The Harrison Center for the Arts kicks off the fall arts season with In Your Own Backyard artist reception and open studio night. In the Harrison Gallery, HCA studio artist Kyle Herrington has created Backyard Phenomena, an exhibit of paintings and sculptures that are "an attempt to replicate the imagined ruins left in the wake of unnecessary panic, terror and hopelessness. Twisting the notions of run-of-the-mill crises and nervous breakdowns into the context of a cataclysmic events allows these works to be both jokingly playful and deadly serious at the same time; much like the current perspective of my peers on their own self-imposed troubles and calamities."

Also that night:
The Gallery Annex features work by Tom Peck, Kimber Shaw, Hannah Burnworth and Jude Odell; Built, Building, Build – new work by Kathryn Barnes Dart in the City Gallery; the Bindery, a pop-up co-working initiative for Indy’s design community in Gallery No. 2; Robots 2 group show in the Underground; new work by Kimber Capuchino in Hank & Dolly’s Gallery and 25 open studios throughout the building.

In the Harrison Center’s historic sanctuary at 6:30pm: 5 finalists compete for $10,000 in Connect Your City, Connect Your Neighborhood, the final Indy 5×5 competition. Geoff Davis and Friends will provide live music for the event. Following the competition at 8:30pm, Paul Smallman performs his City Songs, music inspired by the neighborhoods of King Park Area.

The Harrison Center is grateful to the partner organizations who are helping with the 5×5 event, including the Lacy Leadership Association, Pattern Magazine, two21, The Platform and Urban Times. The Indy 5×5 is sponsored by Central Indiana Community Foundation, the Efroymson Family Fund and Christel DeHaan Family Foundation.

The art hangs through September 27th.

With support from: ArtPlace America, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the Indiana Arts Commission, INHP, Christel DeHaan Family Foundation, Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation, the Indianapolis Foundation, Sun King Brewery and Amy McAdams Design.