September's First Thursday (full listing)

Jannell Summers at Gordy Fine Art and Framing Co. Madjax Tenant Artists Spotlight Maude and Me, by Debra Gindhart and Maude Jennings, Madjax, 2nd floor Gringo Gadjo at Madjax Jerry Wire, Muncie Artist's Guild "Artist of the Month" The Muncie Makers Market Jon Rees at Muncie Makes Lab Muncie Map Co.

Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
Cornerstone Center for the Arts will be showing work by Nicholle Sanchez. The show is titled “Rebel Girl, the death of a people pleaser,” a series of mostly acrylic paintings focusing on the need to disassimilate from society's standards of what is or isn't proper social norms. With the unwillingness to let our real and valid anger be diffused, with the tagline: I hope this series punches you in the mouth,I hope you feel it and I hope it hurts.

Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co. 
224 E. Main
Gordy Fine Art & Framing final party for Making Their Mark: Four Artists Thursday September 1, 5-8pm. 
Gordy Fine Art and Framing is honored to celebrate the 5th anniversary of On the Mark, For the City, the colorful mural on the Mark III Tap Room, with an exhibition and sale of artworks by the four artists who planned, designed, and painted that mural.  The final party for this exhibition will be First Thursday, September 1 from 5 to 8 pm.

Following the tragic events at the Orlando Pulse Nightclub in 2016, JoAnna Darda, Braydee Euliss, Faith Kellermeyer, and Jannell Summers were inspired to work hand-in-hand to create a piece of public art that would illustrate Muncie’s acceptance of and support for people of all backgrounds. These four women artists raised the funds, figured out the logistics, designed and painted the mural. Throughout the process they invited the community to help in the creation of the mural.

Making Their Mark looks at each of these women as artists. JoAnna, a textile artist, focuses on color, texture, and function. Braydee is a visual artist and curator that explores human relationships with objects, spaces, and institutions. Faith, a painter, focuses on narratives that embrace universal experiences. Jannell works in various mediums that blend 70s color and design with modern day attitudes. 

The show will be on view with works for sale through August 30. 10% of all sales of artworks will go to support Muncie OUTreach and its mission to provide an accepting environment to enhance the personal growth of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth in the Delaware County area. 

Gordy Fine Art and Framing promotes talented artists, provides appraisals, 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 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.
Madjax Muncie Tenant Artist Highlight:
Aimee Mychack, thanks for sharing your talents with Madjax and Muncie. Aimee is a muralist, local Box-Box artist, and a fabulous tenant artist. Come and check out her collection of ecologically correct taxidermy art on Madjax’s first floor.

Tom Stader works primarily with acrylic paints. Tom’s captures of the sky, the mountains, the hills, in colorful landscapes are quite eye catching. Vibrant colors dance in the shadows and across each canvas. His talents and imagination are an inspiration to all who view his extensive collection. 2nd floor galleries

Joining Aimee and Tom are several local popup artists and makers located on both floors. Please support these talented creatives. We believe it is important to encourage the artistic paths of our artists and makers. First and Second floor galleries, 5-8pm.

GringoGadjo:
Musical duo: Dan Wright and John Kamplain will share their musical talents with Madjax and Muncie. 

Gindhart at Madjax:
MAUDE and ME: Do you see things the way we saw them?

She paints, I paint, we both write and recite POETRY. Art exhibit of Dr. Maude Jennings Ph.D BSU Emerita paintings and poetry art installation and collaboration with local artist in residence, maker, educator, and arts advocate Debra Gindhart Dragoo. 

MAUDE AND ME will feature mixed media wall art and live poetry recital from various local poets and spoken word artists. Fun with POETRY.
Be sure to come by and wish Debra a HAPPY 70!!
5-8pm, 2nd floor galleries.

Beyond I Can:
Beyond I Can’s gift shop will be open for First Thursday. 

Muncie Artist’s Guild
Various locations
Jerry Wire is our MAG artist of the month and he was our 2022 Annual Show Winner of the "Best of Show."

Jerry Wire, a Delaware County resident, was born and raised in Madison County. In his youth he was influenced by his grandfather’s oil paintings of Brown County and Bean Blossom Overlook.

Wire began his art education in high school at Madison Heights where he designed a school shield that was installed on the gymnasium wall. He also worked on stage sets for student plays and began drawing pastel portraits of students. He continued his education at Ball State University majoring in U.S. History and minoring in art.

He is a veteran of the Air Force and after discharge moved to Muncie and worked at Ball Brothers as a computer operator. He worked as a teacher of art at Muncie Community Schools for over 30 years and volunteered at Minnetrista for various art projects after he retired.

Wire is an art hobbyist who has dabbled in both two and three-dimensional projects in charcoal and pastels, oils, acrylic portraits, ceramics, throwing, terra-cotta, papier-mâché, kites, mosaics, weaving, hyper-tufa garden sculptures and printmaking. His main interest is in art history and the study of the men and women over the ages of Western Civilization, their interpretation of life, and how they handled their subjects.

Muncie Makers Market
Corner of Walnut and Adams
The Muncie Makers Market is happy to be a part of Muncie’s First Thursday community events, thanks to an invitation to take over the sidewalks in front of Muncie Map Co. in Downtown Muncie. This is a popular local tradition, going years back, all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout Downtown Muncie every month. It’s a casual, relaxed evening outdoors, and we help to bring folks to the area. The Muncie Makers Market is a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, beautiful art, and handmade crafts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market at special events throughout our community all year. Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram, and please SHARE this post: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/

Muncie Makes Lab
628 S. Walnut
“Digital Analogue”: An exhibition by Jon Rees, School of Art, Ball State University
Description: An exhibition of glass sculpture that explores the link between digital and traditional methods of creation through the analysis of popular architectural typologies with a focus on Form, Space, and Light. 
First Thursday gallery hours: 6pm-9pm
By appointment Friday 9/2

Muncie Map Co.
111 E. Adams
For First Thursday, Muncie Map Co. is happy to be hosting Muncie Makers Market on our side walks just outside our store.

We've been restoring historical maps these past few days that will be released as part of our Heritage Series. This batch is largely focused on comical pictorial maps of national parks, but there are a few real beauties from other places as well. A few of these will be ready for purchase by First Thursday. 

The Shoppe by Pink Leaf
108 S. Walnut St.
As summer is ending, our deals on seeds are only getting better. All seeds are buy one get one free! Get a head start on next year's gardening plans and stock up early.