from the National Endowment for the Arts; the Rockefeller Foundation, NY; and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, NY, as well as numerous academic institutions.