Turner saved the city-block sized Stutz Manufacturing Factory in downtown Indianapolis in 1994 from the wrecking ball and converted the iconic building into one of the nation’s first small business incubators and artist colony. By keeping the iconic Stutz brand alive the past 30+ years, he can only smile knowing it’s now a 22 foot tall monument.

Stutz "Ra" Car Sculpture Installed On 96th Street

September 2024

The fourth and final 96th Street corridor "Classic Cars of Indiana"-themed sculpture by local artist Arlon Bayliss, is set to be installed Friday, Sept. 20 in the roundabout at 96th Street and Gray Road.

"We are excited to share the final piece of public art in the Classic Cars sculpture series along the 96th Street corridor," said Chief Infrastructure Officer Jeremy Kashman. "It's an impressive piece that's been designed and fabricated locally and adds to the uniqueness of the city."

"Stutz" joins three other sculptures by Bayliss, installed at the roundabouts on 96th Street at Priority Way, Delegates Row and Hazel Dell Parkway. Commissioned in late 2021, the four sculptures feature artistic interpretations of the classic cars Marmon, Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg, Studebaker and Stutz - each of which were designed and built in Indiana during the first half of the 20th century when America first began to fall in love with automobiles.

Inspired by the Stutz 'Ra' Art Deco hood ornament, "Stutz", when finally placed on its five-foot-high Indiana limestone base, will stand at 18-feet-high. Bayliss' design incorporates dozens of sheets of steel, fabricated by bo-mar Industries, in vertical slices with space between each one creating an ethereal light-permeable abstract form. At night, the sculpture will be illuminated from within using the artist's signature-colored dichroic-filtered light sources.