Join us in Celebrating Indiana
The Indiana Studies team is hosting "The Style of the State" on April 9th-10th, in the new Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts & Humanities in Bloomington, Indiana. We will be featuring work from our team of scholars who have been working for the past year, as well as scholars from around the state who are interested in answering questions about the style of Indiana fashion, art, music, architecture, and more.
Zoom registration is available, and the program will also be available via livestream. If you would like to attend any events in person, please email Program Manager Erin Kelley at eekelley@iu.edu. Due to Covid-19 protocols, in-person seating is extremely limited.
Register for Friday here.
Register for Saturday here.
Full schedule of events is below.
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 9
9:00-9:10 am
Welcome
Arthur Liou, Faculty Director, 2020 Indiana Studies Platform Program
9:10-10:40 am
State of Fashion
David Heighway, Hamilton County Historical Society, Norman Norell and His Work in Theater
Kevin McKelvey, University of Indianapolis, A Brief History of Bib Overalls
Jooyoung Shin, Indiana University, Style Icons of Indiana: The Creation of Hoosier Style
10:50 am - 12:20 pm
The Built Environment
Jordan Ryan, Indiana Historical Society, Hostile Architecture: You Can’t Do That Here
Marleen Newman, Indiana University, Harry Weese: A Midwestern Modernist Steeped in Regionalism
Alexis Butterworth, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, In Search of an “Indiana Style” through studies on Union Station
12:20-1:00 pm
--Lunch--
1:00-1:50 pm
Indiana Limestone
Jeeyea Kim + Dorian Bybee, Indiana University, In the Style of Indiana Limestone Ornamental Columns and Veneers in Residential Architecture
2:00-3:30 pm
Styling Time and Tradition
Andy Oler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Indiana Farm Style: Legacies of “The Raggedy Man”
Jennie Williams, Indiana University, Music and Community in Rural Southern Indiana
Nathan Schmidt, Indiana University, Forest and Industry: John Muir in Indianapolis
4:00 pm
Gayle Karch Cook Center for Public Arts + Humanities Signage Unveiling
5:30-7:00 pm
IN character
Jonathan Michaelson, Indiana University, Short plays and monologues based on stories by Michael Martone
8:00 pm
An Evening with Laverne Cox
Saturday, April 10
9:00-10:30 am
Re-imaging the Local
Karen Baldner, Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University Indianapolis, The Bloomington Breast Project
Carissa Carman, Indiana University, SITE Lab | Highway 46 Revisited
Tim Kennedy, Indiana University, State of Nature | Painting on Site in and Around Bloomington
10:40-11:30 am
Utopia Revisited
Tanya Palmer, Indiana University, More Perfect Places: Envisioning a 21st Century Historical Pageant for New Harmony, Indiana
11:40 am - 12:30 pm
First Ladies
Linda Pisano + Heather Milam, Indiana University, Legacy and Identity through Fashion: A Portrait of the First Ladies of Indiana University
12:30-1:00 pm
--Lunch--
1:00-1:40 pm
Real and Imaginary Indiana
Barbara Shoup, Indiana Writers Center, Voices of Contemporary Indiana
1:50-2:50 pm
Expressions of Hoosier Identity
Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University, Hoosier’s Who: Boyd and Cutters
Freda Fair + Faye Gleisser, Indiana University, Indiana Switchgrass: Academic and Arts Mentorship as Praxis
3:00 - 3:50 pm
Writing Indiana
Brenda Weber, Indiana University, So This Was Hillside: An American Story of Rags to Riches to Rubble
4:15 pm
Sweet Hour of Prayer: A CD Release Concert
Reverend Dennis H. Freeman
