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Carnegie Center For Art & History

Carnegie Center For Art & History

201 E. Spring St.
New Albany, IN 47150
Phone: 812 944-7336
Fax: 812 981-3544
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The Carnegie Center for Art and History is a local history museum and contemporary art gallery, mounting seven exhibits annually. The Center offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy art works in a variety of media and to learn more about the process of creative expression through a range of programs and workshops for all ages.

The Carnegie Center is host to the national, juried, fiber exhibition Form Not Function: Quilt Art At The Carnegie. This annual exhibition features contemporary quilt art from artists across the United States and related educational programming.

The Carnegie Center is also home to two permanent history exhibits. Grandpa Makes a Scene: The Yenawine Dioramas, is a favorite among visitors young and old alike. This collection of hand-carved, fully mechanized dioramas features creator Merle Yenawine’s recollection of growing up in the rural community of Georgetown, Indiana at the turn of the last century. Visitors can enjoy the intricately detailed and often humorous scenes of the town carnival, one-room schoolhouse and more.

The award-winning exhibit Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad is a multimedia experience of discovery that invites visitors to explore the people and places of antebellum New Albany and Louisville, Kentucky. Explore the actual lives of two groups of people living in this borderland between the North and the South: the enslaved fugitives whose yearning for freedom compelled them to escape on a long trek filled with danger at every turn and the helpers, both black and white, whose selfless acts of courage assisted those on the run. This exhibition provides a compelling and comprehensive examination of the Underground Railroad in New Albany and beyond.

A division of the New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, the Carnegie Center is also very family-oriented and offers its popular “Family Fun Workshops” on the second Saturday of every month. Adults and children work together to complete an art activity related to the current exhibit or holiday at this free, drop-in workshop.

The Carnegie Center for Art and History is housed in the historic and fully accessible Carnegie Library building at 201 E. Spring St. in downtown New Albany. Hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Admission is always free. For more information, call 812-944-7336 or visit www.carnegiecenter.org.

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  1. Exhibit, "Possumhaw Plant Electrics: Drawings and Videos by Julia Oldham"

    Date: 8/27/2010-10/23/2010

    During her time as Bernheim Arboretum's 2010 Artist in Residence, Brooklyn, NY artist Julia Oldham created a series of videos that combine science fiction and performance. She developed a fictional identity as a technician for "Possumhaw Plant Electrics", a company that specializes in measuring radio/electrical emanations from plant forms. Under this guise, Oldham pursued a series of four strange experiments on the arboretum grounds; the resulting videos and preliminary drawings are on display at the Carnegie Center.

  2. Carnegie Free Family Fun Workshop: Apple Head Dolls

    Date: 9/11/2010

    At our September 11 workshop, we will be making Apple Head Dolls, using apples, fabric scraps, cotton, beads and glue. **Parents should bring a clean, empty 16 oz. (or similar) plastic bottle for each child. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Suggested ages 2-12. Pre-registration is required and on a first come, first served basis.

  3. Lunch & Learn: “Green Building Design” with architect Nathan Fuchs

    Date: 9/21/2010

    Join architect Nathan Fuchs for a discussion about designing buildings with green design principles and integrating LEED and environmentally friendly design into both old and new buildings. Registration is required. You are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch; drinks are provided.

  4. Lunch & Learn “Why Stormwater Matters & What Can We Do” with Joshua Poe, The Center for Environmental Policy and Management

    Date: 10/19/2010

    Joshua Poe, from the Center for Environmental Policy and Management, will discuss the effects of stormwater and what we each can do to help calm the floods. He will also share alternative strategies for stormwater management and discuss how sustainable stormwater management could be used as a redevelopment effort through beautification, traffic calming, creating greenspace, encouraging walkability and cycling, and fostering economic development. Registration required. You are welcome to bring a brown bag lunch; drinks are provided. Sponsored by the Carnegie Center, Inc.