April 2017
A Southern Perspective
A presentation by Mitzi Davis, New Harmony Clay Project resident artist. Mitzi will speak about her passion for creating functional objects and how she blends her childhood nostalgia into her ceramic artwork. Lecture is free and open to public.
Find out more »September 2017
Harris Dellar Lecture
Harris Deller is interested in contradictions and dualities; paradox, juxtaposition, yin and yang. Using shapes, forms, colors, and textures, he is drawn to abstraction as a way to uncover and make visual those phenomenon. Join us as we explore his extensive career as a ceramic artist and his personal approach to clay as a medium. In his workshop, Deller will construct pottery forms while demonstrating wheel throwing and slab building techniques. He will arrange and activate geometric shapes and patterns…
Find out more »October 2017
Chili Cook-Off
The Friends of the Working Men’s Institute will hold their Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, October 21 on the lawn of the Working Men’s Institute. The Cook-Off will start at 11:30 and will go to 2:30 p.m. when the winner will be announced. Come and cast your vote for the best chili! Tasting tickets are just 50¢ each, plus hot dogs and cookies will also be available to purchase.
Find out more »November 2017
art. beauty. taste.
Join us at the Working Men's Institute as we explore the work of James Lee Webb, our current artist-in-residence. James will speak about his recent body of work in New Harmony, Lexical-gustatory synesthesia as an explorative tool for art making and what the ethos of authenticity means to him through his synesthesia. Lecture is free and open to the public, and hosted by the New Harmony Kiwanis International Club.
Find out more »May 2018
Stone Soup Shakespeare presents The Taming of the Shrew
Stone Soup Shakespeare heads West to explore one of Shakespeare's favorite problem plays The Taming of the Shrew. This comedy finds the Minola sisters, Katherina and Bianca, linked as the younger cannot marry until the older one has. Strong-willed Kate is a bit too much for most of Padua's suitors who are enamored with Bianca's bewitching beauty. When a stranger - Petruchio - comes to town who is as strange as Kate is quick-witted the two seem perfectly fitted, but are they? Will…
Find out more »March 2022
Friends of the Working Men’s Institute Book Sale
The Friends of the Working Men's Institute hold their annual book sale. All proceeds go to support the Working Men's Institute.
Find out more »Friends of the Working Men’s Institute Annual Chili Cook-Off
The Friends of the Working Men's Institute hold their annual Chili Cook-Off on the front lawn of the Working Men's Institute. All proceeds go to support the Working Men's Institute.
Find out more »May 2022
Karen Moser: Teen girls then and now
The 2021 recipient of the Arlene Feiner Memorial Research Grant for Women’s Studies, Karen Moser, will present a lecture about how New Harmony women participated in the Suffrage Movement and how teenage girls today can be inspired by their stories.
Find out more »Friends of the Working Men’s Institute 2022 Lecture Series
Mr. Rod Clark speaks on "The World of Whiskey".
Find out more »WMI Lecture
WMI Vice President, Nathan Maudlin will make a special Memorial Day program about Utah Beach and the D-Day Invasion.
Find out more »August 2022
Friends of the Working Men’s Institute 2022 Lecture Series
Ms. Cathy Grafton speaks about the Bayeux Tapestry.
Find out more »November 2022
Friends of the Working Men’s Institute 2022 Lecture Series
Mrs. Peggy Taylor speaks on weaving, "Craftsmanship: Excellence, Past and Present"
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