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September 2021
Nick May: Fag Family
"Fag Family is a series of double portraits of individuals in my queer community. These portraits capture the queer relationships, queer spaces, and the liberating magic of queer world-building that I have the privilege to observe and be a part of," says May. "Historically, portraiture was a display of wealth and power; a luxury afforded only to the rich, affluent, white aristocracy. Queer individuals, especially queer individuals of color, have been totally erased from that history. I vehemently reject the…
Find out more »Ambience Room:A Social Mixer
Ambience Room serves as a revival space where art and music lovers can socialize, hydrate themselves, charge their phones and find themselves dancing to the different variations of electronic music. Enjoy pov polaroid cameras, art installations and possible goodies 🙂 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Presented / Hosted by: @sweetgarbij @faithocean @iam5laphouse Sounds by: @iam5laphouse@obiquawn @fatboyfabio @taylorgroft and nirrti azül 🙂 Vending by: @email hidden; JavaScript is required @shueclothing@medusasheadshoppe@nineties_airport @underworldkingpin Art installation by @styledbyfei
Find out more »Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde-Remembering What I’d Rather Forget
Join us for a reading, talk about writing as a process and act of witnessing, remembering, healing, imagining and activating healing and justice. Audience Q& A with Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde follows. The event will also play live on 99.1 WQRT. You can stream at www.wqrt.org Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde, Ph.D. is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, healing facilitator, doula, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work are grounded in contemplative and…
Find out more »Words and Music-From The Belly: Etheridge Knight
In this installment of Words & Music, an audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Sean Smith aka, Oreo Jones, explores the fascinating life and poetry of an Indiana Icon, Etheridge Knight. Susan Neville, Adrian Matejka, Hanako Gavia, and Smith discuss Knight’s later years as a poet living in Indianapolis, his critically acclaimed publishings after prison, and the art of meddling. Born in rural Mississippi, Etheridge Knight would grow to become one of the most prolific voices…
Find out more »November 2021
Eternity 123
Change is a central element to the avant-garde Japanese dance form of Butoh. As a part of the Spirit & Place Festival, Big Car Collaborative and Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective have partnered to present choreographer and performer Vangeline presents an original work, Eternity 123Â , that asks audiences to see Butoh as a way to transmute the pain and discord of societal shifts into art. Eternity 123, is the third installment of a feminist dance triptych choreographed and performed by Vangeline.…
Find out more »December 2021
A Normal Market: Lapis Lily, Vintage Kat & Mom, Celestial Arts & Antiques
Normal Coffee has your breakfast and hot beverages covered on Sundays. About Lapis Lily I am a sustainable artist and love to create with found goods. I will ship with recycled materials. I source all shipping materials myself and save them from landfills. Sometimes I create boxes to specifically fit your item. I want to do what's best for the environment while helping you decorate your home. About Vintage Kat & Mom This mother daughter duo vend vintage and boho…
Find out more »January 2022
Snuggy Bear Presents: MLK Day 2022
Live programming from 12p-5p on WQRT 99.1 FM TImes are subject to change. SunggyBear Presents 12:00 Oreo Jones (Opening introduction building understanding of concept.) 12:15 Ashley Gurvitz (Community Advocate) 12:45 Tiana Cain (APLR Artist, Entrepreneur) 1:15 Thomas Kneeland (Published Poet) 1:45 Rebecca Robinson (Visual Artist, "18 Collective") 2:15 Oreo Jones (APLR Artist, Recording Artist, Station Manager) 2:45 Carrington Clinton (APLR Artist, Performing Artist) 3:15 Quinton Holland (Counselor and Therapist, Entrepreneur) 3:45 Andrea Hunley (IPS Principal, State Senate Candidate) 4:30 Ebony…
Find out more »February 2022
Create Hear: Laura Foster Nicholoson
Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond. In this episode, Shauta Marsh interviews New Harmony, IN based textile artist Laura Foster Nicholson, who recently received the Dehaan Artist of Distinction Award. Her exhibit "Scenes from the Carbon Border" runs February 4-April 18 at Tube Factory artspace.
Find out more »March 2022
Kelvin Burzon and Jenny Delfuego: Process/Progress
Multi-genre visual artists Kelvin Burzon and Jenny Delfuego are creating movement-based work to accompany their visual art as part of a partnership between Big Car Collaborative and Indy Movement Arts. In the fall of 2020, Indy Movement Arts began experimenting with small, digital fellowships as a small contribution towards the arts economy and keeping artistic production viable. The Process/Progress residency is the latest iteration of this experiment, paying intermedia artists to reflect on their creative process and how they incorporate…
Find out more »Kris Graves: A Southern Horror
Kris Graves creates artwork that deals with societal problems and aims to use art as a means to inform people about cultural issues. He also works to elevate the representation of people of color in the fine art canon; and to create opportunities for conversation about race, representation, and urban life. Graves creates photographs of landscapes and people to preserve memory. “In Summer 2020 a collective uprising rooted in local civic engagements ricocheted around the world in response to the…
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