Six Ways To Sunday
2017-08-04 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Stories. Art. Drinks.
Six artist. Six stories. Coming together from Indiana and the Midwest, each artist provides works on paper available for purchase and a live performance the night of the opening. Performances range in topic but all deal with the artist’s personal history and background.

Drew Buys
Clare Gatto
Paolo Marino
Alex Meiser
Nick Witten
Liz Wierzbicki

Larissa Hammond: the / a mind the b mind
2017-08-04 18:00 - 2017-10-21 22:00
the/a mind the b mind, is a fully commissioned exhibit featuring four large scale paintings, one in collaboration with poet Ariana Reines.
The exhibit is several years in the making. “Through the years this show has evolved, my body has been attacking itself through my immune system,” says Hammond. “I went down many paths with both my art and physical body before I finally reached a turning point.”
The paintings happened after a series of conversations with Reines. “We spoke about the silence women carry, what it really means and feels like to give consent, communications that result from being mixed race and culture in America, the importance of ownership and protection over one’s own body, taking care, how crucial it is to identify as sane, and the importance of relating to other people with love and humor as a way through any kind of opposition,” says Hammond.
The paintings themselves are an exploration in communication using a collective unconscious that Hammond built through her writings alongside conversations with Reines. “This collective unconscious is a combination of my matrilineal cultural heritage (Afro-Caribbean), past experiences, and direct feedback from my body as I recovered from a brain injury,” says Hammond.
Born in Indianapolis, IN, Larissa Hammond studied Architecture and Linguistics at the University of Cincinnati before earning her BA from Portland State University. In 2012, Hammond earned her MFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art + Oregon College of Art & Craft. Since graduating, her thesis was purchased by conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer and she was named by Modern Painters Magazine as 1 of 25 Artists to Watch. Her first solo edition, THE REDDENING, was featured by Monograph Bookwerks and Triangular Press at the Codex International and LA Art Book Fairs. THE REDDENING was also purchased by the University of Iowa, Indiana University, and Oregon College of Art & Craft Rare / Artist Book Collections.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, poet, playwright, and translator Ariana Reines earned a BA from Barnard College, and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the European Graduate School, where she studied literature, performance, and philosophy. Her books of poetry include The Cow (2006), which won the Alberta Prize from Fence Books; Coeur de Lion (2007); and Mercury (2011). Her poems have been anthologized in Against Expression (2011) and Gurlesque (2010). Known for her interest in bodily experience, the occult, new media, and the possibilities of the long or book-length form, Reines has been described as “one of the crucial voices of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt on NPR’s Bookworm.
Made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation and Sun King Brewery.

Brick Street South Poetry Series:Lisa Devon
2017-08-17 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. August’s featured poet is Lisa Devon.
Lisa Devon is a suburban Mom who uses poetry to express her frustrations with the world. With topics ranging from politics to parenting, no one is spared her ire. Luckily for the listener, the madder she gets, the funnier it is. Lisa Devon’s work is heavily influenced by Dr. Seuss, with word play sandwiched between rhythm & rhyme. Her unexpected voice and impassioned performance offers a fun and fresh perspective on the issues we all face.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

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

Woodworking I - Dimensioning Lumber
2017-08-24 17:00 - 20:00, 2017-09-21 17:00 - 20:00 | 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 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
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Shop Safety and Orientation Part II
2017-08-26 12:00 - 14:00, 2017-09-23 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
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Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2017-09-09 11:00 - 13:00 | 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.

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

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

Belladonna of Sadness
2017-09-20 20:30 - 22:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci with J.R.R. Tolkien influences.
We will be discussing this film, the role witchcraft and superstition have played in gender roles throughout history, all in relation to our exhibit Larissa Hammond: the/ a mind the b mind.
The last film in the Animerama trilogy produced by the godfather of Japanese anime & manga, Osamu Tezuka and directed by his longtime collaborator Eiichi Yamamoto (ASTRO BOY and KIMBA THE WHITE LION), BELLADONNA unfolds as a series of spectacular still watercolor paintings that bleed and twist together. A young woman, Jeanne (voiced by Aiko Nagayama) is assaulted by the local lord on her wedding night. To take revenge, she makes a pact with the Devil himself (voiced by Tatsuya Nakadai, from Akira Kurosawa’s RAN) who appears as a sprite and transforms her into a black-robed vision of madness and desire.
Extremely transgressive, BELLADONNA is fueled by a mind-blowing Japanese psych rock soundtrack by noted avant-garde jazz composer Masahiko Satoh. The film has been newly restored by Cinelicious Pics using the original 35 mm camera negative and sound elements and including over 8 minutes of surreal footage cut from the negative. On par with Rene Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET and Ralph Bakshi’s WIZARDS as an LSD-stoked 1970s head trip, BELLADONNA marks a major rediscovery for animation fans. If Led Zeppelin had a favorite film, this would be it. In other words, Stairway to Hell.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Gregg DeBoor
2017-09-21 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. September’s featured poet and writer is Gregg DeBoor.
Born a bastard adopted by poetry, Gregg DeBoor is an advocate for those who stay up late at night and never stop being good to what they love. He’s a fellow author on Chatter House Press after having published his first book Street Girls Have Guns. He is also the winner of the 2011 Indianapolis Grand Slam. In Gregg’s words, poetry (not sure if this the word you meant by “it’s”. If not, then we can change it.) is all about the inner monologue and trusting yourself to listen.
Gregg is a touring and spoken word performance artist. For the past three years he has toured throughout the Midwest and East Coast at some of the most prominent venues of today.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Brick Street South Poetry Series: Nancy Chen Long
2017-10-19 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. October’s featured poet and writer is Nancy Chen Long.
Nancy Chen Long is the author of Light into Bodies, winner of the 2016 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry (forthcoming, University of Tampa Press, 2017) and the chapbook Clouds as Inkblots for the War Prone (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013). She is the grateful recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. You’ll find her recent and forthcoming work in Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, Crab Orchard Review, Zone 3, Briar Cliff Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Pleiades, Bat City Review, the Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, and elsewhere.
​As a volunteer with the local Writers Guild, Nancy coordinates a reading series and works with others to offer free poetry workshops to the public. To give back to the writing community at-large, she reviews poetry books and interview poets at the blog Poetry Matters, as well as on her blog nancychenlong.blogspot.com. She has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and an MBA, worked as an electrical engineer, software consultant, and project manager, and more recently earned an MFA. She works at Indiana University.
Free admission and parking. Beer and wine for purchase.

Ariana Reines
2017-10-21 13:00 - 15:00
Join us for a reading and talk with Ariana Reines. Named one of Flavorwire’s 100 best living writers and “a crucial voice of her generation” by Michael Silverblatt, Ariana Reines lives in Queens, mostly. Text from a Reines poem was used in the Larissa Hammond piece, Initiation. Hammond’s exhibit, The / a mind the b mind, is currently on display at Tube Factory. This event will mark the close of the exhibition. To ensure a seat, RSVP at email hidden; JavaScript is required
More about Ariana Reines:
Her books include The Cow (Alberta Prize, 2006), Coeur de Lion (2007); Mercury (2011), A Sand Book (2017), from FENCE, and The Origin of the World (2014) from Semiotext(e). TELEPHONE, her first play (2009) was commissioned by The Foundry Theatre and received two Obie Awards; a Norwegian translation will premiere in Mollebyen, Norway in 2017. FRANCESCA, a play by Nathalie Rozanes based on writings & performances by Reines premiered at the National Theatre of Belgium in 2016. Other performance & theatrical works include: MORTAL KOMBAT (2015), commissioned by Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne & performed at The Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA, & Gallery TPW, Toronto, CA, and LORNA (2013) at Martin E. Segal Theatre, New York, USA, both in collaboration with Jim Fletcher, The Origin of the World (2013) at Modern Art, London UK, & many others. Art exhibitions include PUBIC SPACE (2016), a collaboration with Oscar Tuazon at Modern Art in London, UK, EXHAUST (2016) at Contemporary Art Tasmania, AU, and JANE DARK (2014) at Western Front, Vancouver, CA. Reines is the translator of Baudelaire’s My Heart Laid Bare (Mal-O-Mar, 2009); Jean-Luc Hennig’s The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal:Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore(Semiotext(e) 2009); and Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials Toward a Theory of the Young-Girl (Semiotext(e) 2012). She has taught at Columbia University, the European Graduate School, NYU, Tufts, Naropa, The New School, & many other places. In 2009 she was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at the University of California-Berkeley. She astrologizes at lazyeyehaver.com.
This event is in partnership with University of Indianapolis and made possible by a grant through Indiana Humanities.

Homeless Voices
2017-11-03 08:00 - 2017-11-18 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
November 3-18
Join CHIP Indianapolis for a powerful, museum-like art experience filled with educational vignettes and audio and video stories from individuals experiencing homelessness in Indy. Combining audio, video, and tactile components, Homeless Voices immerses the visitor in the lives of individuals and families experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis. The exhibition will feature a collection of zines created by individuals experiencing homelessness, a virtual reality experience of what it’s like to live in a family shelter, and other artistic and educational opportunities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut!
2017-11-11 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Eat cake and read Vonnegut with us.

BeComing Whole: It Takes A Village To Heal A Community
2017-12-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
As part of the exhibition, Keeper of My Mothers’ Dreams, join artists featured in the installation, Sister Song. Sister Song is an interactive installation grounded within the context of community co-creation efforts, bronze womb shapes were given to selected artists to complete their transformation
Afriye We-Kandodis, Breon Tyler, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Maria E Hamilton Abegunde, Marilyn Michele Kunkle, Monica Johnson, Patricia Williams, Phyllis Viola Boyd and Tysha Ahmad will discuss how the project developed and what it means to become whole through the process of making art representing their own births. The artists will share why they accepted the invitation to participate, why they selected the “womb” that they did, how and why they selected the materials, what they learned about themselves in the process, and what was the most transformative part of the creation.
Image: Sister Song: Sapphire & Crystals by Patricia Williams

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

Artist Talk: LaShawnda Crowe Storm and Maria Hamilton Abegunde
2017-12-09 15:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
How and why do a visual artist and poet come together to create new works through individual and community practices? What guides them to make art that could lead to community healing? Why do they view the community as an essential component of art making, resistance, healing, and transformation? Join Lashawnda Crowe Storm and Abegunde as they share their history of art making and the potential of the arts to help individuals and communities heal from historical and personal traumas.

The Fiber Initiative
2018-01-06 11:00 - 15:00, 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!!”

Comedian Krish Mohan: Empathy on Sale
2018-01-06 20:00 - 23:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Comedian Krish Mohan returns to Indianapolis, IN with his new hour of comedy, “Empathy On Sale”.
Featuring Tyson Cox & Nick Witten
Hosted by Carson Tumey
Doors at 8pm. Show at 8:30pm.
Empathy On Sale: Stepping out our bubbles can be hard. Touring Comedian, Krish Mohan is exploring bubble culture and the current divide in today’s political climate. He uses his sharp wit & comedy to illustrate how race, identity politics, and misunderstanding progressivism has led to splitting us apart. He explores Native American culture, effective ways to treat mental illnesses and western culture’s obsession with war and violence – all of which pushes us further into our bubbles. Find out if he can figure out how we can get out of our bubbles!
About Krish: Krish Mohan is a socially conscious, Indian standup comedian and writer who regularly tours the country. He performs at small theaters, bars, comedy clubs, colleges and DIY venues with his quirky attitude, charming personality, and intelligent humor. Krish captivates and engages audiences of all backgrounds, tackling hot button topics like race, religion, war, immigration, while adding an optimistic philosophical & sociological twist! Mohan has also been featured on NPR and performed at several Fringe Festivals (IndyFringe, Pittsburgh Fringe, Capital Fringe, Philly Fringe Arts), where he has been an audience favorite with his unique brand of comedy & social vigilantism. He has also opened for nationally touring headliners like Stewart Huff, Redacted Tonight’s Lee Camp and Hari Kondabolu. Krish is also the host of the weekly socio-political commentary web show, “Fork Full of Noodles” and the podcast “Taboo Table Talk”.

Afriye We-kandodis: Telling Our Stories To Be Free
2018-01-13 03:00 - 17:00 | 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

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+
