Indianapolis Art Center - Covid Report

COVID-19 SPECIAL REPORT: Thinking Creatively Written by S. L. Berry

INTRODUCTION On March 25, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic officially made its presence known in Indiana. That was the day Governor Eric Holcomb enacted a “Stay at Home” order for all citizens in the state.

The story of the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic is one of a litany of restrictions, cancellations, and closures. But for the Indianapolis Art Center it was a time of innovation, resurgence, and growth that would not have been possible without the incredible support of the community.

While other organizations struggled to survive amid the unprecedented hardships imposed by the pandemic, the Art Center used its altered circumstances to rethink what it had been doing and to determine what it needed to do moving forward. While it certainly had to curtail classes and reduce staff in the face of mandatory restrictions, being forced to redirect its resources ultimately proved to be the catalyst for new approaches to building and serving its growing audiences.

Despite losses in income from cancellations of the Broad Ripple Art Fair and ArtSparkle, its two biggest fundraisers annually, and from cancelled classes and summer camps, the Art Center weathered the crisis better than many cultural organizations. Thanks to the generosity of donors, sponsors, and students, coupled with a strong focus on fiscal responsibility and sustainability, it even managed to end the 2019-2020 and 20202021 fiscal years in better financial positions than it had seen in many years.

While contending with its own challenges, The Art Center didn’t ignore those of artists, who like their counterparts in other creative professions, were hard hit by a loss of exposure (fewer gallery shows) and income (corporate art buying plummeted, as did collector sales). To offset some of those losses, the Art Center created an online marketplace (ArtCenterMarket.com) where artists could Page 2

connect with buyers and sell their work. Paired with the Art Center’s annual Winter Sale and the Arts Council of Indianapolis’ annual TINY Show, its launch gave artists access to a large and interested buying audience that continues today.

What’s more, investments in updated technologies not only improved the Art Center’s ability to deliver online classes and art sales but prepared it for a bold, new vision for the future. Included in that future was the development of a digital production studio, which will allow for in-house production of online content ranging from class instruction, video-driven social media content, and other custom programming for distribution far beyond the borders of its Broad Ripple campus.

Amid the operational and financial uncertainties imposed by the pandemic, the Art Center also underwent a change in leadership with the departure of Patrick Flaherty and the hiring of Mark Williams as the President & Executive Director. A longtime board member and former student, Mark’s background as an experienced business owner and media and technology professional factored into his selection as only the fourth paid director in the Art Center’s history.

To say 2020 and 2021 were tumultuous years is to state the obvious. But the Art Center and its staff, board, faculty, members, students, donors, and sponsors met the challenges with resiliency and surmounted the obstacles, proving once again that the key word when talking about the Art Center is community. It’s a community serving the community and building community through art, as it has done since 1934. For an organization born during the Great Depression, the Art Center was ready for this moment, resiliency is part of its DNA.

OPERATIONS The year 2020 seemed full of promise in January and February. Even as early reports of a mysterious illness filtered out of Wuhan, China, no one at the Art Center was unduly alarmed, which held true for Americans as a whole.

Even when businesses, schools, and cultural organizations nationwide were ordered to curtail operations in late March, the consensus was that it would only be for a couple of weeks, a month at the most. When that proved not to be the case, in order to reduce the financial load, the Art Center’s leaders decided to implement layoffs: 85 staff and faculty members were laid off, while those staff members that remained took a 20% reduction in pay for three full months.

With registrations for both the Art Center’s spring session of classes and summer camps for kids underway, the remaining staff had to figure out what to do as the mandatory shutdown dragged on. By mid-April, with no end in sight and COVID contagion rates on the rise, it became clear that classes and camps would have to be cancelled or moved online for a more extended period of time.

How many registrants would seek refunds was unclear, but what was clear was the fact that the Art Center was going to take a hit.

Then there was the matter of the Broad Ripple Art Fair, the year’s biggest fundraiser: For the first time in its history, it was cancelled for a reason other than bad weather. The same was true later in the summer when the pandemic forced the Art Center to call off its second largest annual fundraiser, ArtSparkle. Two major financial resources disappearing just months apart was a

major blow to the organization as a whole and its operations budget in particular.

While there were federal grants available for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), there were limited resources for operations— utilities, maintenance, grounds upkeep, etc. However, the Art Center had claimed an Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC), which allowed it to receive a refundable payroll tax credit for each employee it kept on its payroll. That helped offset some of the most immediate cashflow needs. Later, it received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan from the Small Business Administration, which helped pay salaries and cover utility costs. Susan Meyer, Vice President of Finance, invested hundreds of hours in researching and applying for the various grant funds that would prove to be the lifeline for the organization. One relief financially was the fact that the Art Center owns its buildings, meaning no mortgage or lease payments needed to be made.

By May, the Art Center was able to reopen to staff on a limited basis. The PPE grants it received enabled it to put sanitizing measures in place.

What’s more, pre-existing high cubicle walls in its administrative offices provided protective barriers. Additionally, the few staff members who were onsite were relocated to different parts of the building to keep everyone as far apart physically as possible. It wasn’t “normal,” but it was a step in that direction.

In July of 2020, in-person classes were once again allowed, on a limited basis. And as those classes resumed, the Art Center worked hard to bring back the furloughed faculty and staff as quickly as possible. By spring 2021, nearly all had returned, along with a number of new faculty to help serve the growing student population.

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EDUCATION

Education is the foundation of the Art Center, which started as a single painting class during the Great Depression. The classes it offers now, not only in drawing and painting, but in such disciplines as clay, sculpture, wood, glass, photography, and digital arts attract thousands of students a year to a building designed by Michael Graves, the late architect-artist who attended Broad Ripple High School just a few blocks away from the current Art Center campus.

In addition to the instruction they receive, for many students the classes are a big part of their social lives, too. Building on the community created in the studios, students celebrate birthdays, share family photos, and meet for coffee. The Art Center is as much a communal gathering spot as it is an educational facility. So, when the COVID restrictions closed its doors, the Art Center pivoted to the best possible option available to keep classes going and personal connections alive: online instruction.

Building on previous research and studying examples of online classes offered by other organizations around the country, the Art Center’s Vice President of Education + Programming Colton Pedro set about building an online Page 4

curriculum. The first step was determining which classes would work online and which would not.

The classes dealing in two-dimensional mediums requiring few tools such as drawing and painting were more adaptable than the more tactile, threedimensional mediums requiring special equipment such as clay and glass. Online instruction started with free lessons and videos on the Art Center’s website while Colton and his staff created an online instructional model. He recognized that this would be a new model, not a replication or simple substitution for the current class programming. It required an innovative mindset and approach to developing a format and content that would prove just as engaging and intimate in a distanced world.

It wasn’t a plug-and-play transition, however.

Instructors had to be trained: teaching via a camera rather than in a studio full of students is a learned skill. The education staff established a program to teach the teachers how to teach online. Finally, prior to making paid online classes available, the Art Center did some testing, with staff members in the role of students watching instructors in action.

It wasn’t just classes at stake. The COVID crisis struck just as the Art Center’s wildly popular

summer camps for kids were taking registrations. Those, too, pivoted to an online version. To ensure everyone had what they needed, the staff created kits with all the necessary supplies for camp projects, providing parents with curbside pick-up.

In June 2020, the Art Center launched both online classes and online summer camps. Not every student or family was willing to make the adjustment. Some asked for their class fees to be refunded or credited for future classes, which they were. Others jumped into the online world and continued practicing their craft. And still others told the Art Center to keep their fees as donations.

The Art Center’s online classes and camps proved successful. They gave participants— children and adults— a chance to make art amid the isolation forced on them by work-from-home, remoteschooling, and limited-social-contact orders.

The key to the Art Center’s pivot to online instruction was the fact that it built models to last beyond the pandemic shutdown. It was a chance to design and implement a new instructional model that the Art Center could use to provide art classes to people unable to come to onsite classes: seniors with transportation barriers and nursing home residents, for example, as well as people across the country and around the world who previously had a connection to the Art Center and were quick to embrace the opportunity to join the community once again. It was a chance both to extend the Art Center’s community reach and to make it an instructional resource without geographical boundaries.

The Art Center was also the first cultural organization in Indianapolis to create a robust online teaching program. Following its launch and success, the Art Center started getting calls from other organizations, both inside Indianapolis and around the country, wanting to emulate the program. Online instruction thrust the Art Center back to the forefront as a leader in art education outside of academia.

By August, onsite classes became possible once again and as planned, online classes also remained in place, with a hybrid of the two often occurring.

In fact, new online offerings continue, with some students opting for those in lieu of in-person contact. As 2020 became 2021, and the advent of COVID vaccines led to the lifting of restrictions, online classes remained popular, proving that the Art Center’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances and to innovate in the face of challenges had led to a new instructional model with lasting value.

“We knew what needed to be done and we did it.

And we did it before anyone else.”

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OUTREACH + COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

The Art Center takes its position as this community’s art center seriously, with “community” signifying more than the provision of onsite classes.

A multifaceted community program has long been an extension of its education program and an important part of its mission to inspire creative expression in all people.

Perhaps the Art Center’s best-known community component is ArtReach, which provides free afterschool and summer programs to more than 1,000 underserved children ages 5 to 18 at up to 20 sites annually. Many of those ArtReach sites were in public schools, which were closed during the worst of the COVID outbreak in 2020. However, online instruction coupled with free supply kits delivered directly to the youth allowed the program to continue serving many children.

In one instance in-person sessions continued. The Concord Community Center, which is both the oldest continuously operating community center in Indianapolis and the Art Center’s oldest outreach site, believed the youth it serves would respond better to human contact. With a willing instructor and strict protective protocols (masks, gloves, temperature checks, and hand sanitizer), weekly sessions went on as usual, bolstered by constantly

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monitoring everyone’s health and exposure risk.

Through the first summer of COVID, the Art Center provided art classes for 23 youngsters at Concord.

Other outreach programs such as ArtTroop, a bimonthly art-making program for military veterans, and Senior ArtReach, which serves older adults, were able to continue via livestreaming on YouTube. The Teen Art Council, which involves 13to 18-year-olds in the development of projects for teen audiences, continued with virtual sessions.

Only SMART, a mentoring program for young artists, was put on hiatus until the spring of 2021.

Outreach, as with other programs and departments, continued to seek innovative ways to serve its audiences while extending the Art Center’s reach out into the broader community. There was a recognition amongst staff that as the pandemic would continue, the Art Center needed to continue to serve audiences that needed art the most, especially at this time and especially those with past and ongoing trauma related to sexual and domestic violence, and even youth residing in Juvenile Detention. The Art Center’s Insider Art program was the first outside group to enter the local detention center in more than 9 months, providing creative wellness and welcome faces.

EXHIBITIONS For artists everywhere, 2020 was the year that an already precarious profession became even more so. While many rely on website galleries to showcase their work, that’s no substitution for a professionally installed gallery exhibition. And the Art Center has long had a reputation for having one of Midwest’s finest contemporary exhibition programs, mounting up to 15 shows annually. As the COVID pandemic forced many small galleries in the Indianapolis area to close in 2020, the Art Center became one of the only contemporary art galleries left in the city.

But that was a dubious distinction since the limitations imposed by COVID prevented people from viewing exhibitions in person. They also forced the Art Center to think about ways it could change how it was handling exhibitions. A grant from the Lilly Endowment administered through the Indy Arts Council allowed the Art Center to buy the equipment it needed to create 360-degree virtual tours of exhibitions, making them available online in a rich and engaging way. While certainly not the first art institution to offer virtual tours, by doing so the Art Center showed once more that it could turn adversity into opportunity.

When the Art Center was able to re-open the building to the public in July 2020, with a mask mandate and hand sanitizers in place, its virtual tours remained part of its expanded repertoire of remote services. Additionally, staff began developing a virtual artist residency program that would bring new ideas and perspectives to Indianapolis from across the country.

The Art Center also created an online Marketplace, allowing Indiana-based artists to display and sell their work. This provided artists with an ongoing sales opportunity apart from the longstanding Winter Art Sale.

Outside the building, ARTSPARK was revitalized, with attention paid to reviving existing plantings and artworks, repairing the riverfront deck, building a new riverside stage, and installing a new sound art radio station. The latter, known as ARTSPARK FM, debuted with a 45-minute looping composition by local Grammy-nominated musician-artist Stuart Hyatt. Yet another merger of art and technology, ARTSPARK FM will feature the work of other sound artists and composers in the future as an ongoing extension of the Art Center exhibitions programming.

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EIGHTEEN: BLACK LIVES MATTER

In the wake of the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, as protests rocked cities around the country, a group of 18 local Black artists created a mural, #Black Lives Matter, on Indiana Avenue.

Recognizing the importance of their efforts, the Art Center invited the artists to exhibit their individual work in November 2020 in a show titled Eighteen: Black Lives Matter. Comprising a variety of styles, mediums, and subjects, the exhibition attracted attention with media coverage not only locally, but nationally including an article in Forbes.

The exhibition highlighted the Art Center’s support for artists who were directly addressing a crucial social issue— racial discrimination in all its insidious guises. It wasn’t the first time the organization had staged an exhibition linked to a timely issue, but it may have been the first time it did so in such a swift, torn-from-the-headlines manner. As racial incidents and more Black deaths multiplied throughout 2020, the critical need to address racism through art became an essential part of the Black Lives Matter movement— and the Eighteen: Black Lives Matter exhibition became a hallmark in the local art community, an overdue reckoning that the Art Center welcomed into its galleries.

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As a follow-up, the 18 artists returned for a second exhibition in the fall of 2021 titled 365+. It was a chance for the artists to explore how the events of 2020 changed them— and for the Art Center and the Indianapolis community to examine how they were changed as well. Showing growth in the artists and the need for continued work, the Art Center once again provided a needed platform for these powerful voices and stories to be heard.

To that end, the Art Center also took stock of its own history of inequality, recognizing its need to do more to address its racial imbalance among staff, faculty, and audiences. In July of 2020, the Art Center established a standing Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, Inclusion (DEAI) board committee consisting of both board and staff and guided by the organization’s newly developed Cultural Equity Statement. And in an effort to support continued learning and growth, both board and staff have committed to ongoing training and learning and improvement.

“If you have, within an organization, the right person at the right time with the proper qualifications, you need to move forward.”

–Frank Basile, Honorary Board Member + Former Board Chair

NEW LEADERSHIP As if the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough, the Art Center underwent a change in leadership in 2020. Following the resignation of Executive Director Patrick Flaherty in May 2020, the board was faced with two prospects: conduct a search for his replacement or recruit from within. It chose to do the latter.

But it wasn’t an existing department head or faculty member the board turned to, it was one of their own— former board chair and executive committee member Mark Williams. An entrepreneur who’d operated several businesses in the multimedia production and digital marketing industries, Mark was also a former Art Center student, having taken classes while growing up in Indianapolis. And as a creative professional who also understood business operations, he had the skill set the board considered critical to the Art Center’s future. The only question was: Would he accept the job?

He did, assuming the position of President & Executive Director in July 2020. But there was a caveat: he intended to rethink the Art Center’s entire business model, upgrade its technology capabilities, and reclaim its title as a leading and critical community arts center. Feeling it had become complacent, Mark made innovation the driving force behind decisions across departments.

He encouraged fresh ideas and new approaches.

He looked at expanding partnerships with other cultural organizations, starting with Indy Jazz Fest as a programming partner for onsite events. And he spearheaded a drive to revitalize ARTSPARK, which had been neglected and was in disarray.

ARTSPARK was the city’s original outdoor art gallery, Mark told board and staff, and the Art Center needed to activate the entire campus to attract visitors, students, donors, and sponsors.

Upgrades included a restored riverfront deck, which was designed for everything from musical

performances to small group events, a new stage for intimate performances or classes, and refreshed landscaping, as well as the conservation of existing artworks and the installation of a new audio-centered one. The park’s lights, some of which weren’t operational, were repaired, adding another visual element to the park after dark.

Within a matter of weeks, ARTSPARK had regained its luster. That was apparent by the number of visitors using the park as an outdoor getaway from lives of confinement. As it was always meant to be, ARTSPARK again became a place of refuge and renewal for the community.

But more than ARTSPARK was reborn under new leadership. Mark began cutting unnecessary expenses and streamlining cash flow. As a businessman, he knew that continuing to do the same things and expecting different results was foolish: progress required change. With years of experience in marketing and advertising, he stressed the need to focus on the effectiveness of marketing efforts, moving away from expensive traditional tactics and into digital and contemporary advertising where the return of spending is easy to measure and evaluate.

It was that expertise that led the board to offer him the job— and that expertise that allowed the Art Center to end the year with only a $12,000 deficit.

The previous year it had been more than $500,000 in the red.

And 2020 was an anomaly, with COVID’s impact coming halfway through the Art Center’s 20192020 fiscal year and stretching well into our current times. Once the pandemic subsides and the Art Center can ramp up its programming even further, the true effects of its new leadership will be evident.

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DEVELOPMENT

Raising money during COVID was a challenge confronting all nonprofit organizations. For the Art Center, fund-raising needs preceded COVID: while appreciative of existing donors and sponsors, the Art Center had recognized the need to expand its roster of supporters.

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The McKinney Family Foundation, which traditionally gave an annual Skip McKinney Faculty of the Year Award to an outstanding teaching artist, opted instead to support more artists in 2020 by giving the funds directly to the Art Center.

When it came to ensuring the Art Center remained a viable cultural resource, the community stepped up during a COVID-relief campaign. Gifts large and small came from a variety of sources, for which the Art Center is truly grateful. That support was a reminder of just how vital the Art Center is to Indianapolis. Below are some of the notable gifts or gifts-in-kind the Art Center received from individual donors, corporations, and foundations between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021.

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Two grants totaling nearly $50,000 were received from the Indiana Arts Commission through the Indiana Arts Emergency Relief Funding program through its Arts, Cultural, and Destination Marketing Organization Grant Program.

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The City of Indianapolis and United Way of Central Indiana gave funds through the Nonprofit Restart Program.

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The Arts Council of Indianapolis gave an additional five figure grant through the City of Indianapolis Annual Grants Program.

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Two of the most surprising donations came from a new Broad Ripple bakery, Rise ‘n Roll, which raised money for the Art Center through a dine-to-donate event and an additional program a month later based on its sales during National Donut Day.

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When the Art Center had to cancel spring classes and summer camps, many people allowed the Art Center to convert the fees

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Two individuals— one a board member— each gave a six-figure gift.

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OneAmerica and the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation both had provided funding for the 50th anniversary Broad Ripple Art Fair. When the Art Fair was cancelled, both allowed their funding to be converted to donations to the Art Center.

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The Indy Arts Council provided a six-figure grant in COVID-relief support through Lilly Endowment funded Indy Arts and Culture Restart & Resilience Fund.

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they’d paid into donations, amounting to over $53,000 in support. In addition, the Art Center added approximately 100 new names to its donor list.

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GivingTuesday is a global, online day of giving held the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, benefiting nonprofits around the world.

When the spring closures led to financial hardships for many of those organizations, a special GivingTuesdayNow event was held in May 2020, resulting in an outpouring of financial support for the Art Center.

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The Art Center also received specific dedicated gifts to fully fund its expansion to new satellite locations and the necessary equipment needs for those locations.

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The Art Center also became one of the first local nonprofits to do a live-streamed fund-raising event when it hosted The Big Give Show! in September. With the help of Markey’s, an Indianapolis-based events company, it was able to combine pre-taped performances with in-person appearances by a few guests. Combining a live auction with a fund-raising appeal, the event raised nearly $60,000.

Overall, the Art Center’s COVID relief efforts were critical to making up for what it had lost in class and camp revenues, especially at a time when its largest fund-raising event of the year— the Broad Ripple Art Fair— was cancelled.

Much of what happened at the Art Center during the pandemic period was a direct result of the unwavering support of donors and sponsors.

Without the generosity of so many, the Art Center would have been in a much more precarious situation than it was. Because of the support it received, the organization remained a vital, vibrant organization able to serve the community at a time when so many others were forced to scale back or suspend their operations altogether.

Moving forward, the Art Center will continue to position itself for future success and sustainability by building out the expertise of its development team. Alli Badgero, Vice President of Development, has over a decade of successful experience in major gifts, planned giving, and capital campaign management. As a past member and student, she joined the team in early 2022 already familiar with the Art Center’s programming and with a passion to help shape its future. Carrie Selby, Donor Relations Manager, has twelve years of experience with grant writing and management, sponsorship, and events. Coming from the social services sector, she is dedicated to the Art Center’s community programs. Allison Duncan, Executive Coordinator, joined the team with a background in membership engagement and development for cultural institutions, ensuring the integrity of the data and donor communications for the Art Center. Their combined commitment and enthusiasm, together with the established community of loyal supporters, positions the Art Center for sustained success.

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EVENTS + PARTNERSHIPS FALL FEST + WINTER SALE KITS Under normal circumstances, the Art Center would have marked the arrival of autumn 2020 with its annual Fall Fest, an event that brings people to the Art Center to try out a variety of art-making activities. But circumstances weren’t normal— by that time, however, the staff was used to adapting. If the people couldn’t come to the Art Center, the Art Center would go to them— not physically, of course, but in the form of art kits.

The idea was an offshoot of the popularity of subscription boxes for everything from meal kits to clothing and a recognition of a gap in the market for high quality, discipline-based art kits.

Each Fall Fest kit contained a variety of activities, with all the required materials. Assembling 100 kits, the Art Center made them available for sale online, with pick-up at the guest services desk just inside the main entrance. What’s more, due to the generosity of Fresh Thyme, the national grocery

store chain that has a location in Broad Ripple, each kit came with a free pumpkin. The kits sold out. These art kits were just one of many important initiatives that Shannon Bennett, Vice President of Events and Innovations, would set into motion that would prove pivotal to the survival, and revival, of the Art Center during the pandemic.

The success of that experiment led to the creation of Winter Sale kits. Once more those kits were an extension of an annual event— in this case the Winter Sale which typically brought holiday gift givers to the Art Center to purchase work from a variety of artists. Because that wasn’t possible for the 2020 holiday season, the staff assembled a new set of 150 holiday-themed art activities and made the kits available online. The Winter Sale moved online as well, so original art was still available, and the public responded with robust sales.

“The support of the community for the visual and performing arts had been throttled for a year, and (people) were willing to show their support at the gate and at almost all the booths with purchases. I had more sales than any of my last 10 years at the Broad Ripple Art Fair.”

––Robert Reiberg, Ceramicist, + Art Center Instructor

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THE 50TH ANNUAL ONEAMERICA BROAD RIPPLE ART FAIR When the May 2020 OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair was canceled, the 50th anniversary was postponed to May 2021. The May 2021 OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair plans called for a celebration fit for a 50th anniversary milestone.

But a continuing ban on large gatherings made holding it problematic, as did expecting artists to come to Indianapolis from around the country as they normally did.

Still, deciding to postpone yet again wasn’t easy.

In October 2020, the Art Center put out its usual call to artists and applications began flowing in.

LOCALLY MADE

Plans called for 175 artist booths. By January 2021, when planning for the event needed to begin in earnest, COVID cases were spiking, vaccines hadn’t begun to roll out nationwide and local safety guidelines still discouraged large public gatherings. It was clear that the hoped-for celebration, if it happened at all, was going to be different than anticipated—and less than what an important anniversary deserved. Reluctantly, the Art Center cancelled yet another Fair—with plans calling for the 50th Anniversary OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair to ultimately take place in May 2022.

Following the cancellation of the 2021 OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair, the Art Center’s leaders developed an alternative. Rather than a large-scale extravaganza, why not create a scaled-down event focused on celebrating local talent? The first-ever Locally Made was born.

After a year of isolation and with vaccines readily available, people flocked to the Art Center’s campus where booths were safely spaced apart and masks were required. They came not only for the human contact, but to show their support for the artists and musicians on hand. One artist sold out the majority of her booth’s entire stock in three hours on the first day. Others reported record sales.

Created in partnership with Indy Jazz Fest, which handled booking local musicians, and with the support of presenting sponsor OneAmerica, the two-day, outdoor event took place Saturday, May 15th and Sunday, May 16th. Limited to 1,500 visitors each day, Locally Made featured 51 local artists, eight food and drink vendors, and 14 musical acts.

As the first such event in the city during a time when COVID restrictions were still in place, Locally Made was a big success. Its local focus and how enthusiastically the event was embraced by the community reinforced the Art Center’s standing as both a contributor to and source of community and will become an important component of the Art Center’s annual event planning going forward.

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PARTNERSHIPS Collaboration has long been important to the Art Center. Throughout its history it has manifested in a variety of ways, from outreach programs done in conjunction with schools and community centers to events co-hosted with corporate sponsors to the creation of its iconic building designed in cooperation with Michael Graves and his architectural firm.

But the arrival of COVID and the adjustments and innovation it demanded made the formation of new partnerships more crucial than ever. The arrival of Mark Williams as the Art Center’s President & Executive Director accelerated the partnership process: as a believer in collaboration as both a creative and business tool, he was instrumental in generating new partnerships with Indy Jazz Fest, which not only helped with Locally Made but also scheduled monthly concerts in

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ARTSPARK throughout the summer of 2021, and REACT (formerly Young Actors Theater), which relocated to the Art Center.

Other partnerships formed during the early COVID era were those with kOMpose Yoga, a yoga studio in Broad Ripple that began holding classes in ARTSPARK in the spring of 2021; Indy Urban Flea, now Indy Urban Market, started holding monthly summer events in the Art Center’s east parking lot, promoting artists and art classes in the process; the Heartland Film Festival, which scheduled a portion of its 2021 Indy Shorts Festival to be held outdoors on the campus grounds in July 2021; opening night film premieres from local filmmakers; and KanKan Cinema and Brasserie and the Indianapolis Black Documentary Film Festival also brought film screenings to the Art Center campus, among others.

LOOKING FORWARD Building on the advances made during the Covid pandemic, the Art Center continues to thrive as a multi-generational destination for creativity.

Changes in marketing continue to attract new students with enrollment reaching levels not seen in more than a decade. The Art Center has evolved from being a place of simply providing arts education to being a connected community and refuge for creative wellness and inspiration, as well as a beacon for those needing or wanting to explore and create after two years of challenging societal

change. To meet this demand and to fulfill its mission to inspire creative expression in all people, while continuing to build community through art, the Art Center is looking beyond Broad Ripple. It has recognized the need, want, and potential to build upon the lessons learned during the pandemic and the successes earned through bold, innovative thinking. To that end, it has begun expanding its presence across the region in a strategic and carefully planned manner, broadening its reach as Indiana’s premier community art center.

CONCLUSION Nothing about the COVID-19 crisis of 20202021— nor the parallel crisis of racial injustices— was easy for either individuals or organizations to contend with. But as with any crisis, they prompted innovation and renewed— at least in some cases— a spirit of community. That was certainly true at the Indianapolis Art Center.

While the pandemic closed many doors, it opened the Art Center to new ways of looking beyond what it had been to what it could be. From technology upgrades to online instruction, the creation of art kits to the revival of ARTSPARK, new partnerships to a confrontation with racism through art, the Art Center rose to the challenges of the COVID

era. Inspired by new leadership, it cast off the complacency that had stifled its once vibrant nature and embraced a sense of experimentation and adventure.

Amid a time of chaos and confusion, the Art Center regained its sense of direction. And it reclaimed its position as an innovative cultural force within, and resource for, the community. To that end, as it begins to extend its reach and accessibility further out into the community, its current tagline of “One campus, endless things to do” just might need to be re-evaluated.

Exciting days are ahead, indeed.

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The Indianapolis Art Center extends its deepest gratitude to the donors, friends, and community, for helping to grow and build on its mission to inspire creative expression in all people. The following pages recognize individuals, corporations, and foundations who made gifts and/or gifts-in-kind between January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021.

INDIVIDUAL DONORS HOLLY AASEN KATHLEEN AND JOHN ACKERMAN APRIL ADAMS MANDE ADAMS SHERI ALDERSON WHITNEY ALDERSON CHARLEE ALEXEEV AMY AND MICHAEL ALLEY IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS LALITA AMOS AND GARLAND BORDEN BRANDI ANDERSEN SALLY AND ROBERT ANDERSON IN MEMORY OF KATHLEEN PROBST JILL ANDERSON JORDAN ANDERSON SARAH ANDERSON ERICA ANDREAE JUDY AND STEVEN ANDZER PATRICIA AND ROBERT ANKER ANONYMOUS DEAN ANTONOPOLUS KATE AND DANIEL APPEL NANCY ARBUCKLE IN MEMORY OF JUNE BOOR NOR ARIF AND PAUL CARLSON NICOLE ARREDONDO ERIC BACHELART KEVIN AND DANIEL BACKFISH-WHITE CHERYL BADALE AND PAT SULLIVAN ALLISON BADGERO TAMMY AND RICK BAILEY ESTATE OF ADAH I. BAIRD LOUISE BAKKER JANE BALKEMA LORRAINE AND ANDREW BALL JULIE BALL HEATHER AND BRETT BANE JO BANISTER ALANA BARBATO MAUREEN BARD JANE BARNARD JAMES BARNES CAITLIN BARRINGER RYAN BARTELT KATRINA AND FRANK BASILE Page 16

JENNIFER BASKERVILLE BURROWS RAE BASKIN DONALD BAUGH CATHY AND KEITH BAUMGARN KELLI BAUMGARN DEBORAH BEAM DIANNE AND RICK BEARDSLEY DAVID BEATTY LESLEY BEHRENS JAMILLE BELMONTE DAWN BENEDICT SHANNON AND PATRICK BENNETT JOSEPH BERCOVICI CHRISTINE AND PAUL BHE GINGER AND DONALD BIEVENOUR WILLIS BING DAVIS SHEENA AND EZRA BIRT CAROLYN BLACK JOHN BLACK MARY BLACKBURN HANNAH BLAIR MARTHA AND TERRY BLANKENBERGER IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SARA AND JAMES BLYTHE IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE GRETCHEN BOBBS PEGGY AND THEODORE BOEHM SUSAN BONANNO ELEANOR BOOKWALTER SUE AND HUGH BOTHWELL IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SUZANNE BOUCHER COLLINS PATRICK BOURDILLON KRIS BOWEN BOWELL IN MEMORY OF JUDY BOWEN WENDY BOYLE MARGARET BRABANT NANCY AND ODIE BRACY JAY BRAMMER JESSICA BRAND SCOTT BRAND ED BRANDT ARLENE BRATTON PEGGY BREIDENBACH AND GREGORY WAHLE VICTORIA AND THOMAS BROADIE

JEN BROEMEL KATHRYN BROOKS SUSAN AND DAVID BROOKS IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS CHRIS AND BOB BROUGHTON CONSTANCE BROWN ELIZABETH BROWN POLLY BROWN TOM BROWN JEFFREY BROWNING MAX BROWNING EDEN BRUCE JODY BRUNS REBECCA AND DON BRYENTON RYAN BARTELT KATRINA AND FRANK BASILE JENNIFER BASKERVILLE BURROWS RAE BASKIN DONALD BAUGH CATHY AND KEITH BAUMGARN KELLI BAUMGARN DEBORAH BEAM DIANNE AND RICK BEARDSLEY DAVID BEATTY LESLEY BEHRENS JAMILLE BELMONTE DAWN BENEDICT SHANNON AND PATRICK BENNETT JOSEPH BERCOVICI

CHRISTINE AND PAUL BHE GINGER AND DONALD BIEVENOUR WILLIS BING DAVIS SHEENA AND EZRA BIRT CAROLYN BLACK JOHN BLACK MARY BLACKBURN HANNAH BLAIR MARTHA AND TERRY BLANKENBERGER IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SARA AND JAMES BLYTHE IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE GRETCHEN BOBBS PEGGY AND THEODORE BOEHM SUSAN BONANNO ELEANOR BOOKWALTER SUE AND HUGH BOTHWELL IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SUZANNE BOUCHER COLLINS PATRICK BOURDILLON KRIS BOWEN BOWELL IN MEMORY OF JUDY BOWEN WENDY BOYLE MARGARET BRABANT NANCY AND ODIE BRACY JAY BRAMMER JESSICA BRAND SCOTT BRAND ED BRANDT ARLENE BRATTON

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PEGGY BREIDENBACH AND GREGORY WAHLE VICTORIA AND THOMAS BROADIE JEN BROEMEL SUSAN AND DAVID BROOKS IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS KATHRYN BROOKS CHRIS AND BOB BROUGHTON CONSTANCE BROWN ELIZABETH BROWN POLLY BROWN TOM BROWN JEFFREY BROWNING MAX BROWNING EDEN BRUCE JODY BRUNS REBECCA AND DON BRYENTON JULIE AND BRUCE BUCHANAN SUSAN BUDIMAN LYDIA BURRIS DIANNE BUYER COREY CALLAHAN EDWARD CAMBRA KATHRYN AND DANIEL CANTOR COLLEEN CARBERY BRENNA CARROLL DEIRDRE CARTER NATASHA CARTER DARBY CASADY DAWN CERASALE ALLI CHAMNESS JUDITH CHAPMAN KAREN CHAPMAN KATHRYN AND JOHN CHASE ANNETTE CHILDRESS JANET CHILTON TED CHRISTOFOLIS IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS KIMBERLY CIANI CRAIG CIES LAUREN CISLAK PATTY CLARK AND DREW WHITE JAMES CLINGER AILEEN CLOONAN IN MEMORY OF IRENE BAIRD BETTY COCKRUM LORYNE COFFIN KAREN AND CHARLES COHEN IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS CAROL COHEN SHERI CONNER WILLIAM CONNOR KIMBERLY CONRAD MICHAEL CONWAY KELLY COOKERLY AND DANIEL DIETRICH KATIE COOKERLY-DIETRICH FLORENCE AND CHARLES COOPER DELORES AND ALBERT COOPER IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER CHERYL COOPER IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS

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DAN COOPER CARLA CORBIN KATHLEEN AND JAMES CORNELIUS JOSH CORSAUT NANCY COSTA KIM COVINGTON MARGARET COYLE ELLEN AND DAVID CRABB DERRYL CRADDOCK DOROTHY CREBO IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS BETH CRITSER BETSY AND CASEY CRONIN MARGARET CUFF ETHAN CULLETON PATRICIA CURRAN IN MEMORY OF MARIE PUGH SALLY CZYZEWSKI KEITH DAEHLER CAROL AND LEO D’AMBROSIO ANNETTE DANIELSON AMANDA DANN JENNIFER DAVIDSON HILLARY DAVIS AND GANESH RAMNARINE MEG DAWSON JODY AND KEVIN DEFORD JUDY DEGAN AZIZ DELAWALLA CAROL DELLINGER MARY ANNE DELLVA STEPHANIE DEMARIS KIM DEPP MARTIN DEZELAN SARAH DIAZ ROSAMARIA DIES ROY DIETRICH CAT DIXON LIZ DJONLICH LAUREN DODRILL JAN AND BRIAN DONAHUE BART DONEGAN EMEL DONER ANNE DORAN IN MEMORY OF BETTY COCKRUM MARTI DRANE PAUL DREW CHRIS DUKE CHARLENE DUNLOP TRACY DUNN STEPHEN DYER HOWARD EDENBERG TELENE EDINGTON AND BILL CONNOR CAROL AND NORMAN EDISON BARBARA EDMONDS IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SARAH AND MATT EDWARDS DONNA EDWARDS KAIT EDWARDS LORI EFROYMSON-AGUILERA AND SERGIO AGUILERA KATIE EHRHART

KIM AND PAUL EISTERHOLD IN MEMORY OF KATHLEEN PROBST SUZY AND DON ELLIOTT VALERIE ELLIOTT AND JAMES STRANGE DONNA ELLIS STEPHANIE ENGLISH MALINDA ENNIS CYNTHIA ERNST AND RICH HARGAN LEE ERNST JULIE AND DAVID ESKENAZI LOIS AND SIDNEY ESKENAZI EFFY EUSON SARAH AND GLENN EVANS SCOTT EVENBECK SHAWN EVERETTE ERIN EWALD SAUERBURGER FAMILY PATRICIA FANSLER IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE CECELIA AND JOSEPH FATA MARNI FECHTMAN LAURA FISCHER ROBERT FISCHER JENNIFER FISHER SHARON AND DENNY FLAHERTY VALORIE AND PATRICK FLAHERTY PAMELA AND DONALD FOGLE JOE FORESTAL SANDY AND JOHN FRALICH DOLORES AND BRUCE FREIJE KRISTINA FREY DIANE AND MARTIN FRIEDMAN HOWARD FRIEDMAN KAREN FRISS AND GREG REINHARDT SHIRLEY FRY CLAIRE FULLAM

THE FULLER FAMILY IN MEMORY OF TOM FULLER TOM FULLER KATHLEEN AND LANCE GAFFIN IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS BETSY GAMBACCINI SALLY AND JOHN GARDNER IN MEMORY OF SHIRLEY KAY STRONG DAVID GARNER VALERIE AND ORMAIN GATHERS KIM GATTLE AND CARTER WOLF IN MEMORY OF MICHAEL O’BRIEN DREW GAYNOR MARSHA GEBUHR GERALD GELSOMINO MARY AND MATEN GERDENICH LINDA GERDENICH ANNE AND RICHARD GILBERT JANEAN GILBERT IN MEMORY OF BETTY COCKRUM KAREN AND JOSEPH GLASER IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS GREGORY GLASSON MARIANNE GLICK AND MIKE WOODS STEPHANIE AND WILL GOODRID LAWSON LYNN AND MARY GOSSETT TARYN AND KURT GREASER THE GREEN FAMILY MARGARET GREISING JIM GRUWELL DANA GUILD LYNETTE GUINDON BARBARA GUMINO JANE HACKMAN CLAUDIA AND NICK HALL IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER

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CATHY HAMAKER JAMES HAMMOND IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER SHERYL AND RAYMOND HAMSTRA AMY HANCOCK JAN AND STEVE HANSEN PAULA HARDESTY KEVIN HARDIE ELLEN HARDIN IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER MARCI AND JAMES HARENBERG JAMES HARKNESS DIANA HARRINGTON SUE AND BURT HARRIS IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS EARL HARRIS EDWARD HARRIS KATHY HARRISON IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS DEBBIE HATMAKER IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER JENNIFER HAVENS PAMELLA HAWKINS BRENDA HAYES DIANE AND PATRICK HEALEY IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS ERIN HEATON SARAH HECK AND E.J. LAST ALICE AND TOM HEDDEN DANIELLE HEMINWAY MARY KATE HENRIKSON KATHLEEN HENRY

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KYLE HERRINGTON LINDSEY HILL ROXANNE HILTON KALIE HOLDREN CLARE AND THOMAS HOLLETT SHARON HOOG AND KENNETH REMENSCHNEIDER DORENE HOOPS MARTHA AND JOHN HOOVER LISA AND CLIFFORD HORNBACK SANDY AND ANDREY HORTON JEAN HOSKIN DANICA AND KURT HOSTETTLER NEIL HOTTLE RAYMONDE AND DAN HOWELL ELISE HOWELL RICHARD HOWENSTEIN KAREN AND THOMAS HUGE YUHUA HUI LINDA AND STEVE HULLETT IN MEMORY OF ROBERT MCNAMARA BETSY AND GREG HUMRICHOUSER ANDREA AND BENJAMIN HUNLEY CYNTHIA AND JAMES HUNTER LAWRENCE HUNTER ELLA AND JOHN HURRELL CASEY HURST KRISTINE HURST SANDY AND STAN HURT CATHERINE HURT TOM HUTSELL MELISSA IRVIN IN MEMORY OF JEANNA SKEETERS

KATRINA AND WILLIAM IRWIN RHONDA ISBELL JOHN IVANCIC SARAH JACKMAN LISA JACKSON AND TOM LAIRD OLIVIA JACOBS ROBERTA JAGGERS PEGGY JANS TIM JANS LIZ AND JOHN JENKINS LYNN JENKINS ARVETTA JIDEONWO CRYSTAL JOHNSON AND JIMMY BRIGGS JEFFREY JOHNSON IN MEMORY MICHAEL NEIL WILKERSON DEBORAH JOHNSTON IN MEMORY OF SALLY SKIDMORE MADONNA AND THOMAS JONES CHRISTOPHER JONES KRISTINA JONES SARAH JONES SUSAN JONES KYLIE KASPAR MARION AND ELLIS KATZ PAULA KATZ AND TRAVIS BELDEN MARIELLEN KATZMAN DEBI KEAY SCOTT KELLER BENJAMIN KELLEY MARISSA KELSEY PEGG AND MICHAEL KENNEDY KAREN KENNELLY LINDA AND DUANE KENNEN BARBARA AND KEN KERN JENNY KIDWELL DAN KILGORE S. KIM AND MAE LEECH SCOTT AND HOLLY KINCAID ANN KING REBECCA KING NANCY KINZEL DEBRA KIRBY PAUL KIRCHGRABER MATT KIRCHHOFF KAREN AND GERALD KIRK IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS JESSI KLEIN KATHERINE KNAPP PAULA AND JOHN KNEPPRATH SANDY KOEHLER JILL KOOIMAN AND STEPHEN BUSHOUSE JESSICA KRAMER CATHY KRAVITZ CHRISTY KRIEG LINDA KRUEGER JENNIFER LABALME AND JOHN KRULL CLAUDIA AND IRWIN LABIN CATHERINE LACROSSE ANN LAGGES GINA LAITE AND ANANTHA SHEKHAR

ROY LANGDON MICHAEL LAPORTE MARGARET LARKIN JEFFREY LARSEN LINDA LAU MELISSA LAWSON STEVEN LAWSON ALICE LEE RICHARD LENZ SANDY LENZ LINDA LEWIS DANIEL LIBATIQUE ANDRA LIEPA JIM LINDGREN CHARLOTTE AND DOUGLAS LIPPERT IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS TIMOTHY LIST JENNIFER LOFTUS LOIS AND JEFFREY LOHSE ROBERT LOMAX CAROL AND JOHN LONGFELLOW SARA AND JAMES LOOTENS AMBUR LOWENTHAL MARY AND DAN LUEDERS LINDA AND TODD LUGAR IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS SARAH LUGAR SUZANN LUPTON ROBIN MACDONALD ROBERT MACPHERSON AND STEVEN STOLEN JERI MAGRI SANDY AND TIM MAHER BILL MALCOLM PAULA MANDERS HEIDI MANDICH THEODORA MANGAS-COON NANCY MANN MATTHEW MANNING ADAM MARSH ALEX MARSH JON MARSHALL JENNIFER AND TOD MARTENS NANCY AND MAC MARTIN EMILY MARTIN MARK MARTIN KELLY MASONCUP EDITHA MASTERS MARCIA MATHER KATHY AND JEFF MATTICK IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER CHARITY AND HILLARY MAXWELL MARGARET MAXWELL AND JOHN KRAUSS MARY KAY MCCAULEY AMY MCCONKEY ROBBINS AND CLAY ROBBINS MARY MCCONNELL AND STEPHEN HEAD CALLIE MCCUNE CHAD MCCUNE TANIA MCDONALD JOE MCGEE IN MEMORY OF CHAD COOPER

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JULIE AND TED MCGREW SHELLEY AND ROBERT MCKINNEY DEE ANN MCKINNEY MARY BRIDGET AND ROB MCKINNEY MARNI MCKINNEY AND RICHARD WATERFIELD LISA MCKINNEY AND ALEX INTERMILL LAURIE MCQUEEN JAMES MCQUISTON NADINE MCSPADDEN AND PATRICK RHODES RUTH MEDERNACH MARY JANE MEEKER-STOGSDILL BRAD MEISER GERALDINE MELVIN JANE AND LYLE MESSENGER SUSAN MEYER SUE MICHAEL AND BILL PETRANOFF SANDRA MICHAEL-BOWERS HELEN AND MARK MILES ANNA MILLER DENISE MILLER JOY MILLER MARCUS MILLER KELLY MILLSPAUGH AND WESTON SNYDER ANNA MARIE BROWN-MITCHELL SUSAN MITCHELL GABRIEL MO DOUGLAS MOELLER MARK MOELLER TINA MOFFATT LIZ MOK MINDIE MOORE DANIEL MORAN ANN AND BILL MOREAU DANAN AND MICHAEL MORGAN CHRISTINA MORGENSTERN JUDITH MORR CHRISTINA MORRIS TINA MORRIS REBECCA MORRISON JULIE MOYERS JUDITH MURPHY ANNE MURPHY CAROLYN AND JOHN MUTZ RACHEL NAGY ROSE NAKEEB KRIS NEVITT DORI NEWMAN LES NIEDBALSKI MARIAH NIEDBALSKI JHENY NIETO PAN NING LINDSEY NOBLE DIANE NORMAN AND MICHAEL MARKOWSKI RALPH NOWAK HEATHER NUBER AND ADDISON TAYLOR ROSA O’CONNOR RYAN O’CONNOR JENNY AND KELVIN OKAMOTO LORA AND DAVID OLIVE KELLY OLONOH

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JEANNE AND ROBERT OLSON KJERSTI OLSON VALERIE OMICIOLI JULIA AND DON ORZESKE MARY OTT AND STACEY KANESHIRO MOLLY OVERBEY TANYA AND SCOT OVERDORF STEVIE PACTOR IN MEMORY OF DONNA LUCAS PEGGY PADEN ARLEEN PALMBERG ROBERT PALMER IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE SOOMIN PARK CASSIDY PARKER SARAH PARKS CRYSTAL PASCHAL MARIA PATTERSON DORIT PAUL ELIZA PAYNE KAREN AND JIM PECK ELIZABETH AND RALPH PECK COLTON PEDRO AND TAYLOR FIRESTINE PATRICIA PELIZZARI VANDRA PENTECOST JANET PENWELL MYRA PERRIN DEB PERRY LARYN PETERSON URSULA PETERSON WILLIAM PETRANOFF ASHLEY PETRY BETH PIATT KATIE PICCONE TAMRA PIERCE SHARON POOLE AMY POWELL TOM POWERS VICTORIA POWERS LESLIE AND JOE PRICE IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS JESSICA PRICE MORRIS PROFETA JEREMY PUGH NEWELL PUGH RUTHIE PURCELL-JONES AND MARK JONES BONNIE RABIN ARUNIMA RAM SUSAN AND RICH RARDIN SHANDRIS RASHID AND HASSAN RASHID DAVID REDDICK SUSAN REECE JACQUIE REED SANDY AND ROBERT REIBERG ANDI RICHTER JEFF RINCK LYNN AND STEPHEN ROBERTS MOLLY ROBERTSON BARB ROBINSON CECILE ROCK

NANCY AND JEFFERY RODEWALD NIKKI AND ERIC ROGERS MINDY TAYLOR ROSS AND JAMES ROSS ROBIN ROSSMAN JOANI AND JEFF ROTHENBERG HARRISON ROYCE LIBBY ROYER JESSICA RUEHRMUND-UNGER JANE RUFF DONNA RUND AMY RUSSELL DEBBIE RYAN TARRA AND CHRIS RYKER STEPHANIE SABATIER NADIA SADAOUI AND TODD BUSHFIELD JESSICA AND ANDREW SAHM JENNIFER AND STEVE SANNER JOAN AND KENNETH SANNING SUSAN SAWYER AND SCOTT PUTNEY JAMES AND KATHY SCHEFFLER DONNA AND ANTHONY SCHELONKA LINDA SCHIRTZINGER ALICE AND ROBERT SCHLOSS KAREN AND JAMES SCHNEIDER SARAH AND DUANE SCHONLAU JULIE SCHRADER MARY SCHROEDER NANETTE SCHULTE AND MATTHEW RUSSELL SHANNON AND SVEN SCHUMACHER AARON SCHUTT

TARA AND MARC SCISCOE GRETA SCODRO JACQUELYN SCOTT AND LEE EARL CAVANAUGH ROSE SCOVEL LINDA AND STEPHEN SEGEBARTH MAGDALENA SEGOVIA ELLEN AND DAVID SEIFERTH CARRIE AND MATT SELBY LIZABETH SERMERSHEIM DIANE SEYBERT MELINDA SHAPIRO LUZ SHARP MARILYN SHARPE IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS PAT SHAURETTE JESSICA SHEA BETH ANNE AND TIM SHEETS JONATHAN SHELLEY DAN SHEPLEY CONOR SHINE ERIC SHOTWELL MARY ANN SHURIG PAULINE SHYPULA HOLLY SIECK JENNY AND KEVIN SIMINSKI ADRIANNE SINGER K. P. SINGH AND FAMILY JUDY AND JIM SINGLETON JENNY SKEHAN AND RYAN LEWIS CAROL SKINNER

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JAN SKIPO MARI SKOVRONSKY AND FAMILY DANIEL SKOVRONSKY CONNIE SLATER KATHLEEN SLAUZIS AND PHILIP DURHAM DAWN SMALL AMY AND DENNIS SMITH JANIE AND PEARSON SMITH ELIZABETH AND PHILIP SMITH BETTE SMITH BRANDON SMITH CATHERINE AND WILLARD SNYDER LAURA SOGARD JOYCE A. SOMMERS POLA AND BRANDON SOMMERS SHANNON SOMMERS JEAN SOUTHARD BARABARA SPAANS SUE ANN AND TIMOTHY SPECHT ABBY SPECHT CATHY SPRINGER BROWN ANNE SPURGEON SERMERSHEIM SRENIAWSKI FAMILY FUND DON STAFFORD LINDA AND ANTHONY STAVROS JAIME STEELE ROBERT STEKETEE AND FAMILY IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE ESTATE OF MARTHA C. KAISER STEVENSON KENDALL STEVENSON

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THE STEWART FAMILY IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS BARBARA STEWART IN MEMORY OF IRENE BAIRD LYNN STOKELY MATT STONEBRAKER DANA STOPCZYNSKI AND JOSEPH EAKINS AREN AND STEVE STRAIGER CHERYL AND JOHN STRIEWE SHANNON STROCK KIMBERLEY STROUP RACHEL STUTSMAN MARISA SUBLETTE JENNIFER SUGARMAN AND KONRAD BANASZAK JEAN AND TIMOTHY SULLIVAN MARY ANN AND BRIAN SULLIVAN MAUREEN SULLIVAN NIKKI SULLIVAN LIZ TURNER SUSCHA PAULA SUSEMICHEL PEGGY AND CHARLES SUTPHIN JUDY SUTTON KATHIE AND MARK SWAIM BRUCE SWAN DREW SWAN KRISTINA SWETZ CHRISTINE AND TIM TAFF LAURA TAGLIANI ETHAN TAN YILIN TANG

JEFF AND MARY THALLS CAROL THARP-PERRIN DAVID THOMAS JEN THOMAS NANCY THOMAS RACHEL THOMAS-CELMINS AND MATT CELMINS JEAN THOMPSON IN MEMORY OF JERRY THOMPSON GEORGE TIKIJIAN DOUG TILLMAN MARY TINDER MEI LING TIO-YU AND JEFFREY YU GAIL TOMASHEFSKI DEMETRA TONIOLO MARJORIE TRUMMEL KENNETH TURCHI AND DAX CABELL KATHERINE AND JOHN VAHLE FREDDY VALENCIA JANE VALLIERE KAY VANDUESEN THE VAN HORN FAMILY MARK AND ANN VARNAU RONNIE VENGUA SUSAN VINICOR JODI AND JOHN VOIGT NONIE AND DAVID VONNEGUT-GABOVITCH PATRICE AND JOHN WAIDNER LISA WAITE ALYSON WALBRIDGE MINDY WALKER CHRISTEN WALL IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS CARRIE WALLIS LAPKE GREG WALLIS WENDY WALTERS JESSICA WARRIX LYNNE WATLING IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE MARIAM WATSON PAMELA AND DAVID WEAVER ROSALIND WEBB SARA WEINSCHROTT ALAYNA WEISS AND FAMILY DAN WEISS KYMM WELCH LISA WELCH NIKKI WENCK MARTHA WENTWORTH AND BILL BARRETT ANGIE WETHINGTON TORI WEYERS ARLENE AND WILLIAM WHEELER JAMES WHITE NAKIA WHITE JULIA WHITEHEAD BARB WHITLOW BETHINE WHITNEY SUSAN WILAND JULIA WILDER MELISSA AND JERRY WILEY SUSAN AND BRIAN WILLIAMS

JANICE AND JOHN WILLIAMS SANDY AND JERRY WILLIAMS SUSAN WILLIAMS MAURA SULLIVAN WILLIAMS AND MARK WILLIAMS AMY AND DANIEL WILLIS RENEE WILMETH HOWARD WILSON JANET WILSON JANIS WILSON MARY ANN WISKERCHEN KELLY WOKER SUSAN WOODHOUSE IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS ANGELA AND DON WOODLEY LAURA WORRELL WILLIAM WREGE AND TODD WOLF MEGAN AND CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT MILICENT WRIGHT KELSEY VAN WYK DIANA AND DANIEL YATES ROBERT YEE LAURA YEO JILL AND JEFF ZANIKER LORI ZAPP ROGER ZIMMERMAN MARY ANN AND GENE ZINK SUZANNE AND JOHN ZINSER IN MEMORY OF JEROME STEKETEE DON ZIPERMAN KATHY ZOPPI ROBERT ZYROMSKI

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CORPORATE + FOUNDATION DONORS ALLEN WHITEHILL CLOWES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, INC. THE AME GROUP ARTHUR JORDAN FOUNDATION AT&T FOUNDATION ATHLETIC ANNEX AXIS ARCHITECTURE AYRES FOUNDATION BMO HARRIS BANK BOSE MCKINNEY & EVANS LLP BOWEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC. BRADEN BUSINESS SYSTEMS THE BRAVE HEART FOUNDATION BRICS BRITTON FALLS DISCOVER INDY CLUB THE BUNGALOW C.H. DOUGLAS & GRAY, LLC CARDINAL SPIRITS CENTRAL INDIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CEO-NET INTL, INC CHRISTEL DEHAAN FAMILY FOUNDATION CLUSTERTRUCK, INC. CREAM HILL FOUNDATION CUSTOM INK LLC EFROYMSON FAMILY FUND ELI LILLY & CO FOUNDATION ESKENAZI FAMILY FOUNDATION ESL-SPECTRUM EUGENE AND MARILYN GLICK FOUNDATION FIRST PERSON ADVISORS FOUNDATION FLANNER BUCHANAN FUNERAL CENTERS FRIENDS OF SUSAN BROOKS IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS GE FOUNDATION GIBSON INSURANCE AGENCY, INC. THE GLICK FUND GRACE FAMILY FOUNDATION HEAR INDIANA IN MEMORY OF PLUMARZ FERZANDI HERBERT SIMON FAMILY FOUNDATION THE HERITAGE GROUP HIRSCH-SCHWARTZ FOUNDATION INDIANA ARTS COMMISSION INDIANAPOLIS COLTS THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION, A CICF AFFILIATE THE INDIANAPOLIS GARDEN CLUB, INC INDY ARTS COUNCIL JE FEHSENFELD FAMILY FOUNDATION KATZ, SAPPER & MILLER KIDS OUT AND ABOUT KPMG KROGER COMPANY LACY FOUNDATION LILLY ENDOWMENT INC. THE MAGIC BUS

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MARIGOLD, INC. MAURER FAMILY FOUNDATION, INC. MCKINNEY FAMILY FOUNDATION THE NATIONAL BANK OF INDIANAPOLIS NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INDIANA NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS NATIONAL WINE & SPIRITS NETHERLEIGH FUND OF THE INDIANAPOLIS FOUNDATION NICHOLAS NOYES JR. MEMORIAL FOUNDATION, INC. NORTHWEST LUMBER CO. ONEAMERICA OPTIMIST CLUB OF NORTH SIDE INDIANAPOLIS, INC. PACERS FOUNDATION, INC THE PENROD SOCIETY REPUBLIC NATIONAL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY RIO GRANDE, INC. RISE’N ROLL ROCKLER WOODWORKING AND HARDWARE SALESFORCE SCHUETTER FAMILY FOUNDATION SHIEL SEXTON COMPANY INC. SIGNATURE TREE COMPANY, INC IN MEMORY OF JUDY CHRISTOFOLIS SUN KING BREWING CO SUTTON-GARTEN CO. WELDING SUPPLIES & GASES TALBOT STREET ART FAIR TRANSFORMATION TRUST INC TUBE PROCESSING CORP UNITED ART & EDUCATION UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA W MICHAEL AND SUSAN WELLS FOUNDATION INC

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