Spirit & Place, IU Indianapolis

Spirit & Place Festival Exhibits
2023-04-19 - 2023-04-30, 2023-04-20 - 2023-05-01, 2023-04-21 - 2023-05-02, 2023-04-22 - 2023-05-03, 2023-04-23 - 2023-05-04, 2023-04-24 - 2023-05-05, 2023-04-25 - 2023-05-06, 2023-04-26 - 2023-05-07 and 20 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

Civic Circle: Religious Pluralism (In Person)
2023-04-24 14:30 - 15:45 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | College Avenue Branch LIbrary, 4180 N. College Ave., Indianapolis, IN, 46205, United States
Spirit & Place’s Civic Circle gatherings invite you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values. This April we will continue discussing the idea of religious pluralism.
Whether you are a person of faith or not, well, the Constitution protects it all! So what does “religious pluralism” mean in terms of a shared civic or societal value? How is it different than religious liberty and how do we live into the work of nurturing a religiously pluralistic society?
Using the civic reflection dialogue method, this participatory gathering – you’ll be doing most of the talking! – aims to help you unpack your civic values with others who also care about their role as citizens, that is, as those who show up for each other in public life. This gathering is a continuation of our March meeting, but we will use a different source material and participants need not have attended in April to get something out of this session.
Please use the blue registration button below.
*ABOUT CIVIC REFLECTION
Engaging in a civic reflection dialogue is not the same at attending a lecture or discussing a book. This is an immersive experience around a shared source materials (e.g., a poem, short writing, visual image, etc.). As such, we’ll spend most of the time in small group dialogue. Active participation is a must!

Civic Circle: Religious Pluralism (Virtual)
2023-05-17 14:30 - 16:00
Spirit & Place’s Civic Circle gatherings invite you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values. This spring we will focus on the value of religious pluralism by using a different source material at each gathering. In other words, each dialogue is unique!
Whether or not you are a person of faith, the Constitution protects you. So what does “religious pluralism” mean in terms of a shared civic or societal value? How is it different than religious liberty and how do we live into the work of nurturing a religiously pluralistic society?
Using the civic reflection dialogue method, this participatory gathering – you’ll be doing most of the talking! – aims to help you unpack your civic values with others who also care about their role as citizens, that is, as those who show up for each other in public life.
Register using the button below. A Zoom link will be emailed to you separately.
