Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-02-27 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-13 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 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 🙂

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.

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.

Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets : Open Code
2026-04-03 18:00 - 2026-09-13 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
TUBE GALLERY at CAMi | APRIL 3 – SEPT. 13
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.

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.

Tony Cokes: Untitled (m.j. the symptom)
2026-04-03 18:00 - 2026-09-13 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
TUBE VIDEO GALLERY at CAMi | APRIL 3 – SEPT. 13
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.
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.

Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-04-24 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 CAMi long-term artist-in-residence, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂

CAMi Grand Opening Weekend Day 1: First Friday
2026-05-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Friday, May 1 | First Friday + Public Opening Day | 6-10 p.m.
Join us for the first day of the CAMi grand opening weekend!
Visitors will be able to socialize, meet exhibiting artists, and check out inaugural shows in our six gallery spaces that total more than 10,000 square feet in the new building.
Campus exhibits will include:

Ivelisse Jiménez’s Campo de Resonancia in the Efroymson Gallery

Jess Dunn & Sylvia Thomas’ Drafts in the Katharine B. Sutphin Media Gallery

You’re Standing Inside the Instrument: A Score for 19 Buildings in the Listen Hear Gallery

Will Higgins’ The Speedway’s Attic in the Research Gallery

Mae Alice Engron in Guichelaar Gallery

Cory Robinson’s Kept Secrets : Open Code in the Tube Gallery

Tony Cokes’ Untitled (m.j. the symptom) in the Tube Video Gallery

O.P.T.I.O.N.A.L. Office of Provisional Thinking, Indeterminate Outcomes, Nonessential Activities, and Life — a conceptual art office where visitors are encouraged to get creative

From the Collection Of…. an exhibit highlighting work in the collections of some of the folks who helped make CAMi possible

On First Friday visitors will be able to grab dinner from Chef Dan’s Cajun and Southern cooking food truck, and buy wine, beer, or coffee from our bar and cafe in CAMi, Stall, and Normal Coffee.

Thank you to our opening week presenting sponsors Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation, and 12 Stars Media; signature sponsor Glick Philanthropies; and supporting sponsors, Cunningham Restaurant Group, Sun King Brewing, MIBOR REALTOR Association, Indianapolis Airport Authority, Levitt Family Foundation, and Agile CFO Solutions!

Mae Alice Engron
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2026-07-19 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
GUICHELAAR GALLERY | MAY 1 – JULY 19
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Born in Indianapolis, Mae Alice Engron (1942–2007) was a pioneering Black abstract expressionist. A Herron School of Art alumna, she turned to painting at age 40 after a workplace injury. Known for her “controlled drip” technique using poured ink and oil, she blended organic forms with vibrant Neo-Expressionism.
Engron broke barriers for Black women in pure abstraction, exhibiting alongside icons like Robert Indiana and Alma Thomas. Her work was featured in groundbreaking shows from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, cementing her legacy as a seminal visionary. Today, her paintings are held by the Smithsonian and the Indiana State Museum.
This exhibit features lesser known works purchased in the last two years at auction and is in partnership with Engron’s daughter, Michelle Daniel.

Will Higgins: The Speedway's Attic
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2026-08-16 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
RESEARCH GALLERY | MAY 1 – AUGUST 16
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.
Every city has an official version of itself. Indianapolis has the Indianapolis Motor Speedway — monument, mythology, Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
This is not that. The Speedway’s Attic is unofficial. It is unsanctioned. The stories here are hard to believe. But believe them. They are true, all of them.
Drawing on original research into newspaper archives, oral histories, and the margins of the official record, Will Higgins, an award-winning journalist, assembles the stories that didn’t make the monument: the “hillbilly machine gunner” who charged race fans 25 cents to see Mrs. Adolph Hitler’s underpants; the French race driver who drank six pints of wine mid-race — and won; the race fan who mooned fifty thousand people and then personally delivered the photographic evidence on his paper route the next morning.
The Speedway’s Attic brings this research into physical form through objects, photographs, illustration, and text. The result is less a sports history than a portrait of American appetite — for speed, spectacle, and spectacle’s underbelly. These stories are funny, and some are damning, and a few are quietly moving. Together they map what a city chooses to remember, what it lets fade, and what keeps surfacing anyway.
About the artist
Will Higgins (b. 1956) was first a history major then a tennis pro then repo man. Later, as a journalist, he covered KKK rallies in the rural Midwest, war in Iraq, a terrible run of homicides in Gary, Ind. but also things like a woman finding on her back stoop what she believed (wrongly, it turned out) was a two-headed ant and contemplating how best to monetize it. Higgins is the founder of the Museum of Fabulosity, the American Association of Linear Bocce and the American Society of Presidential Urine Collectors.
Photo: Casey Cronin, Speedway’s Attic, 2026.

You're Standing Inside the Instrument: A Score for 19 Buildings
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2026-09-13 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
LISTEN HEAR GALLERY | MAY 1 – SEPTEMBER 13
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.
More than 20 architects, designers, and other experts in the built environment suggested their favorite buildings in Indianapolis that we then paired with Indianapolis-based artists. The artists then played some aspect or aspects of the buildings as sort of instruments to create a part of a combined soundscape or a sort of song.
Eight of these audio creations will play at once in the Listen Hear gallery inside CAMi, a space typically dedicated to sound-based art exhibits. All 19 audio pieces will rotate at different times, creating a soundscape that varies throughout the run of the show. The audio pieces are all paired with static videos of the exteriors of the buildings by Jim Walker.
The 19 buildings are: Newfields, the Athenaeum, the Indiana State Capitol, Friedens United Church of Christ, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Irwin Library at Butler University, the IU Indianapolis University Library, Indianapolis International Airport, Christian Theological Seminary, Garfield Park Conservatory, the Indianapolis Artsgarden, the Pyramids, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Madame Walker Theatre, Barton Tower Apartments, Crispus Attucks High School, Indianapolis City Market, Jungclaus Mill, and the new CAMi Main Building.
Curator: Jim Walker with support from Landon Caldwell
Artists:
Oreo Jones (Walker Theatre)
Rob Funkhouser (City Market)
Landon Caldwell & Mark Tester (Jungclaus Mill)
Aaron Coleman (Crispus Attucks )
Laurel Judkins and Craig VonDeylen (Irwin Library )
Sofi Parker (Newfields)
Regan Wakeman (Athenaeum)
Carrington Clinton (Indianapolis Artsgarden)
Mina Keohane (Indiana State Capitol)
Rachel Leigh (Friedens United Church of Christ)
April Knauber (Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
Jim Walker (CAMi Main)
Bree Flannelly (IU Indianapolis Library)
Jordan Munson (Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument)
Charlie Redd (CTS)
Clockwork Janz (Garfield Park Conservatory)
John Flannelly (Pyramids)
Sharlene Birdsong (Indianapolis International Airport)
Andy Fry, Devon Ashley & Vess Ruhtenberg (Barton Tower)

Jess Dunn & Sylvia Thomas: Drafts
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2026-10-18 17:00 | Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
KATHARINE B. SUTPHIN MEDIA GALLERY | MAY 1 – OCT. 18
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.

For their first collaboration, Jess Dunn and Sylvia Thomas were prompted to create a piece focusing on the new renovation for the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus. In an attempt to interpret history and the building itself, the artists combined their backgrounds in animation and music composition to create an experimental documentary. Through exploring archives, primary source documents, and artifacts found inside the building, the artists learned this site took on many forms: from the land of the indigenous peoples who first inhabited it, to farmland, to various industrial developments, and now its current state as a premier contemporary arts complex.
For Drafts, Dunn and Thomas compiled their research directly into the video, collaging archival maps and footage, artifacts left behind on site, and field recordings taken within Garfield Park and on the campus. These remnants, in addition to animation and a co-composed music score, echo the layers and textures that have formed the building’s identity.
The animation of the horse as a throughline in the piece references the stables used by the Weber Dairy, which existed in the original and oldest part of the building until 1947 when the Tube Processing Factory purchased the land. As CAMi expands to embrace natural elements and remember the heritage of the land, the artists believe the horse is a symbol of humanity’s simultaneous connection to nature and development. This juxtaposition amongst the other visual layers reveals the many iterations of history and industry tied to CAMi’s location.
About the Artists
Specializing in animation, Jess Dunn treats illusion as both inspiration and medium. Their work explores the mechanics of motion, finding the “magic” in the gaps between frames where perception shifts. From childhood flipbooks to complex stop-motion, their practice has evolved into the creation of immersive worlds that bridge physical and digital spaces. Through an experimental process, they often build custom circuits to distort visions via voltage manipulation or, conversely, allow raw materials to speak for themselves. The result is a living, multi-sensory environment built for exploration.
Sylvia Thomas is an artist and writer from Indianapolis. Her work focuses on sex, gender, grief, and euphoria. Over the last 10 years, she has exhibited and performed her work across North America and Europe, including the 2025 CLAVO art fair in Mexico City and a presentation for the United Nations Envoy on Youth in 2021. Sylvia is a long-term artist in residence for Big Car Collaborative, a 2024-25 Creative Renewal Arts Fellow through the Indy Arts Council, and a recipient of the 2023 Indianapolis Creative Risk Grant through the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.

Ivelisse Jiménez: Campo de Resonancia
2026-05-01 18:00 - 2027-01-17 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
JEREMY EFROYMSON GALLERY |MAY 1, 2026 – JAN. 17, 2027
CAMi is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the weekends. We are closed on Monday and Tuesday.

Ivelisse Jiménez is “interested in how experience exceeds language, how what is sensed, felt, or intuited often resists being named.” This is the power abstraction holds. In a world moving very fast and not always in directions any of us choose, her work proposes sustained looking as resistance — practice for the kind of attention the world needs more of, not less.
Campo de Resonancia — Resonant Field — is a large-scale installation built from hand-painted transparent and colored vinyl and reclaimed plastics. Though discarded by Indianapolis residents and altered by Jiménez, the plastics hold a history like the CAMi building itself, started in the late 1800s by Weber Dairy.
Campo de Resonancia asks every person who enters to first pass through something that has no single meaning, no narrative arc, no instruction about how to feel. Conceived as a “permeable labyrinth,” the work offers no single vantage point. You are absorbed into it. You cannot see this work the same way from two positions. It is a field of conditions. You are one of the conditions.
The materials are not neutral. Plastics are “deeply entangled with human survival, convenience, and innovation, yet inseparable from environmental degradation.” There is no resolution to this contradiction. So Jiménez works inside it.
Puerto Rico receives what the ocean carries with no elsewhere for it to go. Her reclamation of discarded plastics is not a conceptual gesture — it is a practice shaped by proximity. The beauty is a complication. When something you recognize as garbage becomes luminous, you are not being told waste is fine. You are being asked to stay with the contradiction longer than you are comfortable. What Campo de Resonancia carries into this landlocked city, among other things, is the ocean.
For this commission, the materials came from here — from people making an ordinary gesture, letting something go, that became an act of collective construction. What you move through is partly made of what Indianapolis decided it was done with. The first thing you encounter in this new museum space is a work built, in part, from what you gave.
Campo de Resonancia creates a situation — a “space of attentiveness” — where something can happen between you and the material, between you and the light, between you and the stranger moving through the same layered field. What happens there is yours.
About the artist
Ivelisse Jiménez’s practice presents visual propositions concerning the construction of meaning in dialogue with the inhabited space. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Puerto Rico, including Prague Art Biennale, Ecuador’s Cuenca Biennale, and Special Project Rooms at ARCO Madrid. She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors grant, Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, and Venice Italy Arte Laguna 1st Prize in Painting. Her work is part of collections at Museo del Barrio NY, Bronx Museum NY, Museo de Arte de PR, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de PR, CAB de Burgos, Spain, among others. Jiménez holds a BA in Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and an MFA from New York University. After living and working in New York for twenty years, she now has her residency and studio in Puerto Rico.
Spanish Translation:
Ivelisse Jiménez está “interesada en cómo la experiencia supera al lenguaje, en cómo lo que se siente, se percibe o se intuye a menudo resiste ser nombrado.” Este es el poder que sostiene la abstracción. En un mundo que se mueve muy rápido y no siempre en direcciones que alguno de nosotros elige, su obra propone la mirada sostenida como resistencia — práctica para el tipo de atención que el mundo necesita más, no menos.
Campo de Resonancia es una instalación de gran escala construida con vinilo transparente y de colores pintado a mano y plásticos recuperados. Aunque descartados por residentes de Indianápolis y transformados por Jiménez, los plásticos guardan una historia como el propio edificio de CAMi, fundado a finales del siglo XIX por Weber Dairy.
Campo de Resonancia le pide a cada persona que entra que primero pase a través de algo que no tiene un solo significado, ni un arco narrativo, ni instrucciones sobre cómo sentir. Concebida como un “laberinto permeable,” la obra no ofrece un único punto de vista. Uno es absorbido por ella. No se puede ver esta obra de la misma manera desde dos posiciones. Es un campo de condiciones. Usted es una de esas condiciones.
Los materiales no son neutrales. Los plásticos están “profundamente entrelazados con la supervivencia humana, la conveniencia y la innovación, pero inseparables de la degradación ambiental.” No hay resolución para esta contradicción. Entonces Jiménez trabaja dentro de ella.
Puerto Rico recibe lo que el océano trae, sin ningún otro lugar adonde ir. Su recuperación de plásticos descartados no es un gesto conceptual — es una práctica moldeada por la proximidad. La belleza es una complicación. Cuando algo que reconoces como basura se vuelve luminoso, no se te está diciendo que el desperdicio está bien. Se te pide que permanezcas con la contradicción más tiempo del que te resulta cómodo. Lo que Campo de Resonancia trae a esta ciudad mediterránea, entre otras cosas, es el océano.
Para esta comisión, los materiales vinieron de aquí — de personas que hicieron un gesto ordinario, dejar ir algo, que se convirtió en un acto de construcción colectiva. Lo que atraviesas está hecho en parte de lo que Indianápolis decidió que ya no necesitaba. Lo primero que encuentras en este nuevo espacio museal es una obra construida, en parte, con lo que tú diste.
Campo de Resonancia crea una situación — un “espacio de atención” — donde algo puede suceder entre tú y el material, entre tú y la luz, entre tú y el desconocido que se mueve a través del mismo campo de capas. Lo que sucede allí es tuyo.

CAMi Grand Opening Weekend Day 2: Neighborhood Celebration
2026-05-02 12:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Saturday, May 2 | Neighborhood Celebration | noon – 3 p.m.
Join us for the second day of the CAMi grand opening weekend!
On Saturday, we’ll focus on celebrating with our Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighbors, as CAMi sits within the boundaries of both neighborhoods. We’ll enjoy live music at noon by The Roundups, activities and conversations with artists, and a group tour with neighbors at 1 p.m. This is aligned with the Garfield Park Art Walk organized by neighborhood artist Jennifer Meeker, which is sponsored by CAMi. This celebration also coincides with the opening day of the Garfield Park Farmers’ Market in the adjacent Garfield Park.

Thank you to our opening week presenting sponsors Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation, and 12 Stars Media; signature sponsor Glick Philanthropies; and supporting sponsors, Cunningham Restaurant Group, Sun King Brewing, MIBOR REALTOR Association, Indianapolis Airport Authority, Levitt Family Foundation, and Agile CFO Solutions!

2026 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: May Concert
2026-05-03 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 May 3 (AND 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 or the CAMi main 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 as the lead sponsor with additional sponsors.
Why: To bring additional liveliness to our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and fun, and creative social gatherings.
May 3’s lineup:

JJJJJerome Ellis (experimental jazz)
Grupo Folclórico Macehuani (traditional Mexican dance)
A.K.A. (classical)
Food truck: Pi Indy food truck (pizza)
Market: Mini Indy Gay Market (LGBTQ+ artisan vendors)

And:

Celebrate the opening of the CAMi main building
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!
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.

CAMi Grand Opening Weekend Day 3: May Levitt VIBE Concert
2026-05-03 12:00 - 15:00
Sunday, May 3 | Levitt VIBE Concert | 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Join us for the third and final day of the CAMi grand opening weekend!
Opening Weekend rounds out with our Levitt VIBE Indianapolis concert hosted outdoors on the CAMi campus — transforming our outdoor amphitheater and pocket park into a place for live music, dance, and community celebration. This free concert will feature a multi-genre lineup of local and national performers, including Virginia-based jazz musician JJJJJerome Ellis as the headliner, with additional performances by local traditional Mexican folk dance group Grupo Folclórico Macehuani, and Indianapolis-based classical ensemble A.K.A. Beyond the stage, the event will include vendors from the Indy Gay Market and food for purchase from the Pi Indy pizza food truck. And, Stall and Normal Coffee will be open selling beer, wine, coffee, soda, and other refreshments.
Thank you to our opening week presenting sponsors Herbert Simon Family Foundation, Central Indiana Community Foundation, and 12 Stars Media; signature sponsor Glick Philanthropies; and supporting sponsors, Cunningham Restaurant Group, Sun King Brewing, MIBOR REALTOR Association, Indianapolis Airport Authority, Levitt Family Foundation, and Agile CFO Solutions!

NIGHTJAR: Kristi Maxwell
2026-05-20 18:30 - 21:00 | Tube at CAMi, 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Doors at 6:30 p.m., Reading at 7 p.m.
Featured Poet: Kristi Maxwell
Open mic prompt: Write a poem inspired by a walk & the things you encounter on it
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:
Kristi Maxwell is the author of nine poetry collections, including Wide Ass of Night (2025) and Goners (2023), winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize. Her work has received multiple honors, and her scholarship on contemporary poets appears in leading literary journals. She is Director of Creative Writing and a Full Professor of English at the University of Louisville, and holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from the University of Arizona.
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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.

Indy Sketch Club with India Hines
2026-05-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-06-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Tube at CAMi, 1125 Cruft St, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
If you love sketching and are looking for community, hang out and draw with CAMi long-term artist-in-residence, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂

At the Tube building on the CAMi campus

Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place | May 28, 2026
2026-05-28 11:30 - 13:30 | 320 N. New Jersey St. Indianapoils, IN 46204
May 28: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + Chicago Beef and Dog Company 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 WQRT FM DJ 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 Thursday from May 7 through Oct. 1, 2026. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or a 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 @SparkPlaces on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!

Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place | June 4, 2026
2026-06-04 11:30 - 13:30 | 320 N. New Jersey St. Indianapoils, IN 46204
June 4: Mina Keohane + 3 Marias 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 WQRT FM DJ 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 Thursday from May 7 through Oct. 1, 2026. 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 @SparkPlaces on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates

June 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
2026-06-05 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) campus for First Friday on June 5 from 6-10 p.m.!
Visit artist studios, check out campus shops, explore exhibits, chat with neighbors, and grab a drink and a bite to eat.
Exhibits on display:

Ivelisse Jimenez: Campo de Resonancia in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery
Will Higgins: The Speedway’s Attic in the Research Gallery
You’re Standing Inside the Instrument: A Score for 19 Buildings in the Listen Hear Gallery
Jess Dunn & Sylvia Thomas: Drafts in the Katharine B. Sutphin Media Gallery
From The Collection Of… in the Katharine B. Sutphin Gallery
Cory Robinson: Kept Secrets : Open Code in the Tube Gallery
Tony Cokes: Untitled (m.j. the symptom) in the Tube Video Gallery
Mae Alice Engron in the Guichelaar house gallery
O.P.T.I.O.N.A.L. (Office of Provisional Thinking, Indeterminate Outcomes, Nonessential Activities, and Life) in CAMi Main

Food will be available for purchase from the Fiesta on the Go food truck.
Also enjoy a selection of beer (including Sun King!), cocktails, wine, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Café and Stall — CAMi Main’s new bar.
First Fridays at CAMi are free to visit for the whole family!
Photo by David Schalliol

2026 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: June Concert
2026-06-07 12:00 | 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 June 7 (AND 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 or CAMi main 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 as the lead sponsor with additional sponsors.
Why: To bring additional liveliness to our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and fun, and creative social gatherings.
June 7’s lineup:

Brandon Meeks (jazz)
Ida Y Vuelta (Mexican folk)
Gümmi (electronic pop)
Food truck: 3 Marias (Mexican)
Market: Lux & Ivy’s Daydream Market (mix of vendors selling vintage, art, and hand-made wares)

And:

CAMi main building + campus galleries open
Open picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink)
Some provided seating (attendees encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets)
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!
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.

Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place | June 11, 2026
2026-06-11 11:30 - 13:30 | 320 N. New Jersey St. Indianapoils, IN 46204
June 11: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + Thai Out 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 WQRT FM DJ 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 Thursday from May 7 through Oct. 1, 2026. 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 @SparkPlaces on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!

FOUND Magazine's 25th Anniversary Tour! With Davy Rothbart & Seth Bernard
2026-06-11 19:00 - 21:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join the FOUND crew for their energetic, exhilarating road show, celebrating 25 years of collecting the world’s greatest found notes, letters, and other treasures.

In 2001, This American Life storyteller Davy Rothbart seized on a simple idea: collecting notes and letters that people plucked off the ground and compiling them — in the back of a Chicago video store — into a handcrafted zine called FOUND. These finds capture America’s collective subconscious and can be hilarious, heartbreaking, and “unexpected as a tumbleweed” (The New Yorker).

On June 10, 2001, in Chicago, Davy and his friends held a release party for the first issue of FOUND Magazine, where Davy read from the found notes and letters and his musician friends played songs inspired by these finds. Soon, the FOUND team began visiting cities like Indianapolis (including frequent collaborations with Big Car) and before long became a nationwide cult sensation, with 50-state tours to hundreds of U.S. cities, repeat appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and This American Life, and even a Broadway musical, a hit podcast, and now, a new documentary TV series in production with the Duplass Brothers.

Now, to celebrate FOUND’s 25th birthday, bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Davy Rothbart returns to Indianapolis with his energetic, exhilarating, and profoundly affecting FOUND live show, featuring some of the latest, greatest found treasures to land at Found HQ, as well as some all-time favorites, plus uncensored stories from This American Life, and more surprises.

Accompanying Davy is legendary Michigan musician and activist Seth Bernard, who has drawn comparisons to Neil Young and Eddie Vedder. Says The New Yorker’s Bill McKibben: “His music not only swings, rocks, and grooves — it matters. It’s the voice of a real community, with a sound and a message the world needs to hear.”

Join the FOUND Team for this special night!

“Utterly engaging!” —The Los Angeles Times

“Riveting, uproarious; Davy’s capacity for oversharing is infectious.”
—The New York Times

“Music and activism have long made a natural pairing, from Bob Dylan to Beyoncé… Michigan’s preeminent musician/ activist is Seth Bernard… a brilliant songwriter and soulful warrior for environmental, economic, and racial justice.”
—Northern Express

Tickets are $12.51 and can be bought via Eventbrite.
