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A new year means new exhibits at the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. Some old favorites are returning to the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery, but there are also several new exhibit themes to experience in 2023.
The first exhibit of the year is a twist on the Arts Council black-and-white exhibit. “RED” is an art exhibit limited exclusively to the red spectrum. Artists are only allowed to use red, white and black in their work. The monochromatic show begins January 24 and runs until March 2.
Another new exhibit is “Literally.” Registered artists will select a popular literary work from a list of pre-determined options and then create pieces inspired by their selected book. The exhibit is in April to coincide with National Literature Month and National Library Week. The Arts Council will release the prospectus for “Literally” in January.
The third newest themed exhibit is a ceramics show, “Wall to Table.” Arts Council staff will have a national call-for-artists to bring in artists and entries from across the country. The “Wall to Table” ceramics exhibit will open in August.
Other familiar exhibits will return in 2023, including our kindergarten through eighth grade exhibit “Young at Art” and our Signature School IB student exhibit “Caliber.” Our members-only show “Art in the City” returns in June, and our annual Halloween exhibit “Spooky Show” opens in September. The year ends as it always does with the “Holiday Fine Arts Sale” in November.
All exhibits except for “Young at Art” and “Caliber” have entry fees for artists. Non-members pay $20 for the first entry in an exhibit and $10 for the second entry. Members pay nothing on the first entry and $10 for the second entry. ARTSWIN membership is $50 a year. To learn more about becoming a member, visit artswin.org/members.
In addition to gallery exhibits and receptions, the Arts Council plans to bring back several popular programs this year, including the On The Roof concert series, Kids Film Day, Brown Bag Concert Series, and ParksFest.
RED
Exhibit exclusively in the spectrum of red. Open call for artists.
Exhibit: Jan. 24 – March 2
Reception: Feb. 11
Young at Art 2023
Regional K-8 art exhibit. Open call for young artists.
Exhibit: March 14 – March 31
Reception: March 18
Caliber 7
Exhibit of Signature School students art. Closed call for Signature School IB students.
Exhibit: April 4-6
Reception: April 4
Literally
Assignment-based exhibit inspired by National Literature Month and National Library Week. Open call for artists.
Exhibit: April 20 – May 25
Reception: April 29
Art in the City 2023
ARTSWIN annual members-only exhibit. Closed call for ARTSWIN members only. Join here.
Exhibit: June 13 – July 20
Reception: June 17
Wall to Table
National call-for-artists ceramics exhibit. Open call for artists.
Exhibit: Aug. 8 – Sept. 14
Reception: Aug. 19
Spooky Show 2023
Exhibit that celebrates Halloween with an emphasis on 3D entries. Open call for artists.
Exhibit: Sept. 29 – Oct. 31
Reception: Oct. 28
Holiday Fine Arts Sale 2023
The gallery becomes a holiday gift shop for the winter holiday season. Open call for artists.
Nov. 11 – Dec. 22
These dates are subject to change. Prospectuses for all exhibits will be released throughout the year. Check back at artswin.org for more information.
The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana’s Bower Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery is located at 212 Main St. in Downtown Evansville, Indiana.
A blank canvass and an infinite color pallet with no subject parameters can be daunting to an artist. Where do you begin? Having parameters can help — limitations can actually drive creativity.
That’s why the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana believes its next exhibit will be attractive to artists.
RED is exhibit limited to a single color, which, you guessed it is red.
Entries for RED are limited to the red color spectrum. Black and white may also be included but do not need to be included. Work with any color other than red will not be accepted at drop-off. Frames and matting must also only be black or white.
This is an open-call exhibit, so register to drop-off your work by Jan. 9, then bring your RED piece to the Arts Council of Jan. 11. Ohio Valley Art League Executive Director Samantha Denson will jury the exhibit for entry as well as for awards. The Arts Council will notify artists by Jan. 13 if they were accepted into the exhibit.
The exhibit will run Jan. 24 to March 2.
For more details and information — including how to register, art guidelines, and more — please read the RED 2023 prospectus here.
September 15 marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana wanted to celebrate.
To commemorate Hispanic people and culture, explore the newest exhibit at the Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery, “La Vida.”
The exhibit features 31 pieces from 21 artists in the Evansville region. You can view the exhibit in person now until Sept. 24.
To purchase a piece, or for more information, please contact Gallery Director Andrea Adams.
The country celebrated Juneteenth this weekend, the newest federal holiday. In honor of Juneteenth, the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana is proud to present Lift Every Voice.
The exhibit features 26 entries from 15 artists. The themes center on Juneteenth, Black joy, and the continuing struggle for civil rights in America.
The exhibit is available to view in person at the Arts Council’s Bower-Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery at 212 Main St. in Downtown Evansville now until July 15.
For more information, or if you’d like to purchase a piece, please contact Gallery Director Andrea Adams.
Art in the City isn’t a normal Arts Council exhibit.
Art in the City doesn’t have a central theme like other ARTSWIN exhibits sometimes do. The annual exhibit is showcase of entries from ARTSWIN members, all of which have diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and stories to tell through their art.
The results is more than 50 entries from regional artists, including paintings, photography, ceramics, stained glass, and more.
Check out the virtual for Art in the City 2022 gallery below to experience the full range of talent within the region.
The exhibit is available to view in-person until June 2. The Bower Suhrheinrich Foundation Gallery hours are 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. s
Upcoming Arts Council exhibits include Lift Every Voice, an exhibit inspired by Juneteenth (registration still open), an Indiana Arts Commission Region 10 On-Ramp group exhibit, and a Latino Heritage Month exhibit in September.
To learn more about becoming a member of the Arts Council, please click this link.
For more information, or to purchase a piece, contact Gallery Director Andrea Adams at [email protected].
Check out these other virtual exhibits while you’re here:
Textile Art Telephone Game
Art Noir (black and white exhibit) 2022
Spooky Show 2021
A group of textile artist banded together during lockdown to create a new exhibit inspired by the children’s game of telephone.
You remember the game: One person says something to one person, and that person repeats the phrase to the next, repeated several times until the phrase morphed into something different by the end.
Fifteen members of Studio Art Quilt Associates Indiana chapter decided to play their own version. Over a period of five months, three groups of five artists worked together. One artist would submit a photo, which was interpreted into a quilt by another, that artist took a photo of their quilt and then sent that to another, ultimately resulting in four interpretations of the original photo. The end result is 60 quilts, inspired by 15 photographs. None of the artists were shown the original photos before, or during the process.
“The collaborative experience of a single photo evolving through four interpretations brought an awareness of how we see life from our own perspective, are inspired by others, and share our vision of the world through our own creativity. The results were surprising, sometimes quizzical, but always insightfully creative,” according to an exhibit statement provided by SAQA-IN. Each piece has includes an artists statement to explain their thought process. As part of a new initiative at ARTSWIN, artist statements and entry tags are available in both English and Spanish.
You can view the exhibit April 19-April 30. A closing reception for the show is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday, April 30.
Studio Art Quilters Associates, Inc. (SAQA) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the art quilt. https://www.saqa.com/
See something you would like to purchase? Email Andrea Adams at [email protected] for more information.
