Big Car in the news
![Big Car to open two new arts spaces by Garfield Park](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/20160315_IBJ.jpg)
Big Car to open two new arts spaces by Garfield Park
Indianapolis Business Journal, 3/15/2016
The next two months should be big for the arts-focused Big Car Collaborative...[more]
![Tactical Urbanism Leading to Long-Term Changes in Indy](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/20160309_MC.jpg)
Tactical Urbanism Leading to Long-Term Changes in Indy
Modern Cities, 3/9/2016
Instead of hosting traditional design charrettes, the City turned to tactical urbanism experts Big Car Collaborative to host an 11-week demonstration project…[more]
![The Transformation of Garfield Park](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/20160316_NMCb.jpg)
The Transformation of Garfield Park
No Mean City, 3/1/2016
If you live in Indianapolis, you should know and visit Garfield. I talk to many people who say they haven’t been here...[more]
![Big Car’s Jim Walker uses creativity to lift neighborhoods, public spaces](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20150829_IBJ.jpg)
Big Car’s Jim Walker uses creativity to lift neighborhoods, public spaces
Indianapolis Business Journal, 8/29/2015
Jim Walker is always pretty busy. But this summer and fall, he’s even busier than usual…[more]
![Why Indianapolis is a test case for a fairer form of gentrification](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20150821_GDN.jpg)
Why Indianapolis is a test case for a fairer form of gentrification
The Guardian, 8/21/2015
Arts collective Big Car helped transform a down-and-out Indianapolis neighbourhood into a thriving cultural hub, but then artists and other residents were priced out…[more]
![10 Things to Expect from Spark: Monument Circle](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20150729_IM.jpg)
10 Things to Expect from Spark: Monument Circle
Indianapolis Monthly, 7/29/2015
Ever stepped onto Monument Circle and thought, “If only there were more seating, more culture, more art”?…[more]
![Can Big Car turn Garfield Park into next hip neighborhood?](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20150615_IndianapolisStar.jpg)
Can Big Car turn Garfield Park into next hip neighborhood?
Indianapolis Star, 6/15/2015
The Garfield Park house is one of the city’s more forlorn. The windows are boarded up…[more]
![Arts group Big Car to remake area near its new home](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20150612_IBJ.jpg)
Arts group Big Car to remake area near its new home
Indianapolis Business Journal, 6/12/2015
The arts-focused Big Car Collaborative has found a permanent place to park on Indianapolis’ south side…[more]
![A Decade of Big Car](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20140909_SBW.jpg)
A Decade of Big Car
Sky Blue Window, 9/9/2014
Big Car isn’t your run-of-the-mill art institution…[more]
![Big Car: Working toward a social practice masterpiece](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20140910_NV.jpg)
Big Car: Working toward a social practice masterpiece
NUVO, 9/10/2014
“We liked things that were experimental and different, that we weren’t seeing around here …We wanted stuff that wasn’t here. We wanted to make it happen.”…[more]
![The New Citymakers](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20131111_PAF.jpg)
The New Citymakers
Public Art Review, winter 2013
“Something strange is happening in our cities.”…[more]
![Building Community in an Empty Tire Shop](https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/20120826_CL.jpg)
Building Community in an Empty Tire Shop
CityLab, 8/6/2012
An empty tire shop in the vast parking lot of a fading suburban shopping mall wouldn’t seem like the sort of place to find a community…[more]