Afriye We-kandodis: Telling Our Stories To Be Free
2018-01-13 03:00 - 17:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Selma, AL based 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, We-Kandodis will bring voice and life to Laura Nelson, a woman that was lynched with her 12 year old son, LD, on May 25, 1911.
Made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Alan Mills and Sun King Brewery.
Image: Afriye We-Kandodis by Kathryn Mayo from her We Are Selma Project.

Keeping Our Mothers' Dreams Alive
2018-01-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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 Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams will end with poetry readings, spoken word performances, and ritual to remember and give gratitude to all our Mothers’ Dreams.
With readings/performance from:
Manon Voice
Breon Tyler
Maurisa Li-A-Ping
Kimberly Licorish
Abegunde

About Abegunde

Abegunde is a Memory Keeper and ancestral priest who 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 dream time chanting silenced memories into spoken histories. On the weekdays, when she isn’t birthing new words out of sound and images, she shapeshifts into an IU professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center.

About Breon Tyler
Tyler is a visual artist from Gloucester, Virginia who also writes poetry. Her favorite medium is lithography, a form of printmaking. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and is wrapping up a master’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. Her research contemplates why and how Black people love despite the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual violence they have endured and are still enduring. Some of the things that bring her the most joy, aside from creating, include laughing, cooking, and dancing.

About Kimberly Licorish
Licorish has been writing poetry from the age of 11. She was born on the island of Barbados and moved to the United States when she was 16 years old. Her poems are inspired by her country—it’s traditions, music, history, food, people, and festivals.
Kimberly earned a BS in Psychology and a BA in Liberal Arts from IUPUI. It is there she developed her writing. Her poetic work has been published in the genesis Literary and Art magazine of IUPUI and has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the Best of scholarship for poetry. In 2013 she was invited to participate in The Borderlands Project spearheaded by Karen Kovacik, Indiana Poet Laureate and has been a featured poet at the IUPUI International Women’s Day celebration.
Kimberly is working to published her first book of poems. She is currently living in Indianapolis, Indiana with her daughter.

About Manon Voice

Manon Voice, is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana and is a poet, spoken word artist, event host, freelance writer, hip-hop emcee and social justice activist. Manon Voice seeks to use her art and activism to create a communal space where dialogue, transformation, discovery and inspiration can occur.

About Maurisa Li-A-Ping

Li-A-Ping is an Afro-Caribbean Black Queer Woman. She’s a storyteller and educator that utilizes poetry to promote student success. Maurisa is currently continuing her education as a Master’s student at IU and you can find her work published in (or forthcoming) in Black Diasporas, On Sisterhood Anthology and more.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with the October edition of SOUND LAB! Join me at Listen hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by placing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a improvisation set.

Audrey Barcio: Under Influence
2018-02-02 18:00 - 2018-04-14 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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

The Fiber Initiative
2018-02-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Organized by Tiana N. Cain, owner of i feel like dyeing, The Fiber Initiative is a program for all fiber lovers looking to network and learn with others who have similar interest.
For more info see: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ifeellikedyeing/
About Cain:
“I discovered knitting about five years ago; one of my coworkers gave me a book, yarn and needles! (how cool right??) One night visiting my parents, i was up late and couldn’t sleep. Thankfully I took my knitting; it was a beast at first but I GOT IT YALL!!! It all snowballed from there into EVERYTHING else!! I just couldn’t get enough!!! There is so much to the world of fiber and I want in on ALL of it! Any and every opportunity I get to play in fiber, I take it! Recently, I taught myself to spin!! I first started with a drop spindle and eventually graduated to a wheel! (both are my babies) Let me tell you…Oh my goodness!! It is so addicting. I can sit for hours on my porch and spin, sip coffee or tea, have a cocktail or glass of wine and LIVE!! It’s probably my favorite thing to do!!”

Post It
2018-02-09 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Photo:Mackenzie Loosemore, medium – resin, stickers, glitter, post-it
Artists Nick Witten and Danielle Graves will be hosting their inaugural event and fundraiser for Sugar Space. Artists from across Indiana will create unique works on post-it notes that will all be priced at $10 each. Twenty percent of sales will go to Sugar Space for supplies and funding future shows, while the rest will go back to the artist.
– Participating Artists –
Aaron Dodd
Abby Mendoza
Abigail Chestnut
Addeline Griswold
Alec Stewart
Alex Norris
Alexa Adamson
Alyson Love
Alyssa Deck
Alyssa Sellers
Angie Brooks
Annabella Habegger
April Knauber
Ash Windbigler
Ashley Woodrum
Auna Winters
Babelon Williams
Brent Lehker
Brian C Johnson
Brian Stovall
Briget Carroll
Brit Fukushima
Brooklynn Dischler
Caitlin McCready
Carly Purvis
Cassondra Graves
Chloe Karayiannis
Christina Hollering
Christine Plantenga
Claire Sweitzer
Cody Coffman
Cory Carpenter
Daniel Balmer
Daniel Jewett
Danielle Graves
Dave Lough
Dominic Senibalbi
Ellery Diaz
Emma Fiandt
Emma Hall
Emma Soukup
Erik Lundorf
Erin Case
Geraldine Diaz
Graham Marshall
Gustavo Ayala
Hailee Smith
Hannah Schriner
Hannah Thompson
Helen Ip
Henry Johnson
Iryna Bondar
Ivonne Carley
Jacob Mullins
Jennifer Gray
Jessica Kartawich
Jessica Springman
Jim Walker
Joelle Stille
John Clark
Jon Love
Jordan Thomas
Josh Haines
Joshua Mark
Kaitlyn DeSpain
Kara Heingartner
Kat Silver
Kate Lockhart
Katie Nocco
Kelli Renae
Kelsey Simpson
Kimberly McNeelan
Kitty Taylor
Kyle Agnew
Kylie Kinkoph
Lauren Ditchley
Lauren Dodge
Lauren Neely
Liz Wierzbicki
Lorie Lee Andrews
Lydia Crouse
Mackenzie Loosemore
Marck Ferrari
Maria Iqbal
Marissa Cohen
Mary McClung
Megan Kelley
Merideth Brooks
Michael Mirabile
Michael Moskaliuk
Michell Howard
Nat Russell
Nick Witten
Nicolas Cunningham
R.A. Buys
Rachel West
Rob Young
Ryan Felton
Sam Murphy
Sarah Mercado
Sarah Spomer
Serena Boehmer
Sharon Brooks
Shaunte Lewis
Shelby Alexander
Sidney Henry
Spencer Hannowsky
Stephanie Bunch
Tara Miller
Terrance Majors
Tori Weyers
Victoria Jenkins
Waxingmoon Temptress
Zach Carrico

Adults Only-Creativity Workshop
2018-02-11 16:00 - 18:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We’re partnering with The Outlet to bring you an afternoon of naughty creativity. Join us for a creativity workshop at Tube Factory Artspace.
This workshop is great for groups of friends, dates, valentines and others. Each participant will create a unique, collage, resin fetish box using naughty images and ephemera. Your one-of-a-kind artwork will be suitable for giving as a gift or keeping, and the box can be closed for privacy, or displayed as you wish. After all, we’re artists. We aren’t about to censor you!
The Tube Space Bar will be open for adult refreshments while you create your masterpieces.
We’re offering a reduced rate for any +1 participants when you register together. Individual registrations are $60, or two for $100.
This event is 21+

Adult Shorts
2018-02-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a selection of adult-themed short films. Those under 18 will not be admitted without a parent or guardian.

Frugal Fugazi
2018-02-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Make fashion art knock offs in this series of workshops with artists Sean Oreo and Nick Witten. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required as you will need to purchase supplies to make the works. If you want, works you make during this workshop series will be part of the Left Show exhibition at Guichelaar Gallery opening May 4.
Image still from Kreayshawn video “Gucci Gucci”
Directed By: @JOSEPHZENTIL
Produced By: @STRANGEARMAND
KREAYSHAWN.COM/
kreayshawn.tumblr.com
@KREAYSHAWN

Jim Walker-Brick Street Poetry Series
2018-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series is run by JL Kato. The series features a poet and an open mic the third Wednesday of every month. February features poet, Jim Walker.
Jim Walker is CEO of Big Car Collaborative, onprofit social practice art and placemaking nonprofit. Walker — who received his MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. — has worked as a teacher, journalist, designer, and public artist. He also currently teaches in the University of Indianapolis Social Practice Art and Placemaking graduate program. He has published Poetry Report, a book about writing poetry that featured interviews with several renowned poets. His poetry has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Cream City Review, Flying Island, and others.

Beer and wine available for purchase.

De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
2018-02-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
Latino artists talk about their experiences living in two culture and how it shapes their art practice. This session will feature Ronald David Lora-Castillo.
About Ronald David Lora-Castillo.
Ronald’s influences are simple. He looks for the writing on the wall. Growing up he was always fascinated by the subversive political graffiti of Dominican Republic, and Brooklyn, NY as much as by the cave paintings of Lascaux, in France. His primitive, and brut style dances with topics such as mental health, ecology and technology through his personal experience. He is inspired by artists such as Basquiat and Dubuffet for their treatment of street and outsider art. Ronald seeks to touch on universal emotions and situations through the language of primitive man, Art.

Moderated by Eduardo Luna

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

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves, each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration by placeing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a improvisation set.

Kate Wallich & The YC, Dance Church™
2018-03-03 11:00 - 13:00 | IN
Dance Church™ is a 90 minute, all abilities, movement class that offers a fun, nonexclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church™ is a communal space for everyone who wants to move their body. Co-presented with Big Car Collaborative.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2018-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 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

Frugal Fugazi
2018-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Make fashion art knock offs in this series of workshops with artists Sean Oreo and Nick Witten. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required as you will need to purchase supplies to make the works. If you want, works you make during this workshop series will be part of the Left Show exhibition at Guichelaar Gallery opening May 4.
Gif from Kreayshawn video “Gucci Gucci”
Directed By: @JOSEPHZENTIL
Produced By: @STRANGEARMAND
KREAYSHAWN.COM/
kreayshawn.tumblr.com
@KREAYSHAWN

Shop Safety and Orientation Part 2
2018-03-24 10:00 - 13:00 | IN
This class will teach you how to turn rough sawn lumber into useable boards. It’s one of the first building blocks of woodworking. We focus on how to choose wood, where to get it locally, and how each machine can help you prep wood for your projects. This class will give you in-depth instruction on how to use the table saw, planer, and jointer. Completion of this class grants you access to use these machines during Open Shop. We supply sample materials and give you the last hour to practice.
Prerequisite – Shop Safety Part 1
Tools used – table saw, jointer, planer
Materials (all provided) – Wood!
Class time – 3.5 hours
Cost: $75.00

De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
2018-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Latino artists talk about their experiences living in two culture and how it shapes their art practice. This session will feature Alexis Zarco.
Alexis graduated from Shortridge IB High School, and is eager to learn anything and everything possible about art and the community. He is serving at Big Car Collaborative as an AmeriCorps member, focusing on building and sustaining relationships for the better of not only the community, but for immigrants and refugees as well. When not at The Tube Factory, you’ll probably find Alexis at Super Tortas, making fresh Mexican food as he’s been doing since ’08.

Heart of the Ghost Trio
2018-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Heart of the Ghost is an improvisational unit from the Baltimore/Washington, DC area. Comprised of Jarrett Gilgore (Alto Saxophone), Luke Stewart (Double Bass), and Ian McColm (Drums), this group is the culmination of years of encircling orbits. Collectively encompassing a massive variety of interests and collaborations and themselves known players in the circles of improvised music, these three find common ground within their individual vocabularies: an aim to deconstruct and reshape canonized creative tropes into a new & stunning language.

have your cake and eat it too (congratulations)
2018-04-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Herron School of Art and Design Painting Thesis exhibition featuring: Chase Palmer, Tillman Reyes, Genevieve St. Arnaud, Lydia Crouse and Tom Day.
About Lydia Crouse
Crouse describes her work as “a romanticized collision of my honest identity—an individualized American woman— with elements from our glorified popular culture. All the while embracing my own naiveté, experience, and passion with skepticism and humor.”
About Tom Day
Day’s work centers around culture and bridging societal gaps through portraiture. “I paint people in attempt to learn about other cultures, but mostly to understand them,” says Day. ” Although there are many social divides in the world, I’m wanting to convey a sense of togetherness and equality of the human race.”
About Chase Palmer
“Today, we are more frequently exposed to a multitude of imagery than ever before,” says Palmer. “We are surfing the internet, looking at the social media postings of our friends and even strangers, and taking photographs on our phones. While looking at so much imagery on the internet, we are unconsciously reading more frequently than any other previous culture. We do this while working, commuting, socializing, or lounging at home, and while munching on conveniently obtained artificially flavored junk foods that are slowly suffocating our disgusting arteries.”
Palmer’s dilemma as a young contemporary artist is how does he accurately reflect this culture? His answer: Paint it all at once. “In my work, I assault the space with an over-construction of activity made up of various painterly inventions that come from improvised intuition. All of this comes from a process that is completely automatic and improvised,” says Palmer.
“The question of how to approach painting a figure is so shrouded in questions. Whenever I paint the figure in a traditional manner, I feel like a deadpan mechanical printer that has mastered the long-outdated technology of applying pigmented glue to canvas. I invent my own space that exists solely in the world of images. I layer these invented compositions over a more traditional subject in order to mimic augmented reality technology that is becoming more present in our smartphones, video games, and GPS technology. However, in my work, the digital does not replace reality, paint does.”
About Tillman Reyes
Reyes work serves as a “record” of a place in time. His paintings, installations, and sculptures highlight a seemingly insignificant event in everyday life, recreated in a gallery setting.
About Genevieve St. Arnaud
St. Arnaud’s artwork is an interpretation of her childhood through the perspective of a young woman finding her identity away from home. Her pallet is warm and inviting to characterize the optimism in youth with the use of color and texture to spark senses and emotions from childhood. She also incorporates non-traditional materials such as fabric, paper, thread and wire in the works to exemplify a feeling or place. “For example, patterned fabric can be soft and comforting, and remind me of home. Yet, wire can be aggressive and give a feeling of anxiety or edge. I use materials that serve as the base of many functioning objects to signify origin. I combined the paint and mixed materials to represent the push and pull between the past and present. Just as I remember these childhood moments in fragments, I apply mixed media in various parts,” says St Arnaud.
Process is important to her practice. “There is a self-discovery that occurs when I compare new and old materials. I use memorable stories, and photographs to inspire my collage-like paintings”, says St. Arnaud. “By combining my inspiration and materials I am able to transform a past moment. The moment becomes an understanding or vision of how I see it now.”
Symbolism also pervades her work to represent the innocence of childhood. These symbols at times are a stand in for important figures in her life. “Such as a strawberry signifying my mother. I merge my abstract collages with distinct imagery to recreate a scene or memory,” says St Arnaud. She invites the audience to be a part of her stories so they can understand the growth she’s made in discovering her authentic identity since leaving home. “When I revisit a memory I find that not only has my view of the memory transformed, but also so have I.”

Danielle Graves-Pure and Sexless
2018-04-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
It’s common, in the checkout lane at the grocery store, to see nearly naked women on magazine covers. Companies use bodies to sell stuff and sex on the Internet. And parts fly everywhere in video games. Still, something that remains taboo is art that addresses double standards between the sexes and celebrates the female body. This is why the work of Danielle Graves is important, especially in Indianapolis.
“You enter to find that corporate labels have interfered with incorruptibility. That contradiction has met desire. That an idealistic heaven has met an idealistic hell—a good girl has gone bad. She partners with purity to be sexualized—runs with her sexuality to be sanitized. She is made harmless yet is harmful—sinning for pleasure and indulged upon for corporate gain. She, like many — all — women before her, is a body pressured to be pure, a body that is a sexualized commodity of society, a body that has no will. Pure and Sexless is about finding comfort in the absurdity,” says Graves about the exhibit and the accompanying installation, Virgin Mary Vagina, in the unisex restroom at Listen Hear.
Our culture needs to develop further confidence in celebrating and looking directly into the heart (or in the case of the bathroom at Listen Hear, vagina) of what makes women different. The commissioned installation focuses on the part of the body that politicians and religious leaders most want to control. So if these pieces rub you the wrong way, we encourage you to reflect on why. —Shauta Marsh, curator
Virgin Mary Vagina, in the bathroom, a commissioned piece made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, will remain after this exhibit ends. (*Parental advisory*)
About Danielle Joy Graves
Graves was born and raised at the intersection of 114 and Mr. Rickard’s road. She currently resides in Indianapolis. She received her BFA in Illustration at Herron School of Art and Design and has pushed far from it. From soft sculpture to paper mache, Danielle is working towards creating a world not far from her reality.

WQRT Public Meeting
2018-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Learn more about helping out and creating programming for the radio station, 99.1 WQRT.

Brick Street Poetry Series--Laura Beth Johnson
2018-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Open mic and reading by Laura Beth Johnson organized by JL Kato.

The Immigrant Yarn Project-KnitNights
2018-04-26 17:30 - 18:30, 2018-05-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Would you like to be part of a nation-wide community art project?
Hundreds of artist / knitter / activists from around the country are collaborating in a single, magnificent gesture of unity, solidarity, and yarn-based creativity in a celebration of our nation’s glorious diversity. Organized nationally by Enactivist, a San Francisco-based 501(c)(3), the project is brought to Indianapolis by Mary Jo Bayliss. There is no cost at all to be part of this project and it is a purely democratic (by the people) and colossal work of public art, representing a cross section of the American experience. We think it’s time to rise above division and come together to celebrate what we all have in common – citizenry in a nation composed of diverse backgrounds, families, politics, faiths, identities and ideas.
Countless small squares and pieces have come into the studio, and more knitted by immigrants and their descendants arrive everyday. From high schools to retirement centers, from California to Maine, we have collected these works of art, representing a personal or familial story. The pieces are compiled, sewn together and fashioned into over 100 sculptural columns, in a single colossal work of yarn-based art. First displayed at Fort Point National Historic Site, at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in May 2019, and then in locations throughout the USA, the Immigrant Yarn Project will provide a testament to the creative spirit of our shared immigrant heritage. It is a celebration of our national gestalt, where the whole is different and as magnificent as the sum of its parts.
See https://enactivist.org/ to learn more about the organization behind this nationwide public art project.

Have You Seen This? …. Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick
2018-04-30 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 internet 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

Art: A Social Practice
2018-05-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
One night, five University of Indianapolis graduate students: Lauren Ditchley, Linnea Gartin, Brittany Kugler, Emma Landwerlen and Danielle Wilborn have created an interactive show that invites you to explore the Garfield Park Neighborhood.
Presented by University of Indianapolis and Big Car

The Immigrant Yarn Project-KnitNight
2018-05-17 17:30 - 18:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Red Line Movie Night-My Neighbor Totoro
2018-05-17 20:00 - 23:00 | Safeway, 2176 Shelby St., IN, 46203, United States
The Red Line is coming to South Indianapolis and Garfield Park. And to help us get into the mindset of celebrating and thinking about transit we’ll show “My Neighbor Totoro” in the parking lot of Safeway, transit related arts activities and a short film of stuntman Evel Knievel jumping 14 buses on his red, white and blue motorcycle preceding the movie. Safeway will be open so you can grab dinner at the cafe to enjoy with the movie.
Follow the adventures of Satsuki and her four-year-old sister Mei when they move into a new home in the countryside. To their delight, they discover that their new neighbor is Totoro, a mysterious forest spirit who can only be seen by children. Totoro introduces them to extradordinary characters — including a cat that doubles as a bus! — and takes them on an incredible journey.
There will be around 50 chairs that are free to use but we also recommend you bring your own if you are arriving later.
Special thanks to Safeway, The Arts Council of Indianapolis, and Transit Drives Indy, and Public House Cinema for making this event possible. Learn about other Ready for The Red Line projects here.

The Immigrant Yarn Project-KnitNight
2018-05-24 17:30 - 18:30 | IN
