Recorder Rewind: The best of Indy’s arts in 2023

Artists and creatives around Indianapolis have had a fairly significant year, from The Bicentennial Unity Plaza to Mike Epps’ “Buying Back the Block” to Butter, OnyxFest and Midwest Fashion Week. Here are just a few things we want to highlight as 2023 comes to a close. Local muralist at Philadelphia Flower Show In March, Kyng Rhodes, a member of the Eighteen Art Collective, was chosen to design and paint a 75-foot mural for the 2023 PHS Philadelphia Flower Show as part of Newfields’ featured garden display. Newfields contacted Rhodes in December 2022 following the work he had done with the Eighteen and his paintings in “We. The Culture.” Rhodes said it was Newfields former CEO Colette Pierce Burnette who wanted to incorporate art with nature at the Philly Flower Show as a way to introduce themselves to a larger audience. “I’m going to be honest, there was a moment where I had to just step back, and I really was proud of myself,” Rhodes said. “It’s just one of those moments that we all have where you’re a little nervous going into it because I felt like the odds were kind of stacked against me [with] the amount of time...