January's First Thursday (full listing)
| When |
Thursday, January 4, 2024 5pm to 8pm |
|---|---|
| Where | Downtown Muncie |
| What | Art exhibitions, design, jewelry, first thursday, downtown, painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, textile crafts, workshops |
Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 2nd floor
Design Lab at Madjax Pop-Up Workshop: Create Your Own Magnet
Lylanne Musselman, Muncie Artist Guild's "Artist of the Month"
Lylanne Musselman, Muncie Artist Guild's "Artist of the Month"
Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
CCA is continuing our Muncie artwork donation exhibit, with many new pieces added to the collection for January First Thursday. This generous LOCAL ART DONATION includes ceramics, sculpture, fiber art, prints, paintings, and drawings. If you’re a patron of Muncie arts don’t miss this incredible installation, or your opportunity to purchase some amazing art. All proceeds go to Cornerstone Center for the Arts and can be viewed in Cornerstone’s Judith Barnes Memorial Gallery, 2nd floor. Community artists participating in January 2024 First Thursday at CCA include Val Kelley, Mikell Vawter, Alyssa Geary, Blu Dawn, Barbara Howrey, Lily Elizabeth Catron, Jill Palumbo, Tom Stader, Stephen M. Millben II, Muncie Map Company studio, and more. Cornerstone Artist in Residence Debra Gindhart Dragoo is curating this monthly community event. Music guest: Nash Hammond; singer- songwriter.
Cornerstone Center for the Arts offers opportunities for creative expression for all through community and rental spaces in a historic setting. Cornerstone is home to The Masterworks Chorale and Orchestra Indiana.
Madjax Muncie
515 E. Main St.
Design Lab at Madjax Pop-Up Workshop: Create Your Own Magnet. Join us in the Design Lab at Madjax on Thursday, January 4 from 5–8 pm! Design and press your own magnet. Either create a design or upload a photo, then print your finished magnet design on sublimation paper and press it on the heat press. No pre-registration is required. Drop in anytime. Free for Design Lab members, $5 per magnet for nonmembers.
Muncie Artist’s Guild
Various locations
Lylanne Musselman is our Muncie Artists Guild's Artist of the Month for January 2024.
Artist Statement/Bio:
Lylanne Musselman is an award-winning poet, visual artist, and playwright. Lylanne specializes in people and pet portraits in pastels, gouache, and acrylics. She has traveled coast to coast doing cat shows, pet expos, and art fairs with her pet portraits. Lylanne has exhibited her work at Hoosier Salon, Watercolor Society of Indiana, Ventures in Creativity, Will Vawter Annual, Wabash Valley Exhibition, Northern Indiana Pastel Society, Indiana Heritage Arts, Open Space, and Minnetrista’s Annual Juried Show, among many others. She writes poems bi-monthly for Hancock County Arts Newsletter’s “Pause for Words.” Her art has appeared on the covers of a couple of her poetry chapbooks, and it has appeared in several literary journals, including Etchings 36.1, and the featured artist for Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 3. Musselman teaches writing at Ivy Tech Community College and Indiana Writers Center.
Her work will be shown at the following locations:
Northwest Bank (E Charles), Old National Bank (S Madison), Rosebud Coffee House, Vera Mae's Bistro, and Parlour Salon.
Listing of works on display:
Lylanne Musselman
“Cap ‘n Kid”
Gouache
9x12
$375
Lylanne Musselman
“Riding Off Into a Tucson Sunset”
Gouache
16x20
$425
Lylanne Musselman
“Flying High”
Acrylic
14x18
$225
Lylanne Musselman
“Masquerading as Plague Doctor”
Acrylic
16x20
$250
Lylanne Musselman
“Muncie Depot WWII Sendoff”
Pastel
18x22
$495