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Exhibitions at Granfalloon

Bad Math, Nanette Vonnegut

Opening May 20, 2024

Nanette Vonnegut was born the youngest of six on Cape Cod in 1954 and was "raised by wolves".

After graduating with a BFA in Printmaking from R.I.S.D., she settled in Northampton, Massachusetts and raised a family while exhibiting her work locally and elsewhere, including New York City. Her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker, The Massachusetts Review, Pakn Treger and American Educator.

Her prints are included in collections at New York Public Library, Hampshire College and Wheaton College.

This exhibit will be available to view Monday through Friday from 12-4pm in the Cook Center's Process Gallery from May 20th though July 3rd.

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Tales from the Ramjac Corporation, The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library

Opening May 2024

The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library in Indianapolis, in partnership with the Granfalloon Festival, are pleased to bring you this exhibit based on Kurt Vonnegut's 1979 novel Jailbird. A tale of rampant greed, political corruption, and bizarre, random accidents of fate, the novel was well received by critics, prompting Vonnegut to give it an A rating in his later autobiography, Palm Sunday. This exhibit explores not only Jailbird, but also Vonnegut’s thoughts on the novel’s themes, relevant both before and after 1979.

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Kurt Vonnegut Altar, Keith L. Andrews

On display now!

The Kurt Vonnegut Altar was designed and executed by Keith L. Andrews while living in Guatemala with the assistance of local artisans and assistants. In December, the altar travelled from Andrews' home in Tallahassee, Florida to live at the Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts & Humanities.

All the quality resin figures were cast from clay figures that were hand sculpted and painted by Andrews. In addition, there are 14 laser-etched and hand-painted acrylic plaques and half a dozen objects that were hand-crafted in other materials.

The altar will be available to view Monday through Friday from 12-4pm in the Cook Center's main suite off of the Grand Hall.

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Art Project Grant Recipients

The Indiana University Arts and Humanities Council is excited to support this year's receipients of the Granfalloon Art Project Grant program. The program provides local artists with grants of up to $1000 to create socially conscious works of public art in communication with the themes and ideas of the Granfalloon festival. This year’s festival will take place May 20 – June 8, 2024 and will align with the primary themes of Vonnegut’s “Watergate novel” Jailbird including social economic justice, political and corporate crime, homelessness, incarceration, and aging.

Charles Culp

Charles Culp is an artist in Bloomington, Indiana. His role for the City of Bloomington has had him working late nights downtown among the vivid lights and interesting people. His current project focuses on poverty as more of a byproduct of our economic system and less of a choice by the individual. The art is a reminder that food waste, packaging, and advertising are often the results of overly excessive, poorly managed, and irresponsible capitalism.

Elizabeth Stelle

Elizabeth Stelle is a doctorate student at the School of Education in the Literacy, Culture, Language Education program with a minor in Early Childhood education. She playfully mixes quilt and textile art into her methodologies for research as well as creating quilts to bring awareness around social justice topics, creating quilts for advocacy and for use as protest literacies.

Emmie Tallman

Emmie Tallman received her BFA in Studio Art concentrating in Jewelry, Metals and Enameling from Kent State University in 2022. Tallman is now a second-year graduate student studying Metalsmithing + Jewelry Design at Indiana University. Working in metal, enamel, fibers, plastic and found materials, Tallman creates sculpture for the body that playfully engages with themes of nostalgia, memory, connection, and community, through an exploration of natural relationships and personal narratives.

Erin Tobey

Erin Tobey is an illustrator, mural painter, graphic designer, and musician in Bloomington, Indiana. Her current work is often decorative, sometimes campy, and sometimes funny, and it is in this spirit that she plans to install a set of Vonnegut-inspired lawn ornaments for the Granfalloon Art Project.

Huner Emin

Huner Emin is a stateless multimedia Kurdish artist. His project Manufactured Democracy revolves around crimes against humanity and the aftermath of Iraq War atrocities. Huner collected the names of Iraqi individuals who lost their lives in the civil wars and wrote them in the shape of fingerprints to evoke crime scenes.

Jim Christie

Founding members Jim Christie and Emily Dill established the Birdland Arts Society to bring bizarre art projects to life. Their Granfalloon project represents the absurd carousel of American injustice continuously spinning its unsuspecting riders from poverty, to a lack of social support, to unemployment, to substance abuse, to incarceration, to homelessness, and round, and round again.