Pam Blevins Hinkle
Spirit & Place Festival Director

Email: pbhinkle@iupui.edu

Personal Profile:

Pam Blevins Hinkle is director of Spirit and Place Civic Festival (www.spiritandplace.org), a major civic collaboration for which the Polis Center serves as managing partner. Hinkle joined Polis in 2005. A native of Franklin, Indiana, Blevins Hinkle formerly was executive director of Sweetwater Art Center and special projects director for the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1992. In 1998, she founded The Hinkle Group, Inc., a consulting practice that provided grant writing, funding research, program development, and strategic planning services for cultural and historical organizations, libraries, faith-based organizations, social service and civic agencies, educational institutions, as well as health and human service organizations. A recipient of the 2003 Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship, awarded by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, she is also a singer, instrumentalist, and choral conductor. She has served two Unitarian Universalist congregations as music director and is currently the artistic director of the Indianapolis Women’s Chorus.