Arts & Culture

Johnson Simon, MFA’18, may have been born with cerebral palsy, yet he wasn’t about to let this stop him from bringing his vision to life. The Herron School of Art…

With more than 30 years professional experience as a designer-builder, Nancy R. Hiller, BA’93, MA’96, has run her own custom furniture and cabinetry business in Bloomington, Ind., since the mid-1990s.…

Michael Anthony, BA’90, who is featured in the Summer 2018 issue of the IU Alumni Magazine, got his culinary start in a Bloomington rental house by testing recipes on his roommates before…

As a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine for more than 30 years, Anthony DeCurtis, MA’77, PhD’80, has interviewed dozens of musicians — John Mellencamp, DM Hon’00 (read the 1989 article at…

Here’s a bit of irony: Author Jason Vuic, PhD’05, has become a success by writing about failure. The books he wrote about the joke-of-a-car Yugo, and the comically terrible Tampa…

The writer Meg Cabot’s, BA’91, life could have gone in an entirely different artistic direction. Raised in Bloomington, Ind., the author of The Princess Diaries attended IU, lived in the…

In 2015, IU Bloomington Associate Professor Ross Gay’s latest book of poetry, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, was shortlisted for the National Book Award. Though he didn’t win that prize, a…

Indiana University is home to one of the nation’s most prestigious schools of music, the Jacobs School of Music. So it may come as no surprise that IU alumni, faculty,…

In 1982, Glenn Gass became the first professor in the United States to offer a course in the history of rock ‘n’ roll within a school of music. To this…

Ross Fazekas, BS’88, has been attending music concerts since 1982. He keeps every ticket stub and proudly displays hundreds of them in poster-size frames on the wall of his office…

As a longtime lover of lakes and antiques, painter Douglas David, BFA’79, has seen his fair share of wooden water skis that have been relegated to retirement in a fiberglass…

Christopher D. White’s sculptures play with the themes of growth and decay. He finds beauty in both, and he captures that in his sculptures. “Growth and decay are both processes…