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August 2024

Artist Workshop With Mary Jo Bayliss

August 2, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Monument Circle,

A gathering where knitting and graffiti collide! Simultaneously inspired by traditional knitting and graffiti, this ever-evolving piece combines fiber adjacent activities, coloring sheets derived from graffiti and knitting motifs, and opportunities for participants to share their creative path stories. You are invited to come join the fun, because without YOU, Boo, this project can’t happen. About the artist: Mary Jo Bayliss specializes in creating environments that help people feel at ease using space, light and color to achieve these goals.…

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Big Gay Market

August 10, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come Join SPARK at Monument Circle for this 2-day long event! Learn more here!: https://www.indygaymarket.com/ SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy @downtownindy the City of Indianapolis @indy_dmd and the Indiana War Memorials Commission – and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The…

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Big Gay Market

August 11, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come Join SPARK at Monument Circle for this 2-day long event! Learn more here!: https://www.indygaymarket.com/ SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy @downtownindy the City of Indianapolis @indy_dmd and the Indiana War Memorials Commission – and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The…

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Artist Workshop: Kris Komakech

August 25, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come to SPARK for an Artist Workshop led by Indianapolis artist Kris Komakech through their Clock Workshop! We at Big Car are teaming up with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission— to spark Monument Circle with human-scale activities like games, live music, artmaking, and socializing in a comfortable place

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September 2024

Artist Workshop: Fiber Art and PomPoms with Mary Jo Bayliss

September 4, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come to SPARK and join artist Mary Jo Bayliss to learn how to create pompoms and contribute them to her Taylor Swift inspired community artwork titled, "The Village". Visitors will be able to make pompoms that will be used in Mary Jo's final piece! Come join in on this collaborative artwork and make sure to stop by the circle later to see the final finished piece when Taylor Swift enters her "Indy era" and performs in Indianapolis! A statement from…

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Artist Workshop With Stephanie Williams

September 6, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come join us at SPARK for an artist workshop with Stephanie Williams, Make and Take Painted Ceramic Pinch Pots!   In this artist activation, visitors will be able to make their own ceramic pinch pot out of clay  through William’s guidance, or paint a ready to take home pot pinched and fired by the artist previously. Pinch pots that are made at this workshop will be taken home by the artist, fired, and kept to be used at the next Make…

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Artist Workshop With John Clark

September 6, 2024 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Make Art and Write Poetry with John Clark! Join Indianapolis-based visual artist, Big Car co-founder and writer John Clark to make drawings, poems, and short stories…or a combination of all three! And we’ll also show you how to make zines, too! We at Big Car are teaming up with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission— to spark Monument Circle with human-scale activities like games, live…

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Artist Workshop: Fiber Art and PomPoms with Mary Jo Bayliss

September 7, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come to SPARK and join artist Mary Jo Bayliss to learn how to create pompoms and contribute them to her Taylor Swift inspired community artwork titled, "The Village". Visitors will be able to make pompoms that will be used in Mary Jo's final piece! Come join in on this collaborative artwork and make sure to stop by the circle later to see the final finished piece when Taylor Swift enters her "Indy era" and performs in Indianapolis! A statement from…

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Artist Workshop: Fiber Art and PomPoms with Mary Jo Bayliss

September 11, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Come to SPARK and join artist Mary Jo Bayliss to learn how to create pompoms and contribute them to her Taylor Swift inspired community artwork titled, "The Village". Visitors will be able to make pompoms that will be used in Mary Jo's final piece! Come join in on this collaborative artwork and make sure to stop by the circle later to see the final finished piece when Taylor Swift enters her "Indy era" and performs in Indianapolis! A statement from…

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Cyanotype Workshop With Aurora PhotoCenter

September 13, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Monument Circle,

Cyanotype is a camera-less photography made out in the sun, rather than in a darkroom. You place objects — such as plants — on top of a piece of photo-treated paper, and then use the sun to expose the paper. The result is an image that is an exact outline of the object. It’s a fun and magical way to engage photography! Although it may be new to modern people, cyanotype has been around since photography was invented in the 1800s.…

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