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Indy Toxic Heritage at NCPH

Building Solidarity through Toxic Heritage
March 27, 2025
National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Montréal
Laura Holzman (IU Indianapolis), Wilmarie Medina-Cortes (Humanities Action Lab), Liz Kryder- Reid (IU Indianapolis)

Pollution and advocacy for environmental justice have shaped where, how, and with whom we live. Building solidarity among stakeholders with different experiences of environmental harm and resilience might be our best bet for imagining and creating a healthier, sustainable, and more just future. How can public history contribute to this important work?  

This session will spark conversation and inspire action by highlighting three projects that work locally, translocally, and/or internationally to build solidarity through toxic heritage. Together, we’ll examine collaborative practices and the potential of exhibitions, open-access publishing, and digital archives.

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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.

Learn more.

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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.

Learn more and register.

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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.

Learn more and register!

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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.