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She Helped Shape Art in Indianapolis | Joanna Taft, Harrison Center for the Arts
On today's show I sat down with Joanna Taft, executive director of the Harrison Center for the Arts and founder of Herron High School.
Taft describes turning a nearly vacant 65,000-square-foot historic church building into a thriving arts hub supporting 400+ artists and eight rotating galleries.
She shares how early First Friday openings grew from 100 to 1,000 attendees by leveraging "mavens," then how artists leaving led to her launching Herron High School in 2006, beginning with 99 students in the Harrison Center basement – built out by mostly female rocket scientist volunteers – and later…
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