March's First Thursday (full listing)

Ronn Brown at Gordy Fine Art and Framing Co. Angel Gillette at Madjax, 2nd floor Debra Gindhart at Madjax, 2nd floor Debra Gindhart at Madjax, 2nd floor Debra Gindhart at Madjax, 2nd floor Nico Hammond and Debra Gindhart at Madjax, 2nd floor Jean McCauley, Muncie Artist's Guild "Artist-of-the-Month" Jean McCauley, Muncie Artist's Guild "Artist-of-the-Month"

Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co. 
224 E. Main
“Ronn Brown – Portraits”: Gordy Fine Art and Framing celebrates our exhibition of photographs by career photographer Ronn Brown. The exhibition opening party, with live music by Dan Wright and his guitar, is free to the public on Thursday March 3 from 5 – 8 pm.  Refreshments will be served, and the artist will be on hand to engage with visitors. The show will remain on view until April 2. 

A native of East Central Indiana, Mr. Brown was based in Los Angeles for over 20 years.  In Los Angeles, he focused mainly on photographing musicians, actors and models, and often worked for producers in the film and music industries. This kind of photography requires superb technical skills in operating the camera and lights, but he became highly sought after because of his bold imagination placing his subjects in inventive poses and dress. As his career progressed, he became increasingly interested in his rapport with the models and he would engage with them on a more personal level. To achieve specific lighting effects, he will rent rooms with windows positioned for just the right kind of natural light. The exhibition at Gordy is a selection of 20 images made in the past six years showing Mr. Brown’s unique talent for drawing out emotions that are both expressive and contemplative.  Most of the portraits on view were made working intensively with the model during extended studio sessions in both Los Angeles and Muncie.  Some are more spontaneous images of people he finds in public places. 

In 2020, Brown returned to Indiana and is now living in Muncie. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1997, he attended Ball State in the photojournalism and art departments. He credits much of his career success to Jack’s Camera Shop in Downtown Muncie where he taught lighting classes for 12 years. There refined his studio skills that made his eventual career one of many that were launched at Jack’s. 

The show will be on view with works for sale through April 2. 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. Business hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am – 5:30 pm, Saturday, 10 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.

Madjax Muncie
515 E. Main St.
Join us at Madjax during the First Thursday Arts Walk! Visit with local Artists and Makers in our community while enjoying an evening with family and friends. Have some fun during March FIRST THURSDAYS AT MADJAX Live music: Katie Jo Robinson. Come and support the creative genius and talents of our amazing POPUP artists and makers during gallery walk at MADJAX. Artists include: Drinking Bear Forge/Jacob Buck Price, Tom Stader, Angel Gillette, Debra Gindhart Dragoo & Nico Hammond. Plus Girl Scout cookies and more! Support The Guardian Brewery too! View and purchase locally made items such as artwork, jewelry, scarves and hats, hand-carved items, and more! 5-8pm.

A-1 For Fun rentals will be bringing in an indoor ice skating rink from March 3-5th. Also open Thursday-Saturday. The cost is $10 for skate rental. There will be a face-off rock climbing wall. We will also have Midwest Metals here with a display table and Woof Boom Radio.

Parking is available in our lot at the corner of Jackson and Monroe, and at the corner of Main and Monroe. 

Additional information about Madjax artists is included below:
Debra Gindhart:
All the GOOGLYEYES redirected art. Humorous artwork to celebrate March First Thursdays at Madjax! 5-8pm, meet the artist. Second floor galleries

Nico Hammond and Debra Gindhart:
Nico Hammond and Debra Gindhart Dragoo join creative processes to celebrate March First Thursdays at Madjax in the first ever youth artist and maker/curator in residence collaboration. Their multi-generational exhibit features flowers, St. Patrick motifs, fiber art, and Googly EYES. Join Nico and Debra as they create colorful and humorous community arts during gallery walk March 3. Meet the artists, 5-8pm. Second floor galleries.

Muncie Artist’s Guild
Various locations
Muncie Artist’s Guild: Artist-of-the-Month:
Jean McCauley is an award-winning artist who has been a member of the Muncie Artists Guild for over twenty years. She paints predominately in oils and pastels, but occasionally uses acrylics and watercolor. Her works are primarily landscapes, but she has more recently been painting a variety of dog portraits for family and friends. Jean has exhibited in many shows, receiving numerous awards, and is a member of Richmond Art Museum, Art Association of Henry County (Best of Show in 2021), Art Association of Randolph County (Awards of Excellence), Minnetrista, Muncie Art Students’ League (where she served as president in 2015 and co-president in 2021), and the David Owsley Museum of Art Alliance to name a few. Jean has studied with a wide variety of well known and highly respected artists, including Carol Strock-Wasson, Mary Ann Davis, and Pam Newell. She also has been a part of several interesting art projects throughout the years including the Muncie Artists Guild’s mural paintings (one located in City Hall, the other in the Arts & Journalism Building at Ball State University). In 2014 Jean was one of 14 artists selected to paint a violin for the 50th Anniversary of Emens Auditorium. In 2016 she was selected to participate in the Art of Sail Exhibition in Miami Florida which featured 30 artists from throughout the US. Each artist was provided a 36x36” segment of sailcloth from a retired jib sail. Additionally, Jean accompanied her son, David, on Artist in Residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and at the Santa Fe Art Institute. She continues to paint and show her work throughout central Indiana. Her paintings have been inspired by the beauty and simplistic aspects of nature and the world in which we live. Jean hopes her work evokes a pleasing and meaningful calm, capturing a sense of peace for a quieter, more thoughtful, almost forgotten time.

Jean McCauley’s work will be shown at the following locations:
Northwest Bank: 110 E. Charles
Vera Mae’s: 207-209 S. Walnut
Parlour at Hazelwood: 1300 W. University
Rosebud Coffeehouse: 1805 S. Hoyt
Old National Bank: 116 W. Charles

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