Intern Emma Hall talks with two Oaks Academy Middle School students about their visions for the Monon 16 neighborhood, where their school is located.   I came into the interview with two big questions for students Grace and Jaden. I wanted to know what changes they would like to see in the Monon 16 neighborhood, […]

On May Wright Sewall’s 173rd birthday we remember her as a champion not only for  women, but for everyone. She is known for her fight for women’s rights, world peace, and education. She was a main leader of countless women’s rights organizations including the National Council of Women of the United States, the National Woman […]

Read about musician Emma Hall’s last song during her music residency, which centers around Riverside High School. My time at Herron High School continues to be incredibly important to me and everyday I think back on my experience there. I wasn’t awarded with “Most School Spirit” by my senior class for no reason. I am […]

Music resident Emma Hall discusses her song “Rising to the Same Sun” about the Maple Crossing neighborhood.   So much of my life revolves around 16th Street that I rarely spend time north of it. I live on the southside, but I spent many of my childhood weekends at the Harrison Center, went to Herron […]

A new art installation has made its way to the Monon 16, capturing the dreams of the neighborhood. With Pre-Enactment just around the corner–October 7, 2017–a new installation has appeared on 16th street. The storefront semblance located on the corner of 16th and Yandes St. is now covered in pink “sticky notes”, loosely inspired by […]

Join Herron High School this Saturday, May 13th from 4-9pm for the Annual Arts and Food Truck Festival! For the past five months, I’ve had the privilege of leading the Community Arts Council to plan this event, an annual show of student artistic accomplishments with the backdrop of food trucks galore. The Community Arts Council […]

Music resident Emma Hall discusses her process for writing “Sound Cave”, a song about our one-of-a-kind recording studio. Writing a song about the place where you write songs is just as convoluted as it sounds. At all costs you must try to avoid describing the walls and ceiling. I did break that rule a little […]

  Do people TBT on blogs? They do now. 😉  On the eve of our 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 Porch Party at the Harrison Center, we thought we’d revisit the 100th Running, when this partnership between the racing community and porchers across the state began. Last year, we invited you to open your […]

In 2011 Courtland Blade moved to Indianapolis. At the time his work focused on places of transience – spaces he viewed as “places that are not concerned with identity.” – stark, empty store aisles and cubicle filled offices, for example. These “non-spaces” as Blade referred to them, held no historical context and could exist anywhere. […]