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ArtsGuide ACRL 15th National Conference April 10 to April 13, 2013

Arts Section

Association of College & Research Libraries

WELCOME This selective guide to cultural attractions and events has been created for attendees of the 2013 ACRL Conference in Indianapolis.

MAP OF SITES LISTED IN THIS GUIDE See what’s close to you or plot your course by car, foot, or public transit with the Google Map version of this guide: http://goo.gl/maps/fe1ck

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis and the surrounding areas are served by the IndyGo bus system. For bus schedules and trip planning assistance, see the IndyGo website: http://www.indygo.net.

WHERE TO SEARCH FOR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NUVO is ’s independent news organization: http://www.nuvo.net/ Around Indy is a community calendar: http://www.aroundindy.com/

THIS GUIDE HAS BEEN PREPARED BY Editor: Ngoc-Yen Tran, University of Oregon Contributors: | Architecture - Jenny Grasto, North Dakota State University | Dance - Jacalyn E. Bryan, Saint Leo University | Galleries - Jennifer L. Hehman, -Purdue University Indianapolis | Music - Anne Shelley, State University | Theatre - Megan Lotts, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | Visual Arts & - Alba Fernández-Keys, Indianapolis of Art

*Efforts were made to gather the most up-to-date information for performance dates, but please be sure to confirm by checking the venue web sites provided

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CONTENTS ii-vi INTRODUCTION & TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 5 Col. H. Weir Cook Terminal Building – Indianapolis

5 International Airport 5 Indiana Repertory Theatre 5 Indianapolis Central Library 6 Indianapolis City Market 7 Indianapolis Union Railroad Station 7 Majestic Building 8 Visitors Pavilion 8 Scottish Rite Cathedral

DANCE 9 9 The Center for Performing Arts 9 Clowes Memorial Hall () 9 Indiana Repertory Theatre – Cabaret 9 Dance Companies 9 Dance Kaleisoscope 10 Motus Dance Theatre

GALLERIES

10 Big Car (Service Center for Culture and Community) 10 10 Herron School of Art and Design 10 11 Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library 11 Galleries, Gallery Districts, and 11 Wholesale Arts District 12 The Canal and State Park 13 Lockerbie Square Neighborhood 13 Mass Avenue Arts District 14 Other Galleries Downtown 14 Outside the Downtown Loop: Old Northside, Fountain Square, Broad Ripple, Pike Township 2

CONTENTS continued MUSIC 15 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

15 15 Indianapolis Symphonic Choir 16 16 Venues 16 Chatterbox Jazz Club 16 The Jazz Kitchen 16 The Rathskeller 16 Slippery Noodle Inn

THEATRE

16 Indiana Repertory Theatre 16 17 Phoenix Theater 17 Theatre on the Square 17 Indyfringe 18 Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre 18 Candlelight Theatre

VISUAL ARTS & MUSEUM 18 Children’s Museum of Indianapolis

18 19 Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art 19 and Historic Sites 19 Indianapolis Museum of Art 20 Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art

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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN lost most of its tenants, and all of its high profile COL. H. WEIR COOK TERMINAL BUILDING – establishments. The Indiana Theater fell into disrepair INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT and by the mid 1970’s was considered endangered. In 1979, the Indiana Repertory Theater purchased and The first “greenfield” U.S. airport designed and began the renovation of the historic building, constructed since 9/11, the terminal is a showcase of reconfiguring the interior to contain the performance sustainability, with an effort to reduce the carbon spaces - and restoring much of the lush atmosphere in footprint of the building. The terminal also features the theater lobbies. The upper floor of the building advanced technology that combines design simplicity contains the Indiana Roof Ballroom, a unique space and clear sight lines to smoothly shepherd travelers to designed as a “Spanish” town square, surrounded by the city plaza and ultimately their gate, and a civic buildings, and topped with an elliptical dome with sky plaza, topped by a 200-foot-diameter skylight and a effects. It was a very popular venue for big band and view of the skyline that serves other performances in its heyday in the 1930’s and as a destination point for travelers with comfortable 40’s. It’s currently a popular rentable events space. The seating. Indiana Roof Ballroom is very similar to ’s Architect: HOK Architects, 2008 larger 1926 Aragon Ballroom in the Uptown Website: http://www.indianapolisairport.com Neighborhood, which now is a concert venue. Location: 7800 Col. H. Weir Cook Memorial Drive Architect: Rubush & Hunter, 1927 Distance from Convention Center: 13.2 miles Website: http://www.irtlive.com Transportation: Bus #8, Car, Taxi Location: 140 West Washington Street Admission: Free. Parking locations and rates: Distance from Convention Center: 0.2 miles Parking Garage $2 per 30 minutes, Economy Lot $9 Transportation: 3 minute walk per day. Additional tour information can be found at Admission: Tours are $1.00 per person. Please call http://tinyurl.com/cbhsodu ahead to schedule a tour. (Tickets for shows can be Hours: Open 24 hours. Guest Services Center Sunday purchased on the website. See Theater section for – Friday 6am to 11pm, Saturday 6am to 9pm performance events and times.) Phone: 317-487-7243 Hours: On days of performances: • INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE Monday - Friday: 11am to ½ hour after curtain • Saturday: 12pm to ½ hour after curtain The Indiana Theater, built in 1927, was designed as the • Sunday: 12pm to ½ hour after curtain city’s largest and most lavish “movie palace.” The six- Phone: 317-635-5277 story building features an ornately carved glazed white Terra Cotta façade, sculpted in the Spanish Baroque INDIANAPOLIS CENTRAL LIBRARY style. The interior is a mix of Spanish, Indian and The Cret Building, located on St. Clair Street and Egyptian Motifs, sparkling lights, and rich tapestries. extending from Meridian to Pennsylvania Streets, was The original building included a 3,200-seat movie built on land donated by James Whitcomb Riley. The house, a bowling alley, lunch counter, barbershop and construction was completed in October 1917. more. As the suburbs developed in the 50’s, with their Designed by Paul Cret and built in the Greek Doric 5 style, it was considered architecturally to be one of the Street side is the original main front. Here, Bohlen most outstanding library structures in the United used twin flanking towers, simple pilasters, and stilted States. The exterior is fittingly of Indiana limestone round arches. Similar to the Romanesque Revival style, built on a base of Vermont marble, with carved stone but coming from German sources, historians call this cornices adding to its beauty. A broad expanse of steps style Rundbogenstil or Round-arched style. D.A. leads up to the entrance, which is framed with Bohlen was trained in Germany at the height of impressive Greek columns. The Cret Building interior influence of this bold, utilitarian style. The architects materials include Indiana limestone, walnut and white also planned for a clerestory to infuse additional light oak. The ceiling of the Simon Reading Room was to the interior. For the interior, the Bohlens made use painted in Pompeian style by C. C. Zantzinger, and tells of cast and wrought iron columns and trusses to the history of Indiana. There are two 30 foot bronze support the large free span needed for the market chandeliers decorated to match the ceiling of this stalls. Hetherington & Berner iron works of room. The gates at the Cret’s Building’s main entrance Indianapolis provided the ironwork for the interior. In on St. Clair Street were given by Indianapolis school 1972-77, the city completed a massive revitalization of children. The bronze gates were purchased with City Market. Over the years, the Bohlen firm had pennies by the children. The bronze tables on each of designed additional bays to expand the building. the massive wrought iron gates contain the inscription: These were removed, and the firm of James & The gates are the gift of the children of Indianapolis in Associates designed modern wings. A mezzanine was loving remembrance of their friend James Whitcomb added to the interior of the 1886 building. The plaza to Riley. the west of City Market once housed Tomlinson Hall, a Architect: Paul Cret, 1917; Woollen Molzan, 2007 large red brick building similar in style to City Market, renovation & expansion also designed by D.A. Bohlen & Son in the 1880s. A fire Website: http://www.imcpl.org/ damaged Tomlinson Hall, and it was demolished in Location: 40 East St. Clair Street 1958. The remnant arch of Tomlinson Hall was Distance from Convention Center: 1.3 miles discovered during the 1970s rehabilitation of City Transportation: Bus #10, 19, or 38 Market. Recently, City Market has undergone another Admission: Free. Parking garage rates: 0-1 hr $1, 1-2 major renovation and development project. hrs $2, 2-4 hrs $3, 4-8 hrs $5 Architect: D.A. Bohlen & Son, 1886 Hours: Monday – Wednesday 10am to 8pm, Thursday Website: http://www.indycm.com 10am to 6pm, Friday – Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday Location: 222 East Market Street 12pm to 5pm Distance from Convention Center: 0.6 miles Phone: 317-275-4100 Transportation: 15 minute walk, Bus #2, 11, 17 Admission: Free INDIANAPOLIS CITY MARKET Hours: Monday – Friday 6am to 9pm, Saturday 8am The city built several simple market stall buildings here to 9pm early on. In 1886, architects D.A. Bohlen & Son drafted Phone: 317-634-9266 plans to replace the aging market sheds. This is the building that survives today, with alterations. The brick exterior walls have stone sills and details. The Market 6 INDIANAPOLIS UNION RAILROAD STATION house is open only for special events. Visitors can also tour the immediately adjacent Indianapolis Union Designed by architect and engineer, Station—Wholesale Historic District. Thomas Rodd, and built between 1886 and 1888, the Indianapolis Union Railway Station is an excellent MAJESTIC BUILDING example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. The Majestic was Indiana’s first entirely steel framed The exterior is notable for the architect's skillful skyscraper building. Rising to ten stories high, the combining of brick and granite; the brick clock tower building has brick walls and Indiana limestone veneer. with its polyfoil spire is the landmark's most The Indiana Gas Company constructed the building in recognizable feature. The station's grand interior is 1895–96 to serve as a new business headquarters. dominated by the monumental barrel-vaulted waiting Oscar Bohlen of D.A. Bohlen & Son was the architect. room that extends the length of the building and forty- Though it was intended as the main office of the gas five feet high; along with its two stained glass wheel company, other businesses located here too. The New windows, it is one of the finest large-scale public York Central and Big Four Railroads maintained spaces in Indianapolis. The 1916-1922 Concourse and Indianapolis offices in the Majestic at various times in Train Shed was designed by the the early 20th century, for example. Bohlen’s exterior architectural firm of Price and McLanahan. The design for the Majestic uses the strength of the Concourse was an extension of the waiting room, Romanesque Revival style. The large entrance arches giving passengers safe access to six loading platforms are intricately decorated with foliate and acanthus above in the Train Shed. The Concourse and Train Shed carvings. The center grouping of three massive arches are notable for their "Expressionist" architectural in the center of the upper stories, flanked by bookends design. The streamlined design and use of terra cotta of triple windows, gives the building its monumental suggests a late example of the Art Nouveau style that character. Woollen Associates completed an extensive had been extremely popular in Europe during the renovation of the Majestic Building in 1980. The 1890s and early twentieth century. Additionally, building remains the oldest high-rise still standing in Indianapolis's Train Shed is one of the last surviving Indianapolis. large train sheds in the Midwest, as few other major cities in the region have retained these significant Architect: Oscar Bohlen, 1896 industrial structures. The train yards include a large Website: http://tinyurl.com/ceklkgx number of rail spurs that were necessary to Location: 47 South Pennsylvania Street accommodate the nearly two hundred trains passing Distance from Convention Center: 0.3 miles through the station daily during its prime. Transportation: 5 minute walk Hours: Varies. There are several businesses within the Architect: Thomas Rodd building. An upscale steakhouse is located on the main Website: http://tinyurl.com/d8zn9xw floor: Mo’s A Place for Steaks. Open Monday – Thursday Location: 39 West Jackson Place 4:30pm to 12am, Friday – Saturday 4:30pm - 1am Distance from Convention Center: 0.3 miles Phone: Mo’s A place for Steaks: 317-624-0720 Transportation: 5 minute walk Admission: Various restaurants and facilities are open to the public in Union Station, but the head

7 RUTH LILLY VISITORS PAVILION SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL The Ruth Lilly Visitor’s Pavilion provides a place of Scottish Rite is one of the variants of Freemasonry. It reflection and assessment, a place of questioning what was very popular during the 1920's, as this building has been directly experienced by the visitor and of attests. Completed in 1929 at a cost of $2.5 million, it what was observed, or not, of the processes — natural is the largest Scottish Rite Cathedral in the world. The and cultural — at work within the Art + Nature Park. It architect was George E. Schreiber, a member of the too serves as a threshold for those entering the park organization, who incorporated many of its principles from the Indianapolis greenway system. Educational into the design. Every dimension is divisible by three, activities for a few or fifty persons help visitors gain a the number of degrees of Freemasonry, and many of deeper, and perhaps, even more meaningful them divisible by 33, the age of Jesus Christ at the understanding of the relationships between conditions time of his crucifixion. The Cathedral is one of the nature-made and man-made. Positioned lightly upon finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the the earth, detached with column supports, a horizontal . In addition to the DaVinci Code like frame structure in tension as much as compression. A symbolism behind its various dimensions, notable continuous perforated surface of IPE wood slats forms a features include the 212 foot bell tower containing a semi-transparent envelope of deck, wall, and roof, 54 bell carillon, and a “floating ballroom” on the supported by a steel exoskeleton, allowing light and second floor that sits on springs. The Scottish Rite moisture to filter through it. The folded planes of the Cathedral was judged one of the world's most envelope sandwich glass enclosed program elements. beautiful buildings by the International Association of The low-slung form of the pavilion, bathed in dappled Architects when it opened. The ornate interior of the light, hovering above the forest floor, acts as an building is open to the public and guided tours are apparition in the woods. available. About 100,000 people per year visit the Architect: Marlon Blackwell, 2010 building. The Scottish Rite Cathedral was added to the Website: http://tinyurl.com/brxclu2 ; 100 Acres map: National Register of Historic Places in 1983. -- http://tinyurl.com/bw6fl4e http://www.walkindianapolis.org/ Location: 4000 Michigan Road (Indianapolis Architect: George E. Schreiber, 1929 Museum of Art) Website: http://www.aasr-indy.org Distance from Convention Center: 5.5 miles Location: 650 North Meridian Street Transportation: Bus #5, 34, or 38 Distance from Convention Center: 0.7 miles Admission: Free, with free parking for 100 Acres Art Transportation: 15 minute walk + Nature Park Admission: Guided tours are complimentary. For Hours: The 100 Acres Art + Nature Park is open daily tour groups larger than 10, please call ahead. from dawn to dusk. The Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion is Hours: Monday – Friday 10am to 2pm, third Saturday open year round, 9am to 5pm (weather permitting). of every month Phone: 317-923-1331 Phone: 317-262-3110

8 Website: http://www.irtlive.com DANCE Location: 140 West Washington Street THE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS Neighborhood: Downtown Distance from Convention Center: 0.2 miles A world-class performing arts center with three venues: Transportation: 3 minute walk the Palladium, the Theater and the Tarkington. Admission: Free Resident companies include the Gregory Hancock Phone: 317-940-6555 Dance Theatre and Central Indiana Dance Ensemble. Exhibitions/Events: Conversations with David Website: http://thecenterfortheperformingarts.org series: Brock Clawson and Barefoot Renegades (April Location: 355 West City Center Drive (Carmel, IN) 10 from 6pm-7:30pm) Neighborhood: Carmel Arts & Design District Event Description: Chicago-based choreographer Distance from Convention Center: 25 miles Brock Clawson discusses his career with Dance Transportation: Car, Taxi Kaleidoscope’s artistic director David Hochoy. Clawson Admission: Ticket prices vary will set his piece Nine on the company for May Phone: 317-660-3373 performances. Exhibitions/Events: No performances scheduled at time of publication DANCE COMPANIES

CLOWES MEMORIAL HALL (BUTLER Dance Kaleidoscope UNIVERSITY) Founded in 1972, Dance Kaleidoscope is Indiana’s The Clowes Memorial Hall is a professional performing “premier contemporary dance company.” The arts facility presenting national and international company performs the works of artistic director, David dance companies, such as the Alvin Ailey American Hochoy, as well as guest choreographers and places a Dance Theatre, and is home to the Butler Ballet. strong emphasis on its educational programs for school children. Website: http://www.cloweshall.org Location: 4602 Sunset Avenue Website: http://www.dancekal.org Neighborhood: Butler University Location: 4603 Clarendon Road Distance from Convention Center: 17 miles Neighborhood: Butler University (performance Transportation: Bus #19, 28, 34, 38 venues vary) Admission: Tickets prices vary Distance from Convention Center: 7 miles Phone: 317-940-6444 Transportation: Bus #18, 19, 28 Exhibitions/Events: No performances scheduled at Admission: Ticket prices vary time of publication Phone: 317-940-6555 Exhibitions/Events: No performances scheduled at INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE – CABARET time of publication This venue is an eclectic 82-year-old building with several performance spaces.

9 Motus Dance Theatre Transportation: Bus #37, 38 Hours: Varies, call ahead A professional modern dance company, Motus Dance Admission: Free Theatre made its debut in 2003 and has continued to Phone: 317-644-9250 support and perform the works of new choreographers, Exhibitions/Events: Ideas from the Intersection of as well as collaborating with over 25 artists and arts Art and People: How to: Marketing and Branding (A organizations in the Indianapolis community. Crucial Part of the Art) (April 10 from 12noon-1pm) Website: http://www.motusdance.com Location: 1101 Hoyt Avenue HERRON SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN Neighborhood: Fountain Square (performance GALLERIES venues vary) The galleries at the Herron School of Art and Design Distance from Convention Center: 1.5 miles show the work of contemporary artists of the world and Transportation: Bus #22, 55 complement the educational mission of the school. Admission: Tickets prices vary While visiting the campus stop by the Herron School Phone: 317-446-0627 Library to see its impressive Fine Press and Books Arts Exhibitions/Events: No performances scheduled at collection. time of publication Website: http://www.herron.iupui.edu/galleries For up-to-date dance events see: Location: 735 West Street http://tinyurl.com/a4ey4v7 Neighborhood: IUPUI campus/ downtown http://indyarts.org/ Distance from Convention Center: 2 miles Transportation: Bus #3, 10, 17, 50 Hours: Monday – Tuesday and Thursday - Saturday 10am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am to 8pm GALLERIES Admission: Free Phone: 317-278-9419 BIG CAR (SERVICE CENTER FOR CULTURE Exhibitions/Events: Melissa Parrot Quimby: AND COMMUNITY) Linearibus (March 27 to April 20), Marsh Gallery: Two Point Perspective (March 27 to April 20), Film Big Car is a nonprofit organization and a collective of Screening: Double Vision II-Multi-Channel Video writers, artists, musicians, and others interested in Festival (April 10 at 7pm) promoting community action through the arts. The space is located in a former tire shop and acts as a INDIANAPOLIS ART CENTER gallery, civic center, art school, library, and The Indianapolis Art Center is a community arts facility performance space. and a venue. It provides art education opportunities Website: http://www.bigcar.org/ along with support to the work of local artists and Location: 3819 Lafayette Road exposure to the visual arts in general. The Center Neighborhood: Lafayette Square houses art , gallery spaces, an auditorium, Distance from Convention Center: 7.8 miles library, a shop, and the ArtsPark (an outdoor creativity

10 and park). World-renowned architect Michael Association (IDADA), established more than 20 years Graves designed the school’s building. ago, hold First Friday Art Tours every month to promote Website: http://indplsartcenter.org/ the arts: http://extra.idada.org/gallery.aspx. Location: 820 East 67th Street The Indianapolis Arts Council has also funded many Neighborhood: Broad Ripple public artworks located downtown along the Canal and Distance from Convention Center: 9.3 miles Cultural Trail, as well as the public artworks around the Transportation: Bus #18 Federal and State government buildings, University Hours: Monday - Friday 9am to 10pm, Saturday 9am Park Mall, and the Circle. The Soldiers and Sailors to 6pm, Sunday 12noon to 6pm Monument on the Circle is the central focal point Admission: Free /symbol of the city. Phone: 317-255-2464 Today, those public artworks, art galleries, and artists Exhibitions/Events: Creative Renewal Fellows art studios can be visited along the Cultural Trail, exhibit (April 12 from 6pm-8pm) designed for pedestrians, cyclists, wheel chairs, KURT VONNEGUT MEMORIAL LIBRARY scooters and segways. • The Arts Council of Indianapolis provides maps to the The Library is a nonprofit organization championing Public Art downtown near the convention center: the literary and cultural contributions of Indianapolis http://indyarts.org/public-art/map. native Kurt Vonnegut. The space serves as gallery, • Maps of the Cultural Trail are available at: library, performance and reading space. http://indyculturaltrail.org/map/map.htm, leading Website: http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/ visitors to the galleries listed below located in the Location: 340 North Senate Avenue ( five downtown arts districts. Building) Neighborhood: Downtown Wholesale Arts District Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Transportation: 15 minute walk, Bus #10 or 15 The Alexander Hours: Daily except Wednesdays, 12noon to 5pm Website: http://www.thealexander.com (click on “the Admission: Free Alexander Art Experience”) Phone: 317-652-1954 Location: 333 South Delaware Street Exhibitions/Events: Night of Vonnegut (April 13 at Neighborhood: Wholesale Arts District 7pm) Distance from Convention Center: 0.6 miles Transportation: 15 minute walk GALLERIES, GALLERY DISTRICTS, & PUBLIC Hours: Open daily ART IN DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS Admission: Free For the last 25 years, Indianapolis has developed a Phone: 855-200-3002 vibrant art scene in six distinct arts districts and other Exhibitions/Events: Art throughout the hotel neighborhoods. Five of these districts are close to the convention center and are linked via the Cultural Trail. Indianapolis Arts Garden The Indianapolis Downtown Artists and Dealers Website: http://indyarts.org/artsgarden 11 Location: 110 West Washington Street (intersection 3pm, and by appointment. of Washington and Illinois Streets connects Circle Admission: Free Center Mall, Conrad Hotel, Embassy Suites complex Phone: 317-713-5000 through the second floor walkway) Exhibitions/Events: Modern Masters, Lois Main Neighborhood: Wholesale Arts District Templeton, Constance Scopeletis Distance from the Convention Center: Connected via over street walkway, 3 blocks thru Circle Center Mall - The Canal and White River State Park Arts accessible without going outside. District Transportation: 5 minute walk Hours: Monday - Saturday 9am to 9:30pm, Sunday Artbox – Stutz II 12noon to 6:30pm Website: http://www.artboxindy.com/ Admission: Free th Phone: 317-624-2563 Location: 217 West 10 Street, Suite 125 Exhibitions/Events: Check with Artsgarden Cultural Neighborhood: Upper - Canal & White River State Concierge Desk daily. Park Arts District Distance from Convention Center: 1.2 miles Kuaba Gallery Transportation: 15 minute walk, Bus #18 or 38 Hours: Tuesday 11am to 2pm, Wednesday - Friday Website: http://www.kuaba.com/ 11am to 5pm, and by appointment. Location: 1 North Meridian Street, Suite 200 Admission: Free Neighborhood: Wholesale Arts District Phone: 317-955-2450 Distance from the Convention Center: 0.3 Exhibitions/Events: Thomas Scoon, Visible Noise miles Project Transportation: 5 minute walk Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 11am to 6pm, Friday - Carreno Studio and Gallery Saturday 11am to 8pm, Sunday - Monday by appointment. Website: http://www.berniecarreno.com/ Admission: Free Location: 901 N. Senate Avenue Phone: 317-955-8405 Neighborhood: Upper- Canal & White River State Park Arts District Long-Sharp Gallery / Indy Contemporary at Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile the Conrad Hotel Transportation: 15 minute walk, Bus #10, 18, 38 Hours: By appointment Website: http://www.longsharpgallery.com, Admission: Free http://www.conradindiana.com/ Phone: 317-408-1936 Location: 50 West Washington Street Exhibitions/Events: Metal Neighborhood: Wholesale Arts District Distance from the Convention Center: 0.3 Herron School of Art and Design Galleries of miles IUPUI Transportation: 5 minute walk Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 12pm to Website: http://www.herron.iupui.edu/ 12 Location: 735 West New York Street Admission: Free Neighborhood: Canal & White River State Park Arts Phone: 317-685-6614 District Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Mass Avenue Arts District Transportation: 15 minute walk, Bus #50 Better known as “Mass Ave,” this downtown Hours: Monday – Tuesday and Thursday - Saturday neighborhood is home to young urban professionals 10am to 5pm, Wednesday 10am to 8pm and the heart of the Indianapolis LGBT community. It is Admission: Free (see also Public Art on IUPUI also the host to festivals, parades, and a significant Campus/Cultural Trail) number of public art pieces. Venture to the Phone: 317-278-9419 northernmost block of the avenue and visit the funky Exhibitions/Events: Owen Mundy, Melissa Parrott Indyreads bookstore before crossing the street to enjoy Quimby a meal at Black Market. Have lunch at Bru and enjoy a Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library view of Julian Opie’s sculpture “Anne Dancing.” The large-scale mural of Kurt Vonnegut by local artist See page 11 for more information. Pamela Bliss is a must-see. Stutz Art Space Website: http://www.discovermassave.com/ Website: http://www.stutzartists.com/ Art Bank Artists Studios and Gallery Location: 212 West 10th Street Neighborhood: Upper- Canal & White River State Website: http://www.artbankgallery.com Park Arts District Location: 811 Avenue Distance from Convention Center: 1.1 miles Neighborhood: Mass Ave Arts District Transportation: 25 minute walk, Bus #18, 38 Distance from Convention Center: 1.5 miles Hours: Monday - Friday 1pm to 5pm for B110 Gallery Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #5, 17, 18 Admission: Free Hours: Wednesday - Friday 1pm to 8pm, Saturday Phone: 317-503-6420 4pm to 9pm, Sunday 12noon to 4:00pm, or by Exhibitions/Events: Annual Spring Open House appointment preparations. Admission: Free Phone: 317-624-1010 Lockerbie Square Neighborhood Arts a Poppin The Alkis Keramidas Museum of Art Website: http://artsapoppin.com/ Website: http://www.easleywinery.com, Location: 425 Massachusetts Avenue http://www.keramidamuseum.org/visiting.html Neighborhood: Mass Ave Arts District Location: 401 N. College Avenue Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Neighborhood: Lockerbie Square Transportation: 20 minute walk, Bus #17, 18, 50 Distance from Convention Center: 1.3 miles Hours: Monday – Saturday 11am to 7pm, Sunday Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #17, 18, 50 11am to 4pm Hours: Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm Admission: Free

13 Phone: 317-822-1200 Other Galleries Downtown Exhibitions/Events: Jewelry and silversmithing by local artists Gallery 924 at the Arts Council Athenaeum: The Artspace Website: http://www.indyarts.org/gallery-924 Location: 924 North Pennsylvania Street Website: http://tinyurl.com/a8omxdq Neighborhood: St. Joseph Neighborhood Location: 401 East Michigan Street Distance from Convention Center: 1.2 miles Neighborhood: Mass Ave Arts District Transportation: 25 minute walk, Bus #19, 38 Distance from Convention Center: 1.1 miles Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10am to 4pm, Thursday 10am Transportation: 20 minute walk, Bus #8, 17, 38, 50 to 6pm, First Friday 6pm to 9pm Hours: Sunday - Tuesday 11am to 9pm, Wednesday - Admission: Free Thursday 11am to 10pm, Friday - Saturday 11am-close Phone: 317-631-3301 Admission: Free Phone: 317-655-2755 Domont Studio Gallery Exhibitions/Events: Liz Naumann, German- Website: http://www.domontgallery.com/ Americans in Indy, monthly featured artist Location: 545 Sourth East Street Dean Johnson Gallery / Axiom Point Design Neighborhood: Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Website: http://deanjohnson.com/gallery/about/ Transportation: 20 minute walk, Bus #14 Location: 646 Massachusetts Avenue Hours: Thursday - Sunday 11am to 5pm Neighborhood: Mass Ave Arts District Admission: Free Distance from Convention Center: 1.3 miles Phone: 317-685-9634 Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #5, 17, 38 Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am to 5pm, or by Outside the Downtown Loop: Old Northside, appointment Admission: Free Fountain Square, Broad Ripple, Pike Phone: 317-634-8020 Township Franklin Barry Gallery at the Frame Shop The neighborhood of Fountain Square is Indianapolis’ newest example of urban revival and comes alive on Website: http://www.franklinbarrygallery.com/ weekend evenings. The neighborhood, largely Location: 617 Massachusetts Avenue occupied by artists, musicians and young families, is Neighborhood: Mass Ave Arts District home to two artist studio complexes: the Murphy Art Distance from Convention Center: 1.2 miles Building and the Wheeler Arts Community. Studio Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #5, 17, 38, 50 open houses are held each month during First Friday Hours: Monday - Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am (every first Friday of the month). In addition, Fountain to 5pm Square has an array of quirky shops, restaurants, bars, Admission: Free a meadery, and a duckpin bowling alley. Phone: 317-822-8455 Website: http://www.discoverfountainsquare.com/

14 th Harrison Center for the Arts (3 galleries) Location: 820 E.ast 67 Street Neighborhood: Broad Ripple Arts District Website: http://harrisoncenter.org/ Distance from Convention Center: 9 miles Location: 1505 N. Delaware Street Transportation: Bus #17, 18, 28 Neighborhood: Old Northside Hours: Monday - Friday 9am to 10pm, Saturday 9am Distance from Convention Center: 1.7 miles to 6pm, Sunday 12noon to 6pm Transportation: 35 minute walk, Bus #31 Admission: Free Hours: Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm Phone: 317-255-2464 Admission: Free Exhibitions/Events: Exhibition opening Friday, Phone: 317-396-3886 April 12, 6:00pm-8:00pm Creative Renewal Fellows Exhibitions/Events: International artist exchange- (21st annual). Sculpture park designed for ADA use. Australian artist, VSAI artists Michael Graves designed art center. Amaco/Brent Contemporary Clay Gallery Website: http://www.buyamaco.com/gallery/ Location: 6060 Guion Road MUSIC Neighborhood: Pike Township INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY Distance from Convention Center: 10 miles Transportation: Bus #37 ORCHESTRA Hours: Monday – Friday 8am to 4pm Website: http://www.indianapolissymphony.org/ Admission: Free Location: , 45 Monument Circle Phone: 317-244-6871 or 1-800-374-1600 Neighborhood: Downtown Exhibitions/Events: Contemporary Clay artworks Distance from Convention Center: 0.3 miles and ceramics Transportation: 10 minute walk Program: Stravinsky, Le sacre du printemps (The Rite The Hoosier Salon – Broad Ripple Art Gallery of Spring) (April 12 at 8pm, April 13 at 5:30pm) The oldest art gallery in the city. Tickets: $12–$75 Phone: 317-262-1100 Website: http://www.hoosiersalon.org/ th Location: 714 East 65 Street INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONIC CHOIR Neighborhood: Broad Ripple Arts District Distance from Convention Center: 8 miles Website: http://www.indychoir.org/ Transportation: Bus #17, 28 Location: 4602 Sunset Avenue (Butler University, Hours: Tuesday 12noon to 3pm, Wednesday - Clowes Memorial Hall) Saturday 12noon to 5pm Neighborhood: Meridian-Kessler Admission: Free Distance from Convention Center: 5.7 miles Phone: 317-253-5340 Transportation: Bus #19, 28, 38, 34 Program: Lux Aeterna (April 12 at 8pm) Indianapolis Art Center and Arts Park Tickets: $25–$75 Phone: 317-940-9057 Website: http://indplsartcenter.org/ 15 OLD NATIONAL CENTRE Website: http://www.rathskeller.com/ Location: 401 East Michigan Avenue Website: http://oldnationalcentre.com Neighborhood: Lockerbie Square Location: Deluxe at Old National Centre at Murat Transportation: 25 minute walk, Bus #2, 5, 10, 17 Shrine, 502 North New Jersey Street Distance from Convention Center: 1.1 miles Neighborhood: Lockerbie Square Phone: 317-636-0396 Distance from Convention Center: 1.2 miles Transportation: 25 minute walk, Bus #2, 5, 10, 17 Slippery Noodle Inn Program: An Evening of Bluegrass (April 10 at 8pm) Tickets: $20 The oldest bar (est. 1850) in Indiana, the Slippery Phone: 317-213-0000 Noodle Inn has been praised by one of the nation's top blues bars by Rolling Stone magazine. Live blues is VENUES offered seven days per week.

Chatterbox Jazz Club Website: http://www.slipperynoodle.com/ Location: 372 South Meridian Street Live jazz seven days a week. Neighborhood: Downtown Website: http://www.chatterboxjazz.com/ Distance from Convention Center: 0.5 miles Location: 435 Massachusetts Avenue Transportation: 10 minute walk Neighborhood: Lockerbie Square Phone: 317-631-6974 Distance from Convention Center: 1 mile Transportation: 20 minute walk, Bus #2, 5, 10, 17 Phone: 317-636-0584 THEATRE

The Jazz Kitchen INDIANA REPERTORY THEATRE (IRT) Downbeat Magazine voted this venue one of the Located in the heart of downtown Indianapolis, the IRT world’s top 100 jazz clubs in the world. Live music provides many professional theater experiences each several nights per week. season. The theatre was originally located in the Website: http://thejazzkitchen.com/ historic Athenaeum Turners Building, but after eight Location: 5377 North College Avenue seasons - in 1980 - moved to the beautiful 1927 Neighborhood: Canterbury Indiana Theatre off Washington Street. Featuring three Distance from Convention Center: 6.5 miles performance spaces, the IRT performs 10 diverse plays Transportation: Bus #17, 19, 28 each season. Phone: 317-253-4900 Website: http://www.irtlive.com/ Location: 140 W. Washington Street The Rathskeller Neighborhood: Downtown Live local bands from acoustic rock to blues to polka. Distance from Convention Center: 0.2 miles Live music Wednesday through Saturday, and some Transportation: 5 minute walk Sundays. Showing: Lilly presents William Shakespeare’s A

16 Midsummer Night’s Dream (April 10 at 6:30pm, April CLYBOURNE PARK quickly became ’s hottest 11 and 12 at 7:30pm, April 13 at 1pm and 5pm) ticket—and Tonyest address.” Tickets: $25-$55 Phone: IRT Ticket Office: 317-635-5252 or IRT THEATRE ON THE SQUARE Administrative Office: 317-635-5277 Theatre on the Square boasts two stages and diverse Play Description: “Mistaken identities, love charms performances. From national productions to original, and magical encounters all run amok in Shakespeare’s in-house productions composed by Executive Artistic classic comedy set in an Athenian forest inhabited by Director Ron Spencer. Theater on the Square brings big sprites, fairies and a group of amorous couples who laughs and raw talent to the Indianapolis theatre change partners at the drop of a spell. This exuberant scene. tale of young lovers in the woods for a night of Website: http://www.tots.org/contact.html mischief is sure to please anyone who remembers the Location: 627 Massachusetts Avenue magic of true romance. What fools these mortals be!” Neighborhood: Renaissance Place PHOENIX THEATRE Distance from Convention Center: 1.5 miles Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #10, 17, 50 Known for its contemporary theatre and issues-based Showing: Blackpool and Parish (April 12 at 8pm) plays, this venue has been producing thought Tickets: $20-$25 provoking theatre since 1983. The Phoenix Theatre Phone: 317-685-8687 allows audience members to become aware of social Play Description: “For five millennia Harry concerns while sparking a discussion in the Blackpool has been the agent for all Evil on Earth, Indianapolis community. But just because this theater while Rachel Parrish has represented Good. These foes makes you think, it doesn't mean you won't be meet in a private club with the end of the world laughing. scheduled for tomorrow at teatime, they must pass Website: http://phoenixtheatre.org their duties on to their oblivious heirs; a mild- Location: 749 North Park Avenue mannered teacher and a Bohemian artist type. The Neighborhood: Renaissance Place anxious club manager, as the sole representative of Distance from Convention Center: 1.8 miles humanity, may be the key to Armageddon’s outcome Transportation: 30 minute walk, Bus #2, 17, 19 in this fast paced comedy of apocalyptic proportions!” Showing: Clybourne Park (April 4 to May 5, various times) INDYFRINGE Tickets: $18-$28 IndyFringe moved from festival to full-time theater in Phone: Box office: 317-635-7529, Administration: 2008. This eclectic theatre, operating under the slogan 317-635-2381 "unexpected all the time," hosts local favorites, Play Description: “This wickedly funny and fiercely traveling acts and fundraising events in their space on provocative play about race, real estate, and the this culture-packed avenue. volatile values of each won nearly every honor the Website: http://indyfringe.org theatre has to give, including the Olivier Award, the Location: 719 E. St Clair Street Evening Standard Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Neighborhood: Ransom Place Honored, acclaimed and completely outrageous, 17 Distance from Convention Center: 1.2 miles lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace Transportation: 25 minute walk, Bus #50 bra and memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not Showing: No event scheduled at time of publication enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious Phone: Tickets: 317-869-6660, Executive Director: musical comedy set to classic tunes from the 60s, 70s 317-522-8099 and 80s will have you laughing and dancing in the aisles!” BOOTH TARKINGTON CIVIC THEATRE Indianapolis' vibrant theatre scene is not limited to CANDLELIGHT THEATRE downtown venues. Head north to the Tarkington Since 2003, the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Theater at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel. downtown Indianapolis home of 23rd U.S. President This is one of the largest community theaters in the Benjamin Harrison, has served as the stage and set for United States. the wholly unique Candlelight Theatre. Guests are Website: http://www.civictheatre.org ensconced in an opulent setting of original artifacts Location: 3 Center Green, Suite 200 (Carmel, IN) while enjoying multiple genres of theatre, all Distance from Convention Center: 24 miles performed by a resident acting troupe at this National Transportation: Car, Taxi Historic Landmark. For Spring theatre (April-May), Showing: No event scheduled at time of publication audience members rotate through three rooms of the Phone: 317-843-3800 historic mansion, viewing three one-act plays presented salon-style. Plays are a mix of classics and BEEF AND BOARDS originals. Cannot stand the thought of grabbing dinner and a Website: http://tinyurl.com/ab2t2tk show at two, separate locations? Then take a short trip Location: 1230 North Delaware Street for the two-in-one experience at Beef and Boards. Distance from Convention Center: 1.8 miles Located just north of downtown Indianapolis, Beef and Neighborhood: Old Northside Boards serves up a dinner buffet with a full-service bar Transportation: 35 minute walk, Bus #10, 18, 38 and gourmet desserts every night during Showing: No event scheduled at time of publication performances. Phone: 317-631-1888 Website: http://www.beefandboards.com Location: 9301 Michigan Road Neighborhood: Westchester Estates VISUAL ARTS & MUSEUMS Distance from Convention Center: 12.4 miles Transportation: Bus #34 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS Showing: Menopause the Musical (April 10 at 1pm Established in 1925, the Children’s Museum of and 8pm, April 11-13 at 8pm) Indianapolis is the largest museum of its kind in the Tickets: $37.50-$67.50 with additional cost for table world and attracts close to one million visitors per year. for 2 or box seats The museum provides immersive learning experiences Phone: 317-872-9664 across the arts, sciences and humanities. Exhibitions Play Description: “The hilarious celebration of and events are constantly changing but include a women and ‘the change’ follows four women at a 18 planetarium, a theater, and “Fireworks of Glass”, the Film: The Wrecking Crew (April 13 from 4-5:30pm), largest blown glass sculpture by artist Dale Chihuly. John Alvarado: Guitar Music of Spain and Latin Website: http://www.childrensmuseum.org/ America (April 14 from 2-3pm) Location: 3000 North Meridian Street INDIANA STATE MUSEUM & HISTORIC SITES Neighborhood: South Village Distance from Convention Center: 4.35 miles The Indiana State Museum is a place to learn about the Transportation: Bus #4, 18, 28, 30, 38 history of the state of Indiana through rotating displays Hours: Monday - Sunday 10am to 5pm of artifacts and cultural objects. The museum also Admission: One day tickets: $13.50 for youth (ages offers a range of changing exhibitions that bring the 2-17), $18.50 for adults (ages 18-59), $17.50 for world of art, history, and science to downtown seniors (60+) Indianapolis. Don’t forget to visit the IMAX Theater Phone: 317-334-3322 located within (check website for showings and times). Exhibitions/Events: Take me there: Egypt, Hot Visit the Canal Café and Terrace on a nice day and enjoy Wheels For Real, SciencePort, Geckos. lunch overlooking the Canal. Website: http://www.indianamuseum.org/ EITELJORG MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIANS Location: 650 W. Washington Street AND WESTERN ART Neighborhood: White River State Park Founded by Indianapolis businessman and Distance from Convention Center: 0.5 miles philanthropist Harrison Eiteljorg, the museum Transportation: 10 minute walk provides an opportunity to appreciate and learn about Hours: Monday - Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday the arts and history of the indigenous peoples of North 11am to 5pm America and the culture of the American West. The Admission: $9.50 for adults ($23.25 for admission collection includes artists ranging from Frederick and IMAX), $8.50 for seniors ($22 for combo), $5 for Remington to Andy Warhol, and large collections of children up to 12 years old ($15 for combo) Native American art and cultural objects. The Eiteljorg Phone: 317-232-1637 Museum’s café and store are also worth a visit. Exhibitions/Events: Eternal James Dean, Steele Concealed, Mysteries Revealed, The Lincoln’s: Five Website: http://www.eiteljorg.org/ Generations of an American Family. Location: 500 West Washington Street Neighborhood: White River State Park INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART Distance from Convention Center: 0.4 miles The Indianapolis Museum of Art is the fifth largest Transportation: 10 minute walk encyclopedic art museum in the United States. Of Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday particular importance are its Neo-Impressionist 12noon to 5pm collection, the Josefowitz collection of the Pont-Aven Admission: $10 for adults, $9 for seniors 65+, $6 for School, and the Eiteljorg collection of African art. The children 5–17 and full-time Students with ID, free for museum’s campus includes extensive gardens and children 4 and under grounds, the historic Lilly House, and 100 Acres: the Phone: 317-636-9378 Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Sculpture Park, which Exhibitions/Events: Guitars! Roundups to Rockers,

19 includes the work of contemporary artists such as Los Center) Carpinteros, Alfredo Jaar and Andrea Zittel. Most Neighborhood: Fountain Square recently the IMA acquired the Miller House and Garden Distance from Convention Center: 1.61 miles in Columbus, IN, an architectural masterpiece Transportation: Bus #12, 14, or 22 collaboratively designed by Eero Saarinen, Alexander Hours: Thursday - Saturday 11am to 6pm Girard, and Dan Kiley. Admission: Free Website: http://www.imamuseum.org/ Phone: 317-634-6622 Location: 4000 Michigan Road Exhibitions/Events: Chido Johnson, Inheritance by Distance from Convention Center: 7 miles LaToya Ruby Frazier (April 6 – May 19) Transportation: Bus #34, 38 Hours: Museum: Tuesday - Wednesday 11am to 5pm, Thursday - Friday 11am to 9pm, Saturday 11am to 5pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm. Lilly House: Tuesday - Saturday 11am to 5pm, Sunday 12pm to 5pm. 100 Acres: the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park and Museum Gardens and Grounds: open daily from dawn to dusk. Miller House and Garden (Columbus, IN) must be booked in advance through the museum’s website. Admission: Free except for special exhibition (Ai Weiwei: According to What?) Phone: 317-923-1331 Exhibitions/Events: Exhibitions: Ai Weiwei: According to What?, William Hogarth: the Painter of Comic History, Mola: Kuna Needle Arts from the San Blas Islands, Gabor Peterdi, Timeless Beauty, Graphite, Spencer Finch: Following Nature; Events: Beyond Gorgeous: the Work of Alexander Girard (lecture April 11 at 7pm), Silent Film Series with Live Musical Accompaniment (April 12 at 7pm).

INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (IMOCA) IMOCA is an exhibition space located within the Murphy Art Center dedicated to showing the work of contemporary artists. Monthly openings take place the first Friday of every month. Website: http://www.indymoca.org Location: 1043 Virginia Avenue (The Murphy Art

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