The Arts Federation

Exhibitions On View September 2 - 30

First Friday Opening Reception: September 2, 6 - 8 pm

Wabash Valley Artists Society

Local Color

This year's annual juried show by WVAS members includes paintings and drawings, realistic to abstract artwork selected by Carol Strock Wasson, a signature member of the American Women Artists, Pastel Society of America and a Master Pastelist member of Chicago Pastel Painters. Read More >>

On the Banks of the Wabash

The Wabash River Watershed drains most of the state of Indiana, and this influential River is the subject of our state song. The river’s name comes from the indigenous Miami-Illinois name for the Wabash River, waapaahšiiki, that roughly translates to “water over white stones.” Aside from its natural beauty, there is a lot artists find inspirational!

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Lyubov Sylayeva

Magic of Nature in Vivid Colors

The paintings in Lyubov Sylayeva's Magic of Nature in Vivid Colors exhibition resonate with a childhood spent in nature. In this series, Sylayeva explores color harmonies and textures found in landscapes, skies, ocean views, and other parts of the natural world. Read More >>

Art Museum of Greater Lafayette

Art, Bark + Brew

September 17, 11 am - 2 pm

Art, Bark + Brew is a family-friendly dog friendly event held on the grounds of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. Read More >>

Art on the Wabash

September 25, 10 am - 4 pm pm

Tapawingo Park

Art on the Wabash brings together art and nature together for a pleasurable day! Enjoy family activities, food, and live music in addition to the art fair.  

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Friday Night Live featuring Kyle Bledsoe & Bill Brose

September 30, 7 pm

Join the Art Museum for live musical performances in the galleries on the last Friday of each month. Read More >>

Ongoing Exhibitions

Welcome Back! Art on the Wabash 2022 Preview Exhibit 

Through September 18

Featuring arts and crafts by over 40 artists who have been juried into the 2022 art fair. Read More >>

Color Vibes!

Through October  21

Built from the Art Museum's permanent collection, Color Vibes!  offers a dazzling dive into the vibrancy of the selected works. The exhibition showcases art that inventively uses bold, saturated, and even hallucinatory colors.

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Artists' Own

Stone and Bone: A Geological and Biological Exploration of Earth

Continuing Through September 17

This exhibition features paintings by Marilyn Jo Martin and Sarah Ruh, exploring a fascination with natural history and the geological and biological forces that shape our planet. Both artists explore textured mediums and natural images. Read More >>

Intertwined

September 23 - October 29

Celebrating connection, this exhibition features the gallery's 19 artist members and highlights the links between arts and community.

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Chapel Gallery

Fridays & Saturdays, 11 am - 5pm

Sundays, 1 - 5 pm

Chapel Gallery is a creative cooperative, offering a rotating display of works by regional artists. More info >>

Civic Theatre of Greater Lafayette

The Play That Goes Wrong

September 8 - 17

This classic and comedic murder mystery is chock-full of mishaps & madcap mania. Learn More >>

Delphi Public Library

Colored Pencil Drawing Classes

Wednesdays from 1:30 - 2:30 pm, starting September 7

The class, taught by Lisa Bliss Rush, will focus on the various techniques of blending, color mixing and drawing with a limited palette.  Learn More >> 

Frankfort Community Public Library

Quilters' Guild Work Days

Mondays from 9 am - noon

The Quilt Guild meets on Monday mornings in the Art Room of the Frankfort Library to work on their quilting projects. All quilters are welcome to attend! Just bring your "work in progress" projects and join them on the 2nd floor of the library.

Open Art Studio

Every Other Tuesday from 5 - 7:30 pm

Join us in the Art Room every other Tuesday evening. Bring a project you are working on and meet up with other artists in the community. You may bring your own supplies or use what is available at the library. 

Friday Knitting Group

Fridays from noon - 2 pm

Bring your knitting project and come hang out in Harry's, the Coffee Bar Down Under. All skill levels are welcome.

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General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association:

162 Years of Collecting George Washington

September 15, 7 pm

At St. John's Episcopal Church in Crawfordsville (212 S Green St.)

Part of the Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series, this program will explore collecting practices and priorities, highlighting significant acquisitions from the 19th century to today. Read More >>

Museum Day 2022

September 17, 10 am - 4 pm

The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will offer free half-hour tours in celebration of Museum Day 2022! Read More >>

The Collections of the Indiana Historical Society

September 29, 7 pm

At St. John's Episcopal Church in Crawfordsville (212 S Green St.)

Suzanne Hahn, Vice President, Archives and Library at the Indiana Historical Society will speak on the collections of the Indiana Historical Society. 

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The Haan Museum of Indiana Art

Indiana Realities: Regionalist Paintings 1930-1945

On View Through November 12

Rather than the nostalgic images depicted by the impressionist painters, they are realistic documentations of everyday life in the Midwest in the Depression era. Artists used well-defined shapes to depict urban settings, industrial scenes and everyday activities of common people. Read More >>

Indiana Realities Lunch & Learn with Bob Haan

September 27, 11:30 am

Museum founder Bob Haan will lead a presentation about Indiana’s regionalist artists in conjunction with the featured exhibit Indiana Realities. Lunch will be provided in the mansion as you learn more about this fascinating period in Indiana art history. Read More >>

Lafayette Area Gymnastics Club

Fall Sessions of Dance & Gymnastics Classes Begin Soon!

1415 Ball Street in Lafayette

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Lafayette Writers' Studio

Fiction? Nonfiction?

The Same, but Different with Novelist and Memoirist Michelle Herman

September 15, 7 pm

Virtual

For those who write both fiction and creative nonfiction – personal essays and memoirs in particular – and want help deciding which form is best....

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Visual Storytelling

September 17, 11 am

Virtual

This course is designed for writers who are curious about comics and visual storytelling—and who perhaps need a little encouragement to start drawing. Read More >>

Lafayette Symphony Orchestra

The B-Side, Track 2: Between Two Guitars

September 29, 7:30 pm

Rat Pak Venue

Folk rock and electric fiddle collide as Violinist Wendy Kline teams up with Michael Kelsey and Blake Watts. Read More >>

Long Center for the Performing Arts

Justin Moore

LIVE in Concert at Loeb Stadium

September 2, 7:30 pm

Justin Moore has built a loyal following over the past decade with his traditional Country sound and captivating live shows. Plus, Levi Riggs is the opening act! Read More >>

Bob Zany

New Doors Comedy Series at Lafayette Theatre

September 13, 7 pm

Bob Zany has appeared on over a 1,000 national TV shows, from “The Tonight Show,” to a 17-year stint appearing on and co-hosting “The Jerry Lewis Telethon.” Read More >>

MasterChef Junior Live!

At Long Center

September 23, 7 pm

America’s favorite cooking show is now on tour with MasterChef Junior Live!

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Tricia's Hope Survival Ball

At Lafayette Theatre

September 24, 8 pm

Tricia’s Hope offers assistance to those in our community who are currently in cancer treatment with many of the little needs that are often forgotten about, and are not covered by insurance. Read More >>

Purdue Bands & Orchestras

At Long Center

September 30, 8 pm

Free concert! No tickets required. Read More >>

Old Tippecanoe Quilt Guild

Festival of Quilts

September 17, 9 am - 4 pm

At Central Presbyterian Church (14 N 7th Street in Lafayette)

Featuring an an exhibit of quilts by guild members, a supply trading post, and other quilting vendors. More Info >>

Prairie Arts Council

Rock the Arts

September 10, noon - 6 pm (EST)

Carpenter Creek Cellars

Enjoy live music, food, and local wine to support the Prairie Arts Council!

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Celebrations, featuring Jasper County Art League Artists

September 1 - 30

Reception: September 11, 2 - 4 pm

Lillian Fendig Gallery

Join us in remembering 50 years of art history with an exhibition by the Jasper County Art League. More Info >>

Purdue Convocations

Global Fest

September 17, 3 - 11 pm

Held on Northwestern Ave and Columbia Street in West Lafayette, this FREE one-day festival celebrates our diverse community and world cultures through music, dance, crafts, displays, and international food. More Info >>

BLOOM! Presented by SWAY

September 8 - 9

Purdue Memorial Union South Lawn

SWAY’s new show, Bloom!, is a 20-minute, vibrant experience inspired by the brilliant colors of Smoky Mountain wildflowers. The show debuted in April at Dollywood Theme Park—and if it’s Dolly Parton-approved, you know it’s worth a look. More Info >>

Larry Fleet

September 8, 7:30 pm

Loeb Playhouse

Soulful, heartfelt, and humorous—Fleet’s music represents his blue-collar, small-town upbringing with pride. More Info >>

Cécile McLorin Salvant

September 29, 7:30 pm

Loeb Playhouse

A French-Haitian phenom, she returns to Convos as a multiple Grammy Award winner, living up to the promise of her early career when she released her first record backed by Jean-François Bonnel and his Paris Quintet a year before she won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. More Info >>

Purdue Galleries

Optical Impermanence

Rueff Galleries West, Pao Hall

Through September 16, 2022

To Feel Myself Beloved On This Earth

Ringel Gallery, Stewart Center

Through October 7, 2022

Threshold: International Print Exchange Programme

Rueff Galleries East, Pao Hall

Aug. 22 - Sept. 16, 2022

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Tippecanoe County

Public Library

September Events

Free Library Card Month 

@ All Branches

New patrons can sign up for a free library card during the month of September!

TCPL Friends Book Sale

September 16 - 19

@Downtown Branch

Kids & Families

Stories Under the Sculpture

@ Downtown Branch

Wednesdays & Saturdays at 10:30 am

Puppet Stories

@ Downtown Branch

September 7, 6;30 pm

September 8, 10:30 am

Slime War

September 12, 4 pm

@ Downtown Branch

(Grades 4 - 6)

Jeopardy

September 13, 3:30 pm

@ Downtown Branch

(Grades 3. -5)

Call of the Wild

September 26, 4 pm

@ Downtown Branch

(Grades 4 - 6)

Tipton County Pork Festival

2022 Tipton County Pork Festival

September 8 - 10

Tipton County Library

Featuring fabulous food, an art show, 2 parades, and live music! Read More >>

West Lafayette Public Library

September Events

Adults

Books in Film:

3000 Years of Longing

September 6, 6 pm

Pick up a copy of the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" at the 2nd floor desk, watch the 3000 Years of Longing film, then join us for discussion!

Sunflower Paintings Craft

September 7, 10:30 am &

September 13, 6:30 pm

Paint a sunflower on an 8" x 10" canvas, all supplies provided.

WALLA Film Series: CODA

September 12, 6:30 pm

Join WALLA and the West Lafayette Public Library for a showing and discussion of CODA (2021).

Diamond Painting

September 18, 2 pm

Whether you are new to diamond painting or a professional diamond artist, you are encouraged to attend our diamond painting sessions. Choose your design, with all supplies provided.

Jigsaw Puzzlers Meeting

September 20, 6 pm

Meet other puzzlers on the third Tuesday of each month and solve a puzzle in a casual setting. Bring puzzles to swap, if you like!

LEGO Build for Adults

September 22, 6 pm

Those who are young at heart are welcome to build! Make a unique creation, then see it on display at the library. 

Wolf Park

Photography Specialty Tours

Mondays, 6 pm

This is great for art reference, wildlife photography, documentary filming, and just for fun! Photography programs are led by world-renowned photographer Monty Sloan. Learn More >>