Big Car in the news
Garfield Park art community getting new name'
Indianapolis Business Journal, 12/5/2025
In the interest of brand clarity and long-range planning, an arts-focused campus in the Garfield Park neighborhood is adopting a new name…[more]
Once a dairy barn, now a free contemporary art museum'
Mirror Indy, 12/5/2025
A 125-year-old dairy barn that’s been converted into a contemporary art museum will open May 1 in the Garfield Park neighborhood…[more]
Inside Big Car's big building renovation
IndyStar, 12/5/2025
Work continues on the former Weber Milk Co. building Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, as the building is renovated…[more]
New contemporary art museum aims for 'more than what people might expect'
IndyStar, 12/5/2025
A year and a half ago, Big Car Collaborative announced plans to transform a 40,000-square-foot former industrial building…[more]
A first look: Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis expansion set to open Spring 2026
WRTV Indianapolis, 12/8/2025
In the interest of brand clarity and long-range planning, an arts-focused campus in the Garfield Park neighborhood is adopting a new name…[more]
Garfield Park art community getting new name
Axios Indianapolis, 12/8/2025
Indianapolis’ newest art museum is nearing completion, and now it has a new name…[more]
The Best Places to Go in the US in 2026
Condé Nast Traveler, 11/18/2025
Also in 2026, Tube Factory, an artist-run contemporary art museum and community center, will quadruple its footprint…[more]
Speed Read: Roots And Wings
Indianapolis Monthly, 1/2/2025
The Indy-based art nonprofit Big Car Collaborative has transformed Garfield Park…[more]
How Big Car Collaborative Is Walking The Tightrope In Garfield Park
Indianapolis Monthly, 11/28/2020
Were it not for Big Car Collaborative’s track record, their plans for the Garfield Park area might sound a tad grandiose. Maybe even nuts…[more]
Big Car to open two new arts spaces by Garfield Park
Indianapolis Business Journal, 3/15/2016
The next two months should be big for the arts-focused Big Car Collaborative...[more]
Tactical Urbanism Leading to Long-Term Changes in Indy
Modern Cities, 3/9/2016
Instead of hosting traditional design charrettes, the City turned to tactical urbanism experts Big Car Collaborative to host an 11-week demonstration project…[more]
The Transformation of Garfield Park
No Mean City, 3/1/2016
If you live in Indianapolis, you should know and visit Garfield. I talk to many people who say they haven’t been here...[more]
Big Car’s Jim Walker uses creativity to lift neighborhoods, public spaces
Indianapolis Business Journal, 8/29/2015
Jim Walker is always pretty busy. But this summer and fall, he’s even busier than usual…[more]
Why Indianapolis is a test case for a fairer form of gentrification
The Guardian, 8/21/2015
Arts collective Big Car helped transform a down-and-out Indianapolis neighbourhood into a thriving cultural hub, but then artists and other residents were priced out…[more]
10 Things to Expect from Spark: Monument Circle
Indianapolis Monthly, 7/29/2015
Ever stepped onto Monument Circle and thought, “If only there were more seating, more culture, more art”?…[more]
Can Big Car turn Garfield Park into next hip neighborhood?
Indianapolis Star, 6/15/2015
The Garfield Park house is one of the city’s more forlorn. The windows are boarded up…[more]
Arts group Big Car to remake area near its new home
Indianapolis Business Journal, 6/12/2015
The arts-focused Big Car Collaborative has found a permanent place to park on Indianapolis’ south side…[more]
A Decade of Big Car
Sky Blue Window, 9/9/2014
Big Car isn’t your run-of-the-mill art institution…[more]
Big Car: Working toward a social practice masterpiece
NUVO, 9/10/2014
“We liked things that were experimental and different, that we weren’t seeing around here …We wanted stuff that wasn’t here. We wanted to make it happen.”…[more]
The New Citymakers
Public Art Review, winter 2013
“Something strange is happening in our cities.”…[more]
Building Community in an Empty Tire Shop
CityLab, 8/6/2012
An empty tire shop in the vast parking lot of a fading suburban shopping mall wouldn’t seem like the sort of place to find a community…[more]
