"New Albany Flow Park (is) a one-of-a-kind skate-able work of art."

The New Albany Flow Park has been completed and is open for wintertime use. Following is the Carnegie Center's press release, edited only slightly for much needed fumigation.

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... The Carnegie Center for Art and History is proud to announce the completion of the New Albany Flow Park, a one-of-a-kind skate-able work of art on New Albany’s waterfront, enhancing the Ohio River Greenway. The New Albany Flow Park is a unique and ambitious project that integrates art with healthy living and quality of place initiatives.

Carnegie Director Eileen Yanoviak says, “The park is now a destination for locals and tourists alike, highlighting our shared Ohio River history in an unexpected way. It really removes the barriers to arts access, bringing free, interactive arts experiences directly to people in the community.”

The concept originated with Carnegie Center curator Daniel Pfalzgraf, a lifelong skateboarding enthusiast. “The New Albany Flow Park is a dream come true that will have a positive impact for many years to come,” says Pfalzgraf. He credits ... the community for the “vision and commitment to bring this intersection of art, history, and physical activity to life.”

“This truly is an authentic park that will add to our growing list of amenities along the New Albany Shoreline, and it would not have been possible without the support of some outstanding organizations” ...

 ... The $500,000 New Albany Flow Park renovation is possible with support from SoIN Tourism, Develop New Albany, Carnegie Center for Art and History Inc., Humana Foundation, Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, Duke Energy Foundation, Caesars Foundation of Floyd County, and Samtec Cares.

In early Spring, a full ribbon cutting and celebration for the New Albany Flow Park will take place, including a memorial for beloved local skater Matt Brewer.

Details about the New Albany Flow Park

The New Albany Flow Park is a non-traditional public art project that rehabilitated an underutilized and outdated skatepark along New Albany's waterfront into a skate-able and playful work of art. Located between the Amphitheater and the Sherman Minton Bridge, the park has been transformed into interactive, stylized Ohio River scene that celebrates the robust history of the region.

Complete with a steamboat and symbols of Ohio River bridges and land- and waterscapes, the design is the result of a collaborative process between the community, the Carnegie Center, and Hunger Skateparks, a nationally-recognized design and build firm based in Bloomington. The design is aesthetically pleasing, historically significant, and functionally interactive as a skate- and playpark.

The project provides a diverse community gathering space that integrates art and creativity with healthy living and the ongoing riverfront beautification efforts of the Ohio River Greenway Project. The Ohio River Greenway has been underway since the 1970’s, intending to highlight a multi-community River Heritage. The New Albany Flow Park project and site enhances the recreational and artistic amenities of New Albany and the region, improving quality of life and economic development.

The Carnegie Center's meet and greet on Friday evening at Pints&union with Hunger Skateparks, designer of the New Albany Flow Park.

Meet & Greet: Hunger Skateparks is a program on Friday evening, October 18 (6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.), hosted by the Carnegie Center for Art and History and Pints&union. It will take place upstairs at the pub.

Guests are Bart Smith and Christy Wiesenhahn, owners of Hunger Skateparks, the design and build team of the New Albany Flow Park, the region's first "public art skatepark." Carnegie Center curator Daniel Pfalzgraf will guide a chat with Smith and Wiesenhahn, including question and answer time.

Lunch & Learn at the Carnegie Center: "Baseball in a River Town," presented by Justin Endres.

Justin Endres is going to be talking about the history of local baseball at lunchtime on Tuesday next week, and if you missed Justin at Pints&union in April, best RSVP the Carnegie Center immediately.

Lunch & Learn: Baseball in a River Town: From New Albany’s First Game to its First Superstar, presented by Justin Endres.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 ... Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Baseball, with its revered history of players, teams, and statistics, has early roots in Indiana. Justin Endres investigated the origins of the sport in the region. Learn about its local development, from the first pitch thrown on September 29, 1866 to New Albany’s first sports superstar, Jouett Meekin (son of the famous riverboat pilot James Meekin.) Lunch and Learn is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Actually Justin's appearance at the Carnegie is an encore performance. Previously he lectured there in April of 2016, and for all I know there may have been other times.

Tomorrow at the Carnegie: "Base Ball in a River Town: New Albany."

Carnegie Center: "Artists Aberlyn, Rebeka Sweetland, and Katy Traughber share work that embodies the sanctuary they create for one another as women makers."

Aberlyn, Rebeka Sweetland and Katy Traughber are the artists, and as a self-interested confession, Katy was engaged by Joe Phillips to coordinate the decor on the first floor of Pints&union. In fact, the Green Mouse thinks there'll be an after party at Pints&union following the reception. 

SPAWNING GROUNDS
August 3 – September 22, 2018

Friday, August 3, 2018
Members-Only Curator & Artists Talk | 5:30 PM
Public Reception | 6:00 – 8:00 PM

“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas. They become a safe-house for that difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action. Right now, I could name at least ten ideas I would have found intolerable or incomprehensible and frightening, except as they came after dreams and poems. This is not idle fantasy, but a disciplined attention to the true meaning of ‘it feels right to me.’” –Feminist Audre Lorde, “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984

Inspired by the Audre Lorde quote above, artists Aberlyn, Rebeka Sweetland, and Katy Traughber share work that embodies the sanctuary they create for one another as women makers. The artists feel the Lorde quote also reflects their individual works both in a cerebral and physical sense.

“The conversations we were able to have based on this idea were really powerful. There is something very nurturing and yet fleshly… and the tension between the two also reflects the energy of our pieces.” –Katy Traughber

"Join Together: The Who & the Sixties," a presentation at the Carnegie Center this Saturday.

Perhaps I should pay closer attention. I was neither aware of this book, nor that the author is booked for a gig at the Carnegie Center this Saturday.

Carnegie Center for Art and History
201 East Spring St.
New Albany, IN 47150

It crushes my soul to write these words: in 2018, it will be 40 years since Keith Moon died. It's almost as hard to imagine a 70-year-old Moon as it is a Miller Lite that actually tastes great. We've been without John Entwistle since 2002, but Roger Daltrey has a solo album coming out soon. Pete Townshend remains the one musician of his era who I'd join for a pint in the pub if given the chance. 

I'm going to try and make this one.

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JOIN TOGETHER: THE WHO & THE SIXTIES

SATURDAY, APRIL 14 ... 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Casey Harison will depict the social impact of the British rock band on the youth culture in his presentation. Registration is requested and can be easily done by calling 812.944.7336 or emailing Delesha Thomas at dthomas@carnegiecenter.org. The presentation will take place in the Jane Barth Anderson Meeting Room.

The Who were one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion. They set themselves apart from other bands by their smart and timely songs, loudness, and habit of destroying instruments at the end of their performances. If The Who had done nothing else, they would have secured a place in rock ‘n roll history for high volume, smashed guitars and kicked-over drum kits. But The Who also played a role in the American and British counterculture movement of the late 1960s. This presentation reviews the encounter between the band and the counterculture generation from the ‘Summer of Love’ in 1967, through Woodstock, the album ‘Tommy’ and the failed ‘Lifehouse’ project of the early 1970s.

Casey Harison has been a Professor of History at the University of Southern Indiana since 1992, and in 2011 was appointed director of the USI Center for Communal Studies. His research mostly revolves around Modern French and Atlantic history and teaches on several specialized courses such as the French Revolution and Napoleon, European Revolutions, History and Film and the Holocaust. His focus on The Who and their effects on the Counterculture led to the publication of his book, “Feedback: The Who and Their Generation.” Other notable accomplishments include the publication of a second book, “The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-Century Paris,” two books as an editor or co-editor, and a number of articles that made appearances in journals like “French Historical Studies,” “Journal of Social History,” “Atlantic Studies,” and more.

Check it out: Carnegie Center's 22nd Annual Taste for Art and History is Friday, September 8.

All the way through 2014, the Carnegie Center's annual fundraiser was held in and on the museum's grounds, constantly evolving into one of the fall season's signature happenings. In 2015, the event moved to The Grand, and this year it shifts to the Calumet Club.

P.S. Lots of you have been asking about Indie Fest's hiatus in 2017. I've drawn those red arrows on the postcard's back side for a reason. One thing Indie Fest did not have was city support.

Just the facts, ma'am.

Two way communications: Marcey explains why there'll be no Indie Fest in 2017, but leaves open the possibility of a comeback.

Eat, drink, skate in #OurNA: Could it really be that Deaf Gahan would sanction a riverfront skatepark without his personal stamp of monetization mediocrity?

What a refreshing change. It's very early in the process, but at least so far, David Duggins has not been dispatched with soon-to-be-filled satchels to annex the skatepark transformation in pursuit of a gilded plaque crediting the transformation to Jeff Gahan.

But give 'em time.

After all, in New Gahania all potentially useful ideas must be filtered through the finely tuned suburban brain of Dear Leader before coming to fruition -- and what's more, dots will need to be connected for proper campaign finance monetization prior to the parks department folding the skatepark into its fee structure.

But for now, the first giddy weeks of creative freedom. Enjoy it while it lasts.

RENOVATE, CREATE, SKATE: Group plans to transform New Albany riverfront skatepark into skate-able work of public art, by John Boyle (Hanson's No-Questions-Asked Ad Aggregator)

NEW ALBANY — A collaboration to transform New Albany's riverfront skatepark is currently in the works.

On Saturday, the Carnegie Center for Art & History hosted a brainstorming session for the community to share ideas about how the park can be improved.

"Today, we invited anyone from the community who's interested in the skatepark." said Daniel Pfalzgraf, curator at the Carnegie Center. "The park is a little old and worn down. It's been around since the '90s. We want to fix some of the things that aren't quite right with it and add new features. We want to do it in a way that's visually stimulating so people walking along the top of the flood wall will see this interesting visual piece of artwork. It's also an opportunity to come down here and engage with art, skating it and figuring out ways creative ways of navigating through the features of the space."

The plan is to transform the park into a skate-able work of public art. In order to do that, Pfalzgraf wants input from a variety of members of the surrounding community.

"We want to have kids, skaters, art students, grandparents, whoever to submit ideas of things that they think will look cool," Pfalzgraf said. "Sculptural works that can be skated, things like that. We want to have that personal buy-in to this space and the city. In 10 or 20 years, somebody can be walking by with their kids and say they helped design that."

How you can help make the New Albany Public Art Skatepark a reality.

Back in November, we asked the most important question. To date, City Hall hasn't answered it ... and so it goes, on and on forever.

An "artsy" refit for the waterfront skate park? Sure, but why has City Hall allowed it to become an "eyesore," anyway?

The Carnegie Center is leading this push, and says "There is so much potential with this skatepark, it's like a blank canvas just waiting for some love."

That's certainly true. It will be interesting to see how much of this love bubbles up from the grassroots, as opposed to being decreed down by the usual suspects. I'm hopeful, as always.

Skateboarders -- what can we do to help?

Help make the New Albany Public Art Skatepark a reality

Based on studies that have shown how investments in experiences over material objects lead to healthier, happier lives, the Carnegie Center has started looking for ways to provide art experiences, to create opportunities for people to not just passively look at art, but to get into it, to participate in its creation, and to physically engage with it. Today we are seeking your help to rehabilitate and reinvent our city's riverfront skatepark into a shiny, new skate-able work of public art -- A Public Art Skatepark.

Skateboarding’s history and culture is deeply intertwined with art and creation, which can be easily seen in skateboard graphics, clothing designs, and custom ramp builds. Even the act of skateboarding itself is a living embodiment of art and sport, of creativity and physical activity. The world as seen through the eyes of a skateboarder becomes an exercise of seeing untapped potential in inanimate objects. Providing interactive, inspiring objects for play at this Art Skatepark allows minds to creatively explore real world geometry and expand brain activity, which in turn builds a deeper understanding of the real world around us. Finding ways to stimulate people in our community, and promote physical, mental, and emotional health is our goal, and art is the vehicle we want to use to achieve that goal.

Carnegie Center's #IAmPublicArt and performance schedule (Sept. 24 at the Amphitheater).

The lowdown on the Carnegie's annual public art gig, this year in concentrated form at the Riverfront Amphitheater. 

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#IAmPublicArt

On Saturday, September 24, 6:00 p.m. - Midnight, The Carnegie Center for Art & History is hosting our annual New Albany Public Art Project event down at the New Albany Riverfront Amphitheater. This year's event is titled #IAmPublicArt and will incorporate a wide range of opportunities for visitors to experience and participate in creative expression, hands on activities for all ages, and food and drink vendors.

The event will feature three Pop-Up Art Installations created by students from local universities - one piece each by students from Indiana University Southeast, University of Louisville, and Kentucky College of Art + Design. The installations will be unique creations employing multiple media made specifically for the spaces they inhabit, to be viewed and experienced for one night only. In addition to the art installations, there will a strong slate of performers from Louisville and Southern Indiana on the Amphitheater stage curated by Louisville artist and renaissance man, Jecorey Arthur, aka 1200.

Here's the official performance schedule for #IamPublicArt:

6:00-6:30 PM | River City Drum Corp
Founded in 1993, the River City Drum Corp focuses on children and young adults ranging between ages two and eighteen. These kids experience the richness of African culture while exploring African materials and drumming techniques. “We’re not just over here beating drums,” says RCDC founder Edward White. “We’re committed to the education and sense of community that comes with it.”

6:30 PM | Welcome Remarks

6:30-7:00 PM | The Compass Quartet | thecompassquartet.webs.com
“More than just your typical string quartet”, the Compass Quartet encompasses all genres of music. The group’s repertoire includes everything from Lady Gaga, Journey, and Coldplay, to Disney, Star Wars, and Motown.

7:00-7:15 PM | DJ Sam Sneed | nightvisionsradio.com
Sam Sneed is one of the hosts of Night Visions Radio on 91.9 WFPK. Night Visions Radio “brings you a mix of independent and underrepresented dance, electronic, rock, and pop music from around the world.” Sam’s passion of music ranges from the MC5 to the Jackson Five, from Public Enemy to Public Image Limited.

7:15-8:15 PM | Mode Roulette | soundcloud.com/moderoulette
Mode Roulette plays “retro-futuristic math music” and features Skyler Bready on guitar/vocals, Steven Cox on drums, Rachel Hobbs on vocals, Ryan Olexa on keyboard/saxophone, Andre Phelps on bass, and Riley Puckett on guitar.

8:15-8:30 PM | DJ Sam Sneed

8:30-9:00 PM | Louisville Dance Alliance | louisvilledancealliance.com
The Louisville Dance Alliance provides proper technical dance instruction in a nurturing, creative atmosphere, and provides students ages 3 years to adult with numerous performance opportunities in a concert setting throughout the year.

9:00-9:15 PM | DJ Sam Sneed

9:15-10:00 PM | SpreadLove Presents | spreadloventerprise.com
SpreadLove Enterprise is an artist-based education company, providing workshops and performances in various community centers, juvenile detention centers, and private organizations. SpreadLove Presents will feature performances from two poets, and a singer or comedian.

10:00-10:30 PM | House Music

10:30-11:30 PM | Eons D & the Space Campaign | eonsd.bandcamp.com
Eons D is an original hip-hop artist with a unique perspective on the world, with songs about life, struggle, racism, foes, and capitalism. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, FL, he now resides in Louisville, KY.

"Stock the Shelves" at the Carnegie Center this April.

Today's second post about books.

Verbatim from Laura:

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During the month of April, we're asking for your help to "Stock the Shelves" in our new family space with new or gently-used art books!

Since the move of the Yenawine Dioramas from the Carnegie Center for Art and History to the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library in November 2015, Carnegie Center staff has been busy planning a new family space in the gallery area where the dioramas were displayed – the Yenawine Dioramas were the Carnegie Center’s main activity especially for families for many years. One feature will be a number of bookshelves that families can peruse to learn more about art and artists, and now the Carnegie Center needs your help to “stock the shelves”!

Parents and children are shown enjoying our 2008 exhibit The Art of Reading. This exhibit featured artworks on the theme of family literacy by 13 local artists, as well as a Storybook Castle children's activity gallery with reading-related crafts and a cozy reading area. Photos courtesy of the Community Foundation of Southern Indiana.

The Carnegie Center is seeking new or gently used, art-related coffee table books and art-related hardback books for children. Each book received will be fitted with a special Carnegie Center bookplate to recognize the donor. The Stock the Shelves Art Book Drive will take place April 1-30, 2016, and donors can drop books off at the Carnegie Center during regular museum hours (Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 am-5:30 pm).

As a department of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, the Carnegie Center is also holding the Stock the Shelves Art Book Drive in conjunction with National Library Week, April 10-16, 2016. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate. The 2016 National Library Week theme is “Libraries Transform”, and as both a former Carnegie Library, and a current department of the NA-FC Public Library, the Carnegie Center for Art and History is a longtime advocate for the transformative power of libraries, museums, learning, and art.

Thank you, and we hope you can help us round up some great art books for our new family space.

Laura Wilkins, Marketing

Dec. 12 C-J event about "big pictures" and deeper meanings of life in Southern Indiana.

I wish them luck. NA Confidential has been trying to answer these questions since 2004, and we haven't even gotten a lousy t-shirt.

Topics we won't be seeing include "Origins of the Dissident Movement in New Gahania," and "Are They Apparatchiks or Are They Nomenklatura?"

Wait: When's the News and Tribune forum?

CJ event to look at past, present, future in S. Ind., by Lexy Gross (C-J)

Southern Indiana is known for its sense of community.

The Courier-Journal wants to help the region share ideas about how to improve the lives of residents and continue the missions of many local leaders. On Dec. 12 from 2-3:30 p.m., Hoosiers will have a chance to meet some of those leaders and hear about the changes happening in their own backyard.

With the theme, "A new year: Southern Indiana's past, present and future" we will have the opportunity to look at the "big picture" of the region and what it means to live in Southern Indiana.

The event will be held in New Albany at the Carnegie Center for Art and History - an award-winning museum that's dedicated to remembering our region's heroes.

Tourists in New Albany sure do appreciate the, er, view.

There's something behind that monster truck on high-speed, pass-through, too-wide, human-unfriendly Spring Street -- but what is it?

It's just the Carnegie Center for Art and History, that's all.

If New Albany only had a brain ...

Learn about the 2015 New Albany Public Art Project installations.

Photo credit: Carnegie Center

I'd like to take personal credit for the 2015 New Albany Public Art Project. Why not? Jeff Gahan already has.

Meanwhile, here's the straight dope from Laura Wilkins.

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We're excited to announce the artists selected for the 2015 New Albany Public Art Project: Today & Tomorrow Series.

In 2015 we are launching our second public art series in downtown New Albany titled the “Today & Tomorrow Series.” With input from the public, the Carnegie Center has selected several important themes that impact our city today that we will ask artists to interpret through public art installations. These themes – Sustainability, Education & Literacy, the Arts & Design, Diversity & Human Rights, and Social Change – have the potential to have a significant impact on our community in the future. We are pleased to be partnering with Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest (www.bernheim.org) to present the New Albany Public Art Project theme of Sustainability in 2015.

Artists Lee and Betty Benson of Jackson, TN, have created an art installation titled “I’d Rather Have a Tree” in front of the Carnegie Center for Art and History at 201 East Spring Street. Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson, both of Stoughton, WI, will install their artwork titled “Exchange” near St. Marks Church, at the corner of Third and East Market Streets in downtown New Albany. The art installation by Allison Svoboda, of Chicago, IL, is titled “Helix Labyrinth” and will be located at the New Albany YMCA, at 33 State Street.

Lee and Betty Benson’s work titled “I’d Rather Have a Tree” takes the form of an abstracted grove of trees made from pre-cut lumber and equipped with solar-powered LED lights for night viewing. According to artist Lee Benson, “…the piece is intended to garner awareness that we as humans have limited resources.” The installation “I’d Rather Have a Tree” grew out of the artists’ concern for the rapid harvesting of the world’s forests and to call attention to the lack of adequate housing for homeless individuals. This is the Bensons’ second public artwork in New Albany; their installation “The Stage that New Albany Built” was part of the 2013 New Albany Public Art Project: Bicentennial Series. The Bensons (www.uu.edu/personal/lbenson) are looking forward to building and continuing their relationship with the city and the local Habitat for Humanity group, who ultimately will inherit the wood used in the construction of “I’d Rather Have a Tree”.

Artists Aristotle Georgiades and Gail Simpson together form the collaborative team Actual Size Artworks (www.actualsizeartworks.com). In their statement for the 2015 Public Art Project, the artists write, “This sculpture, ‘Exchange’, is based on the idea of a front porch, and is meant to act as a gathering space. Front porches are largely gone from contemporary homes; they represent an era before air conditioning, TV, and computers led people to relax indoors. Front porches represent a time when neighbors would sit outside their home on a pleasant evening and be available for conversation. The need for this kind of social space, at the intersection between public and private, is more acute than ever.” Georgiades and Simpson add, “This sculpture relates to the New Albany Public Art Project’s 2015 theme of Sustainability through the use of salvaged lumber obtained from job sites and the ReStore, the salvage business associated with Habitat for Humanity. This promotes the reuse of material that might otherwise end up in the landfill.”

Artist Allison Svoboda (www.allisonsvoboda.com) says of her work, “The installation ‘Helix Labyrinth’ represents the cycle of rebirth in nature. The metallic surface of the cut metal reflects the sky while the perforated surfaces create shadows from the sun; the very essence of our ecosystem. The designs are cut into the metal surface like the Japanese katagami technique of cut paper to recreate patterns found in nature.” Svoboda continues, “The piece is meant to be entered by the public so the viewer can be immersed and interact with the shadows and reflections in this meditative labyrinth… The sculptural form for ‘Helix Labyrinth’ is inspired by seed pods I discovered in the restored prairie near my house in Chicago. The curved segments create a spiral of fractals repeating throughout. This pattern in nature recalls mandalas or labyrinths, which many cultures build to worship nature. I hope that entering this labyrinth, with its reflections and shadows from the sun, honors nature and creates a space for the public to pay homage to nature.”

The jurors for the 2015 Public Art Project were Jim Clark, Integrated Arts Incorporated, Lexington, KY; Alice Gray Stites, Vice President and Museum Director, 21c Museum Hotels LLC, Louisville, KY; and Margy Waller, Topos Partnership and Art on the Streets, Cincinnati, OH. The community is invited to explore the 2015 artworks and talk with the artists during the New Albany Public Art Walk on Saturday June 6, from 6:00-9:00 pm (rain date Sunday June 7). For more information on the New Albany Public Art Project: Today & Tomorrow Series, please visit www.carnegiecenter.org/exhibit_nab.html and www.facebook.com/napublicart.

"Carnegie Center gets national grant for public art."

Great news for the Carnegie Center.

New Albany Public Art Project: The catalog, and a whole new series.

With downtown normality almost restored, there's hope: The 2015 New Albany Public Art Project's Today & Tomorrow Series.

NABC is excited about again hosting an installation, which is one reason why we "tore down the wall" out front by the Taxpayer Memorial Patio.

Carnegie Center gets national grant for public art, by Daniel Suddeath (N and T)

NEW ALBANY — The Carnegie Center for Art and History has garnered three significant grants over the past month, and has reached its 2015 funding goal for its public arts project.

Public Art Project sustainability talk & walk on Elector Day, November 4.

Tuesday, November 4 has a lot going for it.

For one, there'll be $2.00 pints and $6.66 growler refills of Elector at both NABC locations. That's because it's also the day for an election, a word owing most of its rapidly diminishing local significance to $2.00 pints and $6.66 growler refills of Elector at both NABC locations.

And then there's the Carnegie Center's second “talk & walk” about sustainability with Claude Stephens of the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest.

But it gets EVEN BETTER. Both before and after the walk, you can enjoy $2.00 pints and $6.66 growler refills of Elector at Bank Street Brewhouse, providentially located RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from the Carnegie Center.

The overview is below; go here for more.

We are happy to be working with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (www.bernheim.org) to present the Public Art Project theme of sustainability in 2015 and a series of related programs, including this one.

On Tuesday November 4, from 6:00-7:30 pm, beginning at the Carnegie Center, the public is invited to our second “talk & walk” about sustainability with Claude Stephens of Bernheim. Claude will lead an informal chat about sustainability and regenerative design with a focus on ecology. We will then take our conversation into downtown New Albany by dividing into groups to visit the sites for the 2015 public artworks near the Carnegie Center. Each group will consider their site from a sustainability perspective and then we will gather back at the Carnegie Center to share our observations. Come help us envision a future where we live in better agreement with nature as we explore a shift from sustainable to regenerative thinking. Claude Stephens is the Facilitator of Outreach and Regenerative Design at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. As an ecologist and educator Claude is excited about a future where ecology and economy work in partnership.

This Tuesday evening: Sustainability in Motion, a "talk & walk" led by Claude Stephens of Bernheim Arboretum.

I'm looking forward to Bank Street Brewhouse's participation in the 2015 New Albany Public Art Project. The theme of  sustainability is perfectly suited to a city currently engaged in one of the most extensive programs of structural demolition since Nicolae Ceausescu's 1980s Romanian heyday.

Don't forget: The Carnegie Center's 18th Annual "A Taste for Art & History" fundraising event will be held on Friday, September 5, beginning at 6:30 p.m.

Please join us this Tues. August 26, from 6:00-7:30 PM, for Sustainability in Motion, a "talk & walk" around New Albany, led by Claude Stephens of Bernheim Arboretum.

Beginning in the spring of 2015, the Carnegie Center will place new public art installations around our city through the New Albany Public Art Project: Today & Tomorrow Series. Each year, we will focus on a theme that impacts our community today and we are happy to be working with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (www.bernheim.org) to present the theme of sustainability in 2015. In order to provide artists with information about the theme of sustainability and to encourage a conversation on this topic in our community, we will be presenting a series of programs about sustainability with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. These programs will be open to artists who are interested in applying to the 2015 Public Art Project, as well as members of the public.

On Tuesday August 26, from 6:00-7:30 pm, beginning at the Carnegie Center, the public is invited to a “talk & walk” about sustainability with Claude Stephens of Bernheim Arboretum. Every action ripples out with implications that effect our air, water, soil, energy and community; the playground of sustainability. This short informal chat, followed by a leisurely stroll through the community around the Carnegie Center, will focus on “reading” the urban landscape with an eye toward options for a more sustainable future. Come help us envision a future where we live in better agreement with nature as we explore a shift from sustainable to regenerative thinking. Claude Stephens is the Facilitator of Outreach and Regenerative Design at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. As an ecologist and educator Claude is excited about a future where ecology and economy work in partnership.

The program will begin with a 30-minute conversation about sustainability at the Carnegie Center, which will be followed by a 45-minute walk around downtown New Albany. For anyone who would like to continue the conversation informally, we will end the walk at a local restaurant. This program is free, but reservations are requested (please call 812-944-7336 or email dthomas@carnegiecenter.org).

Thank you and we hope you'll join us on Tuesday!

Laura Wilkins, Director of Marketing & Outreach

Three cheers for the Carnegie Center's public art project catalog launch.

Last evening, the Carnegie Center released its catalog of the New Albany Public Art Project: Bicentennial Series, and there was a pleasant accompanying reception. We looked back on the installations from 2010 through 2013, and were given the outline for a new Today and Tomorrow Series coming in 2015. Many thanks to Karen Gillenwater for the catalog and remarks.

Participating artist Leticia Bajuyo was at the reception, prompting a question: Do you recognize this work of Leticia's? It is called Cinergy: Black Holes.

Maybe it doesn't ring a bell. Perhaps it will make more sense if we look back at her 2010 installation at Bank Street Brewhouse, All Bottled Up.

At the time of dismantling All Bottled Up, Leticia vowed to reuse as much of it as possible. Minus the shelves that held bottles, some of the metal panels above became the basis for Cinergy: Black Holes, as wrapped with fiber optic cable. She gave us a delightful explanation of her thought process in all this; if only life imitated art a bit more often.

Jamey Aebersold Quartet at the Carnegie Center, this Wednesday (April 30)

For more information on the occasion, there's International Jazz Day.

We know that Jamey Aebersold frowns on smoking, and the Carnegie Center is a smoke-free facility, but there is no word on whether growlers from across the street are fair game ...

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Celebrate International Jazz Day with the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet, this Wed. April 30, 7:30 pm at the Carnegie Center!

Jamey Aebersold is well-known to those who attend our exhibit opening receptions at the Carnegie Center. Here's another great opportunity to hear the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet here, but this time center stage, in our lower level meeting room. Jamey Aebersold Jazz has generously made it possible for members of our community to experience a free concert of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet.

Don't miss this "Tribute to the Masters" concert celebrating International Jazz Day around the world! This program is free and open to the public.

Thank you and we hope you'll join us this Wednesday April 30 at 7:30 pm for a great night of jazz with our wonderful friends, the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Quartet.

(This concert was originally to be held in the NA-FC Public Library auditorium.)

Thank you,

Laura Wilkins, Director of Marketing & Outreach

It's last call for "Of Place" at the Carnegie. Go there now.

It's your last chance to view "Of Place" at the Carnegie Center. We already did, and you should consider dropping by.

Of Place at the Carnegie: An "antidote" to the tyranny of our white bread Bicentennial.

Reminder: "Of Place" at the Carnegie, through January 11, 2014.

Here's the official final reminder from Laura at the Carnegie Center. You can have a nice beer before or after right across the street, you know.

Meet and Mingle with photographer David Modica this Sat. January 11, from 1-3 pm.

David Modica, No Swimming - Mt. St. Francis 2010. Silver gelatin photograph.

This Saturday January 11, 2014 is the last day of the exhibit Of Place, featuring the work of video artist Tiffany Carbonneau and photographer David Modica. Join us from 1-3 pm on Saturday for a "meet and mingle" with David Modica. We'll have coffee and light refreshments available. Whether you're coming to see Of Place for the first time or want to have a second look, we hope you'll take this opportunity to visit when David Modica will be here to answer your questions.

You can also click on the video link below to watch a video of Tiffany and David talking about their art in the exhibit Of Place.

Of Place

If you can't make it for the "meet and mingle" from 1-3 pm, you can still see Of Place on its last day during our normal hours from 10 am-5:30 pm. 

Thank you and we hope to see you this Saturday!

Laura Wilkins, Director of Marketing & Outreach

Reminder: "Of Place" at the Carnegie, through January 11, 2014.

We attended the exhibit opening on Friday, and to me, it's the most relevant Bicentennial-themed event of them all -- although The Artists of the Wonderland Way, also at the Carnegie earlier this year, was excellent as well. Really, really good stuff. Don't miss it.

October 18, 2013 – January 11, 2014
New Albany Bicentennial Exhibition: Of Place
Tiffany Carbonneau and David Modica