Eskenazi Open Studio night and Gallery Walk Bloomington
Who : Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design and Gallery Walk Bloomington
Where : Eskenazi School(Annex Building, Kirkwood Hall, Fine Arts Building) and Bloomington downtowntown
When : 10/03/2025
How : Open studio and Gallery Walk night
Why : To connect and to be connected with new people (for me and them)
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We all know that artists often trap themselves in their studios, because time is their material and solitude is their condition. That is why the open studio feels magical. One evening they open the door to strangers and let new air in through conversation. Eskenazi is a vast art school just like Indiana University. It is filled with art, design and architecture programs, spread across Kirkwood Hall, the Fine Arts Building, and the Annex. They even made stamp sheets and ran a shuttle bus between buildings. My few harvests of the night were talking with lecturers and professors and learning about various programs Eskenazi offers, like comprehensive design, and finding student works that drew my attention and connection.
That same evening was Bloomington’s Gallery Walk. We drifted between galleries. Juniper Art Gallery showed local artists with a charming mix of retail pieces, perhaps my new fixation after Morgenstern Books. FAR Gallery had a clean, modern space with sophisticated contemporary photo works. They were also serving wine &beer, , creating a lively atmosphere that suddenly reminded me of my old New York memories. Before that, I finally stopped by the Grunwald Gallery in the Fine Arts Building. The current exhibition archiving Mckinney Visitng Artists caught my eye with its range of practices and mediums.
After that we went to Annex building, a building that looked like a factory but was filled with stories born from artist studios. Printmaking studio on the first floor was cold yet felt tender. We wandered through rooms with mini fridges and soft sofas, feeling intimate like in someone’s room. We loved Alex Quintanilla’s prints and the conversation that followed, then went downstairs to talk with a ceramics faculty member, Malcom Smith. He shared how improvisation shapes his work. then I asked how he found his people here. He smiled and said ‘I’m faculty’. yes, simple answer, then I reminded of mine, yes, I am a curator, I go find artists.
Where : Eskenazi School(Annex Building, Kirkwood Hall, Fine Arts Building) and Bloomington downtowntown
When : 10/03/2025
How : Open studio and Gallery Walk night
Why : To connect and to be connected with new people (for me and them)
See more Information
We all know that artists often trap themselves in their studios, because time is their material and solitude is their condition. That is why the open studio feels magical. One evening they open the door to strangers and let new air in through conversation. Eskenazi is a vast art school just like Indiana University. It is filled with art, design and architecture programs, spread across Kirkwood Hall, the Fine Arts Building, and the Annex. They even made stamp sheets and ran a shuttle bus between buildings. My few harvests of the night were talking with lecturers and professors and learning about various programs Eskenazi offers, like comprehensive design, and finding student works that drew my attention and connection.
That same evening was Bloomington’s Gallery Walk. We drifted between galleries. Juniper Art Gallery showed local artists with a charming mix of retail pieces, perhaps my new fixation after Morgenstern Books. FAR Gallery had a clean, modern space with sophisticated contemporary photo works. They were also serving wine &beer, , creating a lively atmosphere that suddenly reminded me of my old New York memories. Before that, I finally stopped by the Grunwald Gallery in the Fine Arts Building. The current exhibition archiving Mckinney Visitng Artists caught my eye with its range of practices and mediums.
After that we went to Annex building, a building that looked like a factory but was filled with stories born from artist studios. Printmaking studio on the first floor was cold yet felt tender. We wandered through rooms with mini fridges and soft sofas, feeling intimate like in someone’s room. We loved Alex Quintanilla’s prints and the conversation that followed, then went downstairs to talk with a ceramics faculty member, Malcom Smith. He shared how improvisation shapes his work. then I asked how he found his people here. He smiled and said ‘I’m faculty’. yes, simple answer, then I reminded of mine, yes, I am a curator, I go find artists.
