Station Events

The Writers Guild will feature Indiana history for their September First Sunday Prose Reading at Juniper Art Gallery. Guest readers Sue Hyatt and Ed Fujawa have both worked on exciting projects in Indianapolis that tell us more about the people and places in our state. Don't miss it!
Open Mike to follow! Come early for a drink or snack; shop for gifts and art. As always, everyone is welcome!

Juniper Art Gallery has not featured photography before, but Owner Jaime Sweany has often been asked if she is an artist and "Do you have any work here?" As some of you know, she's had photographs hanging in the gallery's restroom, and that's often gotten a giggle from the inquiring folk.
But seriously, before being a gallerist, Sweany was an avid photographer, concentrating mostly on portraiture due to her fascination with faces. She ran Illuminessence Photography from 1990-2005. After photo shoots, she spent countless hours in her darkroom watching the magic happen as she developed her black & white film.
Sweany concentrated on both photography and hand-built ceramic artwork while attending Indiana University, receiving her B.A. in Studio Arts. She loved the fact that the two art forms she enjoyed the most were opposite. Ceramics felt like wild abandon, playing in the mud of creativity, and photography required that not a speck of dust was present in the darkroom- such drastically different work environments!
This exhibit, "Through My Own Eyes," includes many portraits from Sweany's 1990's body of work, "REAL: Beautiful Women." The culture of the day seemed to only appreciate the stereotypical beauty of youth and left many women feeling unseen. This project highlighted the inner and outer beauty of women of all ages, sizes, ethnicities, and demographics.
Note: none of the works in this exhibit are for purchase, but Ms. Sweany wishes to share her artwork with others while Juniper still serves as a platform.

WHAT: Fifth Annual Bloomington Paint Out.

WHEN: Saturday, October 3, 2022. RAIN OR SHINE.

WHERE: Woodlawn Pavilion in Bryan Park (Next to the swimming pool).

CLASSES will be at the Pavilion from 10:00-2:00 for youth and teens.

DEMONSTRATIONS: Various artists will be giving demonstrations throughout the day, and there will be opportunities to paint with them.

NO REGISTRATION FEE: Free. No advance registration required.

HOW: Artists will be able to paint anywhere in Bloomington. The event is open to professional and emerging artists of all ages and skill levels to create original artwork of any subject in any medium.

HOSTED BY: Arts Alliance of Greater Bloomington. Bloomington Watercolor Society, Upland Plein Air Painters , The Portrait Group and Artists for Climate Awareness

Originally from Wimberley, Texas, Sarah Jarosz is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Since her recorded debut in 2009, she has released seven solo albums and two albums with I’m With Her, her band with Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan.

In addition to her multiple GRAMMY, Americana Music Association, and Folk Alliance awards, her work has received widespread critical praise from publications including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and USA Today. Jarosz has appeared three times on PBS’s legendary Austin City Limits television show and numerous times on A Prairie Home Companion, Live From Here, and the Grand Ole Opry. She is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee.


Jordan Tice is an award-winning guitarist and songwriter described by the Fretboard Journal as “quite simply, one of our favorite acoustic guitarists performing today.” He has 7 projects to his name as a solo artist and 6 as a founding member of the string band, Hawktail.

Equally virtuosic as a flatpicker and fingerstylist, and with a casual vocal style, Tice conjures ingredients from far-flung worlds with ease. His performances call upon the repertories of American and British Isles folk, bluegrass, blues, and pop-oriented songs, and though his earlier releases are instrumental in focus, he has been carefully honing his craft as a singer-songwriter in his most recent work. This includes his albums Motivational Speakeasy (produced by Kenneth Pattengale of The Milk Carton Kids and praised by NPR Music as “a really wonderful record”), Wild Rose of Morning (a collaboration with Andrew Marlin and Christian Sedelmyer), and Badlettsville.

He has performed at festivals such as the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Green Mountain Bluegrass and Roots, Red Wing Roots, Wintergrass Music Festival, and the Strawberry Music Festival and opened for artists like Watchhouse, I’m With Her, The Milk Carton Kids, and Madison Cunningham. In addition to his solo and collaborative work, he has performed and recorded as a sideman with Americana artists such as David Rawlings, Yola, Andrew Marlin, and Aoife O’Donovan.

Back to school – Get to know the Wylie House Museum! We have a wide variety of artifacts, photographs, and archival materials (documents and important papers!) saved by the Wylie family and available to be used for research, teaching, or even as inspiration for painting! Join us in September as we explore our online archival collection and create custom notebooks for the new school year.

Saturday Crafternoons are a free event for families, students, and friends of all ages! Activities change monthly. Check the Wylie House Museum socials and website for updated information, parking information, and museum tour hours.

Indiana University's African American Arts Institute presents Potpourri of the Arts, a music and dance showcase representing the African American experience, featuring its three unique ensembles.

Witness the legendary African American Dance Company as it shares an eclectic array of performance works from the African diaspora. Celebrate the legacy of Black choral music with the Emmy Award-winning African American Choral Ensemble. And groove with the one and only IU Soul Revue as it renders timeless R&B, soul, funk, and contemporary Black popular styles.

Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver for an evening of readings, questions, and musical performances by Jacobs School of Music pianist Susan Tsai to celebrate the release of her brand-new novel Partita.



Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.



Partita is a deeply moving, unforgettable novel about art, music, class, memory, and the life-altering power of love—a book she says she has been waiting her whole life to write. Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and her promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she has kept at bay for a lifetime.



Shifting between past and present, Livia’s decision to meet or reject the reunion means confronting, step by step, in memories framed as musical dances, the experiences of childhood loss, abandonment, self-immolating passion, and perilous attachment to a man who broke her belief in love and ruptured the course of her life.



With razor-sharp acuity, Kingsolver’s new novel reflects on class barriers, the risks of ambition, and the timeless, life-changing powers of art. Told in movements that mirror a Bach partita, the novel unfolds with the precision and emotional power of music itself: each section building on the last, each theme returning transformed.

Repertoire
Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain (1867)
Beethoven : Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 (1806)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913/48)

About the Artists

Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of the core German repertory, and has become known for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He serves as music director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (National Symphony Orchestra), music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest The Hague, Netherlands. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Oregon Symphony. Märkl’s expertise in the world of opera and long historical relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, the Semperoper Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, San Francisco Opera, and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past many decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo, and many others. In the 25-26 season, he returned to the Auckland Philharmonic and Essen Orchestra. He also made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Märkl also has an extensive discography of more than 60 recordings. In recognition of his achievements in France, he was honored in 2012 with the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He studied in Munich with Sergiu Celibidache, at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Märkl is highly dedicated to working with young musicians: for many years, he worked as principal conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He teaches as a guest professor at the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and in 2023, he founded the National Symphony Youth Orchestra of Taiwan.

Spencer Myer is professor of music in piano and chair of the piano department at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Lauded for “superb playing” and “poised, alert musicianship” (Boston Globe), he is among the most respected and sought-after artists on today’s concert stage. Myer’s orchestral, recital, and chamber music performances have been heard throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has been a soloist with a host of ensembles, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Mexico’s Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco, and Beijing’s China National Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with such conductors as Michael Christie, Arthur Fagen, Jahja Ling, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Wilkins, and Victor Yampolsky. Myer has played recitals in prominent venues, including New York City’s Weill Recital Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall. An in-demand chamber musician, he has collaborated with such notable artists as cellists Lynn Harrell and Ralph Kirshbaum, clarinetist David Shifrin, soprano Nicole Cabell, the Miami, Jupiter, and Pacifica string quartets, and the Dorian Wind Quintet. Myer’s career was launched with three important prizes: first prize in the 2004 UNISA International Piano Competition, the 2006 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship from the American Pianists Association, and the gold medal from the 2008 New Orleans International Piano Competition. He is a laureate of the 2007 William Kapell, 2005 Cleveland, and 2005 Busoni International Piano Competitions. Myer enjoys an esteemed reputation as a vocal collaborator since winning the 2000 Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition. An enthusiastic educator, he received a 2024 IU Trustees Teaching Award. He has served as a guest faculty at the Oberlin and Baldwin-Wallace Conservatories of Music and was a member of the piano faculty of Boston’s Longy School of Music of Bard College. He has released CDs on the harmonia mundi usa and Steinway & Sons labels, including William Bolcom piano rags, Chopin’s four impromptus, and four discs with cellist Brian Thornton of works by Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff. Myer is a Steinway Artist.

John Romey, “Spectacular Bodies, Subversive Sounds: Madame de Pompadour and the Sonic Politics of Power”

Repertoire
Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92 (1891)
Martinů: Symphony No. 2, H.295 (1943)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 (1859)

About the Artists

Arthur Fagen is professor of music in orchestral conducting and cochair of the Department of Orchestral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he has been on faculty since 2008. Additionally, he has been music director of The Atlanta Opera since 2010. Fagen has conducted opera productions at the world’s most prestigious opera houses and music festivals. From 1998 to 2001, he was invited regularly as guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera. On the concert podium, he has appeared with numerous internationally known orchestras. Fagen has an opera repertory of more than 100 works. He has served as principal conductor in Kassel and Brunswick, as chief conductor of the Flanders Opera of Antwerp and Ghent, as music director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and as a member of the conducting staff of Lyric Opera of Chicago. From 2002 to 2007, he was music director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera. He and the Dortmund Philharmonic were invited to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais de Beaux Arts in Brussels as well as to Salzburg, Beijing, and Shanghai. Fagen conducted a new production of Turandot at the Atlanta Opera in 2007, opening the season and inaugurating the new opera house, the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. He was first-prize winner of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors’ Competition as well as a prizewinner of the Gino Marinuzzi International Conductors’ Competition in Italy. Fagen has recorded for BMG, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB, and WDR Cologne. He records regularly for Naxos, for which he has completed the six symphonies of Bohuslav Martinů. His Naxos recording of Martinů’s piano concertos was awarded an Editor’s Choice award in the March 2010 issue of Gramophone magazine.

Norman Krieger is Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music and professor of music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, having previously served as professor at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. A native of Los Angeles, he is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation and is highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity, and virtuosic flair. Krieger has collaborated with such notable conductors as Myung-Whun Chung, Donald Runnicles, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He regularly appears with the major orchestras of North America, among them the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. In 2014, he recorded the Brahms Sonata Op. 1 and the Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Philip Ryan Mann (Decca). In recital, Krieger has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Asia. Chamber music collaborations have included appearances with Sheri Greenawald, Paul Huang, Sarah Chang, Pamela Frank, and the Tokyo String Quartet, among many others. His debut at New York City’s prestigious Carnegie Hall and Mostly Mozart Festival earned him an invitation to Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series, and he was Gold Medal Winner of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition. Krieger began his studies with Esther Lipton. At age 15, he became a full-scholarship student of Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London and earned an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman. A champion of contemporary music, he features among his repertoire the music of such composers as John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, and John Corigliano. Krieger is the founding artistic director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii. Since 2008, he has served on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina.