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Bookmark Indy initiative identifies locations for programs spotlighting local writersA first-of-its-kind literary tour of Indianapolis will feature the stories and perspectives of more than 20 writers who have called the city home. Bookmark Indy is a self-guided outdoor experience of 19 physical sites (and a mobile-friendly website) [Read More.…]
Growing Places Indy to host monthly in-person gardening workshopsBy Jackie Le / Communications coordinator, Growing Places Indy As the warmer weather settles in, local residents can enjoy the outdoors with friends and family while learning various gardening tips and techniques. Beginning Saturday, April 24, [Read More.…]
Soil health to be a theme of zoomed First Friday at Harrison CenterThe Harrison Center will continue in pandemic mode for its First Friday, April 2, opening. The virtual event will spotlight several artists, headed by Shamira Wilson with Collective Breathing in the Harrison Gallery. The exhibit will explore soil [Read More.…]
DC Super Heroes once again solving showing teamwork at The Children’s MuseumThe Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Wonder Woman with the return engagement of the exhibit, DC Super Heroes: Discover Your Superpowers. Continuing through Sept. 26, the exhibit invites children and families [Read More.…]
March Madness theme coming to Athenaeum galleryA hoops-focused exhibit by Chicago artist Nick Conlon, Broken Rims & Dirty Dreams, will be on exhibit in the lobby outside the Athenaeum’s Basile Theatre starting Friday, March 12, with an in-person opening reception on Friday, March 19, and a [Read More.…]
Indiana Repertory Theatre production, NO. 6, explores the human impact of racial injusticeThe Indiana Repertory Theatre will continue its virtual season with NO.6, with streaming M to begin Thursday, March 11, and continue through April 4. The regional theatre premiere for the play by T.J. Young is also the first production in this [Read More.…]
Basketball is subject of latest ‘Shining a Light’ presentationA new light, sound and video projection, Indiana’s Game: A Ball, a Basket and a Dream!, has been developed to honor the city’s and Central Indiana’s hosting of this year’s NCAA “March Madness” tournament, as well as the state’s annual high school [Read More.…]
$1 million grant boosts expansion of Indianapolis Cultural TrailThe plan to extend two legs of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail has received a $1 million grant from the Eli Lilly and Company Foundation. Currently in design, the expansion of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Gene and Marilyn Glick [Read More.…]
Harrison Center’s First Friday to illustrate ideas in dream-like settingsNew oil-on-linen works by Alicia Zanoni will headline the online-only First Friday, March 5, event at the Harrison Center. Zanoni’s exhibit, A Will and Away, will display a sense of moving forward, each painting being in a place traveled to in a [Read More.…]
Game of basketball to be celebrated in Circle City Industrial Complex exhibitThe Schwitzer Gallery will host new work by Nicholas Conlon, a multi-disciplinary artist from Chicago. His show, Broken Rims and Dirty Dreams, will focus on basketball as an art form when the Circle City Industrial Complex Artists continue to host [Read More.…]
Vonnegut Museum’s 10th anniversary has an environmental twistThe Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library is celebrating its 10th anniversary by bringing a year of virtual programs that provide opportunities with The Good Earth: Vonnegut and the Environment. In alignment with programming plans, KVLM has also launched [Read More.…]
Children’s Museum to celebrate Black Lives Matter mural artistsFifteen of the artists who worked on Indy’s Black Lives Matter mural in Downtown Indianapolis this past summer will participate in The Children’s Museum’s First Thursday, Feb. 4, event. They will be showcasing some of their artwork and discussing [Read More.…]
Virtual productions: Indianapolis Ballet, Magic Thread Cabaret …The Indianapolis Ballet will continue in pandemic mode with its first production of 2021, Love Springs Eternal, premiering virtually at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20. Originally scheduled for live performances the mixed-repertoire production will [Read More.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Harrison Center’s virtual First Friday coming on Feb. 5Artist Derrick Carter will present a a variety of sand and acrylic layered paintings as part of Gemini, a virtual exhibit which will be part of the Feb. 5 First Friday activities at the Harrison Center. Additionally, William Denton Ray will present [Read More.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: First Friday continues in virtual mode at Circle City Industrial ComplexProcessed with VSCO with b4 preset Full Circle Nine Gallery will feature Uncredited, a collection of street photography by Peres Shirley, as part of the Virtual First Friday programming on Facebook and Instagram, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5. [Read More.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Indiana Repertory Theatre reveals two more productions in virtual seasonThe first play in The Indiana Repertory Theatre’s Inclusion Series – NO. 6, by T.J. Young, will be the next virtual presentation, to be available via streaming from March 11 to 28. The IRT has also inveiled the following production – Cyrano, based [Read More.…]
THIS JUST IN: Jan. 1 First Friday to once again be ‘virtual’ at Circle City Industrial Complex.Glass Arts Indiana will host a hot-glass “party” during the Jan. 1 First Friday activities at the Circle City Industrial Complex – an event which will once again by “virtual” because of COVID-19 safety guidelines. A recent addition to the CCIC, [Read More.…]
THIS JUST IN: Phoenix plans to create two outdoor performance spacesThe Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre hasn’t been able to stage a live performance during the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean its brain trust hasn’t been working to reach beyond its walls. As a result of that work, the Downtown theater plans to launch [Read More.…]
THIS JUST IN: Group show to highlight Harrison Center’s next First FridayThe Harrison Center will help launch 2021 with a virtual First Friday beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 1. The group show, Pareidolia, will focus on the wonder of clouds with participating artists Kate Oberreich, Johnny McKee, Megan Jefferson, Josh [Read More.…]
Bonus Coverage: December First Friday openings go ‘virtual’ at Harrison Center and Circle City Industrial ComplexThe city’s retreat from spreading COVID-19 cases has prompted local galleries to go back to virtual openings on Friday, Dec. 4, after several months of socially distanced First Fridays. At the Harrison Center, Brrgundy is the theme of its annual [Read More.…]