Jim Walker

Jim Walker is an artist, poet, and teacher. He works as executive director of Big Car Collaborative, a nonprofit arts organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana. At Big Car, which he helped found, Walker leads the nonprofit’s place- and community-based socially engaged art approach to supporting inclusive, creative, and welcoming public spaces. Jim and Big Car lead a utopian project on one city block that includes the contemporary art museum and gathering place, a space for sound art and Big Car’s community FM radio station, and 16 long-term affordable homes for artists. This is all in the neighborhood where he and his family have lived for more than 20 years.