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Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture
Mission: The indianapolis museum of art, inc. Dba newfields is a cultural campus, encompassing 152 acres. It includes an encyclopedic art museum, 26-acre garden and historic home, and a 100-acre art & nature park, amongst other assets. Newfields mission is to enrich lives through exceptional experiences with art and nature. Newfields serves the creative interests of its community by fostering exploration of art, gardens, and the natural environment. The ima promotes these interests through the collection, presentation, interpretation and conservation of its artistic, historic, nature-related, and environmental assets. The indianapolis museum of art has a collection of over 50,000 works of art from a variety of cultures and periods in art history. The garden at newfields provides year-round access to garden-based programming, highlighting the many varieties of plants, flowers, and trees within its collection. The virginia b. Fairbanks art and nature park provides an urban oasis with 100 acres of
Programs: Curatorial - the study, preservation and collection of art for the enjoyment of future generations.
educational - to communicate and develop knowledge about the art collected, to members of the general public.
horticultural - the indianapolis museum of art fosters exploration not only of the art in its museum collections, but also of the natural environment and the historic properties for which the ima has been given stewardship.
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