Indiana Landmarks to host First Friday art show

Indiana Landmarks will host “Indiana Waterways: The Art of Conservation” during its First Friday art show. The traveling art exhibition was created by five Indiana-based artists with the goal of raising awareness around conservation efforts and use of waterways around Indiana. The exhibition features 100 paintings and is on display at Indiana Landmarks from April 5 to May 3. The paintings will then be auctioned off at Wickliff Auctioneers. “We all now are dealing with the misuse of our waterways, and this exhibition and its book tried to bring awareness to the need to help create green spaces, clean up the trash left when people used the banks of the rivers as dumps,” Avon Waters, lead artist on the project and the CEO of Art Nature Consortium, said in an email to the Recorder.  READ MORE: The solar eclipse is days away, here’s where to watch  Butler University professor and writer Jason Goldsmith penned an essay on the White River, which outlines the history of how the indigenous peoples, and then later minority communities, were displaced during the industrial revolution of the 19th century, Waters said.  In major cities during the 20th century, minority communities were subjected to the pollution...