Indianapolis art historian Sarah Urist Green presents more than 50 do-it-yourself projects in 'You Are an Artist' book

Conventions, conferences and trade shows cling to calendar spots with cautious optimism after the coronavirus pandemic caused tourism to nosedive.

Citing the need to keep people safe, Indiana Black Expo has canceled its Summer Celebration and Circle City Classic.

Here's how two Hoosiers are helping feed local artists and creatives impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

Artists who wish to apply for a free food box can visit the websites or social media pages of Gravesco Pottery or Urban Awareness Gardens.

IndyStar walks through the closed gardens at Newfields, Friday, April 24, 2020.

Kerry Kapaku, owner of DanceWorks Indy, teaches a Saturday ballet class from her home. The studio is offering online content due to coronavirus concerns.

Newfields' gardens usually draw thousands of visitors this time of year. While it's closed because of the coronavirus, see a photo tour of the blooms.

As a fundraiser for Feeding America, the cast of "Parks and Recreation" shot a special episode during the coronavirus pandemic. It will air April 30.

After ending print publication in 2019 and moving to online nonprofit model, Nuvo will cease operations.

You can see this art in person while you social distance. The Harrison Center will send colorful "smoke" from its historic chimney for the first time.

IndyFringe, the popular Mass Ave. theater festival, has been canceled. Social distancing requirements will not allow the artists to prepare.

As The Children's Museum, Newfields and others wait for the OK to reopen, they are strategizing how to keep visitors safe from the coronavirus spread.

Social distancing and people's potential discomfort sitting in auditoriums have given Indianapolis venues several problems to solve amid coronavirus.

In Indiana, everyone knows the best restaurants to get the best pie, fried chicken, tenderloins and yes...fried brains.

Marco......Polo

From the neighborhood markets to the supermarkets of our past

The prolific and multi-Oscar-winning director Robert Wise always credited his Indiana roots for his strong work ethic in Hollywood.

He wired a shotgun to a mortgage banker's neck and abducted him on live TV, but he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

William Edouard Scott and John Wesley Hardrick both studied under famed Impressionist painter Otto Stark at Manual High School.

Four boys were executed in a Parke County, Indiana, mobile home on Feb. 14, 1977. There was only one survivor: Betty Jane Spencer.

From restoring a corset to avoiding banana unpleasantness, some of these hints are still helpful today.

After nearly 100 years, the northern Indiana resort and amusement park closes. The park near Monticello was originally named Ideal Beach.

Many slave women outlived their children and husbands or were abandoned by them. They had no where to turn.

Animals were burned alive in a fire that swept the winter quarters of Cole Bros. Circus in Fulton County, Indiana, on Feb. 20, 1940.

Add spaghetti to chili and people call you crazy. Add spaghetti and Middle Eastern spices and you're a genius (at least in Cincinnati).

Opha Johnson — born Opha May Jacob in Kokomo, Indiana — was honored 100 years later, thanks to the Women Marines Association.

Epidemics aren't new. This is how Hoosiers have weathered them in the past.

Look to those that survived the Depression for survival tips.

From Bush Stadium to Victory Field

Before it was called 'India-no-place'

Volunteers serve as "citizen archivists" to help make their collections more accessible to the public.

Don't forget to put the speaker back.

Often overlooked, Benjamin Harrison gave us great national parks and forests.

Memories of our most beloved amusements

A look at Indianapolis after the turn of the 20th century

The Indianapolis News was a sponsor of the Central Indiana Regional Science Fairs.

There were no fewer than 30 White City amusement parks across the world. They were inspired by the Chicago World's Fair.

If Indianapolis had a spokesman, it was Jim Gerard. The Jim Gerard Show was a stop on many celebrity tours — bringing in stars like Bob Hope.

A Victory arch greeted the troops as an official welcome home

In stark contrast to the Armistice Day in 1918, Indiana celebrations of victory in Europe in World War II were somber and subdued.

PEACE and VICTORY were the headlines as the U.S. defeated Germany.

HI FOLKS, how are you guys doing? This cheery text arrives on my phone several times a week, so now I share it with you. I hope you're all well, coping, and haven't yet reached the end of your tethers.

I CAN'T help feeling that this is all a long-delayed return to normal. I know the lockdown feels abnormal, and I suppose it is, in that we've never seen anything like it before. But beyond that, I have a powerful sense that normal relations have merely been resumed; the age-old see-saw relationship between man and planet re-established.

IN THESE uncertain days of lockdown, I sense a strange inversion of intergenerational strife.

THE RISKS of lockdown are threatening to become greater than the risk of catching the coronavirus.The blunt instrument of social and economic shutdown may soon begin to bludgeon more people to death than the microscopic bug it is meant to protect us from.

I FEAR that holding Downing Street media briefings about the virus every single afternoon is now totally counterproductive.

SIX WEEKS into lockdown and every day brings fresh headlines and behaviour you simply couldn't and wouldn't have predicted when you went to bed the night before.

I'VE BEEN feeling increasingly uncomfortable watching the nightly news on television. We both have. Bulletins - particularly those on the BBC - are increasingly more like a newspaper's obituary page.