• Jacobs Violin Virtuosi

• African American Dance Company

• First Nations Dancers

• Jacobs Guitar Ensemble

Sing along, play along, dance along with a freewheelin' hootenanny featuring guitars, banjos, and more!

CEWiT presents Binary Bracelet making: spell IU, your initials, or your name in Binary Code.  Or try painting with a Sphero robot, Snap Chat glasses, VR headset, and other hands-on tech toys.  The Women in Game Design will join us to demonstrate gaming devices and showcase some of the work they’ve been creating.  

TEDxIndianaUniversity will engage students in stimulating conversation and offer a platform to share their ideas through a variety of acts. We will provide a wall for students to pose questions they'd like answered by an expert, offer suggestions for TEDx Talks, or even share their knowledge on questions posed. Further, we will give students an opportunity to speak on areas of their expertise; after submitting their topic of expertise, the TEDx team will select appropriate talks for those experts to speak on for five minutes. 

Info coming soon.

Interactive maker activities courtesy of the School of Art, Architecture, + Design; the Grunwald Gallery; and the Friends of Art Bookshop, including:

Ceramics

Demonstrations featuring visiting artist and University of Missouri Professor Bede Clarke throwing pots on a portable wheel. Plus, Ceramics students will help you to make your own ceramic object.

Art Student Guilds

Various student guilds will have artwork for sale and share information about upcoming activities.

Friends of Art Bookstore

Staff will be at the Maker’s Stations to answer all your questions, and the shop will be open in Fine Arts 120 for your browsing and shopping pleasure, including student made work from IU’s Ceramics, Metals, Painting, Printmaking, and Textiles Guilds.

The gallery will be open throughout the festival with the exhibitions A Shared Elegy and Kinship:

• A Shared Elegy presents the work of four photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle, Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father, Emmet Gowin, present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories.
• Kinship examines the influence of family life on personal and cultural identity through the work of artist photographers Tara Bogart, Elizabeth M. Claffey, Joy Christiansen Erb, Letitia Huckaby, Priya Kambli and Rachelle Mozman. 

Since the French Revolution and before, political activists and politically active artists have used slogans — spray painted on walls, tagged on subway cars, incorporated into LED displays as part of museum installations — and NOBODY used slogans as effectively as the French Situationists and their 1968 counterparts. This month the Wounded Galaxies tent features a live music/mix group that incorporates sound files into their work; a slogans-on-demand table; and live projections of slogans and films that are cut up to make their own kind of short pithy statement.

Photo Challenge: A Shared Elegy

What’s your definition of family? Your challenge is to record the present moment with your family, whatever that means to you. This could be family members, friends, pets, or any other definition you provide. Borrow an instant camera from us or use your phone and our instant photo printer. Record and share your family’s experience. Together your photos, will create a story about family and the shared experience of this campus arts festival. Grab a photo prompt or photograph what inspires you, then add your photo to the display. We'll have 2 instant cameras circulating so photographs can be taken from start to finish. Use the hashtag #SharedElegy.

Photo prompts:

• Create a portrait that captures someone experiencing life as it happens.
• Create a portrait of someone in your family, whatever family means to you.
• Create a landscape image that communicates atmosphere.
• Create a photo that tells a story with creative use of shadow.

Family Focus: Create a Coat of Arms and Explore Genealogy 

Create a coat of arms for your family with Society of Art Librarianship Students. Explore genealogy resources to find out how to learn more about your family history. 

Gallery Walk-Thru: A Shared Elegy

Walk through the special exhibition with curator Nan Brewer to discover insights about these four photographers.  20 minutes | 6:30 p.m.

Walking Mini-Tours: Talk with the Sculptures

Explore three outdoor sculptures on this quick guided tour in the arts circle area. Meet at the art museum activity booth. Tours limited to 15 minutes. |  5:15 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 5:45 p.m., 6:00 p.m.

Virtual Reality Tour

Take a 360 degree Virtual Reality tour of the Eskenazi Museum of Art.

Reimagine Your Museum

See images of the renovation plans. Build your dream museum with architecture series Legos. Tell us what you’d like to see, hear, do in your future museum.

On a day of examining slogans, IU Cinema offers a few:

• “Don’t be a stool-pigeon” – Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le doulos (1963), a slippery, gripping, French cops-and-robbers thriller, full of twists, turns, and dangerously cool characters. Screens at 6:30 pm.
• “Existential vampires make the best philosophers” – Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction (1995), a philosophical horror film featuring a graduate student trying to come to terms with her new lifestyle and insatiable cravings. Screens at 9:30 pm.
• “B&W cinema never dies, it just gets better with age.” Both films are presented on 35mm.

Winter is on its way and it is time for some hockey—box hockey that is! With no skating required box hockey is perfect for people of all ability levels.  Join the Mathers Museum of World Cultures in learning about and playing Box Hockey, a 20^th century invention that has become traditional.

Delicious food abounds at First Thursdays, courtesy of Traditions Catering (brought to you by RPS Dining.)

Menu coming soon.