Minnetrista Cultural Center in Muncie will be hosting an exhibit showcasing the art of 14 Indiana women artists from March 19 through May 1, 2005. The exhibit, called The Creative Impulse, is organized by the Indiana Women Artists, Inc., and opens with a reception Saturday at 3 p.m. The reception is free with museum admission and is open to the public.
"The variety of art featured in The Creative Impulse is a great representation of the talent found throughout the state," Charity Counts, Exhibits Manager at Minnetrista, said.
Kathryn Massey, president of the IWA and chairman of the exhibition committee, said she feels the same way.
"Seeing this exhibition is a great way to get acquainted with some of Indiana's best women artists," Massey said in a recent press release.
Though the IWA has never held an exhibit in Muncie, the organization is pleased with its choice of Minnetrista as the site for The Creative Impulse, according to Julia Moore, treasurer of the IWA.
"We wanted it to be somewhere in Central Indiana, and we wanted to reinforce the idea that art exists outside of Indianapolis," Moore said.
"When we talked to the people at Minnetrista about holding the exhibit, they were very enthusiastic," she said.
The artists and their works selected for The Creative Impulse were chosen from a pool of 54 applicants by Lisa Freimen, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Indiana Women Artists was founded in 1985 in order to help raise funds for the construction of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C., according to Moore. Following the opening of the museum in 1987, the IWA fell out of existence until 1995, when it was revived as an organization concerned specifically with broadening the exposure of Indiana women artists.
The IWA also became involved with Big Sisters of Central Indiana, holding regular workshops and art mentoring programs. Unfortunately, the IWA will cease to exist at the end of August, because, according to Moore, it has attained a level of success in which the organization itself is no longer necessary. ?
Minnetrista, non-profit organization funded by the Ball Institute, is open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for seniors and $4 for children and students.
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