Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-18 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 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.

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.”

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).

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.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2025-11-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-12 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-13 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 🙂

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Crossroads
2026-03-06 18:00 - 2026-04-19 15:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Guichelaar Gallery at CAMi
Indiana is known as the “Crossroads of America.” Curator India Hines selected 18 artists whose work explores Indianapolis and Indiana as intersections of place, culture, and identity. Through their work Hines highlights the complex dimensions of life here through artists’ relations to local histories, community spaces, inner landscapes, and the city’s influence on their lived experiences.
Ava Tankersley
Bri Powell
Cameron Omega
Fernando Casanova (Fernando)
Jesús Andrade Mares
Joshua Mark Phillippe
KC Coverdale (KC)
Sophie Sturgeon
Kionne Bybee,
Kipp Coverdale
Kyle Bob Morgan
Sofia Casanova
Matt Fertig
Mazzy Booth
Tristan Roy
Robert Bentley (Hanz One)
Neil Cain (Neil Clifton Cain)
Sunshine Gambill (Sunshine Ray)
Quintin Griffin
Curator – India Hines
India Hines is part of the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMI) Long Term Artist Residency. Self-taught, their work is rooted in intuition, spirituality, and the subconscious, treating art as a transformative experience rather than purely an aesthetic object.
Working across ink, gouache, watercolor, oil, and mural, India creates figurative forms and organic shapes that feel both dreamlike and ancestral. Their process is deeply meditative and often begins without a fixed plan, allowing emotion, memory, and spiritual guidance to lead the work. Through this intuitive approach, their art explores balance, lineage, and the unseen forces that shape identity.
This exhibition was made possible by the Indy Arts Council and the City of Indianapolis.
Image: Cameron Omega, I won’t forget, I remember, Acrylic on Canvas, 24×36, 2025.

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.

NIGHTJAR: Auboni
2026-03-18 06:30 - 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: 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.

Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets : Open Code
2026-04-03 17:00 - 2026-09-13 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
TUBE GALLERY at CAMi | APRIL 3 – SEPT. 13

In this exhibition, designer Cory Robinson builds upon his CODEX series, which employs a system of form typologies in varying combinations to generate unique compositions in both two- and three-dimensional works. Kept Secrets: Open Code uses this preordained design language to explore layered personal histories through recontextualized objects. The gallery is organized around three distinct spatial environments: the Church, the Court, and the Garten.
The Church features five large, tufted rugs installed in a continuous curved sequence, evoking the apse of a cathedral. Produced in collaboration with a software-driven production partner, the designs translate the flat graphic language of the CODEX Series into textile compositions—digitally precise in conception yet softened and humanized in their yarn-rendered finish. The space engages the mystery and contemplative atmosphere associated with liturgical environments, using the unlikely medium of tufted yarn to construct images meant for quiet reflection. Robinson, who grew up in a rural, working-class community in central Indiana, was not raised religious and felt this positioned him as an outsider. Over time he has come to redefine his personal meaning of “church,” and here considers the work of Light and Space artists such as James Turrell, who—often inspired by sacred architecture—manipulates environments to alter perception and elicit the divine.
The Court presents two exaggerated, throne-like chairs flanking the entrance to the Church. Their conceptual origins lie in the artist’s complicated relationship with the American justice system—specifically, a teenage courtroom experience in which he was publicly dismissed by a judge as a “smartass kid.” That moment destabilized his faith in law and order as neutral principles, and the installation explores the symbolism of thrones in relation to justice and power. The thrones incorporate multiple historical and cultural references: the ball-and-claw carving tradition of 18th-century Philadelphia furniture, the golden throne of Tutankhamun, and notably, tattoo subcultures, in which Robinson has observed phrases and ornamentation that reflect adherence to particular codes of law and order. The armrests terminate in carved wooden knuckles engraved with the phrases Open Eyes and Slow Burn — references to surveillance culture and a public increasingly desensitized to crisis. Together the thrones ask: who defines the law, who benefits from it, and how are its symbols constructed and maintained?
The Garten is the most personal and quietest of the three environments. A grouped installation of sculptural lighting objects made from salvaged redwood, it is rooted in the artist’s lifelong affinity for plants and their coded visual languages. As a child, the “garden” for Robinson was the expansive acreage of genetically modified corn that surrounded his home. His affinity for cultivating plants developed as a hobby throughout adolescence and adulthood, and his studio practice grew to consider biomimetic design and how leaf shapes, branching patterns, and other forms repeat and vary across species. Robinson’s decision to work with redwood was galvanized during a visit to his grandfather’s home in the early 2020s, where he discovered a pile of redwood boards in the garage—remnants of a long-abandoned home improvement project. While he had previously avoided the material for its softness, it suddenly acquired new sentimental value. Warm and organic in contrast to the Court’s gold-leafed authority, the Garten asks gentler questions—how do leaf shapes create beauty in functional objects, and how do objects speak to one another the way plants animate a living space?
—Shelley Selim
About the Artist: Cory Robinson is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer whose practice navigates the intersection of fine art, functional design, and public engagement. With a career spanning over two decades, Robinson’s work is characterized by a relentless curiosity regarding materials, manufacturing processes, and the narrative potential of objects.
Curator: Shauta Marsh with support from Shelley Selim, Mort Harris Curator of Automotive, Industrial, and Decorative Design, Detroit Institute of Arts
This exhibition was made possible by The Efroymson Family Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, The Arts Council of Indianapolis and the City of Indianapolis.

April 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
2026-04-03 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 April 3 from 6-10 p.m. for First Friday!
We have two new exhibits opening:

Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets : Open Code in the Tube Main Gallery
Tony Cokes: Untitled (m.j. the symptom) in the Tube Video Gallery

And we have one exhibit continuing:

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

Food will be available for purchase from the Thai Out food truck.
Also enjoy Sun King beer, wine, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Coffee.

Tony Cokes: Untitled (m.j. the symptom)
2026-04-03 18:00 - 2026-09-13 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
TUBE VIDEO GALLERY at CAMi | APRIL 3 – SEPT. 13
Borrowing its text from assorted excerpts from the Mark Fisher-edited essay collection The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (2009), Untitled (m.j. the symptom) examines the King of Pop as a complex set of contradictory signifiers, a funhouse reflection that is as distinct, spectacular, and compromised as the culture that produced him. So say Kraftwerk in their haunting 1977 song “Hall of Mirrors”: “Even the greatest stars / find themselves in the looking glass.”
About the Artist
Tony Cokes makes politically resonant works in a visual language all his own. Since the 1980s, his work has surfaced the latent ideologies of popular culture, confronting issues of structural racism, power, visibility, and the defiant pleasures still found under capitalism. Cokes samples and remixes fragments of our media landscape to subvert its governing codes. His tightly choreographed video essays layer found text over vibrant colors and dissonant soundtracks, exploiting the gaps between sensory regimes to heighten and complicate the reading experience. Quoted passages from current events or critical theory take on a new tenor when set to music, resulting in propulsive animations that appeal to the mind and body alike. Cokes’s immersive works make text feel visceral and let rhythm spur new insight: as his art attests, “it is possible to dance and think at the same time.”

2026 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: April Concert
2026-04-12 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 excited to present the third season of the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series, part of the national Levitt VIBE program supported by the Los-Angeles-based Levitt Family Foundation! This year, we’ll continue bringing FREE, family-friendly live concerts to the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus.
When: Noon to 3 p.m. on April 12 (AND May 3, June 7, July 12, Aug. 9, Sept. 13, Oct. 11, and Nov. 8)
Where: Outdoors on the CAMi campus in the Terri Sisson Park greenspace located at 1125 Cruft St. Concerts will be moved inside the Tube building in the case of bad weather (rain, storms, extreme heat). We’ll announce this change on the morning of the concert. But the shows will always happen — just outside or in.
Who: Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana produce the 2026 series with the Levitt Family Foundation. Made possible by additional support from Jungclaus-Campbell, Efroymson Family Fund, Eskenazi Health, and Lumina Foundation.
Why: To bring additional liveliness to our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and fun, and creative social gatherings.
April 12’s lineup:

81355 (BLESS)
Kenyettá Dance Company
Iván Maceda
Food truck: That Vegan Joint (vegan comfort and Mexican food)

And:

Open picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink)
Some provided seating (attendees encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets)
CAMi campus galleries open
Bean Creek Outlook and Terri Sisson Park nature spaces open

Special thanks to Levitt Family Foundation, Jungclaus-Campbell, Efroymson Family Fund, Eskenazi Health, and Lumina Foundation for their generous support of the 2026 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series! And, thank you to Girls Rock! Indianapolis for their role as a promotional partner!
Learn more about Levitt VIBE Indianapolis at bigcar.org/vibe.
The Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series is supported in part by the Levitt Family Foundation, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces through the power of free, live music — bringing people together, fostering belonging, and invigorating community life. Presenting high- caliber talent and a broad array of music genres and cultural programming, Levitt concerts are welcoming and inclusive destinations where people of all ages and backgrounds come together.

NIGHTJAR: Michael LL Collins
2026-04-15 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 p.m., Reading at 7 p.m.
Featured Poet: Michael LL Collins
Open mic prompt: Write a poem (maybe a haiku or series of haikus) that makes music come to life
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:
Michael LL Collins is an Indianapolis-based poet, writer, and literary critic. He was a close friend and protege of Etheridge Knight and one of the last participants of Knight’s Free Peoples Poetry Workshop at the Chatterbox. Michael has written several chapbooks of haiku inspired by Etheridge Knight and co-hosts Sometimes Y, a monthly poetry open mic at the Chatterbox, with Mat Davis.
