Events on May 1, 2025

The School of Art invites the public to attend its series of rotating BA/BFA exhibitions April 11 through May 3. Students will display artworks created as part of their coursework, representing a dynamic range of media, concepts, and styles. This is a great chance to see the exciting art being made by some of the School of Art's seniors!

The public is invited. Please note: gallery hours will vary depending on location, please check the hours for each location when planning your visit.

Student Center Gallery

Senior Show BA 1: Ashlyn Chapell, Cynthia Galvez, Carlos Perez, Leah Strong

Show Dates: Friday, April 11 - Wednesday, April 16

Reception: April 11, 5-7 p.m.

Gallery Presentation: April 11, 6 p.m.

Senior Show BA 2: Lochlan Gillen, Maddison Johnson, Kamari Lloyd, Chloe Phipps, Isabella Stratton

Show Dates: Friday, April 18 - Wednesday, April 23
Reception: April 18, 5-7 p.m.
Gallery Presentation: April 18, 6 p.m.

There will also be a Senior Graphic Design show in the Student Center - details to come!

Made in Muncie Pottery Gallery

Senior Show BA 3: Kaitlyn Tate

Opening reception: May 1, 5-8 p.m. during First Thursday

The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery

BFA group 1: Morris Gibbons, Emilee Dailey, Kylee Reff, Lauren Bond, John Palacios
Show Dates: Tuesday, April 15 to Friday, April 18
Reception: April 16, 4-6 p.m.

BFA 2: Andie Arana Gomez, Kelsey Gillenwater, Lincoln Saldivar, Muskwrat Evans, Michael Carson, Lily Hockwalt
Show Dates: Tuesday, April 22 to Friday, April 25
Reception: April 23rd, 4-6 p.m.

BFA 3: David Martinez, Emma Voth, Allison Jester, Riley Taylor, Aaliyah Sansone
Show Dates: Tuesday, April 29 to Saturday, May 3
Reception: May 2, 4-6 p.m.

Join us for the unique experience of Live Geode Slicing during First Thursday & the Muncie Maker’s Market ! Come & witness the transformation of raw geodes into beautiful , sparkling crystals ! Choose your own stone and watch live as the surprise beauty is revealed . Prices starting at just $5 . 

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. 🌿

Bob Cunningham at 111 Arts Gallery Art at the Murray Artists at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Songwriter Sessions at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Songwriter Sessions at Cornerstone Center for the Arts Dinosaur Walker (Bryson Summers) at Fox & Sparrow Tattoo The Gathering Place Ronn Brown at Gordy Fine Art and Framing Co. Live Geode Slicing at Kat's Crystals Lylanne Musselman, Muncie Artist Guild's "Artist of the Month" Muncie Makers Market Muncie Central High School AP Art Exhibit at Muncie Makes Lab Muncie Central High School AP Art Exhibit at Muncie Makes Lab

111 Arts Gallery 
111 E. Main
Gonna hang works form the collection! Original art works from Muncie’s famous Bob Cunningham. Comic style art studies made by the author while growing up in Muncie. He owned a grocery as well in the Old West End. 5-8pm Come see! 

Art at the Murray
405 S. Walnut
Please join us for our spring celebration of two floors of great ART! Carrie Wright will welcome you on the second floor with a very rare opportunity to purchase framed works from '23 and prior at a whopping 30% discount! Certified Bob Ross instructor Chris Taylor will be leading a painting workshop, a great chance to see what it will be like when you take one of his fabulous classes. Upstairs, Cassie Dunmyer Creative is featuring new prints and in progress work. She'll be accompanied by Desiree Hinshaw, a painter inspired by faith and nature, and Ray Woodcox, a ceramicist with functional forms and unique designs. Gallery Flaneur (aka Mark Sawrie) will be exhibiting photography, woodcut, drawing and assemblage Art. 

Cornerstone Center for the Arts
520 E. Main
Explore the work of Cornerstone’s 2D instructors Ann Johnson and Chelsea Waltermire, featured as our gallery artists for the month of May. Enjoy live music by CCA music instructor John Kolar as you shop from local vendors between 5–8 pm. Then, stay a little longer for the Songwriter Sessions from 7–9 pm, featuring performances by Jansen Duncan and Dave Carter. 

All events take place on the 2nd Floor of Cornerstone Center for the Arts and are free and open to the public.  

Fox & Sparrow Tattoo
304 S. Walnut
Fox & Sparrow Tattoo will host 'Ladies Night,' a collection of anime-style pin-ups by local artist, Bryson Summers aka Dinosaur Walker. Nerd culture, anime, video games, comic books, horror and punk are Dinosaur Walker's forte--and it's all great fun! 5-8pm.

In addition, walk-in tattoos are available from 1-8pm so swing in for some spring-inspired designs or to plan out your next piece. 

The Gathering Place
125 E Charles
Stop in and take a look around to see if our space fits your needs for your next gathering! The Gathering Place provides a small intimate space for you and your guests to gather to celebrate all of life’s special moments. Our space sits within the Historic Rose Court, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The Gathering Place gives you 1,600 sq. ft. of floor space, including a prep kitchen and built-in bar/beverage area. The Gathering Place is an open setting with the combination of industrial elements with modern comforts to create a stylish space for you to host your next gathering! 5-8pm

Gordy Fine Art & Framing Co. 
224 E. Main
Gordy Fine Art and Framing is pleased to open a new exhibition of photographs by career photographer Ronn Brown.  The exhibition opening party is free to the public on Thursday May 1 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 May 31. At 6:15 the artist will give a brief presentation about his work and answer questions. 

A native of East Central Indiana, Mr. Brown was based in Los Angeles for over 20 years.  There 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. 

Since moving back to Muncie in 2020, he has established a studio on North Walnut St. and is very active continuing his work.  This exhibition focuses on images that he has made since his return to Indiana. 

Ronn is also a photo-historian and collector who recently curated an exhibition of photographs called People and Places 1873 – 2000, from the collection of the David Owsley Museum at Ball State.  The Gordy show coincides with that exhibition until it closes on May 23. We encourage people who are interested in Ronn’s work to also visit the Owsley and also to view an accompanying film made by the Ball State Department of Media.

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 he 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 May 31.  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: Tuesday 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, call 765-284-8422 or visit our website. 

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 Artists Guild
Various locations
Lylanne Musselman is an award-winning visual artist, poet, and playwright. Musselman specializes in people and pet portraits in pastels, gouache, and acrylics. She has exhibited her work multiple times at Hoosier Salon, Watercolor Society of Indiana, Ventures in Creativity, Arts Illiana, Will Vawter Annual, Wabash Valley Exhibition at Swope, Northern Indiana Pastel Society, Indiana Heritage Arts, Open Space & Minnetrista’s Annual Juried Show, among many others. Her art has appeared on the covers of several of her poetry chapbooks, and her art has appeared in several literary journals, recently UIndy’s Etchings 36.1, she was the featured artist for Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Issue 3, and has art in the story anthology, Café Macabre II. Musselman is active in several art and writing organizations in Indiana; she’s past president of Muncie Artists Guild, where she still serves on the board. Musselman is on the executive board of Midwest Writers Workshop, and she teaches writing of all stripes at Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, University of Indianapolis, E.B. Ball Center, and Indianapolis Writers Center.

Work will be shown at the following places: Rosebud Coffee House, Old National Bank, Vera Mae's, Haul 'n Oats, Patterson Bldg

MuncieArts
216 E. Main
Dreaming with MuncieArts: Stop into Muncie Civic Theatre and meet us in the lobby to talk about MuncieArts and its future, share your ideas, learn about what we do, and dream big. Pick up information from other arts and culture organizations to find out more about the extraordinary activities we have in Muncie and Delaware County to help make your spring and summer plans. We look forward to seeing you! 5–7 pm (special hours).

Muncie Makers Market
Corner of Walnut and Adams
COME SEE US at ADAMS & WALNUT on FIRST THURSDAY from 5-8p! 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 outdoors every First Thursday & indoors at MadJax every Third Thursday in Downtown Muncie! We develop local small business through education, connections, and events! Please JOIN us on Facebook and Instagram and please SHARE!

Muncie Makes Lab
628 S. Walnut
"MCHS AP Art Exhibition at MML: Variety, inspiration, and youthful creativity are displayed simultaneously by the most advanced artists at Muncie Central High School. They have been working all year on a body of artworks for a portfolio in their AP Art Studio courses. Various media, subject matter, and driving questions are explored as students determine the focus for their artworks. Come see the talent and imagination of Muncie's AP art students displayed across the walls for this exhibition! Also, special guest from BSU's Art Department & MCHS alumni artist: Maria Sanchez!

Just added:
MadJax Maker Force is the host to Taste of TeenWorks on May 1 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Experience Taste of TeenWorks, an engaging after-work event celebrating our vibrant community! Indulge in mouthwatering food and beverage tastings from local favorites while discovering the powerful impact of TeenWorks’ programs and the inspiring young people involved. Connect with community partners, champion TeenWorks mission, and relish an evening filled with flavor and purpose. Tickets are available for purchase at the door for $25.