Showtime at the Art Store is Saturday night, October 5.

Saturday may be parade day in NA, but don't forget yet another chance to enjoy NABC on October 5th: Showtime at the Art Store. It's local art and artists, local music and local beer.

Zhenya was jammed.

Contributing to the festive atmosphere in downtown New Albany on Saturday night was the Zhenya exhibition. It was well attended, as were the downtown eateries we dropped into during the course of the evening. We've come a long way, indeed.

Zhenya: The Exhibition ... Saturday, with refreshments.

A partial rendering of the Jim's Gun Room Story.

Zhenya: The Exhibition ... Saturday, with refreshments.

The refreshments of which we speak will be NABC's Community Dark, Gold and Hoosier Daddy. The exhibition will be held at the place we know as Jim's Gun Room, and in the next post, I'll explain why old farts remember it that way.

Zhenya: The Exhibition

This year’s IU Southeast Senior BFA Fall exhibition is an exciting compilation of media and styles. Eight artists from five disciplines will display their work, ranging from illusionistic to purely abstract forms. Work includes traditional media such as oils, graphite, monotype, ceramics, and also branches into installation, shadow boxes and vegetable papyrus. The collection will be housed in one of New Albany’s oldest structures, recently purchased for restoration. This diverse repertoire of work promises a night of wonder and excitement that guarantees to fill the hole in Zhenya’s heart.

Exhibiting Artists: Philip Carlton, Wende Cudmore, Jeremy Dattilo, Miri Fetko, Dani Maudlin, Rebeka Trapp, Kayla Troutman, Amie Villiger

The ZHENYA exhibition will be held on December 8, 2012 at 234 Pearl Street, New Albany, Indiana (on the corner of Pearl and Market Street). This show is a ONE NIGHT EVENT open from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Refreshments will be available.

The Undertow Art Show "Against the Current," in support of Planned Parenthood, is this Saturday.

Two NABC employees have taken the lead in organizing this art show on Saturday, July 30, and given the stated aim of helping support a worthy, besieged cause, I could not be more proud of them. Will Parson Clere attend and give the benediction? Doubtful, but a dissident can dream. For complete details, visit the show's Facebook site.

Undertow also is a LEO staff pick, as follows:

Saturday, July 30

The Undertow Art Show

The Art Store
205 E. Market St., New Albany, IN
812-948-2088

Free; 2-11 p.m.

The intent of this, the latest in a thankfully never-ending stream of art/bands/beer events, is to support Planned Parenthood of Indiana. If this doesn’t speak to your interests, move on, it’s a free country. The organizers state, “The goal of this group exhibit is to showcase artists with a message.” Such artists have been invited to participate by expressing their take on pressing issues of the day (just like the hippies did!), such as the economy, the wars and other “natural” disasters. “From the creation of art, we can open conversation and reach new depths of communication,” they pledge. And did I mention the beer? New Albanian Brewing Company will be selling their drinkable art, and bands like Shawn Sleeps Naked and Bunny Day and the Mercy Buckets will provide the aural art. — Peter Berkowitz

Wanted: New Albanian art show, May 15, 16 & 17.

Kevin and the gang have another art show for the coming weekend. Check out the art in Prost, NABC's special events wing.

Carnegie Center's 5th Annual “Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie” exhibit coming in January.

(Press release)

Carnegie Center Presents 5th Annual “Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie” Exhibit ... January 11 – March 1, 2008

Opening Reception Friday, January 11, 2008, 6-8 pm

The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana is pleased to announce the opening of the 5th annual “Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie” exhibit. This national juried show of contemporary quilt art features works by 42 artists from across the United States. The show was juried by River City Fiber Artists, the group of award-winning local fiber artists Pat DaRif, Kathleen Loomis, Marti Plager, Joanne Weis, Valerie White and Juanita Yeager. Cash awards for Best in Show and Merit will be determined by judge Jane Burch Cochran, a well-known quilt artist residing in Rabbit Hash, KY. “Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie” will be on display January 11 through March 1, 2008.

There will be an opening reception for this exhibit on Friday, January 11 from 6-8 pm. While exploring the galleries visitors can enjoy refreshments, live jazz and a chance to meet many of the artists featured in this show. This event is free and the public is invited to attend. This exhibit is sponsored by the Carnegie Center, Inc.

Judge Jane Burch Cochran has been creating art quilts since 1978 when she started making small bead and fabric collages using painted canvas and her father’s neckties. Jane made her first large quilt in 1985, and since then she has been, in her words, “completely obsessed with making art quilts.” In 2004, she was commissioned by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH to create 7’ x 10’ piece, titled “Crossing to Freedom,” that now hangs at the Group Entrance to the Freedom Center. Her work has been widely exhibited, including an exhibit titled “Contemporary American Quilts” that traveled in England and Ireland, a 2001 retrospective at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, and the exhibit “30 Distinguished Quilt Artists of the World” at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival in Japan. Jane’s quilts grace a number of collections both near and far, among them Delta Airlines in Atlanta, GA; Cotton Field Company, Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan; and Louisville Gas and Electric Company, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Brown Forman Distillery, all of Louisville, KY. Jane says, “In my art quilts, I try to combine my art training in painting, my love of fabric and the tradition of American quilting. I unconsciously combine the loose, free feeling of abstract painting with the time-consuming and controlled techniques of sewing and beading.” To learn more about Jane and see images of her work, visit http://www.janeburchcochran.com/.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History, a department of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, is a contemporary art gallery and history museum that offers a full schedule of changing exhibitions and other educational programs. The Carnegie Center is also home to two permanent exhibits: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage, an award-winning interactive multimedia exhibit on the Underground Railroad, and Grandpa Makes A Scene: The Yenawine Dioramas, a hand-carved, animated display of life in turn of the century Georgetown, Indiana.

The Carnegie Center is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 am-5:30 pm, and is located at 201 East Spring Street in historic downtown New Albany, Indiana. The Carnegie Center for Art and History is fully accessible. Admission is free. Visit http://www.carnegiecenter.org/ for more information on exhibits, events, and classes.

Scene from the latest New Albanian Art Show.

That's Tony Beard, graphic artist, who works for NABC designing label art and hoisting kegs in the brewery.

And that's all you're getting out of me today. I'll be outdoors.