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  • Community Canvas
    Community Canvas
    Artist: Boxx The Artist
    Date created: Oct 01, 2023
    Category: Interactive; Mural; Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Chalk; Metal; Paint; Wood
    Community Canvas, located in the Martindale-Brightwood community, is an interactive art piece, a public mural, and a chalking canvas that allows neighbors and community members to engage and creatively chalk their visions inspired by the question, “To make the world a better place I…” Visitors can use the chalk provided to draw pictures, write quotes, and express themselves on how to positively impact their community. Although initially intended to be temporary, the community (through Circle Up Indy) contributed funds to build it as a permanent outdoor installation at their pride and joy, the new Martindale-Brightwood library branch.  The artwork was purchased by the Martindale-Brightwood community after appearing for a year as a temporary installation with Indy Art & Seek, a 2020 project of the Arts Council of Indianapolis and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Boxx the Artist is a self-taught artist, painter, body painter, art instructor, muralist, and entrepreneur. She has been actively practicing the medium of acrylic paint for approximately 4 years professionally, yet has been a lifetime artist in various other forms. Boxx’s visual practice uses acrylic, digital, and mixed mediums to capture different aspects of life in the African diaspora. She focuses on people and experiences, and often documents history as she sees it being created. People are used as metaphors to address relevant social issues and create a dialogue for change. Boxx is expanding the realms of her creativity through integrating technology, intersecting acrylic with mixed mediums, and exploring interactive and public art.  
  • Fissure
    Fissure
    Artist: Luke Crawley, Quincy Owens
    Date created: Oct 01, 2023
    Category: Interactive; Outdoor Sculpture; Temporary
    Medium(s): Acrylic; Aluminum; Lighting; Mixed Media
    This design conceptually explores immigration, which is an issue with direct ties to the spirit and community of The Athenaeum Foundation.  Das Deutsche Haus was originally created as a social and community center for German immigrants in Indianapolis to feel safe, welcome, and celebrated.  Such a place continues to be necessary today for all immigrants, and especially refugees. Das Deutsche Haus changed its name to The Athenaeum in 1918 due to anti-German sentiment after World War I.  Today, there is still similar judgement and stereotypes placed on certain immigrant populations.  This artwork draws attention to such a complex issue, while also celebrating the historical context of German immigrants in the Indianapolis community. Owens + Crawley are an Indianapolis-based team of artists who work in complement with each other. Quincy creates abstract work out of a spontaneous spirit-filled place that taps into a universal human connection. Luke deliberately dissects, analyzes and categorizes segments of sound, light and/or visual elements to quantify and rearrange them into new, well thought-out systems. Both artists work from different realms of the mind, each providing part of the complete existence of human reality. This work is part of The Public Collection, which is a public art and literacy project developed by Rachel M. Simon to improve literacy, foster a deeper appreciation of the arts (and artists), and promote social and educational justice in our community. Each book share station holds a varied selection of books for diverse audiences and age groups. The Public Collection stations are free and available to everyone. Passersby can borrow and return books at their leisure. Books are supplied and stocked by the Indianapolis Public Library.
  • Ka-Bike-O-Scope
    Ka-Bike-O-Scope
    Artist: Luke Crawley, Quincy Owens
    Date created: Oct 01, 2023
    Category: Electronic/Technology; Interactive; Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Mixed Media
    The Ka-Bike-O-Scope, an interactive public sculpture created by Quincy Owens and Luke Crawley in partnership with The daVinci Pursuit, is located on Pleasant Run trail near the Barth Bridge. The Ka-Bike-O-Scope is a large scale, group kaleidoscopic kinetic sculpture consisting of a stationary bike-like base that when pedaled causes canopies of overlapping up-cycled bicycle wheels 18 feet in the air to spin. A user can either ride the attached stationary bike or turn the hand cranks (or both) to activate the bicycle wheels in the canopy. Colorful acrylics are fitted between the overhead spokes creating chromatic natural reflections during the day and LED generated ones at night. The sculpture allows passersby to playfully explore the principles of energy conversion, simple machines and the properties of light. Masterminded by professional artist Quincy Owens and physicist Luke Crawley, the Ka-Bike-O-Scope is the culmination of a community-wide design competition created to use the arts to bring basic science concepts to neighborhood residents and beyond. Children from local schools have participated in attaching the colored plastic panels into the up-cycled bicycle wheels while learning the physics concepts. A curriculum is being used by area schools to further the exploration of the physics concepts.
  • The Musical Swings
    The Musical Swings
    Artist: Daily Tous les Jours
    Date created: Oct 01, 2023
    Category: Interactive; Outdoor Sculpture
    Medium(s): Mixed Media; Sound; Steel
    The Musical Swings, designed by Daily Tous Les Jours of Montreal, Canada, is an interactive installation that stimulates human connections. Imagined as a collective experience, the swings invite people of all ages and backgrounds to make music together. It’s an intuitive game, where cooperation between participants unlocks secret melodies, encouraging collaboration and active awareness of others. Arts for Lawrence has the first-ever permanent set of Musical Swings in the world.
  • Wings of Love
    Wings of Love
    Artist: DAVe TOO, SOMBR1
    Date created: Oct 01, 2023
    Category: Interactive; Mural
    Medium(s): Paint
    In this interactive mural, Sombr1’s wings filled with DAVe TOO’s signature SPRAYMONSTERS demonstrate that only through love can one fly high above the sometimes overwhelming challenges and concerns of daily life. Viewers are encouraged to stand before this mural and try on the Wings of Love for themselves, so they may fly to new heights, rising above whatever challenges they may be facing and overcoming all opposition with love. Scan the QR code posted next to the mural to view photos posted on Instagram using the hashtag #wingsoflovemuralirv. The mural was commissioned by Bareknuckles Barbershop and made possible with additional support from Hampton Designs Studio & Shop, East IndyDental Care, Jockamo Upper Crust Pizza, Lincoln Square, The Med, Scarlet Lane Brewing Company, and Hazeables Specialty Desserts and Edibles. Sombr1 (Shannon Patrick Baugher) and DAVe TOO (Dave Combs) are longtime Indianapolis street artists. The “wings of Irvington” project is their latest joint venture.
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