Mali Simone Jeffers and Alan Bacon had the idea for cultural startup GangGang just more than a year ago, while sitting together one night on their couch: Why not incubate the creative economy and culture like you might a technology company or sector, while promoting equity along the way?
Following an online fundraiser in 2021, the Center for the Performing Arts has lined up vocal group Straight No Chaser for next year’s event.
When announcing this year’s class of films, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said the presence of local Black residents—rarely seen in early films—factored in the movie’s selection for the registry.
The outbreaks are a reminder of the risks that front line workers continue to face on the job, and the central role that workplaces can play in the transmission of the virus.
There were no government orders or local restrictions prompting the closures this time around. Rather, businesses were forced to close due to too many staffers getting COVID—or out of caution.
On Dec. 11, Irsay set a new record for an auction price paid for a bass guitar, bidding $471,900 for the instrument McCartney played in the 1970s and 1980s.
“Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” was named 2021’s best documentary by the Indiana Film Journalists Association, which also gave the movie its Edward Johnson-Ott Hoosier Award.
The museum honoring the Hoosier basketball legend is budgeted for $1.5 million as part of a $28 million convention center project.
From “A Christmas Carol” at the Indiana Repertory Theatre to drive-through lights at Ruoff Music Center, the holiday season is prime time for arts and entertainment budgets.
Ohio-based Elevation Festivals will add WonderRoad to a music festival portfolio that includes annual events WonderStruck in Cleveland and WonderBus in Columbus.
Curators cleared all of the artifacts from the Col. Eli Lilly Civil War Museum in 2018 after a leak in the Soldiers and Sailors Monument’s basement endangered the collection.
Not only is Asher a retailer, but she’s a retailer who specializes in personalized Christmas ornaments at ShopMetamora.com and at her physical store that bears the same name in Metamora in southeastern Indiana.
Following a pandemic-affected roster of 25 concerts in 2021 and just three shows in 2020, the Noblesville amphitheater already has 10 shows on the schedule for 2022. Owner Live Nation is predicting a record year for the live-music industry.
Thanks to a $500,000 City-County Council allocation made possible through the federal American Rescue Plan Act, the #IndyKeepsCreating initiative launched in 2020 will continue until March.
Rapper Doja Cat, rock duo Twenty One Pilots and country vocalist Sam Hunt will headline three days of free concerts scheduled Jan. 8-10 in the open-air setting of Monument Circle.
Louisville-based Churchill Downs proposed a $240 million project known as the Queen of Terre Haute, to be built on nearly 21 acres west of the Haute City Shopping Mall.
Executive Director Kim Gutfreund, who’s led Dance Kaleidoscope since June, and long-running artistic director David Hochoy announced Tuesday a $2 million capital campaign.
The company plans a 38,000-square-foot expansion at Hoosier Park that will result in 100 more slot machines, along with restaurant and bar space and a new drive-through area for valet parking.
Crews are spiffing up the grounds at the Basile Opera Center, the latest move in a rebirth of sorts for the opera company, which in August purchased the former church at 4011 N. Pennsylvania St. it’s been leasing for 10 years.
Many of the art-forward hotels, such as the Art in Denver and the Alexander in Indianapolis, work with local artists to either showcase their portfolio for a specific amount of time or commission one-of-a-kind pieces to display on site indefinitely.
