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Lisa D. Freiman
100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park
Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Adjacent to the Museum and located on 100 acres that includes woodlands,
wetlands, meadows and a 35-acre lake, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art &
Nature Park is one of the largest museum art parks in the country, and the only
one to feature the ongoing commission of site-specific artworks.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art is home to eight site-specific commissions,
that inaugurate 100 Acres. Atelier Van Lieshout, Kendall Buster, Alfredo Jaar, Jeppe
Hein, Los Carpinteros, Tea Mäkipää, Type A, and Andrea Zittel, created temporary,
site-specific works that explore and respond to the varied environments of the Park.
These eight artists are the first in a series of ongoing commissions.
The Park site is bordered by the White River and adjacent to the IMA’s current
52-acre campus. Commissions for 100 Acres will be ongoing, with additional artists’
projects to be announced annually. The land, a former gravel pit, has evolved through
a natural reclamation into its current state of untamed woodlands and wetlands. The
IMA has engaged architect Marlon Blackwell and landscape architect Edward L.
Blake to work with the selected artists to transform the 100 acres into an unparalleled
art and nature park.