Big Car, Indy - and artist-led regen

After my time in Jacksonville last month, I travelled on to States-side home-from-home, Indianapolis, marking 10 years since I first went there – and 10 years of working with Big Car, and its Tube Factory development.

It was a time to reconnect with great people and a city that has a forever place in my heart; get newly-acquainted with its magnificent campus; stay in the renovated artists residency house (the last time I was in there, it had holes in the floor and perilous stairs); meet the charming artist Amy Kligman and fall in love with her still lifes; and have a refresh of the thinking on the work Big Car does and its importance to Indy and to placemaking globally, and on this very particular form of development and regeneration that formed a chapter in my Arts and Place book (Routledge, 2017).

There will be a couple of blog posts a paper coming on that soon...in the meantime, soak in that Autumn sun, and take a peek at Big Car’s current development, CAMi, Contemporary Art Musuem Indianapolis.