A DIRECTORY OF OVER 160 SOUTHERN INDIANA ARTISTS AND GALLERIES

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Indiana Artisan Gallery...... 4

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery...... 7 elcome to our Second Annual Gallery Issue. WAfter gathering information on the following 12 Dimensions Gallery...... 10 galleries, we’ve learned that Southern Indiana has some very unique, special places to not only view art, but which give you the possibility to take it Klienhelter Gallery...... 12 home with you!

According to one source, visiting galleries and Art on Main...... 15 museums can actually help you live longer! We hope this guide will help you not only live longer, but provide a guide to some galleries in Artisan Center...... 18 the southern half of the state. You might even meet some artists who help run a gallery. Hoosier Salon...... 21 This year we’re presenting each gallery through interviews, which provides a much warmer, more personal approach to learning about galleries and Hoosier Artists Gallery...... 24 the various people who work there. In the following pages - in no particular order - Carnegie Center for Art...... 27 are the galleries interviewed for this issue. We’ve numbered the pages here to help make it easier for you to find them and added a “quick info” B3 Gallery...... 30 helper on each gallery intro page. For any gallery’s website, please check the listings under Galleries. Art Space Vincennes...... 33 If you own or run a gallery and want to be included in next year’s Gallery Issue, please let us know. Flourish Gallery...... 37 Y ALLER G ISSUE Indiana Artisan Gallery Located inside of the incredible French Lick Hotel, this gallery features only Hoosier-made wares.

Keith Hampton - Tell me about became an independent non-profit R - Sure! We have all the traditional the history of Indiana Artisan and organization. However, we still arts that anyone would think of; how the gallery was begun. have strong relationships with the paintings, pottery, photography. four state agencies that helped But then also we have lots of Rosalyn Demaree - Indiana start Indiana Artisan; the Indiana wood and glass art, functional and Artisan was started in 2008 as an Arts Commission, The Indiana decorative, paper art, garments Indiana Economic Development Department of Tourism, The ad and fiber art, jewelry, a very broad initiative. It was designed to find, department and the Office of Rural range of items, very similar to recognize and market the best and Community Affairs. what we have in Indiana Artisan. made or the most exceptional visual art, food and beverages K - Where are the headquarters K - That prompts me to ask: Are all that are made in Indiana. It was located? the Indiana Artisans showing work a program started by then Lt. in the gallery? Governor Becky Skillman. One of R - In Carmel, at the Indiana the first things it did was create Artisan, Carmel Gallery location. R - No. They have a choice. artisan trails around the state. I Indiana Artisan is a very “á la carte” believe it was 8 of them to start K - And you have the French Lick organization. off with and we now have 10. gallery location as well. And then it created the Artisan Marketplace. We have our 10th R - Correct, in the French Lick QUICK INFO anniversary in 2020 and that’s in Resort in French Lick, Indiana. the spring at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. And then we started our K - Can you give our readers an Indiana Artisan Gallery two stores, the first of which was idea of the size in terms of square the French Lick gallery, in April of footage of that location? Address: 2016. R - It’s a little under 400 square 8670 IN-56 (inside hotel) K - Oh, and there’s another feet. It’s a very nice, large closet! French Lick, IN 47432 one in Indiana now? (laughs) PH: (317) 964-9455

R - Yes, there’s one in Carmel, in K - Well, 400 square feet, that’s not Hours: 10AM ~ 6 PM Daily the Carmel Arts & Design district, bad, I’ve seen much smaller! which opened July 1st of last year. Types of art: 2d and 3d, [2019] R - We have over 110 artists in jewelry, wearable art, textiles, there, so it’s a well-used space. ceramics, wood, food items K - As I understand it, you are now independent from the state K - Can you give our readers an Price Range: $30 ~ $3000+ agencies, correct? overview of what type of works are in the gallery? R - Yes, in January 2011, we 4 R - It’s different Y each time. It’s ALLER typically 8 to G ISSUE 10 people. The types of people we use are very similar, there will be artists themselves, and we’ll have artists representing each of the media that are applying that year. We also use gallery directors, retail You can choose to be as involved R - Sure. It is an application process owners, museum or as little involved as you want that goes through a jury. We open directors, curators and arts to be. Some artists want to be in it the application process for 2020 administrators. just for the designation of “Indiana in January on our website, [https:// Artisan” because it means that their www.indianaartisan.org/join/apply- K - That sounds very professional work is among the state’s best. It’s online/] and the user would click and high-ranking which is good! an official designation. So that’s all on the “jurying” link and they will they do. Others want to be in it find all the details, timeline, benefits, R - It is. And it’s a difficult process, for everything. So they participate arts guidelines, food guidelines and fewer than 17 percent of first-time in the stores, the participate in the application. The applications are applicants make it through the the Marketplace. Some artists just going to be due on June 1st and process. But as I said, they can choose both of the stores, some then we have the jury in July. We’re apply again. We really are looking choose just one. It’s totally their moving that up from previous years for the best in Indiana. choice what they do. because we do plan on having a Holiday Marketplace in Ft. Wayne K - Is it anything like a standard K - Well that’s a good segue into this year in November. We want to gallery where when a new artist my next question: Can you describe have the new artists be able to be joins, the gallery will sometimes the process of how an artist would part of that. have a group show for new artists become an Indiana Artisan? or a solo show to introduce a new They submit their application with artist? photos of their work and then shortly before the jury convenes R - We don’t have the space they would submit actual samples for that in French Lick, but we of their work which the jury then are planning on having more looks at. Then the jury scores all demonstrations and having artists the applications. Anyone who available at the store in that doesn’t make it can apply again location. and they’ll get the comments from the panelists. We’ve had people K - What is the general price range apply, not because they think of items that you sell? they’re ready for Indiana Artisans, but they want to gauge where R - It is a very wide range. We have they are so they apply just to glean some items that are five dollars and those comments. then paintings and furniture that go up to 3000 dollars or more. But K - Are their any fees associated the majority of the work falls into with applying? the 30 to 50 dollar range. Some artists sell better in our Carmel R - There’s a 30-dollar jury fee. store than the French Lick store, Rosalyn Demaree but I’m always amazed at which Director K - And who is the jury made items sell at the French Lick store Indiana Artisans up of? because the people are usually on vacation and I wouldn’t buy things

5 on vacation, but they’ll buy a large talk to people about that. So that’s them because of their beauty and painting or big pieces of pottery or definitely a future item that we’d we understand that but it’s really something like that. The customer like to add. nice to wear that art as well and demographic is very much the we want to help them be able to same in both stores. K - How often do you rotate the wear that art more. work in the gallery? K - Is there any type of work I’ve also talked to a wood carver you’re looking to add to your mix R - We don’t rotate it, it’s up to from Washington, Indiana who that you don’t have currently? the artist. They can take it out is a member of Indiana Artisan. if they need to, but we don’t His name is Larry Green and he R - I can’t think of anything we rotate like a typical gallery. The wants to do a demonstration there. don’t have currently but we’re work stays until it sells or if the Also Joe Krutulis from Martinsville always open to seeing the best artist takes it out. In that way, we has demonstrated his work in of what’s out there. Sometimes operate much more like a store the store, he’s a wood artist there it will be something that many than a gallery. who makes stunning jewelry and mobiles out of what I call “nature’s castoffs”, it’s the wood he finds while he’s out on his daily walks. So we do want to do more like this, but we don’t have any particular ones scheduled currently.

K - Now, the Artisan Marketplace [ in Indianapolis ] is your once-a-year big show, right?

R - Correct. And that is April 4th and 5th. It’s still at the State Fair grounds, but this year it’s going to be at the Ag/Hort building instead. We’ll be selling tickets for that at people might not think of as “art”. K - You briefly covered some of both gallery locations starting in People might not think of leather your special events, but I’d like February. purses as “art”, but we have several you to tell our readers more about people who make leather purses those if you could elaborate a bit K - Can someone buy them online which are very, very artful and on them. I’m asking this in the as well? beautifully handmade and follow a framework of southern Indiana lot of traditional methods that have readers, so please tell us about any R - Yes, and that link is: https:// been around for generations in events you might have coming up www.indianaartisan.org/2020- Indiana, so are therefore accepted in the French Lick store you might indiana-artisan-marketplace/ as Indiana Artisans. want people to know about. K - Well, thank you for this K - So you have a pretty full range R - We don’t have anything interview, I appreciate your time of genres and mediums that you’re specific scheduled yet, but one and the information. carrying, you’re not empty in any of the ones that I want to get in one category. early this year is one we’re calling R - You’re welcome, and thanks “Tie One On”. We’re going to bring for all you’re doing for the art R - We are not, no. some fiber artists to the store and community! we’re going to have them teach K - Do you have any type of people individually or one-on- corporate art programs or rental one how to artfully tie scarves. So programs at the galleries currently? many women have found beautiful R - I have wanted to start that scarves and don’t know what to kind of program and would love to do with them. They’ve bought 6 Y ALLER G ISSUE Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery The recent merging of two galleries in New Albany offers each of them much broader potential.

I had the pleasure of speaking office. Lawyers need a place to showing their work. I was on the with Julie Schweitzer of ArtSeed work and sit at a desk, even when board of the local Arts Council Gallery and Jim Bourne of James they’re retired. So I was in here, of Southern Indiana before I Bourne Gallery, respectively. Julie painting and some of my friends opened the gallery here and I was has joined forces with Jim in encouraged me to open a gallery. interested in the arts community December and they now have the It would provide a place to not and promoting the arts in Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery. only show my own work but the southern Indiana. That’s where I works of other artists. So in June met Julie, who was the Director Keith - Before we get into your of 2017 I opened the gallery. there at that time. I was on the new collaboration, let’s talk a board for several years and when little bit about your history and K - And had you any art I opened the gallery I decided background of the James Bourne background prior to that? Did you Gallery itself. Jim, when did you have any schooling in art? open the gallery? QUICK INFO JB - A little, yes. I had taken JB - Two years ago, in the summer lessons at the Preston Art Center of 2017. here in New Albany. I also took Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery some watercolor lessons from Address: K - And it’s always been in the Cathy Hillegas. And then I laid same location? off for a couple of years but 137 E Main St. when I got back into it, I started New Albany, IN 471 JB - Yes. thinking about oil instead and PH: (502) 727-1517 started taking lessons from K - Can you give me a little bit another teacher at Preston, Winnie Hours: M,W, F: 10:30AM ~ 5 PM about your background as far as Harrison. And I’m continuing to do Saturday: 11 AM ~ 4 PM what led you to open the gallery. I that. I’ve been taking lessons for Types of art: 2d and 3d, know that you’re an artist yourself, about 10 years. People like me just what can you tell me about that. continue doing that for the rest of jewelry, wearable art, textiles, their lives, just continue to study ceramics, wood JB - Well, first I was a lawyer for art. Price Range: $30 $3000+ many years, I practiced law from ~ 1965 until 2009, when I retired. K - Then you started to get more Before I retired a started painting artists that wanted to show in and doing oil painting. I bought your gallery. How did you go this space earlier, the one that about doing that? we’re in now, the building on that it was a little bit of a conflict Main Street in New Albany as just JB - Well, artists find galleries. I had of interest so I resigned from a place to go and paint and as an people come in and ask about the board. Like I said, artists find

7 galleries and ask JB - We work with a 40% are things that we’d look at and Y if they can bring commission. say “No” that we probably would things in to not allow. GALLER exhibit. But then K - And will that be the same with ISSUE also, through the new setup with Julie? K - Now I’m wondering if we can my studies and talk about the collaboration gallery through the Arts JB - Yes. that will be opening. How did that Council, I met more and come about and what do you see more artists. I’d see something K - What is the artist responsible for the future? that interested me and they for when they’re bringing in a seemed to be interested, so I’d show? Do they help hang or do JB - Well, we had worked together, ask them to come out and show. anything else to help? How does like I said, at the Arts Council, It’s never been a problem finding that work? when Julie was the director there people to exhibit. and we got along well. I’ve really JB - They generally do help hang. wanted some help in my gallery. K - Very nice. What size would you When they bring it in it has to be I’ve needed help with marketing say your space is? ready to hang. It’s got to be framed and just the general managing and all the hanging hardware of the gallery. That wasn’t my JB - The building is about 70 feet should be installed on the art. experience before, I knew that long and about 15 feet wide. Some help hang, some don’t. It she had experience and I knew [ About 1000 square feet ] Generally depends. We like to be able to that she knew the people in the speaking, what we do, is we show determine how things about 30 pieces of art, hanging hang in the gallery, on the walls. That’s what fits but then if they want comfortably in the gallery space. to help, they can. We’ve also shown 3d works as well, sculptures and textiles, K - Do you allow jewelry and wearable art and really for “gallery wrap” just about every type of art that paintings? [works that you can think of. are not in frames, but where the canvas K - So what is your current continues over the number of artists? Do you keep a sides and back of the stable of consistent artists or is it work.] different every month? JB - Yes, we do allow JB - We frequently will have a those types of works. single artist like I have right now. I have a single artist who has filled K - When there’s the gallery with her work. [A solo an artwalk in New show] And she has 30 pieces Albany, does your hanging here now. But for this gallery participate? collaboration - Julie and I - we’re going to have some 200 artists. JB - Yes, I have and we will be arts community and knew how doing that going forward. to operate a gallery and how to K - But in the past you did mostly market art. So it seemed to be kind solo shows or a few group shows? K - Does the gallery have any of a natural time to get together. special events that you’ll be staging Our idea is that this space where JB - It varied. Sometimes it’s been in the coming year? the Bourne-Schwietzer gallery will solo shows and sometimes a be will handle the work of different number of artists got together and JB - I have not been doing that but professional artists. And the space did a show. A few times I’ve had now that Julie is joining me we’ll that was ArtSeed Gallery will artists that studied at Preston and be doing more of that as the year become a community gallery. I would have 5 or 6 artists at one progresses. time. K - So the collaborative space will K - Is there any type of work that handle professional fine artist’s K - Do you have a set commission you don’t allow in the gallery? works. And what type of work will rate that you work out with the the community gallery handle? artist? JB - We have not made any strong rule about that, but I’m sure there 8 Julie - So what we’re going to Khalily] will run through February Shedd’s law office has beautiful do with that space is handle because it’s six weeks. artwork in it. Hosparus of Southern Universities, community groups Indiana is another, there have and crit clubs. We’ll offer K - Through the ArtSeed Gallery, been several businesses that have educational programming and I know that there was a corporate been interested in doing this. So collaboration with those groups. art program and a rental art that is a service that we’ll still Our schedule for that space is program, will that still be the make available. We’ll still have already full. All three universities case through this new are already scheduled into that. Our collaboration gallery? events and grant writing through interns will have an exhibit and ArtSeed, so those services will all we’re going to work with them JS - Yes. The typical situation is still be available. We’ll combine our to make it a space that will teach that corporations want to decorate websites and what we offer on them how to actually run a gallery. their offices and they’d normally go January 1st. How to market themselves and to a decorator and pay $400 for a those types of things. We’re hoping framed poster. What we’re doing that this will cause more galleries with this program is encouraging to spring up in the future, so they’ll them to purchase local art. So know how to run them or at the we will come in and work with very least, artists will know how to employees and staff to select work market their work and know what that goes into your space. The that’s like. customer signs a contract and agrees to buy a percentage of that K - What type of price ranges will work at the end of the set contract the new gallery offer: time. We can either bring in a juror to select what you purchase at the JB - We have a huge range of end of that year, or you can allow prices, from really affordable to the employees or your customers more expensive. I have pieces come in and select work. We that start around 20 dollars and go can set that up any way that you all the way up to 20,000 dollars. would like that. And the benefit to There’s a pretty wide range and the corporation is that we’d have variety that includes all of our an opening reception there where 2d work and you can invite your 3d work. This clients or customers in. is going to It’s a wonderful way specifically be a to get to know your fine art gallery. clients on a different It will be special level. You are building artists that we’re an art collection of representing. local artists for the same price - or a lot K - And what of times less - than is the date of what you would your first actual pay when you’re opening this purchasing work year? through a decorator. K - Are the shows you’ll have And the corporation going forward going to be on a JS - The gallery gets great PR for it. If 6-week schedule? will be open you hire a decorator JS - Yes, pretty much, within a starting January you get nothing except week or two. 10th and our reproduction art for first show opens it. So it’s a way to K - I appreciate you spending the on the 15th. develop a relationship time, both Jim and Julie, to talk with businesses and artists within to me about your exciting plans K - Since this article won’t appear our community. coming up! until February, do you have a show coming in February that you can If you are an artist you need to JB - Thank you for doing this! tell our readers about? have a place to live and work. I’ve already worked with businesses JS - Yes, thank you for your JS - Our January show [Shawna that have done this. In fact, Larry support, Keith! 9 Y ALLER G ISSUE dimensions gallery As part of an artist/maker space, Dimensions Gallery in Bloomington shows local, regional and international art.

spaces that people rent out, there’s K - Generally, the “classic” galleries Keith: I’m speaking with Theresa a glassblower, I have a studio space, that I’ve dealt with have a standard McGuire of Dimensions gallery there’s a barber, so it’s kind of a way of handling artists and their which is part of the Artisan Alley mesh of bohemian-style places in a works, they have a stable of artists complex of studios. It’s nice to co-work space. that they keep a few works of in hear your voice for a change, we’ve the gallery and they show works in exchanged a lot of emails about Adam Nahas is the studio director, group shows or solo shows. How advertising but I’ve not talked to you so he started it with Cyclops Studio does Dimensions handle the before. So, how long has the gallery and he ended up renting this space existed? and then it changed gears and they named it Artisan Alley. QUICK INFO Theresa McGuire: Dimensions has existed for a couple of years, we K - Adam Nahas, the sculptor, are part of the Artisan Alley co- correct? Dimensions Gallery workspace. We have different Address: T - Yes, that’s right. 222 W 2nd St. Bloomington IN 47403 K - We’ve had a few piece of his in the magazine for the Sculptor article PH: (812)-370-0278 (Oct/Nov 19). So, how large is the gallery in terms of square feet? Hours: Mon-Sat, 10am-6pm Types of art: 2d and 3d work T - The gallery space is 600 sq. feet, basically 15’ x 40’ with 10 ft. high by international, regional and walls. local artists Price Range: $30 $3000+ K - Can you give me any idea of ~ what the interior of the gallery looks like?

T - It’s a beautiful rectangular shape. As soon as you walk in the door and turn to the right you’ll see the business of dealing with artists? Are center and focal point of the gallery, they in for one show and then gone which is the central wall. I usually or is there some other method? put the strongest pieces or the main piece of an exhibition on that wall T - Pretty much, that’s the style, in Theresa McGuire because the eye hits that direction for one show every month. We do Curator first and I like to lead the viewer have some constant works Dimensions Gallery around the gallery. 10 in the Artisan Alley building, GALLER but the Dimensions space is ISSUE usually rotating one show, every Y month. And we also have a little area that we devote to a spotlight artist every month, and we show a future artist in an upcoming month or someone that doesn’t have a complete body of work quite yet but have a few strong pieces that they want to show.

K - What type of works do you show in the gallery? Does it run the gamut or are you specifically modern vs. classical?

T - Most of the photography has been landscape, but we have had some contemporary, an artist we showed recently, Darell Staggs, was playing with motion So, we’re statewide, national and K - Oh, that’s great! Do you and light and different effects. international. have any type of corporate art As far as painting, we’ve had a programs where you’d hang work couple fantasy artists and more K - Are there any special events in a business space or any kind of illustrative works but normally it’s that you have every year that rental programs for businesses? contemporary or abstract works as you’d like our readers to know far as paintings go. about? T - No, but we do collaborate with restaurant spaces, like the K - And when an artist approaches T - We’ve been hosting and main one in Bloomington [Upland the gallery to show works, what’s coordinating with Bloomington Brewery] and we rotate new that process like? Pride, so we usually have an artwork in their space every three exhibition at the end of August or months. T - So at times, artists will contact start of September which kind of me, but I send them a link to our kickstarts the Bloomington Pride K - Do you have any events proposal form (LINK HERE), so they event. That’s our yearly event that coming up this month that you’d need to fill out the gallery proposal we stage. like readers to know about? and send in their images and then I decide on whether the artist has K - Does the art that you show T - Yes, this month we are having the kind of work that we want to centered on LGTBQ issues? a group exhibition for Black History display in the gallery and if they Month and we have David Slivka in have a full body of work as well. T - Yes. March who is a photographer that’s So I usually will contact them and local but who has done a lot of discuss things with them after they K - And what is your commission international photography, so the send in the images. structure like? images are about his world travels. And both of those shows open on K - How far away can an artist T - Since Artisan Alley is a non- the first Friday of the month. live? Is the gallery Indiana-specific profit organization, we don’t or is it regional or national? actually take any commission, K - I appreciate your time today, however, we ask for a 30% thanks for sharing the info on T - We’re all the way up to donation from sales, but that is Demensions! international, we had Pedro Tec, completely up to the artist. Most but unfortunately he wasn’t able T - Your welcome, thank you! of the artists sell one to two to come into the country so via satellite we were able to Facetime pieces per show and the artists with him and people were able have been great about donating to talk with the artist during the their percentage without any opening reception. complaints.

11 Y ALLER G ISSUE Klienhelter gallery One of the newer galleries in the region, Klienhelter boasts a slick, rehabbed space filled with nationally-known artists’ work.

Keith - I’m speaking with Ray thirty years. I also renovate houses with some prints and drawings Klienhelter of Klienhelter Gallery and do construction work. We saw based on landscape although in New Albany. So tell me, Ray, a neat building and it looked like it’s becomes relatively abstract. how long has the gallery been in it would work, so we decided to It ranges in size from small existence? make it the gallery. watercolor studies up to 11 feet canvases. Ray - We opened March 2nd of K - Did you spend time renovating 2019. the building before opening the K - How large is the gallery? gallery? K - Did you have a gallery previously in another location or is R - Yeah, we spent about 2 years this a new venture? on reno of the building. QUICK INFO R - No, this is our first gallery. K - So, once it was in shape, you K - So, what prompted you to opened up in March of last year? Klienhelter Gallery open an art gallery? Address: R - Yes. 701 E. 8th Street R - Well, my wife and I and my K - And what kind of works are in New Albany, Indiana 47150 daughter, we’re all artists, working the gallery? artists in the Louisville area, I’ve PH: (502) 432-6226 been selling in that area and New R - Right now we have mostly Hours: Wen-Sat, 11am-6pm York and other places for over small works of regional artists, mostly 2d and we have one Types of art: 2d and 3d work by sculpture (Larry Beisler). We might local, regional and international start selling more types of art as artists we go along but we’re really just finding our way right now. Our Price Range: $300 ~ $20,000 first exhibition were all my works, I think I hung 65 paintings within the gallery.

K - So you represent yourself, your wife and daughter and also other regional artists. What types of R - It’s about 2000 square feet. We works do you produce? have a central hallway that goes Ray Klienhelter up into two apartments upstairs, Artist/Owner R - My works are mostly paintings but the hallway is also exhibition Klienhelter Gallery 12 Y space. My wife is a just up and stop working for established people in the shows. I’d ALLER fiber artist and a whatever reason, so it’s nice to like to see some younger people G ISSUE tapestry weaver, see when they come back into it. interested in exhibiting here to see so we’re just So, does your gallery do monthly what we can do for them. getting her set up as openings? well and making that a K - And what is your commission loom room, basically. We’ve got R - They’re bi-monthly. This structure for artists? two looms that she’s getting ready summer we’re going to close for to start working on up there. a month to re-group because R - We’re like everybody else, we opened in kind of a rush. So we’re 50/50. K - Oh, that’s interesting. I wish I’d we rather like the idea of closing have known about her last year, for a month to six weeks in the K - Do you offer any type of I did an article on fiber artists and summer. But we’re still probably corporate art programs or rentals was searching for fiber artists and going to do at least five to six for businesses? having a hard time finding them! exhibitions a year. I’ll have to keep her in mind for the R - We haven’t done that, although next time. K - What kind of artists are you we’re certainly interested in that. looking for going forward that I’ve participated in that type of R - In this exhibition (Dec 2019) you don’t currently have? Is there thing across the river for several we have a woman named K. O. a niche in the gallery that you’re years, so we’re interested. We Whit and I have a knitted piece looking to flesh out a bit more? also are happy to install work and which she made that is the first consult on locations for particular piece she’s created in a long time. R - So far we’re just taking it kind pieces for customers. She was actually quite successful of slow while we exhibit. Right as a very young woman back in now we’re focused on painting for K - So if a customer falls in love the seventies and was in Fiber the most part until my wife gets with a particular piece and they Arts magazine and a lot of east going on the looms upstairs. Really, want to see it in their home or coast publications and was even just strong, well-crafted paintings, try it out, would you be willing to invited to be in the American Craft drawings, I have an interest in work with them in that way? Museum. But she sort of flamed print-making as well, so we’re out on it for a lot of reasons and looking for a little bit more of that. R - Sure, we certainly can do that. she quit working. She recently So we might go in that direction as retired from the school system well. K - What is the general price range down here and I talked her into of the works you’re showing? going back to work on some K - If I was a local artist who pieces, so this is the first piece wanted to show in your gallery, R - My pieces range from the she’s done in about 30 years, I what would I need to do? few hundred dollars to around think. It’s really quite extraordinary, 19,000 and everything inbetween. it’s a knitted landscape. You would R - Generally, I like to see work in The next exhibition or two will probably expect, on first glance, person but usually we’d start with be around the 5 to 7 thousand that it’s a tapestry. But it’s actually the artist sending some images via dollar mark, it’s two women who a knitting technique that she just email or just come in and show are very strong painters who are cooked up when she was really me pictures on your phone or painting large, and they’ll have young. I’m hoping she’ll continue a laptop computer. We’re pretty some smaller works available as to work now. informal about it. I haven’t had a well. We’re trying very hard to chance really to go into a lot of make sure and have affordable K - Yes, it’s a shame when artists studios around here yet but I’d works in the gallery at all times. certainly like to do that. But to K - If you’ve got a new artist that’s answer your not used to pricing work, are you earlier question, willing to lend a hand helping probably what them arrive at a price for their we’re looking pieces? for that we don’t have at this R - (laughs) Unfortunately, yes. Our point are some current show I think I had three younger artists. people who wanted us to tell them So far we’ve what to sell the pieces for. I’m got relatively really not comfortable with that,

13 K - Do you have any special events coming this year?

R - The next show is Brenda Wirth and Mary Newton and that show closes on February 29th. They are two really strong painters. And I’m really encouraging them to paint larger. They already paint fairly large, but I’m encouraging them to go larger. I’m happy that I have the space for them to exhibit larger paintings.

And then in March, I’m going to exhibit again along with an artist from Los Angeles, Mario Muller. That show opens on March 13th and closes on May 2nd. I’d prefer them to tell me. But a R - It will probably always be half lot of people who have not shown solo and half group. The gallery is K - That sounds like a nice set a lot or had a record of sales are pretty large for a lot of artists to of shows for the start of the shy about asking what the work be able to fill the whole gallery, year. Thank you very much for is really worth. That’s always a real at least with new work. So, one- taking the time to tell me about Kleinhelter Gallery. tricky one. person shows are probably going to be relatively rare but two person K - Pricing is always the dilemma R - You’re welcome. for artists, it seems. If an artist shows are probably going to be comes in, do you offer solo shows? pretty common. Y ALLER G ISSUE art on main gallery A landmark in Madison, Art on Main is the gallery outlet for the artists of the Madison Art Club

Keith - I’m speaking with Elle Smith. many members do you have K - So is the other space for We’re talking about Art on Main, currently? classrooms or storage or… in Madison Indiana, which is the gallery offshoot of the Madison E - Today we have about 80. E - Yes, we have both classrooms Art Club. So, Elle, tell me a little bit and storage and a dock area. The about the Madison Art Club, how K - Wow! OK. larger gallery area is on Main Street old is it and when did the gallery and we have two gift shop areas become established? E - And we still have a regional show. The first regional show we Elle Smith - Madison Art Club was had was in the springtime and we QUICK INFO initiated in 1949 by a group of moved it to the fall in 2004. twelve to thirteen young artists who wanted to help each other K - Does your regional show have Art on Main Gallery out. They didn’t have a place to a name? show their work and wanted to have a small group show. Their E - Yes, it’s the Madison Art Club Address: idea was to have a show every Regional Fall Show. 309 W Main St. year and back then they had them Madison, IN 47250 at the library. Their first president K - And is that open to the public was Jane Jeffries. And I knew Jane, in general? PH: (812) 265-2923 her daughters were in school with Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-5pm me. And then I became president E - Yes, it is. Sun noon-4pm in 1984 and I started the first art gallery. It was called The Art K - OK, let’s talk a little more Types of art: 2d and 3d work by Gallery. (laughs) about that in a minute, first I’d like local and regional artists to know more about the actual Price Range: $10 $500+ K - (laughing) Really creative there! gallery. How long have you been at ~ Let me ask you this: Was it in the your current location? same location that it is now at that time? E - We’ve been in this location since 2011. E - No, we’ve had several different right now and also a wall gallery locations since the first one. And K - And how many square feet for the larger 2d art pieces. The we had a regional show in the very does the gallery have? gift shop areas contain all kinds of first art gallery in 1985 and we had crafts and fine art and the prices on about 30 members at that time. E - The main space of the gallery those items are $100 and below. is about 3000 square feet, but we Note cards, stain glass, fiber art, K - And compared to today, how have a total of 5000 square feet. 15 our artists are within 150 known for antiques. We’ve had miles. We’ve had people people come in from as far away from Cincinnati, Lafayette, as Paris, France. We do get quite a Ft. Wayne and Illinois, few tourists. Kentucky and Ohio as well. K - So, if I became a member of the gallery what would be my K - That’s quite a region! costs and my responsibilities be at Is there any type of work that point? that you don’t allow in the gallery? E - As a club member, you’d pay an initiation fee of 25 dollars per E - We used to not allow year and then 25 dollars a month any nudes, but about 10 to show your work. We also have years ago, that changed a print bin, if you’re in the gallery and we allow tasteful you are allowed to have prints nudes now and a little bit there, if you are in the gift shop, photographs and all the things we of everything. you can also have smaller prints in carry are handmade and all are there as well. originals. K - Do you have a size limitation? If you are a brand new artist, you K - If I was an artist looking E - Well, the artists get about a five can apply to the HArT Program to show my work there, what by eight foot space [5 foot wide by which is specifically for artists who would be the process involved 8 foot tall], so we ask that they fit have never shown before. They in becoming a member of the within that space and actually four get to show their work in the back gallery? inches within that. of the gallery on three wall spaces. And the Madison Art Club supports E - First you need to become a K - Is the gallery located within those artists for a year. They have member of the club to show in the what would be called an “Arts mentors who help them out. gallery, that’s a prerequisite. After District” ? They’re responsible for a few that, you have to be juried by the shows a year for all the members board. We ask the artists to bring E - Yes, we’re in the Madison and the senior members show in five or six pieces of art to show Arts and Cultural District. [ There them how to position and place initially to the board. The board are several other galleries and the work in an artful display, how votes whether they are acceptable culturally significant places within to advertise and how to write up or not. that area.] an article and have a reception.

K - Is that actual pieces or can the K - I know several other larger K - Does this support include any artist send in a digital photograph? towns and cities have gallery monetary help? walks, does Madison have E - We prefer to see the actual something similar? E - If the artist needs help with work. art supplies, we can help a little E - Madison has Fourth Friday and with that and also teaching how K - How far away can the artist artists show up at different places. to paint, how to draw, all in free live and still be a member of the There’s music on the street and we lessons. gallery, is there a limit on that? have a trolley car that goes from one place to the next. That takes K - Your gallery also has the E - We’ve had people as far away place from March until November, regional, invitational show every as West Virginia. so that’s most of the year. year, can you tell our readers more about that? K - Oh really? Wow, OK. So K - What type of customers do you have no limitations on the you see in the gallery, are they E - We put that on our website distance? local people or tourists from other and several other places on the places? internet. And in the past we’ve sent E - The only rule is that they need out invitations and most of the to come to the gallery once every E - Of course, we have local people who’ve been in our show quarter to rotate their work. The people all the time, but we have are aware. They’ve moved the artist from West Virginia had a a lot of visitors because Madison show up and we call for entries relative who lived here so that is a historic destination and we’re in August, and then the show is made it easier on her. But most of 16 in September. [The regional show Tech College on the hilltop and we necessarily asked about, perhaps is timed to happen during the change the artwork in there every a program or show you have Madison Chautauqua Festival of semester. coming up? Art]. K - Is there any cost associated E - Yes, one thing we do during K - Is that a juried process as well? with those venues? the Regional show is to devote a space in the gift shop E - No, it’s not. If where we show one you apply, you are smaller piece of every guaranteed to have at artist in the gallery. least one piece in the show. So, in a way, K - I know that some if we have to we’ll co-ops are divided up jury out a 2nd piece. in one space per artist They’re allowed to and other co-ops show enter two pieces. The everything everywhere cost is 50 dollars for in a giant mix, which non-members and 40 way does your gallery dollars for members. handle this? And we advertise the show. E - Ours is divided. And by the way, we do have K - Is there a limitation a club in New Albany on how far away that is part of the gallery someone can live to called the “Crit Club” and be in that show? they are made up of 6 artists that have two E - Yes. 150 miles in spaces and were juried any direction from Madison. in as a group and show a mix of E - No, there’s no fee, but each works. K - So, if an artist joins the gallery, of those venues has a jury. The can they have a solo show or a King’s Daughter Hospital is not K - Your classroom spaces, I’m “new artist” show? exclusive to the Madison Art Club, assuming you have some artists anyone can show there, but Clifty that teach as well. E - Well, we had been allowing and Ivy Tech are exclusive to the solo shows but we decided that members. E - Yes, and they can also teach the area where we would have in small groups within the gallery those solo shows was so large K - Do you have any special shows areas as well. And those classes that some of the artists didn’t have or events coming up in February or are advertised in the windows enough work to fill it nicely, so we March that you’d like to share with of the gallery. I teach myself and doubled up on it and made it a our readers? teach younger people, 8 years old two-man show the past couple of up to teenagers. I teach everything. years and we felt like that would E - We do have a special show show the best work of two new in February for Black History K - You must have a lot of artists. Month. Anyone in Madison who patience! either is an African American or K - Do the members show works creates African American art can E - Well I like teaching young in other venues or do you have participate. people because they like going a rental program or corporate art from one process to the next, I’ve program? K - So this next February you’re had some students five and six going to have this same event and years now. E - Yes, we have three other what are the dates for that? venues outside of the gallery. One K - Well, I really appreciate you is the King’s Daughter’s Madison E - We try to open on the first of taking the time to talk with me Hospital on top of the hill. The the month for every show and about Art on Main. other is the Clifty Inn which is in ends on the last day. the state park and is a restaurant, E - Thank you very much, if you and we change that every three K - Do you have any thing else have any questions just let me months. And we also have Ivy you’d like to add that I have not know!

17 Y ALLER G ISSUE The Artisan center Showing Regional and local artists’ works, this gallery has an eclectic variety of art and craft items for every budget.

Keith - I’m speaking with Linda painted backdrops for Hayswood. to grow the board, we have a Shoults of The Artisan Center in And then they decided to open a goal of getting up to 19 more Corydon Indiana. Has it always gallery. And that’s how the gallery board members. We have a lot of been called this? was started. work to do and with a handful of people,. so we would really like to Linda - Yes, as far as I know. K - Are any of the original people increase our board. that started the gallery still here? K - How long has the gallery K - So does the board have a lot to existed? L - Yes, and they’re still involved do with the day-to-day operation? with the gallery. L - I think we’re in our 11th year. K- How many people total are in K - Did it always have the same the gallery at this point? QUICK INFO location? L - We have 47 artists currently. L - No, it wasn’t, it had been three The Artisan Center doors down previously. K - 47, wow! That’s a lot more than you had when I talked to you K - Who was involved, what was a year ago. Address: the purpose of it starting, how did 121 E Chestnut St. that happen? What’s the history L - Yes, yes, we’re growing. And Corydon, IN 47112 there? we’re getting some really good artists in and some really unusually PH: (812) 738-2123 L - It was incorporated in May fine work now. Very sophisticated Hours: Tue-Thur/Sat 10am-5pm of 2005 as Harrison County work. We’re seeing our sales grow, Fri 10-7pm Arts, Incorporated. That still so I think we’re on the right track. exists, that’s our not-for-profit Types of art: 2d and 3d work by agency that operates [as the K- From my understanding there’s local and regional artists umbrella corporation over ] a board that oversees the gallery? Price Range: $10 $500+ Artisan Center. It was a handful ~ of community-minded artists L - There is, yes. that wanted to promote art for the community. They got started K - And how does that work? to support the theater. We have a little community theater here L - Well, I’m the president of the L - The gallery is actually operated called Hayswood. [https://www. board and right now we have by volunteers. As a member of hayswoodtheatre.org/] And they 11 board members. We’re trying the board I’ve been very active in

18 daily operations, but fine art. You can’t it takes everyone. keep fine artists if We’ve got up to you have that type around 26 volunteers of item because now but we really then they can’t need more. We compete with have some really that price-wise. dedicated people. Hopefully in the future we can K - Are the add more craft volunteers also items, but you still artists in the gallery have to meet our or are these just standards to get people from the into the gallery. outside who want to help? K - What does it take to get into the L - The majority of gallery? them are artists and for their work at the L - All of our gallery they put in 7 artists are juried in. hours a month and We have a rubric get a discounted rate and we have a on the commission and a weaver as well. We have a jury panel. There they pay to the gallery. couple jewelers who show their are five jurors and they fill out jewelry designs. a rubric for each piece that the K - Can you tell me what the fee artist submits. The artist submits is to join the gallery and what the K - What kind of price range do three items. It’s a peer review commission rates are? the works fall into? jurying process. This means that if the artist is bringing in ceramics, L - Our membership fee is $25 a L - The highest price painting I’ve we try to get someone that has year and the commission for non- sold since I’ve been involved was a familiarity with ceramics to be volunteering artists is 40 percent $950. But you can find any price included in the jury group. But and volunteer artists only pay 30 range. Sometimes in the gift shop it’s always five. The artist has percent. an artist will bring in some things to achieve 300 points with the they’ve had in their inventory for maximum being 500. They have to K - OK, that sounds like a good a while and are ready to see it go get to 300 to be accepted into the deal! down the road so they’ll mark it gallery. down to 45 to 65 dollars. L - It is a good deal. K - And how long does this K - And the higher-end sculptures, process take from start to finish? K - Can you give me a general what are the ranges for those spectrum of what’s in the gallery pieces? L - It usually takes about 2 weeks. currently? L - I’m glad you asked, we do have K - Once an artist is accepted into L - Most of what we have is a stone sculptor [Larry Biesler] that the gallery, do you have a “new fine art and we also have some has re-joined our group and his artist opening” or how are they fine crafts. Our art is mostly work is over $1000. announced to the public? Does the paintings and we have a couple artist need to request or pay a little watercolor artists but the majority K - What type of work do you not more for an opening? How does are oil painters and a couple of allow in the gallery? that work? acrylic painters. We also have photographers, we have some L - Any type of common craft item L - Actually the board takes care really great landscape and wildlife that you might do in your home. of the openings. That’s part of our photographers. And they have We don’t accept any knitting or fundraising budget that we have. their own little area in the gallery. croché at this point. We’d like to, We have a marketing budget for We also have woodworkers that but we don’t have the room. We’d newspaper advertising. The artist do both lathe work and also hand like to have a larger space so we is given a list of upcoming shows carving. We also have a ceramicist could then isolate that from the for the year and the parameters for

19 Y each show so they shows hang for two months and to a larger facility so that would know what to there’s a new artist every show. open all kinds of options for us. So GALLER expect for each right now, I don’t think we want to ISSUE show. We only K - Have there been a lot of sales put any limits on numbers. have one juried through that venue? show a year. That’s K - Would this move double your called “Indiana Through the L - There has been some sales. It’s space? Eyes of An Artist”. And that’s not exceptional but it’s enough to our late summer show. keep the program on-going. L - It would probably triple it. And it would give us space to have K - So you do have openings, but K - And exposure, so that’s good to possibly three classrooms to teach they’re not specifically like solo get the artists names out there. Do classes in. shows or something like that? you have any special fund-raising Instead they’re themed shows for methods to help the gallery? K - Is there anything you’d like the entire gallery membership? to tell me about the gallery that’s L - We have individual and special happening in 2020? L - We have an interest in doing family memberships available that some of that. We just haven’t been people can purchase. L - Our “Indiana Through the Eyes able to get that accomplished quite of an Artist” will be a regional show yet. The gallery space is somewhat K- What does that membership this year. It won’t be limited to our small. We want to afford all of our entitle people to? stable of artists. We’re opening it up artists the ability to show, so it’s to the southern third of Indiana. sort of difficult to give that space to L - Depending on the level that just one artist. the person enters into, they can K - And how would artists get to get a 10 percent discount on see a prospectus for that show? K - So is there any area of art any purchases, they will receive that you’d like to see come into complimentary tickets to events L - The prospectus will be the gallery that you don’t have we have. We have a level for on our website. [https:// currently? Any kind of works that everyone, they start at $100 and go www.facebook.com/ you’d like to see added? up to $2500. TheArtisanCenterCenterCorydon/]

L - I would like to see some K - Is there any private events for K - Great, thank you! abstracts. Most of our artists are the members that are exclusive for painting realism and I’d like to see them only? some really good abstract works in the mix. There’s definitely a market L - We usually have our openings for that. I think that would be a on Fridays and those are “members good addition to our gallery. only” and the artists. And then the gallery is open to the public on K - Well, there’s certainly a lot Saturday for that same show. of abstract artists listed in the listing section of this magazine. K - And what typically happens Hopefully some of them will see at an opening, is there wine and this interview and help make your cheese like usual or… dream come true! L - Yes, pretty standard stuff and L - That would be great! the board furnishes that and we occasionally have an artist donate K - Do you have any kind of a bottle of wine to help with that corporate art programs or rental effort. It’s worked really well. programs currently? K - What is the maximum number L - Not at this point. That’s another of artists you’d like to see going thing that we’ve discussed. But forward? what we do have is a cooperative program with Kent Java [coffee L - At this stage, we really don’t shop] that’s down the block. They want to put a number on things support us by letting artists have as far as maximum because we’ve a solo show in their space. Those got plans that we might be moving

20 Y ALLER G ISSUE The hoosier salon gallery An Indiana arts organization for over 95 years, this New Harmony gallery shows juried works by top Hoosier artists.

Keith - I’m talking with Linda Volz K - That’s a nice size! I know New that’s in the Spring. That is affiliated of Hoosier Salon Gallery in New Harmony is a small town, but I also with our “First Brush of Spring” Harmony. How long has the gallery know there’s quite a number of show, which is a plien air event that existed and has it always been in art-related things there. Is it located we sponsor along with the Indiana the same place? within an arts district or something Plein Air Painters Association’s like that? event called the Field-to-Finish. It’s Linda Volz - The gallery has been in where the artists who had their field existence since 2001 and it’s been L - Yes, there’s actually 3 art studies in the same place since. We’re galleries and we’re within a block affiliated with the Hoosier Salon in of each other. The New Harmony Indianapolis and they’re actually Gallery of Contemporary Art which QUICK INFO celebrating their 95th year. is a non-profit and it’s affiliated with the University of Southern Indiana. K - So, the gallery in New There’s another commercial gallery Hoosier Salon Gallery Harmony is an offshoot from that here as well. organization. So how large is the Address: gallery space there? K - How long have you been with 507 Church St. the gallery? L - It’s probably around 1200 sq. ft. New Harmony, IN 47631 L - Since July of 2017 and I’m the PH: (812) 682-3970 gallery Director. Hours: Thur ~ Sat 12 - 4 pm K - So you’re in charge of Sun 1- 4 pm everything that goes on there. Types of art: 2d and 3d work by local and state-wide artists L - Yes, pretty much everything. I have a pretty good volunteer Price Range: $80 ~ $500+ system, the Tri-Kappa Ladies help me with the actual sitting in the gallery when I can’t be here, and the Beta-Kappa helps me with the hosting of the events here. stamped the year before take that K - Can you tell me about the specific piece back to their studio gallery shows that you have there? and then paint a studio painting Are they always Hoosier Salon based on the field study. Our gallery Linda Volz member shows? then displays both of the paintings Gallery Director at one time. That’s the only show Hoosier Salon Gallery L - No, they aren’t. But there’s only where you don’t have to be a one that’s not a member show and member of the Hoosier Salon. All 21 The September show is been accepted into our Annual another group of three Exhibition. And I think that’s a rule artists - which is kind of - either an unwritten or a written weird because we don’t rule - and it’s basically so that we usually do things like get the caliber of art shown here this but the June show is that is top quality in Indiana. I think three male member artists also that reason we pick artists that and then the September have been in the Annual Exhibition show is three female is because it’s not just me picking member artists, I don’t the art, it’s also the jurors that of our other shows are member- typically separate them, we pay to accept the art for the based exhibitions. it’s just how it turned out this time. Annual Exhibition. Typically what And then in November/December I’ll do is pick two artists from that K - How often do you change the I always have a holiday local exhibition and then I’ll choose exhibitions in the gallery? member show. one that is local so that I can get local people interested in coming L - Last year I changed it out K - And then you close down for and looking at the art. If I feature every six weeks. But this year I’ve the month of January? artists that they don’t know locally, decided to leave them up longer they’re less apt to come to the so we now change them out every L - Right. shows. two months, so an eight week exhibition. K - With the member shows, K - And when does that rotation do you allow schedule start? solo shows ever or is it always L - That will start in February. three artists or a group? K - Oh, that’s perfect, the magazine uses the same schedule currently! L - I’ve never had a solo show, L - Yeah, we think it’s going to it would take work out very well. quite a bit of art from one K - I’m imagining the kind of individual artist works that people could see in to fill the gallery, your gallery would run the gamut, so typically I am I right in assuming that? draw from three. Three works L - You are, because members pretty well. This of the Hoosier Salon - most are past year I had traditional artist - but there are a a couple shows with four and K - That makes sense. But all three few that work in 3d, some work that worked well, too but it just artists are always members? more in an abstract mode. What depends on how much work the I’m planning for February is a artists have and how large the L - Yes, they’re always members. watercolor show with the local work is, a few other factors, but The only show that accepts Watercolor Society which we have usually three works out pretty well non-members is the “First Brush here. And then in April we’ll have and that’s a good number for our of Spring” where you don’t the “Field-to-Finish” exhibition and exhibit space. necessarily have to be a member. then in June we’re planning on having a group of three male artists K - Take me through the process K - Does the artist then have to which will be more of a plein air of how this works. Let’s say I’m an put in an application to signify that show, so landscapes mostly. And artist, I want to become a member they want to be one of the three then in July I’ll be putting together and I want to show at your gallery, members? Or is that done without a member exhibit which is called I want to be maybe one of these the artist necessarily knowing that “The Good Ol’ Summertime” show three artists you have in the you are considering them for a which has been going on for about gallery… How does that work? show? 15 years. That’s open to all of our members and I usually have L - Typically I pick from the L - I go through the list and it jurored, so there are awards. member artists who have look at the artwork to see what 22 would make a good show. K - And how much does That’s part of my curating that cost to enter? experience and part of my job, to curate the shows, L - I think that’s around to try and figure out what $50 or $60 to enter. might look good together, what might fit in our gallery. K - But that’s strictly a plein air event, correct? K - Oh, ok, I was picturing a waiting list of artists who L - Yes, it’s a three-day wanted to show and when event, you can enter their time came up, they’d one painting into the get a show. But that’s not competition but we also necessarily how it’s decided. have multiple ways you can sell your art. L - I don’t know if you are familiar with this part of K - So, the artist arrives Indiana, but we’re about and paints a work 3 and a half hours from somewhere in the area? Indianapolis, so it’s quite a haul down here. So if you L - Yes, somewhere in commit to being an artist the area, typically they’re who exhibits here you have to K - And that exhibition happens somewhere in Posey county or bring and pick up your art and it’s where? New Harmony area. They have to quite an endeavor. get their piece stamped prior to the L - It is shown in the Indiana State start and then on Saturday for the K - What do you consider a local Museum. competition, there’s a group that artist for your gallery? makes sure the painting is stamped. K - What is the current total number L - What I consider “local” is of artist members? K - And the works that are shown anything south of Bloomington, in the gallery are for sale, right? really. And I’ll typically try to pull L - In 2019 we had 238 artists. In from that list of artists. the past we’ve had as high as 400 L - Yes, they’re all for sale. or so. K - OK, so when it comes to joining K - And what is the commission and being a member, what is an K - In the application process, can structure for artists selling through artist expected to do and pay to be everyone can get in who pays? the gallery? a part of Hoosier Salon? L - Yes, everyone is accepted. L - The gallery takes a 40% L - To be a member of the Hoosier commission on all works sold. Salon costs $40. To enter the K - So the artist can apply with you Annual Exhibition it costs $60, so or apply up north, either one? K - And artists are responsible for the most any member would pay bringing in the works and retrieving a year would be $100, plus the L - Yes, they can. the works? expenses they would have to frame their work and travel expenses. [ K - Once an artist is accepted, L - Correct. In some of the Editors note: To see all the different they pay to be in the annual group shows, I’ll have a location membership types and levels go show and then that’s shown in designated where work can be to: https://hoosiersalon.org/artists- the state museum, so I’m trying dropped off and I’ll return it to that memberships/ ] to get an idea of any other special location as a benefit. events. You have the “Good Ol’ K - So what percentage of art that’s Summertime” which happens in K - Well thank you for your time entered into the Annual Exhibition July… and answering all of my questions. is accepted? I appreciate you taking the time to L - Yes, and there’s the First Brush talk with me today. L - Everybody gets in. It was about of Spring event and you don’t have 250 artists for the last exhibition, we to be a member, but if you are L -Your welcome! had over 600 pieces and each artist already a member of Hoosier Salon can submit up to three pieces, not you get a discount on that entry everyone did. There was actually fee. That’s a big event. 130 pieces accepted. 23 Y ALLER G ISSUE The hoosier Artists gallery

This Nashville gallery shows a broad range of art and high-end crafts for nearly any budget

Keith - I’m speaking with Anabel paint was peeling and the railings K - Do you have the typical mix of Hopkins of Hoosier Artists Gallery were coming off. They really put works in the gallery? 2d and 3d? in Nashville. Can you tell me a little some money into fixing up the bit of the history of the gallery and exterior, so we’re very happy. A - Yes, we have oil, pastel, acrylic, how it started and who started it? both abstract and representational K - Who is the Brown County paintings, photography, wood Anabel Hopkins - OK, well, I Art Guild? turnings, intaglio, scrollwork, actually founded it 10 years ago. I some furniture, stained glass, glass had been an artist for a few years A - They’re a gallery that’s been objects and sculptures, fiber art, in Nashville. I had my own studio/ around since the 1940s. They own gallery for about a year and I several buildings here in Nashville decided I didn’t want to work that and our gallery resides in one of hard because I’m supposed to be them, which is behind their main QUICK INFO retired. I loved it and I did well, but gallery. I didn’t want to have to go in every day. There seemed like a need for K - So, where do your artists Hoosier Artist Gallery a cooperative gallery that had a come from? variety of work in it, so I worked with people that I knew. As soon A - Our artists are local and Address: as we got eight people, I rented a regional and we’re a pure co-op 45 S Jefferson St. space and we opened. We started gallery, incorporated as a co-op. Nashville, IN 47448 with eight, we got a few more later. One year later we moved to K - Other than yourself, are PH: (812) 988-6888 a different location that was a little there still some of the first artists Hours: Daily, 11am - 4 pm larger. And then one year after that members that you had in the we moved to our current location. beginning? Types of art: 2d and 3d work by It’s a building that’s owned by the mostly local artists Brown County Art Guild, which A - Yes, there are, I’m trying to was endowed to them by Murry think, I think there are at least four Price Range: $30~ $5,000 Goth. There’s a bookstore in the of us as members still. We have 17 same building and an apartment members currently. We average 17 upstairs. It’s quite a good location, to 20 members normally. it was originally an old hardware store, the ceilings are wood and it K - How large is the gallery, how has a lot of old posts and pillars. It’s many square feet is the space? both functional and decorative a charming old building. This past ceramics, jewelry, collage, mosaics, year the guild got a grant and did A - It’s about 1800 square feet. It’s needle felting, baskets, all kinds of some rehab to the outside which one big rectangular room. We have a various art. When a member brings was badly in need of repair, the little porch on the back which is nice. in something different than what 24 considered better than others, so K - Yes, that’s very low. everyone gets their turn in those spaces. A - Well, when we started I didn’t charge any percentage, but the K - So, the work is clustered rent changed and expenses together then? increased, so we went to 10% and then 15% and the monthly fee is A - For the most part, it is. There $65 a month. are some things that are spread out for the purposes of making K - Do you do anything else to the gallery look more attractive. raise funds for the gallery? For instance, one of our artists has some seascape paintings so we put A - We’ve started doing other a glass sculpture in front of that things in that area, too as we’ve which looks like a wave, with the put in new signage for the gallery same colors. So we’ll do things like which is very expensive. So we that for purposes of our decor.

K - If I was an artist living in the area and became interested in joining they originally juried in with, they your gallery, what have to go through the jurying would the process process by the members with the for entry be? new work as well. That way we keep a good mix of things and A - First of all, don’t have too much of any one you’d have to thing. People say it’s the most live close enough interesting gallery in town because to us to work 2 of the variety and the quality of days a month what we have. and be active on a committee. We do have some started doing some “make-and- K - Other than duplicates, are there consignment artists or guest artists take” during the Art Walks. any types of work that you don’t from time to time on a temporary allow into the gallery? basis, if we think the work is K - So when an artist joins the outstanding and would help the gallery, do you have a special A - Anything that’s not handmade, gallery. But for joining the gallery, show for the new artist? like from a kit or anything that’s a we have an application that needs re-sell item. to be filled out and then during A - Every month we have two our general membership meeting, featured artists and basically the K - Since it’s a co-op, is it arranged the artist would be on the agenda purpose of that is so that we can by artist, meaning every artist and bring samples of their work. have something to put in the has their slot that they can show The artist talks with the group and newspaper, to be honest. We have their work in? Or is it a mixture all we talk with them to get an idea if little posts that we put around the through the gallery? they’d be someone that would fit gallery and then put something in the gallery, both with their work in the paper with a picture of A - We have a design committee and their personality, to make sure their work. But we don’t have and they’re the ones responsible they’d be a good representative special shows and such. If you’re for setting up the gallery. We have for the gallery with the public. a featured artist, you’re responsible a change-out about every three Then we hold a vote. We have an for hosting the Art Walk for that months. Several times a year we initial membership fee and then month, so you’d be in charge of totally change everything in the each member pays a monthly fee bringing the food and being there gallery, move everything around which goes toward our rent and for people to meet. and re-arrange the set-up. We expenses. Artists then pay a 15% don’t measure each artist’s exact commission on any works they K - So that would serve as space but they try and keep it sell, which is pretty low. their “opening” for being a new equal. Some spaces might be member?

25 Y A - Yeah, it does. the year 2000, it’s ALLER We’ve had something I’ve always G ISSUE some themes been interested in in the gallery, but I had a career but they’re not in mostly non-profit necessarily special shows. management, like But during the Art Walks, we poverty programs do have the “make-and-takes”, and personnel and we’ll set up a tent behind the things like that. We gallery in the parking lot and I had a horse farm did a class on Pour Art, and one and a boarding stable month we did a little workshop for a few years. We on birdhouses and we had one lived on the east side on making jewelry, so we try and of Monroe county, find things like that can bring more which is close to people in and showcase what we Brown County and I do, so we’ll probably be doing started getting more and also at the Hobby Lobby in more of those this year. interested in Brown County and Bloomington, as well as Elletsville, then we actually moved to Brown Columbus and Martinsville, K - A few galleries that I’ve been County. I said to myself “If I’m wherever someone wants me. talking to have a corporate art going to live in Brown County, I’m Also private groups. That’s what rental program, does your gallery going to be an artist”. (laughs) So I’ve been doing. I need to do some do anything like that for any of the I became an artist! And like most more landscapes because I’m surrounding businesses? people, once you start getting into it, you start making so many things in the Indiana Artisan gallery in A - No, we don’t. But we do have and you think “I can’t give away Carmel and French Lick and they lay-away and some of our artists any more stuff, I’ve got to find a sell my landscapes pretty well, but take commissions and quite a few way to start selling it” so that’s I don’t have many right now. I got of us enter other shows, like art how I got into selling. to get back to work as a painter! fairs and things like that but that’s on their own, basically. K - Most of the work I’ve seen of K - One of the abstracts you yours is abstract, but you also do created which we used as a cover K - What about your background, other types of work? for the magazine (Oct/Nov 2018) is you said you were retired when one of our most popular covers, you opened the gallery, what was A - Yes, I create landscapes in I’ve gotten a lot of compliments on the work that you were doing pastel and oil and last year I got that issue. prior to that? Were you an art into the acrylic pouring craze. I had teacher or art historian? a solo show in the Venue Gallery A - That painting was sold through in Bloomington and I started the gallery that John Mellencamp A - No, I just became an artist, teaching classes. I teach classes had in Seymour and that was also I started taking lessons about every month at the local winery in the Hoosier Salon.

K - Is there anything else you’d like to tell our readers about the gallery?

A - We’re a very friendly, informal gallery. People love to come in and relax and have a good time and find art in their price range.

K - I want to thank you for taking the time to talk with me today to tell me about Hoosier Artists Gallery.

A - Thank you! Y ALLER G ISSUE The Carnegie Center for art & History Showing both regional and international work, the Carnegie is known for high quality, contemporary exhibitions

Keith - I’m speaking with Daniel building served as New Albany and D - Roughly, give or take, yes. Pfalzgraf of the Carnegie Center for Floyd County’s library from 1904 Sometimes they’re a little bit longer, Art & History. Daniel, if you can, give through 1969. The library moved just depending on the calendar, me the background of the Carnegie down the street about three blocks how it falls. But generally, about Center. to a larger facility in 1969. This two months. We do about five building sat vacant for a couple exhibitions a year. Daniel Pfalzgraf - The building that of years and was nearly a victim we’re in was built in 1904 as part of “progress” and demolished, but K - Typically, museums don’t offer of Andrew Carnegie’s librarys that some key supporters saved the works for sale by the artist, is that he built around the U.S. at that time, building and it opened as the Floyd the same system you use? so it’s one of the original Carnegie County Museum in 1971. Libraries. The architect was Arthur Loomis, the architect for the original K - So it was called the Floyd QUICK INFO Speed Museum in Louisville. This County Museum at first. D - Yes, and it operated in that way, Carnegie Center for Art showing art and history and things related to Floyd County and was Address: renamed in the 90s to the Carnegie 201 E. Spring St. Center for Art & History to better New Albany, IN 47150 reflect it’s history to the Carnegie Library legacy. Aside from being PH: (812) 944-7336 an art and history museum we’re Hours: Mon Sat 10AM - 5PM also a branch of the Floyd County ~ Public Library. Closed Sunday. Types of art: 2d and 3d work by K - Describe for me how you would local, national and intl. artists divide the center up, how much would be devoted to art and how Prices: Display only, no sales much would be devoted to history? through the gallery D - It’s about half and half. We have two main galleries that are basically used for contemporary art that we rotate out every couple of months D - Generally speaking, yes, but we Daniel Pfalzgraf with exhibitions. have done a little bit of that in the Curator past. We have an annual exhibition Carnegie Center for Art K - So your exhibitions are every called Form Not Function, two months? 27 it’s all contemporary and how they art quilts. This fit into those coming year is our larger national 17th exhibition of conversations. this kind in May. So that exhibition has K - I believe last works for sale, but year you had otherwise, generally, two women we don’t. Sometimes artists showing, if the artist wants one which was to have their prices Katy Traughber - available, we’ll have a price sheet, but D - Yes, that was we refer anyone actually a three- who is interested in person show purchasing work to called “Spawning the artist directly or Grounds”, that their representative was with Katy gallery. D - It starts with getting in touch and also Rebeka with me, sending me by email or Sweetland and Aberlyn. Both Katy K - So you wouldn’t handle the mailing in a packet of information and Aberlyn live in New Albany transaction if that were to occur. and images that I can see the and Rebeka live in Indianapolis. All How many square feet is devoted artist’s work and history and bio, three grew up around here and to the art space? CV, that kind of thing. We also do met when they were going to studio visits with artists to have school for art at IUS. D - The two main gallery spaces one-on-one time scheduled. for art are roughly 1250 square K - Can you describe the process feet and we have another smaller K - How far out would you go for of how they were able to exhibit gallery - the Sally Newkirk Gallery, a studio visit? at the Carnegie? which was named for the long- term director of the museum who D - That depends, mostly a trip that D - Years ago IUS invited me to retired - which is about 330 would take a 30 minute drive, but come out and be a juror for their square feet. And that gallery is I also try to go and visit other cities annual student art exhibition. I like sort of a combination of art and and schedule studio visits with to see what art is being done by history, it usually has exhibitions multiple artists in a given area. This the up and coming generation and which change out every couple past year I went to Cleveland and that’s where I was first exposed to of months also, those exhibitions had at least six studio visits over a Katy’s work. I kept a mental note are primarily art and objects weekend. of that work and wanted to follow from our collection which are up with it. I then did a studio visit more historical rather than K - So the Carnegie’s area of with her and we talked about an contemporary. Sometimes we’ll coverage for artists works being exhibition here at the Carnegie. She show contemporary work in there shown, is that regional or national mentioned that she had two artist as well, depending on what we’re or how far out does that go? friends that she said she’d love to trying to fit into the gallery here. be able to show with. So we set D - It’s certainly national, but given up another studio visit and I was K - And what is your function at that, we like to emphasize works able to check out the other two the art center? created by local artists as well. women’s art. When we do an exhibit here, I D - I’m the Art Curator here, so like to show works by artists who K - Do you generally do a group I manage the contemporary art have national or international show, rather than a solo show for exhibits in the main galleries and renown, but I like to mix in some artists? also deal with a lot of the public art local artist’s works that I feel fit as well. the theme and the talent level that D - It’s usually a three person or we’re exhibiting. The big thing two person show, but the last K - Let’s say that I’m an artist that we’re trying to do is show what is show we did a solo was Rachael is just emerging or just got out of being done in the contemporary Banks, a photographer and that school and I would like to exhibit art world right now but it’s also was the first solo show that I’ve my work in the Carnegie, how important to show the work that’s scheduled since I’ve been working would I go about doing that? being done by local artists here here, about five years now.

28 Y K - Now what Prior to each opening reception, have a DJ or something else, but about things we do a members-only talk where it’s usually them. ALLER like installation usually it’s me and the artists of the G ISSUE works? I know exhibition doing an interview-type K - And your yearly fund-raiser, a lot of galleries conversation talk. We also host what does that look like? would shy away “Night At The Carnegie” events that from those types of are sort of late-night parties that D - It’s called “A Taste for Art works because they aren’t run from 8 to 10 PM, that have History” and that’s held every viable or are problematic for a all kinds of activities. And there’s September. The past few years gallery space to show, either in a food and drink, so members get we’ve held it at the Calumet Club, commercial sense or a physical into that event for free whereas we have a live and silent auction, sense. Is that something the non-members have to pay a cover there are alcohol tastings plus a center would tackle or have in charge. bar and catered food. It’s a ticketed their space? event. K - Are most of your exhibitions D - Actually that’s in my notes free and open to the public? K - I appreciate you taking the time to try to put together for future to talk with me, the Carnegie exhibition dates. The problem with D - Yes, those are all free. Generally definitely sounds like a great installation works is not necessarily all of our exhibitions are free and place to check out, especially the the works per se, but the costs all of our programs are free as and also the timing, how much well. Sometimes we’ll have artist’s time the artist would need to build workshops and there will be some out the installation. We’ve done minimal charges that we have a number of works here that are to charge for in order to pay for site-specific, things like drawing or materials, but the Carnegie pays painting directly on the wall. for the artist’s time. That’s another thing that members can participate K - So when you have a show in for free or a discounted rate. slot in the future where you know you want an installation, do you K - Other than membership funds carefully pick and choose the that you gather from members artists or do you have an open call and the like, how is the Carnegie for artists? funded?

D - On occasion we’ll do open D - It’s a very unique situation, “calls for art”, but not too often. we’re a branch of the library and Most of the time it’s based on we have a non-profit board as well, artists that I’m familiar with or it’s so the Library covers the majority based on research for a specific of our operational costs, building theme or concept for an exhibition. maintenance and the employee salaries. K - How far ahead do you plan your exhibitions? K - So as part of the library, that’s State funded. What could a D - Often about 2 to 2 and a half patron expect to experience at an years ahead. I already have 2020 opening? and 2021 and part of 2022 planned out. D - The opening receptions include a cash bar, catered with food, live K - Does the Carnegie have a music, mixing and socializing with membership program and what the people and meeting with the are the benefits of membership? artists and looking at the work. evening openings with all you D - Yes, we do. [Editors Note: To K - And that’s all free for the provide for your patrons. see full member benefits, go to patrons? this link: http://carnegiecenter.org/ D - Yes, thank you! support/] Beyond the benefit of D - Yes. And usually the music is being a member is the support of the Jamey Abersold Quartet [https:// local art and the museum, we have www.facebook.com/aebersoldjazz/], different members-only events. sometimes we mix it up and will

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B3 Gallery

This family-owned and operated gallery has expanded to become one of Nashville’s largest and most eclectic

Keith Hampton - I’m speaking with K - That’s great! K - Very nice! And it’s still the same Sharon Bussert of B3 Gallery in three, you, you partner and your Nashville. Can you give me an idea S - My partner and I are daughter are all involved? of how old the gallery is and what photographers and we’d been the history is there? selling in other local galleries and S - Yes, but some of us to more or we thought we could put our own less a degree. S - Sure, we started the gallery in photography in there and she 2012. My youngest daughter had could sell both our photography always had an interest in jewelry- and her jewelry. We started with a QUICK INFO making but had never pursued that little space, about a 500-square-foot as anything more than a hobby. shop and we took in a few other She had moved out to California artists, we had nine artists. We did and when she decided to come that for several years. Then another B3 Gallery back to Indiana, she wasn’t sure gallery in town had their owners Address: what she wanted to do. She was retire and they had a big space, 61 W Main St. thinking about taking a factory job about 2000 square feet, and we while she figured it out. My partner were able to move into their space. Nashville, IN 47448 and I asked her “What do you think PH: (812) 988-6675 about coming to Nashville instead?” K - And what year was that? and we told her we could set up a Hours: Mon~Sun 10AM to 5PM little shop and she could staff the S - That was early in 2015 or 2016. Types of art: 2d and 3d work by shop while making her jewelry and sell her work. K - So you took that space over local, national and intl. artists and then you expanded it later on Prices: $5 - $1,500 as well?

S - Yes, we did. When we took over that space we decided to add more artists and we eventually got up to around 35 artists. That space My daughter was gallery manager is inside a great big building and for the first five years, but she is there were two other businesses now married and has a 4-month- on each side of us on the same old baby, so she’s much less floor and both of those closed at involved and has moved up to Sharon, Jess and Heather the same time, so we rented out Lafayette. So she’s still an owner Owners those spaces as well. So we now but she’s currently not as involved. B3 Gallery around 3500 square feet. And She helps us with jurying artists still we’ve expanded to about 70 artists. and she comes down for events 30 in order for us to keep representing the work without them paying any kind of a display fee. If they can’t sell that work quickly, they do have other options. They can pay a small display fee or they can do some other type of work to help the gallery. But we give them a period of time where they can see how their work is doing in our gallery before they have to make that decision.

K - If the artist produces 2d works, is there a different structure?

S - For 2d artists, there is a very but with the distance and the baby with some samples of their work different sort of structure. All of she’s certainly not there on a day- as an initial contact. We consider the 2d artists pay a display fee. to-day basis. the work based on quality, which The amount of the fee is based on we feel is the most important the amount of space they want K - What types of work do you consideration. Location, because to show their work. I have people have in the gallery currently? we are focused on staying local who pay 25 dollars a month and to the region. We also take into some who pay up to 250 dollars S - We have a big variety. Our own consideration how it compares a month if they want their own photography is one of our biggest to what we already have in the room within the gallery. And those items, but we also have a variety gallery. We look for artists who are artists pay a 25% commission. of paintings and we have all kinds doing something unique. of functional items like kitchen K - That sounds fairly reasonable. items, handmade, like mugs and K - How long does this process How long does the 2D artist have dishes and utensils, a lot of fused take? Do you want to see actual to move any work? glass and blown glass, a little bit of works at some point? sculptural work, some functional S - 2d artists can continue to show textiles like handmade scarves S - After we take a look at the the work indefinitely as long as and hats, lots of locally made photographs and decide that the they’re willing to pay the fee. I’ve jewelry. Also some small furniture. work is something we think we had a couple artists that have left, Everything we have is handmade can sell, we set up an appointment but most of them have continued and Indiana-made, except we do with people so that they can bring to stay. have one Kentucky artist. in the actual pieces. We will take a look at the pieces just to make K - How much space would 25 K - What would you say the price sure we feel like they’re consistent dollars buy an artist? range is on the items you sell? with a standard of work that we like having. Depending on what S - A three foot by ten foot space, S - We have a huge price range, the type of work it is, there is so that’s floor to ceiling and three we have inexpensive items like sometimes a “wait” to get into feet wide. And artists who do souvenir type items and things that the gallery. I have a wait list for small pieces can put a lot of pieces are under five dollars, and then anything that needs to hang on within that space. we also have items that go up to the walls. If it’s 3d works, we can $1,500 dollars. generally fit it in right away. K - What type of works would you not allow into B3 Gallery? K - If I’m a local artist and want to K - Does the artist then sign a try to sell my work through your contract with you? S - The quality of the work is gallery, how would I go about important, but if we see work doing that and what is that process S - Yes, we have artists sign that is offensive to us, that’s not like? contracts. The commission rate allowed. Anything that is racially varies depending on the type of or religiously offensive, I wouldn’t S - There are several of us who work. For any 3d work, there’s a want it. That said, we’re one of jury the work, myself and my two 40% commission and we give the the only galleries in Nashville that partners. The best thing to start artist a sales goal. They need to sell is happy to show less-traditional with is if the artist sends an email a certain amount of work in a year work. We’re known for showing

31 more contemporary pieces like wine racks or things Photoshop and insert the piece Y work that is abstract like that, I think they would sell into that environment at the right ALLER or mixed-media very well. Also 3d pieces that are size so they can see how it looks G ISSUE and things that are fun works, we have a little bit of in the space. I can do that with any different. wall art but not very much. person’s work. With my own work, if they wanted to leave a credit K - Any special events to K - Do you have any programs for card number and take it home, I’d tell our readers about? renting out works to other spaces be fine with that. such as corporate spaces in S - Nashville has an Art Walk that other venues? K - Is there anything else you’d like is held once a month from April to tell me about B3 Gallery that we through October, and each Art S - We don’t have anything like have not touched on? Walk we do either one or two that established currently, but that’s “feature” shows. Artists can apply something that I would certainly S - We are one of the largest to do a feature show, any feature be willing to work with someone galleries in Nashville, representing show there’s no display fee, it’s a on as long as it were a rental about 70 artists. straight 40% commission and the structure and not just loaning work hangs for about a month and out works, it is something we’d K - Are all 70 of those artists on we have the artist’s opening on the be interested in. I’m not really your website where we could night of the Art Walk. We always interested in places that say “Hey, peruse the works by each artist? try to make sure that three or four if you want to hang your work in of those feature shows each year our space, we’d be happy to show S - Almost. We have expanded are artists who are not established, it off”. We get a lot of that, actually. so rapidly I have not been able to sometimes these artists are doing We used to do that when we keep up, but most of the artists their very first art show. were getting started but I’m not works are there. There are a few interested in that arrangement any new artists who have not been K - That’s pretty great! longer. added to the website. The website is to give a sampling of the types S - I like to do that because I K - What if a buyer comes into the of work we show, it’s never been a remember how hard it was when gallery and says “I really love this totally current picture of what we we first started showing our work piece, but is there any way I can have, but it’s close. to get galleries to even talk to us see this in my home? I’m willing to K - If I wanted to purchase because we’d say “Well, we haven’t give you a credit card number but something through the website, is even sold anything anywhere yet” I’d like to take this piece into my that something that’s possible? and they’d tell us they weren’t home and try it out.” Do you offer interested. anything like that? S - We don’t sell through out website, but if you call the gallery K - It’s one of those “closed cycle” S - That would have to be on a and ask if a certain piece that you things, “How can I get in if nobody case-by-case basis. If it was not saw on the website is available, we is going to let me in based on my one of my own pieces, I would can certainly let you know that. past inability to get in?” check with the artist first. There’s always a certain amount of risk in K - I appreciate all the information S - Right, you can get in after you letting a piece go out of the gallery you’ve given me get in somewhere else. (laughs) for approval. And it also removes it from other people being able to S - Thank you for the opportunity! K - Is there any type of work you’d see it if someone takes it away for love to have in the gallery but a couple of don’t have currently? weeks. But another thing S - Yes, I really wish that I had that I can some additional metal working do and have artists. We have very few pieces done quite but I would love to have more a few times metal work. for people is if they K - So when you say “metal work” can supply are we talking about 3d sculptures me with a or flat wall pieces? photograph of their S - Either functional pieces or space, then sculptural pieces. If I had functional I can use 32 Y ALLER G ISSUE

Art space vincennes

Showing works from national and international artists, this high-end gallery is a SoIn must-see

Keith Hampton - I’m talking with AJ - We’ve been here since 2013. inside were four neo-classical rooms, Andy Jendrzejewski and Amy DeLap four square rooms of Art Space Vincennes, which is a K - And what prompted you to open with high ceilings. It had a second gallery in Vincennes, Indiana. I wasn’t a gallery in Vincennes? level with four more rooms which really aware that there was an art were a little smaller due to the market in Vincennes, but apparently AJ - Well, we didn’t intend to have a closets. So we decided to buy it. We there is something going on there! gallery, we were looking for a studio walked in and just connected space, we didn’t want to spend a lot immediately with the space. We Andy J. - There’s a little excitement of money moving going on, yes! Amy Delap - Yes, and we retired. QUICK INFO K - So how long has the gallery been in existence? AJ - We retired from teaching at Vincennes University. Art Space Vincennes, LLC Address: K - Oh, so you were already there? 521 Main Street AJ - So when we retired in 2009, we Vincennes, IN 47591 took care of personal business and PH: (812) 887-6145 then in 2012 we began looking for a studio but there was just nothing Hours: Tue & Thu 12~5 PM there that we could see to work Fri & Sat 12~7 PM with. We were looking for kind of Sun 11 AM 2 PM an industrial space and just couldn’t ~ find anything in a size that would be Types of art: 2d and 3d work by manageable for us and at the same local, national and intl. artists time a nicely equipped space which we could work in. And then our Prices: $50 up to $20,000 real estate agent said “Well, I have a property which is not at all what you’re thinking about, but you might want to take a look at it, it’s a historic building and it has beautiful spaces in spent a year rehabbing the entire it. You might be interested.” So we place to fit our needs. We installed a told them we were willing to look maple floor, painted the walls gray, Amy DeLap & at it. There was a garage attached preserved the woodwork just as it Andrew Jendrzejewski to and a space which was called a is, installed track lighting. We also Co-owners of “summer kitchen” which connected rehabbed the upstairs rooms for a Art Space Vincennes the garage to the house and then studio for Amy and the rest of the 33 space is used for art storage. We AJ - The size of the show space is AJ - No, both of us grew up in then insulated and drywalled the about 750 square feet. Michigan and met in Philadelphia at garage for a studio space for myself. Powers School of Art. I was a senior K - I noticed that your ads said “Art and Amy was a freshman at the It turned out to be a compromise. As Walks” so does Vincennes have an time. I graduated and then ended up a sculptor, the garage space is sort of organized art walk, I’m trying to getting drafted and went to Vietnam. a tiny space, but a lot of people work picture it, do you have other galleries in very small spaces and I’ve created there or other arts destinations? K - Oh, gosh. some fairly large things in there. AD - Yes, there are. AJ - And then I came back and at AD - The first show got us off to that point she was going to school at this start which resulted in the K - And are you in an “arts district” the University of Michigan, majoring gallery sort of taking on a life of it’s place then? in Ceramics. own and it just grew from that first show… AD - We’re not officially designated K- So you tracked her down! (laughs) an arts district yet… K - Before we get on to that subject AD - Keith, we’re sort of old, so our of shows, I’d like to know a little AJ - That’s the goal. life story is long! (laughs) more about the gallery space itself and how many square feet of space AD - Yeah, we have our eye on that K - Yeah, we’ll do the Reader’s Digest you have? possibility. When we started there version here. were two other galleries in place. So AD - The building itself is on Main we do collaborate on the art walks, AD, AJ - (laughs) street in Vincennes, a small main we all have an opening reception on street, it’s about six or seven blocks the first Friday of each month. There K - Well, that’s interesting because I long and we’re at one end of it. is an art walk, and it was somewhat try to get a background on some of Although it’s technically a house, it’s in place when we started up. Andy the owners I speak with and for the in a retail area. There’s a lawyer’s was the chair of the art department most part, almost everyone I talk to office right next door on one side for 28 years, so he’s quite used to is homegrown right here, but I sort and on the other side - at least managing things and he gave the of felt like from what you show and for most of the time we’ve been art walks a bit more structure. We how you speak, I was thinking you invited the stores in- were transplants, but maybe had between the galleries been here a while. to put artwork in their windows. So people AJ - That kind of leads to one of start at one end of the missions that we have. We the street on the art emphasize bringing art in from all walks and go to each over the country. gallery and see art all along the way in the K - Well that leads me to my next windows. That really question which is: What type of energized the art walk work are you looking for in the and got some of the gallery, what types of works you businesses involved. show and what works you don’t One of our goals was allow in your gallery? to get the businesses to have evening hours AD - One of the things that is which would enliven different is that we’re a for-profit the street on those gallery, not a non-profit. We nights. considered non-profit status but we decided against it because that in there - is a huge empty theater K - You both taught at the university, way we don’t have to be answerable building that was sort of abandoned, correct? to anybody but each other. We get but recently was rehabbed into a to decide what goes in the gallery Chicago pizza and tap room, so AJ, AP - [together] Yes. and we think about it very carefully. we’re a house set back from the We are - street ensconced in this business K - So are you from the area area. originally? AJ - Because we’re artists. There’s such an emphasis in Indiana about

34 the community and AJ - Oh, the tape is running! Well, there’s some latitude but we’d have Y the community I think because of the mixed to think about it very carefully. having a lot of community we wanted to start GALLER control over very gently with what our idea of K - So in terms of the styles of ISSUE what happens beautiful art is and we decided that shows that you’ve normally had with the art. As we would look nation-wide. and are going to have, are they artists, we wanted mostly solo shows or are they group to have the power over K - Well, let me ask you from a shows? How do you approach that our own gallery and be able to different perspective then. I’m aspect? choose the art that we want. Instead assuming that you’re not showing a of having the community telling us lot of bucolic landscapes - AJ - Most of them are solo shows what art they need, we would be a but we’ve had a couple of artists in little bit more prescriptive about it. AD - Keith, to take us back to your one show and then on our five year For us, it works very well. original question, we don’t really anniversary we invited all the artists have rules about what can’t go on that we had shown so far to send AP - We get to looking into grants the wall. We’re looking for artists in one or two works and we had and we’re realizing how much who are very thoughtful about what a group show then of all the artists emphasis there is on reinforcing they’re doing. We do ask for a lot that we’d shown up to that time. “community” identity and we’re of background material and a lot of more interested in growing the statements. We’re not ruling things K - And would you cull any pieces community’s perspective - out, but we are ruling things in. from artists that you would keep in AJ - Through the art that we present the gallery to say you had a stable and through the experiences we K - From the give them. It’s kind of taking it from standpoint of things the other end. like MFAs and BAs will you shoe a non- K - Bringing something that they’re degreed artist’s work? not used to seeing in and giving them something new to look at AD - Yes, we have. rather than the same old landscapes We showed Rudolph and still lifes. Bostic, who’s work we got access to AJ - This is not a criticism about from a woman in what’s happening in Indiana. But Boston who rents it is taking a definite point of view out collections of in terms of having artists under works. So we rented “control”. I think we’ve gotten a a collection of his lot of respect from that, from the works and we also community. In that way we can got some pieces of bring the community into things. his that we could sell. We’re respectful K - So, getting back to the question when someone has the degrees, of artists that someone could see a of what type of works you’re we believe in art education and feel work from if they remembered a showing and what you allow or it’s important but we look at people past show? don’t allow…. who don’t have that as well. AJ - We haven’t done that because AJ - The community here is a very AJ - We base it on the art rather than we’re running out of storage space. mixed community where a lot of their credentials. For a while we tried to have work people are very conservative and we on hand that we’d make available on have very liberal people as well. So K - Many galleries I’ve talked to won’t consignment from people that we’ve what we decided to do was not to show politically charged works or shown and other artists that have take sides - right away. sexually explicit works, so it sounds walked in, but we stopped doing like you are open to anything as that. So what we do is one-shot solo K - (laughs) So you delayed that. long as it’s quality work. shows that gives our audience an experience and then it’s over and AJ - I don’t know whether you AJ - Probably we would hesitate on they’re ready for the next one. should quote me on that! sexually explicit stuff. But then again, as soon as I make a rule, there’s K - I see. So in that sense, other than AP - Well, the tape is running! going to be someone come around the work is available to purchase, that we would break it for! So you’re almost an exhibition space

35 Y or a museum space something to take away from the install their shows or be present at - not in the sense show. openings. We keep talking about GALLER of museum slowing down and then something ISSUE that is stuffy or AJ - We depict just about every else comes up and we’re on the full of relics, but work from each show in the book go again. you’re pulling from an in color. Usually a full page or an international group of artists illustration. Sometimes we give an K - So from application process to and you’re showing them one introduction and then we create a actual opening, it could possibly time. So in that sense it feels like critical essay about their work and be two years. What type of an exhibition space. we get a biography, a resumé and commission structure do you an artist’s statement from the artist. have? AD - Yes, people thought we were Sometimes, the last two shows a museum at first. at least, we include a narrative AJ - We operate with a 40% throughout the book that was commission, which is a little higher AJ - We had to work on that. about their experience. than the other galleries in town but I think it’s excusable because we AD - We started out with a price K - Are you making these in- do a lot for the artist. We do put on list for works. And people didn’t house? a class act for the artist, especially realize the work was for sale, so with the addition of the book. We then we started putting the prices AJ - I do it through a local printer. also do a newsletter as well. on the wall. There’s a print shop right behind our gallery that I use. K - Are you marketing these AJ - We advertised that things were shows more than the newsletter, I for sale but people don’t always K - So if I’m an artist and I’m mean, are you putting in ads in the read and they didn’t get it when wanting to show in your gallery, local paper or any type of mail-out they came in. how would I go about doing that? cards or the like? What is the process? K - That dovetails nicely into my AJ - We get front page coverage next question which is: What kind AJ - The first thing I do is to ask in our local newspaper, every First of price range are the works in? them to look at the website and Friday. Not just our space but all figure out for themselves whether the businesses that participate AJ - We’ve had work for sale as their art fits our mission which and each month they rotate who high as $28,000, but most of the is stated on the website. And we gets mentioned first and who gets work is really under $10,000. have an application process which mentioned last. is on the website as well. [https:// K - OK. And do you have www.artspacevincennes.com/ AD - We also hired a company, to anything for, let’s say a young home/call-for-artists/] And then manage our social media. They’re couple starting out and needing once the artist applies, we would really tuned into what type of something for their home? Is there figure out if we could fit their work image we’d like to have reinforced. anything available that’s under say in, right now we’re booked two We do quite a bit of advertising. We $1,000 ? years ahead. And I’m 73, so I’m start about six weeks out from the reluctant to book too many things date of the opening, both locally AJ - Oh yes, we’ve had things for into a third year. and then whatever happens with $50. We’ve generally had a wide the internet. range of prices for each show and K - It doesn’t sound like your we recommend that the artist plan retirement has quite taken. K - Well I appreciate you telling me for that when we offer them a all about the gallery and Vincennes show. When they’re less expensive AJ - I recommend that people and your backgrounds, I think pieces, that opens it up for people retire TO something because it’s everyone is going to enjoy reading who are not as used to spending a kept us young. We know lots of about you. lot of money for art. people who are really kind of going downhill, lots of friends our AJ - Well, thank you! AD - We’ve had shows where we age. We’re active and we can’t just didn’t sell anything out of the show sit in a rocking chair and lick our AD - Thank you! and we weren’t surprised because wounds. the work is expensive. So we do a book for each artist. And the book AD - It’s been very energizing and is something that people can buy great to meet these artists because - very reasonably - so they have they come here, either to help

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Flourish Gallery

Martinsville’s newest co-op gallery is gathering members to help build a creative community

Keith Hampton - I’m speaking profit back in 1979 and has a exhibition and classroom spaces with Megan Martin and pretty significant history in the for various classes being taught? she’s with Flourish Gallery in community. They merged with Martinsville. Can you tell me the Merry MAC Players, which M - Much smaller scale, but yes. about Flourish, how old it is and was a community theater group how it got started? in 1984. Because the theatre group was funding a lot of the QUICK INFO Megan Martin - We are brand projects, most of the focus went new. We had an openhouse to their efforts. The Arts Council in October and we have not also operates a 56-seat theater established permanent hours and a historic train depot quite yet. We’re still seeing what which is around the corner Flourish Gallery local artists will be participating from the gallery. So the board Address: in the gallery. So we have not is now looking to expand and 88 E Main St had a “grand opening” as of yet. incorporate visual arts as well PH: (765)315-2252 now, since it had not been a K - So is this a co-op gallery significant portion of it’s history Hours: Wens ~Sat 11~6 PM situation for artists? as an organization. (check Facebook for hrs.)

M - Yes. Flourish Gallery is a K - I see, interesting. How large Types of art: 2d and 3d fine art and project of the Martinsville Arts is the art gallery space you fine crafts by local artists Council and we are currently have there in Martinsville? Prices: $20 - $2,000 seeking artists to either participate by being a member M - The retail area of the gallery with the monthly fee as well is approximately 900 square as time spent at the gallery or feet. As we expand into the working on gallery items. If community we have additional they are unable to come in for space which we can include K - I’m a little familiar with work times, we have a slightly as classroom areas. That is Martinsville, I’ve driven through different fee schedule for those part of our goal, to not just be there hundreds of times, are who cannot help with staffing exhibition and retail but to also you the only art gallery in the gallery. have a dedicated classroom Martinsville at this point or are space. there other art K - What is the history of the galleries in town? Martinsville Arts Council? K - So sort of an “art center” M - The Martinsville Arts somewhat like the Indianapolis M - There is the Art Sanctuary Council was created as a non- Art Center, which has retail, and they have studio space and 37 Y gallery exhibitions. the right to reject works if And there is also they are… hmm... ALLER a gallery and G ISSUE frame shop K - For instance if they are on the nudes and tasteful, but not town square. pornographic works or politically charged works, things K - That’s more than I like that? thought there was, you would be the the third one to try M - I’m not sure that we would and open up an establishment reject all politically charged with art. works, but we’d communicate with the artist and figure that M - Yes, but we’re the only out on a case-by-case basis co-op style art gallery so far. in order to not offend people who were attending the gallery. K - How many artists do you We plan on bi-monthly special have currently? exhibitions which are open to multiple art forms, not just M - We have one member artist visual arts, so if you have a participating and we have 10 recording of a performance art more that have applied and piece or a literary work that are going through our jurying you have, a short story or a process right now. Our goal is poem. to have 30 full-time, committed artists. K - How wide ranging is the area that you’re allowing K - Would you be considered membership from? Can anyone the gallery director yourself? in the state of Indiana be a member or is it just Morgan M - Yes, temporarily, but the county? goal is to have the gallery become artist-managed. Until M - Our goal is to focus on then, I’m heading the project. Morgan county and surrounding counties, but we’d consider K - What type of work is in the artists from further out than gallery space and what type that. We’d like to stay focused will be allowed into the gallery on Indiana artists, someone that in the future? has a history in the area but has moved away, we’ll consider M - Our current artist is mixed them as well. media, but we are open to pottery, furniture, painting, K - What is the process for an photography. We’ll accept “fine artist to apply for membership crafts” and will accept some and show work there? What jewelry but we’re being fairly would be expected from me picky about that. We’ll also have and what is the membership a range of prices as a goal, so fee? we do plan to have a range of $20 up to around $2,000. M - As a participating artist, the membership fee is $50 a month K - Are there any types of and we ask for a 6-month works that you won’t allow into contractual commitment, the gallery from members? initially. After that 6 months, we’re asking for a 1-year M - If it’s classified as “art”, contract. We take a 20% PLEASE GET YOUR probably not, but we do reserve commission on all sales and we AD INFO IN EARLY FOR THE NEXT ISSUE!

38 ask for 12 - 16 hours of work space, a special place in the K - So would that be artists every six weeks. Now that may gallery for newcomers? studios that are all within modify a bit as we’re able to Morgan county? have more participating artists. M - We’re not planning on having solo shows per se, M - That is the goal, yes. K - So what is involved with the but we’re not opposed to K - Is there anything you would application process? that concept as we grow like to add that might interest and continue to plan. We’ll M - We have an online be rotating the work on a bi- someone reading this? application at martinsvillearts. monthly basis, but because M - Knowing that we’re still org and it involves submitting a we’re wanting to involve new at this, if you have any little bit about the artist’s history community engagement as questions or want more and three to five images of their much as possible, we’re right information, please get in touch artwork. now focusing on exhibitions with us through our website being open to artists of or social media. We’re open to K - Is there a jury that takes a all levels. making changes as we progress look at the work and who is the jury made up of? K - I’m trying to visualize what because we recognize that we is going on in your space, are new at this. M - Yes, there is a jury and so are the younger artists K - Thank you so much for the currently that is made up of going to be showing with the information, and I wish you myself, the current participating other artists? I mean, is there the best of luck with the new member and several other a dividing line between my gallery! members of the arts community professional work and someone in Martinsville. As we grows who is perhaps 12 years old? M - Thank you! participating members of the gallery will be the jury. M - Yes, there is. We have two distinct spaces in the K - Can you tell me the hours gallery and the front space is and days you’ll be open? devoted to retail gallery for the professional artists and we have M - We’re planning on being a secondary space that we’re open Wednesday through using for more community- Saturday from 11 to 6. For right involved exhibitions. now I recommend checking our social media, we’re on Facebook K - Does Martinsville have and Instagram to see on a something established like an weekly basis what is going on. art walk, where shops might stay open a little later on K - So when is your grand special nights? opening? M - Not specifically yet, but as M - We’re just not quite ready an Arts Council, we’re looking to do the grand opening to add something like a “Spring “ribbon cutting” situation just Studio Hop” much like the yet but when we have our goal Brown County Studio Tours. Our number, we’ll announce that. goal is to do something similar to that, to involve artists who K - If I’m an artist and I join have home studios and put Flourish, can I start my journey them on a tour for a weekend with the gallery by having a so people could go and see solo show for myself? Is there artists at work in their natural anything your allowing for that environment. type of request or does the new artist get a special reserved 39

connect with someone - anyone - she piece. The accident happened quickly so approached a group of four people who I wanted to reflect that action. But this seemed deep in a private conversation. piece has a more moody effect because Fade As luck would have it, they were the crime was thought out and took actually discussing her work instead of time and there was more thought on some other matter. both sides, so the colors are quieter.” Away Shelly held her hand up to her mouth “Hello, my name is Tessa Cross, did you and contemplated the art. a serial have any questions about the work?” “Well, I like the way it looks because The man nearest her sported a close- different parts look like hands and novel shaved beard and longish hair. “Oh, movement to me. I didn’t realize it was by you’re the artist?” about a kidnapping. I don’t care about “Yes, that’s me, Tessa Cross.” She held that part, really. I just like the colors.” Jaymes A. out her hand and he took it briefly. Tessa weighed her words carefully. Nottingham “I’m Ron Dickinson. My wife and I - “Of course, color is how we first honey, this is the artist - my wife Shelly connect with any piece of art. As to and I are wondering about the one in the background of the work, it’s not the window. She’s got a loft space for that important, that only served as an dance lessons in the Krannert building inspiration point, a sort of jumping-off and there’s a large wall above the rail place. You know, the painting really tells she wants to decorate.” me what to paint once I start anyway. Chapter 12 Shelly was dressed in a black beaded You’d be surprised how -“ gown and a blue scarf. She looked at Shelly cut her off. “How much is this he mid-evening surge Tessa and gave her a false smile and one, anyway? Ron, come over here. He’s T offered a bony hand on the end of a going to write a check, do we need to at Jarson Gallery was very thin arm. Half a dozen bracelets make it out to you or the gallery?” starting to wane. It was jangled on it as they shook hands. Tessa held a look of surprise on her a fairly normal gallery “Ron is half right, as usual. But I’m not face. “Oh, uh, let me go get Larry and he opening for them. A trick- interested in the one in the window, can help you with that.” le at first with the older I like the one on this wall. The colors She walked away quickly and found are more subtle. I can’t exactly have Larry in a nearby wing who was set followed by a throng my students looking at a bloody car laughing it up with a golf buddy and of Larry’s middle-aged accident, but this piece has a better Tessa’s father. friends and a few of flow, don’t you think?” Tessa’s cohorts. Tessa’s initial reaction was excitement As she brought him back to the but she quickly masked it and took Dickinsons, Larry’s wife Chandra walked Shelly by the arm to get a closer look in. She was drunk, as usual. “Where the As usual, the night wore on and the at the work. Ron and the other two hell is Larry?” she whined to Celia who 20-somethings straggled through, in- patrons followed at a distance while was trying to head her off. Her voice cluding those who were hitting all the galleries for free wine. they talked. was loud and slurred and Larry quickly “It’s really about the space and what walked over to her and shushed her This was the time of night that an artist you want to convey with the art, I think. down. can start to question their decisions This piece is about a kidnapping, but it’s and Tessa was not immune to the really subtle. I wanted to pay homage to Tessa glanced over at Ron and Shelly situation. A half-smile was frozen on the parents and what they were going who were staring in their direction. The her face as she realized that the well- through, that’s why I’m using more gallery was quiet except for the sounds heeled potential buyers were decidedly grays and blues here as opposed to the of Aja by Steely Dan over the sound thinning out. In a last ditch effort to brighter colors in the Kelson piece in system. She quickly walked over to the window because that was an action them. “Larry’s a little busy right now, Fade Away, cont. Fayda looked a little shocked, but “He’s rather shy, from what I’ve heard. smiled at her. But don’t worry, you’ll get a big write- but I’ll get Celia and she can help us “Oh, now I’m just being rude. It’s these up. With this many red dots, he can’t out with no problem.” She frantically damn cocktails Marty is making me. I possibly ignore your show.” motioned for Celia to come over. better get rid of this.” She put her glass on a nearby table, but They watched as Bobby Greenstein As the two of them herded the not before downing the rest of it. grabbed a brochure and quickly walked Dickinson’s into the back office, they out the entrance. He walked down the could hear Chandra in the main space. The two women stood and watched still-warm sidewalk to the parking lot “I don’t know why you keep telling me the room. An hour before it was filled near the drugstore and got in his car. to shut up, Larrrrry, it’s VERY rude, Larry, with people, some rushing up to Martin The ’93 Chevy Caprice was a little beat VERY rude.” and demanding to purchase the same up, but ran. That’s all that mattered to piece. A buying frenzy was happening Bobby. The inside was littered with ______and Martin was loving every minute fast food containers and books. The of it. Two of Margaret’s friends were contents slid over on the backseat as he By mid-evening at Holtorf’s, Martin bidding on one of the larger works, pulled out and made his way towards was in a rare, ecstatic mood. Margaret driving the price up. There were red Jarson Gallery on the northern part of Kelson had brought a coterie of dots on almost every piece showing, the city. It was 8:45, he would be able friends, more than usual. Nearly all except for two drawings near the to catch the last hour of Tessa Cross’ of them had purchased pieces in the back. The pace of things had slowed show. show and one had ordered a custom down and a little more than a dozen print with a different choice of colors, people milled about the gallery. Most of Jarson Gallery had an ample parking lot. a transaction which took a lot of Margaret’s friends had left. It was still half full, a good sign. Bobby convincing on his part in order to liked Tessa’s work, she was daring and secure Fayda’s permission. Along with “You know, Fayda, I think you owe a she took chances. She was also fairly a few stray purchases of the smaller great deal of thanks to Marty. He did a attractive. He’d been to her last three works, it was nearly a sold-out show. lovely job getting your pieces framed shows trying to figure out how to talk Margaret was beaming, partially due and they way they’re presented is just her into going on a date. Like most to the lively selling but also due to the lovely. He does things with such a writers, he was better talking on a page vodka martini’s that Martin was secretly lovely touch.” than in person. He could see into the making for her in his office. Well into “Mrs. Kelson, I can’t even begin to thank large floor-to-ceiling windows. Several her second one, she walked over to both of you enough. I really don’t know groups of people were standing around. Fayda and grabbed her arm. how to feel. It’s like this is not really Tessa was standing near the back, next happening. I’m overwhelmed, to be to the desk. “Dear, how do you think the night is honest.” going?” “Nonsense. You should have been Tessa was looking around the room. Fayda blushed a little, not being used to showing your work years ago. Look, She spotted Bobby walking up to the the physical contact. “Oh, it’s so much over there, isn’t that the man who door. better than I thought it would be,” she writes for The Page? He’s a rather “Oh hell” she thought. “It’s that damn gasped. “Your friends are being far too interesting fellow, don’t you think?” writer. He’s going to try again.” generous, I think.” Fayda looked where she was pointing. Bobby made a beeline over to Tessa. “Don’t you mind them. They follow my A wiry man in jeans and a t-shirt was She smiled at him. “Hello Bobby. How lead. If I say the work is good, they’ll looking at one of her pieces up close. are things?” buy it. Besides, they have nothing better She thought it odd that he was so close “Tessa, nice to see you again.” They to spend their money on.” She looked when the piece was better seen from both stood there for a moment of over at a group of them. “And to be a distance. He looked over at them and awkward silence. honest, they don’t have a lot of time left quickly walked away. “I’m glad to see your work up in such to spend it!” a nice place. That last venue didn’t do it Margaret looked at Fayda and smiled. any favors.” Fade Away, cont.

He was talking about the Elk’s Club “What the hell is happening inside of After the fourth ring, an answering recreation room she’d shown in the that head?” he wondered out loud machine clicked in. “You’ve reached previous year. She only sold one small Holtorf Gallery of Art. We’re sorry, work from that show. Most of the ————— no one is in to receive your call, but paintings were now hiding right in if you could leave your name and front of them under coats of gesso and The following Monday, Bobby worked number, we’ll get back to you as soon paint. on his column. He decided to use both as we can.” After the beep, he left his Tessa Cross and Fayda Wainwright’s information. “You know how it goes. Life of the shows. He’d already called both artist and all that.” Tessa’s tone was gallery owners to get JPGs of the art. A couple hours later, his phone rang. It somewhat cold. He’d taken a few pictures with his was Martin Holtorf. “Hi Bobby, normally “Well, these are really, um… amazing” cell phone at both shows which he I’d wait until Wednesday to call you he said as he looked around the room. emailed to the art department. Showing back but I’m in here today cleaning up “I’d love to do half of my column about the actual environments at the head Friday nights mess.” this work.” of each portion was something he felt Tessa brightened. “Oh, that would be added a sense of reality to his always- “No doubt still counting red dots?” great! Let me give you my card and friendly critique. The editor at The Page Bobby asked. you can call me.” She figured she could wouldn’t allow him to publish truthful string him along for at least some free critique. He was scared it would turn “Ha, good one. Yes, it was a really PR. She reached back on the desk off his advertisers and create ill will successful show. Probably one of my where she’d piled cards earlier and with the public. Bobby’s column was best in a while.” grabbed one. She turned it over and never anything but glowing praise. He wrote her number on it. “Don’t call the slid in some subtle knocks, but most “Well, that’s why I called. I’d like to number on the front, that’s my land people would never realize the true get an interview of Fayda if possible. I line. My cell is here.” She handed the meaning behind the words, the artists had not heard of her before last Friday card to him. least of all. and her work is top notch. Since she’s “Oh, OK. Wow, OK, so I’ll call you. Maybe selling well, I was hoping to be first at we could meet for lunch and I could A study of contrasts. That was what his an interview.” do an interview. It would have to be August 1st column would be. Tessa’s this coming week, we have pretty urban reality paintings contrasted with “Sorry to break this to you, Bobby, but short deadlines. It’s a weekly, you Fayda’s soft, natural scenes. Tessa’s you’ll be third. Indiana Arts Review know?” bright colors against Fayda’s mellow interviewed her last week and Chip “No problem. I’m pretty open this hues. Tessa’s sly, predatory nature Norman is interviewing her for the local coming week. Call me.” She smiled at versus Fayda’s quiet, shy manner. NBC affiliate tomorrow. They’re going him briefly and then walked away and to bring a camera crew into the gallery called over to a friend who had just He knew that Tessa would be fairly and everything.” arrived. “Carol! Wow, you took your easy to get a story from. Fayda was sweet time!” a harder nut to crack. He picked up Bobby ran his hand through his hair. the phone and dialed Holtorf’s to see “Wow, huh… OK, well, how about later Bobby stood there and looked at the if he could get Martin to give him in the week? I’m on a short deadline card. He looked up at the works on Fayda’s number. He’d never heard of and there’s only a week left before my the walls. “Garish” came to mind. He her but was impressed with the work. column has to be in.” He nervously realized that all of the paintings were He wanted a chance to interview her tapped his pen on the desk. from headlines he’d seen in the larger before anyone else did. Coverage of the papers going back a few months. Indy art scene was pretty weak, so he “Look, I’ll ask her but I’m not promising Accidents, murders, fires. knew his odds were good. anything. She’s really shy and it’s all I could do to get her to talk to the Review. I still have yet to tell her about the TV thing.” Shawna Khalily Bobby sighed. “Well, at least tell her I called. I know we’re not NBC but a lot of people read The Page and we’ve always been good to galleries, Martin. You know that.”

“Yeah, yeah, I know. I’ll tell her, she should be OK with it. I’ll try to make sure.” Martin looked out at the street. She’d better be OK with everything at this point, he thought. She’s well on her way and it’s no time to start pulling her head back into that shell.

“OK, Martin. I really appreciate it. I’ll call back tomorrow late and see if she’s on board. Thank you.”

He ended the call. It would be a much more difficult task than he’d planned on. He reached over and grabbed the card Tessa gave him. “And now for the easy part,” he said as he punched in her number.

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