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FESTIVAL ART SHOW:
DOWN THE WATER ROAD

02 Owen Community House
Tuesday July 7 at 6:30pm free

Featured Artists: Laura Foster-Nicholson, Clement Penrose, John Brooks, Janet Lorence,
Rita & Robin Davis, and works from: The New Harmony Gallery Of Contemporary Art and The
Hoosier Salon-New Harmony.

The New Harmony Music Festival & School salutes its parent organization, The New Harmony Artists Guild, founded more
than a decade ago by painter and songwriter, Clement Biddle Penrose VII. The Guild has served the New Harmony arts and
music community in different ways at different times. Penrose and his fellow guildsmen call it “a creative incubator.” The guild
lends musical instruments and gives music lessons to young or needy students, provides sound equipment to performers, and serves
as a sort of office and drop-in center for those needing a printer, a desk, internet service, or the odd ham sandwich. The Owen
Community House is a concert hall, crafts center, and stop for weary travelers. The “music circles” that meet weekly have their own
night for their particular style or group of pickers and jammers. Thus the Artists Guild is truly diverse. Without the determination
of its membership to share music, and the ongoing support of the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation, who have provided a home for the
Guild in the lovely old Community House since its inception, none of this would be possible. The festival is particularly grateful for
the hard work of local guild volunteers Kathy Redmond, Barb Lance, Randy Pease, John Martin, Owen Lewis, and Guild Director
Penrose for their support. We look forward to future projects under the auspices of The New Harmony Artists Guild that will bring
music and art to the community as we grow and change.

New Harmony Artists Guild Projects for 2015: Waveland
Music Circle, Visitnewharmony.com, JBO Lecture Series,
Artist Residency projects, etc...

This year’s art show features the works of local artists and
galleries on the theme of rivers, waterways and streams
of life. The Owen Community House is on North Street,
just south of and across the street from the Roofless Church.

In addition to the music festival project, The New
Harmony Artists Guild is proud to announce that the
visitnewharmony.com website project was accepted into
our organization as a non-profit project. The genesis of the
project began with a conversation in 2012 that grew into
reality when the Efroymson Family Fund of Indianapolis,
Harmonie Associates, the New Harmony Artists Guild and
an anonymous local donor got on board to create some new
“tech tools” for New Harmony visitors.

In 2013, professional designers, photographers and writers
built the VisitNewHarmony.com mobile apps and
website. The project was literally “launched” publicly on
March 15th when two hundred sky lanterns were released
in the center of New Harmony against an azure evening sky.

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