The Arts Council of Indianapolis has partnered with Transit Drives Indy (TDI)  on a multi-year creative placemaking program,, activating artists and arts partners in order to help create a new culture of public transit in Indianapolis.  Thanks to a grant from Transportation for America (T4A), Indianapolis is now part of its national Cultural Corridor Consortium.

Welcome Race Fans is a collaborative project of the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to connect visual art and artists to the historic race.

The Arts Council of Indianapolis and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., have commissioned Indianapolis artist Jude Odell to create an artwork for the Twin Aire neighborhood in southeast Indianapolis, at a site near Prospect Falls along the Pleasant Run Trail. The artwork will be installed in spring 2019. The sculpture will form the centerpiece of a newly re-planted pocket park, creating a gateway to the neighborhood in advance of the Community Justice Center’s relocation to Twin Aire. Jude is a Twin Aire resident.

The Arts Council of Indianapolis is pleased to partner with the YMCA of Greater Indianapolis on a permanent, exterior artwork for the new OrthoIndy Foundation YMCA. The artwork will be dedicated on November 10, 2018.

 What happens when you train a group of artists, community members, and police officers to work together to prevent crime and improve public safety in a neighborhood?  That’s what we’re finding out with Indy East Art Peace, a joint project of the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Near East Area Renewal (NEAR) that happened from August 2017 through July 2019. The Indy East Art Peace Toolkit is publicly available, here.

 This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.  To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit http://www.arts.gov

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The Arts Council of Indianapolis is pleased to partner with Indy Parks to host two sculptures at the Garfield Park Arts Center from April 2017 - April 2018.

The Arts Council of Indianapolis and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., commissioned Indianapolis, IN artists Quincy Owens and Luke Crawley to create an artwork for a new pocket park planned for a vacant lot next to the Community Caring & Sharing Center in the Mars Hill neighborhood.

Bernie Carreño, Flight, 2013, Steel

The Arts Council was pleased to partner with Kroger Co. on the creation of three murals and on the purchase of one sculpture for new stores in the greater Indianapolis area.  Three stores opened in the fall of 2016; one opened in summer 2017.

The Speedway Redevelopment Comission, in association with the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc., commissioned Anderson, IN artist Arlon Bayliss to create an artwork for a new pocket park near the Main Street junction with the P & E Trail in Speedway, Indiana.

We are pleased that this artwork received the Honor Award for Public Art at the 2017 Monumental Awards, honoring achievement in the built environment of Indianapolis.