Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2022-10-10 - 2022-10-21, 2022-10-11 - 2022-10-22, 2022-10-12 - 2022-10-23, 2022-10-13 - 2022-10-24, 2022-10-14 - 2022-10-25, 2022-10-15 - 2022-10-26, 2022-10-16 - 2022-10-27, 2022-10-17 - 2022-10-28 and 17 more dates | IN
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

Civic Circle Gathering (Oct. 12)
2022-10-12 14:30 - 15:45 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
VIRTUAL EVENT.
Join us as we nurture a spirit of shared civic purpose with poetry, music, and small dialogue groups.
Spirit & Place invites you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values during its “Civic Circle” gatherings.
Using the civic reflection dialogue method, these participatory gatherings – you’ll be doing most of the talking! – will focus on the words, deeds, and imagery of our nation’s past. By unpacking our civic values together, we can better support each other in living by those values.
Don’t be surprised by a little poetry and/or music thrown into the mix when we can!

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2022-11-02 - 2022-11-13 | Multiple, IN, United States
Check out the variety of exhibitions included in this year’s festival!
Past is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery
(Looking Forward exhibit)
Sept. 28 – Jan. 15
Herron School of Art + Design – Basile Auditorium, 735 W. New York St.
Holy Sparks: Celebrating 50 Years of Women Rabbinate
Nov. 1—30
Indiana Interchurch Center—Krannert Hall, 1100 W. 42nd St.
HIV Modernization: Ending the Stigma of People Living with HIV
Nov. 3—13
Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center—Michael O’Brien Gallery, 705 N. Illinois St.
Will You See the Real Me?
Nov. 4—12
Lost Dog Gallery, 1040 E. New York St.
*The Lost Dog Gallery will be open Nov. 4, 5, 10, 11, & 12.
I Am Unique
(Weaving the Web exhibit)
Nov. 4—19
Garfield Park Arts Center—Main Gallery, 2432 Conservatory Dr.

Spirit & Place Festival Opening Preview!
2022-11-03 14:30 - 15:30
Kick-off the 27th annual Spirit & Place Festival with a showcase of events featuring local poet and spoken word artist Manon Voice and photographer Wildstyle Paschall.
Want to learn more about this year’s festival and its exciting mix of exhibits, community conversations, performances, workshops, and more? Sit back in the comfort of your own home while the talented Manon Voice serves as emcee and helps us showcase all this year’s festival has to offer. We will also hear from photographer, local historian, and community activist Wildstyle Paschall. Wildstyle was commissioned to create an online photography exhibit based on the IDENTIFY theme. Over the summer he captured community images of people in the places and spaces where they could let their identities shine!
A partnership between Spirit & Place, Cavanaugh Studios at IUPUI, and 2022 Festival Partners.
Contact Spirit & Place at 317-274-2462 or festival@iupui.edu with questions.
Register by Nov. 3 at 6pm!
Register below.

Celebrating and Remembering Family: Día de los Muertos
2022-11-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Bartholomew Co. Public Library – Outdoor Plaza, 536 5th St., Columbus, IN, 47201, United States
This bilingual celebration explores the cultural, spiritual, and intergenerational significance of Día de los Muertos. Author Selene Dávila will share El esqueleto que ama bailar (The Skeleton that Loves to Dance) and families will be invited to participate in art-making activities.
This event will be a bilingual story time that will engage child and parent participants across languages with the cultural, intergenerational, and spiritual significance of Día de los Muertos through multiple senses: a local author’s story, a felt storyboard visualizing a family alter, a craft to honor a deceased loved one, and the traditional holiday bone bread. Selene Dávila, a Columbus parent-author will share the meaning behind the holiday’s traditions in reading her story, El esqueleto que ama bailar, The Skeleton that Loves to Dance. Additional bilingual books authored by Columbus parents and sharing Latinx culture will be on display.
This event is geared toward PreK-6 youth, families, parents, and educators of all backgrounds. The storytelling portion of this event will be conducted live at the library and will also be livestreamed on the Bartholomew County Public Library’s Facebook page. In-person attendance is necessary to participate in the other activities.
A partnership between IUPUC Division of Education; Bartholomew Co. Public Library; Family School Partners; Cultural Learning Center, Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp.; and Bartholomew Co. Literacy Taskforce.
Contact the event organizers at (812) 348-7244 or lbliu@iu.edu.
Walk-ins welcome, but registration is encouraged by Nov. 3.
Register below.
Image Credit: The Skeleton that Loves to Dance by Selene Davila

Will You See the Real Me?
2022-11-04 13:00 - 17:00 | Lost Dog Gallery, 1040 E. New York St., Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Exhibit showcasing the work of two fiber art guilds and their creativity to express the stories and identities of individuals leaving incarceration, fighting homelessness, aging out of foster care, and facing other challenges.
We make a lot of assumptions about people. Depending on their personal backgrounds, economic status, gender expression, skin color, and even life struggles, we can unfairly label people and limit their options and opportunities in life. Let’s challenge ourselves to see the whole person based on how they identify for themselves outside of society’s labels.
Working with adults who have been previously incarcerated, struggled with homelessness, or have been in the foster system, fiber artists with INFiber and the Akoma Ntoso Modern Quilt Guild of Central Indiana have partnered with Trusted Mentors to create a dynamic exhibit – including an interactive “in-progress” component exhibit goers can add to – inspired by the stories and self-expression of those too often marginalized and stigmatized by society’s labels.
Upon entering the exhibit, attendees will be asked to respond to an art quilt and words about the difficulties the members of Trusted Mentors have faced. These thoughts can be written on ribbons and attached to the art quilt. Each piece in the exhibit will be inspired from key words and ideas from the mentees about their true selves. These thoughts will be included in the descriptions. As attendees exit the exhibit, they will be asked to again put words on ribbons and attach to another art quilt, but this time the words will be based on what they have seen in the art, expressive of the way those represented really see themselves.
The exhibit will be open for viewing at the Lost Dog Gallery on the following days:
Friday, Nov. 4: 5-9pm (opening reception)
Saturday, Nov. 5: 2-5 pm
Thursday, Nov. 10: 5-7pm
Friday, Nov. 11: 5-7pm
Saturday, Nov. 12: 2-5pm
A partnership between INfiber, Akoma Ntoso Modern Quilt Guild of Central Indiana, and Trusted Mentors.
Contact event organizers at 317-274-2462 or lostdoggallery@gmail.com
Walk-ins welcome! Registrations for the Nov. 4 reception are encouraged by Nov. 3.
Register below.
