Central Indiana's Art community is thriving, and local artists are growing at the Harrison Center for the Arts.
The Harrison Center for the Arts is fostering the creation of new art, building a community among artists and allowing you to access our city's emerging talent.
Inside the the center, you'll find 36 artist studios, 4 galleries, and art that changes monthly.
Executive Director Joanna Taft is proud of the space that's been created.
“I think a city that is thriving is a city where the arts are alive and growing and people are engaging.," she said. "We provide our artists with subsidized studio space so we raise money to help keep their rent low so they can focus on creating art and not worry about paying the bills."
Kate Oberreich is a local painter and Ball State graduate who's taking advantage of that space. Her work is now being showcased in one of the galleries.
“It allows me to separate my day job which I do have a full time job, as well as being a full time artist I can separate that and completely concentrate on a painting or project,” Oberreich said.
Oberreich paints in series, and this group of work that's featured is titled "Dreams About Flying."
The idea for her series is something you might have experienced.
“That came out of the idea of the paper airplane as a metaphor for communication and what dreams tell us,” Oberreich says. “Everybody's had that dream about flying or falling and so I'm grabbing on to that a little bit. It's a lot of paper airplanes, it's a lot of bird cages, a lot of anatomical hearts.”
Chances are, you've seen Oberreich's work before. She created commissioned pieces for the movie, “The Fault in our Stars.”
Far from a Hollywood set, in her own studio each piece and symbol mean something to Kate, but she likes to hear what you see in her work.
“They tend to symbolize specific things to me but as I talk to more people they symbolize other things for them, we all bring our own stories to the paintings,” Oberreich said.
So what will you see when you visit Oberreich's work, or the other artists at the Harrison Center for the Arts? Stop by 15th and Delaware Streets in Indianapolis to experience what local artists have created.
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