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April 2022

Mayasa Design House: In Color

April 1, 2022 @ 8:00 am - April 24, 2022 @ 5:00 pm
Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St,
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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I am always seeking ways to blend the art in my soul, blur the genres, and allow a cohesive expression to come from multiple places within. -Uzuri Asad, Mayasa Design House Listen Hear will host paintings, jewelry and other items from Uzuri Asad of Mayasa Design House. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Uzuri Asad now lives and works in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis as part of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist in Public Life Residency program. She’s a singer, dancer,…

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Drea Cofield: All At Once

April 1, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - May 23, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Alla prima is the Italian term for the material technique of wet on wet painting, and literally translates to "at the first", but I prefer to read "all at once" as it denotes a kind of urgent submission to the sensorial subject that parallels the sublimation of my more libidinal imagery into the touch of the landscape. Like a lover lost in the realms of desire, a pendulous breast or glistening ass becomes the wet slip of a brushstroke, the…

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May 2022

Juan Chawuk: Iridiscencia Cultural

May 6, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - July 17, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Juan Chawuk invites viewers to experience his home state of Chiapas, Mexico through paintings, photography, sculptures and murals. As part of an ongoing series, this work shines light on the multicultural citizens of Chiapas, how they’ve coexisted for centuries, and how conflict there has fostered new ways of creating. As an indigenous Maya Tojobal artist, Chawuk’s photographs show how cultures fuse together a shared iconography including some imposed by outside cultures with what remains from traditions of the past —…

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June 2022

Rob Funkhouser- Study In Place

June 3, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - July 24, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Study in Place is a set of interactive sound sculptures and instruments that celebrate the everyday sounds and objects around us. An attempt to unify diverse threads in his creative practice, daily life, and occupation, Funkhouser seeks a reckoning with the tension between falling into routine and cultivating long-term personal growth. “Moving to Indianapolis caused in me this profound, almost cosmic, sense of being in the right place at the right time. It afforded me both the right economic circumstances, and…

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August 2022

Qahar Behzad: The Colors of Afghanistan

August 5, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Opening in Tube Factory artspace's Guichelaar Gallery is a collection of works by Behzad created between the years 2011-2022 in Afghanistan and the US. Behzad grew up in Kabul in a family of book publishers, surrounded by centuries-old historical texts and rare books of poetry in his father’s libraries and bookstores. Behzad remembers reading traditional Afghan storybooks his father published that directly influence the art he creates. Behzad paints about life in Afghanistan, often from observation, depicting places like Kabul’s…

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Carlie Foreman: Full Disclosure

August 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - September 18, 2022 @ 3:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Full Disclosure’s mixed media works find inspiration in collective memory and how it’s intertwined with the natural world. Foreman looks at the relationship between symbolism in ancient sites, churches and secret societies. She also explores modern-day meme culture in relation to familiar patterns of sacred geometry and environmental symbols. She views the research, process, and creation of this work as a vehicle for spiritual transformation. Foreman says: “A built network of beliefs becomes ingrained in the DNA of the land,…

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LaShawnda Crowe Storm-Sister Song:The Requiem

August 5, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - October 16, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Sister Song: The Requiem is a community-based project that examines how art and community co-creation processes can be used to heal the intergenerational trauma associated with enslavement and its aftermaths. The project, led by artist LaShawnda Crowe Storm, blurs the lines between the public and private by transforming mundane places into sacred spaces through public rituals.   A requiem is an act of remembrance for the dead. How does honoring the dead give life to the living? How do the living…

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Sister Song Womb Makers Artist Talk

August 6, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Hear from some of the artists and community members that LaShawnda Crowe Storm invited to create a womb. Womb makers adapted and modified the womb by following these simple directions: "Make this into a talisman or spiritual object to heal your/our histories, be willing to allow what needs to emerge to emerge, and transform the womb to reflect a vision of healing." Each womb maker had to continuously ask themselves the question, “How do I reclaim the ‘spirit of the…

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Amy Kligman and Ish Muhammad In Conversation

August 17, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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Learn more about two of the artists selecting this year's Power Plant Grant recipients! Amy Kligman has been the Executive Artistic Director at Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO since 2015. Kligman’s career and experience as an exhibiting artist and grassroots curator/arts administrator spans 20 years of studio & exhibition work, independent curating and organizing, and artist-run projects. In 2011 Kligman was one of a team of 5 artist-curators who established Plug Projects, an artist-run project space in Kansas…

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Dear Black Girl with Tamara Winfrey Harris

August 20, 2022 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203 United States
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A public reading and discussion around the book "Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters About Stepping Into Your Power." Tamara Winfrey-Harris is a writer who specializes in the ever-evolving space where current events, politics and pop culture intersect with race and gender. She says, “I want to tell the stories of Black women and girls, and deliver the truth to all those folks who got us twisted—tangled up in racist and sexist lies. I want my writing to advocate…

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