Wednesday, November 3, 2004

Indianapolis Art Show

For any of you in the general vicinity of Indianapolis, my friend, Kyle Ragsdale, is having an art show November 5 that I highly reccomend. "Honey I'm Home" sounds like it has great potential to create discussion about community, the church, etc. I'm a big believer in the power of the arts to bring about social change in the world. I also am a big fan of Kyle's paintings and am the proud owner of a couple of them.

I think the format for the gallery show sounds original. It should be a wonderful experience. Plus, you get free food. You can't beat that.

3 comments:

Kevin Payne said...

Love the blog you write. I live in the Indy area and will spread the word as much as I can. I think I may know people interested in this.

erika said...

ben, i work for relevant media group, and would like to post your "jay jay" piece on www.relevantnetwork.com. we could post it anonymously if you would like. please shoot me an email: erika@relevantmediagroup.com. word.

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