By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu After being invited to a gallery visit, Laura Cutler, painting and drawing professor, took the class to the Lubeznik Center for the Arts to attend a talk on the Chicago Imagists, their predecessors and those who took inspiration from them. “The reason I decided to approach Painting 1 and
By: TAYLOR WALDRON Web Editor/Staff Writer @taylor_sumiko Imagine combining 120 hours of work, 60 gallons of wheat paste and a massive amount of paper. What do you get? The world’s largest, free-standing, paper mâché sculpture. IU South Bend’s Fine Arts Club was approached by Martin’s Supermarkets earlier this year with the idea of beating a
By: CAMDEN CHAFFEE Staff Writer The sounds of various styles of jazz music filled the IU South Bend campus Saturday during the first IUSB Jazz Festival, an event designed to bring people together through the power of music. Featuring trumpeter Rodney Marsalis and various local jazz ensembles, the outdoor concert attracted IUSB faculty, students and
By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer Laura Cutler truly has lived the life of an artist. Living in the artistic hubs, creating work in many studios, teaching in high schools, colleges, and art centers, and co-owning a gallery and framing business with her husband in La Porte. Cutler is currently substituting for Ron Monsa, painting and
By Kate Luce Staff Writer In the midst of demonstrations, fine arts students rarely get the opportunity to see what art their professors like to create outside of campus. The IU South Bend gallery is hosting an opening of the annual Faculty Exhibition on Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. This exhibition will feature fine arts
By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu Student art shows at IU South Bend come around every semester, but recently, the Fine Arts Department was asked to put on an art show at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph, Michigan. Fine arts students are showing alongside regional artists Kathleen Newman, Kristin Hosbein and
By: KATE LUCE Staff Writer kmluce@iu.edu A new printmaking project brought students to a new place to show off work; the world around them. Unlike the usual print projects, the audience was the community. Although places differed, the idea of the project was to get artwork out in the world rather than have it in
