Bloomington-based Jamtronica band Dizgo performs live.  More about the band here. 

PRINTMAKING

Print students will be working on a large-scale block print! Help ink the plate and watch their huge roller do the work. Additionally, students will be on hand to describe and demonstrate other printmaking methods.  

FASHION DESIGN

Fashion Design students will be on hand to help you create your own unique, re-designed T-shirts using cutting, twisting, tying, knotting, braiding, weaving, and/or pinning. Bring your own or we’ll have plenty on hand!

CERAMICS GUILD

Ceramics students will have student-made work for sale plus information about their programs. 

FRIENDS OF ART BOOKSHOP

Staff will be at the SoAAD Maker’s Stations in the IMU to answer all your questions, plus the Bookshop will be open until 7:30 p.m. in Fine Arts 120 for your browsing and shopping pleasure, including student made work for sale from IU’s Ceramics, Graphic Design Metals, Painting, Printmaking, and Textiles Guilds.

Prototype Pop-Up

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Docent Experience: Out of Easy Reach

When you visit the Out of Easy Reach exhibition in the Grunwald Gallery, say hello to a docent from the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art. They will be there to talk with you about the art and show you around if you’d like someone to walk and talk with through the exhibit.

FYE Scavenger Hunt

Staff from the Eskenazi will be on hand to guide students through portions of the scavenger hunt and provide information about art on the Bloomington campus. 

The IU Cinema and IU Libraries Moving Image Archive present The Films of Brinton with DJ Accompaniment. 

The Brinton Collection contains films from the life and career of William Franklin Brinton of Washington, Iowa, an itinerant showman, travelling from Texas to Minnesota to project film, and other entertainments during the years 1895–1909. Brinton was an eccentric and energetic individual and this collection preserves some of the earliest commercially available film. Student DJs will help introduce these early cinematic entertainments to new audiences.

The program of short films is 50 min., which will run on a loop three times during the event with a different student DJ accompanying each rotation.

Preceding the film, in the Arts Plaza near Showalter Fountain, will be an interactive hands-on information table with IULMIA and IU Cinema projectionists and archivists on hand to demonstrate and train students on the processes of film-projector threading, focusing, and framing.

The gallery will be open until 7:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts building with the exhibition Out of Easy Reach.

Out of Easy Reach contains works by twenty-four U.S. based, female-identifying contemporary artists from the Black and Latinx Diasporas. Including over 40 artworks created between 1980 and 2018, Out of Easy Reach proposes that artists employ abstraction as a tool to explore histories both personal and universal, as well as to expose institutionalized modes of knowledge and power.

At 6:00 p.m. IU's Creative Writing Department and Indiana Review will present a reading of poems inspired by artworks in the exhibit.  

Seed Library and More

Staff from the Wylie House Museum will be signing up new members for the Wylie House Seed Library, checking out seeds, sharing information about seed saving and fall seed returns from members to the seed library. The Wylie House will also be giving away packets of herb seed for planting herb window gardens and providing information about the Fall Herb Fest event on September 15^th.

Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center

7:30 p.m.

The College Arts & Humaniteis Institute presents a reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Life on Mars (2011).