• Ball State University’s Board of Trustees approved a proposal during Friday’s meeting to dedicate
Ginn Woods as a state nature preserve. President Geoffrey S. Mearns planned to sign the proposal and send the application to the Indiana Natural Resources Commission for approval on May 18.
Owned and maintained by Ball State, Ginn Woods is Indiana’s second-largest protected old-growth forest, according to a release. The land is 161 acres and is the largest and highest quality woodland in East Central Indiana. Ginn Woods is located along the Mississinewa River corridor in a predominantly agricultural and unincorporated area in northern Delaware County.
First Thursday to display art around downtown Muncie
Star Press
MUNCIE, Ind. March s First Thursday gallery walk in downtown Muncie will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday, March 4.
Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 520 E. Main St., will have an opening reception for Fire an Art Exhibition by Scott Livingston, on display in the Judith Barnes Memorial Gallery on the second floor. In his debut exhibit, local artist Livingston shares what remains of his abstract pieces after they ve been engulfed in flames. The opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday. The exhibit will remain on display until March 26. A virtual gallery will be available on the Cornerstone Center for the Arts website during this time. This event is free and open to the public, but visitors are asked to follow social distancing guidelines and wear masks.
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Tom Heatherly is the Muncie Artists Guild’s featured artist for March 2021. Heatherly worked at Muncie Community Schools for more than two decades before retiring in 2011. Since then, he has been pursuing his passion for oil painting.
He has won several awards for his paintings in the past 10 years, including the People s Choice Award at the 2019 Muncie Artists Guild’s Annual Show.
Heatherly prefers to paint people, landscapes and buildings. His wartime experience also influences his artwork. Heatherly is a Vietnam War Army veteran who served in the 25th Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne Division 1970-71. He has created several paintings of soldiers in action from this time period. One of these paintings is on permanent display in the Yorktown American Legion.