Visual Arts - Community Organizations

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Bloomington Glass Guild

Websitehttp://www.bloomingtonglassguild.org/
Address3740 East 3rd Street
(group meets at University Baptist Church)
Bloomington, IN
Description

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The Bloomington Glass Guild is open to all who dream about glass, work with glass, admire glass or just want to learn more about glass.

Contactagitlitz [at] hotmail.com
812-345-2470
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Bloomington Open Studios Tour

Websitehttps://www.bloomingtonopenstudiostour.com
AddressP.O. Box 3294
Description

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Bloomington Open Studios Tour is a fun 2-day event in which area artists open their studios to visits from the general public.

Contactbloomingtonopenstudiostour [at] gmail.com
Year Established2011
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Bloomington Photography Club

Websitehttp://bloomingtonphotoclub.org
AddressBloomington, IN
Description

The Bloomington Photography Club provides an informal, friendly, and supportive environment for photographers at all levels of experience and with interests in all types of photographic imagery. The Club fosters and encourages growth of artistic vision and technical knowledge, exploring the connection between the eye, the camera, and the spirit. We share ideas and knowledge with each other and help to promote interest in photography in the community through exhibitions and other events.

The Bloomington Photography Club of Bloomington, Indiana, consists of photographers of all skill levels from novice to professional. Members range widely in background, age, and areas of interest. Membership in the club is open to anyone. Others use point & shoot, rangefinder, medium format and pinhole cameras. To find a place in the club, it is not even necessary to own a camera, just to have an interest in photography.

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Bloomington Quilters' Guild

Websitehttps://www.bloomingtonquiltersguild.org
AddressNorth Central Church of Christ
2121 N. Dunn St.
Bloomington, IN 47408
Additional AddressP.O. Box 5802
Description

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The Bloomington Quilters' Guild welcomes everyone with a love of quilting or quilts. It has a varied program including guest speakers, workshops, trips, informal quilting meetings, and social evenings. Members range from "just lookers" to beginning quilters to award winners.

Contactinfo [at] bloomingtonquiltersguild.org
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Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild

Websitehttp://bloomspinweave.org
AddressP.O. Box 351
Bloomington, IN 47402
Description

The purpose of the Bloomington Spinners and Weavers Guild is to promote cooperation and interchange of ideas among those interested in the arts of spinning and weaving; to stimulate public appreciation for the value of spinning and weaving; to provide instruction for members in the methods and techniques of spinning, weaving and related fiber arts.

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Bloomington Watercolor Society

Websitehttp://bloomingtonwatercolor.org
Addressc/o John Waldron Art Center
122 S. Walnut
Bloomington, IN 47407
Additional AddressPO Box 5236
Bloomington, In 47407
Description

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The mission of BWS is to promote a growing relationship with artists, encourage one another , and provide opportunities for promoting and exhibiting our watercolor paintings in the community. Promotes watercolor painting or any water based and applied method. Provides paint-ins and education through demonstrations and guest artists.

ContactCassidy Young (President)
members [at] bloomingtonwatercolor.org
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By Hand Gallery

Websitehttp://byhandgallery.com/
Address101 W. Kirkwood Ave. Suite 109
Bloomington, IN 47404
Description

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Artist's gallery--all items handmade, both local and non-local. Over 70 artists represented.

Contactmanager [at] byhandgallery.com
812-334-3255
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Creature Comforts

Description

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Creature Comforts is a group of volunteers who make and sell small quilts for pets (or for babies or to use as wall hangings). Money raised by the sale of the quilts goes to the Monroe County Humane Association and to the Cincinnati Zoo Angel fund which buys habitat for cheetahs. Quilts are displayed and sold at Bloomington Veterinary Hospital on Smith Road.

ContactNola Hartman
812339-8589
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Friends of Art

Websitehttps://eskenazi.indiana.edu/about/facilities/foa-bookshop/index.html
AddressFine Arts Building, FA 120
1201 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Description

Dedicated to promoting the visual arts at Indiana University, the Friends of Art at Indiana University has supported art history and studio art students at Indiana University since 1965.

Generously supporting studio art and art history undergraduate and graduate students is FoA's most important goal. Friends of Art Awards help to fund creative activities, research travels, and scholarships while forging connections between Indiana University and Institutions and sites around the world.

Contactfoart [at] indiana.edu
812-855-5300
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Local Clay Potters Guild

Websitehttp://www.localclay.net
Description

Local Clay Potter's Guild promotes individual artistic growth. Promotes the artistic standing of local clay as a whole and contributes to the growth of interest of ceramic arts in Indiana. The guild supports the annual "soup bowl" benefit and sponsors an annual education workshop.

ContactKaren Green Stone (President)
info [at] localclay.net
812-333-8085
Additional ContactBarb Lund (Vice President)
barbrlund [at] gmail.com
812-339-8476
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People’s Cooperative Market

Websitehttps://www.peoplesmarketbtown.org
Description

People’s Cooperative Market strives to work towards intersectional anti-racism, create space for food justice work, create meaningful collaborations, build equity, cultivate liberation, and ensure access to local food, art, and education. Join us every Saturday at 1st United church for the Farmer’s market. Preorder online by Wednesday for Saturday delivery or pick up! Sponsor a box of local produce, bread, eggs, dairy or meet for hungry Hoosiers in our local community while you shop for your weekly CSA.

Please see the People's Cooperative Market website for more information!

Year Established2020
Incorporation StatusIncorporated
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The Quarry Projects, Ltd.

AddressPO Box 7374
Bloomington, IN 47407
Description

The Quarry Project's mission is to provide time, space, and technical guidance to all artists, with or without ceramics experience, to explore the creative potential and use of clay and/or ceramic processes in contemporary art making.

ContactShu-Mei Chan (Executive Director)
shu-mei [at] thequarryprojects.com
812-340-4831
Additional ContactDaniel Evans (Technical Advisor)
daniel [at] thequarryprojects.com
812-340-8642
Incorporation StatusIncorporated
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