Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2024-10-23 - 2024-11-03, 2024-10-24 - 2024-11-04, 2024-10-25 - 2024-11-05, 2024-10-26 - 2024-11-06, 2024-10-27 - 2024-11-07, 2024-10-28 - 2024-11-08, 2024-10-29 - 2024-11-09, 2024-10-30 - 2024-11-10 and 19 more dates
Image Credit: Marti LaMar by Kaila Austin
An exciting array of exhibits are included in this year’s festival! Information about exhibit hours are below. To check the festival programming tied to the events, return to the Event Page to search for the event. You must register for events separately.
Tearing Down Boxes and Embracing Change
Nov. 4-14, 1-4pm (Tues.-Fri.)
Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center, 705 N. Illinois St.
Monumental Changes: History and Power in Public Art
Nov. 5-17, 10am-5pm (Tues.-Sat.)
Garfield Park Arts Center—Main Gallery, 2432 Conservatory Dr.
The Memory Keepers / Los Guardianes de Memorias
Nov. 4-14, click here to schedule a gallery visit
201 Studio, 201 S. Rural Ave.
The (W)hole in Our Hearts
Nov. 4-12, visit website for hours
Friday, Nov. 5, 5-9pm (First Friday extended hours)
Saturday, Nov. 6, 10am-12pm (Family Day activities)
Nov. 8-12, M-F, 9am-5pm
Circle City Industrial Complex—Stokol Gallery & Hallways, 1125 Brookside Ave.
Introduction to Black Hue-manity: Imagining Blackness Then and Now
Nov. 8-11. Public hours vary.
Eskenazi Fine Arts Center, 1410 Indiana Ave.
We Are the Change We’ve Been Waiting For
Nov. 10, 5:30-8:30pm
Indiana Interchurch Center, 1100 W. 42nd St.
Changing Direction: The Evolution of Treatment at Indiana’s State Psychiatric Hospitals
Nov. 4-14
Online Exhibit

The Legacies We Hold: A Celebration of Our Ancestral Communities
2024-11-05 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Madam Walker Legacy Center, 617 Indiana Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Sharing one’s legacy is one of the biggest forms of gratitude we can display. Explore this act by voicing your appreciation for a loved one, adding to the gratitude garden, or experiencing “Unveiling a Forgotten Legacy” an homage to the Black communities that brought Indiana Avenue to life.
The foundation of this event is the photography exhibition, “Unveiling a Forgotten Legacy” which aims to bring awareness to the Black neighborhoods displaced by IUPUI’s expansion. Not only does the exhibit explore themes of gentrification, redlining, and the value or marginalized voices, it embodies the practice of Ubuntu: “I am because we are.” This event invites all of us to honor our family legacies and stories and welcomes all ages to share gratitude for their ancestors through interactive elements, conversation prompts, and more.
NOTE: Attendees are invited to bring an item representing an ancestor they’d like to share their gratitude for. All ages are welcome to participate in interactive activities, thought-provoking conversation prompts and more.
Questions?: Please contact 317-274-2462 or info@madamwalkerlegacycenter.com.
Event Organizers: A partnership between art activist Zola Lamothe, Madam Walker Legacy Center, and Frida’s Flowers.
Registration: Walk-in guests are welcome, but registration is appreciated. Use the blue button below.
Photo Credit: Zola Lamothe

Driven by Gratitude
2024-11-06 12:00 - 15:00 | Hendricks Live!, 200 W. Main St., Plainfield, 46168, United States
Meet the artists and enjoy a fiber art exhibit by INfiber inspired by reflections on gratitude from the staff and clients of Sheltering Wings. Be inspired to manifest more gratitude in your life. Come-and-go style gathering.
INfiber, a fiber arts group with a long history in the Spirit & Place Festival, knew they wanted to collaborate with a community partner whose message they could help amplify during the festival’s GRATITUDE year. When they discovered Sheltering Wings, a domestic violence shelter in Hendricks County, was focusing on their own theme of “driven by gratitude,” they knew they had found a perfect match.

Fiber artists began working with Sheltering Wings to thoughtfully gather ideas on gratitude generated by prompts presented to both staff and clients of the agency. This exhibit transforms their words and emotions into fiber art pieces for attendees to consider. Exhibit attendees are invited to find their own inspiration from these pieces and then create a “mini” art piece that the fiber artists will combine with the Sheltering Wings logo to create a larger artwork that will be donated to Sheltering Wings.

Exhibit Dates: Can’t make it out on Nov. 6?
Check out the exhibit from Nov. 1 – Dec. 31
Monday – Friday, 9AM – 5PM
Weekends during events
Questions?: Contact 317-690-3851 or amycoconnell@gmail.com.
Event Organizers: A partnership between INfiber, Sheltering Wings, and Hendricks Live!
Registration: Walk-in guests welcome, but registration is appreciated. Use the blue button below.
Image: Hopeful Days by Ann Luther

Souls of the Seasoned Saints: An Exploration and Exhibition of Aging Bodies
2024-11-08 13:00 - 16:00 | Witherspoon Presbyterian Church, 3535 W. Kessler Blvd. N. Dr., Indianapolis, IN, 46222, United States
Aging bodies have a wealth of knowledge to share with the world – their experiences, courage, triumphs, failures, and redirection. This exhibit highlights seasoned bodies to reclaim and uplift the
narratives and journeys of our elders. Exhibit opens at 6PM with the panel discussion beginning at 7PM.
We only get one body and the journey that body takes is filled with amazing life lessons. Yet, an obsession of appearing young permeates society. This photo exhibition— built around questions such as, “What advice would you give your younger self about the aging journey?”— aims to highlight seasoned bodies (55+) and encourage deep gratitude for the bodies we have. Too often we run away from the idea of getting older. We complain about changes with skin, firmness, attractiveness, and hope to distract the world from our “imperfections.” However, if blessed, we all will age, shift, and change. This opportunity will remind attendees that aging is a gift, one that we are not all fortunate to receive. Join us in a spirit of for the bodies that come before us and the bodies we will one day leave behind.
Exhibit Dates: Can’t make it out on Nov. 8?
Check out the exhibit from Nov. 4 – 10.
Monday – Friday, 10AM – 4PM
Saturday, 10AM – 2PM
*Slightly different times appear in the festival event guide. The times on this webpage are the correct times.
Questions: Contact 317-278-4060 or info@fatnessfiction.com.
Event Organizer: A partnership between Fatness Fiction and Witherspoon Presbyterian Church.
Registration: Walks-in welcome, but registration is encouraged. Use the blue button below to register.
