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Garfield Park Arts Center Seeks Artists for Color Exhibition

May 13, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Garfield Park Arts Center presents its 3rd annual Color Exhibition, featuring the color green. Green is a cool color that often symbolizes nature and the environment, including feelings of refreshment, renewal, peace, calm, health, growth, balance, and harmony. However, it can also signify luck or envy. Artists … Read More

WiFi now available at three parks in Indianapolis

May 13, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — Public WiFi is now available at three Indianapolis parks. Users can log on now to access free internet connections at Frederick Douglass Park, Municipal Gardens, and Riverside Park. More than 300,000 people visit these three parks annually. Providing free wireless service will increase social equity in communities where … Read More

Arts Venues Begin to Open to Public As Pandemic Wanes

May 13, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — More than 30,000 central Indiana arts and culture events were cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19, but there’s reason for local arts lovers to feel optimistic: Nearly 60% of Indianapolis nonprofit arts and culture organizations expect to be open for in-person events by June, and that number will … Read More

IndyPL to Memorialize Authors of Color

May 13, 2021 | by Weekly View

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Public Library (IndyPL) is seeking the community’s help in selecting diverse writers and thinkers to memorialize at Central Library. The Name Engraving Project will add literary leaders of color to the list of notable authors etched into the interior walls of Central Library. Through June 30, … Read More

Applause!: May14-20

May 13, 2021 | by Weekly View

• The first Irvington Plein Air arts event was a huge success on May 8, with nearly 30 artists participating in the “paint out.” Artists chose sites in the historic neighborhood, including the Kile Oak, the Bona Thompson Memorial Center, the Benton House, the Irving Theatre, and the odd alley … Read More