Events on November 6, 2025

Good Time Charlie Cartwright at 111 Arts Gallery Art at the Murray Open Studios Stephen Millben at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Music by Nash Hammond at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Art Hazelwood at Gordy Fine Art and Framing Geode Slicing Event at Kat's Crystals and Curiosities America's Hometown Jazz Combo led by Dr. George Wolfe performing at a previous MPL event. The band will perform live at the November 6, 2025 MPL 150th Party The original Carnegie Lights display in 2024. A new Carnegie Lights display will take place at the November 6, 2025 MPL 150th Party. Brad Brunsman at Savage's Alehouse

111 Arts Gallery 
111 E. Main
This iconic sheet of flash measuring 5’ x 4’ will be presented for November’s First Thursday and all month. We’ll be doing flash from this sheet for $100 each, made by the famous artist Good Time Charlie Cartwright, 1984, Wichita, Kansas.

Art at the Murray
405 S. Walnut
Art at the Murray Open Studios 5-8pm: NEW: Our Mini 2nd Floor Foyer Gallery has a breathtaking photography exhibit by Jenny Moore-Smith, scenes from Antarctica taken on Smith’s grand adventure aboard the Viking ship Octantis in January 2025. Carrie Wright welcomes you for Christmas shopping with a whole new collection of lovely silk on glass ornaments amidst several other fine gifts. Visit Hue House down the hall to check out new art prints and fun accessories. Upstairs, Gallery Flaneur will be exhibiting Mark Sawrie's Adults-Only photographic/digital work, and Cassie Dunmyer has brand new work on display you don't want to miss. 

Canan Commons
500 S. Walnut St.
Fall Family Portraits on the Canan Commons Stage! As we enter the final months of 2025, it's time to think about year-end photos. Join us to get a professional digital portrait by photographer Ty Morton, with donations welcome. Sign up will also be available for our upcoming studio portrait sessions. All funds raised will benefit the Altrusa International Club and Altrusa Foundation of Muncie, IN. Through your support, we sponsor local grants, literacy initiatives, disaster relief and fight food insecurity.

Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
Join us during November First Thursday at Cornerstone for a night of the arts! Shop from local vendors and listen to live music from Nash Hammond in the Great Room. Explore (and shop) the works of local artist Stephen Millben in the Judith Barnes Gallery. Experience our Fall Celebration of belly dancing, stage combat, and fencing demos in the Heritage. All events are free and located on the 2nd floor.  

Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co. 
224 E. Main
Come Celebrate 10 years with Carl and Barbara Schafer as owners of Gordy Fine Art and Framing from 5 to 8. Greg Pyle will be sharing his musical talents with artworks by various artists that have called Muncie home filling the gallery. Barbara and Carl will be speaking at 6:15 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Kat’s Crystals & Curiosities
111 E Adams St 
Join us from 5-8pm for our Live Geode Slicing Event! Come and witness the transformation of raw geodes into beautiful, sparkling crystals. It's a one-of-a-kind opportunity you won't want to miss! Prices start at just $5. 

Muncie Public Library
301 E. Jackson
Muncie Public Library 150th Party at Carnegie Library from 5-8 pm. Free event for all ages. Stop by to get your picture in the photo booth, discover genealogy research with members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, check out photo exhibits of the library's history and a coloring table for kids to make cards for MPL, and enjoy free refreshments. America's Hometown Jazz Combo, led by Dr. George Wolfe, will perform live throughout the evening. MPL Director Alan Kornblau will make comments at 6 pm. 

Later, watch the "Carnegie Lights" display outside with video animations projected onto the Carnegie Library exterior, created by BSU students in the Muncie of Muses iMade immersive learning group under the direction of Prof. Kevin Klinger. Enjoy hot cocoa and treats during the outside show courtesy of The Community Foundation of Muncie & Delaware County.

Savage's Ale House (21+)
127 N. High
Savages will be showing the work of artist Brad Brunsman.

Image: Lamar Richcreek (American, 1947–2018), Untitled from the Series Ideal Farm, 2004, chromogenic color print, gift of Jean Richcreek, 2024.006.011.

September 18 – December 19, 2025

Ball State alumnus Lamar Richcreek (1947–2018) earned a degree in business administration in 1969. After a 24-year career in banking, he launched a second career in photography. In his 50s, he returned to school, earned an MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and taught for 20 years as an adjunct professor of photography at the Herron School of Art + Design in Indianapolis. His success as a fine art photographer resulted in a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002.

Like the pastoral genre in literature, art, and music, Lamar Richcreek’s photographs often present nostalgic visual stories of Indiana’s agricultural landscape inflected by his business perspective. He once wrote in an artist’s statement, “My views of the landscape, agriculture and the family farm are romanticized ones, originating from childhood experiences and visits to my grandfather’s farm in Central Indiana. In the aftermath of World War II and during the Cold War years, the Midwest saw the creation of global markets for farm products and the development of technological advances that were invented to increase production for improved and insured profitability, all of which transformed American farming. These transformations favored agri-businesses and multi-national corporations, thereby altering the viability of the traditional family farm. This change occurred over time without my realizing its impact.”

Lamar Richcreek’s photography testifies to the effects of the post-war economic-agricultural boom in the Midwest through his images with surreal settings, witty juxtapositions, and sublime scenery. A recent donation of art from his wife, Jean Richcreek (1948–2025), to the David Owsley Museum of Art allows subsequent generations to view the corporatization of farming in Indiana through Lamar Richcreek’s creative lens. We are also grateful to Ball State alumnus Thomas Murphy (‘69) for his recent philanthropic investment in DOMA in memory of Lamar and Jean Richcreek.  

Image: Pierre Daura (American, born Spain, 1896–1976), designs for Cercle et Carré logo, 1929. Pen and ink on paper, 9 3/4 × 6 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Gift of Martha Randolph Daura. 2011.125.

September 18 – December 19, 2025

Hours: 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Tuesday–Friday)
           1:30–4:30 p.m. (Saturday)

In Paris in 1929, Belgian painter and critic Michel Seuphor (1901–1999), Uruguayan painter and theorist Joaquín Torres-García (1874–1949), and Catalan-American artist Pierre Daura (1896–1976) founded an influential but short-lived artistic group named Circle and Square, after the geometric shapes fundamental to abstract art.  The group attracted more than eighty international artists including Jean Arp (1886–1966), Le Corbusier (1887–1965), Alexandra Exter (1882–1949), Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Nadia Khodasevich Léger (1904–1987), Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and Sophie Täuber-Arp (1889–1943), among other famous and lesser-known personalities in the Parisian art world. Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art showcases more than sixty works by thirty of Cercle et Carré’s participants, as well as outlines the formation of the group and its artistic legacy.

The exhibition was organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, with the addition of works from the collection of the David Owsley Museum of Art. Generous support for the exhibition was provided by the Daura Foundation.

Bob Ross Painting Workshop: S30 E08—Home in the Valley

Learn Bob’s signature “wet-on-wet” technique from an experienced Certified Ross Instructor® and paint at Minnetrista! Just bring yourself, and we will provide everything you need to have a wonderful time. Just like Bob said, “Let’s get crazy!”

This workshop will take place in the Cantina, a ground-level, fully accessible space. Pre-registration is strongly preferred. Limited walk-in seating may be available, so please call ahead. Painting workshops are open to participants ages 14 and up.

Please note: Admission to the Bob Ross Experience exhibition is not included with workshop registration. All attendees must be registered to participate. Contact our front desk at 765.282.4848 for more information.

FIRST THURSDAYS! 🌱 Join our local Growers & Makers of the Muncie Makers Market for a really fun community experience EVERY MONTH for First Thursdays in Downtown Muncie! ALL OUTDOORS! While you enjoy shopping for our homemade, handmade, and locally grown goods, you can also have a great time with live geode/rock cutting with Wook's Workshop, check out Kat's Crystals & Curiosities along the path of our Market, and explore the many arty opportunities throughout Downtown Muncie's First Thursday Gallery Walks! The Muncie Makers Market is so happy to get back outside with the First Thursday community events, a popular local tradition, going many years back, with all sorts of vendors, artists, and entertainers set up throughout all of Downtown Muncie. Come shop with us and enjoy your community!

The Muncie Makers Market is a retail business incubator presented to the public through a community farmers market with fresh homemade food, locally grown produce, live plants, and handmade arts of all kinds! You’ll find the Muncie Makers Market monthly during the First Thursday & Third Thursday community events in Downtown Muncie, and at special annual events like the Magic City Brewfest, Brink of Summer ArtsWalk, Fire Up DWNTWN, ArtsWalk, and Light Up DWNTWN throughout our community all year! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1627047027524961/  

First Thursday Gallery Walks:

https://www.downtownmuncie.org/first-thursday

Kat's Crystals & Curiosities:

https://www.katscrystalsandcuriosities.com

Advance Vendor Registration is required to be a Vendor at each selling event with the Muncie Makers Market. 🌿

About

The Ball State Symphony Orchestra is a flagship ensemble of the School of Music that performs orchestral music from a wide variety of backgrounds and time periods.

Program

Prokofiev: The Montagues and Capulets from Romeo & Juliet
Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Copland: Appalachian Spring

Tickets

Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall starting August 1. 

Prices

• General Public: $8 in advance / $10 at the door
• Seniors: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
• BSU Faculty/Staff: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
• Students: free* in advance / $5 at the door
  *One (1) free student ticket per ID is available in advance (before 5 p.m. on the night of the concert) at the College of Fine Arts Box Office

Purchase Options

• ONLINE
• Phone: 765-285-8749
• In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance

**Please note: As part of our commitment to sustainability, all College of Fine Arts tickets are paperless and are accessible via email confirmation. Your confirmation email contains your digital tickets which can be scanned at the door from your mobile device, or you can print your digital tickets at home to be scanned. There is no need to visit Will Call prior to the performance.

Parking

Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Metered parking is available on the first floor of the garage until 7 p.m. at which time parking is free.