December's First Thursday
| When |
Thursday, December 1, 2016 5:00pm to 9:00pm |
|---|---|
| Where |
Downtown Old National Lot |
| What | Art printmaking, painting, first thursday, exhibitions, downtown, downtown, christmas |
Holiday sale from the Book Arts Collaborative and Tribune Showprint
Detail of work by David Palm, Cornerstone Center for the Arts
Scott Anderson, "Cerberus Banana," Annual Salon Show, Gordy Fine Art and Framing
Painting by Caryn Moore, from "In the Limelight" at Made in Muncie
Holiday Muncie Makers Market
Daniel Combs, "Ripped Away," CritChat Open House at Muncie Makes Lab, 1st floor
Melissa Livermore and Sarah Lassiter, "I Used Google Translate for This," at Muncie Makes Lab, 2nd floor
"Eat, Drink, and Cartography," Twin Archer Brewpub
Book Arts Collaborative and Tribune Showprint
At Mad Jax Muncie
600 E. Main
Book Arts Collaborative will be open for First Thursday with a variety of affordable gift items available including holiday cards for $2 each, printed coasters 4/$2, letter pressed wrapping paper, broadsides, and hand sewn blank journals from $12-40. Students will be on hand to give tours of the Collaborative as well as our community partner's shop, Tribune Showprint.
Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
Cornerstone will open a new art gallery titled “Stop all the Clocks,” with artwork created by the late David Palm. This show explores the desires many of us have had when deep feelings are experienced or special moments occur. The best ways to preserve these moments can be through drawings and paintings like the ones by Palm.
The artwork displayed at this show features landscape, still life, and street life paintings and drawings with an impressionist style. This work was created over the span of Palm’s lifetime and provides a unique perspective on culture and time. Much of the featured artwork captures natural, everyday life, while some of the pieces showcase the messiness of life’s circumstances.
Palm, an Indiana-native, received his degrees in graphic design from the University of Michigan and Yale University. He later moved to New York City where he spent most of his life living and working. He visited Indiana as much as possible and later retired to Muncie, Indiana. He used his painting and drawing to stop time and remember life’s moments of sorrow, pain and joy.
The opening reception will be 5-7pm in the Cornerstone art gallery located on the second floor of Cornerstone Center for the Arts. His framed pieces will continue to be on display in the gallery from December 2016 through January 2017.
For more information about the show call Cornerstone’s Department of Education & Communication at 765-281-9503, ext. 23.
Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co.
224 E. Main
Gordy Fine Art & Framing Company will open its Annual Salon Show on First Thursday, December 1st from 5 - 8 PM. Included in the exhibit will be work by all 25 artists represented by the downtown Muncie gallery. Artists will be on hand to chat and answer questions. The reception will also celebrate the first year of business under new owners Carl and Barbara Schafer.
A feast for the eyes, the GFAF Annual Salon Show celebrates Muncie’s robust fine art scene as dozens of paintings, prints, and pottery pieces fill the gallery. Both new and familiar work will be on view by area artists Kim Anderson, Brian Gordy, Jim Faulkner, Sarojini Johnson, Jan McCune, Alan Patrick, Martin Price, Carol Strock Wasson, and more. This unique exhibit allows for works of art to be taken away at the time of sale, giving patrons the opportunity to consider art in the show for holiday decorating and gift giving.
“There is no other GFAF exhibit that appropriately and visually conveys the impressive amount of artistic talent Muncie and the rest of East Central Indiana supports. The Annual Salon Show is both a testament to that talent and the community of art patrons that continues to reinforce our efforts to grow the local arts scene,” offers Gallery Manager Braydee Euliss reflecting on her tenth year of involvement with exhibitions at Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co.
Carl and Barbara Schafer will introduce the exhibit and artists in attendance during a brief talk at 6:15. Light refreshments will be served and the public is invited to attend.
Gordy Fine Art and Framing Company promotes talented artists and offers expert design and craftsmanship for framing and displaying treasured family possessions and works of art. The Annual Salon Show may also be viewed through the end of January 2017 during regular business hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5:30 pm, Saturday, 9 am – 3 pm. Gordy Fine Art and Framing Company is located at 224 East Main Street, next door to Muncie Civic Theatre. For more information, visit www.gordyframing.com or call 765-284-8422.
119 W. Charles St.
Ball State University's IDIA Lab will showcase an immersive, virtual reality art installation at 119 E. Charles St. If you want to check out the latest Oculus Rift VR headset and other fun tech, come on down!
Made in Muncie
313 S. Walnut
An opening Reception for “In the Limelight” will be held from 5-8pm.
Muncie Artists Guild will be stepping into the "Limelight" again with their show at Made in Muncie Pottery. Their opening reception will be from 5-8pm. Many of their works in various media will be featured and for sale. The work will be on display for the entire month of December 2016 through January 2017.
514 E Jackson St.
What can we learn from today’s extreme environments that can help us adapt to a rapidly changing climate? You can experience the answer at 134°: Architecture for Extreme Environments, the exhibition of 12 shelters designed and built by Ball State University architecture student recently returned from a research trip to Death Valley. Led by BSU Professor George Elvin, the students explored the world’s hottest place and drew lessons from it that can help us live better in a changing climate. At the Project Open House, Thursday, December 1, 5-8pm at MadJax Muncie, visitors can experience twelve unique shelter structures designed and built by the students and learn how today’s most extreme environments can teach us about sustainability, resilient design, and how we can thrive in tomorrow’s climate. MadJax Muncie is located at 514 E Jackson St.
Holiday Muncie Makers Market
Jackson and Cherry Streets
The Holiday Muncie Makers Market is coming to Light Up Dwntwn! Our local artisans will stock this festive gift market during the 2016 Tree Lighting Ceremony at Canan Commons, on Walnut at the Roundabout in Downtown Muncie, Indiana, on Thursday, December 1st, from 5-8pm. This fun annual family event features Santa Claus, children's activities, music, and the Holiday Muncie Makers Market in a heated tent full of an amazing array of art and gifts!
This community gift sale, with a goal of showcasing the talent of Muncie artists and makers, will help you get all your shopping done early while enjoying traditional family entertainment and kicking off the holiday season. The Holiday Muncie Makers Market will feature a wide variety of fantastic holiday gifts of jewelry, breads and sweets, clothing, gourmet pet treats, photography, oil/acrylic/watercolor paintings, jams and jellies, knits, dogwear, plants, candy, pottery, wreaths and swags, toys, drawings, pies, purses, silk scarves, afghans, fudge, soaps, holiday decorations, prints, perfume oils, headbands, sculpture, stuffed animals, and so much more! FREE to attend!
Holiday Muncie Makers Market event details and RSVP here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/933097013501779/
During the Spring, Summer, and Fall, the Muncie Makers Market is an outdoor, weekly Growers and Makers Market. We will return in Spring 2017! Fresh food, locally grown produce, plants, art, handmade crafts, and live entertainment, all weekly at the Muncie Makers Market on Saturdays from 4-7p on the corner of Jackson and Cherry Streets in the Old West End of Downtown Muncie, and, we are a PokéStop just full of lures. Watch for our Market to return with warm weather!
JOIN the Muncie Makers Market on FaceBook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/
628 S. Walnut
1st Floor:
CritChat Open House
Muncie Makes Lab will host its fourth CritChat exhibit of the year from 5-9pm. CritChat Open House is a one night only pop-up exhibit of new, experimental artwork by several CritChat members. Exhibiting artists will be present and guests are encouraged to ask questions throughout the evening. DJ JANNELL will provide music, and light refreshments will be served.
CritChat is a free, community meet-up developed and facilitated by emerging, Muncie-based artists. This monthly gathering invites local artists of all kinds to participate in conversation about their own work and the work of others. Painters, photographers, sculptors, and makers alike are encouraged to bring completed work, work-in-progress, and even unrealized ideas with the sole intention of sharing. By enabling dialogue, promoting collaboration, and providing critical feedback, the group hopes to build community and support for emerging area artists.
Find out more about CritChat & join the conversation every 3rd Thursday of the month from 7-9pm at Muncie Makes Lab, 628 S. Walnut St. Muncie, IN 47605. No RSVP necessary. Muncie Makes Lab is a design/build, make, discuss, display, and workshop lab for students, faculty, and staff from Ball State University as well as the Muncie community.
2nd Floor:
I Used Google Translate For This
Melissa Livermore and Sarah Lassiter join together to create work that explores their experiences with second and third languages. This exhibition looks at self-teaching, code-switching, and the role technology plays in the process of learning a new language.
Savage's Ale House (21+)
127 N. High
Dream Cloud Skateboards will be showing a variety of skateboard art throughout the month of December.
117 W. Charles St.
Eat, Drink, and Cartography: Celebrating “My Indiana Home” with Maps and a Wicked Book
The Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) is coordinating an exhibit for the Muncie DWNTWN First Thursday Arts Walk. This Thursday, December 1 Twin Archer Brew Pub (117 West Charles Street) will be hosting an exhibit of maps of Indiana starting at 5:00 through 8:00 pm. And Keith Roysdon and Douglas Walker will be signing copies of their new book, Wicked Muncie.
The map exhibit, “My Indiana Home,” features Indiana history maps created by the GRMC in celebration of the state’s Bicentennial this December 11. The maps cover Indiana’s rich political history, women’s history, military history, music, sports, and even movies that take place in the state. The newest map in the collection depicts the Vice Presidents from Indiana. The collection of Indiana history maps is available in digital format in the Libraries’ Cardinal Scholar repository or may be circulated from the GRMC. Teachers can use the maps for classroom exhibits or research, especially for fourth-grade Indiana history lessons.
Ball State University students in Dr. Hannah Barnes’ watercolor and painting class also created original maps of their interpretation of home. The students visited the GRMC to look at all the different kinds of cartography (above) for inspiration and then painted maps of their Indiana homes. This collection is extremely creative: One student painted a compass rose of a common Indiana insect, the cicada (above). These maps will be included as a special collection in the Libraries’ Digital Media Repository.
The book Wicked Muncie by Keith Roysdon and Douglas Walker describes the criminal history of Muncie. The authors explored the notorious and unusual side of Muncie’s history of crime, including murder, corruption, and illegal gambling. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Twin Archer Brew Pub serves all ages as a restaurant and a bar that serves craft beer. The menu includes fresh ingredients every day.
For more information, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.