Community Calendar

Calling all True Crime fans! Join Ana for True Crime (and Coffee) Time on Thursday, August 21st at 6pm. Share your passion for true crime, explore new additions in our thriller & mystery collection, and enjoy a cup of coffee with us. Registration required. Ages 18+

With a $5 purchase (or more) from our Artisan Shop, you can enjoy one half priced glass of wine or beer from our Café during our 4th Friday Happy Hours! Join us Fourth Friday, August 22 with music by Sounds from the Green! Mike Stribling will perform originals and covers while you mingle with friends and explore the gallery's new artwork and peruse Juniper's Artisan Shop.

Getting ready for a semester of reading? Theophilus Wylie was an avid book collector with over 2,000 in his collection. Louisa Wylie, his daughter, was one of the first women to graduate from IU. Their family was full of academics and avid readers. Gear up for back to school by celebrating reading and craft this month and making your own embroidered bookmarks!

Join us in the Morgenstern Books children's department for our August installment of our monthly Family Nights! This month, we'll be learning about how to make new friends, while actually making puppets! Storytime and snacks provided.

Save the date for Down with for Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook, featuring great tunes by Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, and Bloomington’s own Hoagy Carmichael.

Last year we featured a romantic love story through songs, arias, and scenes. This year we flip the script! We’ll focus on two feuding exes who show up to perform at the same gala concert, brought together by their booking manager who wants to barter a truce – but who has another motive as well. Will romantic chemistry save the day, or will everyone declare that they are done – and down – with love?

Pittsburgh soprano Anna Singer and North Carolina tenor Joseph Ittoop reunite with Bloomington baritone Richard Lewis for this romantic comedy, and Baton Rouge conductor Michael Borowitz rejoins us at the piano. Our operatic scenes by Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, and Tchaikovsky are featured in the “gala” concert-within-a-concert, while our characters express their emotions in great songs like “I Get Along without You Very Well,” “So in Love,” and “How Long Has This Been Going On?”

We continue our annual tradition of accepting donations to benefit Fairview Elementary School’s literacy and arts integration programs. Since 2014, you – our dedicated, generous audience – have raised over $36,000 for these vital programs. Your generosity helps provide Fairview students – whose families often face significant economic challenges – with opportunities to excel in ways they may never have dreamed possible. We will share information at the concert about ways to give in person, by QR code, or securely online. Thank you!

We will film our live concert for a fall YouTube broadcast so that we can share this musical event with our online audience. For now, please plan to join us in person on Sunday, August 24 at 4:00 p.m. for Down with Love: Battle of the Exes in Broadway, Opera, and the Great American Songbook.

Join April for Adult Story Time on Monday, August 25th at 6pm. She will be reading The Kugelmass Episode by Woody Allen and lead a discussion about the short story. No registration required. Ages 18+.

Join Cindy on Tuesday, August 26th at 6pm for Studio Bento: Ghibli-Inspired Lunches! Learn about bento culture, decorate character-inspired bentos, and explore how food and storytelling come together in Studio Ghibli films. This creative program is perfect for children ages 9–15. Registration required.

Getting ready for a semester of reading? Theophilus Wylie was an avid book collector with over 2,000 in his collection. Louisa Wylie, his daughter, was one of the first women to graduate from IU. Their family was full of academics and avid readers. Gear up for back to school by celebrating reading and craft this month and making your own embroidered bookmarks!

Please join Women Writing for (a) Change for our monthly All Gender Writing Circle (after-hours, 4:00 - 5:30pm)! We will find inspiration from poetry and painters, and spend time writing and sharing our writing with one another. This is a safe, inclusive space for people of all genders and writers of all genres and experience. All are welcome in this pop-up community of writers.
Reserve your spot: art@juniperartgallery.com

The Wholehearted Book Club is a community book club originally started by local business owner, Molly McDonald. Anyone is welcome to join, and it meets on the first Wednesday of every month.

The read for September is The End of Your World by Adyashanti, continuing their discussion from August.