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  • Barbara Boyd Living the Legacy
    Barbara Boyd Living the Legacy
    Category: Historical; Mural
    This transit stop installation tells the story of Barbara Boyd, a pioneer in broadcast journalism in Indianapolis. Boyd was the first Black female news anchor to serve a major metropolitan city, as well as the first Black woman to be inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame. This installation was part of a project by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Project in 2010 that asked students to select excerpts from speeches and sermons of Dr. King that speak to them today. This is one of five transit shelters included in the project, and this transit shelter shows quotes chosen by Key Learning Community, Elder W. Diggs School 42, and Flanner House Charter School.
  • Be Better
    Be Better
    Category: Mural
    Using script and colors referencing the LA Lakers basketball team, this mural hopes to inspire viewers to “Be Better”. The “t”s in better are formed by two silhouettes of children holding their arms out.
  • Charlie Wiggins Living the Legacy
    Charlie Wiggins Living the Legacy
    Category: Historical; Mural
    This transit stop installation tells the story of Charlie Wiggins, a Black Indianapolis auto mechanic and champion race car driver who was refused entry to compete in the Indianapolis 500 because of his skin color. Undeterred, he helped form the Colored Speedway Association and created an all-Black racing event called the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes. The installation was part of a project by The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Legacy Project in 2010 that asked students to select excerpts from speeches and sermons of Dr. King that speak to them today. This is one of five transit shelters that were part of this project, and this shelter shows quotes chosen by Crispus Attucks High School and Holy Angels Catholic School.
  • Flanner House Legends
    Flanner House Legends
    Category: Mural
    This black and white mural on Cleo’s Bodega features five portraits of local leaders connected to Flanner House, a non-profit serving the local Black community since 1903. On the far left, Frances Malone was the Director of Education at Flanner House for 42 years. On the left middle side, Frank W. Flanner is the namesake for Flanner House after he donated two buildings to create a Black community service center. In the center, Booker T. Washington is pictured because his accommodationist philosophy shaped Flanner House. On the right middle side, Cleo Blackburn developed Flanner House to further focus on education and job training for young people. On the far right, Albert Moore was the Agriculture Director at Flanner House and taught urban farming.
  • Here I Reached and the Flowers Bloomed
    Here I Reached and the Flowers Bloomed
    Category: Mural
    This mural is dedicated to the surrounding community and features two hands coming together amid symbolic flowers. The flower symbolism includes: Magnolia – dignity Mimosa – sensitivity Witch Hazel – reconciliation Almond Blossom – hope Peony – Indiana’s state flower, good fortune BA Thomas is an Indianapolis-based independent artist who loves referencing pop culture, symbolism, and other artworks and artists throughout history in her work. In addition to murals, she creates analog & digital collages, hand-pulled printmaking, and digital illustration. She exhibits frequently in venues around the city.
  • Love is the Answer Mural
    Love is the Answer Mural
    Category: Mural
    Overlapping images referencing music, sports, and pop culture surround the message of this mural: “Love is the Answer”.
  • Rader Street Art Sheds
    Rader Street Art Sheds
    Category: Mural
    These colorful and functional sheds were created to store the materials and tools necessary to build and maintain community gardens, which were initially created on facing vacant lots at the corner of 26th and Rader in Indianapolis. The gardens were built by the neighborhood as part of the RECLAIM project, which aims to transform blighted properties in the Northwest neighborhoods using art combined with the energy, labor, power, and strength of community members. The sheds are covered with bright murals that were designed after community conversations and painted by community members.  One shed displays excerpts from Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise,” and is combined with images derived from Egyptian culture.  The message is that the Egyptians were a strong, proud African people that neighborhood residents might pattern themselves on.  Other sheds use imagery of the phoenix–symbolizing power and beauty rising from destruction–as well as the panther, and floral motifs representing growth.  A signpost indicates the direction and distance to important community resources. In 2019, new greenspaces were implemented at 29th and Rader, near 28th and Rader, and at 25th and Rader (2 sheds). The sheds were painted by professional artists Shamira Wilson, Mechi Shakur, Matthew Cooper, and Tasha Beckwith, respectively. Wilson’s shed, which shows a bright yellow sun in her signature brilliant colors and clear graphic imagery wrapping around all four sides, includes two lines of text from Effie Lee Newsome’s 1922 poem “The Bronze Legacy (To A Brown Boy)”: “I thank God, then, I am brown. / Brown has mighty things to do.” Newsome (1885-1978) was one of the first African American poets to write primarily for children, although she only published one full volume (Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers,1940). Shakur’s shed is a Peter-Max-inspired psychedelic composition of a boy and a woman with long, flowing hair, set in in a brightly-colored landscape of floral and geometric shapes that includes a stairway and a door. The painted stairway is a visual extension of a set of real concrete steps, abandoned on the site when the vacant house was demolished. A picket fence surrounding the lot bears the painted work of neighborhood youth. Cooper’s shed is an ode to neighborhood unity, with a theme of hands and fingers working together. The shed was painted with the assistance of teens from EmployIndy. RECLAIM is the vision of two Indianapolis-based artists.  Phyllis Viola Boyd is an artist, botanist, and urban designer. LaShawnda Crowe Storm is a community-based artist, community organizer, and urban farmer.
  • Rainbow Underpass Mural
    Rainbow Underpass Mural
    Category: Mural
    This underpass mural below I-65 on W 30th St. is painted in a rainbow of colors on both sides. One side has handprints at the base of the support pillars and the other side has houses in contrasting colors.
  • The Learning Tree Mural
    The Learning Tree Mural
    Category: Mural
    This mural of a tree with day on one side and night on the other was painted by Jamahl Crouch, an artist part of The Learning Tree community. The Learning Tree is an association of neighbors that specializes in Asset Based Community Development, learning and education that improves the quality of lives of people, communities, schools and businesses. Jamahl Crouch has been working as a freelance artist since he was 16. He takes inspiration from stories and people around him. One of his recent series portrays predominantly Black children as Kings and Queens in more modernistic regal outfits as a reflection on his own upbringing.
  • Untitled (Mural)
    Untitled (Mural)
    Category: Mural
    This mural centers around two hands reaching toward each other with lively branches and flowers surrounding them. Beth Ann Thomas is an Indianapolis-based multidisciplinary artist who uses different types of media to create beauty and tension in her abstract work. She focuses on asking hard questions through visual languages like texture, color, symbolic imagery, and text.
  • Untitled (Mural)
    Untitled (Mural)
    Category: Mural
    This mural shows a child on an adult’s shoulders walking away from Clark’s Grocery Store and toward a row of colorful houses with the sun setting on the Indianapolis skyline in the background, raising issues of food deserts and gentrification. Terry K. Wilson is a painter, muralist, and educator from Indianapolis. He specializes in portraiture.
  • We Are Here!
    We Are Here!
    Category: Outdoor Sculpture
    In 2011, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art of Indianapolis organized an exhibition called We Are Here! of work by Fellowship recipients to provide insight into the issues, concerns, and methods of leading Indigenous artists working today. This sculptural installation features large metal exclamation points with images from the exhibition by three of the artists: Bonnie Devine (Ojibwa), Duane Slick (Meskwaki/Ho-Chunk), and Skawennati (Mohawk). In 1999, with the generous support of Lilly Endowment, the Eiteljorg Museum of Indianapolis inaugurated what is now called the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship. This biennial program culminates in an exhibition that honors an invited artist and five contemporary fine artists whose achievements warrant recognition. Bonnie Devine (Ojibwa) is a multi-talented sculpture and installation artist. Her work centers on the aesthetic and epistemological issues of landscape. Duane Slick (Meskwaki/ Ho-Chunk) is a painter who uses shadow, light, and Native themes to challenge viewers to see art as a necessary form of communication. Shawennati (Mohawk) is an artist, independent curator, and writer. Her art focuses on virtual spaces that allow visitors to re-envision history and to see into the future.
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