What a Week!

Cool Stuff from Our Friends Across Campus

Check out this weekly digest of great online arts & humanities programming from students, faculty, and friends of IU Bloomington.

Tiny Dorm Concerts ft. Allison Victoria

Tiny Dorm Concerts

Allison Victoria is singer-songwriter from Indianapolis, Indiana. Allison performs and writes music ranging from soul, RnB, and folk. Allison has been singing for audiences since 2016 and has continued to inspire them with her raw sound.

Find a New Favorite Beat

#TapsAcrossAmerica

Jacobs School of Music

Eric Smedley participated in Taps Across America: The National Moment of Remembrance Memorial Day 2020. The Mission of the organization is to pay homage to and honor veterans.

Remember Our Heroes

Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Faces”

IU Soul Revue

“I am happy to share the IU Soul Revue’s Final Spring Project, as we navigate through this COVID-19 environment. I’m personally very proud of our students. They are not only talented but are driven, committed, and dedicated to what we do at the African American Arts Institute.“ —James Strong, IU Soul Revue Director

Enjoy the Music

Otto Dix Etching

Kinsey Institute

This week’s Kinsey Institute Collections art story discusses the work of German artist, Otto Dix, whose work highlighted poor and marginalized communities in the Weimar Republic between WWI and WWII, and was censured by the Nazi regime in 1937. Dix was a native of Dresden, and continued to create artwork until his death in 1969. This post features an etching of a Dresden sex worker he produced in 1922.

Take a View of History

A Global Tour of Creativity and Innovation

IU Global Gateways

Scholars and practitioners from IU, Mexico, Germany and China discuss how their local contemporary art scenes are responding to the pandemic. Panelists include Associate Professor Laura Holzman from IUPUI’s Herron School of Art + Design; artists Roque Reyes and Nikhol Esteras from Mexico; Professor U we Fleckner from Universität Hamburg, Germany; and Teng Yuning, Deputy Director of the Center for Visual Studies at Peking University, China.

Learn About Their Responses

Virtual BFA/MFA Shows

Grunwald Gallery and Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design

The Grunwald Gallery is pleased to present this year’s MFA and BFA Virtual Thesis Exhibitions. These exhibitions feature work created by graduating Studio Art Master of Fine Arts and Bachelors of Fine Arts students in the Eskenazi School, and they represent the culmination of each graduate student’s research in the arts, and each undergraduate student's experience of developing a body of work.

Experience the Exhibits

Student Perspectives

IU Arts & Humanities Council

Blog posts written by the Arts & Humanities Council interns who have unique perspectives on Bloomington's cultural scene and the wide world of arts & humanities. This week our interns share stories along the lines of ‘redefining humanity’ during a pandemic.

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Icons of French Nineteenth-Century Lithography

Eskenazi Museum of Art

The Eskenazi Museum of Art’s collection of 22,000 works on paper includes a group of exceptional lithographs that were made in France during the nineteenth century, a golden age for the medium.

Learn more about the collection

Quarantine(d) Conversations

IU Arts & Humanities Council

In this week's episode, faculty members Emily Beckman, Krista Hoffmann-Longtin, and Anne Beeson Royalty discuss "Humanism, Public Policy, and Medical Practice."

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