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SUMMARY:SPARK on the Circle 
DESCRIPTION:We have returned with an even more transformational SPARK on the Circle this year. The entire southwest quadrant of Monument Circle is closed to traffic and has become a park with lots of seating\, shade\, food and drink\, and opportunities to socialize and get creative in the middle of the city. SPARK\, which is always free to enjoy\, is open every day 11 a.m. until dusk until Nov. 3. \nOct. 5\, 12pm- Circle Side Chats: Poems with Kelvin McKelvey\nOct. 5\, 4pm- Candle making with Freetown Village\nOct 7\, 12pm- Scavenger Hunt with Brittany Fukushima\nOct. 10\, 12pm- Lunch Break Live-Cara Jean Wahlers\nOct.11\, 1pm- Drum Circle with Rhythm! Discover Center\nOct.11\, 4pm- Found Art with Giselle Trujillo\nOct. 12\, 12pm- Circle Side Chats: Symbols with DeeDee Davis\nOct. 12\, 4pm- Indy Movement Arts Bump City & Bollywood\nOct. 13\, 12pm- A.I.R. Head Book Tour \nOct. 13\, 12pm- Hardrick Live Mural Painting\nOct 14\, 4pm- Ink Workshop with Brittany Fukushima\nOct 14\, 4pm- Sofar Sounds at SPARK\nOct 16\, 4pm- Plein Air painting with Brittany Fukushima\nOct. 18\, 1pm- Drum Circle with Rhythm! Discover Center \nOct. 18\, 4pm- Amulet Making with Rachel Leah Cohen\nOct. 19\, 12pm- Circle Side Chats: Drag History with Stephen Lane\nOct. 19\, 4pm- Wagon of Wonders Puppet Show\nOct. 22\, 12pm- Costume Pet Parade\nOct. 22\, 4pm- Artist Hangout\nOct 24\, 12pm-Lunch Break Live with Rob Funkhouser\nOct 25\, 1pm- Drum Circle with Rhythm! Discover Center \nOct 25\, 4pm- Graffiti Knitting \nOct. 28\, 11am-6pm- Circle Spark Fest\nOct. 29\, 11am-6pm- Circle Spark Fest\nOct. 30\, 4-6pm- Dia de los Muertos Altar \nOct. 31\, 12pm- Lunch Break Live with Progressive Knife \nSPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy\, the City of Indianapolis\, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. \nAt Big Car\, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax\, play\, socialize\, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/spark-on-the-circle/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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SUMMARY:Brian DePauli: Not Sorry We're Closed
DESCRIPTION:Not Sorry We’re Closed is an exhibition inspired by and questions American society’s live-to-work mentality\, and is comprised primarily of hyper-realistic oil paintings. DePauli’s pieces preserve and draw attention to objects and scenes from the lighter side of daily life: a worn bicycle seat\, a chimney on the grill in summer\, a homemade skate ramp in a fenced-in backyard\, a ballcap lying in the garden proclaiming “RETIRED\, No Phone! No Fax! No Stress! No Worries!” The surface meaning of these items and scenes are emphasized as a lifestyle to aspire to rather than objects to contemplate. \n“I am concerned with the cultural and environmental effects of America’s obsession with work\, as well as the physical and mental health ramifications\,” says DePauli. “In 1930\, distinguished economist John Maynard Keynes published a short essay\, ‘Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren\,’ where\, among other ideas\, he states that ‘by 2030 the standard of living would be dramatically higher; people\, liberated from want (and without the desire to consume for the sake of consumption)\, would work no more than fifteen hours a week\, devoting the rest of their time to leisure and culture.’ My work envisions a world where his prediction has come true.” \nAbout the artist \nBrian DePauli received his MA in visual art from Fontbonne University. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the St. Louis area at galleries including Fort Gondo\, Boots Contemporary Art\, and White Flag Projects\, as well as nationally at Around the Coyote in Chicago\, IL\, and The Berkeley Art Center in Berkeley\, CA. DePauli’s works have been featured in several publications and platforms\, such as New American Paintings and BOOOOOOOM. He has participated in residencies at The Luminary in St. Louis\, MO\, and Paul Art Space in Florissant\, MO. Brian DePauli lives and works in Saint Louis. \nThis exhibit is made possible by the Indy Arts Council\, The City of Indianapolis and Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation. \n\nTube Factory artspace \nJeremy D Efroymson Gallery \nVISIT US\nWednesday -Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.\nSaturday & Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nTube is also open until 10 p.m. each First Friday.\nClosed Holidays \nBig Car Collaborative brings art to people and people to art\, sparking creativity in lives to support communities. As an artist-run nonprofit organization\, we utilize tools of culture and creativity to build community and social cohesion — connecting people as a way to boost quality of life. We support our community by supporting artists. \nMuch of our work happens on a single block where we own or co-own more than 20 properties — including a long-term affordable housing program for artists and Tube Factory — a contemporary art museum with a cafe\, studios\, and community space. At our campus of adaptive reuse buildings and public greenspace\, we host community and cultural programs to promote social connectivity\, cooperation\, and creativity. \nWe also facilitate people-focused placemaking and place keeping projects across the city and beyond through Spark. Tune in to our experimental\, community-focused radio station\, WQRT 99.1 FM — also streaming at wqrt.org.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/brian-depauli-not-sorry-were-closed/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Justin Cooper-Archetypes
DESCRIPTION:“In 2015 — after over a decade of painting and art making — I asked myself what brought me to want to create in the first place. Thinking back to my childhood\, it was probably directly linked to enjoying playing with plastic blocks and how excited I was to get my hands on a grid-lined sketchbook. I would design my own toys and sketch out the floor plans for houses\, cars and symmetrical objects.\n\nAs I looked back\, I started to remember what I loved about the creative process. And I used that reflection as a direct influence on a new approach to my work. I applied this to\, at first\, designing objects and components to paintings that could be replicated\, multiplied\, and combined to eventually create an environment or larger narrative pieces. I spent the first few years of this process building up a catalog of shapes. I’ve always been drawn to plants and wildlife. So I started designing single lily pads\, flowers and animals that could later be placed into different contexts. I approached the planning of these individual components like I would an isometric architectural diagram. The geometric abstraction was also influenced by the ever increasing construction of blocklike buildings in my neighborhood — as well as all of the digital media that was and is still expanding. The paintings are a direct reflection of the urbanization and technology that is growing around us.\n\nAcknowledging my own arrogance in the interpretation and redesigning of natural forms\, this series is a reflection of a larger trend of attempting to bend nature to our will rather than being inspired by its lead and flowing within it. I created these works with the hope that humans can look more to nature for inspiration and shift our viewpoint of our role within it to correct our disruptive path.” –Justin Cooper\n\nAbout Justin Cooper\nCooper is an Indianapolis native who has worked as an artist here for over 20 years. He spent most of that time as a studio artist. Central to Cooper’s artistic evolution has been independently developing my artistic voice while forming relationships with artists he connected with while maintaining studios at the Murphy Art Center\, Wheeler Arts Community\, and as an artist in Big Car’s Artist and Public Life Residency program.\nIn the studio\, he concentrates on creating multiple series that will eventually go together and be displayed as cohesive bodies of work. “I’ve always enjoyed learning new mediums and techniques to incorporate into pieces in hopes of expanding my visual language\,” Cooper says. In recent years his interest has increased in creating larger-scale mural projects and public art. “Experimenting with the scale and design of an image while being thoughtful of how the piece will be viewed from different distances has been intriguing to me. The consideration of placement and the context of the image as it relates to its surrounding environment has been an interesting challenge\,” he adds.\n\nThis exhibit is made possible by The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis and Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation.\n\nMain Gallery\nTube Factory art space\nVISIT US\nWednesday -Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.\nSaturday & Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nTube is also open until 10 p.m. each First Friday.\nClosed Holidays
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LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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