IDADA presents the First Friday Art Tour, featuring 25 downtown venues. Now in its 5th year, First Friday has become one of the city's premiere downtown cultural events. The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art is one of the local museums featured in the First Friday Art Tour.
The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art is hosting the IndyFringe monthly board meeting.
The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art is hosting the IAM's monthly board meeting.
IDADA presents the First Friday Art Tour, featuring 25 downtown venues. Now in its 5th year, First Friday has become one of the city's premiere downtown cultural events. The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art is one of the local museums featured in the First Friday Art Tour, and is a sponsor of this event. The Late Night Afterparty is at The Melody Gallery and Melody Inn.
The Indianapolis Academy of Music is proud to present its second annual soiree, A Roman Holiday, on February 8, 2008 from 6-9pm at The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art.
Featured guests include Zach De Pue, Concertmaster of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, prominent Indianapolis musicians, and students at the Indianapolis Academy of Music.
A catered meal will be provided. Wine tasting, raffles, and a silent auction featuring hotel stays, gift certificates, and one-of-a-kind experiences will be available. Proceeds benefit the Indianapolis Academy of Music Youth String Music Education Scholarship and Performance Fund.
General admission tickets are $60 per person/$100 per couple.
Please contact chairperson Rachel Gries at 317-691-7529 to reserve tickets in advance or for more information.
ArtBike! is in galleries in the Mass. Avenue area; as well as in The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art and on the streets around Fountain Square. As a participant, we will display one handmade, custom painted bicycle from a North American Handmade Bicycle Show exhibitor.
ArtBike! is an effort to create a community buzz about just how cool it is to be both creative and healthy. It is a cross-education for two of the most positive and progressive communities in the world! It will create a lasting impression on the city of Indy and its neighbors about how awesome a life is when filled with Bikes! and Art!
It is a collaboration of the city, the community, local galleries and museums, the North American Handmade Bicycle Show, artists, bike advocates, visitors and whoever wants to be a part of creating something to feel good about!
Exhibition Schedule: November 2nd - 16th, 2008
LYNN THOMSEN
PAINTER
1957-2008
"Lynn Thomsen found lyricism in every Indiana landscape, like no other artist, and she depicted it on her canvases with force, passion and a unique luminosity. When you see a Thomsen painting you know it is a Thomsen painting. Lynn Thomsen did for Indiana's cornfields what Vincent Van Gogh did for Europe's wheatfields - turned them to unforgettable visions of nature's beauty." - Vicky Keramida, Ph.D., Chairman, Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art
"Mobile studio Lynn Thomsen never painted from photographs. A plein air painter, she wanted to breathe in the beauty as she painted. She traveled the Carroll County countryside, stopping when she saw a spectacular view with perfect lighting and composition. Painting from the bed of her pickup, she first created a one-color underpainting. She then added layers of color, producing the vibrance she saw in the moment." - Jennifer Archibald, excerpt from the article 'Lynn Thomsen's Art - A Legacy of Love,' Carroll County Comet
Read more about Lynn Thomsen and "Reflections" in The Indianapolis Star article: 'Exhibit spotlights work of vibrant teacher, artist'
The Museum will be open daily during the month of August
The reason IndyFringe exists is to encourage, support and assist independent artists. As the IndyFringe festival moves into its fourth year, one of the big growth areas is coming from the visual arts through the VisualFringe. The month long VisualFringe traditionally kicks off at the IDADA (Indianapolis Downtown Artists & Dealers Association) First Friday Art Walk and will include the IndyFringe ten day theatre festival, 30 day Visual/Fringe exhibitions in multiple galleries and The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art; and 30 days of shopping, wining and dining on Massachusetts Avenue.
Indianapolis' oldest community music school devoted to stringed instrument instruction for young children - hosted its first annual soiree and silent auction, "Mediterranean Moods" to raise funds for scholarships for violin, viola, and cello lessons. The event featured a catered selection of fine foods, a wine tasting, and art previews. Brief performances enhanced the evening's festivities included the quartet Viola Madness, made up of ISO violists Beverly Scott, Nancy Agres, Terry Langdon, and Amy Kniffen, harpist Shari Watson, and Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Butler Professor of Music, David Murray.
The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art is hosting a Musical Soiree and Silent Auction to Benefit IAM's Young Players Scholarship Program for String Music, devoted to inner city school children.
KERAMIDA Inc. celebrated the arts with Mayor Bart Peterson, an inspirational political leader and dedicated advocate of the Indianapolis cultural arts landscape. Guests enjoyed an early evening of music, food, select California wines and the opportunity to experience the great works of Alkis Keramidas prior to the Museum's grand opening in September 2007.
