Events

NIPS Meeting | Learn About The Hoosier Salon

Sunday Nov. 10 | 1 p.m. for a social time, program at 1:30.
Near Northwest Neighborhood Community Center | 1007 Portage Ave., South Bend 46616
Northern Indiana Pastel Society will join Northern Indiana Artists (NIA) for the meeting.
Speaker: Robert Bennett, executive director of the Hoosier Salon.
The Hoosier Salon is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote Indiana artists and their work. The Hoosier Salon began in 1925 with an exhibition of Indiana artists at Marshal Field in Chicago. Exhibits are now held annually at the Indiana State Museum. The Hoosier Salon maintains galleries at the Stutz and New Harmony galleries and hosts 30 special shows of members yearly.
Your contribution of appetizers and desserts will be welcome.

WORKSHOP
Making Better Art with Avon Waters

Hosted by Northern Indiana Pastel Society

Sunday, Nov. 17 | 1- 4:00 p.m.
upstairs studio, South Bend Museum of Art
120 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, South Bend, IN 46601, Inside Century Center

Learn to design better paintings before you start painting. Artist Avon Waters shows how to use 15-20 proven composition designs. Participants will make 30-second drawings to use in their next painting. No drawing will be bigger than a business card. All skill levels, all media are welcome. Please register by November 13. Click here for registration form to print, complete and mail.

Supplies to Bring

6×8 or 5×7 sketchbook
4B or any dark leaded pencil
Blending stump, foam blender, Q-tip
Vine charcoal
Bring photos you have taken but never got around to painting.

Avon Waters is a member of Northern Indiana Pastel Society and has won many awards.
He is a lifetime member of the Indiana Plein Air Painter’s Association and current president.

Questions: Contact Cathy McCormick camccorm@aol.com, 574 271 6919

EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming EXHIBITIONS

Notre Center for Civic Innovation Crossroads Gallery | South Bend, Indiana
formerly the ND Center for Art and Culture
Jan 24 to Feb. 27, 2020

Buchanan Art Center | Buchanan, Michigan
Showcase Gallery
May 20 to June 27, 2020
Deliver: May 17 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Reception: May 31 | 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Releasing: June 28 | 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Colfax Cultural Center | South Bend, Indiana
Sept. 11 to Oct. 23, 2020. All three galleries.

Kroc Center | South Bend, Indiana
March – May 2021

Moon Tree Studios | Donaldson, Indiana
May 8 – June 20, 2021
Set up: May 4–7 | Reception: May 15, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Take down: June 21

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Northern Indiana Pastel Society Members’ Exhibit
Heartland Artists Gallery | Plymouth, Indiana
July 23 to Aug. 24, 2019

32 works by 20 artists are on view. Judge’s Awards were presented at the reception on Sunday, August 4 to four artists: from left, Paul Wieber, Red, White and Blue; Tim Swagerle, Summer Morning; Mary Firtl, Café Confidential; and Avon Waters, Maples at Dusk.