LOU’S VIEW: Getting it just right isn’t easy
This week, I felt a little like Goldilocks visiting the bear cottage—only in my search of things that were just right, I found everything to be too something or other.
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Zionsville galleries watching Carmel arts district
Zionsville gallery owners are stepping up their collective marketing efforts as Carmel’s Arts and Design District has landed a new wave of artists and gallery owners over the past five months.
Big Car bringing arts events to eight Indianapolis neighborhoods
The arts collective in Fountain Square is embarking on a series of neighborhood events that include storytelling, drawing and installations.
Owner of Stutz studio opening gallery in Carmel
The opening is a homecoming of sorts for Kathleen O’Neil Stevens, who formerly operated a studio-gallery for her own work on East Carmel Drive.
Eiteljorg Museum’s Western art show generates more than $1M in sales
The sale is the only one of its kind east of the Mississippi River.
Indianapolis Museum of Art to present at international competition
A team of Puerto Rican artists sponsored by IMA will represent the United States in an exhibition in Venice.
Insurance seller chases music dreams with jazz label
Al Hall started Owl Studios in 2005 to promote local musicians and has expanded its roster of performers to 16.
Reverie Estate buys another downtown Indianapolis apartment building
The prolific developer of urban apartments plans to turn the building into an affordable artists’ community.
Local artist Knabe lands in Indiana Design Center
Walter Knabe, this year’s official artist of the Indianapolis 500, will set up shop this summer in the Indiana Design Center,
part of the Carmel’s Arts and Design District.
Entrepreneurial couples banking on demand for art
One art-collecting couple has opened a fine-art gallery in Zionsville, while the founder of a contemporary craft show is planning
a boutique in Irvington.
Indiana’s number of arts-related businesses declines
Washington, D.C.-based Americans for the Arts says the state had 9,950 arts-related businesses last year, a five-year low
and down 3.9 percent
from 2008.
Indiana Design Center lines up tenants
The $25 million project, which is the cornerstone of Carmel’s Arts & Design District, has signed 11 interior design-related tenants
and a restaurant.
Indianapolis International Airport’s art collection grows
The new work was delayed by 16 months because the artist’s New Orleans home and studio were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Mass Ave fine art gallery G.C. Lucas set to close
Greg Lucas will be the second fine art gallery owner in Indianapolis to close shop this year. Lucas announced Tuesday that
he will close his gallery at 884 Massachusetts Ave. by year’s end.
Funding cut jeopardizes popular Indiana Artisan program
A state-run program aimed at boosting business for local artisans—ranging from painters to syrup makers—and
turning them into a draw for tourists is in jeopardy because of dramatic funding cuts.
Carmel arts foundation adds directors; Stutz names residents
The Carmel Performing Arts Foundation has appointed its first independent board members, Rollin Dick and Rosemary Waters.
In downtown Indianapolis, two local artists will receive free studio space in the Stutz Building
for the next year.
Art-gallery operators opening new spaces on Mass Ave
The launch of two new gallery ventures come on the heels of the closing of one of the
city’s most well-established fine contemporary art spaces, Ruschman Gallery.
Arts festivals feel financial pinch
Art-show organizers are getting creative to keep their events alive as they struggle to attract sponsors and participating artists.
Arts backer Efroymson returns to contemporary museum he helped start
Jeremy Efroymson recently agreed to return to the financially flailing Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as its executive
director and work for free. Efroymson, one of the museum’s early leaders, has a strategy for seeing IMOCA through a financial
rough spot, but what remains unclear is how the museum will wean itself off his support.
Trophy-seeking hunters keep Greenwood taxidermist busy
The late winter sun has yet to rise, but brothers Charlie and Mark Masheck already are hard at work inside a sprawling cabin along Matthews Road outside Greenwood, setting up for the day. A painted sign out front reads Hoosier Trapper Supply Inc., but the rustic shop also houses the brothers’ other endeavor: Leatherwood Wildlife […]