Big Car Collaborative, Indianapolis, IN Videos
Videos by Big Car Collaborative in Indianapolis. Big Car, an Indianapolis-based 501c3 nonprofit, brings art to people and people to art — sparking
Big Car co-leaders Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh, along with Rusty Carr, Courtney Howell Rissman and Danica Liongson — are presenting at Project for Public Spaces Placemaking Week in Baltimore about SPARK on the Circle.
Such amazing colleagues make & made SPARK on the Circle happen.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis 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 SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.
@bigcarpix @downtownindy @indy_dmd @merrittchase @courtneyrissman @jim_jwalker @shautamarsh @danicaliongson @pps_placemaking
#placekeeping #placemaking #creativeplacemaking #artistled #restorativecity #publicspace
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Big Car co-leaders Jim Walker and Shauta Marsh, along with Rusty Carr, Courtney Howell Rissman and Danica Liongson — are presenting at Project for Public Spaces Placemaking Week in Baltimore about SPARK on the Circle. Such amazing colleagues make & made SPARK on the Circle happen. SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis 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 SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city. @bigcarpix @downtownindy @indy_dmd @merrittchase @courtneyrissman @jim_jwalker @shautamarsh @danicaliongson @pps_placemaking #placekeeping #placemaking #creativeplacemaking #artistled #restorativecity #publicspace
Free Live music performance by PLANTS, presented by 99.1 WQRT FM in Newfields 100 Acres today till 3pm for their Summer Solstice Celebration!
Great ending to Spark Placemaking on the Circle 2022 with the Boot Scoot USA Honky Tonk Halloween Dance Party! For Spark on the Circle, we teamed up with Downtown Indy & City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — to spark Monument Circle with games, live music, artmaking, and socializing in a comfortable.
Utopian Architecture
Utopian Architecture with Marsh Davis [Indiana Landmarks], Lourenzo Giple [deputy director of planning, preservation, & design, City of Indianapolis], Adam Thies [associate VP for capital planning at Indiana University]. Moderated by Anne Laker.
New Harmony in Historical Context - 19th century American Utopian Communities
New Harmony in Historical Context - 19th century American Utopian Communities with Claire Eagle [Historic New Harmony], Tom Guiler [Oneida Community Mansion House], Jon M. Childers [Executive Director of Amana Heritage Society].
Cara Courage [placemaking/contemporary art expert & author] in conversation with Jim Walker [Big Car Collaborative co-founder]
Social Alchemy: A Conversation with Emily St. John Mandel (VIRTUAL)
As part of of Big Car Collaborative's Social Alchemy Symposium, Author Emily St. John Mandel discusses her work, the pursuit of utopia, and the dystopia that pursuit can create for others. The event, made possible by Indiana Humanities and New America, is free; registration is required.
She is the author of five novels, most recently The Glass Hotel. Her novel Station Eleven, which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Book Award, and the Morning News Tournament of Books. A previous novel, The Singer’s Gun, was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections, including 'Best American Mystery Stories 2013.' She is also a staff writer for 'The Millions.' St. John Mandel lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her next book, Sea of Tranquility, will be released in April 2022. Copies will be available for purchase at the in-person event.
Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference (online and in person in New Harmony, Indiana) April 10-13, 2022. The symposium — organized through a partnership between Big Car Collaborative, the University of Southern Indiana, Historic New Harmony, and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art — is made possible by Indiana Humanities, the Efroymson Family Fund, and New America. Additional partners include the Indiana State Museum and PATTERN Magazine.
The Color of Pomegranates screens at Kan-Kan Cinema & Brasserie next week! Thanks to Daniel Arthur Jacobson for being on board for what turned out to be a timely partnership. The director Sergei Parajanov was a Soviet Armenian film director, screenwriter and artist who made seminal contribution to world cinema with his film "The Color of Pomegranates," also known as Sayat Nova." We will have a discussion post the film that will include a short on the history of Armenia, writing/songs of Sayat Nova and audience q&a. The original film "Sayat Nova" which was released in 1969 was banned by Soviet censors for inflammatory content. Parajanov responded by editing the film and renaming it "The Color of Pomegranates." By the end of 1973 he was sentenced to five years of hard labor camp due to his perceived subversive proclivities, particulary his bi-sexuality. While he was incarcerated, Parajanov produced a large number of miniature doll-like sculptures (some of which were lost) and some 800 drawings and collages, many of which were later displayed in Yerevan, where the Serhii Parajanov Museum is now permanently located. His efforts in the camp were repeatedly compromised by prison guards, who deprived him of materials and called him mad, their cruelty only subsiding after a statement from Moscow admitted that "the director is very talented." After his return from prison to Tbilisi, the close watch of Soviet censors prevented Parajanov from continuing his cinematic pursuits and steered him towards the artistic outlets he had nurtured during his time in prison. He crafted extraordinarily intricate collages, created a large collection of abstract drawings and pursued numerous other avenues of non-cinematic art, sewing more dolls and some whimsical suits. In February 1982 Parajanov was once again imprisoned, on charges of bribery, which happened to coincide with his return to Moscow for the premiere of a play commemorating Vladimir Vysotsky at the Taganka Theatre, and was e
Artists & Community Conversation Series- Cal Cullen, Allen Woods, Dr. Jarrod Dortch
Conversation about art and community with peers in Cincinnati led by Big Car Artist and Public Life Resident artist Dr. Jarrod Dortch.
Artists & Community Conversation Series- Juan William Chavez, Dr. Jarrod Dortch and David Kirkland
PNC APLR series