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34-480: Opened in 2010, the 100-acre (40 ha) park is among the largest of its kind in the U.S., including an inaugural collection of eight site-specific art installations by national and international artists. Other features include walking paths, natural landscaping , and the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion. Admission to the park is free and open from dusk to dawn. The park is situated within

68-625: A floodplain west of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Oldfields , bordered on the east by the Indiana Central Canal and on the north and west by a meander in the White River . The park was intentionally developed to emphasize surrounding natural features, including woods, meadows, wetlands, and a 30-to-40-acre (12 to 16 ha) quarry lake . Virginia B. Fairbanks, the wife of benefactor Richard M. Fairbanks,

102-580: A shared-use path of crushed limestone, runs along the eastern perimeter of the park paralleling the canal. The trail serves as a regional connector for pedestrians and bicyclists, linking the park to the Monon Trail at its northern terminus in the Broad Ripple neighborhood and Fall Creek Greenway at its southern terminus. Bicycle parking racks and an Indiana Pacers Bikeshare docking station are available. The park's 40-space surface parking lot

136-539: A building with interesting architecture could also be considered a piece of site-specific art. In Geneva, Switzerland, the Contemporary Art Funds are looking for original ways to integrate art into architecture and the public space since 1980. The Neon Parallax project, initiated in 2004, is conceived specifically for the Plaine de Plainpalais, a public square of 95'000 square meters, in the heart of

170-903: A carpenter. Her parents met as students at an art school in Oakland , California . She grew up in North Seattle. In 1998, Hart received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, where she majored in Painting and Video. She attended the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University in New Jersey . In 2008, Hart received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where her focus

204-458: A series of standing jumps at a selected site in Idaho, where "the width of the creek became a specific goal to which I geared a bodily activity," with his two successful jumps being "dictated by a land form." Site specific environmental art was first described as a movement by architectural critic Catherine Howett and art critic Lucy Lippard . Emerging out of minimalism , site-specific art opposed

238-477: A visual axis from Oldfields to the lake in 100 Acres. In 2019, the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation awarded Newfields a US$ 10 million grant to fund park upgrades, including improved pedestrian and bicyclist connectivity, additional restrooms and parking, and the creation of an endowment for continued maintenance and new art installations. In January 2023, Newfields announced the "Home Again" exhibition, including

272-564: Is accessible to motorists from W. 38th St. via the N. White River Pkwy. E. Dr. exit ramp. A pedestrian crosswalk leads visitors from the parking lot to the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Entrance. Architect Marlon Blackwell was commissioned to design the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion in 2004. Inspired by a fallen leaf, Blackwell's design blends wood, glass, and steel with environmental sustainability systems focused on water and energy efficiency. The 1,290-square-foot (120 m) LEED -certified building

306-537: Is an American visual artist who works in a variety of media including interactive and participatory Installation art , drawing, collage, and painting. She is a co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project , which includes a Misplaced Pages initiative focused on addressing diversity representation in the arts on Misplaced Pages. Hart was born in Seattle , Washington , to Susan Hart and Harry H. Hart III,

340-428: Is an ongoing project created by Hart and co-founder and collaborator Jina Valentine . The project, which started in 2005, when both Hart and Valentine were artists in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture , provides a format where participants can come together to consider contemporary issues of race, archiving, and the under representation of minority artists in the art historical canon, often taking on

374-624: Is produced both by commercial artists, and independently, and can include some instances of work such as sculpture , stencil graffiti , rock balancing , and other art forms. Installations can be in urban areas, remote natural settings, or underwater. The term "site-specific art" was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson , Dennis Oppenheim , and Athena Tacha , who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites. For Two Jumps for Dead Dog Creek (1970), Oppenheim attempted

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408-518: Is situated within the park's northeastern woods, containing a multipurpose room and restrooms. The pavilion has earned accolades from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Architect Magazine , and Chicago Athenaeum , among others. In 2021, a six-person panel of AIA Indianapolis members identified the pavilion among the ten most "architecturally significant" buildings completed in the city since World War II . The pollinator meadow

442-479: Is the park's namesake. During the construction of nearby Interstate 65 , gravel was excavated from the site by Huber, Hunt & Nichols , which later donated the land to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1972. In the proceeding years, the former quarry site remained largely untouched. In acknowledgment of the site's popularity with trespassers, the museum partnered with Indianapolis Greenways and

476-473: The Modernist program of subtracting from the artwork all cues that interfere with the fact that it is "art", Modernist art objects were transportable, nomadic, could only exist in the museum space and were the objects of the market and commodification. Since 1960 the artists were trying to find a way out of this situation, and thus drew attention to the site and the context around this site. The work of art

510-719: The Hawryluk Sculpture Green. Waller Bridge, a bowstring pony truss footbridge spanning the Indiana Central Canal , allows pedestrians to travel between the park and the rest of the Newfields campus. The bridge was originally located in Montgomery County, Indiana , constructed by the King Bridge Company in 1873. The bridge was later moved to its current site and restored with some contemporary modifications. The Central Canal Towpath,

544-516: The Indianapolis Water Company to formally open the site for public use in 1999. At this time, museum officials began maintaining desire paths around the lake and clearing invasive plant species . Further, the museum adopted a US$ 160 million master plan that proposed developing the site into a public art and nature park. A preliminary site plan was developed by landscape architecture firm Moore Iacofano Goltsman Inc. In 2004,

578-624: The Roof Off the Mother, " was presented at the Brooklyn Museum as part of their Raw/Cooked series. "The Western Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, " was an installation at Seattle Art Museum 's Olympic Sculpture Park in 2013. It included an elk-hide drum wall that was built in a tetris of rectangles as a way to sound out the ritual of the oracle. Indian-American drum maker, Joseph Seymour, provided instruction on creating

612-564: The addition of three works to the park: Oracle of Intimation by Heather Hart ; The Pollinator Pavilion by Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood; and This is NOT a Refuge by Anila Quayyum Agha . The exhibition was curated by the park's first director, Lisa Freiman, who served in various roles at the Indianapolis Museum of Art until 2013. The exhibition was underwritten by a US$ 3 million gift from local entrepreneur and former trustee Kent Hawryluk. The three pieces are planned to be installed in June 2023 on

646-482: The city. The concept consists of commissioning luminous artistic works for the rooftops of the buildings bordering the plaza, in the same way, advertisements are installed on the city's glamorous lakefront. The 14 artists invited had to respect the same legal sizes of luminous advertisements in Geneva. The project thus creates a parallax both between locations, and messages, but also by the way one interprets neon signs in

680-557: The drums, with installation consultation from Cornish College furniture professor, Attila Barcha. From May to November 2017, "Outlooks: Heather Hart" is installed at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville , New York . Hart is co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project, a radical archiving project, which was awarded a 2016 Emerging Fields Grant from Creative Capital . The Black Lunch Table Project

714-497: The museum and galleries ( Michael Asher , untitled installation at Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, 1974, Hans Haacke , Condensation Cube, 1963–65, Mierle Laderman Ukeles , Hartford Wash: Washing Tracks, Maintenance Outside, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1973), thus criticizing the museum as an institution that sets the rules for artists and viewers. Jean-Max Albert , created Sculptures Bachelard in Parc de la Villette related to

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748-425: The museum commissioned landscape architect Edward L. Blake, Jr. and architect Marlon Blackwell to design the park with an emphasis on its natural setting. Gifts totaling US$ 15 million were granted to the museum from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation in 2001 and 2006 to offset initial operations expenses for the park. In 2007, the museum announced the selection of the first ten artists whose work would be installed in

782-406: The park. In 2008, the museum scaled back some elements of the park. A planned US$ 8 million, 1,500-foot (460 m) walkway designed by artist Mary Miss was canceled due to concerns of cost and the piece's impact on the surrounding natural environment. Miss was invited to contribute a piece that would be "more environmentally sensitive" and less "engineering-intense". The Ruth Lilly Visitors Center

816-698: The public realm. Site-specific performance art, site-specific visual art and interventions are commissioned for the annual Infecting the City Festival in Cape Town , South Africa. The site-specific nature of the work allows artists to interrogate the contemporary and historic reality of the Central Business District and create work that allows the city's users to engage and interact with public spaces in new and memorable ways. Heather Hart Heather T. Hart (born May 3, 1975)

850-404: The site, or Carlotta’s Smile , a trellis construction related to Ar. Co,’s architecture Lisbon , and to a choreography in collaboration with Michala Marcus and Carlos Zingaro , 1979. When the public debate over Tilted Arc (1981) resulted in its removal in 1989, its author Richard Serra reacted with what can be considered a definition of site-specific art: "To move the work is to destroy

884-518: The structures. She has created different installations in the series, and realizes her vision with the collaboration of family and friends, in a sort of raising the roof effort that involves many people working together as a community. In 2010, Hart created the installation, "The Northern Oracle: We Will Tear the Roof Off the Mother, " at Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota. In 2012, her sculptural installation, "The Eastern Oracle: We Will Tear

918-618: The time, said: (We are) taking a property which began in effect as an industrial site after it left the natural one, became a wasteland, and then nature reclaimed it. And today the IMA hopes to leave nature in charge to a very considerable extent. The park was anticipated to open in September 2009 but was delayed due to impacts from the Great Recession . The completed park opened to the public on June 20, 2010. The park's primary visionary

952-417: The work." Outdoor site-specific artworks often include landscaping combined with permanently sited sculptural elements; it is sometimes linked with environmental art . Outdoor site-specific artworks can also include dance performances created especially for the site. More broadly, the term is sometimes used for any work that is more or less permanently attached to a particular location. In this sense,

986-435: Was Lisa Freiman, and it was co-developed by Sarah Urist Green . Landscape architecture firm DAVID RUBIN Land Collective was commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art to complete a 30-year land use master plan for the full 152-acre (62 ha) Newfields campus. Adopted in 2017, the master plan called for several developments to the park, including a new footbridge across the Indiana Central Canal and an allée to create

1020-687: Was announced as part of a US$ 10 million grant from the Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation in 2019. Former Newfields trustee Edgar Fehnel gifted the institution US$ 100,000 to help fund the pollinator meadow in addition to US$ 100,000 from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust to help fund environmental sustainability and nature conservancy efforts. The park and two of its resident installations— Free Basket and Funky Bones —are referenced in author John Green 's 2012 novel The Fault in Our Stars . A replica of Funky Bones

1054-549: Was created in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , for the 2014 film adaptation . In 2016, the park was featured in the episode "Man Made Marvels" on the Smithsonian Channel television series Aerial America . Site-specific art Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art

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1088-523: Was created in the site and could only exist and in such circumstances - it can not be moved or changed. The notion of "site" precisely references the current location, which comprises a unique combination of physical elements: depth, length, weight, height, shape, walls, temperature. Works of art began to emerge from the walls of the museum and galleries ( Daniel Buren , Within and Beyond the Frame, John Weber Gallery, New York, 1973), were created specifically for

1122-406: Was downsized due to building constraints in the floodplain. Due to scheduling conflicts, commissioned artists Haluk Akakçe and Peter Eisenman were forced to postpone their involvement, while Jeppe Hein was added to the roster of inaugural artists. At the park's groundbreaking on September 18, 2008, Maxwell L. Anderson , director and chief executive officer for the Indianapolis Museum of Art at

1156-471: Was interdisciplinary art. Hart learned carpentry from her father at a young age. Hart uses architectural forms mixed with family and oral histories, multiple narratives, and participatory engagements as integral components in much of her creative work. Hart's "Rooftop Oracles " is a series of life-size rooftops, which look as though they were dropped from the sky or emerging from the ground, offer viewers an interactive experience as they climb onto and under

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