The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s (IMA) art and nature park is due to open in June.
100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park - adjacent to IMA’s 52-acre campus - used to be a quarry, but now features woodlands, wetlands, meadows and a 35-acre lake.
When it opens, the park will present art projects, exhibitions and discussions, which - according to the IMA - are designed to “strengthen the public’s understanding of the unique, reciprocal relationships between contemporary art and the natural world”. The park will also feature a visitor centre.
IMA has already unveiled the concepts for eight site-specific commissions, which will inaugurate 100 Acres. Atelier Van Lieshout, Kendall Buster, Alfredo Jaar, Jeppe Hein, Los Carpinteros, Tea Mäkipää, Type A, and Andrea Zittel, will create temporary works and will be the first in a series of ongoing commissions.
Architect Marlon Blackwell and landscape architect Ed Blake were commissioned to design the park.
