February 28, 2022
First Friday March 4th
On March 4, 2022, join us for First Friday! Celebrate Women’s History Month with these openings featuring women artists:
Viewers can also enjoy:
55 or older? Join us for Senior Hours 2 pm - 4 pm for a sneak peek of the exhibitions.
We would love your help as a volunteer Gallery Attendant. Your role could be to help with sales, greet people as they come in, or direct them to the next gallery. We will also be hosting the Art of Networking, a networking event designed to build social capital for diverse professionals, in the hour preceding First Friday from 5-6 pm. If you are interested in attending, please email the Harrison Center at info@harrisoncenter.org.
Embellish by Caleb Smith Who doesn’t love playing dress up? This act of play gives us a chance to exaggerate certain aspects of our personalities. Sometimes, it even allows us to express parts of ourselves that are hidden to others. The individuals in these photographs each have rich inner-worlds: full of colors, stories, heartbreak, and magic. With the help of local costume designer Stephen Hollenbeck, each was adorned in over-the-top, theatrical apparel that reflects their sense of humor and imagination while telling a surprising story about who they are.
Writer Charlie Sutphin responded to this photograph:
A bird with wings of gold
Stay tuned as we share more from this series. 
Spotlight: Olivia West
This week, we’re thrilled to spotlight the efforts of Art of Networking attendee, Olivia West.
Olivia has made a goal to become involved in Indianapolis cultural events, and discovered the Harrison Center on eventbrite.
Olivia is a marketing professional. Her interest in storytelling has immense crossover with Harrison Center creative placemaking initiatives. In the coming months, we look forward to her help with a new oral history project as we encourage our neighbors and neighborhoods to know and love their own stories.
Read more about Olivia on our blog. 
Welcome Phillip Lynam Join us in welcoming studio artist, Phillip Lynam. Phil was born in Indianapolis. He received his BFA in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art and his MFA from the University of Maryland. After a few years as an adjunct professor of art and design in the Washington, D.C. area, Phillip returned to Indianapolis in 2003 and began working at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, where he is the chief designer. His work is included in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad.
“I am interested in making paintings that act as triggers for immersive viewing experiences, paintings that encourage and reward time spent looking closely. I try to emphasize elements of my paintings that I think make this sort of immersion more likely-- vivid, glowing color, a sense of internal illumination, and complex layering of marks, patterns, and fragments of images that evoke a sense of space beyond the surface of the paintings."
Do You Know about Creative Placemaking and Keeping?
Creative placemaking is the convening and organizing of cultural, financial, social, and human capital to support visionary ideas that positively impact the cultural and social fabric of a neighborhood or city. Creative placekeeping, meanwhile, is the active care and preservation of a place and its community by those who reside and work within it. The Harrison Center implements both of these strategies to improve the lives and communities of urban neighborhoods through the arts.
We strive to demonstrate the ability to solve community challenges through cultural solutions, using the energy of the arts and the organization’s grassroots networks. By implementing creative placemaking, placekeeping, and place-based art initiatives, HC has positively shaped its surrounding communities with continual input from the residents that have long-established roots in the area. Every day, HC connects people to culture, community, and place to strengthen core neighborhoods in Indianapolis. Donate to the Harrison Center
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