August 6, 2024
The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park was a buzz with excitement the second weekend in June as we opened Home Again the first new installation of three significant works in the The Hawryluk Collection of Art in Nature.
The exhibition, which addresses celebrates the notion of home, shelter, and community and welcomed hundreds of guests to it's opening celebrations, bringing guests “home again” to experience and interact with the revitalized Fairbanks Park.
Home Again artists
Pictured left to right: Anila Quayyum Agha, Dana Sherwood, Heather Hart, and Mark Dion
All four of the artists featured in the exhibition joined in on the opening weekend festivities -- Heather Hart, Anila Quayyum Agha and collaborators Mark Dion and Dana Sherwood.
Journalists from near and far traveled to Indianapolis to write about the latest in The Park.
Parents, children, and dogs milled in and out of the space, but for a brief moment, it felt like my own. That’s the paradox of public art, evident in the way that Home Again sits on the same campus as a fine art museum and a family mansion: Anyone can belong in it, but it belongs to nobody.
– wrote Emma Riva for Noah Becker's "Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art" This Must be the Place.
Home Again Opening Weekend
Heather Hart (American, b. 1975), Oracle of Intimation, 2023, mixed media, 435-1/4 × 240 × 128-1/4 in. The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at Newfields, Commissioned by the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. © Heather Hart. Courtesy of the artist, and Davidson Gallery, New York.
Home Again is open now in The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. It is open from dawn until dusk and always free to visit.
