The Midwest Sasquatch-Marc A. DeWerth
2017-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Marc DeWerth of Columbia Station, Ohio is a longtime Ohio Bigfoot Investigator, actively pursuing Bigfoot creatures throughout the country since 1990. A longtime investigator with the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization), he is the President of the Ohio Bigfoot Organization.
DeWerth’s lecture “The Midwest Sasquatch” will focus on the most up to date sighting reports in the Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and other Midwestern states. He will also share some of the most compelling audio recordings his team recorded in 2016 in an area of multiple sighting reports that are sure to intrigue even the biggest skeptic. DeWerth has interviewed over 200 witnesses that claimed seeing a large, hair covered creature roaming the Ohio woodlands and surrounding Midwestern states. A participant in many public and private expeditions over the years throughout Ohio and the Midwest, he’s quite confident in the existence of Sasquatch throughout North America.
Currently, DeWerth and his group The Ohio Bigfoot Organization are the hosts of the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, a nationally recognized event that takes place every spring at Salt Fork State Park. Their next Conference is scheduled for May 20th, 2017. To learn more, go to www.ohiobigfootconference.org.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-02-11 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 or using Open Shop hours (both to be posted at a later date). It is also a prerequisite for Shop Safety and Orientation Part 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 at the eventbrite link below!

*$25

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

PechaKucha: Our Waterways
2017-02-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Car Beauty Center, 2628 Shelby St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for the kickoff return of PechaKucha Nights in Indianapolis! The theme this month will be Our Waterways and will feature speakers from around Indianapolis engaged with the health, design, and culture of places around our waterways. And you can check out art from the Ret-ROW-spective exhibition by Reconnecting to Our Waterways. In true PK fashion, each speaker will have about 7 minutes to present: 20 slides at 20 seconds each. This isn’t a competition, more an opoortunity to spend time together and share ideas. Drinks will be available for purchse and snacks on hand. This event is free thanks to Reconnecting to Our Waterways and Big Car Collaborative.
The lineup:
1. Corrie Meyer with Reconnecting to Our Waterways
2. Mark Kesling from the DaVinci Pursuit
3. Jill Hoffmann with the White River Alliance
4. Eric Nordgulen from Herron School of Art and Design
5. Jim Poyser with Earth Charter Indiana
6. Keith Paschall with Learning Tree Indiana
7. Alan Goffinski and Jordan Thomas from Big Car Collaborative
8. Emily Gable and Paul Pelsue, Indianapolis artists

Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-02-25 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 Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required or Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Woodworking I-Dimensioning Lumber
2017-02-25 15:00 - 18:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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 class.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation 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, planer, 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.
*$80
For more information or inquiries, please contact Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required or Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum-Discovery Channel expert and Sasquatch author
2017-02-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates, will give a talk, answer questions and sign books. His appearance is in conjunction with Tube Factory’s Hairy Man exhibit. Meldrum contributed his field evidence, including special hand and foot casts, to the exhibit. Admission to the talk is $5
Meldrum is a Full Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and a Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. He is also Adjunct Professor of Occupational and Physical Therapy.
Meldrum received his B.S. in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1982, his M.S. at BYU in 1984 and a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, from Stony Brook University in 1989 (then referred to as State University of New York at Stony Brook). He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at Northwestern University’s Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he currently teaches.
Meldrum authored Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science which is the first book to be written by an academic and provides an objective look at the field.
Meldrum has also published numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans and Sasquatch (Bigfoot) and is a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology. Meldrum also coedited From Biped to Strider: The Emergence of Modern Human Walking with Charles E. Hilton. He edited the textbook From Biped to Strider (Springer, 2004).
Meldrum has attracted media attention due to his interest in Bigfoot. Skeptic Brian Dunning writes that “The work of responsible scientists like Dr. Meldrum is exactly what true skeptics should be asking the Bigfoot community for, not criticizing him for it.”
Meldrum was present at a 2011 conference in Siberia to discuss the Russian wildman. He acknowledged that the results of the Russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent. He suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.
Meldrum has also studied and commented upon issues of genetics and the Book of Mormon including his book Who Are the Children of Lehi? written with Trent D. Stephens.
Made possible by the Efroymson Family Fund

Make Pepe Great Again Drawing Rally
2017-03-04 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Create a positive Pepe The Frog as part of a community action event project that a group of middle schoolers are hosting at Tube.
“Pepe is a cartoon frog created by Matt Furie in 2005. Pepe has, for most of his life, been completely innocent, blessed with the particular brand of dignity conferred by implacable chill. He had a catchphrase (“Feels good man”), and, in 2006, a starring role (alongside his roommates Andy, Brett, and Landwolf) in Furie’s book Boy’s Club. Gradually, he began to be appropriated by others on the internet, and it was sometimes a little weird, though generally harmless enough.
By the summer of 2015, Furie had some complaints about Pepe’s repurposing. That July, he told Vice’s Sean T. Collins that he liked some of what the internet had done with his creation, but didn’t understand why Pepe was so often drawn hugging the mysterious Feels Guy, and with brown lips and a blue shirt. Reasonable complaints. You should hear what my parents say about me.
More recently, for reasons that really aren’t exceptionally clear, Pepe was adopted as a kind of mascot by the alt-right. White supremacists, anti-semites, and others have made truly hateful cartoons in which Pepe says horrendous things (google “Pepe + [name of minority]” at your own risk), and the heretofore innocuous frog emoji has started appearing in some people’s Twitter handles as an indication of their hate-fueled politics. When Roger Stone and Eric Trump shared their Expendables/Deplorables mash-up meme, Pepe got the coveted Schwarzenegger spot. Pepe has been declared a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League, and the Hillary Clinton campaign devoted an entire webpage to unpacking his significance.”
Furie’s publisher, Fantagraphics, released a statement addressing the situation. They are appalled, citing the “significant emotional and financial harm” being done to Furie:
Having your creation appropriated without consent is never something an artist wants to suffer, but having it done in the service of such repellent hatred—and thereby dragging your name into the conversation, as well—makes it considerably more troubling.
Fantagraphics Books wants to state for the record that the one, true Pepe the frog, as created by the human being and artist Matt Furie, is a peaceful cartoon amphibian who represents love, acceptance, and fun. Both creator and creation reject the nihilism fueling Pepe’s alt-right appropriators, and all of us at Fantagraphics encourage you to help us reclaim Pepe as a symbol of positivity and togetherness, and to stand by Matt Furie.
We encourage reporters and others citing Furie as the character’s creator to also note that he condemns these illegal representations of his character. Matt is available for interviews through Fantagraphics. We encourage fans and others who support Furie to block, report, and denounce the illegal uses of the character by individuals and groups pirating him to foment hatred.”
—Ian Dreiblatt is the director of digital media at Melville House.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-03-11 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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.
*$25
For further information and inquiries, please contact Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required or Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Bigfoot/Sasquatch FACT OR FICTION-Larry Battson
2017-03-18 15:00 - 16:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Larry Battson is a wildlife educator, and with his collection of wild animals has done presentations for schools , nature centers and special events for 39 years. He has also studied another living creature known as bigfoot or sasquatch. Interviewing 100s of eyewitnesses he has concluded that they do exist. His program starts at the beginning of his journey to his speech for the USFWS in 2009 at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, WV.

Woodworking 1-Dimensioning Lumber
2017-03-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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 class.
A few things to note:
*Pre-requisites: Shop Safety and Orientation 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, planer, 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 or Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required

Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-03-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., 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 Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required or Brent at email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Thrice: Katy Kuchler, Jessica Kartawich, Victoria Jenkins
2017-04-07 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artists Katy Kuchler, Jessica Kartawich and Victoria Jenkins take over 1205 Cruft St.
Jessica Kartawich: Act II “With love”, is a curation of gifts. “All of the items in this room hold value not in what they are, but in the way they were given and received. I am someone who places a high value on sentimentality and relationships and that extends to the physical representations of those things. The items on the walls are a few of the things that I’ve made throughout my life and given to those I care about—the things they’ve found important enough to keep. The items in the reliquary are a sampling of those that I have received throughout my life. The things in this room are two ends of a relationship, and a connection that holds them together. There’s something to be said for the sentimental notion of holding onto objects that someone you love gave you.”–Jessica Kartawich
Victoria Jenkins: Act III “Exploration” is named after her love for going new places and experiencing new things. “The pieces in the show were taken while in new places the first time I went there. These are the images I took with fresh eyes and what you see is what spoke to me. Each piece is made using a different medium, printing in induvial ways, edited differently, but displayed all together as a collective whole to showcase the entirety of who I am as an artist and how my work speaks to me.”–Victoria Jenkins

Melita Carter’s SPEAK LIFE: Poetry and Visual Art Workshop
2017-04-08 13:00 - 15:00 | IN
This visual art and poetry workshop will be held on April 8 from 1-3 pm at Tube Factory and led by artist Melita Carter. This workshop is free, welcomes all ages and writing levels. Mixed media art supplies will be provided to participates but please feel free to bring materials that inspire you. Coffee and tea will be available for donation.
To RSVP, or if you have any further questions about the Poetry and Visual Art Workshop, please contact Melita Carter at email hidden; JavaScript is required.
S.eed P.lanting Of E.ncouragement A.ffirmations and K.nowledge to L.iberate I.nternal F.ears E.veryday-SPEAK LIFE

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-04-15 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 or Brittany at email hidden; JavaScript is required .

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Dan Grossman
2017-04-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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. April’s featured poet is Dan Grossman.
Grossman is an Indy-based writer, poet and a regular contributor to NUVO Newsweekly, covering the arts scene. He won the Society of Professional Journalists’ First Place Award (Indiana Chapter) for Personality Profiles in 2012 for his NUVO cover story on Mike Graves. He has also written for Punchnel’s and the Purdue alumni magazine THiNK, and contributed poems to a diverse array of publications including most recently So It Goes, The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library. He is a returned Peace Corps agroforester (Niger 1992-1994). He has an eleven-year-old daughter Naomi.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning lumber
2017-04-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Carlos Rolón: 50 GRAND
2017-05-05 18:00 - 2017-07-22 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Photo: My Father’s Wishes No. 1, 2014, Wallpaper, wood, mirror, 24kt gold leaf, gold plated chains, quartz crystals, metal, sunglasses and bronzed boxing gloves
Before language to Hemingway, from the ancient Sumerians to the Greeks to the modern day, there was the sport of boxing. With his exhibit 50 Grand, Chicago-based artist Carlos Rolón/Dzine will present a dually charged exploration of boxing and domestic culture, inspired by the tactility and performative qualities of boxing, and its relationship to contemporary art at Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St. Though the third iteration of the exhibit, it will features a newly commissioned performative installation of live sanctioned Golden Gloves fights, organized by Indy Boxing and Grappling and sponsored by Top Rank Productions. The exhibit is a nod to Ernest Hemmingway’s 50 Grand, and like the story explores the relationship between courage and professionalism.
With this exhibit, Rolón continues to mine his childhood memories. He invites the viewer to step into intimate scenes such as his family’s wood-paneled basement, decorated with gold garlands and vintage beer placards, where his father would watch prize fights like Roberto Durán V. Sugar Ray Leonard, also known as the No Más Fight. This fight was particularly important for Rolon growing up as it allowed him to sit for short periods of time connecting with his father.
Rolón monumentalizes his blue-collar trophy den as the setting for his exhibition, creating an homage not only to boxing culture, but also to Puerto Rican immigration to America.
Within the exhibition is a newly commissioned performative installation of live Golden Glove fights organized by Indy Boxing and Grappling scheduled June 2 and July 7, 7-9 p.m. Fighters will wear robes designed by Rolón on each of the three scheduled fights then on display when the ring is inactive.
Within the main gallery is an installation of paintings and sculptural fabric works exuberant with color, texture, patterns, and experiments in surface that create a visual dialogue between the physical charge of boxing, the garments worn by the fighters, and the artist’s own childhood home and upbringing as a first generation immigrant. Occupying the den is a series of custom-made trophies entitled Immigrants/Emigrants (Symbols and Mementos for the Nuyoricans) created, as the artist states “for people like my father and mother who came to the U.S for a better life with dreams and aspirations that never quite materialized, but still achieved success in other aspects of their life.”
The exhibit runs through July 22 open Monday-Friday 9 am-6 pm, Saturdays 11-3 with extended evening hours every first Friday.
Made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Fund, Top Rank Productions, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Sun King Brewery
About Carlos Rolón/Dzine (b. 1970, Chicago, IL)
Rolón attended Columbia College Chicago with a concentration in painting and drawing. Rolón has been recognized for his elaborately crafted paintings, ornate sculptures and works that come out of American, Latino and uniquely based subcultures. His studio practice investigates pop culture, craft, ritual, beauty and its relationship to art history, subculture, appropriation and the institution. As a first-generation immigrant of Puerto Rican decent, the artist creates objects questioning the concept of luxury and craft making to explore questions of identity, integration and aspiration. His work also represents a detailed examination of curiosity and the process of art making and the cultures surrounding this. The work often addresses his biography by melding memory and the imaginary with carefully crafted, hybrid works that are playfully situated between the contradictory worlds of conspicuous consumption and urban artifact. The work is at once melancholic, excessive and exuberant, poised somewhere between celebration and regret. Rolón illuminates how the masculine can become delicate and the how the baroque can be minimal. The artist often channels this approach with site-specific installation work, vivid large-scale paintings and ornate sculptures in various materials expanding on ideas of self-reflection and imagined luxury. The works ultimately produce a hybrid language of social practice, painting and sculpture inviting the viewer to engage in discourse and discussion.
Rolón has had solo exhibitions at The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas; Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and CAM Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. His work has also been exhibited in group shows at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museo del Barrio, New York and Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Canary Islands; Oakland University Art Gallery, Michigan and Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico.
In 2007 Rolón represented Ukraine in the 52nd Venice Biennale. He is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation award for Painting and Sculpture. Rolón’s work is included in the following public collections: Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Brooklyn Museum, New York; City of Chicago Public Art Collection; Deagu Art Museum, Deagu; Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine, among others.
About Tube Factory artspace: Tube Factory is a 12,000 square foot museum space curated based upon the themes of community, place, memory and mythology. We commission local, regional, national and international contemporary visual and musical artists, borrow artifact-based exhibits and create community-sourced exhibits.
A previously vacant former manufacturing building, it is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Shauta Marsh is chief curator at Tube Factory artspace, curating and/or organized over 40 exhibitions including Inheritance: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba, Mound At Large: Trenton Doyle Hancock, Fermata: Richard Mosse, RCA: Scott Hocking, Richard Mosse: Fermata, Toyin Odutola, Mari Evans:Carl Pope, etc. Prior to working as a curator, she wrote for various national and local publications.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-05-13 12:00 - 14:00 | IN
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: Lylanne Mussleman
2017-05-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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. May’s featured poet is Lylanne Musselman.
Musselman is an award winning poet, artist, and playwright.
She is the arts blogger for Wheresthecat.com, and she also blogs at Writing Prompt Pit Stop.She is an occasional correspondent on WFHB radio’s BloomingOUT, with her feature “L” WordS. Lylanne’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Poetry Breakfast, cahoodaloodaling, The Rusty Nail, Wilderness Review Literary Journal, Umbrella, PANK, New Verses News, Tipton Poetry Journal, Art & Poems, Thread, Flying Island, Bird’s Eye reView, The Prose Poem Project, many Outrider Press Anthologies,among others. She was a winner of the Eli Jenkin’s Five & Country Senses Poetry Competition in September 2009, and she was runner-up in Indy’s Masterpiece in a Day in 2005 & 2006, and won 3rd place in 2008.
Lylanne teaches writing courses at IUPUI and American National University in Indianapolis, IN. In addition, she teaches online Comp, Argument, American Lit, Intro to Poetry, and Creative Writing for Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, IN. While liveing in Ohio, Lylanne instructed Creative Writing courses for the Lifelong Learning Center at Terra State Community College, Fremont, OH.
She also taught Creative Writing Workshops for Clyde Public Library in Clyde, OH, and for The 577 Foundation in Perrysburg, OH.
Lylanne has been a Board Member of the Tall Grass Writers Guild, Chicago, IL, since 2001, and she served as an elected Executive Board Member of The Society of the Study of Midwestern Literature, 2011-2014.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-05-25 18:00 - 21:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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.
A few 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 Part II
2017-05-27 12:00 - 14:00 | IN
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.

INOCENTE Documentary Screening
2017-06-01 17:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for dinner and a screening of the Oscar-award-winning documentary Inocente followed by a Q & A with the artist. You can learn more about the documentary at inocentedoc.com.
Made possible by the Central Indiana Alliance Against Hate and The Clowes Fund Inc, in partnership with Heartland Film, who screened the film in 2016,CHIP Indianapolis and the Immigrant Welcome Center.
About the artist:
Inocente is a San Diego artist and activist. 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 visit originalinocenteart.com.
Children are very welcome to attend all programming over the course of the weekend.
Say you’re coming on Facbeook: https://www.facebook.com/events/120965935139152/

HOME: Inocente Izucar
2017-06-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
When people first see the film INOCENTE, they meet and fall in love with the 15 year old version of the artist — homeless, confused, determined, hopeful, and hurt. But today, Inocente is 23 years old, just married, looking to purchase a new home, “something I never thought I’d be doing, let alone so early in life,” Inocente says. “I want this exhibition to be about hope and home, about hoping to finally find a permanent home with permanent people, a place to call my home.”
Made possible by the Central Indiana Alliance Against Hate and The Clowes Fund Inc. Held in partnership with Heartland Film, who screened the Oscar winning documentary Inocente in 2016, CHIP Indianapolis and Immigrant Welcome Center. The exhibition will be housed in the Listen Hear gallery at 2620 Shelby St, and will contain some of Inocente’s most recent work. The artist will be present on First Friday and available to answer questions.
Say you’re going on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1962048594027495/

Carlos Rolón: 50 GRAND, LIVE fights
2017-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Fights organized by Indy Boxing and Grappling. 50 GRAND, is a newly commissioned performative installation. The participating fighters will wear Rolón’s 50 GRAND robe. The robe is on display in the ring when the ring is not in use. The overall art exhibition, also titled 50 GRAND, is open 6-10 p.m.

Seating is limited but fights will be streamed on YouTube Live. Made possible by Herbert Simon Family Foundation (a Central Indiana Community Foundation affiliate), The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Top Rank Boxing, and Sun King Brewing Company.

Art Workshops with Inocente ages 8+
2017-06-03 11:00 - 15:00 | IN
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.
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Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-06-10 12:00 - 14:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Sue Swartz
2017-06-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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 | IN
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

July Art Workshops for ages 6 +
2017-07-05 16:00 - 17:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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)
