This month's exhibition documents the intertwining of Todd Matus' photography and violin making careers.  In 1988, after teaching photography for several years at the Herron School of Art, a friend suggested a summer job working on violins from Bulgaria.  The first thing he found was that he could contribute to the visual appearance of the instruments, increasing sales of these beautiful instruments. This lead in turn to the big adventure of traveling in communist Eastern Europe, establishing a violin atelier in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1994, and working with associates in their struggle to adapt to life after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

 The exhibit consists of large format photographs documenting this adventure, many of which appear in Matus' book Broken Views.  Also displayed in the exhibit are violins crafted by Indiana makers Alex Leyvand, Ted Skreko, Chris Ulbricht, and Todd Matus.

 The month of September brings a celebration of the violin to Indianapolis. This is the first time the International Violin Competition of  Indianapolis and the Violin Society of America's Violin Making Competition will be meeting concurrently.