Cool Books, Food For Thought. Like a children’s book illustration, imagine the magic visitors will experience when they approach a stunningly crafted, wood refrigerator in the corridor off of the lobby of the museum. When they open the door, the light goes on illuminating the possibilities of books they can read.
A refrigerator may be the most often used item in people’s homes. It’s welcoming and draws one to it. It spontaneously inspires use, encourages togetherness and leads to good health.
It’s accessible art with an ulterior motive, feed your mind and heart, read a book.
From: http://www.thepubliccollection.org/artists/tom-torluemke/
Cosmic Traveler Mac Blackout (born Mark Dunihue McKenzie on June 17, 1977) is an American visual artist and musician from Chicago, Illinois. The founding member of The Functional Blackouts, Daily Void, Mickey, New Rose Alliance and MBB (Mac Blackout Band), he’s also known as a prolific solo recording artist. His projects have been released by Sacred Bones, HoZac, FDH, Pelican Pow Wow and many other prominent independent record labels (see discography). These genre defying recordings range from lo fi noise punk to catchy glam rockers.
Mac was born in Bedford, Indiana, later attending college at the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana where he graduated with a BFA in 1999. During his high school and college years he became a well known street artist in the midwest underground. In 1999 he moved to Chicago, Illinois channeling his creative energies into music and the music related art of posters and album covers. From 2000 to present day he has formed several bands releasing more than 10 full length albums as well as a slew of singles in which he has designed many of the covers. He continues to front MBB. Mac is currently a freelance illustrator, muralist, and fine artist creating album covers, posters, drawings, prints, paintings, murals, and mixed media sculptures.
Cottages of the Near Eastside / A Crossing Through... The two sides of this simply-painted underpass mural highlight two of Indianapolis’ oldest Eastside residential areas. These neighborhoods were once home to the thousands of immigrants that flooded into Indianapolis during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in search of a fresh start.
Cottages of the Near Eastside, on the east wall of the underpass, showcases the facades of homes in the Holy Cross, Cottage Home and Windsor Park neighborhoods as well as in Fountain Square and irish Hill on the Southeast side. if you are familiar with the area, you can pick out the individual houses represented.
A Crossing through Irish Hill, on the west wall, depicts the history of the rail industry in Indianapolis since service first began in the mid-1800s. The Irish Hill neighborhood developed concurrently with the railway, and was historically considered one of the Midwest’s strongest Irish-American communities.
The artist, Jarryd Foreman, is an Indianapolis-based graphic and advertising designer. At the time of the mural’s commissioning, he worked for Angie’s List, headquartered adjacent to Irish Hill.
Counterpoint Counterpoint is architectural in form and dynamic in visual movement. The main body of the sculpture is approximately 10 degrees from the vertical. This tall slender form is precariously balanced by the outstretched stone that hovers above and to the side of the tilting column. The overall composition is a delicate balance of light and dark forms working in unison, creating visual tension and a structural dance. The work is made of powder-coated steel and limestone that is carved in a manner that accentuates the movement of the piece. Gold leaf adorns the form balanced on the cantilevered arm.
In April 2018, the piece was installed on the Washington Street Bridge in the White River Park. The installation is temporary (approx 3 years).
Dale Enochs is a mixed-media sculptor based near Bloomington, Indiana. He has executed numerous temporary and permanent public works in Indiana.
Coyote (1970) Coyote (1970) is a faithful replica, in limestone, of the 1970 Indy 500 car driven by AJ Foyt. Rendered in actual scale, the detail indicates the sponsorship of many companies like Ford, Firestone, STP. The car number is “7”. The sculpture was a gift to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from Architectural Stone Sales and the Evans family of Bedford, Indiana.
A.J. Foyt (1935- ) is a legendary race car driver, the only one to have won the Indy 500 (four times), the Daytona 500, the 24 Hours of Daytona race, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans races plus the 12 Hours of Sebring race. He has been inducted into numerous racing sports halls of fame.
The Coyote was a brand of race car chassis designed and built by Foyt’s team for him to race. It was used from 1966 to 1983, with Foyt himself making 141 starts in the car, and winning 25 times. Two of those wins were at the Indy 500 race, in 1967 and 1977. Later, driver and race team owner Eddie Cheever obtained permission from Foyt to use the Coyote name for his new Daytona prototype chassis, debuting in 2007.
Creative Confluence Graffiti artist Dazed created this text mural for Creative Confluence, a creative membership space and production studio. Creative Confluence’s name is painted in white angular letters with a dripping purple background.
Dazed is a street artist in Indianapolis. He often utilizes text and pop culture images in his artwork on the sides of trucks and cars as well as interior and exterior walls.
Crescendo Crescendo is the successful implementation of the Art Center’s first National Endowment for the Arts grant. A national call was issued to find an artist who could create a sculpture for ArtsPark during a one-week residency with an interactive community component. Kansas City, Missouri artist Beth nybeck was selected to make the sculpture. Nybeck and the Art Center collected over 6,000 tiles in which members of the community wrote answers to the question “What have you discovered?” These tiles were attached to an armature by the artist and are the main component of the finished piece. Completed October 19, 2012 and on display for 3-5 years.
Made possible by a National Endowment for the Arts Art Works grant and the Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF fund.
Quoted from http://indplsartcenter.org/Assets/uploads/Artspark-brochure-2012.pdf
Crown Hill Equatorial Sundial The Equatorial Sundial was commissioned by Crown Hill in 1985, fabricated at Woolery Stone Company in Bloomington, Indiana in 1986 and 1987, and completed on site in 1987 by designer and sculptor David L. Rodgers. At the time, it was declared Indiana’s largest equatorial sundial. “We wanted to build something that would catch the interest of the public,” explained Stewart D. Tompkins, then executive vice president of Crown Hill Cemetery. “We also wanted the structure to be educationally stimulating.”
The sculptor incorporated several site-specific factors in his design. A dominant form in the sculpture is the circle. Its presence derives from its appearance in the late art deco style mausoleum, designed by D. H. Bohlen and Son, before which it stands.
The artist concentrates on the themes of man’s orientation in time and space and the natural order of things. By designing a sculpture that is a functional sundial, he establishes for Crown Hill Cemetery a visible relationship between human time and cosmic time. The sculpture, therefore, relates the cyclic birth, maturation and conclusion of each day to the beginning, development, and fulfillment of individual human life.
(the above text is quoted from http://crownhillhf.org/inmemoryof_sundial.html)
David L. Rodgers was a limestone sculptor based in southern Indiana, active in the 1980s and 1990s.
Crown Hill Neighborhood 1 When designing this box, the artist considered what “community” means to the largely Black Crown Hill neighborhood. He opted to use photographs of residents acting communally: picking up litter, enjoying each other socially, attending meetings to decide as a group what happens in their neighborhood. The result is a vivid portrait of the people and activities that makes a place a neighborhood, and just might turn people’s thinking around who believe that “nothing happens” in Crown Hill.
William Rasdell is a photographer and graphic artist based in Indianapolis. His images examine the ways that ethnic convergence can enrich cultures with foods, religions, languages and the arts, and he focuses on the impact of the African presence throughout the diaspora seeking to understand how these cultural relationships have evolved into contemporary societies. In addition to working in Black neighborhoods in his hometown, he has created pictorials that bear witness to the path of influence and retention in daily life and custom in Uganda, Israel, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Mexico, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad/Tobago and across the United States.
Crown Hill Neighborhood 2 When designing this box, the artist considered what “community” means to the largely Black Crown Hill neighborhood. He opted to use photographs of residents acting communally: picking up litter, enjoying each other socially, attending meetings to decide as a group what happens in their neighborhood. The result is a vivid portrait of the people and activities that makes a place a neighborhood, and just might turn people’s thinking around who believe that “nothing happens” in Crown Hill.
William Rasdell is a photographer and graphic artist based in Indianapolis. His images examine the ways that ethnic convergence can enrich cultures with foods, religions, languages and the arts, and he focuses on the impact of the African presence throughout the diaspora seeking to understand how these cultural relationships have evolved into contemporary societies. In addition to working in Black neighborhoods in his hometown, he has created pictorials that bear witness to the path of influence and retention in daily life and custom in Uganda, Israel, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Mexico, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad/Tobago and across the United States.
Crucible Created in 2014, Don Lawler’s Crucible sculpture was installed on the west side of Martin Hall at the University of Indianapolis (UIndy) campus in 2016. Crafted from Indiana limestone, Crucible weighs over 7,000 pounds and stretches 5 feet in diameter. This massive sculpture stands as the latest addition to UIndy’s Fifth Third Bank Campus Sculpture Walk.
Over a career of over 30 years, Don Lawler has created stone sculptures on a professional basis for public and private outdoor sites. Lawler creates contemporary sculptures that focus on the positive. Common themes include spiritual concerns, the goal of self actualization and the potential of daily self renewal. The monumental scale of Lawler’s stone sculptures further represent the artist’s affinity for building imaginative and creative encounters with art. Lawler artist hopes to create sculptures that will endure for ages; speaking to everyone in the universal language of concept, design and craftsmanship.
For more information about the artist, see: http://www.donlawlersculpture.com/
For more information about the UIndy Fifth Third Bank Campus Sculpture Walk, see: http://www.uindy.edu/
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