Eight sculptures are being prepared at the site of a former rock quarry for the June 20 opening of 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park.
Visitors will be welcome from dawn to dusk at the park. Here are some of the park’s unique features:
Hoops, anyone?
The park features a durable “front door” in Free Basket, a colorful basketball court overtaken by “bouncing” backboards and support beams. Free Basket’s steel arcs are visible to motorists on West 38th Street, and a 45-space parking lot circling the sculpture is accessible from the North White River Parkway East Drive exit.
Wild things grow
Visitors who walk from the museum to 100 Acres will cross Central Canal by bridge and see the Park of the Laments, which features 70 species of plants that are new to 100 Acres.
An inhabited island
Near the middle of the park’s lake floats Indianapolis Island, a fiberglass-and-foam experiment in isolated living. Herron School of Art and Design graduate Michael Runge and current Herron student Jessica Dunn will inhabit the island this summer, even giving “home” tours to visitors who arrive by rowboat.
