Artist John Spaulding originally wanted the sculpture to depict a 16-foot-tall boxer.

[1] The sculpture is a cast bronze bust of a black boxer[1] in his early twenties.

The ARTSPARK was designed by Michael Graves with the intention of melding art creation with outdoor gallery space.

It moved to the Broad Ripple Village neighborhood north of downtown Indianapolis in 1976.

In 1994 the name was changed to the Indianapolis Art Center in order to demonstrate the organization's philosophy of inclusion.