Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2025-03-24 - 2025-04-04, 2025-03-25 - 2025-04-05, 2025-03-26 - 2025-04-06, 2025-03-27 - 2025-04-07, 2025-03-28 - 2025-04-08, 2025-03-29 - 2025-04-09, 2025-03-30 - 2025-04-10, 2025-03-31 - 2025-04-11 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

NATURE Brainstorming (Broad Ripple Park)
2025-03-25 11:00 - 12:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Broad Ripple Park Family Center, 1426 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46220, United States
Are you feeling stuck on coming up with creative ideas on how to connect to this year’s Spirit & Place Festival NATURE theme?
Join us for an afternoon of breaking through creative blocks to find a NATURE inspired event idea that works for you. This session is also a great opportunity to meet with other event creatives — in real life! — who might be looking for collaborative partners.

Spirit & Place Applicant Meeting (Zoom)
2025-04-09 08:00 - 09:00
Whether you have pitched an event idea for the Spirit & Place Festival in the past or are new to the process, this informative 60-minute session will review what Spirit & Place is all about, how the festival application process works, and resources aimed to help you be successful!
Register by using the blue registration button below.

Big Tent Talks & Thomas H. Lake Lecture: Remaking the Commons
2025-04-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Witherspoon Presbyterian Church, 3535 W. Kessler Blvd. N. Dr., Indianapolis, IN, 46222, United States
At this crucial moment, when homelessness is exploding, affordable housing is diminishing, and segregated communities are increasingly common, we need to ask the question – “Are our built environments fundamentally immoral?” In this year’s talk, Dr. Jennings will present on “Remaking the Commons: Forming a Moral Imagination for Possession and Philanthropy in Place.”
As a renowned theologian who teaches in the areas of Christian thought, race theory, decolonial and environmental studies, Dr. Willie Jennings will explore how a faithful practice of giving might build new realities of community in our towns and cities. Dr. Jennings is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University Divinity School.
This event is free and open to the public. The in-person lecture will take place at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church (3535 W Kessler Blvd N Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46222) with a reception to follow.
The lecture will also be available to view live online. Registration is required to attend online and in person and you will make your selection when you register.
For questions, please contact lfi@iu.edu.
* Named in honor of Thomas H. Lake, this annual lecture hosted by Lake Institute on Faith & Giving, part of the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, invites a noted scholar or thought leader to speak on a topic related to faith and giving. This year’s lecture is in partnership with Spirit & Place as part of their Big Tent Talks series. Big Tent Talks presents notable and inspirational speakers focused on faith and spirituality.
