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The Village

A Social Practice Art Session

2025-04-07 11:00:00 2025-04-07 13:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis The Village Join others to create yarn pompoms that become part of a large-scale fiber art piece called The Village. This artwork will eventually be 24 feet wide and 8 feet high, and represents the best of Indianapolis Arts. It can't be made without assistance from each other. Warren Branch -

Monday, April 07
11:00am - 1:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-04-07 11:00:00 2025-04-07 13:00:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis The Village Join others to create yarn pompoms that become part of a large-scale fiber art piece called The Village. This artwork will eventually be 24 feet wide and 8 feet high, and represents the best of Indianapolis Arts. It can't be made without assistance from each other. Warren Branch -

Join others to create yarn pompoms that become part of a large-scale fiber art piece called The Village. This artwork will eventually be 24 feet wide and 8 feet high, and represents the best of Indianapolis Arts. It can't be made without assistance from each other.

You may have seen The Village at SPARK on the Circle from August through the Taylor Swift Eras Tour (here's an IndyStar article about it), and now that the weather is cold, this community artwork is coming indoors.

The Village is a large-scale fiber piece made of pompoms and latch hook sections put together by participants. Whether it’s two people making pompoms together, helping each other attach pompoms to the canvas, or afterward sharing this simple hand skill with friends and family, The Village encourages a sense of belonging.

Social Practice Art focuses on the interaction between participants. What is made is a souvenir. The activity has a long cultural history within the fiber arts—quilting bees, sewing circles, knitting groups, and any club over the centuries where women of all ages and cultural backgrounds gathered together to create. 

The Village is composed of 13 individual panels that fit together to make one 24-foot by 8-foot composition. Mary Jo Bayliss takes individual panels into the community and pompoms are attached to the panel. These pompoms create texture and relief amid latch hook to create a design of heart hands, butterflies, snakes, guitars, and circles. After the piece is complete, it will be displayed at Tube Factory Artspace. Big Car Collaborative has sponsored this work, under the direction of Mary Jo Bayliss, with support from The Indianapolis Public Library, Ivy Tech Community College, and other community locations for social creation.

Registration is not required—drop in for a few minutes or the whole time. Check out the other days, times, and library branches where you can join in with The Village here

If you're interested in collective creativity, check out this list of mostly-books about Social Practice Art. It's sure to inspire!

AGE GROUP: | All Ages |

EVENT TYPE: | Art/Crafts/Hobbies |

TAGS: | The Village |

Warren Branch

Phone: 317-275-4550

Hours
Mon, Jul 07 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jul 08 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jul 09 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Jul 10 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Jul 11 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jul 12 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jul 13 Closed

About the branch

A new 16,000-square-foot branch for Warren Township opened in 1974, positioned adjacent to Lakeside Elementary School and northeast of Warren Central High School. After a fire in 1979, the branch closed for seven months. A $1.1 million renovation completed in 2016 was the first major renovation since the Warren Branch originally opened.

Upcoming events

Wed, Jul 09, 10:30am - 11:00am

Thu, Jul 10, 10:30am - 11:30am
Room 1

Thu, Jul 10, 10:30am - 11:00am

Thu, Jul 10, 4:30pm - 5:30pm

Sat, Jul 12, 10:30am - 11:30am

Sat, Jul 12, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Mon, Jul 14, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Wed, Jul 16, 10:30am - 11:00am

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