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Garfield Park Art & Music Festival
2019-06-29 16:00 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
The 2nd annual Garfield Park Art & Music Festival (GPAMF) is an outdoor festival celebrating the art, music, and culture of Indianapolis. The Festival will feature a handful of local musicians and bands of diverse genres performing their original music. Up to forty local artists working in a variety of mediums will also host artist booths with their fine art and handmade wares for sale. Enjoy beers by Garfield Brewery, as well as local food trucks and vendors. This all ages, free event is part of Indy Parks and Recreation‘s annual Pack the Parks day and will also feature kids’ crafts and activities for family-friendly fun. Join us for a summer evening filled with local music and art behind the Arts Center!
*****Lineup *****
Sister Sinjin – 4:00 PM
Jacoby’s Invisible Band – 4:40 PM
Silent Bloom – 5:25 PM
Danni Al Mar – 6:20 PM
Brandon Wadley – 7:15 PM
Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine – 8:15 PM
This event is sponsored by Indy Parks and Recreation, Garfield Park Arts Center – Indy Parks and Recreation, the Friends of Garfield Park, Inc., the Garfield Park Neighbors Association, Big Car Collaborative, ACS Signs, and Renewal by Andersen Window Replacement, and it’s organized by a passionate committee of neighbors, artists, and musicians!
Interested in volunteering or sponsoring? Contact GPAC Manager Kavita Mahoney at email hidden; JavaScript is required to see how you can be involved.
Learn more about #GPAMF here:
https://www.gpacarts.org/garfield-park-art-music-festival

Wildstyle Paschall: Culture, Indy HipHop Music
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Wildstyle Paschall’s multi-media installation “Culture, Indy Hiphop Music”, is a captivating look into the unseen counter culture of America’s most popular music genre centered in the capital of a Midwestern city more known for cornfields, a 500 mile race and various amateur sports. The ever-evolving cultural movement created by people of color exists in Indianapolis, isolated from much of the financial success and mainstream consumerism seen in larger cities.
As a lifelong musician and long time hiphop producer, Paschall is a product of 1980s and 90s hip hop culture. During a time
when hiphop storytelling, music, and culture expanded internationally, he was concerned that even by 2015 significant accounts of the rich culture created in central Indiana was not being archived to shared with outsiders as well as passed down to future generations.
“Culture, Indy Hiphop Music” takes the viewers and puts them on stage with independent hiphop artists performing and creating music to see their passion and dedication to the art through picture and video.

Aurora PhotoCenter at Tube Factory: Keliy Anderson-Staley
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Aurora PhotoCenter officially launches this summer, joining Indianapolis with an inaugural community-focused workshop and exhibition by renowned tintype artist Keliy Anderson-Staley.

This exhibition will be open July 5-19 in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery.

In June 2019, Anderson-Staley set up her tintype studio at Tube Factory and made 70 tintype portraits over a four-day period. This exhibition showcases portraits made during Anderson-Staley’s visit to Indianapolis, as well as subjects photographed in other American cities from New York to Cleveland to Houston to San Francisco. A selection of historical tintypes from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites provide context for the modern portraits and show how the medium shaped our identity as a state and nation from photography’s earliest days.

To make a tintype, a light sensitive collodion emulsion is mixed and poured onto each plate shortly before a portrait is made. Tintypes need long exposure times, so the subject must remain completely still for up to 30 seconds to produce a sharp image. People sitting for tintypes often don’t smile, as it is difficult to hold a smile perfectly still for the length of the exposure.

Unlike the instantaneous digital selfie of today, a tintype portrait is an intimate collaboration between the photographer and the sitter, resulting in a one-of-a-kind portrait and experience. These portraits are rich in atmosphere and detail, emphasizing an often intense and mesmerizing gaze. Anderson-Staley’s beautifully textured tintype portraits use 19th-century technology to depict the wholeness of what “American” means today.

Keliy Anderson-Staley was raised off the grid in Maine, studied photography in New York City, and currently lives and teaches photography at the University of Houston in Texas. Her images are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art (Maine), and Museum of Fine Arts-Houston. Her work was published in a solo issue of Light Work’s Contact Sheet and has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, SFO Museum, Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, Southeast Museum of Photography and the California Museum of Photography, as well as at a number of non-profit art institutions and galleries around the country. In 2016 she completed a major public commission for the city of Cleveland, producing fifty large-scale portraits for installation in the airport tunnel of the rapid transit line. A book of her portraits, On A Wet Bough, is available from Waltz Books. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery.

Founded by local artist-photographers, Adam Reynolds, Craig McCormick, and Mary Goodwin, Aurora Photo Center serves as a creative bridge between artists and the greater photographic community with a regional, national, and international perspective. Aurora will be a place where artists meet, create, share work, and find inspiration.
In its first year, Aurora will focus on awareness of photography as a medium for art and social expression. By hosting partnerships and pop-up-style events, Aurora will work to build a community in central Indiana around the medium of photography through exhibits, conversations, and workshops. As Aurora grows and receives non-profit status, it will establish a dedicated gallery space, along with darkroom and studio facilities for both community education and working artists.
“Photography was once a medium permanently documenting history, family, and places. Today it is a momentary medium ruled by innuendo,” says Craig McCormick, Aurora co-founder. “Through Aurora, we hope to explore how photography becomes art in fast and slow times.”
Partnering with Big Car Collaborative in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Aurora’s inaugural event will feature Anderson-Staley’s ongoing tintype portrait series, [hyphen] American. Based out of Houston, TX, Anderson-Staley has spent the past decade travel- ing the country with a portable 19th century tintype studio capturing a typological portrait survey of the human faces that make up today’s America. Her next stop is Indianapolis, where she will be holding a tintype workshop and portrait sessions open to the community, followed by a curated exhibition of her tintype portraits from Indianapolis and beyond.
“Keliy’s project is an open invitation for Indianapolis to come together in a collective portrait of our city,” says Aurora co-founder Mary Goodwin. “It gives us a chance to re-examine what it means to be ‘American’ today.”
[hyphen] American will be on display in the Tube Factory’s Efroymson Gallery July 5-26 with an opening reception on July 5. Keliy Anderson-Staley will be in Indianapolis June 13-16 making tintype portraits. She will host a workshop on tintypes on June 15.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Nine13 Sports
2019-07-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life!
Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun!
$1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation!
https://nine13sports.org
*Family Friendly*

Masters Retrospective II: Social Practice & Placemaking
2019-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The second cohort in UIndy’s MA in Social Practice Art exhibits their work from the last year in many neighborhoods in Indianapolis and from around the state, including interactive and participatory projects in the gallery.
*Closing Reception: Friday, August 16, 5-7 pm (Remarks at 6)
Gallery is free to attend & open during regular Tube Factory Artspace hours.
Eve Eggleston presents a series of social practice art projects to raise community awareness of the plight of the pollinators. This recent body of work re-purposed refuse in upcycling at Rabble Coffee in Indianapolis. Her current project is using beehives for education about urban agriculture, sustainability, environmentally healthy practices, and pollinator value at IPS 39: William McKinley as part of their Learning Nature Center and at Jason Micheal Thomas’s urban farm, Indy Urban Awareness Gardens. William McKinley hosts a live honeybee hive in their gardens and is a part of a curriculum to understand honeybees and other pollinators. Through working with their Garden Club, ran by several teachers and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, the hive will provide pollination for their gardens and orchard. This project also included a full day of lectures, demonstrations, and activities for every class to familiarize the students with these issues. Part of this discussion was learning to understand not only the benefits of honeybees, but all pollinators. To address native bee populations, her thesis project expanded to include creating pollinator hotels with the Green Team of Groundwork Indy. These ongoing projects are always looking to expand. Please contact Eggleston with any inquiries or any opportunities.
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Indianapolis artist Kindness AK is shaped by internal and external conflicts that have a tendency to manifest itself physically through the creative arts. Although some people would choose one specific platform to focus in, she is unconsciously drawn to multiple artistic mediums and media. Her many life experiences, ranging from scientific, therapeutic, and artistic, have become embedded tools which she uses to rediscover and accept a more competent, accountable, and positive self-narrative. The M.A. in Social Practice Art program has helped her align her passions by exploring how placemaking can encourage healing-centered engagement through community building and self-reflection. Her exploration is through a series of projects that are based on personal and professional interest. Projects displayed include Transformative conversations, Affirmation mirrors (individual and community), Trafficking, and Lyles Station. These projects all in one way or another narrate how to enhance or identify the already “existing power of resiliency” within the self and/or community to hopefully initiate more access to social justice. Her broader objective is to increase resiliency and empowerment, using art as a tool to promote critical reflection and build a more culturally inclusive lens of social justice and healing.
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Writer and memoirist Sarah J. Wilson has deepened her exploration of Indianapolis’ Eastside neighborhoods through her social practice and placemaking projects. She grew up there and continues to live there. By collecting artifacts and oral history, she has expanded her creative practice in writing and memoir to more directly engage residents on the Eastside and investigate its complicated and enduring history. This summer, she has worked on the Eastside to collect local history and artifacts, especially from youth and the aging population, to create interactive social practice projects to commemorate this history and to celebrate its future.

Jessica Uçul: White: Trash, Washed, Lies
2019-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
White: Trash, Washed, Lies features work made from the artist’s personal collection of photography and video.

About the artist
Jessica Uçul is an American artist who uses a variety of media, including found and archival imagery and everyday objects to make photographs, collages, videos, and sculpture. Uçul’s work maintains a regard for kitsch as a cultural expression of loss. Born and raised in Franklin, Indiana, Uçul received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She currently lives and works in Indiana.

Cry Salon
2019-08-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Featuring readings by Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy / Soundtracked by John Dawson and Jared Landberg

About Performance:

Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy will present their contributions to the recently released book “Cry List”, a collection of essays on the topic of crying, along with a variety show other of poetic conversations, and short plays. The soundtrack for the evening will be provided by John Dawson and Jared Landberg.

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Bios:

Sammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born, living, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a contributor at Reductress, the Hard Times, Bandcamp, and elsewhere. Her first book, a translation of several shooting screenplays by the Dardenne brothers from their original French, came out in June.
William Joseph Gass (St. Louis) has worked in the direct patient caregiving industry since 2012. His wordage has been featured in publications including and from Art Papers, Universal Love Upload, and Penny-Ante, among others. He is happily partnered with Dr. Monica Sentmanat and their pets Reagan (MacNeil) and Adele (Bertei).
Since the late 1990’s, Jeremy Kennedy has been creating and exhibiting sound, artwork, and concepts in both community and academic settings. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Kennedy is an active visual artist, writer, and sound-maker, as well as co-founder and playwright with P/Sicho Street Theatre Company, and a founding editor of Rebel Hands Press.
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About: Cry List
Contributors: Chelsea Rector, Jamie Iacoli, Jeremy Kennedy, Sammi Skolmoski, William Gass
Photography: Ang Wilson
Crying is nothing other than itself. Metaphor is a construct that brings crying out of itself… These essays are accounts of crying, and the essay lists are not metaphors. It is a way for the authors to say that these things have takenthem, emotionally, directly. No metaphors. What these essays account is the form of agitation we call crying. From joy to sorrow, the items listed explore the questions, what does it take/what makes us cry?. The lists are a conceptual framework, organizing the otherwise indomitable act of crying.
The essays each list five items that make the authors cry… Unlimited in range, about the tangible or abstract, the essays also ask you, the reader, to think about when you cry. “Cry List” is a collection of insights on opening the hermetically sealed core of crying through connection with another form of expression that appears outside the body. Scored throughout with watery photographic notation, “Cry List” assembles a world of feeling, tangential to objective reality.

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination
2019-09-06 18:00 - 2020-01-11 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In this new exhibition, New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth, growth, and death. This show explores how technology has allowed us to ease our suffering by making change less difficult and transformation more enjoyable. Perhaps the ultimate human technological advancement would be the elimination of mortality by extending human life indefinitely in a biological, digital, or other virtual state. Recent advances suggest our species may already be on the cusp of achieving this evolutionary landmark.
Woolfalk’s exhibit at Tube Factory includes her signature installations, sculptures, prints, video art works, and the works of artists who influence her practice. It builds on one of her first projects, No Place (a play on the translation of the word utopia), where she collaborated with filmmaker and anthropologist Rachel Lears. Both then in their mid 20s, they invited people into Woolfalk’s studio to talk about their ideas of utopia and created work from there.
“Similar to the way you would construct a folktale, we took these ideas and we constructed the culture of the NoPlaceans. People would come to the studio, put on costumes and enact the things that they were imagining,” says Woolfalk who created a six-chapter ethnographic film about this future utopian world based on people’s visions.
To explore the conceptual boundaries of this cultural moment, this also led Woolfalk to create a fictional transhuman species known as the Empathics, which she describes as a race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. “If you have a utopia, then how do you actually make that utopia real? I worked with biologists at Tufts University to think about what in nature could occur in order for people to mutate to become more like plants.”
Woolfalk’s Tube Factory installation will extend the story of the Empathics, blending multi-media aesthetic phenomena, spirituality, cultural hybridization, capitalism, technoscience, and artificial intelligence to conjure a broad network of interconnecting philosophical strands. Informed equally by science fiction and anthropology, the morally ambiguous future that the exhibit shares is open to the interpretation of its viewers. “Going from modularity to monumentality is how I approach my practice. I work in ways that are incredibly small and I also work in ways that are incredibly big. The work functions like collage.”
Should we fear the world Woolfalk and other transhumanist artists are mapping? Should we embrace it? Should we shrug it off as a Pollyannic fantasy, doomed by the human idiot factor? Woolfalk seems to be implying a potentially disturbing fourth option: Some of us — particularly those with special status or outlandish means — have already started to transform. Is this art, or a warning shot across the cultural bow of the human race?

About the artist
Woolfalk (b 1979, Japan) is a pioneer within an emergent, international aesthetic movement examining transhumanism — a theoretical belief that humans will mobilize technology to transcend their biological limitations and evolve into a non-human, or “posthuman” race. With each body of work, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of The Empathics and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. She has exhibited at museums, galleries, and alternative spaces throughout Asia, Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (2012); the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2014); the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2014); SCAD Museum, Savannah, GA (2016); Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (2016); Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (2016); the Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA (2017) and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; the Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA., the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among many others.
“When I started making work it was very important that it was not autobiographical,” says Woolfalk. “The work is not about me at all. The work is about talking to people about their ideas and trying to understand what’s going on in the world then taking that material and adapting it into installation based spaces that people can experience.”
Made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Efroymson Family Fund.
Part of the Social Alchemy Series, this exhibition is in partnership with the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art.
Image: Saya Woolfalk, Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination, Plate 2, 30”x40”, 2018.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Indy Urban Acres
2019-09-18 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life!
Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun!
$1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation!
https://www.indyparksfoundation.org/indy-urban-acres/
*Family Friendly*

Indy Pride and GenderNexus present Community Friendsgiving
2019-11-24 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Each year we gather during the holidays to share our family recipes and celebrate our community. Gathering together makes the holidays a little happier! ????
Join us on November 24th from 5-8pm for a community pitch-in-event. Show off those cooking skills and be sure to include some extra love in those recipes. We will provide the ham ???? and turkey ????, and we would love to see what you like to enjoy in your own homes for drinks, side dishes and desserts.
If you’re unable to bring a dish, no worries! There will be PLENTY of food, so we encourage you to come help us to enjoy it all!
We don’t want to have too many of one type of item, so we suggest bringing the following items according to the first letter of your last name:
A-H bring beverages
F-Q bring side dishes
R-Z bring desserts
Of course this is just a suggestion, so if you have a special drink or dish that you’d like to bring, we suggest that!! Please register using the free ticket link above so that we can anticipate how much turkey and ham we need.
*An ASL interpreter ???? will be provided for this event.*
**If an IndyGo bus pass would be helpful for you to get to and from the event, please reach out to Program Director Tabitha Barbour at email hidden; JavaScript is required.**

Bring It! Crit Night
2019-11-27 18:00 - 21:00
Bring ItPeer 2 Peer Artist Critique
Pasta Pitch-in | Homebrew
For Emerging and Mid-career Visual Artists
Last Friday | 6-9 PM
Bring art for critique or a dish to share***** If your interested to critique there is time for 3 artists, if you are a collaborative or a group please notify.
RSVP to sign up for a critique spot contact:erinharpervernon@gmail.com
Please send me your name and a brief description of the work you are bringing and any special accommodations.
A simple pasta dinner and homebrew will be provided, bring a dish to share and any serving bowls.
Free! All ages of the public are encouraged to attend! Children and partners encouraged!

Artist Housing Information Session
2019-12-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist who wants to engage and help shape a community? Located on a block in both the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods on the near southside of Indianapolis, the Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR) program is an innovative and experimental approach to supporting artists who use their talents and skills to help drive positive change in the community.
Come tonight to learn more.
Click here to apply or go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHZ6YFV
For this program, we view the label of artists to include creatives, makers, and designers. Fields include — and are not limited to — architecture, culinary art, curation, visual art, public art, furniture, fashion, craft, design, film and video, creative writing and journalism, performing arts, music, theater, placemaking, socially engaged art, etc.
The APLR — taking applications for resident artists now through December 23, 2019 — is a long-term, affordable and community-invested artist home ownership program as part of a community land trust approach.
Applicants will be notified if they moved on as semi-finalists by January 6. Finalists will be selected by mid January. Public information sessions will be at Tube Factory art space December 5th, 6 pm and December 7th, 11 am.
In partnership with Riley Area Development and supported by Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP), the APLR’s goal is to provide artists enjoyable and equitable home ownership while they work — in part — to collaborate with other neighbors and boost the culture, creativity, diversity, livability, safety, health, and economy of the local and greater community. This is a reboot of the program launched two years ago before pausing to work out various aspects of the program and partnership. So far three families have been placed into the homes.

David Lanch: Visions From Another World.
2019-12-06 18:00 - 2019-12-21 18:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Presented in partnership with the Consulado de México en Indianápolis
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For the last 40 years, David Lanch has worked with plastic, which is part of the industrial technology of our current world, and it has been his research work to apply it to painting, and architectural integration to find man in his habitat.
In his work he uses fiberglass, polymers and resins, materials that had not been used in our society until after World War II. In his search, he uses science fiction as an indispensable concept for mass catharsis.
In fiberglass painting he found the ideal means to express his vision of other worlds; textures, colors, surfaces illuminated and reflected in stainless steel, mirrors, natural or artificial light; an ideal world for your vision of a different landscape, the mountains, the seas, the unknown habitat, where the physical and chemical phenomena, and the realities of the micro and macro cosmos, follow the same principles that govern our planet and as far as We know, of the universe.
When exploring all these materials, he found a new technique, painting and etching in fiberglass, which can help the development of plastic arts in this new millennium.
David Lach was born June 26, 1949 in Mexico City.
Versión en español a continuación.
David Lach
Por los últimos 40 años, David Lach ha trabajado con plástico, que es parte de la tecnología industrial de nuestro mundo actual, y ha sido su labor de investigación aplicarlo a la pintura, y a la integración arquitectónica para encontrar al hombre en su hábitat.
En su trabajo utiliza fibra de vidrio, polímeros y resinas, materiales que no habían sido utilizados en nuestra sociedad sino después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En su búsqueda, utiliza la ciencia-ficción como concepto indispensable para la catarsis masiva.
En la pintura en fibra de vidrio encontró el medio ideal para expresar su visión de otros mundos; las texturas, los colores, las superficies iluminadas y reflejadas en acero inoxidable, espejos, luz natural o artificial; un mundo ideal para su visión de un paisaje diferente, las montañas, los mares, el hábitat desconocido, donde los fenómenos físicos y químicos, y las realidades del micro y macro cosmos, siguen los mismos principios que se rigen en nuestro planeta y hasta donde conocemos, del universo.
Al explorar todos estos materiales, encontró una nueva técnica, la pintura y grabado en fibra de vidrio, que pueden ayudar al desarrollo de las artes plásticas en este nuevo milenio.

Artist Housing Information Session
2019-12-07 11:00 - 12:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist who wants to engage and help shape a community? Located on a block in both the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods on the near southside of Indianapolis, the Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR) program is an innovative and experimental approach to supporting artists who use their talents and skills to help drive positive change in the community.
Come today to learn more.
Click here to apply or go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHZ6YFV
For this program, we view the label of artists to include creatives, makers, and designers. Fields include — and are not limited to — architecture, culinary art, curation, visual art, public art, furniture, fashion, craft, design, film and video, creative writing and journalism, performing arts, music, theater, placemaking, socially engaged art, etc.
The APLR — taking applications for resident artists now through December 23, 2019 — is a long-term, affordable and community-invested artist home ownership program as part of a community land trust approach.
Applicants will be notified if they moved on as semi-finalists by January 6. Finalists will be selected by mid January. Public information sessions will be at Tube Factory art space December 5th, 6 pm and December 7th, 11 am.
In partnership with Riley Area Development and supported by Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP), the APLR’s goal is to provide artists enjoyable and equitable home ownership while they work — in part — to collaborate with other neighbors and boost the culture, creativity, diversity, livability, safety, health, and economy of the local and greater community. This is a reboot of the program launched two years ago before pausing to work out various aspects of the program and partnership. So far three families have been placed into the homes.

Bring It! Community Crit Night
2019-12-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring ItPeer 2 Peer Artist Critique
Pasta Pitch-in | Homebrew
For Emerging and Mid-career Visual Artists
Last Friday | 6-9 PM
Bring art for critique or a dish to share***** If your interested to critique there is time for 3 artists, if you are a collaborative or a group please notify.
RSVP to sign up for a critique spot
Please send Erin Harper Vernon your name and a brief description of the work you are bringing and any special accommodations.
A simple pasta dinner and homebrew will be provided, bring a dish to share and any serving bowls.
Free! All ages of the public are encouraged to attend! Children and partners encouraged!

Kwanzaa Celebration
2019-12-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Kwanzaa is a pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 and celebrated from December 26–January 1.
Uzuri and Bashiri Asad, part of the Artist Public Life program at Big Car, are organizing and hosting the event at Tube Factory.
More details added soon.

Chad Eby : Skärgården
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Amidst an array of light and sound, Skärgården re-imagines cold war paranoia in the Stockholm archipelago in light and sound. The heart of this art installation is a self-organizing wireless mesh network that mirrors aspects of both the isolation and cooperation of an interconnected system of separate parts.
Chad Eby is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, teacher and researcher with particular interests in lighting, digital art, digital fabrication, people-center design and design history.

Zumba with Michelle Carson
2020-01-25 09:30 - 11:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A 1 hour long class centered around different rhythms such as Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa and Reggeaton. You will be dancing to great music and at the same time burning a lot of calories without even realizing! It is definitely a dance party! So wear your comfy workout clothes, bring a bottle of water and join Carson in this cardio party!
Donation suggested.
Una clase de 1 hora de duración centrada en diferentes ritmos como Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa y Reggeaton.
¡Bailarás con buena música y al mismo tiempo quemarás muchas calorías sin darte cuenta!
¡Definitivamente es una fiesta de baile!
¡Así que ponte tu cómoda ropa de entrenamiento, trae una botella de agua y acompáñame en esta fiesta de cardio!
Cualquier pregunta simplemente envíame un mensaje de FB!
A little about Michelle Carson
Born in US, raised in Ecuador and traveled around some other places that feels like home.
I started teaching dance classes early in my life. At the age of 12 I graduated from my dance school in Ecuador and started assisting teachers, after only 1 year they gave me a class of girls from 7-8 years old and was amazingly fun. I was also part of 3 different dance groups plus high-school, (I dont even know how). When I was 18 I decided I wanted to study abroad and so I went to Argentina and auditioned for an Afro-Contemporary dance group in which we performed at private and community events and was a great experience.
In 2015 I came back to USA to follow my roots in Florida where I did my training in Zumba and fell in love with it. I started teaching a month after my training in different locations, until Sept. 2018 when I moved to Indy to start a new and exciting life.
I truly love it here and I have always enjoyed the feeling of giving something of what I know so I want to share all of it with you!!!
Un poco sobre Michelle Carson
Nació en Estados Unidos, creció en Ecuador y viajó por otros lugares que se sienten como en casa.
Comencé a dar clases de baile temprano en mi vida. A la edad de 12 años me gradué de mi escuela de baile en Ecuador y comencé a asistir a maestros, después de solo 1 año me dieron una clase de niñas de 7-8 años y fue increíblemente divertida. También formé parte de 3 grupos de baile diferentes más la escuela secundaria, (ni siquiera sé cómo). Cuando tenía 18 años decidí que quería estudiar en el extranjero, así que fui a Argentina y hice una audición para un grupo de danza afro-contemporánea en el que actuamos en eventos privados y comunitarios y fue una gran experiencia.
En 2015 regresé a EE. UU. Para seguir mis raíces en Florida, donde hice mi entrenamiento en Zumba y me enamoré de él.
Comencé a enseñar un mes después de mi entrenamiento en diferentes lugares, hasta septiembre de 2018, cuando me mudé a Indy para comenzar una nueva y emocionante vida.
Realmente me encanta aquí y siempre he disfrutado la sensación de dar algo de lo que sé, así que quiero compartirlo todo contigo.
Donation suggested.

TJ Reynolds:We Catch the Light, Reflections on Black Skin
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-02-22 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Those of African descent are the most underrepresented group in the world of fine art. Black faces are beautiful. Digging deeper, we see that by working on black surfaces with white ink & paint, Reynolds draws in the light instead of the shadow, with emotive figures emerging from the deep, catching light in the way only melanin can. The stylized nature of the drawings reveals a complexity of shapes and linework, in patterns that evoke both ancient art and futuristic graphic design. The artist is also exploring his own ethnic heritage, examining roots he can only piece together, going so far as to trace his last name to the tradition of slaves taking on the surname of their master, in this case the RJ Reynolds tobacco fields. Prints will also be available of all work.
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TJ Reynolds is a multi-discipline artist and educator whose mission it is to spread the power of creativity and community. Visual artist, animator, director, M.C., producer, multi-instrumentalist and poet are just some of the creative avenues Reynolds travels on his exploits. As an educator, he has worked with thousands of students and adults in every conceivable setting; preschool through college, prisons and gifted schools, though his message remains the same; we must use art and expression to connect to each other and the world around us. Reynolds has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Nuvo Cultural Visionary Award, Spirit of Herron (School of Art) Award, and the first ever hip-hop artist to be named a Creative Renewal Fellow from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. His music has been featured nationally on NPR, and he has won rap battles, poetry slams and a Moth Story Slam. This is Reynolds first solo art show.

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With performances by TJ Reynolds, Teresa Reynolds, Tatjana Rebelle, Derrick Slack

As part of my We Catch the Light, Reynolds asked some prominent black Indianapolis poets & singers to select someone who was influential to them in their life. He will create a portrait of that person, and the guest artist will perform a piece dedicated to them at the opening Feb 7 for a unique, one time happening bringing poetry, song and visual art together.

Kipp Normand: Snake Oil, A Fantastical American History
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-05-16 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artist and historian Kipp Normand’s practice is a physical and conceptual investigation into the power of objects and images as a narrative device. Inspired by the Dada traditions of assemblage, collage, construction, and performance, Normand employs the acts of appropriation, reuse, and recontextualization to explore contemporary perceptions of time, community, and memory. In Snake Oil, Normand distills four centuries of history to illustrate the deep-seated American penchant for fantastical thinking. Part world’s fair exhibit, huckster wagon, dime museum, and midway arcade; Snake Oil is a multifaceted installation that challenges the viewer to re-examine the ideas of American Exceptionalism. Imbued with satire and mixed with painful truths, this haunted temple of junk casts a sideways glance at the tales we tell our children and ourselves about who we are and how we got here.
Normand — who maintains a studio and workspace in Indianapolis where he creates dynamic works of visual art infused with narratives of culture, community, and history — is a scavenger and an obsessive collector. He searches back streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings, looking for clues to explain the mysteries of our world. Normand finds stories in discarded things: Stories about all of us, our cities, and our shared history. He first began making collage images, shadow boxes, and installations as a way to justify his relentless collecting. But the work soon became much more than that. It is Normand’s way to dig deeply into the vast attic of this world and to share his finds with anyone who takes the time to look. He holds a Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and worked nearly 30 years in the field of heritage preservation and housing reform before turning to the practice of art.

Freedom To Be Official Book Launch
2020-02-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join award-winning author Diana Ensign for this celebratory book signing and educational panel discussion on how our community can support transgender people and their families. Hear from Kimberly Acoff, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) Director of Programming; Sa’hara Miller, BU Wellness Sophisticated Divas Program; Diana Asberry (parent of a transgender child and a nonbinary child); and Andru Lanning (awesome young adult)! Info table by Matty Slaydon, Organizer of Queering Indy. A portion of book sales support Trinity Haven, Indiana’s first transitional housing program for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness, and BU Wellness Network.
This project is made possible by support of the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency.

See America First Film Series-Ragtime
2020-03-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Kipp Normand will introduce and host a discussion relating the film to his current exhibition in the Main Gallery at Tube Factory artspace, ‘Snake Oil’. Attendees will have a chance to win a original Normand sculpture, “Snake Oil.”
“A kaleidoscope of tales from E.L. Doctorow’s eponymous novel evokes life in pre-World War I New York City. A white family find a black baby in their yard and takes on the mother as a maid. A black pianist, Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), returns for his woman and child after finding success in a Harlem jazz band. Firefighters, dismayed to see a black man own a Model-T Ford, deface it, and Walker demands retribution. The white family becomes involved in Evelyn Nesbit’s trial.”
Runtime -155 minutes

West African Dance with Uzuri Asad
2020-03-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
West African dance is an essential component of West African culture. Over time, traditional dances incorporated new moves, rhythms and ideas. Through the slave trade, and through national production of traditional dance forms, West African dance has found it’s way around the globe. West African Dance has influenced many popular American dance forms, such as hip-hop, salsa and jazz dance. Traditional dances are still practiced by many people today.
Uzuri Asad caters to all levels of students and is part of Big Car’s APLR program.
Traditional West African Dance
Dance has always played a very important role in the lives of West Africans. Throughout history, West Africans performed dances to celebrate a birth, harvest or death. Communities relied on dance to ward off evil spirits, to ask the gods for prosperity, or to resolve conflict. Dance continues to serve those functions. For example, villagers perform the Malinke rhythm Kassa during farming and harvesting work. The singing, dancing and clapping entertains and motivates the hard-working farmers.
Characteristics of West African Dance
African dance, according to R.F. Thomson, has four unique qualities. First, the body moves in a multi-unit fashion, where the head and arms may move to one rhythmic pattern while the feet follow a different time signature. Second, it is percussive; the dancer interprets the rhythmic nature of the music through movement. Third, though as a whole African dance is a community event, some dancers follow different parts of the rhythm, dancing “apart” from the crowd. Finally, West African dance phrases, or sets of movements, overlap, creating a “call-and-response” pattern.
$10

Spring Zine Jam-Postponed
2020-03-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at Normal Coffee inside the Tube Factory Artspace for a collaborative zine jam just in time for spring to roll around! Supplies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring your own. Drawings, poetry, collage, whatever you think we should put in our spring zine works! Gluestick will print the zine shortly after and it will be available for pickup around Indy and at Normal. Don’t know what a zine is? Come find out!

West African Dance with Uzuri Asad-Cancelled
2020-03-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Western Dance with Uzuri Asad-Cancelled
2020-04-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
West African dance is an essential component of West African culture. Over time, traditional dances incorporated new moves, rhythms and ideas. Through the slave trade, and through national production of traditional dance forms, West African dance has found it’s way around the globe. West African Dance has influenced many popular American dance forms, such as hip-hop, salsa and jazz dance. Traditional dances are still practiced by many people today.
Uzuri Asad caters to all levels of students and is part of Big Car’s APLR program.
Traditional West African Dance
Dance has always played a very important role in the lives of West Africans. Throughout history, West Africans performed dances to celebrate a birth, harvest or death. Communities relied on dance to ward off evil spirits, to ask the gods for prosperity, or to resolve conflict. Dance continues to serve those functions. For example, villagers perform the Malinke rhythm Kassa during farming and harvesting work. The singing, dancing and clapping entertains and motivates the hard-working farmers.
Characteristics of West African Dance
African dance, according to R.F. Thomson, has four unique qualities. First, the body moves in a multi-unit fashion, where the head and arms may move to one rhythmic pattern while the feet follow a different time signature. Second, it is percussive; the dancer interprets the rhythmic nature of the music through movement. Third, though as a whole African dance is a community event, some dancers follow different parts of the rhythm, dancing “apart” from the crowd. Finally, West African dance phrases, or sets of movements, overlap, creating a “call-and-response” pattern.

Donate Blood
2020-07-09 14:00 - 19:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Big Car Collaborative – is partnering with Versiti Blood Centers of Indiana to save community lives.
Please come out to support our drive on Thursday, July 9th, from 2:00pm to 7:00pm pm at the Tube Factory artspace-Parking Lot. Follow the link below to schedule your donation today!
Here is the link to schedule your appointment:
https://donate.indiana.versiti.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/142962
Donor Health & Registration:
All donor-facing staff will have their temperature taken prior to beginning their work day
Donors temperatures will be taken at registration to ensure they are not elevated prior to entering donation areas
Donors will be asked if they’ve come in contact with someone who’s tested positive for COVID-19
Donors will be asked to wash hands prior to screening
Donors will be asked if they are currently experiencing coughing or shortness of breath
If any of the above is true, donors will be asked to self-defer
Social Distancing:
We encourage all donors to make an appointment to lessen the amount of people waiting at our donor centers
To comply with government regulations, all sponsors and donors must wear personal masks at donor centers and mobile drives
Ensuring six feet of space between chairs in waiting areas and cafe
Ensuring six feet of space between donation chairs and/or separation with medical screens
If appointment registration congestion occurs, we will ask for your cell phone number and text when your appointment is ready
Cleaning:
We clean all equipment, beds, and other surfaces after each donor finishes their donation
Changing gloves frequently and between donors is part of our normal practice
We will maintain sanitized pen bins, so donors are only using clean pens at sign-in

Power Plant Grant Information Session
2021-03-25 18:30 - 21:00, 2021-04-01 18:30 - 21:00
Learn more about the new annual Power Plant Grant program made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on March 25, 6:30pm, April 1, 6:30pm or April 15, 6:30pm. The grants provide visual artists who live, work, or run spaces in Indianapolis with grants ranging from $2,000 to $10,000. Applications for this round are due by April 26, 2021.
Eligible applicants are visual/multidisciplinary artists who create original work in painting, drawing, sculpture, book art, ceramics, fiber, printmaking, digital/media works, film, video, photography, performance art, sound art, social practice and/or hybrid or interdisciplinary practice of any/all of the above.
Artists must be over 21 at the time of the application, and may not be full-time students.
Artists must live and/or work in Indianapolis.
Employees or board members (or immediate family members of employees or board members) of Big Car Collaborative are not eligible for this opportunity.
Teams, partnerships, and unincorporated individuals running spaces are eligible. Nonprofit organizations are not.

Words & Music-In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
2021-03-31 18:00 - 19:00
In this first installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Hoosier authors Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Kevin McKelvey, and Jim Walker discuss the sublime beauty and challenges of Indiana through the lens of William H. Gass’s 1968 fiction story, “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.”
The episode features excerpts of the story as well as a conversation about what it means to be a writer living and working in Indiana. This launches an eight-part series made possible by Indiana Humanities and produced by WQRT and Big Car Collaborative.
You can listen live via the streaming link or listen on regular FM radio in Indianapolis by tuning in to 99.1 FM. After it debuts on the station, it will be available for listening online. We’ll share that link here.
About the participants in this show (all Indiana writers):
Susan Neville is the author of six works of creative nonfiction and her collections of short fiction include The Town of Whispering Dolls, winner of the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction; In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize; and Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches at Butler University.
Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2018-19. He is the author of five award winning books and his first graphic novel, “Last On His Feet” is forthcoming from Liveright in 2022.
Kevin McKelvey is a place-based poet, writer, designer, and social practice artist. He teaches at University of Indianapolis and directs the M.A. in Social Practice Art and oversees the undergraduate major in Environmental Sustainability. At University of Indianapolis, he founded Etchings Press, a student-run publisher, helped start a community garden and microfarm, and has contributed to numerous interdisciplinary efforts for students and the community.
Jim Walker is a poet, artist, and teacher who believes everyone deserves open access to the joys of art, creativity, and great public places. A co-founder and executive director of Big Car Collaborative, Jim worked previously as a journalist (writer, photographer, editor, and designer). He’s a student of cities and enjoys spending time with his family, supporting his Garfield Park neighborhood, walking, biking, travel, reading, and baseball.
