September 2021: Summer Days

Sunrise on the Lake by Justin Vining

Sunrise on the Lake by Justin Vining

First Friday Gallery Opening

Friday, September 3, 2021, 6 pm - 9pm

FREE EVENT

Venue open at full capacity, registration not required.

 

On September 3, 2021, join us for First Friday! Enjoy these openings:

  1. “Summer Days” by Justin Vining in the Harrison Gallery. This exhibit features plein air paintings depicting Indianapolis city scapes and waterways. 

  2. “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Shawn Kruger in the Annex Gallery. This collection of landscape paintings portrays nature in it’s purest form. 

  3. “Among the Folds” by India Cruse Griffin & Tai Lipan in the Speck Gallery. The artists will be presenting layered mixed media artwork in an earth toned color palette in both representational and abstract forms.

  4. “Our Seasonal City” by Donna Shortt in the City Gallery. A series of oil, gouache, and pastel paintings illustrating distinctive Indianapolis locations through the changing seasons.

  5. “Neighbors” by Craig Mullins & Sherry Haines in the Hank & Dolly’s Gallery. Two neighbors of 18 years bring us a show featuring landscape acrylic paintings.

  6. “Interconnected Metamorphosis” by Merle Pace in the Underground Gallery. Immerse yourself in other worldly watercolor and gouache paintings with vivid egyptian undertones that explore the life, death, and rebirth cycle. 

All shows will open at 6 pm Friday, September 3rd. 

In-person gallery tours will open for visitors Monday-Friday from 9am - 5pm and online beginning September 6th. Make an appointment or view the online galleries at harrisoncenter.org/buy-art.

Special Senior Hours are every Friday from 2:00pm - 4:00pm. No appointment is needed.

With support from: Arts Council of Indianapolis, the Indiana Arts Commission, Christel DeHaan Family Foundation, and Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation.

About the Harrison Center

The Harrison Center is a community-based, nonprofit arts organization that seeks to be a catalyst for renewal in the city of Indianapolis. Founded in 2001, the organization’s work is two-fold. The Harrison Center for the Arts is home to 36 artist studios and 8 galleries with programming that is designed to foster the creation of new art, build community among artists and emerging patrons, create new partnerships, and provide a forum for public conversations between artists and the community. The Harrison Center for the City seeks to connect people to culture, community, and place to strengthen Indianapolis’s core urban neighborhoods. For more information on the Harrison Center, call 317.396.3886 or visit www.harrisoncenter.org. Connect with the Harrison Center on social media at Facebook/HarrisonCenterArts, Instagram/harrisoncenterarts or Twitter/@HarrisonCtrArts.

Erika Blue