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Wings Over Muscatatuck Migratory Bird Festival World’s Largest Fireworks Show at Thunder Over Louisville Seeing What The Heart Knows: The Art of Howard Terpning Women of Taste: A Collaboration of Quilt Artists and Chefs and more inside! Free 2001 Indiana Travel Guide available now
Do you like the outdoors? Do you like to see beautiful birds and lovely wildflowers? Do you like to spend time with your family and enjoy the things around you? Then you will enjoy Wings Over Muscatatuck Festival being held at Muscatatuck Wildlife Refuge on May 12 –13, 2001. There will be things for the whole family to do. The Refuge is located in Jackson County only about 2.5 miles east of Seymour on Interstate 65 on U.S. Highway 50. Big Oaks will open its gates at sunrise to visitors who pre-register to visit and assist in a bird count. (Big Oaks used to be Jefferson Proving Ground located in Jefferson County.) A van will be used to transport those wanting to go to Big Oaks. Seating is limited and registration is required. Also on the program at Muscatatuck Wildlife Refuge is the Wetland Birds of Muscatatuck and you will get to go on a part of the wildlife that is usually closed to the public. A food booth will be available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. to provide food and drink to those who attend the Wing Festival. Renowned Wildlife Artist Bill Zimmerman will teach the basics of bird watching. There will be a Feathercamp Kid Program on going through the day. For a small fee, you and/or your child can make a bird or bat house, or a useful birdfeeder. Leisurely take a wildflower walk or a butterfly walk or an edible plant walk or better yet a frog/toad walk. Learn about Indiana brown bats and birds of prey. There may be vendors selling items pertaining to nature and wildlife. In the evening there is wonderful food available for those wanting to purchase a meal to eat with family and friends. A local group and nature will provide great music so there is much to do and enjoy at the Wings Over Muscatatuck. Please call the Jackson County Visitor and Convention Bureau at (888) 524-1914 or e-mail [email protected] for more information. Thunder Over Louisville See the world’s largest fireworks show along the shores of the Ohio River of Jeffersonville/Clarksville/Louisville. Includes over 55 tons of fireworks and an air show. See photos and our April, 2000 article by Rob Mason or call 502-228-6009.
The Shield of Her Husband, Howard Terpning Once in a while, we mere mortals have the chance to meet a person who is destined to be remembered throughout history. If circumstances are ideal, we will meet him amidst his best work, surrounded by admirers, peers and well-wishers. Such a chance will come in April, when artist Howard Terpning, 73, and 30 original paintings hand-picked by the artist come to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. Ostensibly, Terpning’s visit to the Midwest will be to receive the Eiteljorg Museum Award for Excellence, which recognizes a lifetime of achievement by an artist. He will be only the third artist to receive this award, after Wilson Hurley (1991) and Kenneth Riley (1993). The Eiteljorg Museum also will unveil a brand-new painting by Terpning. At the same time, the Eiteljorg Museum will open the exhibition Seeing What the Heart Knows: The Art of Howard Terpning, which runs for only one month, April 21 through May 20. The exhibition is sponsored by Eiteljorg Museum Western Art Society Founding Members with additional support from IPALCO Enterprises. At a deeper level, however, Terpning’s visit is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for people to stand in the presence of greatness. Terpning has received more accolades than has any Western artist painting today. He has won more than 20 gold and silver medals, including five Colt awards and a Stetson award from the Cowboy Artists of America. He won the Prix de West award from the National Academy of Western art and the first $250,000 Hubbard Art Award for Excellence. But nothing means more to this quiet, unassuming man than the respect he has earned from Native Americans, the subject of his work for the last quarter of a century. Plenty of artists have painted Native Americans and scenes of Native American life. But no other artist has earned the title of “storyteller” among the Native peoples of North America. He has been granted this honored title because of the care he takes to portray his subjects accurately. Ray Gonyea, curator of Native American art and culture at the Eiteljorg Museum, explains why accuracy is so important to many Native Americans. “The public has a stereotypical image of Native Americans that they've derived from Hollywood movies and from artists who didn't care whether they painted an Iroquois from the East in the dress of a Native American from the Plains,” Gonyea said. “In contrast, you can look at any Howard Terpning painting and see that even down to the smallest details, he accurately reflects the people and the time represented in the work. This is the way it ought to be done.” Terpning and the Eiteljorg Museum will unveil a new painting at a gala award ceremony on April 19th. The new painting is called “Blessing from the Medicine Man” and will be featured on a special collector’s edition of the Greenwich Workshop book “Spirit of the Plains People” Howard Terpning.” The gala dinner is from 5:30-7pm. For reservations or more information call 317-636-9378. The Eiteljorg Museum is the only museum in the Midwest to combine Western art and Native American art and artifacts. The museum is part of White River State Park along Central Canal. Other attractions are Military Park, the Indianapolis Zoo, White River Gardens, Victory Field, the IMAX Theater, the Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial, the NCAA Hall of Champions, and the National Institute for Fitness and Sport. WOMEN OF TASTE "Women of Taste" is an invitational quilt project, sponsored by Girls Incorporated of Alameda County and presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, that brings together 25 pairs of nationally known women quilt artists and prominent women chefs and culinary entrepreneurs. Each pair’s personal and professional ideas have been translated into 25 incredible contemporary art quilts. The colorful quilts celebrate the work of these great chefs who express their artistry through their cuisine, and they illustrate the quilters’ views on such issues as politics and the environment. Collaborators kept up a yearlong correspondence that resulted in quilts such as Yvonne Porcella’s Bon Appetit, which depicts various aspects of Julia Childs’ career, as well as a colorful salade nicoise, one of Childs’ specialties. Other participating quilt artists include Mary Mashuta, Nancy Halpern, Rachel Clark, Velda Newman, Jane Burch Cochran, and Wendy Huhn. Participating chefs include Julia Child and Joyce Goldstein. Historically viewed as "women’s work," the domestic traditions of cooking and quiltmaking have been transformed into forums for artistic expression and lifelong, lucrative careers for these women. The 25 quilts were inspired by the eight original quilts featured at the 7th Annual Women of Taste event in 1998. Girls, Inc. is a national organization dedicated to issues affecting girls and young women. The Columbus Area Visitors Center is helping promote the event, and in turn, getting into the spirit of the event. The gift shop has quilt books and notecards, along with small quilt items, such as baby quilts, quilt throws, and quilt table runners. The Visitors Center is also exhibiting unique and special quilts. Exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art - Columbus Gallery. No charge. For information call 812-376-2597. Indiana Department of Commerce, Indianapolis, Indiana Staying current on new Indiana attractions and events just got easier - especially for those travelers who are interested in ordering the recently released 2001 Indiana Travel Guide. Lt. Governor Joe Kernan has announced that the Indiana Department of Commerce’s Tourism and Film Development Division is beginning a new subscription program for its free travel publications. When you call 1-800-677-9800 or visit www.enjoyindiana.com you'll be able to sign up for two year’s worth of Indiana Travel Guides, Get Out & Go Maps, Festival Guides, Fall Guides and Play Money Coupon Books. Subscribers will also receive four e-mail newsletters packed with special deals, events and seasonal trip ideas. “The new subscription program will make it easy for visitors to keep up-to-date on Indiana's tourist attractions,” said Kernan, who leads the state’s tourism promotion efforts. “This is the best way to get all the free Indiana tourism guides sent right to your door as soon as they are printed, so you can plan those perfect weekend getaways.” The 2001 Indiana Travel Guide is a 132-page, full-color overview of the state, with information on attractions, entertainment, recreation, restaurants and lodging throughout Indiana. The guide provides separate sections for six geographic regions of the state, allowing visitors to easily plan weekend getaways. Editorial features include a Historical Timeline, Indiana Main Street communities, Sports, Field Trips for Grownups, Indiana Recreation and State Parks and Historic Sites. Mountain Men will Rendezvous in Bridgeton, Indiana, in the heart of the Covered Bridge Capital, on April 28 & 29. The Bridgeton Covered Bridge Association sponsors the annual Mountain Men Rendezvous. The arrival of spring and the melting of winter snows was the signal for coming down from the mountains to replenish supplies that had been depleted during the winter. From miles around both white men and Indians would join together to trade, visit and celebrate the new season. Just as they did in the 1840’s Mountain Men will display their wares on trading blankets to trade and barter? Tour an authentic encampment and view pre-1840 camp lodges. Participants will demonstrate blacksmithing; finger weaving, leather and beadwork, open fire cooking, knife and tomahawk throwing and muzzle loader shooting. The public is encouraged to join in around the campfire for storytelling. A canoe race will be held on Big Raccoon Creek Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and at 3:00 p.m. the public is invited to participate in a ham and turkey muzzleloader shoot for those over 18 years of age. At dusk visitors are invited to a Friendship Campfire. Music will be a part of both days’ events. Pioneer craft demonstrations will be woodcarving, spinning, apple butter making, churning butter and wooden bowl carving. Craft and food booths will be open both days. Shops and the Bridgeton Mill will be open Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There is no admission charge for the Rendezvous. The Bridgeton Volunteer Fire Department will have a Jonah Fish Fry Saturday 2:00 – 7:00 p.m. Bring your family for a drive through the Covered Bridge Capital to Bridgeton, nine miles south of Rockville on the Red and Black Routes. While you are in Parke County, take time to visit the Mansfield Mushroom Festival, Also on April 28 & 29. For information about the Mountain Men Rendezvous call 765-548-2136. For information about lodging in Parke County and the over eighty events held throughout the year call the Parke County Convention and Visitors Bureau at 765-569-5226 or on the Internet at coveredbridges.com. |
All Feature Articles, artwork and photographs ©2001 by Dervish Design. Some information on the 'County Info' pages is taken directly from brochures published by Visitors Bureaus and Chambers of Commerce.
