(Indianapolis, Ind.) – Calling all beer enthusiasts. Indiana Beer Week is July 11th-16t^h and all over Indiana there will be various activities designed to highlight the appreciation of fresh, local, craft beer. On July 15^th at 6:30 p.m. the second annual dinner, Make It Local: Craft Beer & Food at Back Yard, will be served, featuring the culinary creations of six local chefs paired with fresh beer from six Indiana breweries.  The dinner will be held at Chef JJ’s Back Yard, 1040 Broad Ripple Ave.

The evening will start off with a beer social hour, highlighting the established Sun King Cream Ale and grilled bread infused with Artisano’s oils. The featured Chefs for the evening are; Eli Anderson form H20 Sushi, Mark Cox and Joshua Henson from Fermenti Artisan, JJ Boston from Chef JJ’s Back Yard, Mike Sheerin from 3 Floyds Brewing, Christopher Eley from Goose The Market and Jenna Gatchell from Chef JJ’s Back Yard. Each chef will team up with a brewer from a different Indiana brewery. The breweries taking part will be Sun King Brewery, Bier Brewery, Brugge, Mad Anthony’s Brewery, Three Floyds Brewing Co. and Peoples Brewing Company. Each course will have an element that will be cooked/brined with a beer and then paired with a complementary beer, plus the chef and brewer will be on hand to discuss each course/pairing.

Sun King’s owner/brewer Clay Robinson said “Indiana beer week is a great week in Indiana and we are glad to be a part of a second annual event at Chef JJ’s because they always bring together wonderful people that seem to have the passion about the same things. It makes for a wonderful discussion!” Chef JJ ads that ”this dinner allows for us to showcase some of the great brewers and chefs in Indiana……we always love working with everyone and it gives the attendees a chance to get personal with each of the brewers and chefs, which is always a highlight of the evening. We really enjoy bringing the personal aspect to this dinner.”

Tickets are $75 per person, does not including gratuity. To purchase tickets to this event go to www.chefjjs.com or call 317-602-3828. Seating is limited.

About Chef JJ’s Back Yard:

At Chef JJ’s Back Yard we make things personal. From custom designed outdoor kitchens, to interacting with our clients during grilling classes and private events, we’re all about making you feel at home. We are very much a part of the local food movement, so we feature local products in our store and in our cooking. Take home a piece of Chef JJ’s Back Yard by purchasing a Big Green Egg, or if you already own one, have us design an outdoor kitchen like ours for you to enjoy it on. Spend some time in our Back Yard, you will not want to leave!

Media Contact:

Staraya McKinstry

317.602.3828

Staraya@chefjjs.com

The kaleidoscope was constructed from 55-gallon steel drums and acrylic mirrors. From start to finish, the project took more than 90 man hours to complete.

The piece was created for the Installation Nation Art Show, where local artists were challenged to create a piece of art contained within a 20-foot long metal shipping container. Each selected project was given a $750 grant to complete their piece.

“Last year when I looked at the long shipping containers of Installation Nation, it came to me that these would be perfect to house a giant kaleidoscope,” said Ball. “Why a giant kaleidoscope? Because I’d never seen one before. And ultimately, why not?”

Ball was joined on the project by local artists Matt Warren and Todd Bracik. The kaleidoscope can be viewed at the Installation Nation Art Show, Friday, June 4 from 6:00 pm to 1:00 a.m., and Saturday, June 5 from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. at 500 N. College Ave., Indianapolis. Admission is $8. For more information, please visit http://primarycolours.org/blog/2010/05/join-the-revolution/.

About Andrew Ball: Ball discovered his passion for art late in life after taking a sculptural welding class at the Indianapolis Art Center in 2002. Since then, he has won numerous awards throughout the city. Ball creates both decorative and functional pieces constructed from a range of materials including: steel, bronze, iron, wood, glass and tile. He enjoys working with recycled and repurposed materials giving new life, function and beauty to things others might not consider.  Ball currently has pieces on display at the Indianapolis Art Center, Referral Institute of Indiana and the corporate office of Roundpeg, Inc.  For more information, please visit http://www.aballstudio.com.

About Todd Bracik: Todd has many years of experience in installation and assemblage art.  He has held shows at Big Car Gallery and the Harrison Center for the Arts.  Todd has exhibited his work in all 12 Primary Colors Allotropy Art Shows. His pieces can be seen around Indiana as well as in Ljubljana, Slovenia. For more information, please visit http://www.toddbracik.com/.

About Matt Warren: Matt currently works as a Studio Technician at the Indianapolis Art Center. Years of travel throughout the US, Mexico, and South East Asia have combined with Matt’s 25 year background in landscaping and construction, to inspire a keen awareness of the interaction between line and symmetry, and the space of a place. Matt has won numerous awards at art shows throughout Indiana, and currently has permanent pieces on display in Champaign, Illinois and Woodruff Place, Indianapolis. He currently works as a Studio Technician at the Indianapolis Art Center.

Lorraine Ball

317-569-1396

Lorraine@roundpeg.biz

www.roundpeg.biz

As an accompaniment to the book, Slaughter is running an online resource at www.failurethebook.com which features an ongoing blog about the interplay of failure and success.

“We tend to think failure is something that must be avoided,” Slaughter said. “But in reality, virtually all great success stories start with failures. Failure is something we must understand, study and even pursue.”

Advance copies of “Failure: The Secret to Success” are available for at www.failurethebook.com. The website will also list upcoming book signings and readings as they are scheduled.

About Robby Slaughter:

Robby Slaughter is the founder of Slaughter Development, a workflow and productivity consulting firm. In addition to his work with clients throughout Indiana, he is a regular contributor to the Indianapolis Business Journal and former associate faculty member with the School of Engineering and Technology at IUPUI.

Lorraine Ball

317-569-1396

Lorraine@roundpeg.biz

www.roundpeg.biz

The event will still have all of the hallmarks of a PPGE event with free food and great company. But this time, the event will play host to some of Indianapolis’ best artists, musicians, actors, and more.

“We love using PPGE to educate people about great restaurants in Indy,” said Paul Poteet. “We want to take it to that next level and show folks that Indy isn’t just a town for great eats—it’s a town for great art, too.”

The event is free and no registration is required. For more information, please visit www.paulpoteetsgottaeat.com.

“Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat” is produced and filmed by Another Cool Design. For more information, please visit www.anothercooldesign.com.

About Paul Poteet/Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat: Paul Poteet has been in a fixture in Indiana broadcasting for more than 30 years. Poteet has held a variety of positions in TV and radio, and is best known for his work as a licensed meteorologist on an Indianapolis TV morning show from 1995-2009.  He’s been broadbanding since 1998, with the launch of http://paulpoteet.com.

Indiana’s Weatherman can be heard on Z99.5 WZPL Indianapolis, WQME 98.7 Anderson, WXXC 106.9 Marion,  NewsTalk 95.3 South Bend, and via national syndication to over 30 stations.

He also pursues a love of food with his popular Paul Poteet’s Gotta Eat series, introducing Hoosiers to great local restaurants through meet-and-greets and videos. For more information, please visit www.paulpoteetsgottaeat.com.

About Another Cool Design: Another Cool Design specializes in creating videos that represent a client’s goods, products, and services. Their videos engage the public with clear messages and bring a company to life—all on time, and on budget.

CONTACT:

Lorraine Ball

317.569.1396

lorraine@roundpeg.biz

(Indianapolis, IN, February 15, 2010) – Indianapolis-based Q7 and Editions Limited Gallery will host an art opening experience on March 5th, 2010, at Alcove at the Conrad. This will coincide with the “First Friday” event, a city-wide initiative to highlight art galleries, museums and other venues.

The show will feature works by artist Carol Summers. Renowned for his vivid colors and revolutionary woodblock techniques, Summers’ work has been collected for decades. He has been featured in the Art Institute of Chicago, Biblioteque National – Paris, Corcoran Gallery of Art –Washington, Los Angeles County Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York, The National Museum of Art – Washington and the Seattle Art Museum.

Aside from Summers’ work, this event will also showcase the philosophy of how art can be incorporated to enhance a hospitality experience. Editions Limited owner Chris Mallon and Q7 Creative Director GK Rowe worked as co-curators for the Conrad Indianapolis, creating a program for their event space Alcove. The team previously worked with Conrad management on art and design initiatives when the hotel first opened in 2006.

After the success of popular art hotel, 21C, Rowe and Mallon started researching the concept and put together curator programs for other hospitality groups. They developed an art program for The Intercontinental at Chicago O’Hare and were featured on The Today Show and popular publications like Forbes for their work. They hope to bring the concept to other Indianapolis area hotels, who want to make their guests’ stay more of an “experience.”

“Our objective is to enhance the art and design experience within specific industries; and the hospitality industry understands the need for marketing such experiences for their guests” said GK Rowe, partner of Q7, LLC, whose marketing and multimedia solutions company focuses on the niche of “experience design.”

All proceeds from this event (via cash bar, parking and a portion of any artwork sold) will benefit the organization Art for Beds. Art for Beds is an annual event that brings together artists from our community and businesses working together to raise funds in support of the health care provided by Gennesaret Free Clinics. Gennesaret Free Clinics provides vital health care services to homeless and working poor people in our community.

The event will be open to the public, but coordinators ask that guests RSVP by emailing art@editionsltd.com.

Q7 is a marketing and multimedia design group, providing creative solutions for organizations in various phases of their business. The force of their business is comprised of a compendium of specialists with a vision and mission to exceed the parameters of a typical design firm, by offering “experience design,” which focuses on human-centered experiences. By offering a magnitude of services, their specialists work collaboratively to form a cohesive concept and provide tailored solutions to meet the specific needs within any industry, on both a local and global scale.

Acclaimed as one of the oldest galleries in Indianapolis, Editions Limited Gallery was established in 1969 and is located in the heart of Broad Ripple, an Indianapolis Cultural District. The family owned business, representing over 70 artists from local Indiana talent to internationally known Masters as Picasso and Chagall, the gallery exhibits have featured such artists as Renoir, Peter Max and Charles Fazzino. Ranging in style from traditional to abstract, the gallery offers a myriad of original works including limited edition prints, sculptures, and commission art.

For more information, visit their websites at www.Q7Associates.com and www.editionsltd.com. 

Media Contact:
Scott Tucker
Q7
scott@quantumseven.com

The name, determined by the Regional Performing Arts Center Foundation, was decided upon after much discussion and research, including the input of focus groups which were conducted with residents living in both Indianapolis and Carmel.

“Although a number of options were considered for the name of the concert hall, participants from the focus groups kept coming back to ‘The Palladium’ as the name of choice,” said Libman. “It was important to us to match the name with the architectural magnificence of the building’s design, so that the two are connected. The Palladium seems to speak to everyone because it is consistent with the concert hall’s size and spirit.”

The Palladium moniker already has a musical connection, courtesy of performance facilities in Dallas, TX, Hollywood, Calif., St. Petersburg, Fla., and London, England that bear the same name.

When The Hollywood Palladium opened its doors in October of 1940, legendary crooner Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, were the first to grace its stage, performing what would become classic American hits. Coincidentally, many of these same tunes are now a part of the Great American Songbook Collection, which will be housed at The Palladium in Carmel, Ind.

And, by sheer coincidence, Michael Feinstein, Artistic Director of the Center for the Performing Arts, appeared at the London Palladium in November of 2009 to perform songs from the Collection. 

“While the current venues that carry the Palladium name differ in style and types of performances they present, they are all renowned sites with strong traditions in musical excellence,” said Feinstein. “The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts intends to carry on this legacy, attracting a variety of top musical performers from around the world.” 

The architectural design of The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts was inspired by a villa designed by Andrea Palladio. Built in the 1500′s near Vicenza, Italy, the villa, known as “La Rotunda,” remains an architectural icon nearly 500 years later. While not specifically named for the famed architect, The Palladium, nevertheless, represents an important homage to his work.

“We put a great deal of thought into the design of the concert hall, modeling it after Venetian architect Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda, which allows the structure to be pleasing from all sides,” said Mayor of Carmel, Jim Brainard. “It also blends well with the European style of the other buildings under construction in City Center. It was very important that this unique structure also complement the city design already in place in Carmel. It was equally important for the name of the concert hall to complement its stature – a goal I truly believe we have accomplished.”

The Center for the Performing Arts, which is currently under construction in Carmel City Center, will include The Palladium, a 500-seat proscenium theater, a 200-seat studio theater and an outdoor amphitheater. Set for completion in January of 2011, no other concert hall of The Palladium’s caliber exists in the area. The Center is being built to serve as a permanent fixture on the Central Indiana landscape and will provide an extraordinary listening experience for audiences. The Palladium will also be home to Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Collection, acting as a museum and education center by day and a concert venue by night.

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Contact:

John Hughey

Public Relations Manager

Center for the Performing Arts

Email: jhughey@carmelpac.org

Phone: 317.660.3377

Celebrate the grand opening of Flame Art Studios, brainchild of three women who work with fire: Nancy Lee, Bonnie Ramirez and Jari Sheese. View their torch-created art, watch demos and participate in creating a meaningful community art sculpture.

Jan 10, 2010 – Join Nancy Lee, Jari Sheese and Bonnie Ramirez as they warmly invite the community to celebrate the grand opening of Flame Art Studios, located at 1125 Brookside Avenue, Suite C15, Indianapolis, Indiana, during IDADA’s Gallery Tour from 6-9pm on February 5th, 2010.
The Near Eastside studio represents a collaboration of three “fiery” women bonded by a mutual addiction to fire. Each woman is an independent artist mastering different mediums, and each woman offers classes, workshops and private instruction in their chosen craft. The group boasts diverse talents, including metalsmithing, jewelry fabrication, sculpture, Precious Metal Clay, beading, lampworking, enameling and welding.

During the grand opening, see fine examples of the award-winning art displayed in the gallery section of the studio. Visit the open classroom area and see the state-of-the-art ten-station lampworking setup, and view the artists private workshops where their artistic creations are born with the kiss of creative the flame.

Leave your creative mark by wrapping a length of wire or adding a bit of metal to the framework of a community-created sculpture, to be on permanent display in the gallery area.

Sign up for ongoing classes, workshops, or some private, one-on-one time with one of the talented instructors. Flame Art Studios. Flame Art Studios offers private and group instruction in our various “hot” mediums, including welding for women (and some men), metalsmithing and jewelry fabrication from metals, lampwork bead making, wireworking, etching, and other related classes and workshops.

Flame Art Studios is a private, independent studio that works in cooperative ventures with other artists and studios, and strongly promotes new and established local artists.

Flame Art Studios has recently moved to the Mass Ave. warehouse district, in the huge Circle City Industrial Complex. The 500,000 square foot complex is the bat-cave entrance and creative lair to many other artists who show their own work and the works of others in a variety of gallery settings. They include wUG LAKU’s STUDIO & gARAGE owned by Wug Laku, Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Fellow (http://www.wlsandg.com); Michael Lyons, 2008 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellow, Martha Nahrwold of Five Seasons Studio, showing the work of Randall Scott Harden in February (http://www.randallscottharden.com), Cadaverous Muse featuring Dru Cadaver and Jerod Kienitz, and Matthew Davey Studio, Lilly Endowment Creative Renewal Fellow (http://www.matthewdavey.com).

Come see what’s happening in the jovially painted building, fairly hopping with art lover and the curious during IDADA’S First Friday Gallery Tours (http://www.idada.org/) held, appropriately, on the first Friday of each month from 6-9 PM. Galleries typically serve light refreshments. Ample free parking in fenced lot directly across the street from the entrance to the building.

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Flame Art Studios is a collaboration of three “fiery” women, Nancy Lee (http://www.ndesignsmetal.com/), Jari Sheese (http://www.bocalocabeadsinc.com/)
and Bonnie Ramirez (http://torchqueen.com/Home_Page.html), bonded by a mutual addiction to fire: independent artists, working in diverse mediums, all crafted by the torch. Metal, glass and fine silver have all tasted the kiss of the creative flame. Flame Art Studios is a private, independent studio that works in cooperative ventures with other artists and studios, and strongly promotes new & established local artists.

(Indianapolis, IN, November 19, 2009) – Melody Inn announced plans today for a unique after hour’s party following IDADA’s First Friday Gallery Walk and festivities in December. Modern Perspectives will be held on Friday, December 4, 2009, from 10pm to 3am at both the Melody Inn (3826 N. Illinois Street) and Melody Inn Gallery (3822 N. Illinois Street) in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood.

Voted “Best Live Alternative Venue” in Indianapolis, The Melody Inn routinely features live, original music by local performers. The December 4th event will feature a combination of works by four local artists paired with a range of music arranged by local DJ’s.

The featured artists include:

Andrea Fogt: featured installation artist; Andrea’s installation art will show at 10PM and be publicly destroyed at 2AM

Andrew Ball: abstract metal sculpture

Christopher Smock: large painting oddities

Trina O’Connor: random photos and paintings

Live and recorded music will entertain the attendees in each area of the Inn and Gallery. In the Gallery, Ben Wu, Bryan Luellen, Andrew Hizer and Chachi Guerrero will provide house, techno sound to compliment the artist’s works.

In the Front of the Inn, Comasoft will give a live performance of their distinctive dirty disko, indie trash, electro rock/Chicago style music followed by DJ’s Paranoid, Inc and DJ Shiva.

In the Back of the Inn, “The Factory” is a collection of DJ’s offering rhythmic noise, aggrotech, hardcore, industrial and uniquely Indianapolis sound.

“The idea behind Modern Perspectives is that in all art, whether music, photography, paintings, sculptures, etc. there seems to often be labels of genres, logos and branding”, said organizer DJ Copper Top. “Our goal with Modern Perspectives is to “mix it up” with different styles of electronic music.”

The cover for the after party is $6 and includes performances in both rooms and festive cupcakes served in the gallery. For more information about this event and the Melody Inn please go to: http://www.melodyindy.com/.

About The Melody Inn:
The Melody Inn is located at 38th Street and Illinois in the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood near Butler University, making it easily accessible from Downtown Indianapolis, the Indiana State Fairgrounds, and the Pepsi Coliseum, as well as Broad Ripple. If you like Local’s Only, J. Clydes, or The Alleycat you should give The Melody Inn a try. You won’t be disappointed. To learn more about The Melody Inn please visit their website at: http://www.melodyindy.com.

About IDADA:
IDADA, the Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Association, is a non-profit membership based organization of studio artists, art galleries and arts-related businesses within the 20 block square of the center of Indianapolis. The prime focus is the creation and marketing of unique and original art. IDADA’s mission is to: Develop public awareness of the artist and art dealer, encourage strong continuing community support for the visual arts and promote the highest professional standards. 

One of IDADA’s most popular events, First Friday is held every month along the galleries of Mass Avenue to learn more about IDADA and First Friday please visit their website at: http://www.idada.org/.

Media Contact:
Lorraine Ball
317-569-1396
www.roundpeg.biz
lorraine@roundpeg.biz