The READI 2.0 Arts & Culture Initiative allocates $65 million to Indiana’s creative economy, spread across 15 geographic regions. More than $11 million is earmarked for 11 recipients in central Indiana.
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For every ticket sold for a Clowes Memorial Hall event, $1 is added to a fund to support local arts organizations interested in presenting shows at Butler Arts & Events Center venues.
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Lois and Sidney Eskenazi have funded a long list of projects across Indiana, including a downtown Indianapolis hospital, an art museum renovation at Indiana University and the IU architecture school.
Pacers Sports & Entertainment is paying for the artwork that will adorn the $78 million facility presently under construction.
Many of the pieces of art, which date from the 1890s through the 1970s, once hung in IPS schools that are now closed, according to the district.
The initiative to elevate the arts in Broad Ripple is the brainchild of Taggart Birge, founder of the Birge Family Foundation.
In 2024, Indy Arts Council distributed grants to 91 arts and culture not-for-profit organizations in Indianapolis.
The $1.3 million proposed for the Indy Arts Council will be discussed Thursday during a Parks and Recreation Committee budget hearing.
Jazz quintet led by saxophone player Jared Thompson will showcase new album ‘Virtue’ at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis.
The Indy Arts Council offers its Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship every other year to 40 artists and arts administrators. The current class of fellows is receiving $10,000 each for research, instruction, travel and other experiences that recharge creativity.
In September, music and art venue Healer received one of 10 Power Plant Grants distributed by Indianapolis-based Big Car Collaborative and funded by New York’s Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Paying attention to what’s being sought in communities is a key component of trust-based giving, a concept in which funders and grant recipients collaborate.
A report accompanying the street-by-street inventory of public art in Marion County encourages increased representation of BIPOC artists.
Thanks to a $500,000 City-County Council allocation made possible through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the #IndyKeepsCreating initiative launched in 2020 will continue until March.
Podcast host Mason King talked with Julie Goodman, president and CEO of the Arts Council of Indianapolis, about the group’s fundraising efforts and grant programs meant to sustain artists and arts groups. In addition, two artists join the conversation.
Musicians from the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra say negotiations with the organization’s management are nonexistent as the current contract is set to expire in less than two months and another round of furloughs has begun.
In 2020, the ISO will hire a new concertmaster, begin the search for a new conductor, and negotiate a new contract with its musicians. And all of this comes while its leaders try to pull the orchestra out of the red.
Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. officials announced Wednesday that they’ve raised enough money to keep a popular electronic piece of public art in operation for years to come.
Julie Goodman will take the job March 4, replacing Dave Lawrence, who stepped down in August after 19 years with the organization, including the past nine as president and CEO.
With a $5.85 million Lilly Endowment Inc. grant, the city of Lawrence and Arts for Lawrence are poised to launch a major project focused on the arts and the area’s military history.
The improvements are part of a masterplan that aims to bring hundreds of thousands more visitors to the complex, which includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
The endowment said Wednesday it would fund 17 ideas across the city as part of its one-time Strengthening Indianapolis Through Arts and Cultural Innovation program.
