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Indy Art Center Youth Classes and Camps take place within a 40,000 square foot art center building designed by architect and Indianapolis native Michael Graves. The program is part of a larger art center that also includes ARTSPARK, a 9.5-acre outdoor creativity and sculpture garden with green space, trails, and a canoe launch. The broader organization offers hundreds of classes and camps every year and presents more than a dozen contemporary art exhibitions in six galleries.
• Schedule: Open Monday–Friday 9 am–10 pm, Saturday 9 am–6 pm, and Sunday 12 pm–6 pm
The Indy Art Center’s mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich the community. The organization began as a WPA project during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with studios over garages in 1934, and was incorporated in 1961 as the Indianapolis Art League Foundation, a not-for-profit organization. It moved to Broad Ripple Village and hired its first executive director in 1976, changed its name to the Indianapolis Art Center in 1994, and opened ARTSPARK in 2005. As of 2024, it remains a cultural destination and a critical part of Indianapolis’ cultural identity, and it is described as a model of arts accessibility and organizational evolution and transformation. The center partners with several arts, culture, and community organizations, runs an outreach program that takes art into underserved communities, hosts the OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair, and states that it builds a better, stronger, more vibrant, and more united community through art.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
• Schedule: Open Monday–Friday 9 am–10 pm, Saturday 9 am–6 pm, and Sunday 12 pm–6 pm
The Indy Art Center’s mission is to provide accessible and inclusive art experiences that inspire creativity, educate, engage, and enrich the community. The organization began as a WPA project during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with studios over garages in 1934, and was incorporated in 1961 as the Indianapolis Art League Foundation, a not-for-profit organization. It moved to Broad Ripple Village and hired its first executive director in 1976, changed its name to the Indianapolis Art Center in 1994, and opened ARTSPARK in 2005. As of 2024, it remains a cultural destination and a critical part of Indianapolis’ cultural identity, and it is described as a model of arts accessibility and organizational evolution and transformation. The center partners with several arts, culture, and community organizations, runs an outreach program that takes art into underserved communities, hosts the OneAmerica Broad Ripple Art Fair, and states that it builds a better, stronger, more vibrant, and more united community through art.
Last updated May 13, 2026.
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