See the Indy Toxic Heritage exhibit:
August 6–17, 2024
Pride Park Family Center
1229 S. Vandeman Street
August 21–22, 2024
Indiana Water Summit (registration required)
September 17–28, 2024
Riverside Park Family Center
2420 E. Riverside Drive
Indy Toxic Heritage exhibit opens June 21
After more than a year of planning, community conversations, and collaborative work, Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power is opening!
Broad Ripple Park Family Center
1426 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis
June 21-July 13, 2024
We’ll celebrate the show with an opening reception Friday, June 21, 5-7pm.
The exhibit will travel to additional Indy Parks locations in the coming months.
2 upcoming Indy Toxic Heritage workshops
We have two more environmental justice story-share workshops on the calendar!
Saturday, March 2, 11am-1pm
Ujamaa Community Bookstore
2424 Dr. M.L.K. Jr. St., Indianapolis
Monday, March 4, 6-7:30pm
Pride Park
1129 Vandeman St., Indianapolis
Jan. 20 Workshop: Cultural Compost
We’re facilitating another Cultural Compost workshop, this time on Indianapolis’s southside, as part of the upcoming Eco-Justice and Wellness Expo.
From the water that we drink to the air that we breathe, we all have experience with the legacies of environmental damage. In this hands-on workshop participants will develop personal stories related to places of environmental harm and then use those stories to nourish the ongoing work of environmental justice.
Cultural Compost
Environmental justice storytelling workshop
January 20, 2024. 3:15-4:15pm.
Nov. 11 Workshop: Cultural Compost
Cultural Compost: Nourishing Places in the Footprints of Toxic History
November 11, 2023. 10am-noon.
From the water that we drink to the air that we breathe, we all have experience with the legacies of environmental damage. In this hands-on workshop participants will develop personal stories related to places of environmental harm and then use those stories to nourish the ongoing work of environmental justice.
A partnership between Indy Parks and Recreation and the IU School of Liberal Arts Museum Studies Program. Part of the 2023 Spirit & Place Festival.
2023 Bantz Community Fellowship
My colleague Liz Kryder-Reid and I have been awarded the 2023 Bantz Community Fellowship from IUPUI for a project called “Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power.” This year, we’ll be partnering with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation to create an exhibit and a series of public conversations that examine environmental harm and advocacy for justice as part of Indianapolis’s citywide heritage.
This project builds on years of previous work including our participation in the international Climates of Inequality project.