Student Art Show at the Carnegie Museum

Crawfordsville 

Elementary and Middle School

Visual Art Show

On display through November

at the Carnegie Museum

 

Opening Reception

Thursday, November 8th  from 5 to 7 pm

 

Crawfordsville School Board Meeting begins at 7 pm

Light refreshments will be served

 

Admission is free

 

40th Anniversary of Title IX Event

Save the Date!

Saturday, November 17, 2012

6:30 to 8:30 pm

** Program to begin at 7 pm **

40th Anniversary of Title IX

Brought to you by: Montgomery County Community Foundation

 the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County 

and the Carnegie Museum

Title IX was signed by President Richard Nixon June 23, 1972

“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be

excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."  

Historical displays and program at the

Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County

Admission is Free

Refreshments will be served

Last Chance to see the Hoosier Salon in Crawfordsville this year!

This Saturday, November 27th is the last day to view selections from the Hoosier Salon at the Carnegie Museum. This year marks the 88th Annual Exhibition. The theme for the 2012 show is "Where Art and History Converge". Though all of the artists are from Indiana, two of the artists featured in this years show are Montgomery County residents Jerry Smith and Rob O'Dell. Congratulations gentlemen for your achievement and we do love you artwork!

The Hoosier Salon is a statewide nonprofit arts organization whose mission is to create an apprecation of visual art by promoting Hoosier artists and their art.

Downtown Art Walk

Downtown Art Walk - Art Walk On Washington: 5 to 8 pm

This event is being held in conjunction with five other venues along Washington Street in downtown Crawfordsville

September 27 from 5 to 8 pm

Both CDPL Gallery and CMMC are participating

Food for Thought

The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County, Sustainable Indiana and the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County invite you to meet the authors of Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest.

 

Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest, commissioned by Indiana Humanities. Featuring first-person narratives and rich photography, the coffee table book captures and shares stories from Hoosiers about the food renaissance taking place across the state. To celebrate the release Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest, a new book commissioned by Indiana Humanities, the Carnegie Museum is hosting a book signing and discussion with author David Hoppe and photographer Kristin Hess.

Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest features a broad spectrum of Hoosiers statewide, and is a legacy of the two-year award-winning program called Food for Thought, in which Indiana Humanities encouraged Hoosiers to think, read and talk about food and its role in our lives. The book went on sale Aug. 1 and this stop is part of a two-month, statewide tour by Hoppe, Hess and the interviewees. The tour is funded in part by Farm Credit Mid-America.

The event will be at the Carnegie Museum on Thursday, September 20th from 5 pm to 8 pm with the panel presentation beginning at 5:30. Book signing and discussion will follow. Visitors are encouraged to view the exhibit Agriculture: the Cultivation of Montgomery County currently on display at the Carnegie Museum as well.

Food for Thought: An Indiana Harvest was published by IBJ Publishing and printed by an Indiana company. The $24.95 book is available in the Carnegie Museum gift shop. The Carnegie Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free and the building is handicap accessible.

Voices from the Past!

The staff from the Reference/Local History department at the library have recently uncovered some voices from the past!

The 1959 and the 1960 Crawfordsville High School Athenian yearbooks both included a small record, called a Talking Page, in the back. On these platters was recorded memories of the school year! Each side is about seven-minutes long and contains interviews, music, announcements, and more.

Take a step back in time and listen to these long-forgotten recordings!

Sometimes the quality of the recording is a little poor -- some of the recording seems to have been made "live" (such as at a football game or in the high school auditorium). But often a voice from the past will come through as if it were recorded just yesterday.

Go to: CHS Talking Pages

Local Treasure: Indiana Post Office Murals

The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County proudly presents Local Treasure: Indiana Post Office Murals, a traveling exhibit from the Indiana Historical Society. This exhibit opens at the Carnegie Museum on Saturday, August 10th.

The exhibition gives a brief history of the federal Section of Painting and Sculpture, which was established in the summer of 1934 "to secure suitable art of the best quality for the embellishment of public building," and then focuses on the histories of some of the 36 murals commissioned and executed for Indiana post offices that are in existence today. The exhibit is based on a 1995 IHS publication A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals, by John C. Carlisle with photographs by Darryl Jones.

The first mural installation in Indiana was Henrik Martin Mayer's two vertically oriented canvases, Sad News and Rural Delivery in July 1936 in Lafayette, while Marguerite Zorach's Hay Making, installed in Monticello in November 1942 was the last. The "boom years" were 1938 with 12 murals and 1939 with nine new art works in Indiana post office lobbies.

The Crawfordsville Post Office mural was created by Frank Long in 1942 and is titled Indiana Agriculture. It was the second to the last post office mural installed in Indiana in this program. The people depicted in the post office murals were occasionally specific figures, whether fictional like "The Raggedy Man," a James Whitcomb Riley character featured in Roland Schweinsburg's The Sleighing Party in Alexandria, or non-fictional such as Solon Robinson and Chief Mewonitoc in George Melville Smith's Crown Point mural From Such Beginnings Sprang the County of Lake.

"The other people shown may not be identifiable by name, but by type they represent the essence of the American scene concept," said Carlisle. "They are the farmers, the loggers, the railroad men, the pioneer mothers and the workers of our history."

The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County will host this exhibit through September 8, 2012. Admission to the museum is free and the hours for walk-in visitors are Wednesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. The museum is located at 222 S. Washington Street in Crawfordsville and is handicap accessible. All ages are welcome.

Since 1830, the Indiana Historical Society has been Indiana's Storyteller™, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting and disseminating the state's history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, IHS maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups, publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; and provides youth, adult and family programming. (www.indianahistory.org)