Free First Thursday

Presented by Bank of America

Free First Thursday - April
Museum Hours

Newfields offers free general admission to all guests for the entire day on the first Thursday of each month throughout the year. Bring your friends and family for a full day of art making, live music, games, and Artful Conversations while you enjoy the Newfields campus indoors and out for FREE. 

 

THE LUME Indianapolis featuring Monet & Friends Alive is not included in Free First Thursday. Get your THE LUME Indianapolis today

April 6, 2023
Newfields
Free for members and public / Advance registration recommended

Schedule

11 AM–7 PM | Lawn Games (weather permitting) | Garden Terrace  

11 AM–8 PM | Games & Puzzles | Pulliam Family Great Hall 

11 AM–8 PM | Food and Beverage Available for Purchase at the Garden Terrace | Garden Terrace 

11:30 AM | Artful Conversations | Meet at LOVE sculpture 

11:30–4:30 PM | Art Making: Design a Garden and Paint Terracotta Pots to Take Home | Studios 3 and 4 

1:30 PM | Artful Conversations | Meet at LOVE sculpture  

2–3 PM | Live Music Looping with “Wavy” Blayne McCrary | Pulliam Family Great Hall 

2–4 PM | Library & Archives Pop Up – History of the Gardens | Stout Reference Library 

5–6 PM | Live Music from Beatty and the Bayonets | Garden Terrace 

5–7 PM | Art Making: Mini Canvas Painting with Spring Images | Garden Terrace 

5:30 PM | Artful Conversations | Meet at LOVE sculpture 

Share Your Vinyl and Musical Memory  

Donate your vinyl records for a chance to have them included in new work by artist Walter Lobyn Hamilton, to be unveiled in the exhibition, What I Have You Have, opening August 26.        

Now through Record Store Day on April 22, we are collecting vinyl records and album covers to be incorporated into an artwork entitled, One Nation Under A Groove Box Set, Vol 2. Lobyn's large-scale sculptural artworks are assembled from cut vinyl records and album covers, and yours could become part of this new piece.     

Don’t miss the chance to drop your LPs, EPs, or 78s off at the Newfields front desk.    

By donating your records, you understand that the records will become the property of Newfields and may be included in an artwork by Walter Lobyn Hamilton as well as altered for inclusion into the artwork One Nation Under A Groove Box Set Vol 2.   

All unused records will be donated to community partners.  

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