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NIGHTJAR: Auboni
2026-03-18 06:30 - 21:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Featured Poet: Auboni
Open mic prompt: Write a poem that describes the world you want to live in.

Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About the Featured Poet: Auboni Essence is adaptable and agile but above all, Auboni is authentic. Auboni is the difference between writing about sadness and having the scars that show she lived through it. She’s the difference between pondering joy and her cheeks being sore from smiling. From performing in quaint, cozy rooms to dazzling stages, every platform turns into Polaris because she’s always headed north and the mic is forever warm. They love music. You can catch Auboni out dancing until their feet get weary, singing until their voice is hoarse or wringing their hands stained with ink from the last writing session. They never have to find the right thing to say because the truth doesn’t care who tells it.
NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-03-13 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
If you love sketching and are looking for community, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂

www . RachelOrmont . com Film Screening
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:30 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at CAMi for a special free screening of Peter Vack’s film www.RachelOrmont.com on Thursday, March 12 from 8 to 10:30 p.m.
The film is an unflinching psychedelic techno-satire about a woman who unknowingly grows up in captivity working for an advertising agency, starring Betsey Brown (Assholes, The Sweet East), Dasha Nekrasova (Succession, The Beast, Materialists), and Chloe Cherry (Euphoria).
“Boasting a daring lead performance and a wicked sense of humor, this satirical sci-fi comedy delves into themes of performance, digital existence, consumer culture, and contemporary sexuality, offering a provocative and unsettling reflection of our hyper-connected society.” — BLEEDING EDGE
“A filthy and absurd midnight movie determined to fry brains and flip stomachs; a film so terminally online that even the milder scenes would, as the kids say, “kill a Victorian child.” — Pop Matters

Content Warning: This film contains graphic sexual content and nudity. This screening is 21+ only.

Run Time: 120 min.

March 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
2026-03-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) (formerly known as Tube Factory) campus on March 6 from 6-10 p.m. for First Friday!
We have one new exhibit opening:

Crossroads in Guichelaar Gallery (curated by CAMi long-term artist resident India Hines)

And we have two exhibits continuing:

Blue Blood: Félix Labisse’s Goddesses, Demons, and the Space Between in the Tube Main gallery
Pavlina Vagioni: AVÁSIMO (BASELESS) in the Tube Video gallery

Food will be available for purchase from the Frank N Steam hot dog cart. Rob Funkhouser and Clockwork Janz’s 2024 Creative Risk project, Frank N Steam — a calliope funded by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation — makes it’s Maiden Voyage March First Friday at CAMi. A true culinary and artistic delight, Frank N Steam offers $5 Hot Dogs, $7 Coney Dogs, and free a soundscape.
Also enjoy Sun King beer, wine, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Lunar New Year Celebration: Fire Horse
2026-02-21 18:00 - 21:30 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Welcome the Year of the Fire Horse with us and the Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts (ICPAI) at our annual Lunar New Year celebration!
Enjoy vibrant traditional dance performances by ICPAI and take part in hands-on activities throughout the night, including fireworks, paper cutting, lantern decorating, fan painting, and bracelet making. Food will be available for purchase from the Hachi Machi Asian food truck.
Tickets are $14.64 apiece and can be purchased via Eventbrite.
Schedule of Events:

Activities: 6 – 9:30 p.m.
ICPAI Performances: 7 – 8 p.m.
Fireworks: 9 p.m.

About Lunar New Year:
Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean communities. Unlike the single-day Gregorian New Year, this holiday is traditionally celebrated over multiple days.
In 2026, Lunar New Year begins on February 17. Known as the Spring Festival (Chūnjié) in China, Seollal in Korea, and Tết in Vietnam, the holiday is tied to the lunar calendar. It originated as a time for feasting and honoring deities and ancestors.
Image: Julie Xiao, Fire Horse (2025)

NIGHTJAR: Kenn Hunn
2026-02-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Featured Poet: Kenn Hunn
Open mic prompt: Write an ode or elegy to something absurd.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About the Featured Poet:
Kenn Hunn recently earned their MFA in poetry at Butler University. They are chronically online (but in a fun way), a habitual Midwesterner exploring identity, pop culture, and their latest hyperfixation.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Blue Blood: Félix Labisse's Goddesses, Demons, and the Space Between
2026-02-06 18:00 - 2026-03-15 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Friday, Feb. 6 – Sunday, March 15 | Tube Main Gallery
French Surrealist Félix Labisse created something strange starting in the 1960s: a universe where women pilot impossible machines through realms that don’t follow normal physics. His iconic blue women — the “Selenides” — are warrior goddesses. And they’re navigating more than space. They move through desire, mythology, and what might be parallel dimensions of time.
On the south wall of the gallery are three pieces from Labisse’s Selenide series: La Femme avec un couteau (The Woman with a Knife), La Reine de Saba (The Queen of Sheba), and Judith, referencing the stories and myths behind each warrior.
On the east and west walls are 16 prints from his Histoire naturelle series (1944)—hybrid creatures blending human, animal, and vegetable forms, each with Labisse’s own descriptive poems. These fantastical beings prefigure his later libidoscaphes (1962), desire-vessels that merge spacecraft with sexual organs and mythological beasts, navigating inner realms of “inadmissible desires masked by propriety.”
Part Jules Verne, part surrealist fever dream, part absurdist comedy, Labisse uses consciousness itself as a vehicle for traveling through forbidden dimensions where eroticism could actually warp reality. The nudity of Labisse’s female subjects is an armor. These women are preparing — for ceremonies, for magic, for battle. Their landscapes exist nowhere and everywhere at once: moon, ocean, future city, ancient temple. Set in mythic space, the women are real–piloting libidoscapes, navigating time, and fighting wars. Labisse enables us to see them through our own myths and knowledge of history. And imagine that perhaps because we see them, they are real. Imagine they are waiting, blue-skinned and patient, for the rest of us to catch up.
Labisse connected to science fiction, painting and drawing what he imagined. But in his work can be found an idea more radical—that artists might actually access non-linear temporal streams, tapping into futures and parallel timelines.
About the Artist
Félix Labisse (1905-1982) was a painter, illustrator, and theater designer who transformed mythology into what he called a “personal demonology.” Born in Northern France, he spent his early years in Douai and later Ostend, Belgium, where he met his mentor James Ensor while studying at the École de Pêche.
His childhood shaped everything: the Gayant carnival with its giant mannequins, living through WWI occupation from ages 9-13, and obsessively reading 19th-century science fiction. By 1933 he’d moved to Paris, where he quickly made a name designing theater sets (for Jean-Louis Barrault and later Jean-Paul Sartre) while painting and befriending other Surrealists—Robert Desnos, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Paul Delvaux. But Labisse never quite fit André Breton’s official Surrealist movement. He was doing his own thing: Flemish Expressionism meets occult symbolism meets erotic mythology. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1966 and kept working until he died in 1982.
—-Curator Shauta Marsh
Research assistance: Louise Martin
Part one of a four part exhibition series on the artist.

Stephanie Williams: Common Matter
2026-02-06 18:00 - 2026-02-18 15:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Guichelaar Gallery | Feb. 6 – 18, 2026
Stephanie Williams’ exhibition Common Matter brings together ceramic wall sculpture and framed photography to trace the repeating structures that appear across nature and human design. The show includes modular ceramic forms that shift between geometric and organic designs, alongside photographs which explore cosmic patterns at the microscopic level. Across mediums, the work invites viewers to look closely at how familiar patterns emerge at different scales, from crystalline structures to engineered surfaces.
Williams explores the idea that the universe is built from recurring visual and mathematical “rules” that show up in both organic building blocks and artificial systems. The work considers proportion and measurement as a universal expression of those “rules” (including spiral and growth patterns associated with the Fibonacci sequence) and asks how the macro and the micro mirror one another.
This body of work is informed by diverse influences, from historical cosmologists such as Johannes Kepler to Williams’ daily encounters with the patterns embedded in the world around her. Over time, she has become increasingly interested in how micro-patterns replicate themselves in both large and miniature form, and how humans often echo these same micro-patterns in their design, technology, and impulse to create.
Williams’ studio practice is rooted in ceramics, using a combination of throwing, handbuilding, and slipcasting. The photographic work extends the investigation of her exhibition’s thematic concepts through digital microscopic imagery and black-and-white analogue film.
Ultimately, Common Matter asks viewers to reflect on their existence within the universe and their relationship to it at a fundamental structural level. In the spirit of Carl Sagan’s observation that humanity is “a way for the universe to know itself,” the work suggests that the patterns we notice (and the ones we recreate) are not separate from us, but part of what we are.
About the artist
Stephanie Williams is an Indianapolis-based artist in Big Car Collaborative’s CAMi Long-Term Artist Residency program. She graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design in 2019 and has exhibited in a variety of spaces and galleries across Indiana. Williams has worked at American Art and Clay Company (AMACO) going on ten years.

February 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
2026-02-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) (formerly known as Tube Factory) campus on Feb. 6 from 6-10 p.m. for First Friday!
We have three new exhibits opening:

Blue Blood: Félix Labisse’s Goddesses, Demons, and the Space Between in the Tube Main gallery
Pavlina Vagioni: AVÁSIMO (BASELESS) in the Tube Video gallery
Stephanie Williams: Common Matter in Guichelaar Gallery

Artists and small businesses are welcome to join guided tours of our expansion to explore the storefronts and studios. (Applications for the spaces are due on Friday, Feb. 13 and can be submitted at camindy.org/opportunities.)
Also enjoy Sun King beer, wine, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Pavlina Vagioni: AVÁSIMO (BASELESS)
2026-02-06 08:00 - 2026-03-18 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Friday, Feb. 6 – Wednesday, March 18, 2026 | Tube Video Gallery

Stock market data from the 2008 financial collapse — Dow Jones, Nikkei, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 — is translated into a musical score. An electronic female voice, processed through vocoder, follows the score with precision. The voice is feminine, like the voices designed to assist us, to serve, to comply. When algorithms are built to help, they are so often given women’s voices. The system speaks through the voice it expects obedience from. A human voice enters, not in obedience but in lament. It responds to the data, departs from it, grieves what the numbers cannot feel. It exists within the system while refusing to be ruled by it. The video displays symbols from the Phaistos Disc, an undeciphered Minoan script possibly from a matriarchal Bronze Age society, now scrolling in the format of a stock ticker: ancient mystery conscripted into capitalism’s visual language. Beneath the voices, a sustained drone sounds: the ison of Byzantine chant tradition, a single fixed pitch that served as tonal anchor for sacred music. Here it becomes the cost basis, the entry point, the fixed reference against which all market movement is measured, the illusion of stable ground in a system without foundation. Matriarchal symbols forced into patriarchal economic display. Female robot voice obeying the algorithmic score. Human female voice refusing, responding, lamenting. The drone continues beneath it all, as cost basis always does, indifferent to what rises or falls above it. At the close, the human voice fades; the machine inherits its tremor. Nothing holds still. Avásimo: without basis. The ground was never there.

2026, Single channel audio & video animationAudio duration: 3’17”
Concept, Artistic Direction: Pavlina VagioniOriginal Score: Audra Verona LambertArrangement & Transcription: Pavlina VagioniVocoder & Electronic Processing: Vangelis YalamasVocals: Pavlina VagioniMixing: Vangelis YalamasVideo Animation: Tasos Tsiaboulas

About the Artist: Pavlina Vagioni is a Greek-born interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, TX, whose work spans sculpture, painting, sound, and digital art. She has exhibited at notable venues across the US and Europe, including the Byzantine Museum, Hellenic American Union, Kappatos Gallery (Athens), TANK Space, Lawndale Art Center (Houston), Carillon Gallery (Fort Worth), and Opening Gallery (New York). Vagioni completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts and created a public art project at Houston’s ION Building. Her work is recognized internationally and held in multiple private and public collections, including the MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece).

Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Storefronts & Studios Open House
2026-01-24 13:00 - 15:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist, designer, or creative entrepreneur looking for a community where you can make, share, and grow your work? The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is now accepting applications for studio and storefront spaces in our new building opening May 2026 on Indianapolis’s near south side.
To help prospective applicants learn more, we’re hosting an open house where you can tour the spaces, ask questions, and explore what it means to be part of the CAMi campus.
Open House Details:
Saturday, Jan. 24
1–3 p.m.
Starting location: Tube building (1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN 46203)
Staff will be available to provide direction, share information about available spaces, and answer questions about the application and selection process.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

NIGHTJAR: Kristine Esser Slentz
2026-01-14 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Featured Poet: Kristine Esser Slentz
Open mic prompt: Write a poem on how technology affects a close relationship.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About the Featured Poet:
Kristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman, depose (FlowerSong Press, 2021, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House, 2026). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saturday Evening Post, TriQuarterly, Five Points, TEDx, and elsewhere. Kristine is the co-founder, organizer, and host of Adverse Abstraction, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision, a stage production currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s Dada and headed for an upcoming run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday (this month is an exception, as it’s on the second Wednesday), C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

January 2026 First Friday at Tube Factory on the the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Campus
2026-01-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Jan. 2 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus!
Continuing exhibits in the Tube Factory building include:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

Of note, January is the last month to see Shrines of the Luminous Halo and Harris-Babou’s selected works!
And, come check out our CAMi expansion!
As always, enjoy coffee, Sun King beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

NIGHTJAR: All Open Mic
2025-12-17 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open Mic Prompt: Bring your best haiku.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

December 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
2025-12-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Dec. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus!
Continuing exhibits include:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

As always, enjoy coffee, beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Double Album Release Celebration: Ciaaattt and Rob Funkhouser
2025-11-22 16:00 - 19:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Rob Funkhouser and members of Gamelan Mojomanis in celebrating the release of two records: Gamut Ria by Ciaaattt and Respiratory Cycle by Rob Funkhouser.
Ciaaattt is a regular collaborator with Indianapolis’ Gamelan Mojomanis, and first appeared at Big Car during the gamelan’s performance at the 2024 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series. He is currently visiting from Bali and will perform his groundbreaking vocal interpretations of gamelan tunes past and present.
Rob Funkhouser is a resident in Big Car’s long-term artist residency program, and is putting out his first proper album in several years. Respiratory Cycle is a celebration of turning inward and outward in turn, and finding music both in solitude and in collaboration. Funkhouser will perform pieces from Respiratory Cycle featuring instruments he built during his residency.
In addition to performances from Ciaaattt and Funkhouser, there will be performances featuring Landon Caldwell, and members of Gamelan Mojomanis under the name Mojoalit (Little Mojo).
The event will open with a short interactive workshop on Balinese drumming led by Ciaaattt and members of Gamelan Mojomanis.
Admission is free and donations will be accepted at the door. Copies of the albums will be available for purchase.

NIGHTJAR: Karen Kovacik
2025-11-19 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open mic prompt: Write a poem that explores what you’ve inherited, whether from your culture, history, religion, family, or other context.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Kovacik:
Karen Kovacik is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Portable City (Hanging Loose, 2025). Also a translator of Polish poetry, she has brought into English Jacek Dehnel’s Aperture, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and she is one of three translators of Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline, a finalist for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize. The editor of Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets, she has received many awards, including two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. From 2012-2014, she served as Indiana’s Poet Laureate.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

CANCELLED: Sunia Won Gibbs: What About Love Tour
2025-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This event has been cancelled.

Join artist and storyteller Sunia Won Gibbs for “What About Love: A Resonance Experience,” an evening that transcends a traditional concert.
Sunia knows the profound ache of being caught between origins and belonging. Abandoned in South Korea and adopted internationally, she has spent a lifetime asking, “What About Love?”—a question she has been writing songs to answer since she was 12. Her music builds from a struggle to name a Love that is boundless, not conditional.
In this resonant experience, Sunia invites you into a space where love and connection become lived experiences, not just ideas. Through a powerful blend of original song, raw storytelling, and shared presence, she gathers the scattered, wandering, and wondering to explore one central question: In a world frayed by fear, can Love be more than a passive hope? Can it be embodied and practiced?
This event is our collective laboratory to find out. You can expect an immersive journey that bridges divides, offering a taste of the healing power that emerges when we choose to amplify the sound of love within ourselves and one another.
Presented by Big Car Collaborative and Hoosier Asian American Power (HAAP).

Ilana Harris-Babou: Selected Works
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-25 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Nov. 7, 2025 – Jan. 25, 2026 | Video Gallery
​​Red Sourcebook, 2018, 4:12 minutes, color, stereo, HD video
Cooking with the Erotic, 2016, 11:37 minutes, color, stereo, 2-channel, HD video
Finishing a Raw Basement, 2017, 6:41 minutes , color, stereo, HD video
Reparation Hardware, 2018, 4:05 minutes, color, stereo, HD video
Ilana Harris-Babou is a multimedia artist whose video works are an important component of a practice that includes sculpture and object making, performance, and installation. In her projects, Harris-Babou mines the aesthetics of YouTube tutorials, home improvement and cooking shows, and corporate ad campaigns to call attention to how personal and social identities are constructed—and co-opted—by dominant ideologies.
Harris-Babou unsettles the anodyne tone of these vehicles with wit and creative whimsy, utilizing and re-contextualizing mainstream media forms to make explicit the forces that are elided by slick production strategies: social stratification; legacies of structured oppression; and the homogenizing push of consumerism. Fit within a history of artists using satire and mimicry to critique media and communication platforms, Harris-Babou’s videos, many of which feature her own mother, also draw from her personal experience and lexicon of references to infuse her humor with deeply resonant meaning.
Harris-Babou has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY (2023); Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY (2023); The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University (2023); Artspace New Haven (2022); Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (2021); Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (2017). In spring 2023, the artist installed Liquid Gold in Times Square for the Midnight Moment series. Harris-Babou has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2019), and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023); California College of the Arts Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA (2021); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2021); and Queens Museum, Queens, NY (2020). She lives and works in Brooklyn and Middletown, CT.
Made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Screen still from “Decision Fatigue.”

Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-18 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Main Gallery
Imagine you are stepping into a bubble, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact with or move around these objects that symbolize yourself?
Amy Kligman’s series of 23 paintings glimpses an inner world, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround us. Arranged in a deliberate, symmetrical way, these objects represent who we are.
“I love objects and environments that carry the history of the people that have shared space and time with them. I think about lineage — the patina of the world handed from generation to generation, and what it means to try to make something of the world as we receive it from others,” says Kligman, who lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri. “Generations of women, generations of artists, generations of family. In my paintings I pull together elements from these histories to suggest a kind of ‘bubble world’ where those disparate pieces come together in a place of hope, reverence, acknowledgment, or sometimes a sort of aspiration for a future where the efforts of the past inform progress.”
Throughout the history of art, depictions of the table and its contents have been used as a storytelling device to convey skillfully coded meaning and sociocultural significance to the viewer. Taking the genre of still lifes as its entry point, this exhibition expands upon art historical precedents to think about the table (or toolcart) not only as a site and signifier of power, position, and social status but also as a shrine.
Kligman’s series also gives form to Virginia Woolf’s idea of a “luminous halo” — a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end. Kligman’s works act like a book focusing on how we remember and what we think we know.
“In the assembling of objects I’m often pulling together references and symbols as an invitation to a specific state of being or meditation or reflection. By creating these spaces and inviting others into them, I’m inviting them into these states of reflection as well, though folks are not meant to understand all the symbols and the visual language in a didactic way. I believe intention has its own halo, echoing out into the universe, subtly encouraging movement.”

About the artist
Amy Kligman is a painter and installation artist whose work is mostly about people, even when it takes the form of rooms full of layered, disposable party goods. Kligman holds her BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design. At the end of 2024, after nine years in the role, she stepped down as executive director at Charlotte Street Foundation to create her own opportunities by identifying gaps in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. She launched Special Effects gallery to make local artists more nationally visible. In March of 2025 she opened Salon for Possible Futures, an artwork that doubles as a community gathering space on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally her work was featured in New American Paintings and she received the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award, ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Art in the Loop Public Art Commission, residency at the Luminary in St. Louis, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission, and the Byron C. Cohen Artist Award.

Nov. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
2025-11-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come join us for First Friday festivities on Nov. 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus!
We have two new exhibits opening:

Amy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery
Selected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery

Continuing exhibits include:

Tarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery

And, RMY’S Soul/Comfort food truck will be on-site.
As always, enjoy coffee, beer, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Gabriel Martinez sound performance
2025-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Find out what it sounds like if the walls do indeed talk through Houston based artist Martinez’s experiments with the surrounding environment at Tube Factory a through a sound performance.
Born near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert, Gabriel Martinez is an artist, writer, and performer living and working in Houston. He is the founding director of Alabama Song, an experimental sound and art space for which he received the Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. His art explores relationships produced by the built environment and the body’s experience of history. He graduated with an M.F.A. from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses.
Martinez’s work has been exhibited at various institutions and galleries including the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston TX, Artpace San Antonio, and the Wallach Gallery in New York City. He has performed at institutions such as Artist’s Space, Menil Collection, the Chinati Foundation, and the Moody Center for the Arts. In addition to his extensive visual and performing background, Martinez has received several grants, fellowships, and artist residencies. He was a 2022 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.

NIGHTJAR: Bryce Berkowitz
2025-10-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 pm, Reading at 7 pm
Open mic prompt: Write a poem that engages with your new or old life in a specific place.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Berkowitz:
Bryce Berkowitz’s TV pilot, Meaderville, won the AMC TV Pilot Award from the Austin Film Festival. He’s the author of the poetry collection Bermuda Ferris Wheel, winner of the 42 Miles Press | Indiana University Poetry Award. His poems have been selected for national and regional anthologies, and his writing has appeared in publications such as The Sewanee Review, The Missouri Review, the Chicago Sun Times, Ninth Letter, and the Southern Indiana Review. Bryce is at work on two dark-comedy crime novels, several TV pilots and feature-length screenplays, and a second poetry collection. He co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Butler University.
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NIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Oct. 14
2025-10-14 11:30 - 13:30 | Lockerbie Marketplace, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. Oct. 14: Judy + the Golden Spatula food truck
Lunchtimes at Lockerbie Place
Stop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong , play giant Jenga, and find your new favorite musician or food truck.
When? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time!
Where? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail, next to Needler’s Fresh Market.
Who? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners.
Check @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!

2025 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: October Concert
2025-10-12 12:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana are thrilled to continue as part of a national program to bring FREE, high quality, live concerts through the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series! In this — the second year of the series here — we’ll bring the free musical entertainment to our Tube Factory campus once a month over seven Sundays. We’re also adding cultural aspects like traditional dance performances and opportunities for local artists and artisans to sell their work as part of these lively community events.
When: Noon to 3 pm on Oct. 12.
Where: Tube Factory campus, on the near southside of Indianapolis, at 1125 Cruft St. — Concerts will happen at the amphitheatre in our Terri Sisson Park greenspace and move inside Tube Factory in bad weather. While there will be some provided seating at this outdoor event, we encourage visitors to bring blankets or other lawn seating for them to enjoy during the event.
Who: Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana collaborating with partners, sponsors, and local and national musicians, local vendors, artists, and creatives.
Why: To bring additional liveliness to an underused area of our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and neighborly, inclusive, fun, and creative social gatherings.
Oct. 12’s lineup:

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (folk)
Indygaita (traditional Venezuelan)
Gamelan Mojomanis (traditional Indonesian)
Food Truck: Arepas (Colombian flatbreads)

And:

Daydream Market (mix of vendors selling vintage, art, and hand-made wares)
Open picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink) is encouraged
Fun games will be on-site
Tube Factory galleries will be open
Bean Creek Outlook and Terri Sisson Park nature spaces will be open

AND, come help paint a mural that will be displayed on the side of Safeway on Raymond Street! This third community painting session will work on designs by neighborhood artists Julie Xiao and Andrea Haydon. This mural project is possible thanks to the City of Indianapolis and the Indy Arts Council’s Public Art for All program.
Learn more about the series here.

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Thanks to the Levitt Foundation, Efroymson Family Fund, Lumina Foundation, MIBOR REALTOR Association, Eskenazi Health, Penrod Society, and Rundell Ernstberger Associates for their generous support of Levitt VIBE Indianapolis!
The Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces, creating welcoming and inclusive destinations where the power of free, live music brings people together, fosters belonging, and invigorates community life. www.levitt.org
