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Plein Air Painting with Brittany Fukushima
Join SPARK artist in residence Brittany Fukushima for a plein air painting session. Use painting (or drawing) as a way to observe and document your surroundings. Brittany will walk you through how to select a good composition and basic block-in strategies to begin your painting. About: Brittany Fukushima is an Indianapolis-based painter and teaching artist who uses their practice to interpret their environment. Drawing and painting become a means to investigate the natural world, express the intangible, and to present alternate ways of seeing.…
Find out more »Lunch Break Live Alejandro Reyna
About: Alejandro Reyna is an Indiana-based teaching artist who teaches private voice lessons at Butler Community Arts School and is a tenor staff singer for El Coro Latino at Christ Church Cathedral. The melodies you will hear today are some of Alejandro's most cherished. Alejandro thanks his parents for cultivating his taste and passion for the music of Mexico and Latin America.
Find out more »Boo! A knitting/graffiti project with Mary Jo Bayliss
A gathering where knitting and graffiti collide! Simultaneously inspired by traditional knitting and graffiti, this ever-evolving piece combines fiber adjacent activities, coloring sheets derived from graffiti and knitting motifs, and opportunities for participants to share their creative path stories. You are invited to come join the fun, because without YOU, Boo, this project can’t happen. About the artist: Mary Jo Bayliss specializes in creating environments that help people feel at ease using space, light and color to achieve these goals.
Find out more »Circle Side Chats with Norm Minnick
Talk Date: September 21 Recovering Etheridge Knight Talk Description: This talk will discuss the process of recovering Knight's unpublished and out-of-print works for The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected Poems and the forthcoming book On Etheridge Knight for the University of Michigan Press's Under Discussion Series. Poems will additionally be shared. Bio: Norman Minnick is the author of three collections of poetry and editor of several anthologies. Most recently, he is the editor of The Indianapolis Anthology and The Lost Etheridge: Uncollected…
Find out more »Sticker Event with Brittany Fukushima
Stickers! Come make your own stickers with SPARK artist in residence Brittany Fukushima! Use sticker paper and any tool to create your own original stickers. Keep them for yourself or give them to friends! Also, leave with a copy of Brittany’s own scratch-and-sniff sticker sheet. About: Brittany Fukushima is an Indianapolis-based painter and teaching artist who uses their practice to interpret their environment. Drawing and painting become a means to investigate the natural world, express the intangible, and to present alternate ways of seeing.…
Find out more »Live Painting with Dailyn Eades
In a two part series Dai is going to be live painting at SPARK. Occurring September 24th & October 1st. She’s going to use color & texture to abstractly represent the feeling of joy, community, hope and aspiration. Please feel free to speak & interact with her as she creates.
Find out more »Lunch Break Live with Rodrigo Hernandez
About: Rodrigo was born in the city of Villavicencio, Colombia and began playing the harp at the age of 12. It is one of the main instruments in the musical genre of llanero folklore (llanera music), standing out in accompaniment and among various highly experienced llanera musicians. The harp is an acoustic instrument composed of 32 strings. Llanera music transcends and covers the vast Venezuelan geography and parts of the Colombian plains. Traditionally, it is comprised of the harp, bandola,…
Find out more »Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
Come join Rob Funkhouser from @rhythmdiscovery for a drum circle on the circle!
Find out more »Fire Painting with Nasreen Khan
Activity Description: Pyrography, commonly known as wood burning, is the art of drawing and writing using a burning tool for etching designs onto different surfaces, usually wood. You can use pyrography to add drawings or writings to wood, gourds, leather, and any other material that wouldn’t be destroyed by the heat from the burning tool.Khan will talk about the process, give examples and allow attendees to try it out (must sign a waiver). Artist Bio: Nasreen Khan (she/her) is a…
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