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Alan Nakagawa / A.I.R. Head Book Tour

October 13, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

Join Alan Nakagawa as he talks about his book A.I.R. Head: Anatomy of an Artist In Residence. 

Within a short amount of time, Alan Nakagawa found himself in the midst of several artist-in-residence opportunities. It started with the Getty Villa and then the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. Within a few years, Nakagawa had a half of dozen completed or in the mix. And then the emails started coming. Artists wanted to meet with Nakagawa to find out how this happened. To quote The Talking Heads: “Well, how did I get here?” Like his artwork, this book is not a straight line nor a soundbite. This book is Nakagawa’s attempt to answer that question through diary entries, sketches, ideas and concepts. A.I.R. Head is a history of one artist’s journey through his life, his personhood and his career.

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Details

Date:
October 13, 2023
Time:
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Cost:
Free

Venue

1 Monument Circle
South Facing Steps United States + Google Map