What the heck is Big Car Collaborative, anyway? Founder Jim Walker thinks the more important question is, what has Big Car done?
Summer Daily
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Spark Will Return to Monument Circle—and Elsewhere
Suggestions from last year’s users include outdoor movies, putting dance steps on the bricks, basketball, and pony rides.
Megan Fernandez
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Exit Interview With Jim Walker, Organizer of Spark: Monument Circle
“When there’s a big event, like a concert, people come at 6 and they leave at 8. This kind of stuff—the chairs and tables—aren’t ever over. There weren’t hours on that.”
Megan Fernandez
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Talks of the Town: CreativeMornings and TEDx Indianapolis
Local experimental-art collective Know No Stranger lampooned Silicon Valley product launches. The pitch: a robot, Ascme, that only responded to “the crispy rhythm of monosyllabic speech.”
Matt Gonzales
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10 Things to Expect from Spark: Monument Circle
When the events conclude in October, the city will consider permanent changes based on Spark’s success.
Leeann Sausser
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Hot Tickets: Seven Indy Arts Mavens Share Fall Favorites
“Evening with the Stars brings together the best ballet dancers in the world that we would never have a chance to see here,” says Travis DiNicola of Indy Reads. “It’s the must-see event of the year.”
Samantha Stutsman
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Culture Q&A: Jim Walker, TEDx Organizer
“We were thinking about a natural progression from last year’s theme (“Mix it Up”), and what we really want people to do is get outside of their comfort zone.”
Seth Johnson
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Art in Odd Places Comes to Indy
Whether it’s transforming a barbed-wire fence into a web of lace or flooding the sidewalks with soundscapes, Ed Woodham’s Art in Odd Places (AiOP) project has freaked out Manhattan for nearly a decade now—and it hits Indy this month.