Muncie Neighborhoods

John C. Gonzalez: Checkpoint: Interactive Artworks & Experimental Play
2026-01-09 10:00 - 2026-01-10 16:00, 2026-01-13 10:00 - 2026-01-16 16:00, 2026-01-20 10:00 - 2026-01-23 16:00, 2026-01-27 10:00 - 2026-01-29 16:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery, Art and Journalism Building, 1101 N. MiKinley Ave., Muncie, Indiana, 47306
This exhibition runs January 7-29
John C. Gonzalez is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, sculpture, painting, performance, writing, music, game design, and socially engaged projects. Deeply collaborative in nature, his work often blurs the lines between artist, viewer, and participant, challenging conventional notions of authorship and production. Gonzalez frequently partners with individuals or institutions not traditionally associated with artmaking to create pieces that reflect shared labor, conversation, and experience. These conversations result in works that are as much about the process and relationships as they are about the final product. Through his ongoing exploration of labor, cooperation, and institutional critique, Gonzalez’s practice offers a reflective and often playful lens on the social systems that shape artistic and everyday life. Whether building systems that critique their own fabrication, facilitating game-based art experiences, or searching for meaning in collective action, he consistently seeks to expand the role of the artist beyond the studio and into the shared spaces of work, play, and community. Gonzalez lives in Rhode Island and teaches drawing and game design at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI.
The exhibition Checkpoint: Interactive Artworks & Experimental Play will include several interactive and game-adjacent artworks in the galleries. These works will include images, performance, and site-specific works that will solicit viewer engagement and provide space for unexpected connections and exchanges.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday: 10 A.M. – 4 P.M. Closed weekends and all Ball State breaks and holidays.

Neighborhood Leadership Council (NLC) Training - Recruitment
2026-01-20 18:00 - 19:00 | EB & Bertha C Ball Center, 400 W. Minnetrista Blvd., Muncie, IN, 47303, United States
Thanks to funding provided by CenterPoint Energy Foundation, we have developed a training schedule for our Neighborhood Leadership Council / CenterPoint Scholar meetings that we hope will help build everyone’s leadership capacity. This month’s topic is recruitment!
Come hungry! We always provide dinner at the start of the training.

Tom Shah Memorial Concert
2026-02-03 19:30 - 21:00 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
Enjoy a concert of standard jazz favorites and original compositions with the Ball State University Jazz Ensembles in honor of alum and trumpet player Tom Shah. The ensembles are under the direction of Mark Buselli.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall.
General Public: $8 in advance / $10 at the door
Seniors: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
BSU Faculty/Staff: $5 in advance / $7 at the door
Students: free* in advance / $5 at the door
*One (1) free student ticket per ID is available in advance at the College of Fine Arts Box Office
Purchase Options
Online at bsu.tix.com
Phone: 765-285-8749
In person: Monday through Friday from Noon to 5 p.m., or starting 1 hour before the performance
**Please note: As part of our commitment to sustainability, all College of Fine Arts tickets are paperless and are accessible via email confirmation. Your confirmation email contains your digital tickets which can be scanned at the door from your mobile device, or you can print your digital tickets at home to be scanned. There is no need to visit Will Call prior to the performance.
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Metered parking is available on the first floor of the garage until 7 p.m. at which time parking is free.

Arts Alive!: Jeffrey Gibson
2026-02-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Ball State University, Pruis Hall, 600 N. McKinley Ave, Muncie, Indiana, 47303
Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972, Colorado) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, installation, video art, and performance. He is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and is half Cherokee. In his work, Gibson combines Native American traditions and materials with visuals from Modernism to explore the connections between personal identity, culture, and history and how these elements influence each other. He grew up in Germany, South Korea, and England, and in each of these multicultural environments, he found friendships and connections in the music scenes. Following this influence, song lyrics and costumes are important elements in his work, along with objects associated with Indigenous culture and ceremonies such as leather, beadwork, drums, and metal jingles. Gibson received his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and his MA from the Royal College of Art. He was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Claremont Graduate University in 2016. Gibson has received distinguished awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution), TED Foundation, and the Jerome Hill Foundation. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2019. Notable solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Brooklyn Art Museum, Times Square Arts, Blanton Museum of Art, Wellin Museum of Art, The New Museum, and Denver Art Museum.

Balls Balls Balls by Alice Tuan
2026-02-06 19:30 - 2026-02-08 22:00, 2026-02-13 19:30 - 2026-02-14 22:00, 2026-02-14 14:30 - 17:00 | Ball State Oakwood Building, Rm 154, 2501 N Oakwood Ave, Muncie, IN, 47303
Directed by Veronica Santoyo
Original Dramaturgy by Diana Grisanti
February 6-8, 13-14 at 7:30 p.m. | February 14 at 2:30 p.m. | Oakwood 154
It’s the day of The Big Game, and the citizenry is aflutter. The football bros are hungry for blood, the ESL kids are hungry for knowledge, and the hunger strikers are just hungry. Meanwhile, Nubu, a newcomer to our world, considers the meaning of life. When the The Big Game gets cancelled, a group of intrepid weirdos decides to throw an epic DIY costume party—a ball! Balls Balls Balls is a strange and exuberant new work that asks, “Can you imagine a world where we all make bread and break bread together?”
Written by award-winning playwright Alice Tuan, Balls Balls Balls was commissioned by the Ball State Department of Theatre and Dance. We’ll present the script as an on-book reading with choreography. No play is complete without an audience, so we invite you—yes, you!—to participate in the developmental process. Each performance will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and production team. Come take part in the future of American theatre!
Commissioned by the Department of Theatre and Dance of Ball State University
Tickets are available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office located at Sursa Hall in person, by phone at 765-285-8749, or online.

Faculty Artist Series: Elisha Willinger (clarinet)
2026-02-08 15:00 - 16:00 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
The Faculty Artist Series features School of Music faculty sharing their talent and passion for music with the campus and community. Program to include music by Argentinean and French composers. Free and open to the public with livestream available.

Blueprints for Bahay-Bahayan - An Artist Talk with Cheeny Celebrado-Royer
2026-02-10 18:00 - 19:00 | Ball State Art and Journalism, Rm 225, 1101 N McKinley Ave, Muncie, IN, 47304
Cheeny Celebrado-Royer (b. Naga City, Philippines) is a multidisciplinary artist working with found and discarded materials to create installations, sculptures, and drawings that explore precarity, memory, and displacement. Drawing from decaying architectures and chroma-key aesthetics, she maps fragments of space—wreckage, green or blue tape—into constellations of unstable time and place. Her work reimagines drawing as a form of mapping, assembling familiar-yet-elusive icons into landscapes shaped by liminality. Through building from residue, she explores what might resemble home—transient, cartographic, unresolved.
She is currently a studio fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and serves as an Associate Professor in Experimental and Foundation Studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (Mount Royal School of Art). Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Columbia College, Louisiana Tech University School of Design, and the RISD Museum.

Neighborhood Council Leadership (NLC) Meeting - Stakeholder Meet and Greet & CenterPoint Scholar Presentations
2026-02-17 18:00 - 19:00 | EB & Bertha C Ball Center, 400 W. Minnetrista Blvd., Muncie, IN, 47303, United States
Thanks to funding provided by CenterPoint Energy Foundation, we have developed a training schedule for our Neighborhood Leadership Council / CenterPoint Scholar meetings that we hope will help build everyone’s leadership capacity.
Come hungry! We always provide dinner at the start of the training.

Chamber Choir and Concert Choir
2026-02-21 19:30 - 21:00 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
Hear the Chamber Choir and the Concert Choir live in concert! Under the direction of Andrew Crow and Kerry Glann, the Ball State Choirs present a series of concerts each year featuring a wide range of music from around the world and across the centuries.
The University Choral Union is a large and lively mixed choir comprised of approximately 100 students that performs a variety of literature, from multicultural pieces to show tunes. The Cardinal Chorus is a tenor-bass ensemble.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office in person, online at bsu.tix.com, or by phone at 765-285-8749.
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Parking in this garage is free on weekends.

Ball State Symphony Orchestra
2026-02-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
See the Ball State Symphony Orchestra live in concert! The Ball State Symphony Orchestra is a flagship ensemble of the School of Music that performs orchestral music from a wide variety of backgrounds and time periods.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office in person, online at bsu.tix.com, or by phone at 765-285-8749.

2026 IDEA Conference
2026-03-07 09:00 - 15:00
Join us for our FREE, annual IDEA Conference! Over 100 of Muncie’s most active local leaders will gather to listen, learn, and meet like-minded individuals to share ideas and best practices. More information to come.

Public Artist Talk: Nora Krug on "Belonging"
2026-03-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
Please note: this event is at Sursa Performance Hall.
Join DOMA at Sursa Hall (located in the Music Instruction Building on the southeast corner of McKinley and Riverside Avenues) when award-winning artist Nora Krug will discuss her work and DOMA’s Spring exhibition Nora Krug: Belonging.
Visit bsu.edu/doma for more information on the exhibition and other events. This lecture is free and open to the public with no registration required.
Image: Cover illustration for Belonging, by Nora Krug © 2018 Nora Krug. All Rights Reserved.

Cardinal Chorus and University Choral Union
2026-03-15 15:00 - 16:30 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
Hear the Cardinal Chorus and the University Choral Union live in concert! Under the direction of Andrew Crow and Kerry Glann, the Ball State Choirs present a series of concerts each year featuring a wide range of music from around the world and across the centuries.
The University Choral Union is a large and lively mixed choir comprised of approximately 100 students that performs a variety of literature, from multicultural pieces to show tunes. The Cardinal Chorus is a tenor-bass ensemble.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office in person, online at bsu.tix.com, or by phone at 765-285-8749.
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Parking in this garage is free on weekends.

Clay Guild Sale
2026-03-18 10:00 - 18:00 | Ball State Art and Journalim, Atrium, 1101 N McKinley Ave, Muncie, IN, 47304
The Clay Guild is hosting a sale to support their trip to NCECA! Stop by the Atrium to shop a variety of objects from functional ware like mugs and bowls to sculptural work!

Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance's production of CATS
2026-03-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Emens Auditorium, 1800 W. Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN, 47306
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by T.S. Eliot
Directed and Choreographed by Anne Beck
Musical Direction from Michael Rafter
March 20-21 at 7:30 p.m. | March 22 at 2:30 p.m. | Emens Auditorium
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball! One by one, they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
CATS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Really Useful Group. http://www.concordtheatricals.com
Tickets are available through the Emens Auditorium box office in person, by phone at 765-285-1539, or online.
General Public: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
Faculty/Staff/Students/Seniors: $15 in advance, $17 at the door
***Ticketed through Emens/Ticketmaster

Ball State University Department of Theatre and Dance's production of CATS
2026-03-21 19:30 - 22:00 | Emens Auditorium, 1800 W. Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN, 47306
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by T.S. Eliot
Directed and Choreographed by Anne Beck
Musical Direction from Michael Rafter
March 20-21 at 7:30 p.m. | March 22 at 2:30 p.m. | Emens Auditorium
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball! One by one, they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
CATS is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Really Useful Group. http://www.concordtheatricals.com
Tickets***
Tickets are available through the Emens Auditorium box office in person, by phone at 765-285-1539, or online.
General Public: $18 in advance, $20 at the door
Faculty/Staff/Students/Seniors: $15 in advance, $17 at the door
***Ticketed through Emens/Ticketmaster

Women of Song Concert
2026-03-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Sursa Performance Hall, 1809 W Riverside Ave., Muncie
Enjoy a celebration of treble-voice music featuring Ball State’s Vox Anima, Indy’s White River Sound, and Anderson University’s Vola Voce!
Program to include music by Elaine Hagenberg, Laura Jeksabone, Melissa Dunphy, Jocelyn Hagen, and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken”.
Tickets available through the College of Fine Arts Box Office in person, online at bsu.tix.com, or by phone at 765-285-8749.
Parking is available in the McKinley Parking Garage (entrance on Ashland Avenue) located immediately south of Sursa Hall. Metered parking is available on the first floor of the garage until 7 p.m. at which time parking is free.

Animation Showcase
2026-03-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery, Art and Journalism Building, 1101 N. MiKinley Ave., Muncie, Indiana, 47306
March 25 to April 10, 2026
The School of Art invites the public to attend a showcase of work by students from the BFA in Visual Arts/Animation program, including the Animation Production, Game Art/Design, Illustration, and VFX concentrations. Students will display artworks created as part of their schoolwork, representing a dynamic range concepts and styles. This is a great chance to see the exciting art being made by some of the School of Art’s Animation Majors!
Reception is from 4 – 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1.
All exhibitions will be in The Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery, just off the Atrium Food Court in the Arts & Journalism building. Free and open to the public.

Glass Alliance Egg Sale
2026-03-28 09:00 - 12:00 | Minnetrista Museum and Gardens, 1200 North Minnetrista Parkway, Muncie, IN, 47303
It’s time for the Glass Alliance’s Annual Egg Sale!
Head to the Minnetrista Museum and Gardens Education Center in Oakhurst Gardens for the Annual Spring Glass Egg Sale, where you can purchase beautifully hand-crafted glass eggs and other themed pieces made by Ball State University students from the Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass. Each unique piece makes a perfect keepsake or gift.
The Glass Alliance Egg Sale & Hunt is presented in partnership with Minnetrista Museum and Gardens.

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways
2026-03-31 20:00 - 22:00 | Emens Auditorium, 1800 W. Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN, 47306
Bob Dylan is returning to Emens Auditorium on his 2026 ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ Tour!
Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. As a musician, he has shaped popular music in innumerable ways — from inspiring the Beatles and bringing folk-rock into the mainstream to proving that electric guitars could be as revolutionary as acoustic ones.
Bob Dylan’s career has lasted the better part of sixty years now. He has never gotten by on sentimentality or nostalgia. He has never repeated his successes. Dylan has always pushed his work ahead.

Animation Showcase Reception
2026-04-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery, Art and Journalism Building, 1101 N. MiKinley Ave., Muncie, Indiana, 47306

Escapades Eggcellent Easter
2026-04-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Escapades Family Fun Center, 4241 W. Williamsburg Blvd., Muncie, IN
Join us for Escapades Eggcellent Easter!
This special event includes an indoor Easter egg hunt, breakfast and photos with the Easter Bunny, plus chances to win Easter baskets full of prizes, and unlimited playtime at Escapades after the event!
Space is limited and advance tickets are required.
Tickets include:

Access to the Escapades indoor Easter Egg Hunt
Photos & breakfast with the Easter Bunny
Raffle entry to win an Easter Basket full of prizes
Unlimited playtime at Escapades the day of the event (arcade games separate)

Ticket information:
Kids ages 1-15: $30.00 each
Adults: Free*
Members: $20.00 each
*Adults are free, but have an option to purchase a breakfast ticket for $10.00 each.
Please arrive before 10:15am to guarantee your participation in the Easter Egg Hunt. Guests arriving after 10:15am may not be able to participate in the Easter Egg Hunt.
Visit EscapadesFamilyFun.com for tickets & info or call (765) 289-1000.

A Journey in Microcosm - An Artist Talk with Jiyong Lee
2026-04-09 18:00 - 19:00 | Ball State Art and Journalism, Rm 225, 1101 N McKinley Ave, Muncie, IN, 47304
Jiyong Lee is a studio artist and educator based in Carbondale, Illinois. He has taught at Southern Illinois University since 2005, where he leads the glass program. Originally from Seoul, Korea, he received his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Lee has taught and exhibited internationally, with work shown in venues including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, and the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize. His sculptures are held in collections such as The Corning Museum of Glass, the Barry Art Museum, Samsung, and Chanel.

University Singers 62nd Annual Spectacular
2026-04-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Emens Auditorium, 1800 W. Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN, 47306
Celebrate 62 fabulous years with the Ball State University Singers, Indiana’s Official Goodwill Ambassadors! The University Singers have been recognized since 1964 as one of America’s top collegiate entertainment organizations. You won’t want to miss this gold-studded, toe-tapping, finger-snapping, and hand-clapping two-hour extravaganza!
A few notable songs to highlight include:
“Think” – Aretha Franklin
“21 Guns” – Green Day
“Birdland” – Josef Zawinul
“A Million Dreams”, as seen in The Greatest Showman.
Tickets available through the Emens Auditorium Box Office and Ticketmaster.
The Children’s Show will be Friday, April 10 at 11 a.m.

University Singers' 62nd Annual Spectacular
2026-04-11 15:00 - 17:30 | Emens Auditorium, 1800 W. Riverside Ave, Muncie, IN, 47306
