ArtsWalk 2006 Events

Ball State and Downtown Muncie join forces for the annual ArtsWalk event.
This year's ArtsWalk has been extended to two days, Oct. 5 & 6, from 5-9pm.
Featuring coordinated art shows at the many art galleries downtown and on campus, music and entertainment, and free shuttle between downtown and BSU.

Some of the events at Artswalk are described below, but there are many more happenings throughout downtown. If you'd like to add your ArtsWalk events details to this list, please email info@munciedowntown.com.

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At the Artist Within:

Toren Scott will take his potter's wheel outside to demonstrate throwing and have several of his recent works for sale.

Abbie Parmerle's oil painting exhibit will have its artist reception with refreshments and live music.

Marilyn Derwenskus' Encaustic class exhibit opening and technique demonstrations.

Ana-Marie Delk felted purses show and sale with demonstrations.

"Paint a Plate for the Cure" silent auction continues.
"Create for the Cure" will take place from October 3-7. 100% of studio fees collected during the week will go to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Local artists and celebrities have participated in ?Paint a Plate for the Cure? and the plates they painted will be in a silent auction during the week and the winning bids will be notified Sat. October 7th and the monies will also be donated to the Komen Foundation. Come join the fun and help a worthy cause.


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Poetry at the Blue Bottle:

Joseph Kerschbaum has performed at numerous venues around the country. He has been a featured performer at festivals such as the Bucktown Arts Fest, the Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts, as well as Heartland Incantations, a reading series that celebrates Hoosier poets. Joseph has also been a featured guest on such radio shows as WFHB's 'A Poet's Weave' as well NPR's 'A Linen Weave of Poets'.
Joseph is the captain of the Bloomington Pie Cutters, a team of poets that competes within the Midwest Poetry Slam League as well as the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam. In the 2005 season of the MPSL the Bloomington Poetry Slam Team finish a solid Second Place among some of the finest Poetry Slam Teams in the country.
In April, 2005 Joseph was the opening poet for the nationally acclaimed Def Poetry Jam showcase at Indiana University. In September, 2005 Joseph was awarded the Greer Foundation Fellowship for Creative Writing from the Bloomington Area Arts Council. In December, 2005 Joseph was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
In June, 2006 Joseph was awarded an Individual Artistic Grant from The Indiana Arts Commission and The National Endowment for the Arts.
Throughout 2006 Joseph will be on the road in support of his new book Dead Stars Have No Graves. He?ll be hitting cities such as Chicago, Louisville, Columbus, Philadelphia, Eerie, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Bloomington among others. Check the schedule page for up-to-date details.
A number of his poems have appeared in journals and magazines around the country (Bathtub Gin, Arsenic Lobster, Stirring, Facets, Poetry Motel, Eclipse, Stray Dog, Tipton Poetry Journal, Red River Review).

Tony Brewer lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana, where he has been writing and performing for over fifteen years. He is the voice of reason behind MATRIX, www.matrixmag.com, a not-for-profit poetry and arts consortium he co-founded in 1998, as well as a founding member of the Bloomington poetry slam team, the Pie Cutters. His writing has appeared in Branches, Bathtub Gin, Poetry Midwest, the Bloomington Independent, the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, and elsewhere. He is also a professional editor, an audio producer, an adult-literacy tutor, and a renowned sound effects artist.

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At Artworks:

Award winning Artist Katherine Meade will exhibit original Oil paintings at Artworks Gallery in downtown Muncie. The show will open on First Thursday, October 5, with the artist in attendance from 5 to 8 pm. The public is invited to attend and partake of light refreshments.

A California native, Katherine relocated to Zionsville, In several years ago and has been making an impact on the local art scene ever since. In 2003, Katherine won both the Governors Choice and Wildlife Best of Show at the Indiana State Fair. Her work has been selected for exhibition by the Hoosier Salon and can be seen at their Gallery in Indianapolis as well as Art In Hand Gallery in Zionsville.

Katherine began winning honors in 1986 at various competitions in California where she attended the University of California at Riverside. She enhanced her skills at the Heron School of Art in Indianapolis. Katherine captures the natural beauty if local Indiana scenery and her floral arrangements explode from the canvas.

Artworks is located at 301 S Walnut, in the Mitchell building. The show will be on display through October 31 and may be viewed Monday through Saturday from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm.

For more information call 288-2221.

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