How Speck Mellencamp Is Channeling His Artistic Heritage – Indianapolis Monthly
How Speck Mellencamp Is Channeling His Artistic Heritage As the new executive director of the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, the famous rocker's son keeps his family’s creative tradition alive. April 22, 2021 Early in his life, John Mellencamp would pause to watch as his mother, Marilyn, painted at her easel. He was the only one of her five children who stopped to look. When the Hoosier singer-songwriter left his hometown of Seymour for New York in the 1970s, he went there thinking he would study art. Instead, Mellencamp got a record deal. But in the late 1980s, the Rock & Roll Hall ...