LAFAYETTE --- The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will host a closing reception for its summer exhibits on Friday, Sept. 10 from 6-8 p.m. at the museum.
LAFAYETTE -- The second annual Cash Bash -- A tribute to Johnny Cash will be held at the Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main St., at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11. Several bands will be getting together to perform their renditions of Johnny Cash songs, from blues to country to rock.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- The fifth annual Art on the Wabash, a Local Artists Fair, featuring the works of 38 artists, will fill Tapawingo Park at Tapawingo Drive and State Street in West Lafayette on Sunday, Sept. 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
LAFAYETTE Justin Vinings "Regionalism Reborn" exhibition will be on display at Lala Gallery & Studio in the 600 block of Main Street downtown from Sept. 13 Oct. 9.
LAFAYETTE -- The TAF Gallery Committee is accepting applications for visual art exhibitions in the Wells Community Cultural Center galleries. All applications are due Friday, Nov. 12 by 5 p.m. Applicants will be submitting to exhibit during the 2012 calendar year.
WEST LAFAYETTE Rapper Snoop Dogg will perform at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 in Purdue University's Elliott Hall of Music. The show will also feature special guest Janelle Mone. Purdue's Student Concert Committee is presenting the performance.
LAFAYETTE An artist reception for Zach Medlers solo exhibition Locality will be held at the Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St., on Friday, Aug. 20 from 6-10 p.m., said gallery owner Angela Vinson.
LAFAYETTE The local band snorb! will perform at Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St., in a music event to help raise money and food for Food Finders Food Bank on Friday, July 30 at 7 p.m.
LAFAYETTE Artist James Werner will be the guest speaker at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette Lunchtime Lecture Series at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, July 29 in the Mickey Shook Community Room of the museum.
LAFAYETTE Greater Lafayette residents will have a chance to help out the Gulf Coast affected by the BP oil spill at the Stand Up Lafayette benefit concert at three different locations Saturday, Aug. 7.
LAFAYETTE The Y-Dance Program, a unit of the YWCA of Greater Lafayette, will have a public registration for its Fall 2010 session beginning Aug. 16, with classes starting the week of Sept. 13.
BY IRENE WANG, OURTOWN.COM. LAFAYETTE -- Greater Lafayette Commerce announced details of the 19th annual Dancing in the Streets festival on July 8 during a press conference on the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge.
LAFAYETTE -- Artists have been selected for the fifth annual "Art on the Wabash, a Local Artists Fair," a juried event that will run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 19, at West Lafayette's Tapawingo Park.
LAFAYETTE -- Lala Gallery & Studio will be hosting its first Juried Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition. Jay Strommen Juried in six outstanding artists from California, Chicago and Lafayette who will have their work on display July 12 - August 14.
LAFAYETTE -- Jack Oblivian, along with John Paul Keith and the Half Rats will perform at Sgt. Prestons Tuesday, July 13 at 9 p.m. The concert is put together by Mom and Pop Productions.
LAFAYETTE -- Dancing in the Streets is back for its 19th year in Downtown Lafayette-West Lafayette. On Saturday, July 17 Greater Lafayette Commerce hosts and IBEW/NECA/Real Journeymen sponsors this festival that highlights the best of summer.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation has received a totem from the Wabash Valley Potters.
Collaboration was created by the members of the Wabash Valley Potters as a thank you for their appreciation of the work the federation does to promote the arts.
WEST LAFAYETTE Erica Pence, currently music director at Woodland Elementary School in the Tippecanoe School Corp., has been selected as operations manager for the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra.
LAFAYETTE The Friends of Downtown will host a benefit concert for Habitat for Humanity Thursday, July 1, featuring the California band KrimZen and former American Idol contestant Amanda Overmyer.
LAFAYETTE -- The Almost Home Humane Society will be holding a raffle for an autographed picture of members of the Twilight cast in recognition of the upcoming June 30 release of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
LAFAYETTE The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is sponsoring Art on the Green on Saturday, June 12, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sponsors ask that visitors wear something green to help us celebrate the ART in earth.
LAFAYETTE -- "Not Your Mommas Painted Pottery" by Greater Lafayette Clay Guild and local artists, will be on display June 14July 10 at Lala Gallery & Studio in downtown Lafayette.
LAFAYETTE Rachel Brooke will perform the first in the Mom & Pop Productions summer concert series at Sgt. Prestons, 6 N. Second St., on Thursday, June 17 at 9 p.m.
BY KRISTYNA BROZOVA, OURTOWN.COM. LAFAYETTE -- Lala Gallery & Studio in downtown Lafayette is celebrating its two-year anniversary and was also featured in Mays Gallery Walk on Friday, May 14. Angela Lala Vinson, the owner of Lala Gallery and all-around artist, premiered her new collection Caricatures and showcased work of other local artists.
LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra has extended the contract for conductor Nicholas Palmer for another five years, meaning he will direct the LSO at least through 2015, officials announced May 21.
LAFAYETTE - The Lafayette Symphony Orchestras season finale, Simply Sinatra, is at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 22, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Lafayette.
LAFAYETTE Bach Chorale Singers artistic director William Jon Gray will conduct his final concert at St. Boniface Catholic Church, 318 N. Ninth St., on Sunday, May 23 at 4 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation will host its Region 4 Indiana Arts Commission Regional Partnership Grant panels on May 19-20, at 10 a.m. to adjudicate arts grants.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, working with a grant from the Greater Lafayette Community Foundation, will loan up to five string instruments to young musicians in Tippecanoe County as part of an expansion of its popular Strings Attached program.
BY ANDRA HILLIS, OURTOWN.COM. Blending together a vast array of sounds, Legendary Shack Shakers is definitely mixing things up. General genre is not of huge importance to this band. According to band member J.D. Wilkes, they are attempting to, push the boundaries by creating a sound called, AgriDustrial (Hence the name of their newly released CD).
LAFAYETTE -- Paint out Lafayette will attract plein aire painters from around the state of Indiana for The Art Museum of Greater Lafayettes third paintout.
LAFAYETTE -- Winter 2010 Y-Dance students will perform for the public starting at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 8, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St.
LAFAYETTE This years downtown Crawlo de Mayo on Saturday, May 1 will benefit Food Finders Food Bank. The sixth annual Crawlo de Mayo will begin at the Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main St., from 2-3 p.m. and will continue to 9 p.m. and hit seven different popular downtown establishments.
LAFAYETTE -- A 22-panel, multi-media art piece was unveiled at Lafayette City Hall on Friday, April 9, a gift from the 22 artists who are members of Artists Own Gallery to mark the 10th anniversary of the artists cooperative.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Entries are being accepted for the fifth annual Art on the Wabash, to be held Sunday, Sept. 19. Art on the Wabash is open to any artist, age 18 or older, residing in the following Indiana counties: Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Howard, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Warren, and White.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Art in Bloom is a West Lafayette garden and art tour. As an outgrowth of winning the 2008 America in Bloom contest, the City of West Lafayette offers a beautification month (June), with emphasis on planting colorful annuals, recognizing award-winning landscapes and an innovative garden tour, "Art in Bloom."
LAFAYETTE -- An artist reception for Kat Rodenberger and Kyle Granats exhibit Passive to Aggressive: Interpreting and Re-Interpreting Passive Digital Media will be held at Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St. from 6-10 p.m. on April 23.
LAFAYETTE -- Do you want to hand craft a planter and vase that complements your beautiful flowers? Zach Medler will be available at Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St., in April and May to work with students who want to showcase their gardening excellence.
LAFAYETTE -- "Interactive Video Environments" by Esteban Garcia will be his first solo exhibition at Lala Gallery & Studio, on display April 1217. An artist reception will be held April 16 from 610 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- Left Lane Cruiser with the Whistle Pigs will perform at Sgt. Prestons, 6 N. Second St. downtown on Saturday, March 27 at 10 p.m. The show will be held in the Purdue Room which is off of the back of the patio.
LAFAYETTE -- Four pieces of artwork will be selected by the Public Art Committee with the goal of adding to the City's permanent public art collections.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation 2011 Exhibition Series celebrates over two decades of regional visual arts. Galleries feature new and emerging artists working in both traditional and non-traditional formats including photography, ceramics, fiber, and painting.
INDIANAPOLIS Two West Lafayette women were among 10 winners of the fourth annual Celebration of Hoosier Women Artists competition. Genevieve Borden was named a winner for her work titled Migration. Catherine Riley was also named a winner for her work titled Sunflower.
LAFAYETTE -- The Jazz Club presents the InterPlay Quartet in concert April 11 from 3-6:00 p.m. at Adelinos Old World Kitchen, 112 N. Third St. InterPlay includes local artists Ned Boyd, Lynn Colwell, Judd Danby and Don Nichols, and features Danbys original jazz works and spontaneous group improvisations.
LAFAYETTE Painter Jeff Klinker will give a painting demonstration in the Fowler House Garden Room from noon-4 p.m. at the Fowler House Garden Room.
The title of Klinkers presentation is From Field to Finish.
Attendees will be able to watch Klinker create a studio painting from a field study painted en plein aire. The demonstration is free for members. Reservations are required. For more information, e-mail glenda@glmart.org or call 742-1128.
LAFAYETTE -- March 20 marks the first day of Spring and Lala Gallery & Studios first ceramic workshop of the year. Chicago artist Jay Strommen will be teaching a full day workshop at Lalas studio Saturday, March 20 from 10 a.m.5 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- While the big game itself is old news, the commercials are not: the impact of Super Bowl advertising is in full swing. According to the 200 Tippecanoe County high school students who participated in the Drug-Free Coalition of Tippecanoe County Super Bowl Survey, while alcohol ads were widely remembered, they did not place in the top three favorites among youth, as in past surveys.
LAFAYETTE -- The City of Lafayette is extending the deadline for proposals from artists for public art within the Arts & Cultural District of downtown Lafayette.
LAFAYETTE -- "Scripted Fields" by Elizabeth Diaz will be her first solo exhibition at Lala Gallery & Studio, on display March 15April 10. An artist reception will be held March 19 from 6-10 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- For the first time in many years, a train whistle blew at 11th and Main streets in Lafayette on Monday morning, February 22. Rather than a locomotive signaling its arrival, the whistle was wooden and blown by Lafayette Mayor Tony Roswarski as he dedicated the public artwork, cRRossings.
The Tippecanoe Arts Federation announces the Region Advisory Council will convene on Saturday, March 6 at 10 a.m. at the Monticello Public Library. The public is invited to attend this meeting hosted by Monica Casanova, Advisory panel member representing White County.
LAFAYETTE -- Through a grant that the Tippecanoe Arts Federation was awarded from Chase Bank, 11 counties and thousands of community members will receive enhanced arts and cultural experiences.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation is requesting design proposals for a mural. The site identified for the mural is on North River Road, behind Spurlocks West Restaurant in West Lafayette.
LAFAYETTE -- The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM), the highest national recognition afforded the nations museums.
LAFAYETTE -- Make a Splash in Art, annual exhibition of K-8th grade students in Tippecanoe and surrounding counties will be on display from Feb. 19-March 28.
LAFAYETTE.-- The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will culminate a daylong lineup of free musical performances for schoolchildren and families with the annual Lollipop Family Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
LAFAYETTE The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will host black-and-white photography printing sessions at its darkroom, 102 S. 10th St., for eight Sundays beginning Feb. 7, the museum recently announced.
LAFAYETTE -- Lala Gallery & Studio artist Zach Medler will be teaching two new classes at Lala, 609 Main St., this winter for adults and high school students, from Feb. 23 to April 1.
LAFAYETTE -- "Us," Jefferson High Schools Advanced Placement group exhibition, will be on display at Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St., from Feb. 15March 12. An artist reception will be held Feb. 19 from 610 p.m. All artist receptions are free and open to the public.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Celebrating its 20th year, the Purdue Jazz Festival will offer a special Community Jazz Showcase Concert on Thursday (Jan. 21), featuring the U.S. Army Jazz Ambassadors.
LAFAYETTE JB Beverley and the Wayward Drifters, The Dirt Daubers (JD Wilkes of the Legendary Shack Shakers), and Blind Joe will be performing at the Lafayette Brewing Company, 622 Main St., Wednesday Jan. 27, at 8 p.m.
LAFAYETTE The Lafayette Symphony presents The Best of Broadway, featuring the Purdue University Varsity Glee Club at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Lafayette on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- Enrollment is now open for the After School Arts Program (ASAP) After School Arts Program. This Tippecanoe Arts Federation program offers a variety of classes for grades 1-12 including Hip Hop, theater, dance, video, DJ Spin, ceramics, and painting and drawing.
This is the last week for the Centennial Exhibition at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, 102 S. 10th St. Art Through the Decades: 1909 - 2009 celebrates the foresight and wisdom of the Art Museums founders and the leaders who followed in creating and preserving the treasure that is the Art Museums Permanent Collection.
LAFAYETTE Lafayette Jefferson High School teachers Ali Broach and Mara Battiste will present their collaboration exhibit Language of Love at Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St. from Jan. 11 to Feb. 13. An opening reception will be held Jan. 15 from 6-10 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- "Open Space," LA Lamies first solo exhibit at Lala Gallery & Studio will be on display from Dec. 14Jan. 9. Come see the landscapes, sculptural books, nests and wind turbine images created with Lamies rich surface detail.
LAFAYETTE -- Indiana Coalition for the Arts Foundation, Inc. seeks nominations for their annual Community Arts Leadership Awards. INCAF will honor four outstanding Hoosiers for their part in advancing the cause of community and local arts in Indiana.
LAFAYETTE -- The Jazz Club of Greater Lafayette has announced the second of five Second Sunday Concerts the Club will present in the 2009-2010 season. Steve Allee, a renowned and active performer, composer, arranger and producer, is joined by bassist Jeremy Allen and drummer Steve Houghton for an afternoon of exciting and original jazz, followed by a question-answer session with the audience.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation is requesting proposals for a mural located adjacent to 227 N. Main Street in Monticello. This is a paid ($500) public art opportunity for a qualified artist or team of artists working collaboratively to create a design.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Travelers Dream will host a holiday concert and CD release party Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 333 Meridian St. The concert will feature music from the duos new CD entitled Cold Blows the Day: Songs and Carols of the Winter Season.
LAFAYETTE The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will kick off a new luncheon lecture series on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 11:30 a.m. The lecture On the Shoulders of Giants, a Brief History of Art and Art Education 1300 Present, by James C. Werner, will be held in the Mickey Shook Community Room.
BY KRISTYNA BROZOVA, OURTOWN.COM. Lady Gaga is one of the most popular current artists, and therefore its no surprise that the announcement of her tour coming to Purdues Elliott Hall of Music was met with great excitement. The tickets, which went on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13, were wanted by the majority of the Purdue student body. Enthusiastic fans started lining up days before, ignoring any signs prohibiting them to do so.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra is expanding its Symphony Safari program to offer Greater Lafayette families a behind-the-scenes experience of a professional symphony orchestra.
LAFAYETTE -- ToneDef Systems Alaska Westwind is back with his debut instrumental album Maurice Alexanders: Music To Drink Wine To. This album is a labor of love that has been in the making for the last five years.
LAFAYETTE -- Lafayette Savings Bank is sponsoring NICHES Land Trusts juried art competition that is open to everyone and will be shown at Tippecanoe Arts Federation in Lafayette in April of 2010. We are accepting photographs taken on NICHES Properties with three monetary awards, $500 is the top prize.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation is currently accepting applications from schools, libraries, community centers, and artists who wish to be involved in the Artist in Residence Program.
LAFAYETTE -- Local artist, Martha Gilliom, has been announced as the winner of the Art of Peace Exhibition for her piece, In Disguise Angels of God. The Art of Peace exhibition commemorated the 14th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, which resulted in the ending of the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict.
BY MEGHAN CHANCY LEDINGTON, OURTOWN.COM. Local hip-hop artists and urban vendors got a rare chance to perform and show their wares in the Greater Lafayette area during the Kick It event on Friday, Oct. 30 at the Knickerbocker Saloon downtown.
JACH NEWS SERVICE. LAFAYETTE The laughter has continued for a decade, from the Lafayette Civic Theater or the Lafayette Brewing Co., and co-director Steve Martin has been there from the start. One Size Fits All Comedy Improv is the areas only improvisational comedy troupe, that Martin called competitive improv.
The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will host its annual Keller Concert conducted by Nicholas Palmer at the Long Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature three student musicians who have auditioned for the opportunity to perform with the orchestra.
LAFAYETTE -- Tippecanoe Arts Federation announces an informational meeting open to those interested in submitting artwork (visual, literary, or other) for the upcoming TAF exhibition Renaissance Magic: Plants, Potions, and Poetry.
LAFAYETTE -- Lafayette Community Church is partnering with the Long Center for the Performing Arts to sponsor the 2009 Lafayette Rocks Band Festival on Nov. 7 showcasing the talent of local independent bands.
LAFAYETTE -- Peter Tork, a mainstay in the 1960s hit television show "The Monkees," will perform with his band Shoe Suede Blues at the Skylight Coffeehouse, 116 N. Third St. on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7:30 p.m.
LAFAYETTE A downtown merchants Crawl-O-Ween on Saturday, Oct. 31 will go to help raise funds for the American Diabetes Camp John Warvel in memory of Deb Green. The crawl will involved seven merchants and run from 2-9 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- Kids, youth, and others are invited to participate in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Dickens of a Christmas will be held in Downtown Lafayette-West Lafayette on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 10 a.m.9 p.m. During this event, scenes from A Christmas Carol are enacted at various sites throughout the downtown.
LAFAYETTE -- The Downtown Development Council of Greater Lafayette Commerce is announcing the Lafayette Farmers Market season will be coming to a close on Saturday, Oct. 31. Danny Weiss, local saxophonist and clarinetist, will be performing from 10 a.m.noon.
LAFAYETTE -- Tippecanoe Arts Federation held its annual Bravo for the Arts Wednesday afternoon, for nearly 300 attendees. Bravo for the Arts brings together legislators, business owners and employees, arts administrators, artists and community volunteers to celebrate all those who create and support the arts.
LAFAYETTE -- First Street on the Purdue campus will close for construction beginning Thursday, Oct. 22.
The 23 Wabash Trolley Line will follow MacArthur north past First St., turn right on Third St., right on N. Martin Jischke, and then resume route at First Street.
This detour will be in effect for a year.
LAFAYETTE -- The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will host the exhibit Ten Years Influence and Development: Programs and Courses by James C. Werner from Oct. 23-Jan. 9 in its Mickey Shook Gallery.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation will host two workshops for artists on Nov. 17: Small Business Development for Creative Types, presented by Miriam Robeson and Individual Artist Grants, presented by the Indiana Arts Commission.
LAFAYETTE -- Get ready to clap and sing on Thursday, Nov. 12 when Ella Jenkins performs at the Downtown Library, 7 p.m. Jenkins is a prolific recording artist, cutting 28 albums.
LAFAYETTE -- Lala Gallery is looking to fill a few months in the 2010 exhibition lineup. Each month Lala Gallery features an artist or a group of artists in the front exhibition space of the gallery. The gallery is looking for modern, contemporary and post-modern art.
LAFAYETTE -- The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette received a grant from a private foundation to support our fall Saturday workshop series for teens and adults. As a result, the museum announced it has reduced the cost of these workshops.
LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette Symphony welcomes the public to a master class given by violinist Stephanie Sant'Ambrogio, on Sunday, Oct. 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the West Lafayette Public Library.
LAFAYETTE -- Michael Fee will exhibit his first solo exhibition at Lala titled Second Bridge showcasing his fresh new work. The exhibit will be on display from Oct. 12Nov. 14. An artist reception will be held Oct. 16 from 6-10 p.m. and part of Lalas Third Friday Event. All artist receptions are free and open to the public.
LAFAYETTE The 42nd annual Feast of the Hunters Moon will bring thousands of re-enactors to the banks of the Wabash River for a spectacular weekend of music, marching, military maneuvers, dancing, craft demonstrations and feasting on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 10-11.
LAFAYETTE -- Dont miss out on your opportunity to exhibit in the Tippecanoe Arts Federation Galleries in 2011. The TAF Gallery Committee is now accepting applications for visual art exhibitions in the Wells Community Cultural Center galleries.
LAFAYETTE -- This fall in conjunction with our exhibition, Through the Eyes of Artists: Susan Doster, Therese Lynch, Margaret Hanke, and Ron Burgess will present five 3-hour Saturday workshops.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation announces that thousands of students will have the opportunity to work directly with top professional artists for the second consecutive year.
LAFAYETTE -- Sheryl Nahodil (www.myspace.com/sherylnapril) will be performing southern gospel and bluegrass music from 10 a.m.noon at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 26.
LAFAYETTE -- The Downtown Development Council of Greater Lafayette Commerce is making plans for the 13th annual Dickens of a Christmas which will be held on Dec. 5 in Downtown Lafayette-West Lafayette from 10 a.m.9 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- Organizers this week announced the creation of The Jazz Club, with the mission of providing Greater Lafayette with great jazz in intimate and interactive settings around the area. Executive officers Judd Danby, Diane Damico and Dan Seybold sent out letters announcing the organization and its efforts.
LAFAYETTE -- The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will host the opening of two exhibitions on Friday, Sept. 18, from 7-9 p.m. The exhibits include "Art through the Decades," by Bruno Moser, and "Through the Eyes of Artists," by Sharon Theobald and Therese Lynch.
LAFAYETTE -- Sheryl Nahodil (www.myspace.com/sherylnapril) and Danny Weiss, local saxophonist and clarinetist, will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Thursday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 19, respectively.
OXFORD, Ind. -- Millennium Farms Pumpkin Patch is located at 5715 East 300 South, northwest of Purdue University off US 52W just 20 minutes from West Lafayette and 2 miles East of Benton Central High School in Oxford.
LAFAYETTE -- Michal Lile, one of Lala Gallerys staple artists, will exhibit his second solo show at Lala titled Recent Works showcasing his fresh new work.
LAFAYETTE -- Joe Peters will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 12 from 7:30 a.m.noon. After living 10 years in Southeast Asia, Peters settled in West Lafayette in 2006 to be near his family. Peters plays guitar and writes contemporary folk songs with both international and domestic themes of current and historical events, social concerns as well as relationships.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Ready to let your imagination run away with you into the world of spooky stories? Ghost Tales comes to the Tippecanoe County Amphitheater for its 21st year of chilling ghost stories on Friday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.
LAFAYETTE -- The Dulcimer Gathering will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market Thursday, Sept. 10 from 46 p.m. Fresh fruits and vegetables, kettle corn, meats, free range farm fresh eggs, flowers, honey, dried herbs, baked goods, arts and crafts are all examples of items available at selected times during the 2009 Market season which runs through the end of October.
LAFAYETTE -- Keith Hughes will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, Sept. 5 from 7:309:30 a.m. while Joe Peters will them perform from 10 a.m.noon.
LAFAYETTE -- Pride Lafayettes Spectrum Gallery presents its first group exhibition of local and regional artists. The exhibition is part of the Artists For Equality project, which aims to support the educational activities of Pride Lafayette. The exhibition features a mix of professional and junior artists.
LAFAYETTE -- The Tippecanoe Arts Federation will host artists Bill Knapp and Terry Duncan and artists from FibR for an exhibit in the Tippecanoe Arts Federation galleries.
LAFAYETTE -- The second annual Pride festival: OUTfest 09 will be held Saturday, Aug. 29 on Main Street in downtown Lafayette, between Sixth and Ninth streets beginning at 4 p.m. until midnight.
LAFAYETTE -- The Lafayette Flute Choir will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, Aug. 29 from 8:3010 a.m. Danny Weiss, local saxophonist and clarinetist, will perform from 10:00 a.m.noon.
JACH NEWS SERVICE. LAFAYETTE -- A car show, 3-on-3 basketball, vendors and a Gospel concert will highlight Hannafest 2009 at the Hanna Community Center, 1201 N. 18th St. on Labor Day, Sept. 7.
WEST LAFAYETTE The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will be featured in the Outdoors Pop Concert sponsored by Duke Energy at the Tippecanoe Amphitheater Sunday, Sept. 6.
WEST LAFAYETTE -- Paintings, glass work, jewelry, photography and pottery by 35 area artists from eight counties will fill West Lafayettes Tapawingo Park on Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the fourth annual Art on the Wabash, a Local Artists Fair.
LAFAYETTE -- Greater Lafayette Commerce is proud to host the fifth annual Uptown Jazz & Blues Festival presented by Lafayette Bank and Trust on Saturday August 22 from 5 p.m. to midnight in the Fifth Street Farmers Market area between Columbia and Main Streets in downtown Lafayette.
Get ready for the second annual Columbian Park Car and Motorcycle Show. The show will be held on Sunday, Aug. 16 from noon-4 p.m. The Columbian Park Car and Motorcycle Show is being put on by the Lafayette Kroozers. All proceeds from this special event will benefit the Columbian Park Lagoon Beautification Project.
Today, the Tippecanoe Arts Federation (TAF) announced 28 organizations throughout Region 4 (Benton, Carroll, Cass, Clinton, Fountain, Howard, Jasper, Montgomery, Newton, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Warren, and White Counties) will receive a total of $116,393.00 in grant awards for Fiscal Year 2010.
Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action programs is planning their fourth annual Senior Art Contest to be held this September at Morton Community Center. Individuals age 55 and over are invited to submit their entries in the following categories: painting (amateur and advanced), drawing (amateur and advanced) and photography.
Advance tickets went on sale Monday for the popular Uptown Jazz and Blues Festival. The festival, which will be held on Saturday August 22, runs from 5 p.m. to midnight in the historic Farmers Market area on Fifth Street between Columbia and Main streets.
Now in its 20th year, the Tippecanoe Arts Federation Exhibition Program 2010 celebrates a decade of exciting exhibitions. Galleries feature work by artists from new and emerging to seasoned professional and even organizations.
BY KEVIN HOWELL, OURTOWN.COM. Visitors to Wabash & Erie Canal Park in Delphi boarded a canal boat on a recent Sunday afternoon to take a ride back 150 years in the small towns history.
Tippecanoe Arts Federation will host artists Jim Binkley, Laelle Busch and Diane Gee for their first solo exhibits in the Tippecanoe Arts Federation galleries. The Tippecanoe Arts Federation has hosted exhibits for 19 years featuring work by artists from new and emerging to seasoned professional and even organizations.
Two Lafayette-West Lafayette musicians and a Rensselaer violinist are winners of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra's 2009 Keller Competition, LSO officials announced July 20.
Re Zach Medlers solo exhibit at Lala Gallery & Studio will be on display from Aug. 18Sept.12. Medler plans to transform Lala Gallerys exhibit space into a Re-tail store.
Thirty-five artists from eight counties have been chosen to participate in the fourth annual Art on the Wabash, a Local Artists Fair to be held at West Lafayettes Tapawingo Park from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, September 20. Admission is free.
Visitors to the 2009 Indiana State Fair can learn more about themselves, animals, plants, insects and agriculture in a fun setting at the Purdue University Extension exhibits in the Pioneer Our Land Pavilion. The Indiana State Fair runs from Aug. 7-23 at the state fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The Pioneer Our Land Pavilion is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. during the fair.
A reception showcasing the works of local Indiana artists will be held at Ivy Tech Community College on Monday, July 20 at 4:30 pm in the Grand Hall. The 2009 Art on the Wabash juror chose artists from 15 different counties across Indiana.
The Tippecanoe Arts Federation is requesting proposals for a mural to be created on the Riverside Skating Rink in Tapawingo Park, West Lafayette. This is a paid opportunity for a qualified artist or team of artists working collaboratively to create a design.
The Taste of Tippecanoe is accepting press kits and promotional material from musicians for the 29th Taste of Tippecanoe until September 15, 2009. The Taste highlights various genres of music. The 2009 Taste featured 31 bands with 20 being from Tippecanoe and surrounding counties.
Danny Weiss, local saxophonist and clarinetist, will be performing on Saturday, July 11 from 7:309:30 a.m. at the Lafayette Farmers Market. Emily Sledge will also be perfuming from 10 a.m.noon.
The deadline for the New York City Tour reservations has been extended to July 30. Only a limited number of spaces remain for this exciting trip. Join WBAA and the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette November 12-15 for a special private tour of the Art Museums of New York City.
"Worlds Apart," Justin Vining solo exhibit at Lala Gallery & Studio, will be on display from July 10August 15. Come see the urban and rural landscapes with glimpses of Chicago, Good Ol Country Farms, and appropriated compositions from Vincent Van Gogh and Thomas Hart Benton.
Expand your musical world with the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society on Thursday, July 9. Join the Brass Quintet's "Concert to Go" at the Downtown Library. Learn about brass instruments and explore musical forms. Performances begin at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Sharon McKnight will be performing folk music from 7:30 a.m. to noon at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, July 4 at the Lafayette Farmers Market. The Lafayette Farmers Market, managed by the Downtown Development Council of Greater Lafayette Commerce, is open on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. in Downtown Lafayette on Fifth Street between Main and Columbia Streets.
Artists Own will offer artist studio tour this Sunday, June 28 from noon to 5 p.m. This self-guided tour of up to seven artists studios is free and open to the public. Studios are located throughout Tippecanoe County. Visitors can start anywhere, visit in any order and stay as long as they choose. Participating artist are Joanne Kuhn Titolo, Darlene Mitchell, Terri Duncan , Sandra Daniel, Linda Lemar, Scott Frankenberger and Lorie Amick.
An Exhibition titled Works on Paper: from the Permanent Collection of Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is on exhibition at Ivy Hall on the Ivy Tech Community College, Lafayette campus through July 13. The exhibition of original watercolors, pastels, photography and prints in the forms of engravings, woodcuts, woodblocks and lithographs includes landscape, cityscape, still life, architectural and satirical compositions.
On July 18th, Greater Lafayette Commerce will be presenting the 18th Annual Dancing in the Streets festival in Downtown Lafayette West Lafayette. Dancing in the Streets supports the many valuable programs of Greater Lafayette Commerces Downtown Development Council.
As part of the community exhibition, Dog Days of Summer, the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette presents a companion exhibition of dog related projects (drawings, paintings, sculptures, recipes, poems and stories) by students in area K-8 schools at the museum, opening Friday, June 26.
Sheryl Nahodil (www.myspace.com/sherylnapril) will be performing southern gospel and bluegrass music from 10 a.m. - noon at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, June 27.
Bill and Marilyn Hinze recently purchased the print, Apollo, by Rudy Pozatti, as a gift to the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. Apollo is now an important piece in the museums one hundred year old permanent collection.
Lala Gallery and Studio will be hosting an adult (18+) painting class each Monday night from July 13-Aug. 17 at 5-8 p.m. at 609 Main St. The class fee is $200.
West Lafayette is showcasing eight local artists and six award-winning gardens in the Hills & Dales and Northwestern Heights neighborhoods at Art in Bloom, a free home-garden tour, Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Lala Gallery & Studio announced its camp schedule at 609 Main St., said Angela Vinson, the gallerys owner. Class registration can be done by swinging into the gallery Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. or calling the gallery.
The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette will celebrate its 100th anniversary with a Gala Dinner at the Lafayette Country Club, Friday June 12, beginning at 6 p.m. The event, chaired by Sharon Theobald, is sold out with over 250 attending.
There will be a Young Artists Reception Families are Special See How Special? at the Ben & Maxine Miller Child Learning Center June 13 and June 15. Over 150 children ages 1-5 made art using sand, plaster, stone and cement, wood, cloth and clay at Purdue this spring.
Dan McClannen's solo exhibit at Lala Gallery & Studio will be on display from June 16-July 11. Come see the abstract acrylic works he has created to bring value to nonsense. An artist reception will be held June 19 from 610 p.m.
Katie Russell, a Jefferson High School graduate, and Angela Vinson, Lala Gallery owner, current exhibit Conscious and Unconscious will have a closing reception June 13 from 6-10 p.m.at the Lala Gallery & Studio, 609 Main St.
Danny Weiss and Jeff Pearce will be performing on Saturday, June 6 at the Lafayette Farmers Market. Fresh fruits, vegetables, kettle corn, lamb, beef, pork, free range farm fresh eggs, flowers, honey, dried herbs, baked goods, arts and crafts are all examples of items available at selected times during the 2009 Market season which runs through the end of October.
Joe Peters will be performing at the Lafayette Farmers Market Saturday, May 30 from 7:30 a.m.noon. Peters plays guitar and writes contemporary folk songs with both international and domestic themes of current and historical events, social concerns and well as relationships.
The Tippecanoe Arts Federation announces two new innovations to the 2009 Comcast Taste of Tippecanoe. The Taste has become Go Greener Certified and is offering a free iPhone Application.The Taste has become Go Greener Certified to make the event more environmentally friendly. As part of the City of West Lafayette s Go Greener Commission, the Go Greener Standards for Events was created to help in the initiative to increase awareness of environmental issues related to events in the area.
LAFAYETTE -- The Art Museum of
Greater Lafayette will host an opening reception for its Artists of Ivy Hall:
New Vistas exhibit May 22 from 7-9 p.m. at the museum, located on 1-2 S. 10th
St.
The exhibition is recent works done
by 25 Lafayette area artists.
BY KAYE MALONEY. Members of the Higher Ground Dance Company have raised $25,000 from their performances during the past three years. And they havent kept a cent of the profits. All of the funds raised at the groups performances are donated to charity and the past few years theyve been given to the Andrea Rizzo Foundation.
Folk artist, Al Stelk, will be performing from 7:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, May 16. Al received his first guitar in the 7th grade.
Danny Weiss will peform from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at the Lafayette Farmers Market on Saturday, May 9. Following his performance, Keith Hughes will perform from 10 a.m.noon.
The third annual Tippecanoe Latino Festival will be held Saturday, May 2 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette. The festival is open to the community and will offer fun for the whole family.
Area IV Agency on Aging and Community Action Programs will host the 23rd annual Senior Games during the week of June 8 -12. The annual Senior Games feature a variety of recreational activities ranging from track and field, golf, swimming and horseshoes to a nature walk, bocce ball, billiards and even square dancing, skee ball, BINGO and Euchre.
Spring into the Arts from 4-5 p.m. at your library. On Tuesday, April 7 at the Klondike Branch, learn the art of paper folding and practice the skill of paper weaving with Paper Pizzazz.
The Downtown Development Council of Greater Lafayette Commerce is announcing vendors will be selling items at a mini-market on Saturday, March 21 from 8 a.m. noon on the west side of 5th Street between Main and Columbia Streets.
Applications for the fourth annual Art on the Wabash a local artists fair, is open to artists in 15 Indiana counties with applications due May 9. "Art on the Wabash, will be held at West Lafayette's Tapawingo Park from 10 a.m.to 4 p.m., Sunday, September 20.
Actor Wilford Brimley will narrator the production of the Lafayette Symphonys Quiet Heroes at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Lafayette on Saturday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Actor Wilford Brimley will narrate the production of the Lafayette Symphonys Quiet Heroes at the Long Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Lafayette on Saturday, March 28 at 7:30 p.m.
This legendary trio - Anthony Kearns, Finbar Wright, and Karl Scully will perform with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestray at 8 p.m. March 6 at the Elliott Hall of Music.
Congratulations America, history has been made in the United States of America. Last week was a tremendous moment to reflect on history and make some history. It began with Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday and culminated with President-elect Barack Obama being sworn in as PRESIDENT Obama.
A Kokomo couple will have their home remodeled for the Designers Showhome Guild. The undecorated home of Mark and Elizabeth Schelbert, located at 511 West Taylor Street, Kokomo, will be open for two Preview Weekends from 1-5 p.m. Feb. 21-22 and Feb. 28-March 1.
Wolf Park will present a wild Valentines night during its Howl Night Saturday, Feb. 14, at 4004 E. 800 North in Battle Ground. Wolf Park will be open from 1-5 p.m. filled with unusual talks and activities about the love lives of wolves.
Artists from the Art Present: A Mosaic of Community Gifts will be making valentines and accepting bids on their work from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14 at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, 102 S. 10th St. Valentine artists should bring any art supplies they wish to incorporate into their cards. Basic materials will be provided.
The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette kicked off its Centennial Year with an opening weekend that broke attendance records. Between Wednesday and Saturday, over 1,600 visited the galleries.
The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra will culminate a daylong lineup of free musical performances for schoolchildren and families with the annual Lollipop Family Concert at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the Long Center for the Performing Arts.
Lt. Governor Becky Skillman is kicking off Women's History Month in March with the 2009 Celebration of Hoosier Women Artists, the third annual art competition to highlight female artists from around the state.
Due to the overwhelming community response to the upcoming exhibition "Art Present: A Mosaic of Community Gifts," the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette has expanded the opening to two days.
Former Lafayette resident and renowned oil painter Hilary Eddy will be the guest lecturer at the event "Oil Painting by Hilary: An Inside View" at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday.
A variety of concerts, jazz jams, clinics and a
competition will serve as the focus of the 19th annual Purdue Jazz
Festival, which will run from Jan. 14-18 in various campus and
community locations in the Greater Lafayette area. Sponsored by Purdue Bands & Orchestra and
Purdue Convocations, the festival also will include a swing dance, a
Sunday jazz service and the Community Jazz Showcase.
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is presenting three exhibitions from Jan. 24 to March 21. An opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 23, from 7-9 p.m. Introductory comments will be made at 7:45 p.m.
The Lafayette Ballet Company, under the direction of Sandra Peticolas, celebrates the 20th season of its full-length production of The Nutcracker. The performances will be held at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, 111 N. Sixth St. in downtown Lafayette.
Join Tara Madison and the Z-Crew from WAZY-FM for the Annual New Years Eve Bash at Cox's Pub, 2401 Schuyler Ave. from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Make reservations for a dinner with prime rib, fresh shrimp cocktail and a bottle of bubbly at your table. Cost for couples is $60 and $30 for singles.
Join members of the Wabash Artists Alliance who will be in the museum studio to help you make for the program Art Present from 5-8 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 7 at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette.
An opening reception for the exhibit "Creative Expressions from Sarcoma Impact" will be held from 6-10 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation, 638 North St. The exhibit will run run from Jan. 9 to Feb. 15.
The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette presents the Through the Eyes of Children exhibit Nov. 19 to Jan. 24, with an opening reception at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19 in the Shook Gallery of the museum, 102 S. 10th St.
The opening reception for the watercolor exhibit of artist Rena Brouwer will be held at Lala Gallery and Studio, 609 Main St. in downtown Lafayette on Friday, Nov. 14 from 6-10 p.m. The exhibition officially opened on Tuesday and will run through the closing reception on Dec. 6.
BY SUZIE MASON, OURTOWN.COM. A powerful story of a troubled young woman causes the Civic Theatre to reach out to the community. Proof is about Catherine who must cope with her father's death, her estranged sister's arrival, an old student of her fathers and a mysterious notebook.
The One Size Fits All Improv Comedy troupe will be performing a competitive improv comedy battle at 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14 on the second floor of the Lafayette Brewing Company. The comedy show is a fundraiser for three organizations, including Almost Home Humane Society.
The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine invite artists (professional and amateur) to submit entries for the 2009 public art exhibition Dog Days of Summer.
Make your list, check it twice, and get a head start on your holiday shopping. Many downtown Lafayette-West Lafayette retailers will reveal festive holiday displays and new merchandise during the 10th annual Holiday Open House from 10 a.m.9 p.m. p.m. Friday, Nov. 7 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, No
Convertibles are needed for the 2008 Lafayette-West Lafayette Christmas Parade to transport area schools snow princesses and princes through the Parade route. The parade will take place on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. Volunteers are also needed to help with decorating this years Santa Float.
BY SUZIE MASON,OURTOWN.COM.The lights come on; local rock stars adjust the microphones and their guitar strings. A hush goes over the crowd as these hometown heroes belt their music for pining audience. A multicolored light show erupts on the stage as the singer dances around the stage . . .
More than 1,000 people crowded downtown Lafayette in what was called the areas first pride celebration dubbed OUToberfest, 2008, put on by Pride Lafayette and co-supported by Citizens for Civil Rights and the Parents and Families for Lesbian And Gays.
