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“Art is my most enduring achievement. At it’s best it reveals my human nature and exposes my flaws, as much as my inner beauty. Art is the soul of who I am. Growing up in a small community, life opened my eyes at an early age as to how families function and people interact. Art opened my ears , my feelings, and my heart to something beyond myself. During this transition color and texture became an integral part of my life and soon became a part of my work. I want the viewer to see the depth of who I am as well as the people in my life who inspire me. Art controls my spirit, my life, and my world”.
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India Cruse-Griffin began painting at an early age. Family, community and her environment in Richmond, Indiana influenced her early childhood perceptions. Even as a child her works were alive and brilliant with color. As time and life experiences changed her, she began to analyze her work. Remembering the love she had for her warm childhood surroundings and memories are highly visible in her unique mixed media collage images. On the surface India’s work reflects a simplicity and politeness usually associated with childhood memories, however at close inspection between the surface patterns and texture, lies a deeply complex construction of collage and painterly perspective. Cruse-Griffin’s mixed media art includes bold colors, shapes and patterns that tell stories of love, pride, visual culture and spirit of community. Within her work there is the illusion of distance and space created in part by the use of paper and paint that link to complex and extremely detailed images. This constructed sense of space is illuminating within her work and evolves between cubism, and light and dark influences. The colors, the shafts of light and dark, are sharp and controlled and surprising. The result is a pleasing satisfying glimpse of childhood memories for the viewer with streams of color, shape and patterns that form lasting impressions. India Cruse-Griffin earned her B.S. in Art Education at Ball State University in Indiana. In addition she is an arts educator with teaching experience at both the secondary and university level. She is a member of the board of directors of the Richmond Arts Museum, Richmond, Indiana; The Townsend Community Center Board, Richmond, Indiana and The Indiana 2016 Board of Trustees.
RESUME Education B.S. Art Education, Ball State University Muncie, IN Public Collections Indiana State Museum Indiana Governors Residence Permanent collections Reid Memorial Hospital Foundation Permanent Collections Indiana University East Foundation Permanent Collections Indiana University Purdue University Permanent collections Indiana University Bloomington Campus Permanent collection Richmond Art Museum Permanent collections Richmond Community Schools Permanent collections Dunn Center Permanent Collections Publications Maximum Living Magazine 2009 Indiana State Museum Exhibition Publication 2009 Richmond Art Museum: Past Present History 2002 Richmond Art Museum Friends and Neighbors Works and lives of the Artisans Reid Hospital The Art of Healing Permanent Artworks Guide Selected Exhibitions Indiana University East Whitewater Guild 2010 Reid Hospital McDowell Gallery 2010 Governors Arts Award 2009 Indiana State Museum “ Those Who Chose to Stay” June 2009 Cornerstone Center for the Arts featured Artist 2009 Signature Art Gallery “ Group Artist Exhibition May 2009 Arts Place At Center solo exhibition” If it weren’t for them” June 2008 Richmond Symphony Arts Auction 2008, 2009, 2010 White Water Valley Arts Exhibition 2008 ArtJaz Gallery Four Women Exhibition 2007 National Black Fine Arts exhibition 2007, 2008, 2009 Indiana Governors’ Residence Art Exhibition Residence opening 2007 Northern Indiana Arts Association solo exhibition 2006 Sub Station No. 9 Gary Indiana solo exhibition 2006 Indiana University East solo exhibition 2006 Whitewater Valley Art Competition top 10 2006 Indiana University Bloomington exhibition 2005 Richmond Art Museum solo exhibition 2004 Whitewater Valley Art Competition “best of show’ 2004 Kellie Rae Theiss Gallery “Narratives” solo exhibition 2003 I.U.P.U.I. From the Heart solo exhibition 2003 Indiana Arts Commission Community 2003 Awards and Honors Richmond High School Teacher of the Year 2010 Richmond Community Secondary Teacher of the Year 2010 Smart futures award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts 2009 Governors Arts Award Designer 2009 Wayne County Cancer Society Poster designer 2009 Dunn Center 50th Anniversary Billboard artist 2008 Indiana Governors Residence Artist 2006 Indiana State Museum nomination top 100 Artists, 2004 Indiana University East Spring Continuing Education Catalog 2003 Indiana University East catalog 2003 Invitation cover Art to Heart 2002 Townsend Garden Party 2002 Parent Coalition for Literacy poster 2002 YWCA Leadership award for Contribution to the Arts2002 First place award Richmond Art Museum 2001 Richmond Art Museum Merit award 2000 Whitewater Art Exhibition Indiana university East “Best of show” 2000, 01,02,03,04 Richmond Art Museum first place Most Original Artist Award 1999 Professional affiliations Indiana University East Humanities Board of Directors 2010 Indiana Arts Commission 2000-2007 Richmond Art Museum 1998-2005 Townsend Community Center Board member 2000-2002
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ArtJaz Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Signature Art Gallery Tallahassee, Florida
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