Discounted art museum gifts on sale this week

The IU Art Museum is not only for fine arts majors. \nIn addition to the three main galleries that the museum features, this week the art museum will pull triple duty as it coordinates two sales aimed at all students.\nThe IU Art Museum's Angles Café & Gift Shop will host its annual Labor Day sidewalk sale. The sale will run 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday with free coffee samples available to those who browse the sale between 8:30 and 11 a.m., according to a media release.\nItems on sale include those just in such as opalescent jewelry and home decorations, including furniture and vases. Clearance-priced summer items are 20 to 50 percent off their original prices. \nAll the items are inspired by art in the museum's three main galleries.\nAlso Thursday the art museum, in conjunction with the Art History Association, will be hosting Decorate Your Digs! 6th Annual Frame, Poster and Book sale. Items available for purchase include gently used fine arts and nonfine arts books, metal and wood frames, pre-cut acid-free mats, UV-blocking Plexiglas, wire-frame hangers and limited-edition fine arts posters.\nThe sale is 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday in the art museum's Thomas T. Solley second floor atrium.\nProceeds benefit the Art History Association and the IU Art Museum's works-on-paper department -- a collection that Emily Powell, the museum's external relations manager, said is much larger and more renowned than students might recognize.\n"Pieces in this collection are usually on loan to other museums," Powell said.