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All-Star Live Musical Performances at SPARK on the Circle
2025-07-17 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
All-Star Live Musical Performances at SPARK on the Circle
Live Performances 4 – 6 pm

4 – 4:45 pm — Reagan Shalome
5 – 5:45 pm — Hey Judy

SPARK on the Circle is a social practice art and creative placemaking project by Big Car in partnership with Downtown Indy, Inc. and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission. SPARK on the Circle has been part of Big Car’s Spark placemaking program since 2015.

All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle is made possible through the SPARK partners (Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, Inc., and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission), Indy Arts Council with the City of Indianapolis, and the WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee.

All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle — Day 1
2025-07-18 11:00 - 21:30 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle Day 1 — Friday, July 18:

SPARK All-Star Art Market Day 1 — 12pm – 5pm
Live Performances — 11am – 5pm

– 11 – 11:30 am — Akustico
– 1 – 1:30 pm — Hannah Hadley
– 2:45 – 3:15 pm — Mina Keohane
– 4:30 – 5pm — Kara Cole

Bubble Jim — 2pm – 4pm
Bracelet Making — 11am – 6pm
Free Postcard Activity 11am – dark
Forensic Friends — 2 – 6pm

SPARK on the Circle is a social practice art and creative placemaking project by Big Car in partnership with Downtown Indy, Inc. and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission. SPARK on the Circle has been part of Big Car’s Spark placemaking program since 2015.

All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle is made possible through the SPARK partners (Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, Inc., and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission), Indy Arts Council with the City of Indianapolis, and the WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee.

All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle — Day 2
2025-07-19 11:00 - 21:30 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle Day 2 — Saturday, July 19

SPARK All Star Art Market Day 2 — 9am – 2pm
Live Performances — 1pm – 6pm

– 12:15 – 12:45 pm — Sister Sinjin
– 2 – 2:30 pm — Sofi Parker
– 3:45 – 4:15 pm — Jennasen
– 5:30 – 6 pm — Allison Victoria

Face Painting with Meg — 9am – 12pm
Free Postcard Activity — 9am – dark
Bracelet Making — 9am – 6pm
As You Wish — 9am – 3pm

SPARK on the Circle is a social practice art and creative placemaking project by Big Car in partnership with Downtown Indy, Inc. and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission. SPARK on the Circle has been part of Big Car’s Spark placemaking program since 2015.

All-Star Arts & Culture at SPARK on the Circle is made possible through the SPARK partners (Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, Inc., and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission), Indy Arts Council with the City of Indianapolis, and the WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | July 22
2025-07-22 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
July 22: Rodrigo Hernandez + Smokey Blue BBQ 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!

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | July 29
2025-07-29 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
July 29: 99.1 WQRT FM DJ Mix+ Pierogi Love 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!

August 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory
2025-08-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us on Aug. 1 from 6 to 1o p.m. at Tube Factory to celebrate First Friday!
Food truck: The Golden Spatula
Exhibits on display include:
• Jason Wesaw’s “Sovereign Spirits” in the Main Gallery
• Davis Henderson’s “BODEWADMI NDAW” in the video room
In addition, Normal Coffee will be offering beverages for purchase.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Aug. 5
2025-08-05 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Aug. 5: Mina Keohane + Woppo’s 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: August Concert
2025-08-10 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 Aug. 10 (+ Sept. 14, 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.
Aug. 10’s lineup:

Girl in a Coma (alt/indie rock)
Iibada Dance Company (children’s African and modern dance)
Criollisima con Sentimiento (Peruvian folk)
Food Truck: The Grub House (soul food)

And:

Latino Market (Latino/e /x/ artisan market)
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

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

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Aug. 12
2025-08-12 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Aug. 12: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + The Latin Flavor 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!

Sketch Club with India Hines
2025-08-15 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, come hang out and draw with Big Car longterm artist in residence, India Hines.
Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome, just come & draw 🙂
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India Hines, a self-taught artist from Denver, CO, and raised in Indianapolis, IN, uses ink, watercolor, and oil paints to explore spirituality and the subconscious. Their intuitive process results in figurative faces and organic shapes that reflect a journey of growth, resilience, and love. India’s art is deeply meditative, rich with emotional depth, and narrates stories of overcoming adversity. Active in community projects and exhibitions, India believes in art’s power to unite and continues to push creative boundaries while exploring personal growth and self-discovery.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Aug. 19
2025-08-19 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Aug. 19: Rob Funkhouser + Scott Diggity Dog 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!

NIGHTJAR: David Strange
2025-08-20 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 about family (blood-related or chosen, positive or negative, etc).
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Strange:
David Strange is an Indianapolis-based teacher and poet. Originally from Loogootee, IN, he has called Evansville, Bloomington, and Alaska home at various times. You can find his previous work in journals like FishHook, Driftwood Press, Dogwood Alchemy, and Anchorage Press among others. His first chapbook, “Loogootee,” was recently published. David Strange organizes writing and art events in Indy, including This Could Be Everything and a monthly series called Listen, Please.

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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.

Artist Talk & Walk: Jason Wesaw
2025-08-25 18:30 - 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for an artist talk and walk at Tube Factory with Sovereign Spirits artist Jason Wesaw on Monday, Aug. 25 from 6:30-7:30pm.

About the Artist: Jason Wesaw works in an array of media including ceramics, textiles, works on paper, and traditional cultural pieces. His projects relate stories about the Potawatomi people’s ancient and evolving connection to the Land, the Sky, the Water, and Beyond. He balances being an artist with working in his Tribal community as a Peacemaker and participating in traditional cultural ceremonies across the Great Lakes. Wesaw is Potawatomi (Turtle Clan) and lives near the historic Pokagon Potawatomi settlement of Rush Lake in southwestern Michigan. His work is in the permanent collections of the Eiteljorg Museum, Grand Valley State University in Michigan, the University of Notre Dame, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Indiana State Museum, and many other regional institutions. He was recently a Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Newberry Library for the ‘Indigenous Chicago’ exhibition and is a core artist in the current “Woven Being” group exhibition at The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.
Learn more about Wesaw by visiting his Instagram account @jasonwesaw.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Aug. 26
2025-08-26 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Aug. 26: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + Books Bourbon & Bacon 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!

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 2
2025-09-02 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. 2: Sister Sinjin + The Latin Flavor 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!

Mo Gio: Picnic at the Park — a wearable art performance
2025-09-05 18:00 - 21:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
RESCHEDULED FROM 6/8/2025 TO 9/5/2025
Join us for this powerful performance that explores the unpredictable nature of life and the strength it takes to move forward in the face of adversity. A seemingly perfect picnic on a sunny day turns to chaos, reminding us that faith is a choice, and joy is a decision: even in the most unpredictable of circumstances. But as the storm rages on, so does our resilience.
Guests are encouraged to bring their picnic blankets and snacks to enjoy the show. And, 3 Marias Mexican food truck and Juicy Pop-up will be on-site serving Mexican cuisine and fresh-pressed juice.
Performances will take place outside on the Tube Factory campus. There will be performances at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. with meet-and-greets with the artist and performers — including photo opportunities — in between shows. (Performances last around 15 min.)
Additionally, there will be a limited number of picnic baskets for guests to personalize, embellish, and take home. Early arrival is suggested!

About the artist:
Monique Burts is a wearable artist with a background in sculpture and a 2025 Art & Soul-featured artist through the Indy Arts Council. She received her degree in sculpture from Herron School of Art + Design and now works as a wearable artist and costume designer, presenting shows for all under the alias “Mo Gio.” She uses unconventional materials and methods to create wearable art for shows and the runway. Her work is accompanied by live models, music curation, choreography, and glamour. She has exhibited at various Indianapolis galleries and venues including the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center, The Vogue Theatre, and the Indy 500 Snakepit Ball.
“Art and fashion is revealed in everything from daily interactions to ordinary objects. Even as a young girl, I had a particular interest in design and fashion. This longtime interest has shaped my career as a professional artist. I create wearable art using various unconventional techniques and materials, including — but not limited to — paper, plastic, wood, metal, hair, plaster, and ordinary found objects. My creative process involves trial and error, problem solving, risk taking, research, and material analysis. My ability to trust my unique process allows me to transform materials beyond what initially seems possible and create multifaceted, wearable sculptures. I draw much of my inspiration from the possibilities that appear when perspective is altered. In addition to the art of manipulation and seeing the beauty in the unseen, my artistry is also shaped by my culture and lived experiences as a Black woman. The wearable art performances that I produce reflect the theme of unconventionality seen throughout my body of work. Viewers can expect an immersive experience with glamorous live models, music curation, and supporting props that bring the story to life.” — Mo Gio
Made possible by the Indy Arts Council and the City of Indianapolis’ Art & Soul program, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Sept. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory
2025-09-05 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 Sept. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus!

We have a picnic-themed wearable fashion show by Mo Gio outside in our outdoor greenspace, with performances at 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m. EST. Guests are encouraged to bring their picnic blankets and chairs to enjoy the show

We also have two brand new exhibits opening:

SOMA in the Main Gallery
Keren Cytter’s Rose Garden in the Video Gallery

Will Higgins’ Museum of Fabulosity continues through Sept. 21.

And, 3 Marias Mexican food truck and Juicy Pop-up will be on-site serving Mexican cuisine and fresh-pressed juice.

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

SOMA
2025-09-05 18:00 - 2025-10-19 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Main Gallery
This exhibition explores the supernatural and ethereal states of somatic responses. Inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, where soma was a fictional drug used to pacify civilians in a state of existential bliss and disassociation. Exploring the socialized perceptions of figures occupying space, Soma takes on confronting perceived utopia and dysmorphia in this exhibition.
In the works, moments of adolescent innocence are paired with surrealist and folkloric expressions of figuration. Satirically, this speaks to resisting and transcending moments that are out of alignment as people grow; without physically being dismissed.
Featured artists:
Jo Archuleta (Kansas City, Missouri)
Tommy Lomeli (Helena, Montana)
Katherine Looney (Kansas City, Missouri)
October Sharify (Chicago)
Isaac Tapia (Kansas City, Missouri)
Cesar Velez (Kansas City, Missouri)
Guest Curator: Yashi Davalos
Davalos is an Afro-Puerto Rican-Mexican, Atlanta Native, based in New Orleans. Her practice began in the Americana Deep South. She attended HBCU, Savannah State University, where she studied Vocal Performance. Yashi’s curatorial research centers socio-cultural epistemology, the south and the global south, through an interdisciplinary arts praxis.
Davalos was the 2023-2025 curatorial fellow and interim grants and awards coordinator at The Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. She was previously a member of collective run gallery The Front New Orleans. Davalos has designed and facilitated programming in collaboration with various institutions including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Prospect New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, UMKC Music Conservatory, and MDW Artist Coalition. Her art has been exhibited throughout New Orleans, ATL, KCMO, and at MECA Art Fair in the Dominican Republic. Yashi’s writing has been published via Sixty Inches From Center, Burnaway, and Intervenxions at Latinx Project NYU.
Artist Bios:
Jo Archuleta (b. Taos, New Mexico 2000) is an artist living and working in Kansas City, Missouri. Her work explores the complexity of identity and mythology of womanhood found within leisure, desire, pleasure and the specificity as a state of being. By acknowledging rules within the landscape of femininity, gender roles and their societal expectations. Archuleta has found that there are multiple approaches to transgressive and transformative definitions of these identities. Her specific approach to this critique has been to use humor, jokes, and satire. Archuleta is interested in exploring how the figure is perceived and how she sees herself, a constant battle between self-awareness and self sabotage. The figures seduce and confront complexities within the vapidness of beauty, vanity, and ego while also using self-consciousness as repulsion. The women in her work wear masks, perform softness, weakness, shallowness, and confidence; all while cowering within their own insecurities.
Tommy Lomeli (b.1993) is an emerging ceramic artist born in Stockton, California. Lomeli holds a BA from CSU Sacramento and an MFA from the University of Kansas. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the International Sculpture Center’s 2024 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture award, and first place at NCECA’s 2023 National Juried Student Exhibition. He was a 2024 Charlotte Street Foundation Artist in Residence. He is currently a 2025 Taunt Fellow at the Archie Bray Foundation.
Katherine Looney (b.1989 (she/her)) is a Black and Native American visual artist living in Kansas City, Missouri. She usually works with oil paints when creating colorful portraits. Many of her works are based on photos she has taken of her friends and family. She was a part of Charlotte Street Foundation’s 2023 Artist INC cohort. She was also a 2024 recipient of Charlotte Street Foundation’s Artboards Award. Katherine has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
October Sharify (b.1999) is an oil painter based in Chicago, Illinois. Their longtime interest in history and theology blends in their work with feminine aesthetics and spiritual imagery. October has a developmental disability and believes that this is both a detriment to their work and integral to their process. October has an African American and Persian cultural background, and often turns to the visual language of their respective cultures’ past for inspiration. “I enjoy working with a limited palette, and I mix my own custom colors to use consistently across my work. Blue to me is a very atmospheric color and my favorite time of day has always been twilight. World-building and paintings that evoke a feeling are very important to me and this exists in every piece that I make.”
Isaac Tapia was born in Mexico, where he lived until moving to the U.S. when he was nine. Isaac focuses on portraits that elevate important, yet often underrepresented, members of his community and celebrate the complex narratives of contemporary migration. He blends photography, audio interviews, and traditional oil portraiture techniques to convey rich, multilayered stories and create opportunities for identification and connection. Isaac’s paintings have been exhibited throughout Kansas City — including at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art — and his work has traveled in shows across the Midwest with the Mexican Consulate and La Onda and the M.A.S.A. Collective. He had a residency and exhibition at Casa Lu Sur en Mexico City in December of 2024. Isaac is a founding member of the M.A.S.A. Collective, and is one of the resident artists at the Charlotte Street Foundation. He is also one-half of the mural duo IT-RA Icons, which has painted murals across the country.
Cesar Velez is a self-taught painter and first-generation immigrant from Mexico based in Kansas City, Missouri. Velez’s work draws from his personal experience growing up in the South and Midwest United States as an undocumented immigrant (now DACA Recipient) living amongst American peers.
This exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Efroymson Family Fund.
IMAGE: Big Fish, Cesar Velez, oil on canvas, 24×30, 2022

Keren Cytter: Rose Garden
2025-09-05 18:00 - 2025-11-02 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Video Gallery
Cytter’s short 2014 film explores the unsettling duality of American culture’s ideals regarding being protectors of life and harbingers of death. This title is a reference to both the 1964 Joanne Greenburg book I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which deals with mental illness and the 1971-84 Marine Corp recruitment campaign “We Don’t Promise You A Rose Garden.” These references are meant to clue the viewer in that the seemingly ordinary setting hides a distorted reality. As the tension builds, multiple guns and disjointed conversations between characters escalate the sense that the calm is about to be shattered. A chaotic shooting spree unfolds against the backdrop of normal daily life. The chilling final scene serves as a grim conclusion addressing violence and its pervasive presence within American culture.
Run time: 8 minutes and 55 seconds
Please note: This work contains adult themes and gun violence that some may find triggering.
About the artist
Keren Cytter (b. 1977) creates films, performances, drawings and photographs on topics of social alienation, language representation, and the function of individuals in predetermined cultural systems through experimental modes of storytelling and human perception. Mostly characterised by a non-linear, cyclical logic Cytter’s films consist of multiple layers of images; conversation; monologue, and narration systematically composed to undermine linguistic conventions and traditional interpretation schemata. Recalling amateur home movies and video diaries, these montages of impressions, memories, and imaginings are poetic and self-referential in composition. The artist creates intensified scenes drawn from everyday life in which the overwhelmingly artificial nature of the situations portrayed is echoed by the very means of their production.
Cytter was awarded the Joseph Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021), Absolut Art Award, Stockholm (2009), Ars Viva Prize, Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft, Berlin (2008) and the Bâloise Art Prize at Art Basel (2006).
Recent solo exhibitions include Hot Lava Night, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (2023); Double Standard, LLS Paleis, Antwerp, Belgium (2023). Cytter’s work was showcased in a major survey exhibition at the Ludwig Forum Aachen (2022), featuring: films, soap operas, plays, sculptures, drawings, novels, zines, life coaching guides, children’s books and a festival. Cytter’s videos were shown in solo exhibitions at Winterthur Kunstmuseum, Winterthur (2020); Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2019); Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (2019), Künstlerhaus – Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2014); State of Concept, Athens (2014), Tate Modern, London (2012), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2011); München Kunstverein (2011); Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel (2010); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2010); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010); X Initiative, New York (2009); Le Plateau Paris, Paris (2009), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2008), MUMOK Vienna, Vienna (2007); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2005); Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich (2005) and Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (2006).
Keren Cytter’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions such as MOMENTUM 10, Momentum Biennial, Moss (2019); Masculinity, Düsseldorf Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (2019); SUR/FACE: Mirrors, Museum Angewandtekunst, Frankfurt, (2017); Instructions for Happiness, 21er Haus, Vienna, State (in) Concepts, KADIST, Paris (2017), Vision on Vision- Lemaitre video collection, SEMA Museum, Seoul (2017); Busan Biennial, Busan (2016); Creating Realities – Encounters Between Art and Cinema, Pinakothek der Moderne and Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2015); Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2015); John Bock, Keren Cytter, Paul Pfeiffer, Gillian Wearing and Akram Zaatari, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2013); Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2011); Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (2011); Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2011); Morality, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Revolution, van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2010); Scenväxlingar / Scene Shifts, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2010); 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Future Generation Art Prize: 20 Shortlisted Artists, PinchukArtCentre Kiev (2010); Time Out of Joint: Recall and Evocation in Recent Art, Whitney Museum, New York (2009); The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York (2009); Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2009); Fare Mondi 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, (2009); VideoZone: Video Biennale, Tel Aviv (2008); Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (2008); Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, (2008); Torino Triennale, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli (2008); Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); The Second Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2007); The first Hertzelia Biennial, Hertzelia (2007); The 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2007); All Hawaii Entrees/Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2006).
Her films have been screened in numerous film festivals such as The Wrong Movie, Berlinale, Berlin, Germany (2024); Villae film festival, Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Bolzano Film Festival, Bolzano (both in 2019); European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck (2018); A Retrospective at Bergamo Film Festival, Bergamo (2016); Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam and KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Cologne (both in 2009); Berlin International Film Festival, Expended Forum, Berlin (2008); Berlin International Film Festival, Expended Forum, Berlin and Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow (both in 2007).
This exhibition is made possible thanks to the support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 9
2025-09-09 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. 9: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + BoxBurger 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: September Concert
2025-09-14 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 Sept. 14 (+ 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.
Sept. 14’s lineup:

Don Slepian (ambient)
Sound Ecologies (classical)
Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts (traditional Chinese dance)
Food Truck: The Yellow Rose Texas Barbecue Company food truck

And:

Free Market (trade and receive free items)
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 first community painting session will work on designs by neighborhood artists Chris Tower and India Hines. 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

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 16
2025-09-16 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. 16: Alejandro Renya + T’Days Jerk 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!

NIGHTJAR: JL Kato
2025-09-17 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: Write a response to the phrase, “Poetry alters reality.” You must use the Oxford comma.
Read a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum, and challenge yourself to share new work!
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About Kato:
JL Kato is the author of Shadows Set in Concrete, selected by Indiana Center for the Book as the best Indiana poetry book of 2011. He was designated Indiana Literary Champion by the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards in 2022. His poetry has appeared in several journals and publications, including Paterson Literary Review, Indianapolis Review, Flying Island, Tipton Poetry Journal, and So It Goes (the annual literary journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library)
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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.

Baile Monumental
2025-09-21 15:00 - 20:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us at SPARK on the Circle with Baile Monumental on Sunday, Sept. 21 from 3 to 8 p.m.!
Join us for a dance event filled with music ranging from cumbia, bachata, salsa, reggaeton and many more latin music styles.
This event will feature DJs Eddie Calaca, Dimension 2000, Sonido Campesino, DJ Rumba, and DJ Marley Dee from Hoosier Big Deal.
In addition, there will be games and creative activities for visitors of all ages, so make sure to bring your family and friends! This event is free to attend.
This event is a collaboration between Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative.

SPARK on the Circle is made possible by Big Car Collaborative in partnership with Downtown Indy, Inc. and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development — in cooperation with the Indiana War Memorials Commission.

ALT(R) with Bryn Jackson
2025-09-21 15:00 - 20:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
ALT(R) is a site-responsive exchange ritual that highlights scent’s capacity as a vessel for memory and agency. Conceived in dialogue with the Soldiers and Sailors Monument—a towering emblem of triumph and permanence—ALT(R) counters stone with breath, continuity with evanescence. Drawing from precolonial Visayan cosmology, the perfume is composed of botanicals historically present throughout South and Southeast Asia: ylang ylang, citrus, sampaguita, cinnamon leaf, elemi resin, vetiver, patchouli, and sandalwood. These notes form a complex, woody, and floral profile—an embodied invocation of the land. Each bottle becomes a portable oƯering, carried on the body and released into the air, making the wearer a living site of remembrance. The work is activated through an intimate exchange. Visitors are invited to receive the perfume in return for a single admission: “What’s one thing you wish you’d said or had the chance to say?” These unspoken truths—written on seed paper—will become an anonymous, living archive of longing. ALT(R) invites participants to move through public space as carriers of an invisible monument—one that resists erasure not by carving ourselves in stone, but through the persistence of breath, touch, and shared intimacy—a means of healing, and a call to remember what history leaves unsaid.
Presented by Bryn Jackson.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 23
2025-09-23 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. 23: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + TBA
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!

Sketch Club with India Hines
2025-09-25 15:00 - 17:00 | IN
If you love sketching and are looking for community, come 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 come & draw 🙂

"What Nature Brings” Puppet Show at SPARK on the Circle
2025-09-26 17:00 - 18:30 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us for an exciting and fantastical puppet performance at SPARK!

What Nature Brings is a puppet show focused on Indiana folklore with the intergenerational wisdom

that is forever changing how we treat the Earth.

The show is 15 minutes long, and performances are at the top of the hour at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Audio by Clockwork Janz and Play by Sylvia Thomas

“In C” by Terry Riley at Monument Circle (RESCHEDULED FROM 9/13)
2025-09-28 16:00 - 17:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Organized by Indianapolis musician Danny Marquis — one of this year’s SPARK on the Circle artists in residence — this improvisational performance of “In C” is free for everyone to hear and enjoy at Monument Circle in Downtown Indianapolis.
If you’d like to play along, join us by 1:30 p.m. at the SPARK park and bring your instrument. We’ll provide sheet music for Riley’s 1964 composition that directs any number of musicians to repeat a series of 53 melodic fragments in a guided improvisation. Don’t worry, Danny will show you how it works.
Why “In C?” Why perform this piece now in a time where artificial music is becoming more and more proficient and sufficient for so many use cases? Because “In C” demands the humanity of players to choose and listen. To interact in the moment and notice what emerges. Because a computer can render these lines, but only a live performance can breathe vitality into them.
In C — live at SPARK on the Circle, Sunday, Sept. 28 at 4 p.m.

Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 30
2025-09-30 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Fresh Market, 320 N New Jersey St, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place
Sept. 30: TBA + Books Bourbon & Bacon 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!
