What is a kokedama? A Japanese art form of presenting a plant in a ‘living pot’, a kokedama is essentially a plant living in a “moss ball” that can sit on a tray, small stand, or hang from your ceiling.

Join Big Car staff artist and grants manager, Summer Alaniz in learning how to make your own kokedama! Choose your plant from our wide selection of indoor plants and turn it into a kokedama. Come prepared to get your hands dirty! In this workshop, you will also learn proper care and upkeep of your plant. Supplies are limited and only 30 kokedamas will be made, first come first serve.

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About Alaniz
An enthusiast for art, philosophy, and nature, Alaniz is a firm believer in the soft power of arts & cultural organizations. She obtained a degree in Philosophy with a concentration in epistemology. Alaniz employs these fundamentals to her work as a recent graduate in Museum Studies and Nonprofit Management at IUPUI. Intrigued with the link between the nature of knowledge and the soft power of arts & cultural organizations, she hopes to utilize this capicity to encourage curiosity and creativity among non-typical arts audiences. Art is, afterall, a seemingly borderless avenue to the highest available knowledge to be attained by anyone.

What’s This?

Big Car Collaborative and Downtown Indy are teaming up with the City of Indianapolis — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission— to spark Monument Circle with human-scale activities like games, live music, artmaking, and socializing in a comfortable place. Everything is free for people to enjoy.