Angel Mounds State Historic Site 812-853-3956
Aug 7:6th annual "Bluegrass and Barbecue" Concert - Angel Mounds’ annual Bluegrass and Barbecue concert, part of the Music at the Mounds concert series, returns for its 6th year! Come join us for food, fun, and music! The area’s best bluegrass artists will perform throughout the afternoon and keep on pickin’ into the night! Barbecue plates, as well as additional food and beverages will be available for purchase. Coolers are permitted after inspection. No alcohol is permitted on the grounds. Visitors should bring their own seating to this family-friendly occasion, which will be moved indoors in the event of rain. Event begins at 3:00 p.m.
Aug 21:Walk-N-Roll With CJ’s Bus - Angel Mounds is proud to host Walk-N-Roll, a 2-mile walk and 5K run to raise awareness and funds for CJ’s Bus. CJ’s Bus is a rapid-reponse mobile unit that offers nationwide assistance in the aftermath of natural disasters. It was established by co-founder Kathryn Martin in honor of her 2-year old son, CJ, and other family members who were lost in the same F3 tornado that desolated Angel Mounds in 2005. For more information or to see photos from last year's Walk-N-Roll, visit cjsbus.org. To register as a participant, contact Mark Rumsey at (812) 305-2268 or mark@cjsbus.org The walk begins at 7:30 a.m. and the run begins at 8:30 a.m.
Centre, The 812-435-5550
Aug 7-8:Indian Artifacts Show - Three experts in the field of Indian artifacts will be appearing at the 31st Annual Indian Artifacts Show. Dealers and exhibitors will display prehistoric artifacts such as arrowheads, axes, pottery, beads and much more. There will also be historic artifacts such as moccasins, rugs and baskets. Some contemporary items will be for sale as well, such as jewelry, frames, modern flint, artwork and rugs. Admission is $7 each or $19 per family per day. Show hours are Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Downtown Evansville 812-424-2986
Every Friday and Saturday: Farmers Market 7am
Aug 6:Downtown Live! - As Downtown Evansville continues to grow, visitors to this event learn more about the Downtown lifestyle. Lofts tours, shopping, food, music and fun are part of this evening. 5-8 p.m.
Evansville African American Museum 812-423-5188
Continuing through October 2: Herb Block Exhibitions - Herbert Block, the political cartoonist known as "Herblock," becaome the most honored cartoonist of his time, winning three Pulitzer Prizes and sharing a fourth for his Watergate cartoons, which contributed to the resignation of President Nixon. Block was the only living cartoonist whose work has exhibited in the National Gallery of Art, and the only living cartoonist to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Museum will have on location the Block exhibit "The Long March." This presents a fascinating history of Herblock's political cartoons regarding civil rights. Mr. Block took on causes with courage and conviction, coined the phrase "McCarthyism," forced reform and became the most influential and enduring political cartoonist in American history. Phone the Museum for additional information about this or any of the other happenings there.
Evansville Civic Theatre 812-425-2800
Aug 1:The Lady With All the Answers - “Dear Ann Landers...” For decades this renowned advice columnist answered countless letters from love-lorn teens, confused couples and a multitude of others in various stages of personal crisis. No topic was off limits, including the proper way to hang toilet paper, sibling rivalries, religion, sex in a motorcycle helmet, and nude housekeeping. An ironic turn of events confronts our heroine with a looming deadline for a column dealing with a new kind of heartbreak: her own. As she shares her struggles with us, we learn as much about ourselves as we do about this wise, funny, no-nonsense American icon. Friday and Saturday performances are at 8 p.m.; Sunday matinees are scheduled for 2 p.m.
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science 812-425-2406
Continuing through August 29: Magic & Mystery: The Art of Rob Evans - Artist and independent curator Rob Evans lives and works in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1981 and has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Evans’ meticulous paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the Evansville Museum’s 2007-2009 nationally traveling exhibition, Object Project. Most recently, Evans’ 10 foot painting, Cicada, traveled to five museums in the state of Pennsylvania as part of the exhibition, Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting 1950-2000. His work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art and the San Francisco Art Museums, among others. Evans offers this insight into his work, "Having been raised by scientist parents, I have always had a fascination with the sciences. For the last 20 years, my paintings have been based primarily on direct observations of the forces of nature at work: the passages of time; the cycles of life and death; growth and decay; changes of season and weather; the mysteries of life."
Continuing through September 12: Michael Bergt: Bronze Sculpture from Evansville Collections - This is an exhibit of small bronze sculptures by the celebrated American artist, Michael Bergt – a longtime friend of this institution, who was featured in a 1998 one-man Main Gallery exhibition, "The Human Pageant" is also represented in the Museum’s Contemporary American Still Life Painting Collection.
Continuing through September 12: Working Together - Since becoming the 10th executive director of the Swope Art Museum in June of 2008, Brian Whisenhunt has concentrated on refining the Museum’s exhibition schedule, public programs and community profile. Mr. Whisenhunt received his Masters of Art degree in art history from the University of Oklahoma and wrote his thesis on earthworks, large-scale sculpture in the landscape from the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has worked in museum education for over 10 years and enjoys the challenge of helping people connect with works of art. Whisenhunt began his professional career at the Wichita Art Museum as director of education. He then became the first manager of public programs at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, the largest university art museum in the United States, where he was in charge of the development of a new menu of programs for the institution when it opened a new building in 2006.
Aug 6:Free Fridays - The Evansville Museum will be offering admission-free planetarium shows the first Friday of every month this Summer. Three free planetarium performances will be offered each day on June 4, July 2, and August 6. Free performances in the Museum's Koch Planetarium will occur at 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
At 11:00 a.m. the Planetarium will offer Larry, Cat In Space, a sky show for children ages 4-10 that follows the devotion of an orange cat that stows away on a rocket to the moon. At 1:00 p.m. Nine Planets and Counting examines the continuing debate on what constitutes a planet, the variety of objects that populate the solar system a if Pluto is still a planet. At 3:00 p.m., The Sky Tonight will detail what planets and constellations are visible in the summer sky. Although the shows are free, guests are asked to pick up a complimentary ticket the day of the show. Timed tickets will be available at the Museum's Second Floor Security Desk.
Koch Family Children's Museum of Evansville (cMoe) 812-477-4339
Aug 5:Free Family Fun Night - Sponsored by St. Mary's Children's Services, everyone receives FREE admission on this and every first Thursday of the month from 5-8 p.m.
Aug 14:Solar-Powered Food! - Hot dogs and sun tea are to be made using the power of the sun, beginning at 1:30 p.m. - and weather permitting.
Aug 25:"Psychedelic Bookmarks" - From 2 to 3:30 p.m. kids may prepare for school by creating their own swirls on a bookmark craft that also demonstrates the action of capillaries.
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art 812-682-3156
Continuing through August 15: Liberties of Construction - This is an exhibition of artwork by Katherine Taylor (KT) and Billy Hertz; Influenced by surrealist Alberto Giacometti and contemporary artists Louise Bourgeois and Magdelana Abakanowicz, Katherine Taylor’s cute but often grotesque bronze creatures have wings, webbed feet, and enlarged appendages. The creatures in this newest work, though small, are given mass by enlarged ears and backbones. Earlier emaciated figures, more similar to Giacometti’s, have transformed into faceless, bodiless creatures as the artist further abstracts the body. Each symbolic of a number, Taylor’s bronze creatures were used by the artist as visual signifiers to learn the Basque language, while she was living in northern Spain. Billy Hertz’s vibrant paintings, on the other hand, locate us primarily in the tomato fields and hill towns of central Italy. Though his work too, is abstracted, it is reminiscent of the physical landscape. In Hertz’s long artistic career he has become well known for the painterly lines, drip-marks, brilliant colors and geometric forms that manifest on his large canvases. His paintings such as "Pancale Fields" and give us magnificent views of Italy’s timeless landscape.
New Harmony Theatre/Murphy Auditorium 1-877-648-7469
Aug 1, 5-8, 12-15:"Ain't Misbehavin'" - The outrageously prodigious comic and musical soul of 1930s Harlem lives on in this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue that is still considered one of Broadway's best.
The inimitable Thomas "Fats" Waller rose to international fame during the Golden Age of the Cotton Club, stride piano players and that jumpin' new beat, Swing. Although not quite a biography, "Ain't Misbehavin'" evokes the delightful humor and infectious energy of this American original as a versatile cast struts, strums and sings the songs he made famous in a career that ranged from uptown clubs to downtown Tin Pan Alley to Hollywood and concert stages in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Call for more information.
Reitz Home Museum 812-426-1871
Aug 28:18th Annual Reitz Home Mystery Event - You don't have to be sleuth to solve this mystery acted out by local celebrities inside the historic Reitz Home mansion. You just have to have a good time. Drinks and dinner follow with proceeds to support the care and renovation of the city's only home museum. 5:30 p.m.
