BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Big Car - ECPv6.9.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Big Car X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.bigcar.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Big Car REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190705T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190705T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20190529T214947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190626T195226Z UID:8075-1562349600-1562364000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Aurora PhotoCenter at Tube Factory: Keliy Anderson-Staley DESCRIPTION:Aurora PhotoCenter officially launches this summer\, joining Indianapolis with an inaugural community-focused workshop and exhibition by renowned tintype artist Keliy Anderson-Staley. \n\nThis exhibition will be open July 5-19 in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery.\n\n\nIn June 2019\, Anderson-Staley set up her tintype studio at Tube Factory and made 70 tintype portraits over a four-day period. This exhibition showcases portraits made during Anderson-Staley’s visit to Indianapolis\, as well as subjects photographed in other American cities from New York to Cleveland to Houston to San Francisco. A selection of historical tintypes from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites provide context for the modern portraits and show how the medium shaped our identity as a state and nation from photography’s earliest days. \n\n\n\n\n\nTo make a tintype\, a light sensitive collodion emulsion is mixed and poured onto each plate shortly before a portrait is made. Tintypes need long exposure times\, so the subject must remain completely still for up to 30 seconds to produce a sharp image. People sitting for tintypes often don’t smile\, as it is difficult to hold a smile perfectly still for the length of the exposure.\n\n\n \n\n\nUnlike the instantaneous digital selfie of today\, a tintype portrait is an intimate collaboration between the photographer and the sitter\, resulting in a one-of-a-kind portrait and experience. These portraits are rich in atmosphere and detail\, emphasizing an often intense and mesmerizing gaze. Anderson-Staley’s beautifully textured tintype portraits use 19th-century technology to depict the wholeness of what “American” means today.\n\n\n\n\n\nKeliy Anderson-Staley was raised off the grid in Maine\, studied photography in New York City\, and currently lives and teaches photography at the University of Houston in Texas. Her images are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress\, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art\, Portland Museum of Art (Maine)\, and Museum of Fine Arts-Houston. Her work was published in a solo issue of Light Work’s Contact Sheet and has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian\, SFO Museum\, Akron Art Museum\, Bronx Museum of Art\, Southeast Museum of Photography and the California Museum of Photography\, as well as at a number of non-profit art institutions and galleries around the country. In 2016 she completed a major public commission for the city of Cleveland\, producing fifty large-scale portraits for installation in the airport tunnel of the rapid transit line. A book of her portraits\, On A Wet Bough\, is available from Waltz Books. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery. \n\n\n\nFounded by local artist-photographers\, Adam Reynolds\, Craig McCormick\, and Mary Goodwin\, Aurora Photo Center serves as a creative bridge between artists and the greater photographic community with a regional\, national\, and international perspective. Aurora will be a place where artists meet\, create\, share work\, and find inspiration. \nIn its first year\, Aurora will focus on awareness of photography as a medium for art and social expression. By hosting partnerships and pop-up-style events\, Aurora will work to build a community in central Indiana around the medium of photography through exhibits\, conversations\, and workshops. As Aurora grows and receives non-profit status\, it will establish a dedicated gallery space\, along with darkroom and studio facilities for both community education and working artists. \n“Photography was once a medium permanently documenting history\, family\, and places. Today it is a momentary medium ruled by innuendo\,” says Craig McCormick\, Aurora co-founder. “Through Aurora\, we hope to explore how photography becomes art in fast and slow times.” \nPartnering with Big Car Collaborative in the Garfield Park neighborhood\, Aurora’s inaugural event will feature Anderson-Staley’s ongoing tintype portrait series\, [hyphen] American. Based out of Houston\, TX\, Anderson-Staley has spent the past decade travel- ing the country with a portable 19th century tintype studio capturing a typological portrait survey of the human faces that make up today’s America. Her next stop is Indianapolis\, where she will be holding a tintype workshop and portrait sessions open to the community\, followed by a curated exhibition of her tintype portraits from Indianapolis and beyond. \n“Keliy’s project is an open invitation for Indianapolis to come together in a collective portrait of our city\,” says Aurora co-founder Mary Goodwin. “It gives us a chance to re-examine what it means to be ‘American’ today.”\n[hyphen] American will be on display in the Tube Factory’s Efroymson Gallery July 5-26 with an opening reception on July 5. Keliy Anderson-Staley will be in Indianapolis June 13-16 making tintype portraits. She will host a workshop on tintypes on June 15. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/aurora-photocenter-at-tube-factory-keliy-anderson-staley/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/58939881_2584059964941426_2014354668439732224_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190802T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190802T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20190719T171138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190719T171138Z UID:8172-1564768800-1564783200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Masters Retrospective II: Social Practice & Placemaking DESCRIPTION:The second cohort in UIndy’s MA in Social Practice Art exhibits their work from the last year in many neighborhoods in Indianapolis and from around the state\, including interactive and participatory projects in the gallery. \n*Closing Reception: Friday\, August 16\, 5-7 pm (Remarks at 6)\nGallery is free to attend & open during regular Tube Factory Artspace hours. \nEve Eggleston presents a series of social practice art projects to raise community awareness of the plight of the pollinators. This recent body of work re-purposed refuse in upcycling at Rabble Coffee in Indianapolis. Her current project is using beehives for education about urban agriculture\, sustainability\, environmentally healthy practices\, and pollinator value at IPS 39: William McKinley as part of their Learning Nature Center and at Jason Micheal Thomas’s urban farm\, Indy Urban Awareness Gardens. William McKinley hosts a live honeybee hive in their gardens and is a part of a curriculum to understand honeybees and other pollinators. Through working with their Garden Club\, ran by several teachers and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful\, the hive will provide pollination for their gardens and orchard. This project also included a full day of lectures\, demonstrations\, and activities for every class to familiarize the students with these issues. Part of this discussion was learning to understand not only the benefits of honeybees\, but all pollinators. To address native bee populations\, her thesis project expanded to include creating pollinator hotels with the Green Team of Groundwork Indy. These ongoing projects are always looking to expand. Please contact Eggleston with any inquiries or any opportunities. \n— \nIndianapolis artist Kindness AK is shaped by internal and external conflicts that have a tendency to manifest itself physically through the creative arts. Although some people would choose one specific platform to focus in\, she is unconsciously drawn to multiple artistic mediums and media. Her many life experiences\, ranging from scientific\, therapeutic\, and artistic\, have become embedded tools which she uses to rediscover and accept a more competent\, accountable\, and positive self-narrative. The M.A. in Social Practice Art program has helped her align her passions by exploring how placemaking can encourage healing-centered engagement through community building and self-reflection. Her exploration is through a series of projects that are based on personal and professional interest. Projects displayed include Transformative conversations\, Affirmation mirrors (individual and community)\, Trafficking\, and Lyles Station. These projects all in one way or another narrate how to enhance or identify the already “existing power of resiliency” within the self and/or community to hopefully initiate more access to social justice. Her broader objective is to increase resiliency and empowerment\, using art as a tool to promote critical reflection and build a more culturally inclusive lens of social justice and healing. \n— \nWriter and memoirist Sarah J. Wilson has deepened her exploration of Indianapolis’ Eastside neighborhoods through her social practice and placemaking projects. She grew up there and continues to live there. By collecting artifacts and oral history\, she has expanded her creative practice in writing and memoir to more directly engage residents on the Eastside and investigate its complicated and enduring history. This summer\, she has worked on the Eastside to collect local history and artifacts\, especially from youth and the aging population\, to create interactive social practice projects to commemorate this history and to celebrate its future. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/masters-retrospective-ii-social-practice-placemaking/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/40805813313_e46ee20ef1_z.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190802T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190802T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20190723T164208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190723T164208Z UID:8182-1564768800-1564783200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Jessica Uçul: White: Trash\, Washed\, Lies DESCRIPTION:White: Trash\, Washed\, Lies features work made from the artist’s personal collection of photography and video. \n\nAbout the artist \nJessica Uçul is an American artist who uses a variety of media\, including found and archival imagery and everyday objects to make photographs\, collages\, videos\, and sculpture. Uçul’s work maintains a regard for kitsch as a cultural expression of loss. Born and raised in Franklin\, Indiana\, Uçul received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She currently lives and works in Indiana. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/jessica-ucul-white-trash-washed-lies/ LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/01_Ucul_J_detail-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190810T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190810T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20190719T172413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190719T172413Z UID:8175-1565463600-1565474400@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Cry Salon DESCRIPTION:Featuring readings by Sammi Skolmoski\, William Joseph Gass\, and Jeremy Kennedy / Soundtracked by John Dawson and Jared Landberg\n\n\nAbout Performance:\n\nSammi Skolmoski\, William Joseph Gass\, and Jeremy Kennedy will present their contributions to the recently released book “Cry List”\, a collection of essays on the topic of crying\, along with a variety show other of poetic conversations\, and short plays. The soundtrack for the evening will be provided by John Dawson and Jared Landberg.\n\n— \nBios: \n\nSammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born\, living\, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a contributor at Reductress\, the Hard Times\, Bandcamp\, and elsewhere. Her first book\, a translation of several shooting screenplays by the Dardenne brothers from their original French\, came out in June. \nWilliam Joseph Gass (St. Louis) has worked in the direct patient caregiving industry since 2012. His wordage has been featured in publications including and from Art Papers\, Universal Love Upload\, and Penny-Ante\, among others. He is happily partnered with Dr. Monica Sentmanat and their pets Reagan (MacNeil) and Adele (Bertei). \nSince the late 1990’s\, Jeremy Kennedy has been creating and exhibiting sound\, artwork\, and concepts in both community and academic settings. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009\, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington\, Indiana. Kennedy is an active visual artist\, writer\, and sound-maker\, as well as co-founder and playwright with P/Sicho Street Theatre Company\, and a founding editor of Rebel Hands Press. \n— \n\nAbout: Cry List \nContributors: Chelsea Rector\, Jamie Iacoli\, Jeremy Kennedy\, Sammi Skolmoski\, William Gass \nPhotography: Ang Wilson \nCrying is nothing other than itself. Metaphor is a construct that brings crying out of itself… These essays are accounts of crying\, and the essay lists are not metaphors. It is a way for the authors to say that these things have takenthem\, emotionally\, directly. No metaphors. What these essays account is the form of agitation we call crying. From joy to sorrow\, the items listed explore the questions\, what does it take/what makes us cry?. The lists are a conceptual framework\, organizing the otherwise indomitable act of crying. \nThe essays each list five items that make the authors cry… Unlimited in range\, about the tangible or abstract\, the essays also ask you\, the reader\, to think about when you cry. “Cry List” is a collection of insights on opening the hermetically sealed core of crying through connection with another form of expression that appears outside the body. Scored throughout with watery photographic notation\, “Cry List” assembles a world of feeling\, tangential to objective reality. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/cry-salon/ LOCATION:Listen Hear\, 2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Cry-List_-Promo_Indy_sm.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20190906T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20200111T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20190711T204735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190722T211722Z UID:8156-1567792800-1578754800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination DESCRIPTION:In this new exhibition\, New-York-based multi-media artist Saya Woolfalk explores our understanding of the human condition — a state of affairs governed by seemingly unavoidable conflicts such as birth\, growth\, and death. This show explores how technology has allowed us to ease our suffering by making change less difficult and transformation more enjoyable. Perhaps the ultimate human technological advancement would be the elimination of mortality by extending human life indefinitely in a biological\, digital\, or other virtual state. Recent advances suggest our species may already be on the cusp of achieving this evolutionary landmark. \nWoolfalk’s exhibit at Tube Factory includes her signature installations\, sculptures\, prints\, video art works\, and the works of artists who influence her practice. It builds on one of her first projects\, No Place (a play on the translation of the word utopia)\, where she collaborated with filmmaker and anthropologist Rachel Lears. Both then in their mid 20s\, they invited people into Woolfalk’s studio to talk about their ideas of utopia and created work from there. \n“Similar to the way you would construct a folktale\, we took these ideas and we constructed the culture of the NoPlaceans. People would come to the studio\, put on costumes and enact the things that they were imagining\,” says Woolfalk who created a six-chapter ethnographic film about this future utopian world based on people’s visions. \nTo explore the conceptual boundaries of this cultural moment\, this also led Woolfalk to create a fictional transhuman species known as the Empathics\, which she describes as a race of women who are able to alter their genetic make-up and fuse with plants. “If you have a utopia\, then how do you actually make that utopia real? I worked with biologists at Tufts University to think about what in nature could occur in order for people to mutate to become more like plants.” \nWoolfalk’s Tube Factory installation will extend the story of the Empathics\, blending multi-media aesthetic phenomena\, spirituality\, cultural hybridization\, capitalism\, technoscience\, and artificial intelligence to conjure a broad network of interconnecting philosophical strands. Informed equally by science fiction and anthropology\, the morally ambiguous future that the exhibit shares is open to the interpretation of its viewers. “Going from modularity to monumentality is how I approach my practice. I work in ways that are incredibly small and I also work in ways that are incredibly big. The work functions like collage.” \nShould we fear the world Woolfalk and other transhumanist artists are mapping? Should we embrace it? Should we shrug it off as a Pollyannic fantasy\, doomed by the human idiot factor? Woolfalk seems to be implying a potentially disturbing fourth option: Some of us — particularly those with special status or outlandish means — have already started to transform. Is this art\, or a warning shot across the cultural bow of the human race? \n\nAbout the artist  \nWoolfalk (b 1979\, Japan) is a pioneer within an emergent\, international aesthetic movement examining transhumanism — a theoretical belief that humans will mobilize technology to transcend their biological limitations and evolve into a non-human\, or “posthuman” race. With each body of work\, Woolfalk continues to build the narrative of The Empathics and questions the utopian possibilities of cultural hybridity. She has exhibited at museums\, galleries\, and alternative spaces throughout Asia\, Europe and the United States including solo exhibitions at the Montclair Art Museum\, Montclair\, NJ (2012); the Chrysler Museum of Art\, Norfolk\, VA (2014); the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (2014); SCAD Museum\, Savannah\, GA (2016); Everson Museum of Art\, Syracuse\, NY (2016); Sheldon Museum of Art\, Lincoln\, NE (2016); the Mead Museum of Art\, Amherst\, MA (2017) and group shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem; MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY; the Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, PA.\, the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago\, among many others. \n“When I started making work it was very important that it was not autobiographical\,” says Woolfalk. “The work is not about me at all. The work is about talking to people about their ideas and trying to understand what’s going on in the world then taking that material and adapting it into installation based spaces that people can experience.” \nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Efroymson Family Fund. \nPart of the Social Alchemy Series\, this exhibition is in partnership with the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. \nImage: Saya Woolfalk\, Encyclopedia of Cloud Divination\, Plate 2\, 30”x40”\, 2018. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/saya-woolfalk-the-empathics/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SW_Encyclopedia-of-Cloud-Divination-Plate2_HR.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210325T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210325T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210323T030205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T030205Z UID:9150-1616697000-1616706000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Power Plant Grant Information Session DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the new annual Power Plant Grant program made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on March 25\, 6:30pm\, April 1\, 6:30pm or April 15\, 6:30pm. The grants provide visual artists who live\, work\, or run spaces in Indianapolis with grants ranging from $2\,000 to $10\,000. Applications for this round are due by April 26\, 2021.\nEligible applicants are visual/multidisciplinary artists who create original work in painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, book art\, ceramics\, fiber\, printmaking\, digital/media works\, film\, video\, photography\, performance art\, sound art\, social practice and/or hybrid or interdisciplinary practice of any/all of the above.\nArtists must be over 21 at the time of the application\, and may not be full-time students.\nArtists must live and/or work in Indianapolis.\nEmployees or board members (or immediate family members of employees or board members) of Big Car Collaborative are not eligible for this opportunity.\nTeams\, partnerships\, and unincorporated individuals running spaces are eligible. Nonprofit organizations are not. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/power-plant-grant-information-session/ CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BigCar-PowerPlantGrant-logo_rev3_horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210331T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210331T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210323T031045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T031729Z UID:9162-1617213600-1617217200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Words & Music-In the Heart of the Heart of the Country DESCRIPTION:In this first installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers\, Hoosier authors Susan Neville\, Adrian Matejka\, Kevin McKelvey\, and Jim Walker discuss the sublime beauty and challenges of Indiana through the lens of William H. Gass’s 1968 fiction story\, “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.”\nThe episode features excerpts of the story as well as a conversation about what it means to be a writer living and working in Indiana. This launches an eight-part series made possible by Indiana Humanities and produced by WQRT and Big Car Collaborative.\nYou can listen live via the streaming link or listen on regular FM radio in Indianapolis by tuning in to 99.1 FM. After it debuts on the station\, it will be available for listening online. We’ll share that link here.\nAbout the participants in this show (all Indiana writers):\nSusan Neville is the author of six works of creative nonfiction and her collections of short fiction include The Town of Whispering Dolls\, winner of the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction; In the House of Blue Lights\, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize; and Invention of Flight\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches at Butler University.\nAdrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg\, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis\, Indiana. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2018-19. He is the author of five award winning books and his first graphic novel\, “Last On His Feet” is forthcoming from Liveright in 2022.\nKevin McKelvey is a place-based poet\, writer\, designer\, and social practice artist. He teaches at University of Indianapolis and directs the M.A. in Social Practice Art and oversees the undergraduate major in Environmental Sustainability. At University of Indianapolis\, he founded Etchings Press\, a student-run publisher\, helped start a community garden and microfarm\, and has contributed to numerous interdisciplinary efforts for students and the community.\nJim Walker is a poet\, artist\, and teacher who believes everyone deserves open access to the joys of art\, creativity\, and great public places. A co-founder and executive director of Big Car Collaborative\, Jim worked previously as a journalist (writer\, photographer\, editor\, and designer). He’s a student of cities and enjoys spending time with his family\, supporting his Garfield Park neighborhood\, walking\, biking\, travel\, reading\, and baseball. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/words-music-in-the-heart-of-the-heart-of-the-country/ CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Listen Hear,Shelby St. Corridor,The Show Room,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WordsAndMusic_logo_horizontal-crop.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210401T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210401T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210323T030328Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T030328Z UID:9158-1617301800-1617310800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Power Plant Grant Information Session DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the new annual Power Plant Grant program made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on March 25\, 6:30pm\, April 1\, 6:30pm or April 15\, 6:30pm. The grants provide visual artists who live\, work\, or run spaces in Indianapolis with grants ranging from $2\,000 to $10\,000. Applications for this round are due by April 26\, 2021.\nEligible applicants are visual/multidisciplinary artists who create original work in painting\, drawing\, sculpture\, book art\, ceramics\, fiber\, printmaking\, digital/media works\, film\, video\, photography\, performance art\, sound art\, social practice and/or hybrid or interdisciplinary practice of any/all of the above.\nArtists must be over 21 at the time of the application\, and may not be full-time students.\nArtists must live and/or work in Indianapolis.\nEmployees or board members (or immediate family members of employees or board members) of Big Car Collaborative are not eligible for this opportunity.\nTeams\, partnerships\, and unincorporated individuals running spaces are eligible. Nonprofit organizations are not. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/power-plant-grant-information-session-2/ CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/BigCar-PowerPlantGrant-logo_rev3_horizontal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210411T171500 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210323T023249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210323T023249Z UID:9145-1618142400-1618161300@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Art Dog DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first event of 2021 at Tube Factory! We are partnering with food artist extrodinaries\, Thin Glizzy. We are excited to share with you foot long hot dogs like we’ve never seen or tasted before! Also on site will be Cat Head Press\, doing demos and selling merchandise from some of Indianapolis’s best artists\, live music from Preston Ott\, and War Pig Beer available. Littleton\, CO native Natasha Vidger will have her artwork up in the Main Gallery at Tube. Reserve your tickets now for indoor seating. No groups of more than 4. And this ticket will reserve your seat for 45 minutes. Franklin Food Pantry will be accepting canned good donations. Masks required. Hot dogs range in price from $10-12. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/art-dog/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/IMG_9529.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210604T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210604T220000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210421T215907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210421T220806Z UID:9212-1622829600-1622844000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Amanda Strong:Animations DESCRIPTION:“Biidaaban”\nIn Amanda Strong’s astonishing short film\, Biidaaban sets out to harvest sap from sugar maples in urban Ontario neighbourhoods. The practice of harvesting sap to create syrup goes back to time immemorial for the Anishinaabe\, people but the lands have since been covered over by urban development and occupation. Biidaabaan can see the traces of the people\, creatures\, land and time as they work to continue in their ancestors’ movements. Biidaaban is a young Anishinaabe gender non-binary person that can see through multiple dimensions while existing and moving in their present time and space. They are sometimes accompanied by their friend Sabe (a 10\,000-year-old shape shifter who some have called a Sasquatch)\, Ghost Caribou\, and Ghost Wolf — but only Biidaaban can see them. They act as reminders of what exists in this space and provide lessons about honesty\, humility and working for the people.\n19 minutes 14 secs\n\n“Four Faces of the Moon”\nThis animated documentary follows the journey of an Indigenous photographer as she travels through time. She witnesses moments in her family’s history and strengthens her connection to her Metis\, Cree and Anishnaabe ancestors. This is a personal story told through the eyes of director and writer Amanda Strong. The oral and written history of her family reveals the story — we witness the impact and legacy of the railways\, the slaughter of the buffalo and colonial land policies.\n12 minutes 54 secs\n\nAbout Amanda Strong\nAmanda Strong is an Michif interdisciplinary artist with a focus on filmmaking\, stop motion animations and media art. Currently based on unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver\, BC\, Canada. Strong received a BAA in Interpretative Illustration and a Diploma in Applied Photography from the Sheridan Institute. With a cross-discipline focus\, common themes of her work are reclamation of Indigenous histories\, lineage\, language and culture. Strong is the Owner/Director/Producer of Spotted Fawn Productions Inc. (SFP). Under her direction\, SFP utilizes a multi-layered approach and unconventional methods that are centered in collaboration on all aspects of their work.\nStrong’s work is fiercely process-driven and takes form in various mediums such as: virtual reality\, stop-motion\, 2D/3D animation\, gallery/museum installations\, published books and community-activated projects. Strong and her team at Spotted Fawn Productions are currently working on the research and development of bringing these works into more interactive spaces.\nMost recently she was selected by renowned filmmaker Alanis Obamsawin to receive $50\,000 in post-services through the Clyde Gilmour Technicolour Award. In 2016 she received the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Awards for Emerging Film and Media Artist. In 2013\, Amanda was the recipient of K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Film and Video. Her films have screened across the globe\, most notably at Cannes\, TIFF\, VIFF\, and Ottawa International Animation Festival. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, BC Arts Council and the NFB. Spotted Fawn Productions is currently developing new short animations Wheetago War and Spirit Bear. SFP’s latest short animations Biidaaban (The dawn comes) Four Faces of the Moon and Flood are available online through CBC Short Docs and CBC Arts.\n\nMasks are required. Made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/amanda-stronganimations/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Biidaaban_still_01.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210624T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210624T200000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210511T213647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210511T213730Z UID:9232-1624561200-1624564800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:New Harmony Community Conversation-Social Alchemy DESCRIPTION:New Harmony residents are invited to our help plan for our reboot of Social Alchemy\, a series of events connecting New Harmony and Indianapolis! These meet ups in New Harmony invite residents to meet those involved in proposing in the project and become part of it.\nThis meeting we will discuss the symposium which is scheduled for April 10-13\, 2022.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required for the Zoom link. This meeting is at 6pm in New Harmony\, IN.\n\nWhy is this called Social Alchemy? In our research about New Harmony\, we discovered that Father George Rapp — founder of the Harmonists\, the first utopian experiment in New Harmony — studied alchemy and was trying to make gold and other precious commodities to fund his vision of utopia. Today\, with New Harmony already a successful town with much to offer (including events and public programs)\, this project and symposium combines all the assets of New Harmony: the people who live there\, the architecture\, art\, and food to celebrate and expand the town’s magic to Indianapolis and hopefully even further. We’re calling this mixture of everything Social Alchemy.\n\nNew Harmony\, Indiana brims with art\, history\, architecture\, and a strong sense of place. The impact of past and current efforts within this community have created a town that continues to represent the universal human condition.\n\nWhat can we in urban Indianapolis learn from rural New Harmony’s social alchemy? Tons. With support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family fund and our partners — University of Southern Indiana\, Indiana State Museum\, Historic New Harmony\, New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute Central Library\, and lots of individuals –– we will explore\, learn and share how the pursuit of utopia forms places and pursuits.\n\nWHY IS BIG CAR INVOLVED?\nWe’re fascinated by people who strive for utopia and by intentional communities: Past\, present\, and future. Our overarching goal for the Cruft Street Commons project in Garfield Park is to develop an arts-focused\, socially cohesive block. And a key inspiration is the southwestern Indiana town\, New Harmony — location of multiple and varied utopian experiments.\n\nTHE PROGRAM\nThis idea started with visits by Big Car Collaborative/Tube Factory artspace curator\, Shauta Marsh\, and artist and writer Jim Walker\, to New Harmony over the past several years and conversations with artist\, writer\, and philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson — who lives\, part-time\, in New Harmony — and former New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art director Garry Holstein. It is made possible by Indiana Humanities and The Efroymson Family Fund.\n\nWHAT WE’RE DOING:\n• An interdisciplinary exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art focused on New Harmony’s visionary civic leader and preservationist Jane Owen (1915–2010).\n• An exhibition at the Tube Factory about the history and art of New Harmony (designed to travel)\, with emphasis on Angel in the Forest and visual interpretations of this lyrical text.\n• A series of radio shows.\n• A symposium in April 2022 in New Harmony to include philosophers\, writers\, historians\, designers\, architects\, placemakers\, urban and rural city planners\, politicians\, and community organizers.\n• Two Tube Factory exhibitions by Native American artists Elisa Harkins and Wendy Red Star: both creative responses to their peoples’ forced dystopias\, with ideas for cultural renewal.\n\nTHE IMPACT\nThis project explores historical and contemporary examples of utopian experiments\, fictional utopias and dystopias\, and social design projects. It offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between the built environment and social good.\n\nPROJECT PARTNERS\nUniversity of Southern Indiana: As the administrator of both Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery\, USI is encouraging staff\, professors\, and students to participate in the project.\n\nHistoric New Harmony: HNH will host programs\, help to develop the exhibitions\, and help travel the New Harmony exhibition about after its Indianapolis debut.\nNew Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: The gallery will host the Jane Owen exhibition.\nIndiana State Museum: The museum will be assisting with research\, and help with didactics.\nPattern will be a promotional partner alongside Big Car’s low-power radio station 99.1 WQRT FM. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/new-harmony-community-conversation-social-alchemy/ CATEGORIES:Outdoor Activities,SPARK,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NewHarmony-symbols_eventbrite.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210903T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210602T193658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210629T212729Z UID:9268-1630692000-1636912800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Nick May: Fag Family DESCRIPTION:“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.\n“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 stink of white supremacy and classism that continues to infect the art world\, and my goal with these portraits is to subvert that ugly history by capturing my fellow queer friends with all of the luxuriance and beauty of oil painting.\n\nCreated with photo references\, my portraits are nearly life-size and meticulously painted in order to earnestly catalog and celebrate the human lives I observe. Painting is an incredibly physical process: building the stretcher bar\, stretching the canvas\, priming and the process of painting demands an inordinate amount of energy. This painstaking process is compulsory however\, because it is crucial for me to match the energy of the sitter I portray. Exerting so much energy into the surface of the canvas itself injects a kind of life into the portrait\, as a homage to the living person themself.\n\nMany of my fundamental artistic influences derive from the trauma I endured as a queer child. The escapist avenues I ventured in adolescence like children’s novels\, campy movie musicals\, fantasy video games made an invariable impression upon me. Growing up with image-dump platforms like Tumblr and Instagram exposed me to many artists who influence my work: Alice Neel\, Mickalene Thomas\, and Jordan Casteel to name a few. As a queer adult\, drag queens\, experimental pop music\, and queer literature has indelibly impacted me. The apotheosis of these influences has left me obsessed with beautiful images\, creating fantasies\, and the human lives around me.\n\nThe power and beauty of my queer community inspired me to create this body of work. Despite existing in predominantly conservative midwestern towns and within an oppressive society\, we create safe spaces for one another to brazenly enjoy our queerness. Within these spaces we transform ourselves\, celebrate\, and love one another. Within these spaces we create a whole new world that celebrates and uplifts us.”\n\nNick May is a portrait artist whose practice is deeply rooted in community and queerness. They received their Bachelors of Fine Arts with emphasis in Painting from Ball State University and are currently working as a portrait artist in Indianapolis\, Indiana. Created from photographs\, their portraits are nearly life-size and meticulously painted in order to earnestly capture and celebrate the human lives they encounter.\n\nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nick-may-fag-family/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/3452E3B2-753B-4F49-A242-C52CF3F81BD8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210918T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20210918T213000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210909T145503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210909T145503Z UID:9326-1631995200-1632000600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Words and Music-From The Belly: Etheridge Knight DESCRIPTION: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.\nSusan 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.\nBorn in rural Mississippi\, Etheridge Knight would grow to become one of the most prolific voices in the late Black Arts movement in the 70s. In a dark and dreary jail cell in Michigan City\, Knight would begin to find his true voice and calling as a pivotal writer/poet of the 20th century. A couple years into his sentence Etheridge would correspond with an American poet\, author\, teacher\, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Detroit’s Dudley Randal from Broadside Press. It was his first published poetry book\, “Poems From Prison” that would make a splash in the literary world of poetry.\nUpon his release from prison\, Knight would move around the country as a mysterious figure of Black American folklore\, Known for his authenticity of the Black experience and his legendary Haikus. It was after the release of “Belly Song and other Poems”\, Knight grabbed a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973\, and would help establish the Free Peoples Poetry Workshop.\nThe episode features poetry from Etheridge Knight along with a live soundtrack provided by Sean Smith’s father\, Mark Powell.\nThis is a continuation of an eight-part series made possible by Indiana Humanities and produced by WQRT and Big Car Collaborative.\nYou can listen live via the streaming link or listen on regular FM radio in Indianapolis by tuning in to 99.1 FM.\nAbout the participants in this show (all Indiana writers):\nSusan Neville is the author of six works of creative nonfiction and her collections of short fiction include The Town of Whispering Dolls\, winner of the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction; In the House of Blue Lights\, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize; and Invention of Flight\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches at Butler University.\nAdrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg\, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis\, Indiana. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2018-19. He is the author of five award winning books and his first graphic novel\, “Last On His Feet” is forthcoming from Liveright in 2022.\nHanako Gavia is the Assistant Director of the Center for Citizenship and Community at Butler University. She also is the great niece of Etheridge Knight.\nOreo Jones has made Indianapolis his creative mecca. A multi-talented artist who delves into sound\, music\, and visual experimentation\, Jones shares and expands the minds of people in surrounding neighborhoods\, while helping the city grow.\nThis episode contains strong language which may be offensive to some listeners. Listeners discretion is advised (edited)\nPainting of Etheridge Knight by Michael Jordan aka\, Alkemi. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/words-and-music-from-the-belly-etheridge-knight/ LOCATION:99.1 WQRT\, United States CATEGORIES:Listen Hear,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/IMG_2133.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211021T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211021T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210927T082207Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211004T182224Z UID:9382-1634839200-1634850000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Lockerbie Movie Night-Alice (live soundtrack by Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester) DESCRIPTION:Step through the looking glass with us at Lockerbie Movie Night! Box Burger food truck and Sun King Brewery will help fill your bellys. Sound artists Landon Caldwell and Mark Tester will stimulate your ears with a live soundtrack to Czech director and stop-motion animator Jan Svankmajer’s “Alice.” Loosely based on the classic Alice in Wonderland story\, the colors and proportions are dreamlike and lucid — even more so than one might imagine\, and the pace at which it moves is both enchanting and perplexing. Svankmajer calls it a children’s film\, but any adult would be equally as entertained by the strangeness of it all.\nIn Svankmajer’s “Alice\,” the main character switches back and forth between being a human and a doll. And there’s no shortage of weird little details that make you cringe: rats that decide to camp out on Alice’s head and start a bonfire\, socks that function as worms and crawl in and out of the wooden floors\, animal creatures collaged out of bones\, metal\, and scarps who try to trap Alice into a closet full of creepy\, crawly things.\n\nAbout Landon Caldwell & Mark Tester: Caldwell & Tester are Indianapolis-based artists\, musicians\, composers\, and producers. Their duo work explores various niches in electronic music with a focus on process\, often incorporating spontaneous composition & experimentation with an array of technology\, creating works that harness rhythm\, ambiance\, and melody to conjure meditations on fleeting sensations and early morning comedowns.\nTogether they have toured in the United States\, Canada\, and Europe and are regularly engaged with artists and musicians across the Midwest and beyond. Since 2016 they have operated Medium Sound\, producing a number of the label’s releases.\nFilm will start at 7:15pm\nRun time 1 hour and 35 minutes. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-movie-night-alice-live-soundtrack-by-landon-caldwell-and-mark-tester/ LOCATION:Needler’s Market\, 320 N New Jersey\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States CATEGORIES:Film,Listen Hear,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/37bad00ffb38495bdd9c73b73cd3c0ad.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211112T203000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20210927T082635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210927T102041Z UID:9385-1636743600-1636749000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Eternity 123 DESCRIPTION: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 123 \, that asks audiences to see Butoh as a way to transmute the pain and discord of societal shifts into art. \nEternity 123\, is the third installment of a feminist dance triptych choreographed and performed by Vangeline. Eternity 123 traces the symbolic journey of women’s emancipation across time. With this piece\, Vangeline also celebrates the impact of women on the art form of Butoh\, and “cabaret.” \nButoh is a hybrid form of dance theater that came out of Post WWII Japan. Butoh links physical and spiritual practices from around the globe and accounts for aging of differently abled bodies as well as the energetic qualities of youth. Drawing from many Eastern spiritual traditions\, Butoh revalues darkness as a transformative agent and an integral aspect to growth\, healing and transformation for both performer and audience alike. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/9385/ CATEGORIES:Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/VANGELINE-ETERNITY123-PHOTO-BY-BRYAN-KWON-7-bw-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220129T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220129T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220125T185854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T185854Z UID:9519-1643464800-1643472000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Create Hear-Kris Graves DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nIn this episode\, Oreo Jones interviews photographer Kris Graves\, the most recent Artist in Residence at Aurora PhotoCenter and whose exhibit “A Southern Horror” is Feb.4-March 20 at Tube Factory artspace’s Guichelaar Gallery.\n\nGraves (b. 1982 New York\, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally\, including Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Getty Institute\, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London\, England; among others. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Getty Institute\, Schomburg Center\, Whitney Museum\, Guggenheim Museum\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection\, Toronto; amongst others. Graves also sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts\, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/create-hear-kris-graves/ LOCATION:99.1 WQRT\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/creathearlogo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220125T190201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T190201Z UID:9522-1643889600-1643896800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Create Hear-Kris Graves DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nIn this episode\, Oreo Jones interviews photographer Kris Graves\, the most recent Artist in Residence at Aurora PhotoCenter and whose exhibit “A Southern Horror” is Feb.4-March 20 at Tube Factory artspace’s Guichelaar Gallery.\n\nGraves (b. 1982 New York\, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally\, including Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Getty Institute\, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London\, England; among others. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Getty Institute\, Schomburg Center\, Whitney Museum\, Guggenheim Museum\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection\, Toronto; amongst others. Graves also sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts\, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/create-hear-kris-graves-2/ LOCATION:99.1 WQRT\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/creathearlogo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220205T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220131T170637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220131T170824Z UID:9525-1644069600-1644073200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Create Hear: Laura Foster Nicholoson DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nIn 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. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/create-hear-laura-foster-nicholoson/ LOCATION:99.1 WQRT\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/creathearlogo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220304T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220325T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220114T222321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T164343Z UID:9497-1646416800-1648231200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Kelvin Burzon and Jenny Delfuego: Process/Progress DESCRIPTION: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.\nIn 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 movement into their practice.\nThe residency was conceived as a digital one but given that Indy Movement Arts is rooted in movement and dance\, a discipline that often involves some immediate interchange between artist and audience\, the artists were commissioned in partnership between the two organizations to make a new work involving such an interchange.\n\nAbout the artists:\nKelvin Burzon’s recent work addresses\, but does not attempt to resolve\, the tension between religion and homosexuality. He examines religion’s traditions\, imagery\, theatricality\, and psychological vestige. By appropriating religious imagery and language\, the work is recontextualized by the insertion of LGBTQ members and activists. Burzon’s work has been exhibited abroad and all over the country and is part of several permanent collections including the Kinsey Institute and The Center for Photography at Woodstock.\n\nJenny Delfuego was born in Chicago to immigrant parents and has been exhibiting work under different monikers since the 90s. She examines ephemerality\, light and shadow\, and the edges of impermanence. The indications of our existence are often made and unmade in the time it takes to observe them. Her involvement with Indy Movement Arts has promoted experiments in communal conversation and collaboration. What marks\, what indications do these conversations leave? Delfuego studied painting at Indiana University and her work is in private and corporate collections on five continents.\n\nThe exhibit is made possible by The Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation\, The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.\n\nPerformances will take place March 25th URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/kelvin-burzon-and-jenny-delfuego-process-progress/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Burzon_009.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220304T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220416T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220114T220316Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T223839Z UID:9490-1646416800-1650121200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Kris Graves: A Southern Horror DESCRIPTION: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.\n\n“In Summer 2020 a collective uprising rooted in local civic engagements ricocheted around the world in response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. It relied on one of the central pillars of Democracy—peaceful protest. Although grounded in the particular\, the embodied actions of the multitudes illuminated larger universal questions of basic human rights and dignity in the 21st century. The echo of empathy\, anger\, and pain born from the eight minutes and 46 seconds of viral video that captured Floyd’s passing\, resonated not only in the United States\, but in ongoing struggles across the globe. While this was going on\, I photographed memorials\, monuments\, and sites of the antebellum South and the Confederacy. My friend Marshall (@fu64) and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern states making photographs of every site we could find. Some have been removed\, most remain in place.” — Kris Graves\nA Southern Horror is primarily a series of 175 non fungible token or NFT works. NFTs are unique digital files that can be owned. While any person can replicate the artwork through screenshot or other means\, NFTs are designed to give the purchaser ownership of the work. For example anyone can own a Mona Lisa print but there is only one owner of the actual painting. Click here to visit the works.\n\n\nKris Graves (b. 1982 New York\, NY) is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. He received his BFA in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally\, including Museum of Modern Art\, New York; Getty Institute\, Los Angeles; and National Portrait Gallery in London\, England; among others. Permanent collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Getty Institute\, Schomburg Center\, Whitney Museum\, Guggenheim Museum\, Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; Brooklyn Museum; and The Wedge Collection\, Toronto; amongst others. Graves also sits on the board of Blue Sky Gallery: Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts\, Portland; and The Architectural League of New York as Vice President of Photography\n\n\nPresented by Aurora PhotoCenter\nThe exhibit is made possible by The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis\, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/kris-graves-a-southern-horror/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:classes,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Graves4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220304T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220418T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220114T215909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220204T164006Z UID:9487-1646416800-1650304800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Laura Foster Nicholson: Scenes From The Carbon Border DESCRIPTION:From the hands of a young person in China\, to a shipping container crossing the Suez Canal\, to a semi-truck driver transporting containers cross country\, to people at the big box or mom and pop who unload them\, to everyone going to the stores to buy things. These are carbon borders we’ve created 一 our feet\, our cars\, trains\, planes\, streets\, and sidewalks all in motion. These borders both connect and divide us.\nTwo years ago\, driving from her home in New Harmony\, Indiana to Chicago\, artist Laura Foster Nicholson — a textile artist known for her handwoven tapestries — paused to notice the landscapes from our carbon borders. And the work she began creating then offers us — in this exhibition — a view of the path taken by the goods we purchase. This is often unseen and costs the world more than what’s listed on the price tag. And these carbon borders separate us from the people who made many of the items with which we live and adorn ourselves.\nNicholson noticed the cost to the environment and ultimately ourselves. She began incorporating these aspects in her works\, calling attention to disasters and accidents along these borders\, reminding us of the seen and unseen dangers of our way of life. “I watched the Wabash swell annually\, frequently inundating the fields\, sometimes filling basements\, and once in a while warranting the efforts of the National Guard to sandbag around the New Harmony Inn. This past couple of weeks\, texts have updated me regularly about extending the flash flood warning for the area\,” says Nicholoson.\nWith this\, we can pause to consider the invisible people and places behind items we consume and the inevitable disasters that result from the journeys. As each piece takes many hours to create\, Nicholson’s work gives us access to our connectedness as humans instead of being based on consumerism and the whims of market research and algorithms. “As an artist\, I am first visually inspired: the reflections in the water of these structures\, foretelling the future\, reflecting the past\,” says Nicholoson.\nThis work reminds us that though we say the world has become smaller\, we have become more distant from one another. No longer do we know all the hands that touched the objects we use to define ourselves. These tapestries are scenes from the carbon borders driven by our consumption and connecting us like the threads of her works.\n\nLaura Foster Nicholson’s artwork is in several museum collections\, including the Art Institute of Chicago\, the Minneapolis Institute of Art\, and the Denver Art Museum. With a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art\, she has lectured\, taught\, and exhibited in the US\, Canada and Italy. She has been awarded an NEA fellowship\, the Leone di Pietra prize at the Venice Biennale of Architecture\, three Illinois Arts Council fellowships\, and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Research in the Fine Arts.  Most recently she was awarded the Dehaan Artist of Distinction grant.\n\nPart of our Social Alchemy Project in partnership with University of Southern Indiana & The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art- this exhibit was made possible by Indiana Humanities\, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation\, The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis\, The Efroymson Family Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.\n\nImage: “Hanjin\,” 2021. 31” x 43 ½”. Wool\, mylar\, cotton. Nicholson used “warming stripes” to indicate long term warming trends. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/laura-foster-nicholson-scenes-from-the-carbon-border/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Hanjinsmweb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220317T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220801T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220317T204219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220317T210105Z UID:9661-1647504000-1659373200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:pLopLop Vol. 14 Submission Form DESCRIPTION:Are you a writer? Have something to say? Want to put it in print? Submit your work to PLopLop! 100 word limit. Submissions are due by August 1.\npLOpLop is an “Antholozine” of Poetry\, Prose and Artwork published by Indianapolis\, IN based visual artist\, Big Car co-founder and writer John Clark since 1992.\npLopLop has published the work of writers like Kurt Vonnegut\, Charles Bukowski\, Jack Kerouac\, Fielding Dawson\, Eileen Myles\, Gerald Locklin and more.\nInfluences: Surrealism\, Dada\, Henry Miller\, Patchen\, lo-fi indie rock\, DIY activities\, indie publishers and bookshops\, British Invasion\, mimeo-revolution\, underground writers\, garage rock and improvisation. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ploplop-vol-14-submission-form/ CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_9429.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220323T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220323T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220215T221257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T221257Z UID:9537-1648063800-1648069200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:The Color of Pomegranates DESCRIPTION:Join Kan-Kan Cinema and Big Car Collaborative for the screening of “The Color of Pomegranates” (Sayat Nova). The late Soviet director\, Sergei Paradjanov\, makes an earnest attempt to fuse poetry and film by seriously exploring the poetic potential of the cinema.\nA breathtaking fusion of poetry\, ethnography\, and cinema\, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract\, “The Color of Pomegranates” revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova\, charting his intellectual\, artistic\, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era\, leading authorities to block its distribution\, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form. This edition features the cut closest to Parajanov’s original vision\, in a restoration that brings new life to one of cinema’s most enigmatic meditations on art and beauty.\nA deliriously beautiful film “The Color of Pomegranates” stays in the mind long after the film has run its course.\nBig Car Co-founder & Director of Programming and Exhibitions\, Shauta Marsh will host a discussion and Q&A post the film. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/the-color-of-pomegranates/ LOCATION:Kan-Kan Cinema\, 1258 Windsor St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46201\, United States CATEGORIES:Downtown Indy,Garfield Park,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AL.053118.pomegranates.crop_.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220325T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220325T230000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220221T192245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T223816Z UID:9551-1648234800-1648249200@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Process/Progress Art Salon DESCRIPTION:Join Indy Movement Arts and Big Car Collaborative for an innovative evening of performance\, performance art\, and kinetic creation.\n\nKelvin Burzon and Jenny Delfuego will premier new work as a part of the Indy Movement Arts Process/Progress residency\, accompanied by original work from Indy Movement Arts dance-makers\, Bethany Bak and Lauren Curry. Patrons are invited to freely traverse the space; Drink\, talk\, and make merry as creation unfolds in all the nooks and crannies of the Tube Factory Artspace. From the intricately constructed to the joyfully participatory\, there will be something for everyone. For the truly locked-in art-goer\, the evening will culminate in a technicolor dance party.\n\nWill we levitate the Tube Factory with good vibrations? There’s only one way to find out…\n\nIn the fall of 2020\, Indy Movement Arts began experimenting with digital fellowships as a small contribution to towards keeping artistic production viable. The Process/Progress residency is part of that experiment\, paying artists to reflect on their creative process and how they incorporate movement into their practice.\n\nAbout this event\nDoors open at 7:00pm. The performances and participatory offerings will be scattered throughout the evening (7:00-9:00pm) and we will close out the night with a technicolor dance party\, beginning at 9:00pm.\n\nProcess/Progress Art Salon is presented in partnership with Big Car Collaborative and is made possible by The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis\, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/process-progress-art-salon/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/indymovementsalon.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220401T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220424T170000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220315T162549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T163310Z UID:9651-1648800000-1650819600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Mayasa Design House: In Color DESCRIPTION: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 \nListen 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\, choreographer\, and jewelry-maker. Formally trained in West African dance and contemporary movement\, her art is guided by lived experiences and her cultural upbringing. Her style is a unique blend of fluid\, free flowing\, yet intentional movements. For Asad\, dance is a sacred means of individual expression that lives and breathes through her.  \nMusic has always been a big part of her life. Beginning with an idea or a piece of music\, her creative process is a daydream of ideas and music that become living and breathing pulsations within her. Deeply in tune and connected to each individual element\, she creates jewelry by envisioning the people who would wear what she makes\, the environment they might dwell in\, and how those pieces may be incorporated into their lives naturally.  \nShe recently worked as a choreographer and performer for “Village Voices: Notes from the Griot”\, a collaborative production created by Joshua Thompson and directed by Megan Simonton. Within this work\, she was part of an educational experience that brought creative expression from the stage to the classroom\, creating dialogue to address the painful and ugly things that aren’t spoken. \nEverything I do is based on lived experiences. A great deal of my work is centered around celebrating and creating space for healing Black women. I’m moved by the living artistry of my family’s existence\, and by the people who I have come to love along my journey. I’ve been inspired to examine and express things happening in the world as of late\, so I am exploring movement and adornment that reflects the emotional and spiritual effects of my community. \nAsad believes\, through movements of expression\, that her work can create a meaningful reflection of the times that become reference points in the future of what has occurred. With her bold\, unapologetic\, and intrepid movements\, she inspires people to find their voice and create a space to heal women. In this space\, women don’t have to make themselves smaller or quieter. They embrace their identity and power to its fullest. \nFacebook.com/ijomovement \nInstagram: zuri_mayasa \nThis exhibition was made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/mayasa-design-house-in-color/ LOCATION:Listen Hear\, 2620 Shelby St\, \, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_9398.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220401T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220315T160732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T161244Z UID:9644-1648836000-1653318000@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Drea Cofield: All At Once DESCRIPTION: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 resonant touch of two tones\, and other things unnameable. How does a stand of trees relate to the figure? How does the midday sun relate to my state of mind? Temperature and speed become tantamount in the lived moment as I try to consume everything with my eyes. Less time to think for more time to feel the shifting light and twining trees mirrored in the creek. Most of the paintings in this body of work were created in one sitting. \nAbout the artist \nDrea Cofield is an artist currently working between Indianapolis\, IN and Brooklyn\, NY. In 2013\, she received her M.F.A from Yale School of Art (New Haven\, CT)\, and in 2008\, her B.A from DePauw University (Greencastle\, IN). She has exhibited in the U.S. and internationally including New York\, Los Angeles\, Philadelphia\, Portland and Italy. Most recently she exhibited in the Armory Show with 1969 Gallery in New York. Her work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail\, Artnet News\, Juxtapoz\, Blouin Art Info\, and in Suzanne Hudson’s latest issue of Contemporary Painting (World of Art). She is the recipient of an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Yale University Gloucester Painting Prize. Residencies include the Guild of Adventure Painters SWAB Mobile Residency in 2019. She is the Founder and Director of Bomb Pop-Up\, a pop-up Art & Music initiative that focuses on providing visibility in exciting contexts to emerging and established artists and musicians; working with other 200 artists from all over the world and collaborating with institutions such as the National Academy of Design. Cofield has been a visiting artist at Cooper Union\, Pratt Institute\, and the School of Visual Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at DePauw University in Greencastle\, Indiana. \nImage :”Hole” 60 x 50 inches\, oil on canvas\nThis exhibition was made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis\, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/9644/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Hole.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220410T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220410T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220311T235520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T153419Z UID:9618-1649617200-1649624400@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Social Alchemy Symposium-Emily St. John Mandel DESCRIPTION:Join us for the online opening keynote of the Social Alchemy Symposium with author Emily St John Mandel who will discuss her work\, the pursuit of utopia\, the dystopia that can create for others. Even in the face of societal collapse\, we create spaces and art that bring us meaning\, comfort and reassurance.\n\nThe Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\nEach day is themed and focused on single days. The symposium is free to attend either virtually or in person. Donations are appreciated and can be made via the registration link.\n\nOur opening keynote by Emily St John Mandel is made possible by Indiana Humanities and New America.\n\nTickets must be reserved to receive the Zoom links for the symposium.\n\nAbout Emily St. John Mandel\nShe is the author of five novels\, most recently “The Glass Hotel.” Her novel “Station Eleven\,” which was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award\, won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award\, the Toronto Book Award\, and the Morning News Tournament of Books\, and has been translated into 27 languages.\nA previous novel\, “The Singer’s Gun\,” was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her short fiction and essays have been anthologized in numerous collections\, including Best American Mystery Stories 2013. She is also a staff writer for The Millions.\nShe lives in New York City with her husband and daughter. Her next book\, “Sea of Tranquility\,” will be released in April 2022. Copies will be available for purchase at the in-person event.\n\n“I’m a big believer in people needing stories to help us process times when our reality is unstable\,” Somerville says. “That plays out in the show\, too. You come to a point when you can’t talk about things anymore. But when there’s no answer\, that’s when art’s most valuable. When the words we have don’t work anymore\, we can sing a folk song or put on a play. I’m a big believer in the functional\, pragmatic utility of art. It’s not just a fancy thing you go see at the museum\, but a thing we need that should be jammed into Maslow’s hierarchy of needs at a very\, very important rung.””–Patrick Somerville on Emily St. John Mandel’s Station 11.\n\n\nMore about the Symposium:\nThe Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\nTwice the site of utopian experiments in communitarian living\, New Harmony is now a town rich in beauty\, culture\, and history. And it makes the perfect location for people to enjoy some moments of respite and reconnect with others through conversations about the roles of art\, design\, and place in society.\nConversations — led by more than 20 notable authors\, artists\, designers\, researchers\, and philosophers from Indiana and around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking today and tomorrow while connecting with the past.\nThe symposium — organized through a partnership between Big Car Collaborative\, the University of Southern Indiana\, Historic New Harmony\, and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art — is made possible by Indiana Humanities\, the Efroymson Family Fund\, and New America. Additional partners include the Indiana State Museum and PATTERN Magazine.\nOther speakers\, in-person unless otherwise noted\, include:\nMaurice Broaddus\, author of fiction centered on utopian and dystopian ideas through the genres of science fiction\, urban fantasy\, and horror.\nDarran Anderson\, author of Imaginary Cities (2015)\, an Irish writer focused on the intersections of urbanism\, culture\, technology and politics (virtual talk).\nCara Courage\, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; scholar and author in the realms of art and placemaking; and formerly of the Tate Modern in London.\nAlso: Indiana writers Susan Neville\, Adrian Matejka\, and Matthew Graham (current poet laureate); Indiana artists and arts leaders from New Harmony\, Columbus\, Bloomington\, and Indianapolis; leading architects\, planners\, and designers; and utopian/communal studies scholars.\nWHY ATTEND?\n• To gain a deep understanding — via history\, literature\, philosophy and design — of the relationship between the built environment and social good.\n• To connect with others interested in imagining and striving for better communities.\n• To experience the extraordinary atmosphere\, public art\, and architecture of New Harmony — nestled along the Wabash River and steeped in a historic utopian spirit.\n• To savor the spring weather of southern Indiana.\nLocated at the southwest tip of Indiana near Evansville on land originally occupied by the Mississippian culture\, New Harmony is approximately 2.5 hours drive from Indianapolis\, and just over two hours from St. Louis and Louisville. Conference goers receive a special $89/night rate at the New Harmony Inn Resort & Conference Center. Call (812) 682-4431 to book and mention “Social Alchemy Symposium.” URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/social-alchemy-symposium-emily-st-john-mandel/ LOCATION:Zoom\, United States CATEGORIES:SPARK,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/44566E15-82A4-4A07-8904-188DE886A562.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220411T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220312T000252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220312T000915Z UID:9621-1649678400-1649703600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Social Alchemy Symposium -Visualizing Spaces DESCRIPTION:The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\nEach day is themed and focused on single days. The symposium is free to attend either virtually or in person. Donations are appreciated and can be made via the registration link.\nDiscounted lodging is available at the New Harmony Inn (details below). Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the conference in person\, online\, or both. Registration is required to support communication and feedback.\n\nMonday\, April 11\n\nOn-line\nnoon\nUtopic Spaces (Museums and Public Space) Cara Courage in conversation with Jim Walker\n\n5:30 p.m. central time\nPanel led by New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art Director\, Iris Williamson.\n\n7 p.m. central time\nReception for “Visualizing Spaces” at the gallery. More information to come.\n\n9 pm central time\n(In Person) Self-guided activities created and led by Big Car staff in partnership with New Harmony experts.\n\nNote: New Harmony\, IN (CST) and Indianapolis\, IN (EST)are in different time zones. Central time is one hour earlier than Eastern.\n\nMore about the Symposium:\nThe Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\nTwice the site of utopian experiments in communitarian living\, New Harmony is now a town rich in beauty\, culture\, and history. And it makes the perfect location for people to enjoy some moments of respite and reconnect with others through conversations about the roles of art\, design\, and place in society.\nConversations — led by more than 20 notable authors\, artists\, designers\, researchers\, and philosophers from Indiana and around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking today and tomorrow while connecting with the past.\nThe symposium — organized through a partnership between Big Car Collaborative\, the University of Southern Indiana\, Historic New Harmony\, and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art — is made possible by Indiana Humanities\, the Efroymson Family Fund\, and New America. Additional partners include Indiana State Museum and PATTERN Magazine.\n\nOverall symposium speakers\, in-person unless otherwise noted\, include:\nEmily St. John Mandel\, author of the 2015 utopian/dystopian novel\, Station Eleven among other books and essays. Station Eleven has been translated into 33 languages and was adapted into an HBO series premiering in 2021 (virtual talk).\nMaurice Broaddus\, author of fiction centered on utopian and dystopian ideas through the genres of science fiction\, urban fantasy\, and horror.\nDarran Anderson\, author of Imaginary Cities (2015)\, an Irish writer focused on the intersections of urbanism\, culture\, technology and politics (virtual talk).\nCara Courage\, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; scholar and author in the realms of art and placemaking; and formerly of the Tate Modern in London.\nAlso: Indiana writers Susan Neville\, Adrian Matejka\, and Matthew Graham (current poet laureate); Indiana artists and arts leaders from New Harmony\, Columbus\, Bloomington\, and Indianapolis; leading architects\, planners\, and designers; and utopian/communal studies scholars.\n\nWHY ATTEND?\n• To gain a deep understanding — via history\, literature\, philosophy and design — of the relationship between the built environment and social good.\n• To connect with others interested in imagining and striving for better communities.\n• To experience the extraordinary atmosphere\, public art\, and architecture of New Harmony — nestled along the Wabash River and steeped in contemporary art and a historic utopian spirit.\n• To savor the spring weather of southern Indiana.\nLocated at the southwest tip of Indiana near Evansville on land originally occupied by the Mississippian culture\, New Harmony is approximately 2.5 hours drive from Indianapolis\, and just over two hours from St. Louis and Louisville. Conference goers receive a special $89/night rate at the New Harmony Inn Resort & Conference Center. Call (812) 682-4431 to book and mention “Social Alchemy Symposium.” Click here for other lodging options. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/social-alchemy-symposium-visualizing-spaces/ LOCATION:New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art\, 506 Main St\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States CATEGORIES:classes,conference,SPARK,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_0524.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220413T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220413T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220312T001335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220312T001335Z UID:9631-1649847600-1649883600@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Social Alchemy Symposium- Imaginary Cities\, The Arts and Healing DESCRIPTION:The Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\n\nEach day is themed and focused on single days. The symposium is free to attend either virtually or in person. Donations are appreciated and can be made via the registration link.\nDiscounted lodging is available at the New Harmony Inn (details below). Attendees are welcome to join any parts of the conference in person\, online\, or both. Registration is required to support communication and feedback.\n\nWednesday\, April 13\n8-10am central time – Mini-tours on the hour. Jump in either in person or on-line with artist led tours of various New Harmony landmarks! Check out the Harmonist Labyrinth\, a wunderkammer in the Workingmen’s Institute\, The Wabash River\, the Roofless Church and more.\n\n10-10:50 am central time\nOpening conversation:\nUtopian literature/writing in New Harmony featuring Susan Neville\, Matthew Graham\, Adrian Matejka.\n\n11 am-noon central time\nUtopic cultural projects conversation – visual art\, music & movement featuring Artist and musician\, Oreo Jones\, Visual artists\, Docey Lewis\, Big Car Co-founder\, Shauta Marsh\, Keesha Dixon\, Executive Director of Asante Art Institute of Indiana\, and Indy Dance Movement Collective Executive Director\, Lauren Curry.\n\n1:15-2:15 central time\nAuthor Maurice Broaddus\nWorldbuilding towards Community Work\nA community organizer and teacher\, his work has appeared in places like Lightspeed Magazine\, Black Panther: Tales from Wakanda\, Weird Tales\, Magazine of F&SF\, and Uncanny Magazine\, with some of his stories having been collected in The Voices of Martyrs. His books include the sci-fi novel Sweep of Stars; the steampunk works\, Buffalo Soldier and Pimp My Airship; and the middle grade detective novels\, The Usual Suspects and Unfadeable. His project\, Sorcerers\, is being adapted as a television show for AMC. He’s an editor at Apex Magazine.\n\n2:30-3:30pm central time (Zoom)\nImaginary Cities with Darran Anderson.\nAnderson is the author of Imaginary Cities and Inventory. Imaginary Cities was chosen as a best book of 2015 by the Financial Times\, The Guardian\, and the A.V. Club. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, the TLS\, frieze magazine\, Wired\, and the Architectural Review. He was born in Derry\, Ireland\, and lives in London.\n\n7:30pm central time (In person)\nGolf Cart Drive In-The Black Panther\, introduced by Maurice Broaddus\nNote: New Harmony\, IN (CST) and Indianapolis\, IN (EST)are in different time zones. Central time is one hour earlier than Eastern.\n\nMore about the Symposium:\nThe Social Alchemy Symposium is a participatory mini-conference happening online and in person in New Harmony\, Indiana April 10-13\, 2022.\nTwice the site of utopian experiments in communitarian living\, New Harmony is now a town rich in beauty\, culture\, and history. And it makes the perfect location for people to enjoy some moments of respite and reconnect with others through conversations about the roles of art\, design\, and place in society.\nConversations — led by more than 20 notable authors\, artists\, designers\, researchers\, and philosophers from Indiana and around the world — will look at the role of utopian thinking today and tomorrow while connecting with the past.\nThe symposium — organized through a partnership between Big Car Collaborative\, the University of Southern Indiana\, Historic New Harmony\, and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art — is made possible by Indiana Humanities\, the Efroymson Family Fund\, and New America. Additional partners include Indiana State Museum and PATTERN Magazine.\n\nSpeakers\, in-person unless otherwise noted\, include:\nEmily St. John Mandel\, author of the 2015 utopian/dystopian novel\, Station Eleven among other books and essays. Station Eleven has been translated into 33 languages and was adapted into an HBO series premiering in 2021 (virtual talk).\nMaurice Broaddus\, author of fiction centered on utopian and dystopian ideas through the genres of science fiction\, urban fantasy\, and horror.\nDarran Anderson\, author of Imaginary Cities (2015)\, an Irish writer focused on the intersections of urbanism\, culture\, technology and politics (virtual talk).\nCara Courage\, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; scholar and author in the realms of art and placemaking; and formerly of the Tate Modern in London.\nAlso: Indiana writers Susan Neville\, Adrian Matejka\, and Matthew Graham (current poet laureate); Indiana artists and arts leaders from New Harmony\, Columbus\, Bloomington\, and Indianapolis; leading architects\, planners\, and designers; and utopian/communal studies scholars.\n\nWHY ATTEND?\n• To gain a deep understanding — via history\, literature\, philosophy and design — of the relationship between the built environment and social good.\n• To connect with others interested in imagining and striving for better communities.\n• To experience the extraordinary atmosphere\, public art\, and architecture of New Harmony — nestled along the Wabash River and steeped in contemporary art and a historic utopian spirit.\n• To savor the spring weather of southern Indiana.\n\nLocated at the southwest tip of Indiana near Evansville on land originally occupied by the Mississippian culture\, New Harmony is approximately 2.5 hours drive from Indianapolis\, and just over two hours from St. Louis and Louisville. Conference goers receive a special $89/night rate at the New Harmony Inn Resort & Conference Center. Call (812) 682-4431 to book and mention “Social Alchemy Symposium.” Click here for other lodging options. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/social-alchemy-symposium-imaginary-cities-the-arts-and-healing/ LOCATION:Murphy Auditorium\, 419 Tavern St.\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States CATEGORIES:classes,conference,SPARK,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/20220307-SocialAlchemySymposium-Social2-01.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220506T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220717T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T102030 CREATED:20220407T171905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T142936Z UID:9851-1651860000-1658080800@www.bigcar.org SUMMARY:Juan Chawuk: Iridiscencia Cultural DESCRIPTION: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.\nAs 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 — including from the land’s ancient cultures. These icons generate dialogue and reflect emotional colors and shapes\, leading to surprises. The series of small paintings are more mythical with a touch of the magical realism often linked with Latin American art and literature. Featuring live models and jungle animals\, the paintings’ brushstrokes suggest the magnificent handicrafts of the Chiapas region. And the sculpture is made of mud and fibers from the jungle that the Lacandones people once used for tunics. This piece encourages viewers to experience the Chiapas cultures and their nature.\nChawuk’s interpretations transform perceptions of Chiapas and allow viewers to experience the creative iridescence (a reflection of various colors\, similar to a rainbow) that his senses capture in these works.\n\nThe exhibit is a partnership with Arte Mexicano en Indiana and curated by its founder\, Eduardo Luna. Luna is a social practice artist\, cultural promoter and advocate for Mexican identity and Latina/o/x culture. Luna hails from the state of Guerrero\, the city of Acapulco\, in the Costa Chica region of southern Pacific Mexico. Since 2012\, he has been curating events featuring artists of Mexican and Latina/o/x heritage for diverse Indiana audiences. Eduardo is a co-founder of Nopal Cultural\, La Sardina Gallery\, and Radio Calaca (formerly Espanglish Night)\, and has served for many years as Big Car staff artist. Arte Mexicano en Indiana was founded in 2020\, with a mission to encourage and promote Mexican art\, music\, and culture in Indiana through collaborations and by organizing and promoting public events. “Our vision is that people of Mexican heritage develop pride in their cultural heritage\, and that native Hoosiers develop a richer perspective on the Mexican people and the culture we contribute to Indiana\,” says Eduardo. He is a member of the international Mexican Cultural Art Alliance (MCAA)\, a group of Mexican and Mexican-American arts administrators started by Carlos Tortolero\, founder of the National Museum of Mexican Art.\n\nJuan Chawuk: Iridiscencia Cultural\nLa percepción de la cultura de Chiapas se transforma con las interpretaciones. Ahí surge la iridiscencia (Reflejo de colores distintos\, generalmente como los del arco iris)creativa que captan mis sentidos y que se manifiesta a través de estas obras.\nEn esta muestra de tres series\, hago referencia a esas interacciones en el tiempo que muestran a Chiapas como hogar de varias culturas milenarias en gran agitación global\, con una identidad en constante conflicto que se expresa en nuevas maneras de crear.\nLa serie de fotografías es una muestra clara de una combinación de filosofías y creencias religiosas; la interpretación de las imágenes impuestas por una cultura externa con lo local\, el pasado remoto de una cultura milenaria\, pero que en la actualidad tienen interlocución y genera los prismas que reflejan colores emocionales y formas que sorprenden a la vida diaria.\nEsta serie de fotos se hizo reflexionando sobre las emociones que provoca las fusiones de iconografías.\nLa serie de obras pequeñas es más mítica y su toque de realismo mágico identifica a Latinoamérica con los procesos creativos\, desde modelos en vivo hasta animales de la selva. Sus pinceladas recuerdan las energías de la naturaleza que se mezclan con las magníficas obras artesanales de la región Chiapaneca.\nAsimismo\, la serie de piezas de barro y fibras de la selva que antes utilizaban los lacandones para túnicas\, juega con las estampas de los textiles sin ser tan obvias pero pretende llevar al espectador a rememorar un Chiapas que\, si ya lo conoce\, se transforma en experiencia que revive. Y si aún no lo conoce\, transporta al espectador a Chiapas y sus textiles en un contexto contemporáneo\, fantástico y creativo que invita a una experiencia de vida con estas culturas y su naturaleza.\nQue esta muestra sea una manera de conocer una parte de México que se identifica con lo global contemporáneo pero con una raíz muy valiosa de su pasado milenario.\n\n\nMade possible by Arte Mexicano en Indiana\, The Arts Council of Indianapolis\, The City of Indianapolis and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/juan-chawuk-iridiscencia-cultural/ LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.bigcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_4060.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR