Location

612 East 5th Avenue, Gary, IN 46402

*Portions of this installation will be relocated to the Broadway Avenue corridor beginning Spring 2020.

Concept

22 INSTALLATIONS.

33 ARTISTS.

DESTINATION GARY: ART | PARK reimagines urban space in celebration of art and design, transforming vacant sites into public spaces, walkable and park-like. A series of creative installations invites exploration in the unbuilt environment and challenges our notion of traditional art spaces.

Installations by

BEFORE I DIE (CANDY CHANG).CRUPT1.JENNIFER TAYLOR.JONATHAN ARCEO.JUST WORK COLLECTIVE.KAYLA DAWN.LMP+COLLAB.MAKE.NATHAN SCHWARTZ.RISE.ZACHARY MEDLEY.ZIGZAGISM.#PAINTGARY

Supporters +

Creative Contributors

The Legacy Foundation, Knight Foundation, City of Gary, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, UrbanWorks - Pat Saldana Natke, Latent Design - Katherine Darnsdadt

The GARY ART ARCHIVE + GUIDE is a living archive. THE GARY ART ARCHIVE + GUIDE stands as a comprehensive inventory of artworks representing a diverse range of public sphere creative contributions seen in GARY, INDIANA. The Gary Art Archive + Guide demonstrates an approach to sustaining and promoting cultural practices presented in an open-access archive.