Indiana Heritage Arts Show and Sale
Indiana Heritage Arts will open its 2014 show to the public at the Brown County Art Gallery on Saturday, June 7, 2014 after a gala preview and reception on Friday evening. Jason Allen Saunders will jury the show. Saunders paints and resides in the mountains of central Tennessee, with a studio and gallery in Leipers Fork, Tennessee. He has worked with esteemed artists such as Everett Kinstler, Matt Smith, and Scott Christensen.
The Indiana Heritage Arts show is renowned for its high level of prizes and purchase awards, and this year, two new awards will be added to the roster. The Ada Shulz prize of $ 500 will be awarded to an outstanding painting in a figural style. Returning show chair Jim Ross, of Eckert & Ross Fine Art, said that the award aims to honor the achievements of artists of the past and to encourage current artists to take on the figure. The award is sponsored by Randall Tucker and will replace the“ Artists’ Choice” award.
The C. Curry Bohm Prize of $ 350 will go to the best depiction of an Indiana winter scene, landscape or figural. This award is sponsored by an avid Bohm collector, Dr. Dan Kraft of Indianapolis. Dr. Kraft hopes to raise the profile of C. Curry Bohm by organizing a museum show and a book on the artist. He has solicited essays from Lorrette McCarthy, an independent curator formerly with Swope Gallery of Art, and from eminent art historian William H. Gerdts, author of over 25 books on American art and an expert on American impressionism. Show chair Jim Ross said,“ It’ s unusual for a collector to originate a project like this,” as usually curators or art historians would do so. In Bohm’ s case, much valuable source material exists locally, including a collection of his ephemera in Bloomington.
Ross said that the Heritage Arts Show differs from the older Hoosier Salon.“ Whereas the Hoosier Salon is intended as a survey of contemporary artists working in Indiana, our show has an editorial position of favoring a traditional style,” he said.“ I try to find jurors whose work is related to what our artists are doing.”
The 2013 Indiana Heritage Arts Annual Exhibition and Sale at the Brown County Art Gallery in Nashville garnered Indiana artists a record breaking $ 90,000 in sales and prize money. Calls for entries began in March.
For more information call( 812) 988-6934 or visit < www. indianaheritagearts. org >. •
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GetDown tickets are $ 15 and include specials for Downtown GetDown participants only, 20 tickets to spend Saturday at the Taste of Brown County, and free rides on the Nashville Express. GetDown tickets are also available online at < www. browncounty. com / downtown-getdown >.
Proud sponsors of this year’ s Taste of Brown County and Downtown GetDown include First Merchants Bank, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Brown County IGA, the Morel Festival, and the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Participating businesses, entertainment and activities can be found at < www. browncounty. com / taste >.
For more information about Brown County events, tourist attractions and lodging accommodations, please visit the Brown County Convention and Visitors Bureau website at < www. browncounty. com >. •
60 Our Brown County • May / June 2014