Primary Colours is pleased to announce a partnership with the Governor Bob Orr Indiana Entrepreneurial Fellowship and their annual holiday fundraiser, Tree Luggers.

In an effort to raise money for the Fellowship, local churches, and local charitable organizations–including Primary Colours–current Orr Fellows will be picking up Christmas trees from houses and transporting them to nearby Indy Parks locations where they will be recycled into mulch.

Just think: You don’t have to mess with needles and sap in your car, and you can help support two great local organizations!

Tree Luggers will be servicing neighborhoods on the near north side of Indianapolis, including Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, Broad Ripple, Carmel, and Fishers.

So how do I sign-up?!

1. If paying via credit card, check, or cash please go to www.treeluggers.org to complete the necessary materials.
2. If paying by check or cash, please call Katie Veatch at (317) 396-9107 to leave a detailed message with your name, address, phone number, email address, and the date you want your tree picked up.  On the pick-up day, leave your donation in a zip-lock bag under the doormat or in your mailbox and we will leave a receipt in the same location.

When registering for pick-up, please mention that you learned of the fundraiser through Primary Colours. By doing so, you’ll ensure that half of your donation will be shared with Primary Colours.  Although not required, the recommended donation for pick-up is $20.  All donations to Primary Colours and Tree Luggers are 100% tax deductible.  On your pick-up day, please leave your undecorated tree at the curb before noon.

About the Orr Fellowship

The Orr Fellowship is a two-year professional program designed to combat “brain drain” in Indiana by placing the state’s top college graduates with high growth, entrepreneurial companies in central Indiana.  Tree Luggers raised $4,000 last year, but with great support from the Indianapolis community, they believe they can double that amount this year for the Orr Fellowship and other charitable organizations in the community. Learn about the Fellows, the host companies, etc. here.

As an artist, you go by the name “Mamus.” How and why did you come up with that name?
I’ve had that nickname for a while. When a friend’s child was learning to speak, he wasn’t able to say James…thus Mamus [maym-uhs] was born. When I started showing my work I wanted to use something that [...]

Dear Friends of Primary Colours,
As the sole employee of an amazing arts organization, I may just have the best job in Indianapolis. But it is all of us who help make our city a thriving environment that showcases and develops professional visual artists and educates, entertains, and engages audiences. With your support as an audience [...]

Some of our TOYS artists are showing their pieces created for last week’s show at the Indypendent Holiday Art Sale on Friday, Dec. 11 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Indianapolis Artsgarden in Circle Center Mall.
Dan Thompson and Ryan Alvis will definitely be showcasing their pieces. William Denton Ray, who also painted up [...]

For all of our shows, we strive to put on something beyond the usual art opening, which stereotypically is often replete with “Three Buck Chuck” wine and crudités with ranch dressing.
Nope. For TOYS, we wanted to make it special, dammit.
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It was a simple request. “When you’re coming out to our TOYS event, bring some dry pasta.” Well, you came through. Boy, did you come through!

You contributed 144 pounds of dry pasta for our friends at Second Helpings.

We’re fond of saying that “It’s about the art,” but this time of year, in these tough times, it’s about so much more. Your small gesture made a big difference.

Thank you.

It’s the return of our invitational holiday art exhibit, TOYS. This year’s art showcase will take place at ArtBox in the Stutz II Building – 217 West 10th St. Suite 125 (map) on Friday, December 4, 2009 from 5 to 10 p.m. This seventh installment will exhibit art fashioned around the theme of toys, and invited artists are free to interpret the theme however they see fit.

Just ask Alyssa Star, a grad student at IUPUI. She attended Art vs. Art, bought a painting, had a blast, and filled out our audience survey.

We randomly chose her out of all the completed surveys to win dinner for two at Brugge Brasserie in Broad Ripple.

Congratulations, Alyssa!

How did you feel about winning Art vs. Art?

I was super-crazy exited and surprised! I really didn’t think I was going to win. I don’t really have any friends in the Art Community, so the only people I had there with me were my fiancée, Mom, Dad, little sister, and my Fed-ex guy! I guess they’re all real loud-mouths.
It seemed like an easy decision for you to put the winning painting up for auction and face the Wheel of Death. Why?

I painted the Bride of Frankenstein, and I really kinda wanted to see her die. I adore poetic irony in art. I mean, I didn’t want her to get beaten by another painting, but if I had taken her home with me that night, I probably would have had to cut her to pieces. It was irresistibly perfect.
So, you met your fiancée at a previous Art vs. Art?

Ya. One year ago. There was a lot of celebrating for us that night. Prize money = us eloping.
What’s your day job?

I work for Kids Ink, a local independent bookstore, in their school and library division. I mostly work on bringing authors and illustrators into the state and getting them into schools to encourage creative writing and drawing.

We sold a good amount of merch* at the Main Event, but we still have some Ts left. If you’d like to buy a shirt, contact Hugh Vandivier at hugh@primarycolours.org.

Check it out…

We have a limited amount of 2009 Art vs. Art shirts left for $15. They’re available in men’s M and women’s S, M, and L.

The ever-popular “Less TV More Art” shirts are almost sold out! You can get one of the few remaining (in men’s L only) for $15.

Don’t worry, we’ll definitely make more!

We have other t-shirts from previous shows on sale at the clearance price of $10!

* That’s merchandise for those of us newly familiar with event lingo.