Big Car Collaborative is a flexible and adaptable nonprofit art and design organization and collective based in Indianapolis, Indiana. It facilitates people-focused placemaking and socially engaged art projects and programs in support of thoughtful and creative community development. Big Car Collaborative utilizes tools of culture and creativity to build community and social cohesion — helping connect people as a way to boost quality of life. Formed in 2004 and based in Indianapolis, Indiana USA, it also works in other communities and collaborates with artists from around the world. As an adaptive and flexible cultural organization, it draws together people of all backgrounds to promote and perpetuate creativity, invigorate public places, and support neighborhoods. Big Car is a creative community builder working to boost livability from an engagement-based arts perspective.
Big Car
Deantoni Parks concert at Listen Hear.
Juan William Chávez, The Indianapolis Bee Sanctuary, 2018 - present.
Noise-a-Thon at Listen Hear and on WQRT.
Saya Woolfalk, Empathic Cloud Divination, 2020. Installation view.
Yvette Mayorga, High Maintenance, 2019. Installation view.
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Big Car
Indianapolis, IN
Grantees
Power Plant Grants Fund $60,000 for Six Innovative Indianapolis Art Projects
22 September 2023
Power Plant Grants
Big Car Collaborative
Indianapolis, IN
Foundation
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Expands Its Regional Regranting Program and Appoints Khadija Nia Adell as Regional Re-granting Program Manager
15 October 2020
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”