Placemaking with Art and Science [VIDEO]
During the last round of grants to support creative placemaking along Indianapolis' waterways, Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW) awarded $60,000 for system-wide waterway interpretation and education. Managed by The daVinci Pursuit, the funding was used to underwrite...
Education Committee Focuses on Five Levels of Interpretation
Reconnecting to Our Waterways is focused on holistic solutions that integrate six related elements. Each element has a taskforce to identify and support projects connected to each waterway. At the January ROW Steering Committee meeting, Mark Kesling, co-chair of the...
ROW Initiates PLAN 2020 Implementation Partnership
The Indianapolis Plan 2020 is a strategic planning effort led by Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee (GIPC) and the Department of Metropolitan Development to make Indianapolis a better place to live, work and visit. This comprehensive plan lays out initiatives to...
Creating Beauty on the White River [VIDEO]
Our latest video focuses on the segment of the White River that runs past downtown Indy, introduces you to the community leaders from the Near Westside, and details plans for the New York Street Bridge. In late 2014, the White River waterway committee received...
Civic Ecology in Practice
Invasive non-native species (INS) are found in every city, but their impacts in urban settings as biological agents of visual pollution that block views of natural landscapes and disconnect citizens make them ideal candidates for aspects of Civic Ecology Practice,...
ROW Seeks Six Lead Artists for Creative Placemaking
Reconnecting to Our Waterways is seeking six Lead Artists, one for each ROW waterway in Indianapolis (Central Canal, Fall Creek, Little Eagle Creek, Pleasant Run, Pogues Run and the White River). Although it is preferable for the artist to reside within one of the...
Progress on Pogue’s Run [VIDEO]
Check out our latest video about plans along Pogue's Run on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis. In March, Pogue’s Run waterway received $72,260 for “Pogue’s Run Rest Stops: A Reason to Pause” through funding from The Kresge Foundation and Central Indiana Community...
Capture Our Waterways Photo Contest
Announcing the CAPTURE OUR WATERWAYS photo contest! Reconnecting to Our Waterways (ROW) is asking YOU to capture the beauty of Indianapolis' waterways with your own images. Indianapolis has beautiful waterways that have been overlooked by many for several decades....
Meet the ROW Creative Placemaker
Big Car Collaborative has hired Alan Goffinski as ROW Creative Placemaker to implement high-quality, creative placemaking programming at ROW destinations. The position is supported by a grant funded by the the Kresge Foundation and Central Indiana Community...