INDIANAPOLIS — The Harrison Center for the Arts and Apparatus present the Annual Independent Music + Art Festival (IMAF) with the INDIEana Handicraft Exchange (IHE) on June 8th from noon to 8 p.m. Now in its 12th year, IMAF is a free, daylong outdoor festival highlighting independent local and regional musicians, visual artists, food vendors and crafters. Founded in 2002, IMAF celebrates musicians who perform original live music and artists who create original work. In addition, this year they will celebrate the receipt of a creative placemaking grant from ArtPlace America for the City Gallery, a program of the Harrison Center for the Arts that connects people to culture, community and place in urban Indianapolis neighborhoods. City Gallery was chosen from over 1,200 applications as an exceptional example of creative placemaking.
In the courtyard of the historic Harrison Center for the Arts two stages feature continuous music. Inside the building and surrounding the Harrison Center, over 100 vendors peddle their wares in the juried Indiana Handicraft Exchange’s Summer Fair.
Many of the Harrison Center artists will open their studios during the festival as well. The Harrison Gallery features Archaeornithology: An Excavation of Urban Artifacts, painting and sculpture by Beth Eisinger and Megan Hart; Dream Boats, new work by Kyle Ragsdale in the City Gallery. In Hank & Dolly’s Gallery features Contingent Remainders, new work by Justin Vining. Art in the galleries hangs through June 28th.
