Creative Arts Centre Events

Visit the Creative Arts Council’s Balentine Gallery at the Arts, Commerce & Visitors Centre, 211 West Water Street, Bluffton, Indiana 46714. (260)-824-5222 or www.wellscocreativearts.com Find event & membership information, view exhibits, purchase tickets, take classes, or volunteer.
Hours: Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Mondays until 7 p.m. (starting Sept. 28) or by arrangement.

IN THE BALENTINE GALLERY
85TH HOOSIER SALON TOUR—including the state’s Best of Show, Sept. 12-Oct. 3.
INDIANA WILDLIFE ARTISTS ASSOCIATION—Oct. 15-Nov. 28. Free public reception on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2 to 4 p.m.
SCHOOL OF BALLET
FALL CLASSES—Fall term ballet lesson begin Sept. 28. Registration welcome! Ask for a registration packet.
EVENTS.
TRAVELOGUE SERIES—Begins on Thursday< Oct. 15, 7 p.m. with Dale Johnson’s cinema “Beneath the Jungle,” $6 adults and $2 children, season tickets $20 (4 shows).
OUTDOOR PAINT OUT—Saturday, Oct. 24, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sign in and return to ACVC terrace for show and tell.
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP—Saturday, Oct. 3, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., $50, paint an autumn scene. Reservations needed.
BRAVO—Singing and choreography for youth with Susie Wood, 10 weekly lessons, begins Sept. 29, $105, requires registration.
GROUPS
CAC BOARD OF DIRECTORS—Monday, Sept. 21, 5:15 p.m.
READERS CIRCLE —Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1 p.m., meeting with Bayview Reading Club. Ruth Bradley reports on Lincoln biographies.
ARTISTS IN ACTION—Fridays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by arrangement in Studio B.
CULINARY ARTISTS—Thursday, Oct. 15, visit to Satek Winery and stop for luncheon your own, $3 registration needed, host Jeanne Ploetz.
SAVE THE DATE
November 10—Holiday centerpiece project for Food Bank.
November 15—Embassy Theater book singing with Marlyn Koons.
November 22—Asian Arts Day with Prof. Jams Yang: brush stroke, tai chi/martial arts, ehru concert.
December 4-7—Festival of Trees.

THANK-YOUS
* To 20 local artists for the Creative Works show and sale and to event manager Martha Milholland.
* To Charles A. Shepard III and Fort Wayne Museum of Art Outreach for a fine program about Hoosier art and the public for attending, especially the group of CAC founders whose interest and activity is strong in the council’s 35 years.
* To Monika Herzig, Peter Kienle, Dave Hilliker and Dave Streeter for jazz performance and all who attended.
* To Lee and Carolyn Coleman and Lynn Elliott for volunteer work at Jazz on the Patio.
*To Debbie Elkins, Vickie Hunteman and Ted Smith for installation of Hoosier art exhibit now viewable in the Balentine Gallery.
* To CAC artists in action who assisted with the backdrop for the Street Fair Float.
ART QUOTE
“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.”—choreographer Merce Cunningham
Activities of the Creative Arts Council are supported by memberships, sponsors and grants from funders including Arts United, a regional agency; the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts, a national agency. “A great nation deserves great art!”