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January 2023
Betsy Stirratt: Unearthing
In Unearthing, Stirratt explores how natural and cultural objects are presented in collections and museum settings, and how we preserve, classify, and display them. From Stirratt: "I have visited many natural history, herbaria and medical museums in Europe and the US with the aim of understanding their objectives, collecting impulses, and labelling practices. With similar intent, I visited several regional historical sites and collections, including the Workingmen’s Institute in New Harmony, the Indiana University Paleontology Collection, and Angel Mounds. The…
Find out more »Em Elise, Jane Sun Kim, Simon Plemon: delicate(s)
delicate(s), is a collaborative multimedia installation assembled by Em Elise, Jane Sun Kim and Simon Plemon. The installation is a hypnotic visual foraging into the emotional nature of memory and the physical residue it leaves on, in, and around the body. Spiritually fused by a collective longing for depth in a time of social media's staged memory and the dissociative “new normal” induced by a global pandemic, delicate(s) investigates, commemorates, and liberates the artists' hauntings beyond a two dimensional plane.…
Find out more »February 2023
Nathaniel Russell: HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS
For "HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS," Russell shares new paintings, objects, and situations made improvisationally with recycled, found and reused materials. A visual artist, illustrator, and musician based in Indianapolis who has shown his work around the world, Russell utilized the Efroymson Gallery at Tube Factory during the month of January to build his work for this exhibition. With "HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS," Russell continues to explore themes of hope, anxiety, compassion and our place in an…
Find out more »African Dance with Uzuri
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car's Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the floor!
Find out more »Valentino Market
Looking for a one of kind gift for your beloved this Valentine's Day? ERA Creates and Arte Mexicano en Indiana have teamed up to hand select vendors, art, crafts for you to show your love, YOUR love.
Find out more »African Dance with Uzuri
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car’s Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the floor!
Find out more »Kottu
Come spend a restful and slow Sunday afternoon with Yeaserba and Meskerem Tabb, artists in Big Car's residency program, as they share the Ethiopian culture of hospitality through a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony. Kottu (ካቱ) is an Ormic word that translates to come on in. The Tabbs will share traditional Ethiopian coffee from roasting to brewing while engaging in compelling conversations. About The Coffee Ceremony The coffee ceremony is considered to be the most important social occasion in many villages,…
Find out more »African Dance with Uzuri
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car’s Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the floor!
Find out more »Betsy Stirratt Artist Talk
Join artist Betsy Stirratt as she gives a tour of her exhibit, "Unearthing," provides background and answers questions about her work. About the artist Betsy Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983, solo exhibitions include La Maladie at The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia…
Find out more »Normal Pop-Up Market
Coffee, fancy toast, and one of a kind artworks and jewelry by Cierra Johnson, Angelita Hampton and Shanise Wright. Selected by Big Car staff artists Yeabsera Tabb and Adair Allen.
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