Explore how environmental harm and advocacy for justice are part of our citywide past, present, and future.
Indy Toxic Heritage at Broad Ripple Park, June 2024. Photo: Liz Kryder-Reid.
Past locations:
June 21–July 13, 2024: Broad Ripple Park Family Center
August 6–17, 2024: Pride Park Family Center
August 21–22, 2024: Indiana Water Summit
September 17–28, 2024: Riverside Park Family Center
January 12–20, 2025: Trinity Episcopal Church
January 25–March 29, 2025: Holliday Park Nature Center
April 5–30, 2025: Garfield Park Arts Center
June 10 – August 27, 2025: Indianapolis Central Library
October 25 – November 5, 2025: North Central High School
Interested in hosting Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power?
We are building out the traveling exhibit schedule for Fall 2026 and beyond. Contact Laura Holzman for details.
Indy Toxic Heritage at Pride Park, August 2024. Photo: Laura Holzman.
The Indy Toxic Heritage exhibit synthesizes more than a century of advocacy, journalism, and scholarship. Explore our list of research sources:
Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution, Place, and Power was developed by Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Laura Holzman, Ben Clark, and Kay Hawthorne, in collaboration with the Kheprw Institute and Indy Parks and Recreation and in conversation with people across the city. This exhibit is part of the larger Indy Toxic Heritage research project.
Indy Toxic Heritage: Pollution Place and Power is generously funded by the Indiana University Center for Translating Research into Practice and Indiana Humanities.
