ARTSPARK
ARTSPARK, designed by Hoosier native and world-renowned architect Michael Graves, brings art, artists, and the community together through interactive sculptures in an open-air setting. Not bound by traditional ideas of art education, ARTSPARK provides studios and galleries without walls, creating a place where art and nature harmonize.
Experience ARTSPARK, 9.5 acres of interactive sculpture designed to stimulate all the senses. Meander through the varied landscape to uncover a palette of hues, fragrant vegetation, various textures, and sounds of wildlife. Explore a space designed for relaxation, reflection, and creation as the sun dances through the trees to create dappled patterns on the ground, soft flower petals are intertwined with rising sculptures. ARTSPARK is your creative connection to culture, art, and nature.
This natural creative playground showcases open-air studios developed for people of all ages and abilities to touch, play, create, and grow. Discover the changing seasons, changing landscapes, and changing artwork in a space where the forces of nature meet the creative energy of the Art Center. More than 27 sculptures created by Indiana and internationally-known master artists adorn the landscape.
ARTSPARK is home to ongoing concerts, festivals, films, workshops, youth camps, art classes, and the Broad Ripple Art Fair. The Indianapolis Art Center’s ARTSPARK is located in the heart of the Broad Ripple Village Cultural District along the Monon Trail and White River, where art, culture, commerce, entertainment, and recreation meet in this creative community–based park, planting and nurturing the seeds of creativity. ARTSPARK was featured in the well-respected national architecture magazine, Landscape Architect.
ARTSPARK is a dawn-to-dusk Studio and Studio space. No gates, no fences, no general admission charge, no barriers to creativity.