"In 2015 — after over a decade of painting and art making — I asked myself what brought me to want to create in the first place. Thinking back to my childhood, it was probably directly linked to enjoying playing with plastic blocks and how excited I was to get my hands on a grid-lined sketchbook. I would design my own toys and sketch out the floor plans for houses, cars and symmetrical objects. As I looked back, I started…

Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace — a lovely greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market. Purchase goods from local artisans, enjoy local food by Herts BBQ and live music by Funkhouser and Clint Breeze Music from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Sun King beer and chilled wine are also available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street. All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural…

Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace on Thursday, August 28 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the downtown greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market for artist-led activities like our Post Card Project, WQRT DJ mix, food by That Vegan Food Truck, and games like Ping pong, foosball, and giant Jenga. All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

Join us for a reading and music performance from poet, activist and artist, Sylvia Thomas. In 2016, Sylvia began performing her spoken word in Indianapolis. She performed at a few open mics and showcases. From then on, she began to feature at different spots all over the state and the Midwest. In 2018, her words took her to Copenhagen, Denmark as a poet for Winter Pride. After her trip to Europe, she wrote a collection of poems for her debut…

As the United States continues to face its history of enslavement, oppression, and exclusion of Black Americans in museums and other arenas of power and recognition, "Process as Practice: Reimagining the Lost Hardrick Mural" is impactful and unique. The exhibit is part of an ongoing partnership between artist Kaila Austin; the Norwood community on the southeast side of Indianapolis, and the family of Indiana’s Harlem Renaissance painter, John Wesley Hardrick (1891-1968). Over the last three years, Austin worked with the…

Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative are partnering to present the works by Mexican Daniela Martín del Campo & and Colombian Artist Gloomy Zauros. GOLDEN MYST represents a unique visual and spiritual experience, where chromatic limitation becomes a window to reflection and contemplation: the deep black of the ink, the shimmering gold and the immaculate white of the paper. GOLDEN MYST is the artistic dialogue between two talented creators: Daniela Martín del Campo, outstanding Mexican children’s book illustrator,…