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Art Workshops with Inocente ages 8+
2017-06-03 11:00 - 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis)
Register your child for art workshop sessions with Inocente Izucar! Children will learn to paint with the expressive style that Inocente lends to all her work, and will take home their creations. There will be two different sessions, 11am-12:30pm and 1-2:30pm. Cost is $5 per child, and there is a cap of 30 children per class, so enroll today! Email email hidden; JavaScript is required with questions or click https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kids-art-workshop-with-inocente-tickets-34639090452 to enroll your child.
About the artist:
Inocente is a San Diego artist and activist, visiting Indianapolis June 1-3, 2017. As a young child Inocente and her family immigrated to the US from Mexico. After her father’s arrest and deportation for domestic violence, most of Inocente’s childhood was spent moving from one homeless shelter to the next. When she was 12 years old Inocente discovered the power of art, and since then she has been able to use the arts as a vehicle to rise above many great life challenges. Despite her sometimes bleak surroundings, her brightly colored art represents a world of survival, love and hope. Her story is the subject of the Oscar-winning film “INOCENTE”, which depicts her life and art at age 15. Inocente now supports herself as a professional artist and motivational speaker, while also working as an after-school art teacher. For more information on Inocente please visitoriginalinocenteart.com.
Made possible by the Central Indiana Alliance Against Hate and the The Clowes Fund Inc. Held in partnership with Heartland Film, who screened the Oscar winning documentary, Inocente, in 2016, CHIP Indianapolis andImmigrant Welcome Center.
Say you’re going on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1459726704094733/

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-06-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.
A few things to note:
*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$25
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Sue Swartz
2017-06-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. June’s featured poet is Sue Swartz.
Swartz is community organizer by training, born and bred in New York, and now lives happily in Bloomington, Indiana.
“Words. I’ve got a million of them. Some have been published by Ben Yehuda Press in We Who Desire. The poems in this volume use the text of the Torah (aka the 5 Books of Moses) as a starting point to explore themes of belief, covenant, liberation, choice, and yes — desire.
If you want a taste of what I have to say… here tis (below). I’m available for readings as well as teaching both adults & kids about the process of midrash/commentary-making.”

ON THE EIGHTH DAY
Aaron’s sons Nadav & Avihu offered before God strange fire
that had not been commanded—

On the eighth day, Alessandro Volta
put metal coins on his tongue
and prophesied sulfurous electricity.
On the eighth day, Leucippus
considered the true nature of the void,
Teller the true capacity of the sun.
Curie was entranced by radium,
and Maxwell by luminous radiations.
On the eighth day, there were isotopes,
cloud chambers, alpha rays.
Life was vaporized in a simple test
of hydrogen. On that day outside
planned creation, God peered
into the universe and was afraid for us—
Noisy children snapping berries
off a poisonous bush, racing
down the street with pointy twigs—

Didn’t I tell you to knock that off?

And burned to the nub two sons of priestly
inheritance. Before the whole assembly
were they offered up, a soothing savor.
Object lesson: this may you burn
in your copper pan, of this sinew and thigh
may you eat. But this intoxicating notion,
this 4-legged swarming-thing—
It is polluted meat. Strange fire.

Your blowtorch future.
–Sue Swartz

Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-06-22 18:00 - 21:00
Woodworking I is an introduction to dimensioning wood- how to take rough sawn lumber and turn them into usable boards.
This 3-hour class will include demonstrations and discussion on wood selection, local suppliers, as well as limited hands-on practice with sample material at the end of the class.
Afew things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation Part I.
*Woodworking I covers these machines more in depth and includes more hands-on practice than Shop Safety and Orientation II. If you are totally new to the table saw, and jointer, this class is for you.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.
*$75
For more information or inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Shop Safety and Orientation II
2017-06-24 12:00 - 14:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation II is the second installment that will cover basic and safe use of the jointer, planer, and table saw.
This 2-hour class will act as a refresher or as an orientation to our specific equipment models. Limited hands-on practice will accompany the demonstrations.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation I.
*If you are new to the table saw, jointer, and planer, please take Woodworking I which will cover these machines more in depth and include more hands-on practice.
*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.
*$75
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

July Art Workshops for ages 6 +
2017-07-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Themed art classes for children 6 + every Wednesday of July. Classes will be mostly in English but Spanish can be used for children who are bilingual/Spanish speaking. Every week will be a new, dynamic and sensory adventure with a small lesson at the beginning. We will learn about patterns, shapes, rhythm, texture, image, line and color through a variety of media and engaging projects. Inspiration for art projects is drawn from the 50 Grand exhibition currently in the gallery at Tube Factory.
Your child can join any time. New registrations will take place before class each week, so plan to come a little early if it is your child’s first time in the class. Children will be broken into age groups and given an activity for their skill level. There is no fee for classes.
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Wednesdays 4-5:30pm
(July 5, July 12, July 19, July 26)
Clases del arte para niños de edades 6+
A Tube Factory artspace: 1125 Cruft St Indianapolis, IN 46203
GRATIS
Clases del arte de diferentes temas cada miércoles en Julio. Clases estará por la mayoría en inglés pero español puede ser usado si hay niños bilingües o hispanohablantes. Cada semana es una nueva aventura dinámica y sensorial con una lección pequeño al principio. La inscripción va a continuar durante el curso de clases, entonces su niño puede juntar en cualquier momento. Inscripciones nuevos tomará lugar antes de la clase cada semana, entonces planea venir un poco temprano si es la primer clase para su niño. Los niños van a estar separados en grupos por sus edades y los acividades van a estar apropiados para sus niveles de habilidad. Clases son totalmente gratuitas.
Dos opciones para la clase:
Los miércoles 4-5:30pm
( Julio 5, Julio 12, Julio 19, Julio 26)

Adrian Matejka-Presented by UIndy's Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press
2017-07-07 20:00 - 21:00
With the lean, long jab and agile step of a boxer, Adrian Matejka delivers this knockout dramatization of the larger-than-life life of heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. In dexterous interpolating voices, and in forms ranging from enveloping sonnets to prose letters and interviews, Johnson emerges as a scrappy, hard-edged hero—troubled by his own demons but determined to win the “fight of the century,” a fight that underscored the bitter realities of racism in America. These poems don’t pull no punches.
Presented by UIndy’s Social Practice Art MA program and Etchings Press, a student-run publisher.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The legendary Jack Johnson (1878–1946) was a true American creation. The child of emancipated slaves, he overcame the violent segregationism of Jim Crow, challenging white boxers—and white America—to become the first African-American heavyweight world champion. The Big Smoke, Adrian Matejka’s third work of poetry, follows the fighter’s journey from poverty to the most coveted title in sports through the multi-layered voices of Johnson and the white women he brazenly loved. Matejka’s book is part historic reclamation and part interrogation of Johnson’s complicated legacy, one that often misremembers the magnetic man behind the myth.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Adrian Matejka is the author of The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003) and Mixology (Penguin, 2009). He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards, a National Poetry Series Award, the New York/New England Award, and a fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He teaches at Indiana University and lives in Bloomington with his wife, Stacey Lynn Brown, and their daughter.

Portrait Making Meet-up
2017-07-08 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring your own art supplies and get paired up with someone to do portrait studies in our open, concrete-floor community space. Describe your partner in your own medium (can be paint or charcoal, of course, but also can be writing, clay, or any type of abstraction! Realism is not necessary). We will have basic art supplies like paper, markers, crayons, and such.
All creatives, professional or amateur, are welcome. Even if you just want to come to be a model and hang out, you are welcome!

Art Workshops for ages 6+
2017-07-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Art Workshop for ages 6+
2017-07-19 16:00 - 17:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Abegunde
2017-07-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, and a Reiki Master with a focus on the recovery and healing of ancestral memory from the Earth and human body. She chooses to forget that words and days have limits. Instead, she chooses to remember – and live by – the words of a young Black woman in the 5th grade: Poetry can change the world. As a result, she spends her days and dreamtime chanting silenced memories into spoken histories. On the weekdays, when she isn’t birthing new words out of sound and images, she shapeshifts into a professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center at Indiana University. Her ongoing research and subsequent creations help us understand how unresolved ancestral emotions shape the lives of descendants of the Middle Passage and the links between ancestral wounding, contemporary violence, and illness and disease. She will read from ​her work-in-progress Learning to Eat the Dead: Juba, USA, ​a meditation on visiting Juba, South Sudan, living in the United States, and poetic transparency.
Brick Street South Poetry Series features a poet and an open mic the third Thursday of every month. Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Pop Up Opera
2017-07-21 19:30 - 23:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Whitney Cleveland, Benjamin Holbrook, Toiya Lister, Andrea Tulipana, Julia Gries, Jeremiah Marcéle Sanders, Meghan Bartcsch and the Chamber Ensemble for a night of opera and fun!

What's On Your Mind?
2017-07-22 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT. To ensure you have a time slot with Jones, please e-mail: email hidden; JavaScript is required

Art Workshop for Ages 6 +
2017-07-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

What's On Your Mind?
2017-08-19 11:00 - 15:00, 2017-09-23 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts every third Saturday of the month. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-08-24 17:00 - 20:00, 2017-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-08-26 12:00 - 14:00, 2017-09-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-09-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Shop Safety and Orientation I is an introduction to The Shop at the Tube Factory Artspace. This 2-hour class will cover basic and safe use of standard stationary machinery, which includes: miter saw, band saw, and drill press.

A few things to note:

*No prior shop experience is necessary; however, this class is required before taking any woodworking classes using Open Shop hours. It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation II.

*Open to ages 16+. For those 16-18, plan to have a parent/guardian on-site for waiver signatures.

*Class size is limited, so register early.

*a $25 fee is obtained for this class on the day of class, however (fee waived if taken in conjunction with Steps, Ramps and Rails/home repair project class)

For further information and inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Ramps, Steps and Rails
2017-09-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Ramps, steps, and rails are important things for homeowners and skateboarders alike to know how to make. At Bottom Level Tool Shop you can learn how to make these over a series of classes and be part of a small crew who’ll help neighbors in need.
During the class you’ll build small skate and home items for Tube and elsewhere. By taking the class, offered free in exchange for your help, we’ll supply wood and hardware needed so you can also take what you make home for your own mini skate park or maybe to help around your house or the house of a neighbor of your choosing.
This class requires the prerequeisite Shop Safety class offered in the morning before this class. Shop safety usually has a cost but this is waived, also, with your commitment to help with this summer community home repair project we’re piloting at Big Car Collaborative with support from INHP.

LaShawnda Crowe Storm with Maria E Hamilton Abegunde: Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams
2017-11-03 18:00 - 2018-01-20 15:00
November 3-January 20
Open every first Friday 6-10 p.m.

Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams expands the dialogues began in Crowe Storm’s works Her Name is Laura Nelson and Be/Coming with newly commissioned pieces: Poems, Origin and Sister Song.

On the South wall of the main gallery is Her Name Is Laura Nelson. It is Quilt I from The Lynch Quilts Project Series which explores the history and ramifications of racial violence in America, particularly lynching, through the textile tradition of quilting. Crowe Storm started the series 15 years ago. Her Name is Laura Nelson explores the intersection of lynching and gender violence.

In the North section of the main gallery is Be/Coming, the first in the series Masquerade Americana, a collaboration between Crowe Storm and Maria Eliza Hamilton Abegunde that began in 2007. This piece is rooted in the various masquerade traditions found throughout Africa, particularly Gelede (Gail-lah-day) and Egungun (Ay-goon-goon) of the Yoruba in Nigeria. Gelede celebrates female mystical power, while Egungun honors one’s ancestors.The Masquerade Americana series addresses historical and contemporary social ills and in/justices rooted in the American context from a Black / African-American lens.

Origin, in the west section of the main gallery, is a bronze casting of the pelvic bone of an unknown African American woman.

On the East wall is the poetry of Abegunde. The poems Be/Coming, Laura Nelson Speaks, Origin, and Birth Song were written specifically for the ongoing collaboration with Crowe Storm. The remaining poems, The Answer to Your Question and Supplication, are earlier works that call attention to the historical erasure and disappearance of young Black girls and women. Supplication is also a prayer to the Yoruba deity Osun that combines elements of oriki for Osun (praise names) with a plea for guidance to find, in this case, Tionda and Diamond Bradley who were reported disappeared/missing on July 6, 2001.

The writings and libation bowl add new layers to the experiences of remembering words and performances that examine how the abuse, loss, and commodification of one’s womanhood and humanity can be transformed through processes that lead to healing and the rebirthing and re/making of identity.

In the installation room is Sister Song, grounded within the context of community co-creation efforts, the bronze womb shapes were given to selected artists to complete their transformation.

Each piece exhibited in Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams was developed with the hands of many.

About Lashawnda Crowe Storm
If life were a photo, then Crowe Storm’s artwork would be its negative, seeking to explore those aspects in our society that have been ignored or forgotten such as history, lynching, misogyny, slavery and suicide. Her art is a form of social work and she uses it to open doorways to community dialogue, which is the first step to healing, which in itself leads to wider social change. Through her work, a voice is given to the marginalized people and disregarded aspects of our society.
About Maria E Hamilton Abegunde
Maria E Hamilton Abegunde is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. She is a visiting lecturer in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center at Indiana University.
A series of events accompany the exhibition:
December 3, 3-5 p.m.
BeComing Whole: It Takes a Village to Heal a Community
Join artists featured in Sister Song for a discussion about how the project developed and what it means to become whole through the process of making art that represents their own births. The artists will share why they accepted the invitation to participate, why they selected the “womb” that they did, how and why they selected the materials, what they learned about themselves in the process, and what was the most transformative part of this creation.
December 9, 3-5 p.m.

January 13, 3-5 p.m.
Afriye Wekandodis: Telling Our Stories to Be Free
Songs for Laura Nelson (Performance)
Singer, performer and Sister Song womb-maker, Afriye We-kandodis will present a two-part performance examining the themes present in Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams. Sista Yo Mama U n Me Too shares the story of violation then reclamation and transformation as an enslaved woman grapples rape and how she spoke life into the spirit of a fellow tribesman who was used to violate her. Through the performance,I Am Laura Nelson she’ll bring voice and life to Laura Nelson.

January 20, 3-5pm
Keeping our Mothers’ Dreams Alive
For many of us, our mothers never spoke their dreams out loud. Sometimes, they did not dare dream them. We, however, are the ones they waited and are waiting for. We also have our own dreams. The power of dreamtime and the word are this: to remind us who we are, to soothe our souls, and to create futures that break away from the past but do not forget them. The exhibition will end with poetry readings, spoken word performances, and ritual to remember and give gratitude to all our Mothers’ Dreams.
This exhibit was made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Alan Mills and Sun King
Pictured: LaShawnda Crowe Storm,”Untitled”(2017), bronze casting of pelvic bone
Image courtesy of Polina Osherov and the artist.

What's On Your Mind?
2017-12-09 08:00 - 17:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Have something you want to say? Sound artist Oreo Jones will listen and record your stories and thoughts. If selected, your recording will go on our radio station, 99.1, WQRT.

SORRY!!
2018-01-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Sun King Brewery, 135 N College, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
A progressive SORRY game (with 10 or so games going on at once) and an opportunity to share something you did that you should be sorry about but you aren’t really.

Rhinestone Country Trivia Night
2018-01-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Sun King Brewery, 135 N College, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Listen to a special evening broadcast of Rhinestone Country live in the tasting room and compete for prizes based on your knowledge of country music history.

An Evening with Chuck Marohn
2018-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us with Chuck Marohn, the founder and President of Strong Towns, for an evening chat about strong neighbrohoods, communities, and urbanism. This will be an evening to discuss Chuck’s previous work, what it means to be a strong town or city, and how to build cities that are vibrant and commercially diverse, yet equitable.
Chuck will also be relating the Strong Towns principles to the North Split rebuild and how different alternatives can make Indy become a stronger city. This will be an opportunity to talk to Chuck about what it means to be Strong Indy and how we can grow ourselves to be an active and inclusive organization within the City of Indianapolis and Marion County.
Find out more about Strong Indy at www.strongindy.org or visit join their Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongindy/.

Audrey Barcio: Under Influence
2018-02-02 18:00 - 2018-04-14 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Heritage is a pressing concern to our generation. Should we allow the past to influence us—are we bound to ancient tools, materials and techniques? Or should we endeavor to make work that is specific to our time, embracing technology and its untested, ambivalent ramifications? If we do, are we at risk of becoming complicit in a catastrophe, or a pale reflection of something fleeting?
In her solo exhibition Under Influence at Tube Factory Artspace in Indianapolis, Audrey Barcio explores these questions in a new series of paintings that examines where the heritage of Modernism intersects with the tools of the Virtual Industrial Age. Her starting point for this body of work is the iconic grey and white checkerboard pattern recognized by contemporary digital designers as a symbol for emptiness waiting to be filled. Transforming that virtual nothingness into concrete form, Barcio employs it to empower interpretations of the iconographic legacy of our Modernist forbearers.
This is a vision of an aesthetic symbology as futuristic as it is rooted in the constructed languages of the past: Suprematism, Geometric Abstraction, Futurism, Orphism, Color Field Painting, Post-painterly Abstraction, Minimalism. The work transcends the accepted cultural raison d’être of this century—the cult of self—to evoke instead the universal.
Under Influence speaks to something ancestral, universal, infinite, and essential. It is a conversation arising not from coteries but from the unifying elements of a common world: shape, color, line, form, material, surface, and the infinite potentialities that arise from relationships.
Commission of these new works were made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
Read more about Barcio in this Pattern Magazine story.
Audrey Barcio received her BA from Herron School of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She attended the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France, and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and has been featured in multiple group exhibitions around the U.S., including Art in America at the Art Miami Satellite Fair and GLAMFA at UC Long Beach. She has had solo exhibitions at Syracuse University in New York, in the Las Vegas Government Center, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work is included in several private collections and in the permanent collection of the Barrick Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in Chicago.
Image: Audrey Barcio, Second Choice, 2017

Have You Seen This? .... Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick
2018-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Grab a beer, share a laugh, shed a tear and share YouTube videos on the big screen. “Have You Seen This? …. Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick” is a new installment into which we hand you the reigns to the fabulous world wide web. Attendees will be free to contribute to a sign up sheet where you will present that one Youtube video that captivates your soul. Got this wild Kpop music video you’ve been dying to share? Let it rip! You have this weird mini doc about recycling sea trash gathering in our oceans? Seems pretty chill.
The evening will begin with a few videos curated by professional Youtube watchers.
Image still from ZIBER by Andrey Kasay

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2018-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Required prior to taking any woodworking classes and using Open Shop hours.

Shop Safety is an introduction to the Public Workshop and covers how to safely use some of the basic stationary machines, as well as best practices for working in a community shop.
NOTE: Anyone more than 10 minutes late will not be admitted and asked to attend another class.
Prerequisite – NONE!
Tools used – miter saw, bandsaw, drill press
Class time – 2 hours
Cost: $25
