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

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

And:

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

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

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

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

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

Sketch Club with India Hines
2025-10-17 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-12 15:00 - 17:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 🙂

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

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

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

Continuing exhibits include:

Tarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery

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

Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
2025-11-07 18:00 - 2026-01-18 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 | Tube Factory artspace, 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.

Double Album Release Celebration: Ciaaattt and Rob Funkhouser
2025-11-22 16:00 - 19:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
2025-12-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 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 | Tube Factory artspace, 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.

Cost Basis: Pavlina Vagioni
2026-02-06 08:00 - 2026-03-18 17:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
‘The commodity is…materialized illusion” – Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
We live in the shadow of AI’s ascendancy, with the rapid-fire pace of search engine
algorithms increasing exponentially by the day.

In ‘Cost Basis: Pavlina Vagioni,’ curated by Audra Verona Lambert, visitors encounter an installation that poses a critical
question: in a period of technological domination, how can values be calculated in a manner comprehensible to the human mind?
Visitors to the exhibit become participants in navigating the space as they encounter a shadowy matrix of environmental stimuli lurking behind an entry portal. Continuing forward, one navigates a semi-permeable, wraith-like maze where scattered light and cryptic sound and movement collide. The space appears nebulous, but unfolds according to a fixed pathway that demands action but restricts choice. An object encountered at the installation’s center calls into question our system of values, examining how we can continue to grapple with ethical and moral choices in an era of constantly shifting information.
‘Cost Basis’ at its core critiques the volatility of contemporary wealth, approximating the cacophony of contemporary technological advancements and the resulting, seemingly arbitrary, ability to diminish or augment value. The installation’s multisensory environment evokes the ways in which market forces rapidly shift the value of commodities and capital. Through the concept of cost basis—typically applied to financial instruments but also relevant to life insurance policies, which can be borrowed against by policy holders— the exhibit underscores the unsettling reality that technologies are progressively being utilized to assess the value of human lives without input from actual people. The aleatory methodology of these financial systems recalls the ancient Greek satirical comedy Plutus by Aristophanes, in which volatile wealth redistribution incites the ire of both gods and the elite. Today, the Olympian gods of Aristophanes’ play are replaced by corporate boards and politicians who preserve cycles of inequality under the guise of merit and innovation: access to insider knowledge becomes the modern divine right. How much do our individual values evenmatter in the face of today’s hyper-accelerated information cycle? How can ethical considerations exist in a world where decisions are being made at speeds beyond the threshold of human competency?
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Audra Verona Lambert is the Curator of University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art in New Harmony, IN. Raised in South Louisiana and arriving to New Harmony via New York, NY, she has curated exhibits at the American Scandinavian Society, Fountain House Gallery, Yeshiva University Museum, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and more. She served as Director, Amos Eno Gallery from 2020-22, and has worked on projects for Art in Odd Places (NY,) More Art (NY,) Pro Arts Jersey City (NJ) and the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (SC.) She co-founded the community-driven initiative, alt_break art fair, dedicated to elevating mission-driven organizations (2016-20.) Lambert holds an MA, Art History & Visual Culture (Lindenwood University, MO) and a BA, Art History (Saint Peter’s University, NJ) in tandem with completing the Asian Studies Program Kansai Gaidai University, Saijo City, Japan.
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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.)
