Finding Logic in Music As with Most Parents, You’Ll Artist, and As That I Loved About Growing Up,” Do Anything for Your Kids — Any Good Par- Logic Said

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Area artists hope to create a home for glass blowing By Marcela Creps 812-331-4375 | [email protected]

loomington is home to many creative opportunities, and if Abby Gitlitz gets her way, another chance to express yourself artistically may be available soon. Gitlitz is hard at work trying to give a permanent home to the Bloomington Creative Glass Center, a nonprofit dedicated to glass art. Despite interest in learning about working in glass, the center doesn’t have a glass-blowing studio or a place to teach the public about glass art. In 2009, Gitlitz moved back to Bloomington BENEDICT JONES | COURTESY PHOTO and realized there was no glass-blowing facility Glass pumpkins are sold as a fundraiser for the Blooming- in Bloomington. She wanted to fix that but wasn’t ton Creative Glass Center. sure what to do. In 2010, she hosted the first ever COURTESY PHOTO Great Glass Pumpkin Patch event — a fundraiser was that new students created glass pumpkins Erin Cerwinski is shown pulling a glass ﬂ ower. more for herself as a struggling artist — that now that Gitlitz could sell at the annual fall event. funds the Bloomington Creative Glass Center. The pumpkin patch has found success. Each Following that event, Gitlitz found that lots of where people can learn various types of glass art fall, blown glass pumpkins are displayed on the and established artists can have a local place to people wanted not only to buy glass pumpkins but Monroe County Courthouse lawn with proceeds also to learn how to create. work. benefiting the center. In 2015, there were more “Pretty much the day after our first pumpkin Despite lacking a dedicated space, the glass patch, I started teaching people how to blow than 900 pumpkins for sale. center has been able to reach out to various groups glass,” she said. And while the seed for a glass blowing center including children. Teaching kids about creating With the nearest facility on Indianapolis’ started with a pumpkin, Gitlitz wants it to be more glass works as well as the science behind the glass southeast side, teaching people wan’t easy when than that. is interesting to children because “glass is just newbies had to travel more than an hour one-way “So we started to think about what is the mis- crazy cool,” Gitlitz said. to learn the craft. But Gitlitz wasn’t deterred. In sion of the Bloomington Creative Glass Center, This year, Gitlitz and the center’s board began fact, she started an apprenticeship program so that and really, it’s to get more people involved in to focus on how to make the glass center a reality. people who couldn’t afford the class could still glass,” she said. Some initial work had already been done to learn. Instead of paying for lessons, the trade-off Gitlitz is hoping to create a quality glass center SEE GLASS | PAGE D3

COURTESY PHOTO Abby Gitlitz blowing glass. A fundraising campaign is underway to create a glass-blowing facility in Bloomington.

ARTS CORNER Finding Logic in music As with most parents, you’ll artist, and as that I loved about growing up,” do anything for your kids — any good par- Logic said. well, almost anything. ent would do, Born Sir Robert Bryson Hall When my teenage daughter I decided to II, Logic was born in Gath- asked me to take her to a rap be proactive ersburg, Maryland. Growing concert back in March, I said in more ways up in public housing projects, no. There were a variety of than one. Logic saw how his parents reasons I didn’t take her — it My daughter both suffered from addiction was a school night, her sister’s insisted that issues. His brothers made and birthday was the next day, I’d Marci Logic was all sold crack cocaine. Leaving never heard of this guy or met Creps about “peace, school at age 16, Logic decided the two people you want to go H-T COLUMNIST love and posi- to focus on music. with. It was a crushing blow to tivity.” Logic began creating mix her, but life went on. Logic was tapes and soon found success. So when she told me that an intriguing artist to me. In He currently has a contract Logic would be returning to doing research, I learned he with Def Jam Recordings. Indiana in July, I had to rethink was heavily influenced by The rapper admits he’d quit my arguments. I’m open to Frank Sinatra, but in a recent rap if he had the vocals of lots of different kinds of mu- phone interview, he admitted singers like Adele or Stevie sic, but I wasn’t sure if a rap to listening to lots of music Wonder. As a kid in the “single show at Klipsch was a good including Nirvana, Run DMC digits,” Logic said, he learned idea. and others. how to rap and freestyle, COURTESY PHOTO I wasn’t familiar with the “That’s one thing for me SEE ARTS CORNER | PAGE D3 ATTRACTIONSXXXXXX | HOOSIER TIMES | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2016 | D3

THEATER Phoenix Theatre takes a trippy ride with ‘Acid Dolphin Experiment’ If you think acid variety of subjects, and this great man of science. dolphins is a kind of milk If you go WHEN: July 21-Aug. 14. today, a research institute The play is directed that’s easy to digest, then Thursdays at 7 p.m., Fridays carries on his legacy. If by Bill Simmons, in his WHO: Phoenix Theatre brother, you don’t know and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and you recall a movie from fourth appearance at the Lilly — Dr. John C. Lilly, of Indianapolis decades ago with George Sundays at 2 p.m. Phoenix. It features Lau- that is. But that’s okay, WHAT: “Acid Dolphin Experi- C. Scott called “Day of ren Briggeman, Joshua because Phoenix Theatre the Dolphin,” that was ment” by Tom Horan TICKETS: $20-$33. Call 317- Coomer, Michael Hosp, is eager to introduce Joel Pierson based on Lilly’s efforts Jolene Mentink Moffatt you via Tom Horan’s H-T COLUMNIST WHERE: 749 N. Park Ave., 635-7529 or visit phoenix- and experiments. trippy comic play, “Acid Indianapolis theatre.org. Horan, the Phoenix and Chelsey Stauffer. Dolphin Experiment,” the father of the sensory Theatre’s playwright in There are some adult opening this week in deprivation tank, and he Lilly was no stranger Leary and Allen Gins- residence, specializes in themes, including drug Indianapolis. Did I say also worked with SETI, to psychotropic drugs. berg. off-kilter examinations use, so this might be trippy? Good, because the Search for Extrater- He experimented with Horan’s play exam- of historical figures. His one for the younger that’s not citric acid the restrial Intelligence, and LSD and ketamine— all ines the more outlandish recent “Typhoid Mary” family members to sit title is referring to. We’re was quite successful for ECCO, the Earth Coin- in the name of science, of chapters of Lilly’s life out. Those of an age to talking LSD, or as they the Phoenix, and “Acid cidence Control Office, course — as a means to and his studies, including understand it should say in Spanish, “el LSD.” Dolphin Experiment” in an effort to make jump through whatever Neuroscientist and expand his perceptions. his work with the dol- looks to repeat that suc- hoops necessary (if you’ll main character John C. contact with life from It was all part of the rich phins. Unconventional cess. Lilly was known to Lilly actually existed. other worlds. One of his tapestry that made him as he was, he also made a perform a great many pardon the dolphin Before he died in 2001, most controversial ex- one of the twentieth number of breakthroughs experiments on himself, humor) to come see this he was involved in some periments, the one at the century’s most colorful and was responsible often under the influence premiere production. of the most unusual center of this play, was figures in science and for the creation of the of these mind-altering experimental research his work at attempting found him in the com- Marine Mammal Protec- drugs, so audiences are Contact Joel by sending an email in the history of science. communication between pany of such illustrious tion Act of 1972. He is the in for a highly unusual to [email protected] with He’s widely known as humans and dolphins. individuals as Timothy author of 19 books on a and irreverent look at “Pierson” in the subject line.

also hosted a fundraiser at GLASS Cardinal Spirits to help get CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1 the community involved in building the center. make sure the idea was “That’s what we feasible. Gitlitz said wanted — not just apply- two different groups of ing for grants or looking students from IU’s Kelley for major donors,” Gitlitz School of Business and said. its Finance Academy The ideal space would crunched the numbers. be about 1,500 square feet. That work gave Gitlitz and “We need space where the board a chance to plug we can have a hot shop numbers into a dynamic where we need exhaust model to understand fans and poured concrete what is needed to get the floors, but we also need project off the ground and classroom space,” she said. for it to succeed. “We also want to have a When a friend of gallery space. We need Gitlitz’s made a donation office space, clearly, and to the center, the dream we need storage space.” of a center started to look And as with any ven- more feasible. ture, Gitlitz would love “And so we started to for the space to be either get serious,” Gitlitz said. downtown or along the The board hired popular B-Line Trail.

Benedict Jones to run its “Glass blowing is such COURTESY PHOTO KickStarter campaign a performance art that as he’d had success with we’d love to be some- Holly Lynn Donaldson, Wynne Haralovich and Diana Spoolstra are shown working at the marver, a surface used to roll a warm a local garden tower where where we can get piece of glass. Learn about upcoming fundraising events for the Bloomington Creative Glass Center on its Facebook page, www. project. Jones was able foot traffic,” she said. facebook.com/BloomingtonCreativeGlassCenter. You can also ﬁ nd out about the group at https://sites.google.com/site/bloom- to help create videos so Realtors have warned ingtoncreativeglassguild/home. people could see what Gitlitz to wait until she from dreaming. She’s eyed glass center. raised, Gitlitz anticipates the center, she feels this is glass blowing is about, and knows what kind of mon- a few properties but also She’s also encouraged things will move quickly. the right time. he helped come up with ey she can spend before is trying to stay realistic, by 1,700 people on the Once a space is secured, “We wanted to make incentives for donors to she shops for a space, but with her eye on the goal of center’s mailing list and supplies can be ordered so sure we were financially give. In June, the center that doesn’t prevent her opening a glass center. the untold numbers of that the equipment can be stable and that we had To kick off the Kick- people who are ready to built. “This is not some- interest in the community Starter campaign, the take classes from potential thing where we order before we take the next center partnered with teachers who work in vari- everything ready made,” step,” she said. Cardinal Spirits for a fund- ous types of glass art. she said. While the center will raiser in June. Set up for all The Kickstarter cam- Gitlitz anticipates give Gitlitz a chance to ages, the event attracted paign is seeking to raise they’ll be looking for spread her love of glass families as well as a group $35,000, with the center a home in the fall with with the public, she’s also from a local retirement having a total goal of hopes to be ready in the excited at the prospect of community. With people $100,000. Gitlitz said the spring. no longer making those lined up before the event center had already raised For Gitlitz, slow and drives to Indianapolis to began, it was another sign $65,000 before starting its steady wins the race. create her art. that Bloomington is ready fundraising this year. Despite interest in the “I’ll be so glad never to and willing to support a Once the funds are past to move forward with do that again,” she said. 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