Events on September 29, 2026
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Beginnings 2026: The First-Year Foundations Student Show
10am @
The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery, Ball State University
Art and Journalism Building, First Floor
Beginnings 2026: The First-Year Foundations Student Show
September 4 – October 9, 2026 | Reception and awards ceremony: September 11, 4-6 p.m.
The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery
Normal Hours
- M – F: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
- Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.
The Beginnings 2026 exhibition showcases student artwork completed in the past academic year in School of Art First-Year Foundations courses. We are pleased to offer awards in four categories (2D, 3D, 4D, and Drawing) and a Best in Show Award that is generously sponsored by Art Mart in the Village. Join us for the reception and awards ceremony during BSU Family Weekend, Friday, September 11 from 4 to 6pm.
Foundations provides all first-year students in the studio art, animation, graphic design, and art education programs with the fundamental concepts of art and design through an intensive year-long studio-based experience in AFA 101 Drawing Studio, ADS 101 2D Foundations, ADS 102 3D Foundations, ADS 103 4D Foundations. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes critical thinking and making skills, conceptual development, process, collaboration, and experimentation. Students are introduced to the School of Art’s learning approaches and gain a deeper understanding of historical and contemporary practices in art and design.
3rd World Study Group: Black and Palestinian Solidarity
5pm @
Muncie Liberation Studio
next to Chavas and China Express
1809 W University Avenue
This week for our Third World Study Group we will be looking at selected writings from Africans in America who connected their struggle for liberation with the struggle for liberation and decolonization in Palestine. Organizers and theoreticians such as Malcolm X, Kwame Ture, and Shaka Shakur have demonstrated through practice what internationalism really means and looks like.
Karaoke Fundraiser - Grubbs For Clerk
6pm to 8pm @
RoHo's Martini Bar
308 S Walnut St, Muncie, IN 47305, USA
Cost: $20 Donation or $40 VIP Donation Ages: 21+ 
Join Cameron for a night of Karaoke and raise money for a final push in October before the November election. Tuesday, September 29, we'll be having a great time at Roho's Martini Bar in downtown Muncie, starting at 6pm and you're invited to this 21+ event!
You can donate to join us or you can donate more for a VIP ticket, which will get you a free drink, priority access for singing, a commemorative keychain AND a $5 coupon for future use at Roho's. There's also an option to have your business or organization promoted by Cameron for 30 seconds during the event.
Your help will assist Cameron in getting more signs and materials while helping with social media awareness as he pushes to become Delaware County's next Clerk of the Courts.
We look forward to seeing you there!
- Open mic night 7pm to 10pm @ Elm Street Brewing Company Elm st 519 N Elm Street, Muncie Indiana
Open mic night every Tuesday at Elm St. Brewery, everyone is welcome! Student Discount with an ID
