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Chad Eby : Skärgården
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Amidst an array of light and sound, Skärgården re-imagines cold war paranoia in the Stockholm archipelago in light and sound. The heart of this art installation is a self-organizing wireless mesh network that mirrors aspects of both the isolation and cooperation of an interconnected system of separate parts.
Chad Eby is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, teacher and researcher with particular interests in lighting, digital art, digital fabrication, people-center design and design history.

Parachuting Into Environmental Justice
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Remember the parachute as a kid in gym class? The parachute is the same from gym class in elementary school but this time you can draw on it! During this activity, Museum Studies @ IUPUI will talk about what environmental justice is and what it means to you and us.

Neil Cain: Shadow's Prism
2020-01-03 18:00 - 2020-01-24 18:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“These works are a reaction to what I view as a consciousness bias in our culture towards ordered states of being and thinking. I believe this bias contributes to individualistic resource management, social division, and centralized state control, and that the artist must counteract these forces by presenting harmonious alternatives. I paint to present the beauty of ordered and non-ordered states interacting. I see each as integral to the full expression of the other and essential to true understanding.”
Neil Cain is an Indianapolis-native who began painting in 2002. His collections pull inspiration from his work in photography, utilizing movement, exposure, layering, and an increasingly polarized dialogue between ordered and chaotic elements. Trained as a music composer, Neil uses similar foundational concepts in his painting by working in harmonic terms, with ratios of frequencies juxtaposed against one another with or without bounding. ‘Form in flux’ and ‘magnetism of coherence’ form the conceptual framework for his most recent collections. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife, Jenny Ollikainen, their cat daughter, Little Cow, and many plants friends. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Join us for First Friday in January to catch the opening reception of Shadow’s Prism from 6-10pm.
This show will be available from January 3-24.
Guichelaar Gallery
1135 Cruft Street Indianapolis, IN 46203
Available by appointment

2020 Pride Month Planning Volunteer Call-Out Meeting
2020-01-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us to learn how you can get involved in planning for our 2020 Indy Pride Month events!
Every year Indy Pride hosts our annual Cadillac Barbie Indy Pride Parade, Indy Pride Festival, and 14 other community events to celebrate Pride Month with our community.
All of these efforts are powered by our incredible volunteers, gathered together within our Festival Planning Committee.
Please join us for our 2020 Volunteer Call-Out Meeting to provide your input and discuss how you can get more involved in our Planning Committee and the following events:
– Rainbow 5k
– Indy Pride Pageant
– John Alexander Hoosier 250
– Pet Pride
– TransGlam
– Community Picnic
– Bat N’ Rouge charity softball game
– Interfaith Celebration
– Pride Skate
– Deaf Pride
– Bi and Pan Pride
– Music and Movie Night
– Girl Pride
– Shabbat at Indy Pride
– Cadillac Barbie Indy Pride Parade
– Indy Pride Festival
We would love your input and support as we engage in planning for our 2020 events. Please bring your ideas for how you would like to support these events, and ideas for a theme for our 2020 Pride Month event season!
Refreshments will be provided for attendees, so please RSVP using the ticket link above so we know how much food and drinks to provide.
Indy Pride will provide an ASL interpreter.

Social Alchemy Public Meeting
2020-01-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Sara’s New Harmony Way, 500 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 47631, United States
New Harmony residents are invited to our first public meeting of 2020 to help plan for Social Alchemy, a series of events connecting New Harmony and Indianapolis! These monthly meet ups in New Harmony invite residents to meet those involved in proposing this project and become part of it!
New Harmony, Indiana brims with art, history, architecture, and a strong sense of place. The impact of past and current efforts within this community have created a town that continues to represent the universal human condition. If Indianapolis is the head of the body of Indiana, New Harmony is its soul.
What can we in urban Indianapolis learn from rural New Harmony’s social alchemy? Tons. With support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family fund and our partners — University of Southern Indiana, Indiana State Museum, Historic New Harmony, New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute Central Library, and lots of individuals –– we will explore, learn and share how the pursuit of utopia forms places and pursuits.
WHY IS BIG CAR INVOLVED?
We’re fascinated by people who strive for utopia and by intentional communities: Past, present, and future. Our overarching goal for the Cruft Street Commons project in Garfield Park is to develop an arts-focused, socially cohesive block. And a key inspiration is the southwestern Indiana town, New Harmony — location of multiple and varied utopian experiments.
THE PROGRAM
This idea started with visits by Big Car Collaborative/Tube Factory artspace curator, Shauta Marsh, and artist and writer Jim Walker, to New Harmony over the past several years and conversations with artist, writer, and philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson — who lives, part-time, in New Harmony — and New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art director Garry Holstein. It is made possible by Indiana Humanities and The Efroymson Family Fund.
WHAT WE’RE DOING:
• An interdisciplinary exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art focused on New Harmony’s visionary civic leader and preservationist Jane Owen (1915–2010).
• An exhibition at the Tube Factory about the history and art of New Harmony (designed to travel), with emphasis on Angel in the Forest and visual interpretations of this lyrical text.
• A film series of documentaries and feature films related to placemaking experiments.
• Community meals, one in New Harmony and one in Garfield Park.
• A two-day symposium in October 2020 in New Harmony to include philosophers, writers, historians, designers, architects, placemakers, urban and rural city planners, politicians, and community organizers.
• Two Tube Factory exhibitions by Native American artists Elisa Harkins (in 2021) and Wendy Red Star (in 2022): both creative responses to their peoples’ forced dystopias, with ideas for cultural renewal.
THE IMPACT
This project explores historical and contemporary examples of utopian experiments, fictional utopias and dystopias, and social design projects. It offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between the built environment and social good.
PROJECT PARTNERS
University of Southern Indiana: As the administrator of both Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery, USI is encouraging staff, professors, and students to participate in the project.
Historic New Harmony: HNH will host programs, help to develop the exhibitions, and help travel the New Harmony exhibition about after its Indianapolis debut.
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: The gallery will host the Jane Owen exhibition.
Indiana State Museum: The museum will be assisting with research, and help with didactics.
Pattern will be a promotional partner alongside Big Car’s low-power radio station 99.1 WQRT FM.

St'Artup 317 Season 3 Kick-off
2020-01-16 18:00 - 20:00
Brought to you by Pattern and Indy Chamber, St’artUp 317 successfully matches young brands, established businesses, startups and artists, with prime vacant and under-utilized properties. Resulting in pop-up stores, art installations, and event activations, the program’s long-term goal is to eliminate empty storefronts, support small business owners & artists, increase local and visitor consumer spending and ensure that Marion county neighborhoods continue thriving.
As we enter Season 3, we want to continue spreading the word about the program, and provide opportunity to as many qualifying brands and vendors as possible to take part. Applications for Season 3 open on 1/20, and pop-ups take place during May.
Come meet fellow brands, artists, landlords and civic and non-profit leaders and learn more about how St’Artup 317 is working to help strengthen our neighborhoods and your businesses.
Refreshments will be provided.
Thank you to Big Car for hosting!
St’Artup 317 is a partnership between Develop Indy and PATTERN. For more information, visit www.startup317.com.

Sounds and Songs of Peace-A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr
2020-01-20 11:30 - 23:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Oreo Jones, Shauta Marsh and others live in the studio at WQRT for conversations, songs and sounds to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
Check back for more information.

Zumba with Michelle Carson
2020-01-25 09:30 - 11:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A 1 hour long class centered around different rhythms such as Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa and Reggeaton. You will be dancing to great music and at the same time burning a lot of calories without even realizing! It is definitely a dance party! So wear your comfy workout clothes, bring a bottle of water and join Carson in this cardio party!
Donation suggested.
Una clase de 1 hora de duración centrada en diferentes ritmos como Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa y Reggeaton.
¡Bailarás con buena música y al mismo tiempo quemarás muchas calorías sin darte cuenta!
¡Definitivamente es una fiesta de baile!
¡Así que ponte tu cómoda ropa de entrenamiento, trae una botella de agua y acompáñame en esta fiesta de cardio!
Cualquier pregunta simplemente envíame un mensaje de FB!
A little about Michelle Carson
Born in US, raised in Ecuador and traveled around some other places that feels like home.
I started teaching dance classes early in my life. At the age of 12 I graduated from my dance school in Ecuador and started assisting teachers, after only 1 year they gave me a class of girls from 7-8 years old and was amazingly fun. I was also part of 3 different dance groups plus high-school, (I dont even know how). When I was 18 I decided I wanted to study abroad and so I went to Argentina and auditioned for an Afro-Contemporary dance group in which we performed at private and community events and was a great experience.
In 2015 I came back to USA to follow my roots in Florida where I did my training in Zumba and fell in love with it. I started teaching a month after my training in different locations, until Sept. 2018 when I moved to Indy to start a new and exciting life.
I truly love it here and I have always enjoyed the feeling of giving something of what I know so I want to share all of it with you!!!
Un poco sobre Michelle Carson
Nació en Estados Unidos, creció en Ecuador y viajó por otros lugares que se sienten como en casa.
Comencé a dar clases de baile temprano en mi vida. A la edad de 12 años me gradué de mi escuela de baile en Ecuador y comencé a asistir a maestros, después de solo 1 año me dieron una clase de niñas de 7-8 años y fue increíblemente divertida. También formé parte de 3 grupos de baile diferentes más la escuela secundaria, (ni siquiera sé cómo). Cuando tenía 18 años decidí que quería estudiar en el extranjero, así que fui a Argentina y hice una audición para un grupo de danza afro-contemporánea en el que actuamos en eventos privados y comunitarios y fue una gran experiencia.
En 2015 regresé a EE. UU. Para seguir mis raíces en Florida, donde hice mi entrenamiento en Zumba y me enamoré de él.
Comencé a enseñar un mes después de mi entrenamiento en diferentes lugares, hasta septiembre de 2018, cuando me mudé a Indy para comenzar una nueva y emocionante vida.
Realmente me encanta aquí y siempre he disfrutado la sensación de dar algo de lo que sé, así que quiero compartirlo todo contigo.
Donation suggested.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2020-01-29 18:00 - 20:00
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration broadcasted live on 99.1 WQRT.

Creative Mornings Indianapolis-Yecenia Tostado
2020-01-31 08:00 - 10:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us 1/31 to hear Yecenia Tostado present on the theme for January, which is “roots.” Tickets required for admission.

Kevin O. Mooney: 366247•2012
2020-02-07 08:00 - 2020-02-23 17:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Time. How do you perceive it? Is it fleeting or does it seem to go on forever? When did you first become aware of “time”? Do the minutes, hours, days blend together? Are the memories of events just as vivid now as when they actually occurred? Do memories play a significant role in what time means to you?
Where does the “time” go? Is it measured in the outcomes of our daily routines or in the singular outliers, the spectacular moments that occur irregularly and unexpectedly? This piece reveals my regimented routines over the course of a single year. When interacting with the piece, these routines become patterns. When the patterns change, the viewer is left to consider the reason why.
The images presented are my visual memories of events. In watching the piece, viewers have the opportunity to consider the past and the future simultaneously, to see the outcome before the event has actually occurred. The entire year (2012) is presented as a grid, with each image representing a day in each month of the year, starting at approximately midnight on the first day of each month and continuing to the final day of the month. From left to right, January through December is presented in its entirety until each fades into darkness. By de- constructing how a visual representation of a year is normally presented, the viewer visits an abstract representation of that year. Ultimately, a year of my life is presented in an hour, offering the viewer an opportunity to participate and find meaning in my mundane activities while simultaneously reexamining their own unrecognized minutes, hours and days.
366247•2012 is a time-based piece, rooted in still photography, and can be presented as a video or video projection installation. The more than 256,000 still images, presented as a photographic stop-motion animation, allow the viewer to witness my day-to-day routines, the same acts that everyone engages in on a regular or daily basis.
Kevin O. Mooney (b. 1957) is an educator and fine artist as well as a successful commercial photographer. He received his BS from Southern Illinois University and his MFA from Indiana University Bloomington. Mooney has been the recipient of Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council in 1987. His photographic work is included in collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Illinois, Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington and the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. His work has been exhibited at the MFAH, Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago, Pictura Gallery at FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Gallery 312 and the Chicago Architecture Foundation as well as internationally at the Lee Yongjae Architects’ Window Gallery, and the Seoul Lunar Photo Fest, Lunar Photo Night Seoul, Korea. His project, 366247•2012 was just chosen by Center Santa Fe for the 2019 Excellence in Multimedia Award. His current work continues to investigate self, consciousness, and individuality through sequentially presented still photographs arranged as a stop-motion animation. He blurs the edges between various disciplines within the photographic field as well as those between photography and other digital media.
The exhibit runs through February 22 in the Jeremy D. Efroymson Gallery.
Made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Sun King Brewery and Ash & Elm Cider Co..

TJ Reynolds:We Catch the Light, Reflections on Black Skin
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-02-22 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Those of African descent are the most underrepresented group in the world of fine art. Black faces are beautiful. Digging deeper, we see that by working on black surfaces with white ink & paint, Reynolds draws in the light instead of the shadow, with emotive figures emerging from the deep, catching light in the way only melanin can. The stylized nature of the drawings reveals a complexity of shapes and linework, in patterns that evoke both ancient art and futuristic graphic design. The artist is also exploring his own ethnic heritage, examining roots he can only piece together, going so far as to trace his last name to the tradition of slaves taking on the surname of their master, in this case the RJ Reynolds tobacco fields. Prints will also be available of all work.
TJReynolds.net

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TJ Reynolds is a multi-discipline artist and educator whose mission it is to spread the power of creativity and community. Visual artist, animator, director, M.C., producer, multi-instrumentalist and poet are just some of the creative avenues Reynolds travels on his exploits. As an educator, he has worked with thousands of students and adults in every conceivable setting; preschool through college, prisons and gifted schools, though his message remains the same; we must use art and expression to connect to each other and the world around us. Reynolds has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Nuvo Cultural Visionary Award, Spirit of Herron (School of Art) Award, and the first ever hip-hop artist to be named a Creative Renewal Fellow from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. His music has been featured nationally on NPR, and he has won rap battles, poetry slams and a Moth Story Slam. This is Reynolds first solo art show.

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With performances by TJ Reynolds, Teresa Reynolds, Tatjana Rebelle, Derrick Slack

As part of my We Catch the Light, Reynolds asked some prominent black Indianapolis poets & singers to select someone who was influential to them in their life. He will create a portrait of that person, and the guest artist will perform a piece dedicated to them at the opening Feb 7 for a unique, one time happening bringing poetry, song and visual art together.

Kipp Normand: Snake Oil, A Fantastical American History
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-05-16 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artist and historian Kipp Normand’s practice is a physical and conceptual investigation into the power of objects and images as a narrative device. Inspired by the Dada traditions of assemblage, collage, construction, and performance, Normand employs the acts of appropriation, reuse, and recontextualization to explore contemporary perceptions of time, community, and memory. In Snake Oil, Normand distills four centuries of history to illustrate the deep-seated American penchant for fantastical thinking. Part world’s fair exhibit, huckster wagon, dime museum, and midway arcade; Snake Oil is a multifaceted installation that challenges the viewer to re-examine the ideas of American Exceptionalism. Imbued with satire and mixed with painful truths, this haunted temple of junk casts a sideways glance at the tales we tell our children and ourselves about who we are and how we got here.
Normand — who maintains a studio and workspace in Indianapolis where he creates dynamic works of visual art infused with narratives of culture, community, and history — is a scavenger and an obsessive collector. He searches back streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings, looking for clues to explain the mysteries of our world. Normand finds stories in discarded things: Stories about all of us, our cities, and our shared history. He first began making collage images, shadow boxes, and installations as a way to justify his relentless collecting. But the work soon became much more than that. It is Normand’s way to dig deeply into the vast attic of this world and to share his finds with anyone who takes the time to look. He holds a Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and worked nearly 30 years in the field of heritage preservation and housing reform before turning to the practice of art.

Freedom To Be Official Book Launch
2020-02-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join award-winning author Diana Ensign for this celebratory book signing and educational panel discussion on how our community can support transgender people and their families. Hear from Kimberly Acoff, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) Director of Programming; Sa’hara Miller, BU Wellness Sophisticated Divas Program; Diana Asberry (parent of a transgender child and a nonbinary child); and Andru Lanning (awesome young adult)! Info table by Matty Slaydon, Organizer of Queering Indy. A portion of book sales support Trinity Haven, Indiana’s first transitional housing program for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness, and BU Wellness Network.
This project is made possible by support of the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency.

West African Dance Class with Uzuri Asad
2020-03-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
West African dance is an essential component of West African culture. Over time, traditional dances incorporated new moves, rhythms and ideas. Through the slave trade, and through national production of traditional dance forms, West African dance has found it’s way around the globe. West African Dance has influenced many popular American dance forms, such as hip-hop, salsa and jazz dance. Traditional dances are still practiced by many people today.
Uzuri Asad caters to all levels of students and is part of Big Car’s APLR program.
Traditional West African Dance
Dance has always played a very important role in the lives of West Africans. Throughout history, West Africans performed dances to celebrate a birth, harvest or death. Communities relied on dance to ward off evil spirits, to ask the gods for prosperity, or to resolve conflict. Dance continues to serve those functions. For example, villagers perform the Malinke rhythm Kassa during farming and harvesting work. The singing, dancing and clapping entertains and motivates the hard-working farmers.
Characteristics of West African Dance
African dance, according to R.F. Thomson, has four unique qualities. First, the body moves in a multi-unit fashion, where the head and arms may move to one rhythmic pattern while the feet follow a different time signature. Second, it is percussive; the dancer interprets the rhythmic nature of the music through movement. Third, though as a whole African dance is a community event, some dancers follow different parts of the rhythm, dancing “apart” from the crowd. Finally, West African dance phrases, or sets of movements, overlap, creating a “call-and-response” pattern.

West African Dance with Uzuri Asad
2020-03-04 19:00 - 20:30, 2020-03-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
West African dance is an essential component of West African culture. Over time, traditional dances incorporated new moves, rhythms and ideas. Through the slave trade, and through national production of traditional dance forms, West African dance has found it’s way around the globe. West African Dance has influenced many popular American dance forms, such as hip-hop, salsa and jazz dance. Traditional dances are still practiced by many people today.
Uzuri Asad caters to all levels of students and is part of Big Car’s APLR program.
Traditional West African Dance
Dance has always played a very important role in the lives of West Africans. Throughout history, West Africans performed dances to celebrate a birth, harvest or death. Communities relied on dance to ward off evil spirits, to ask the gods for prosperity, or to resolve conflict. Dance continues to serve those functions. For example, villagers perform the Malinke rhythm Kassa during farming and harvesting work. The singing, dancing and clapping entertains and motivates the hard-working farmers.
Characteristics of West African Dance
African dance, according to R.F. Thomson, has four unique qualities. First, the body moves in a multi-unit fashion, where the head and arms may move to one rhythmic pattern while the feet follow a different time signature. Second, it is percussive; the dancer interprets the rhythmic nature of the music through movement. Third, though as a whole African dance is a community event, some dancers follow different parts of the rhythm, dancing “apart” from the crowd. Finally, West African dance phrases, or sets of movements, overlap, creating a “call-and-response” pattern.
$10

Wes Janz-Pinned Down: The Locking Up of America
2020-03-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The number of sites of incarceration—where people are “pinned
down”—is big as well. It makes sense, right? We need a lot of
buildings and cells in which to lock up all these folks.
Federal prisons. State prisons. County jails. City jails. Local lockups.
Juvenile detention centers. Secure juvenile residential facilities.
University police holding cells. Tribal prisons and jails. Military
detention facilities. ICE sites. Forestry camps. Airport holding cells.
Join us March 6th for the opening of Wes Janz- Pinned Down: The Locking Up of America
Many of us are unaware of the scope of this industry even as we
don’t know of caging sites that are close by. “Pinned Down,” through the use of state maps and pushpins, evidences the geography of incarceration that blankets the nation. Included alongside the maps are issues central to our imprisoning culture, and pieces from the artist’s earlier “Crazy for Cages” show.
The documentary “Digging the Suez Canal with a Teaspoon: Social Design in the 21st Century” will also be shown (as produced by Eric Limarenko and David Stairs in 2019,
Wes is the first of eleven voices from the U.S., South Africa, Great Britain, and India).
Too often we are, as Cornel West has stated, “well adjusted to
injustice.” It is my hope that this installation will contribute to our much-needed re-adjustment.
About Janz
Wes Janz, PhD, was a professor of architecture at Ball State University for twenty-two years (1995-2017). Among the highlights: ten years as graduate program director; primary author of undergraduate minor and graduate certificate programs in social and environmental justice; and sole recipient of the university’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2006.
In 2008 he was a winner of the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize, as awarded to breakthrough international projects that “engage communities at the fulcrum of change, raising awareness, empowering individuals and fostering collective revitalization.”
The National Endowment for the Arts, along with the Graham, Ruth Mott, Fulbright-Hays, and Efroymson Foundations, among others, supported his research and design efforts; and the Venice Biennale and university galleries throughout the Midwest featured Wes’s work. Janz has traveled, listened, and lectured on six continents.

Aurora Photocenter Presents Adam Ekberg: The Other Side of Boredom
2020-03-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
For artist Adam Ekberg, moving past boredom means finding a space in which the mind is free to devise a logic of its own, and ordinary objects are liberated from the drudgery of daily life. The resulting photographic interventions are both mysterious and delightful. Cocktail umbrellas no longer shade tropical beverages but rather occupy a sunny beach en masse. Roller skates once relegated to an indoor rink now drag-race across an empty field propelled by burning aerosol cans.
Each of these photographs begins as a sketch drawn in a studio/barn in western New Jersey. As Ekberg realizes his staged happenings, the sketches pinned to the barn walls are removed and replaced with small finished photographs—constituting a small victory. His constructions, made entirely in camera without the aid of Photoshop, are not easily decoded or resolved. Ekberg’s translation of boredom reveals the poignant beauty that can take shape, however fleetingly, when the glint of possibility leaps out from the mundane.
Adam Ekberg received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has recently had solo exhibitions at ClampArt, New York; DeSoto Gallery, Los Angeles; Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago; Platform Gallery, Seattle; and Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at venues such as Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angles CA; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco; and Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Ireland. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. He is the recipient of the Society for Photographic Education’s Imagemaker Award (2015). He was awarded a Tanne Foundation Award (2013). Ekberg has also received grants from Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs (2008, 2009, 2010) and the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Grant (2005).

Who Are You? What Do You Want?
2020-03-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“If you were a wrestler what would be your entrance theme song?”
This interactive exhibit in Guichelaar Gallery entails posting a series of questions that YOU answer on sticky notes.
March is Women’s History Month and in celebration we will also host a contest coloring a few historical women figures, $20 Normal Coffee gift cards will be awarded.

See America First Film Series-Ragtime
2020-03-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Kipp Normand will introduce and host a discussion relating the film to his current exhibition in the Main Gallery at Tube Factory artspace, ‘Snake Oil’. Attendees will have a chance to win a original Normand sculpture, “Snake Oil.”
“A kaleidoscope of tales from E.L. Doctorow’s eponymous novel evokes life in pre-World War I New York City. A white family find a black baby in their yard and takes on the mother as a maid. A black pianist, Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), returns for his woman and child after finding success in a Harlem jazz band. Firefighters, dismayed to see a black man own a Model-T Ford, deface it, and Walker demands retribution. The white family becomes involved in Evelyn Nesbit’s trial.”
Runtime -155 minutes

Spring Zine Jam-Postponed
2020-03-14 12:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at Normal Coffee inside the Tube Factory Artspace for a collaborative zine jam just in time for spring to roll around! Supplies will be provided but you’re welcome to bring your own. Drawings, poetry, collage, whatever you think we should put in our spring zine works! Gluestick will print the zine shortly after and it will be available for pickup around Indy and at Normal. Don’t know what a zine is? Come find out!

West African Dance with Uzuri Asad-Cancelled
2020-03-18 19:00 - 20:30, 2020-03-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Spring Equinox with Uzuri Asad-Cancelled
2020-03-22 10:00 - 14:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Start the season off right with Uzuri Asad! We get pretty excited about the spring equinox bringing us out of winter and officially starting the season of spring. But what exactly is the spring equinox? And does an equinox happen at the start of every season?
First, let’s get into the equinox, which actually occurs just twice a year. The word equinox comes from Latin and means “equality of night and day.” So, the equinox occurs at two specific moments in time when the sun is exactly above the equator (contrary to popular belief, the equinox doesn’t last for 24 hours).
More details TBA.

Western Dance with Uzuri Asad-Cancelled
2020-04-01 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

First Friday From Home Art Shares and Tours
2020-04-03 08:00 - 23:30
Usually we’re showing you new art every First Friday. But now we’re asking you to show us yours! Whether you made it or bought it, use your phone to share photos and videos with us and others by using the hashtag #firstfridayfromhome or by posting pictures or videos (also can go live and tag Tube Factory artspace. We will select different people who share their collections to win Normal Coffee gift cards, a ceramic piece from Soyong Kang Partington, and t-shirts from Big Car.
Start sharing now, so we can share different artworks through FB and Twitter throughout the night of April 3. When you post, you can tell us who the artist is, why you bought it, how it makes you feel, whatever you want to say about art you have collected. We will also share some things along the way as we celebrate First Friday via our radio station, 99.1 WQRT FM (also accessible at www.wqrt.org).
If you’re in Indianapolis, show our friends at the Arts Council of Indianapolis some love and hashtag #indyKeepsCreating
All of us at Big Car are sending positive, healthy vibes your way. Excited to see your collections and see you in person when we get through the pandemic.

SoundLab with Oreo Jones
2020-04-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Writing Workshop with Mariah Ivey
2020-05-02 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
An interactive workshop led by Mariah Ivey.
Mariah is a graduate of Pike High School, studied at Columbia College Chicago and is an active Teaching + Performing Artist, Poet, MC, and Host/Coordinator of various local art and community events. She has spent the last five years working within the non-profit sector as a youth program facilitator and project manager where her love of young people, art, and education have all simultaneously come alive in order to create a more promising future!
Most nights and weekends, Mariah enjoys performing, hosting, and creating – both as an individual and alongside her band, TribeSouL. She also enjoys designing jewelry, being in nature, meditating, eating good food, and laughing…a lot!

TransGlam
2020-06-06 17:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Indy’s trans community invites you to join us during Pride Week for #TransGlam – A free night of community, food, fun, music and resources.
#TransGlam invites you to dance, socialize, and spend time in community while getting connected to resources. This is an all-inclusive space for all ages and all bodies. On site there will be free food, harm reduction supplies and education, trans affirming vendors, and of course YOU!
Show up, show your glam and be a part of the #TransGlam crew!
⏰ The party starts at 5:00pm.
Indy Pride is teaming up with QUIT NOW INDIANA to encourage healthy lifestyles for all members of our community with all Pride events being tobacco-free. For support and resources to quit tobacco, visit them at quitnowindiana.com or call 1-800-QUIT-NOW.
