As we pause to celebrate the holidays and turn the page to a new year, we’re contemplating the moments that meant so much in 2025 — and what we’re thrilled about for 2026.
We’re thinking about families dancing to music in our amphitheater surrounded by native plants flowering in purple and yellow, varied voices on our radio station sharing songs and poems and talking about art and design, friends smiling across a chess table or doing absolutely nothing as they cool under umbrellas at Monument Circle, friendships forming between neighbors and artists as they paint murals together, tables shared by a father and daughter sipping coffee and doing crosswords on a Sunday morning or by artists spending hours dreaming and sketching in their notebooks.
Big Car Collaborative — now more than 20 years old — is and has always been made of people and the vision, passion, and care they bring to our work and our places and spaces. Artists and neighbors. Visitors and listeners. Staff artists, board members, partners, volunteers, funders, and donors. We’re so grateful for all of you!
Big Car is made of people who give, who believe in and practice reciprocity — passing on gifts we receive to visitors to our CAMi campus and to SPARK at Monument Circle, listeners to 99.1 FM WQRT, artists we feature in exhibits and performances, long-term and visiting residents in our affordable artist housing program, neighbors in Bean Creek and Garfield Park who we’ve supported through many projects and approaches since 2011.
This year asked us to pay attention — to one another, to the work, to the responsibility of caring for a place rooted in community. As always, we learned, adapted, repaired, and kept going together.
As we look ahead, we’re preparing for what comes next. We don’t know what the future holds. But we do know the values that guide us: gratitude, collaboration, intention, flexibility, and an open invitation to be part of something shared.
If you’re able to make a year-end gift, please know that your support helps sustain this work and the people who make it possible. And whether you give, visit, listen, volunteer, or simply hold us at Big Car in your thoughts — thank you.
We’re glad you’re here and we look forward to seeing you in the new year.
With gratitude,
Jim Walker, Shauta Marsh, and everyone with Big Car Collaborative
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