July 4th festivities return, Woodruff-styleJuly 24, 2021
Slides from left to right:Team Woodruff shows off its trophy after earning the gold at the Eastside Games.Nora Pidgeon and Charlotte Powers in the Fourth of July parade.Patriotic paraders take part in the Fourth of July festivities.The Woodruff [Read More.…]
First Friday report: Updates from the Harrison Center, Circle City Industrial Complex and moreJuly 23, 2021
Works by Becca Ito will be on display in the Harrison Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. First Friday, Aug. 6, in the Harrison Center, which will be open for full capacity and without any requirements for advance registration. Ito’s exhibit, In This Sign, [Read More.…]
Row report: Summer rains bring flowers – and floodingJuly 23, 2021
By Julie L Rhodes, collective impact director, Reconnecting to Our Waterways While all that rain we received in June and July was great for our gardens and green lawns, all that rain also meant more mowing and weeding and more flooding on your [Read More.…]
When Helio, true to his word, returned to The Old NorthsideJune 25, 2021
By Jameson Terzini / Old Northside resident The Lead Up: It was the warm and sunny morning of May 3 and my wife, Kimmy, was walking our chocolate lab, Frank, as she normally would as I got ready for work. Upon her return home she surprised me with a [Read More.…]
First Friday, July 2: Reports from the Harrison Center and Circle City Industrial ComplexJune 25, 2021
The Harrison Center will become a three-ring circus on First Friday, July 2, with three shows related to the fabled Big Tops. The event runs from 6 to 9 p.m. Registration is required for entrance to this social distance event. Guests can register at [Read More.…]
First Friday, June 4: Reports from the Harrison Center and Circle City Industrial ComplexMay 21, 2021
The Harrison Center will continue with its “social distanced” First Friday openings on Friday, June 4, with a show headlined by Jonathan McAfee, a painter and Herron School of Art and Design graduate who returns to Indianapolis with Oh! Happy Day, [Read More.…]
IndyFringe to return in August – with a few new wrinklesMay 21, 2021
After a year of pandemic-induced darkness, the IndyFringe Theatre Festival will return to Mass Ave with a revamped format to showcase local and Midwest talent while providing a safe theatre-going experience with both indoor and outdoor venues. [Read More.…]
Original Farmers Market returns to its original home – almostMay 3, 2021
For 23 years, the Indianapolis City Market hosted its annual Original Farmers Market on the 200 block of East Market Street between the markethouse and the City-County Building. But last year that convenient spot was derailed by a major [Read More.…]
First Friday: Reports from Harrison Center, Circle City Industrial Complex, Studio Alchemy Gallery and Storage Space GalleryApril 23, 2021
The Harrison Center will kick off the “porching” season with an in-person ceremony to take place Friday, May 7, in partnership with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Harrison Center has a new front porch of its own, which will be dedicated at 6 [Read More.…]
A year spent with giants / Land Trust reportApril 23, 2021
By Shawndra Miller / Communications manager, Central Indiana Land Trust May is Mental Health Awareness Month, the perfect time to celebrate the power of nature to boost mood and mental acuity. It’s no secret that nature – and forests in particular – [Read More.…]
Wanted: ‘Public Allies’ to learn how to be community leadersApril 23, 2021
By Vicki Rubio / Public Allies program director, Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center We are now accepting applications for the 2021-2022 Public Allies Indianapolis program. Public Allies is an AmeriCorps program which builds the capacity of [Read More.…]
Growing Places Indy to host monthly in-person gardening workshopsApril 14, 2021
By 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.…]
Hendricks County nature preserve a great outing for families with young childrenMarch 26, 2021
By Shawndra Miller / Communications manager, Central Indiana Land Trust Eager for the colors and sounds of spring after a long winter? Consider exploring Burnett Woods Nature Preserve, where wildflowers blanket the forest floor in April and May, and [Read More.…]
Soil health to be a theme of zoomed First Friday at Harrison CenterMarch 26, 2021
The 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.…]
Easement improves water quality in state park, nature preserveFebruary 20, 2021
By Jen Thomas / Media relations, Central Indiana Land Trust Entrepreneur and nature lover Joe McCurdy has donated to the Central Indiana Land Trust a 365-acre conservation easement that promises to improve the water quality in Turkey Run State Park [Read More.…]
Harrison Center’s First Friday to illustrate ideas in dream-like settingsFebruary 20, 2021
New 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 exhibitFebruary 20, 2021
The 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.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Harrison Center’s virtual First Friday coming on Feb. 5January 21, 2021
Artist 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 ComplexJanuary 21, 2021
Processed 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 seasonJanuary 21, 2021
The 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.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: 16 Tech’s artisan marketplace to offer new dining options and community-focused conceptsJanuary 21, 2021
Fans of George Turkette’s Fountain Square eatery and meatery may want to look forward to the March opening of Amp, a new artisan marketplace to be located in the 16 Tech Innovation District. The same goes for devotees of Circle City Sweets, the [Read More.…]
Bonus Coverage: December First Friday openings go ‘virtual’ at Harrison Center and Circle City Industrial ComplexNovember 20, 2020
The 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.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Kyle Ragsdale exhibit to be highlight of Harrison Center First FridayOctober 23, 2020
Friday, Nov. 6, will bring the opening night of Zephyr, a new collection of paintings, drawings and ceramics by resident artist Kyle Ragsdale. Zephyr means “a soft wind,” and the figures throughout the paintings are enveloped in swirling and flowing [Read More.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Central Indiana Land Trust expands unique old-growth forestOctober 23, 2020
By Jen Thomas The Central Indiana Land Trust is expanding the 60-acre Meltzer Woods Nature Preserve near Shelbyville by buying an adjacent 35-acre agricultural field, where it will plant more than 20,000 trees. The purchase price was approximately [Read More.…]
BONUS COVERAGE: Take an Exploration Along Our WaterwaysOctober 23, 2020
By Julie L Rhodes / Collective Impact director, Reconnecting to Our Waterways As autumn arrives in Indianapolis, it brings cool breezes and a blast of yellows, oranges and reds throughout our neighborhoods and our natural spaces. The lack of [Read More.…]
