For Janet Fry, art has been the consistent thread that ties together the many parts of her life. Janet has a bachelor’s degree in Aesthetic Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University. She worked as a visual journalist at newspapers for 25 years.

Janet has had her art displayed at Storage Space Gallery, Big Car Collaborative’s Tube Factory, Harrison Center for the Arts and the Archivist Studio and Shoppe. In November 2022, Janet had ceramic work in Indiana Beach, an installation in the Satellite Art Show of Art Basel Miami.

Locally, Janet has studied life drawing and painting under Caroline Mecklin, Ellie Siskind and Jim Gerard. Most recently Janet has worked in clay sculpture with Christopher Dance and Peggy Breidenbach. Since 2021, she has drawn the Greatriarchs — elders from the near Downtown community — in the weekly Storytelling Drawing sessions at the Harrison Center for the Arts. 

Janet Fry has a studio in her Downtown Indianapolis home. Primarily interested in painting and sculpting the figure, Janet explores sexuality and aging with surrealist humor, and expressive line, texture and color.