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On June 10, 2008, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) unveiled the concepts for eight site-specific commissions that will inaugurate the new Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park beginning in fall 2009. Eight artists?EUR??,,????'?????< The IMA has engaged architect Marlon Blackwell and landscape architect Edward Blake to work with the selected artists to transform the 100 acres into an art park. It will be one of the largest museum art parks in the country and will feature ongoing commissions of site-specific artworks. The contemporary art projects and exhibitions are meant to represent man?EUR??,,????'?????< ?EUR??,,????'?????< Commissions will be ongoing, with additional artists and projects announced annually. The park, adjacent to the museum, encompasses 100 acres of woodlands, wetlands, a 35-acre lake and meadows. This land was once a gravel pit, but has evolved through natural reclamation. A national advisory committee of four distinguished leaders in the fields of art and architecture assisted the IMA in developing plans for the park: John Beardsley, senior lecturer in the landscape architecture department at Harvard Design School; Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection, U.C. San Diego; Reed Kroloff, director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and former editor of Architecture magazine; and Ned Rifkin, former Undersecretary for Art at the Smithsonian. A 1,500 square-foot bridge and walkway to connect the IMA with the park was considered, but IMA decided the necessary 600 tons of steel would impact the natural environment and conflict with the park?EUR??,,????'?????< For more information on the park art and artists, visit www.imamuseum.org/art-and-nature-park.
The IMA has engaged architect Marlon Blackwell and landscape architect Edward Blake to work with the selected artists to transform the 100 acres into an art park. It will be one of the largest museum art parks in the country and will feature ongoing commissions of site-specific artworks. The contemporary art projects and exhibitions are meant to represent man?EUR??,,????'?????<
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Commissions will be ongoing, with additional artists and projects announced annually.
The park, adjacent to the museum, encompasses 100 acres of woodlands, wetlands, a 35-acre lake and meadows. This land was once a gravel pit, but has evolved through natural reclamation.
A national advisory committee of four distinguished leaders in the fields of art and architecture assisted the IMA in developing plans for the park: John Beardsley, senior lecturer in the landscape architecture department at Harvard Design School; Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection, U.C. San Diego; Reed Kroloff, director of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and former editor of Architecture magazine; and Ned Rifkin, former Undersecretary for Art at the Smithsonian.
A 1,500 square-foot bridge and walkway to connect the IMA with the park was considered, but IMA decided the necessary 600 tons of steel would impact the natural environment and conflict with the park?EUR??,,????'?????<
For more information on the park art and artists, visit www.imamuseum.org/art-and-nature-park.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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