Closing Reception | Join us Sunday, December 17, 2023 1—4 pm for the closing reception of SPOTLIGHT/SEARCH by Maura Jasper. We’ll be joined in song by Nathaniel Russell and Chris Vorhees.

SPOTLIGHT/SEARCH is part of the Middletown Film Project by Maura Jasper, an ongoing body of work inspired by the sociological studies of Helen and Robert Lynd titled Middletown, and the six-part documentary series of the same name produced by Peter Davis for PBS in 1982. Middletown Film Project reflects on the collective identity of Muncie as a highly studied community. Comprised of moving image, sound recordings, photographs, participatory events, and drawing, this new body of work explores the concept of “Middletown” as a myth in contention.

Join us Saturday, December 16, 2023 for an artist dinner with Maura Jasper, food by creative and cook Grace Seibert, and wine with sommelier Demian Hostetter.

Homecoming welcomes you to a table you've visited many times before. You've sat here with family, friends, lovers, and ones you miss dearly. Find comfort in a Midwest supper inspired by your coziest aunt’s or grandma’s home decked out in wallpaper and plush carpet with recipes on the table from vintage and family cookbooks spanning the 1960s to the early 2000s. Flavors and presentation will reflect Grace’s midwest upbringing as a person of color. Our pitch-in style meal extends the invitation of Spotlight/Search and "serves as a beacon — a gathering spot for anyone who searches to find [it]."

Setting is intimate and limited to 15 guests.

Price | $80-100 | Reserve Your Seat

OPENING RECEPTION | At the furthest edge of an open horizon with miles of cornfields, brownfields, commercial plazas, and quiet downtown streets, two beams of light are pointed into the night sky. They rotate slowly, piercing the darkness and serving as a beacon for anyone who seeks to find them.

Spotlight/Search is about searching, being found, and finding beauty exactly where you are.

It is for Muncie, Indiana and inspired by Middletown, as they are not the same.

Spotlight/Search took place in Muncie, Indiana July 14th, 2023 for 158 minutes.

This work is part of the Middletown Film Project by Maura Jasper, an ongoing body of work inspired by the sociological studies of Helen and Robert Lynd titled Middletown, and the six-part documentary series of the same name produced by Peter Davis for PBS in 1982. Middletown Film Project reflects on the collective identity of Muncie as a highly studied community. Comprised of moving image, sound recordings, photographs, participatory events, and drawing, this new body of work explores the concept of “Middletown” as a myth in contention.

Join us Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm and again for the opening of Go More Slowly Over The Earth for a two-part casting workshop. Learn about ancient casting techniques and make your own small object or ornament using cuttlefish bone moulds.

Price | $200 | Reserve Your Space

Setting is intimate and limited to 10 guests.

Join us for a morning exploration of ritual and nourishment in this season with hosts Lauren Day and Grace Seibert.

Wintering invites inquiry, reflection, and vulnerability guided by independent writing and the ideas Katherine May shares in her book by the same name. Warming winter tea and treats by Grace. Setting is intimate and limited to 8 guests.

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Join us Sunday, January 8, 2023 from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. for guided yoga and adornment assembly with artists Ellery Diaz and Braydee Euliss in collaboration with the Indianapolis Zen Center. This program is part of FAIR MARKET 2022, a gathering of artists and objects around the idea of holding on.

Price | Sliding Scale | Reserve Your Space

Setting is intimate and limited to 12 guests.

Join us Saturday, January 7, 2023 at 3:00 pm for an intimate afternoon of poetry with Mitchell L. H. Douglas and Michael Kaufmann as part of Fair Market _ 2022.

Event is open to the public with no RSVP. The gallery will hold open hours 12 - 5 pm.

Poet and visual artist Mitchell L. H. Douglas is the author of dying in the scarecrow’s arms, \blak\ \al-fə bet\, and Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem. He will likely read from his last collection, dying in the scarecrow's arms, and a collection of new poems he is currently wrapping up. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, he is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

Michael Kaufmann has written on the intersection of disability and punk, penned strong critiques of public art and our cultural institutions, and freestyled a novella about a time traveling Aztec rapper. He will be reading from his two collections of poems, The Long Chorus and Cowboy Psalms and Fat Haikus.