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Liz Gomez-Lunch Break Live Tuesdays presented by Lake City Bank
2023-05-09 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us for the soft return of SPARK Monument Circle with live music from Colombian singer and guitarist, Liz Gomez.

Food Trucks, Chef Dan’s & Paul’s Kitchen, will be onsite starting at 11am.
Music performance 12-1pm in the SW Quad of Monument Circle.

We at Big Car are teaming up with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission— to spark Monument Circle with human-scale activities like games, live music, artmaking, and socializing in a comfortable place. We’re based in the southwest quadrant.

First Friday Night Market
2023-05-05 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-04-07 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-03-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us again for this upcoming First Friday for a wonderful evening in Garfield Park. We are celebrating local artists, musicians, food trucks and vendors by featuring them in our night market.
Come check out our creative endeavors here around Cruft Street, where you will have the opportunity to purchase local goods from amazing artists and food vendors here at the Tube.
During the winter months, the Night Market is held inside Tube Factory artspace. In the fall, spring, and summer months, vending is located outside.
If you are a local artist or maker, please contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for more information.

Power Plant Grants are back!
2023-05-05 - 2023-05-06
Applications for Power Plant Grants open Friday, May 5. These are $10,000 project grants for visual artists residing in Indianapolis for new public-facing art projects with a strong visual component.
APPLY HERE
The Power Plant Grant program for 2023-24 will provide grants in the amount of $60,000 total. Six individual artists, art collectives, and/or artist-run spaces will receive cash grants of $10,000 each, for the creation and presentation of new work/projects with a strong visual component. Artists with ongoing projects or practices are welcome to apply, providing the application proposes significant evolution or adaptation that will open up new directions in the work – even if for only one year.
Applications for this round are due by July 10, 2023.
Click the apply button above to get started. And see our FAQs for more information.
TIMELINE FOR Power Plant Grants 2023-2024:

Friday, May 5 – Application opens
Monday, May 29, 7-8 pm — Virtual information session. Register here.
Monday, June 26, 7-8 pm — Information session (in-person)
Monday, July 10 – Applications close online, at 11.59 PM EST
Friday, August 11 – All applications notified if they will proceed to the final round
Saturday, August 26, 9:30 am – 6 pm — Artists’ presentations at the Selection Panel meeting in Indianapolis*
Monday, August 28 – Award recipients notified
Monday, September 18 – Public Announcement of 2023-24 Awards

Supported projects may include visual art, performance, film screenings, video, new media, writing, public programming, social practice and interdisciplinary projects. Performing artists and writers are eligible to apply, but all work should include a compelling visual component, and performers/authors are encouraged to form collaborations with visual artists to achieve this end.
You can view the guidelines, FAQ’s, and previously awarded projects on www.powerplantgrant.org

Power Plant grants are facilitated by the nonprofit arts organization, Big Car Collaborative and are made possible by funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Mina Keohane- Lunch Break Live Tuesdays presented by Lake City Bank
2023-05-02 11:00 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us for the soft return of SPARK Monument Circle with live music from Mina Keohane! Food trucks, Bearded Bagel and Treats by Fee, will be onsite starting at 11am. Music performance 12-1pm.

“…full of surprises. She possesses a songbird’s voice, a wisdom beyond her years and a delightfully smooth way of gliding across the piano keys. Everything from mournful sonic sculptures to crisp, lightweight ballads carried the day — always in celebration of the moment, whether it be the memory of something long gone or the freshness of something new.” –Nuvo Newsweekly
Mina Keohane is an Indianapolis based composer/performer. Her music is a piano-driven cross-pollination of singer-songwriter, indie rock and a hint of jazz using lush chords and impulsive lines to create a distinctive sound. Her songs have been described as “if Joni Mitchell and Aimee Mann had a baby with Charles Mingus.” She spends most of her time writing music for commercials and short films, as well as playing keyboards and accordion with Public Universal Friend, Sarah Grain & the Billions of Stars, Nashville-based recording artist Brandon Whyde, The Dopacetics, Teresa Reynolds and the Slicktones, and her own band Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine. She has had the opportunity and privilege of opening for many wonderful artists including Becca Stevens, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, Blues Traveler, Dwight Yoakam, Esme Patterson & Robby Krieger.

We at Big Car are teaming up with Downtown Indy and the City of Indianapolis — with support from the Capital Improvement Board and the Indiana War Memorials Commission— to spark Monument Circle with human-scale activities like games, live music, artmaking, and socializing in a comfortable place. We’re based in the southwest quadrant.

Current State
2023-04-30 15:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Featuring more than 20 performers, Current State is a live concert event putting the talent of IUPUI Music students on full display. Students from the undergraduate music technology program at IUPUI will present original works drawn from a wide array of musical styles including electronic pop, house, hip-hop, noise, experimental, and beyond.

DUKE'S INDY + NORMAL Burrito Brunch
2023-04-30 10:00 - 15:00
Meat and Vegetarian burritos made with Tube Factory Artspace Art Chicken eggs. A Vegan option too! 10am until we run out.

Benji Dorocke:Matters in E-6- Drawings From The Well
2023-04-28 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Drawings From The Well explores sources of individual creative spirit and drive. Within the well lies all parts of the self; from the surface we draw from daily, to depths seldom acknowledged. At the point of overflow, the depths begin to rise allowing those motives and feelings to become visible. I find these periodic wellings to be helpful in self understanding, and important to growth. Every well contains all of our influences, memories, and perspectives; the fibers of the self held at varying depths. Multifaceted in our nature; humans take on more interests, roles, and traits than we are often aware of. Trips to the depths of the well can feel treacherous, however with exploration comes clarity upon surfacing.
Benji Dorocke is an Indianapolis based artist currently working in photo, audio, and video. They have been working in digital imaging since early childhood, largely focusing on photography and design. In 2019, they began attending the Herron School of Art and Design, majoring in photography. Much of their work deals with themes of identity and documenting their experiences, presented typically with a hybrid analog-digital process.
Find them on Instagram: @stp.lte
Located in the Guichelaar Gallery, this exhibit is part of a Herron School of Art and Design Photography Senior Thesis series curated by Jane Sun Kim, a visual artist in our long term residency program, APLR.
The Guichelaar Gallery and Residency House located next door to Tube Factory at 1135 Cruft St. is a contemporary art space operated by Big Car Collaborative APLR artists. It also serves as a home for visiting artists.

African Dance with Uzuri Asad
2023-04-26 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-04-19 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-04-12 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-03-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car’s Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the floor!

Selena Ward: Sentida- A visual memoir
2023-04-21 18:00 - 22:00
Sentida is a collection of Selena Ward’s recent installation pieces that serves as a visual memoir for her surge in personal reflection and self discovery within recent years. Bookmaking, quiltmaking and image making all feature to dissect her feelings of displacement within her own Chicana identity, explore her obscured ancestral history, and question conflicting ideas on beauty, womanhood, love, domesticity, and loss.
Selena is an undergraduate photographer and artist who uses multi-media image making, video, and installation as a way to look within and ground herself. From embroidering quilts with childhood memorabilia to creating colorful and indulgent images, she is inspired by her own emotive life experiences and intricacies of life as a Mexican-American woman in this generation, and seeks to discover and slowly reveal herself through her work. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Find her on Instagram: @selenaward
Located in the Guichelaar Gallery, this exhibit is part of a Herron School of Art and Design Photography Senior Thesis series curated by Jane Sun Kim, a visual artist in our long term residency program, APLR.
The Guichelaar Gallery and Residency House located next door to Tube Factory at 1135 Cruft St. is a contemporary art space operated by Big Car Collaborative APLR artists. It also serves as a home for visiting artists.

Miera Thoroughgood: Through My Eyes: A multimedia archive
2023-04-14 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
I’ve lived in Indianapolis for almost 4 years, it’s my home. I’ve explored many depths of this city. It’s a blur to me now. I see the same buildings and people every other day.
With my work, I explored the streets of Indianapolis that feel as if they were anywhere else in the world. It’s my escape. Time and space are limited in the photos. Indianapolis has been a lovely home, but I’m ready to leave and find other places, people, and spaces. —Miera Thoroughgood
Located in the Guichelaar Gallery, this exhibit is part of a Herron School of Art and Design Photography Senior Thesis series curated by Jane Sun Kim, a visual artist in our long term residency program, APLR.
The Guichelaar Gallery and Residency House located next door to Tube Factory at 1135 Cruft St. is a contemporary art space operated by Big Car Collaborative APLR artists. It also serves as a home for visiting artists.

Yeabsera Tabb-Tezeta
2023-04-07 18:00 - 2023-06-25 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
tezeta (teh-zeh-tah): an Amharic word that roughly translates to memory, nostalgia, or longing
This body of work is an exploration of the physical and figurative aspects of “place.” On one hand, the word “place” refers to our built environment, choices of design, and our interactions with the physical world. On the other hand, it refers to a sense of belonging that is cultural and emotional–still deeply tied to the physical world, but able to exist without it through memory. I invite the viewer to step into the threshold separating “here and now” from”‘then and there.”
Physical spaces such as markets, homes, and schools are where most of our memories are made, and the physicality of a space is significant in shaping our upbringing. I am deeply influenced and inspired by the colors, textures, and sounds that surrounded me during my childhood in Ethiopia.
When I came to the U.S. from Addis Ababa as a teenager, I found myself existing in a liminal space. I longed for the outdoor markets, casual coffee gatherings, and kids kicking soccer balls on narrow streets. This was where my sense of place rested and suddenly it was nowhere to be found. I had to completely reframe my understanding of place. By acknowledging the importance of place in shaping our identity, I explore what happens when we are separated from our places by distance and time. – Yeabsera Tabb
About the Artist
Yeabsera Tabb is an interdisciplinary visual artist with a focus in printmaking and textiles. Her work explores the intersectionalities and liminal space contained within one’s personal identity.
As an artist, Yeabsera often struggles to reconcile her pain, bewilderment, and anger with societal expectations to create beauty. Acknowledging anger, joy, and resistance, her work exists in a complicated middle ground, invoking the recognition and appreciation of disparate feelings and experiences.
After graduating with degrees in both Design for Social Impact and Fine Arts, Yeabsera held multiple solo and group shows in Indianapolis including a group show at Newfields. Additionally, she was one of 10 Black woman artists named as an Emerging Visionary Artist by Shea Moisture.

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This exhibit is made possible by The Arts Council of Indianapolis, The City of Indianapolis and Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation.

Jason Gray: Cthutopia
2023-04-07 18:00 - 2023-05-21 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“I remember sitting in church one Sunday near Easter, trying to pay attention to the sermon but failing. I was six or seven, maybe. My mind wandered as I looked around the sanctuary. I started to think about these two hallways that led away from the main room. The one to the right was familiar to me; the choir room was down there and I found myself there often, waiting for my grandparents to hang up their robes after service. The hallway to the left was a mystery. I had never been down it, nor seen many people go in or come out. This particular Sunday I started to imagine what was down there. I pictured the hall itself to be similar to the other side, with white walls and a white door. Opening this white door would lead you somewhere else, though. It led to a cave of sorts, with gray stone walls and a dusty floor: Jesus’ tomb. Jesus was in there too, frozen in carbonite like Han Solo.

As we get older, there seems to be less time for our imaginations to wander. We get bogged down with responsibilities and thoughts about what we need to do next. Our sense of wonder diminishes as we learn more about the world; we know the chances of discovering monsters or hidden worlds are slim. A lucky few get to live in their imagination, like writers and filmmakers, but most of us are stuck, grounded by real life.

The philosopher Michael Foucault used the term “heterotopia” to describe places that deviated from the normal world. A greek word meaning “other place”, a heterotopia is neither a utopia nor a dystopia, but something in between, a parallel world that is contrary to expected society and that can, at times, be disturbing. Foucault cited examples such as prisons, hospitals, and religious sanctuaries, where one is expected to perform certain rituals to enter. These spaces are an accepted part of society, places we deem necessary in order to exclude those that can disrupt our attempt at a utopia. What if there were places hidden from us that go beyond societal expectations and exist outside of our rules of physics and nature as we understand it?

In this body of work, I am exploring the dream that there are still places and things we have not discovered, things we may not even comprehend. Inside of familiar volumes such as instrument cases and terrariums, I am creating spaces that give a glimpse of some other world, somewhere weird and wrong. This is Cthutopia.”

About the artist
Jason Gray is a furniture maker residing in Indianapolis. Wood is the medium most often used, but he also dabbles in slip cast ceramics and looks for inspiration in found objects. He earned a BFA at Herron School of Art and an MFA at The University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Gray is the Lead Builder at Big Car Collaborative. He is the designer behind campus projects such as The Chicken Chapel of Love, The Chicken Palace, and Wandering Grove.

This exhibit is made possible by The Arts Council of Indianapolis, The City of Indianapolis and Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation.

Jeremy Efroymson Gallery
Opening events April 7, 6-10pm & May 5, 6-10pm

em elise: aegis(us)
2023-04-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
aegis(us): a moving image refuge for feminine endurance and holistic body reclamation
While her present artistic practice grew roots in classical cello and midnight poetry, Em Elise has always been fascinated by the body and its languages. She sees patterns of birth and death as ever present: from ephemeral relationships between lovers to the synchronicity between menstruation and la luna. In an age of shallow social media presentation and the dissociative “new normal” induced by a global pandemic, Elise has become obsessed with a search for depth which she often finds in grainy film, candid renderings, and recollection of guttural feelings. Featuring moving image projection, performance, immersive sound, and remnants of ritual, aegis(us) intertwines somatic experience, emotional perception, and spectral influence to mesmerize and purify.
aegis(us), Em Elise’s undergraduate thesis and debut solo exhibition, serves as a psycho-spiritual testament to feminine endurance and holistic body reclamation. Aegis, /ˈējəs/, being an emblem of protection, and us, a community bound by collective belonging. How does the body act as a conduit? When might the mundane become mystic? What happens when we slow down and surrender to the intuitive rhythms of the (super)natural world? Fueled by Elise’s tender affinity for sacred corporeal movement, nostalgic image making processes, and the liberation of rebirth, aegis(us) invites viewers to bathe in contemplation of the relationship between physical and energetic phenomena.

Artist Biography:
Em Elise approaches art making as alchemical therapy: a vessel for self embalming, transmuting grief, and holistic body reclamation. Driven by the heart pangs, moments of remembrance, and spiritual visitations she frequently encounters in transit, on the cusp of sleep, sky gazing, or when peering into the soul of another, Elise’s artwork provides an anchor for those that feel as alien in this world as she often does. Elise creates to embrace emotional excavation, reintegrate traumatic experience, and root in tender vulnerability. Whether immortalizing feelings of intimacy on instant film, divulging ancestral and gender-based wounds using analog video, or purging pain during ritual performance, Em Elise’s work fuels collective healing and vital authenticity in the face of oppressive social conditioning. Em Elise is native to and currently based out of Indianapolis, Indiana but frequently practices in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Located in the Guichelaar Gallery, this exhibit is part of a Herron School of Art and Design Photography Senior Thesis series curated by Jane Sun Kim, a visual artist in our long term residency program, APLR.
The Guichelaar Gallery and Residency House located next door to Tube Factory at 1135 Cruft St. is a contemporary art space operated by Big Car Collaborative APLR artists. It also serves as a home for visiting artists.

African Dance Class with Uzuri Asad
2023-03-22 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-03-15 08:00 - 19:30, 2023-03-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Chelsea Flowers: Grief Etiquette
2023-03-03 18:00 - 2023-05-07 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
When my dad was alive, he never really saw any of my artwork.
He heard me give one lecture.
But I’m not really sure he knew I was an artist.
I wonder what he’d think now that the work is about him?
I wonder what he’d think if he knew I laughed when I found out he died?
I wonder what he’d think if he knew I laughed during his funeral?
I was told I had no etiquette for grieving.
Two years later and I’m still trying to figure it out.
In an exploration of this concept, “Grief Etiquette” is an immersive installation about the non-linear stages of my grief, shown through archival imagery and sound.

Live performance by Flowers at 7:30pm on March 3.

About Chelsea Flowers
Based in Detroit, Chelsea A. Flowers is an artist who holds an MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA from Denison University in studio art, with a concentration in Black Studies. She has shown work and performed at various galleries including; ACRE Projects Space (Chicago, IL), Red Bull Arts (Detroit, MI), Roots and Culture (Chicago, IL), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA), The Sculpture Center (Cleveland, OH), Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI), The Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry (Chicago, IL), Torrance Museum (Torrance, CA), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, (Detroit, MI).
She has expanded her skills and research by attending ACRE (Steuben, WI), Ox-Bow School of Arts and Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI), Real Time and Space (Oakland, CA) residencies. And is an alum of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her practice explores subversion to popular culture, how “otherness” is created through social and cultural critique of her environment. She explores these ideas through grief etiquette, comedic tropes, and participatory performance.

Image: “Untitled II: Grief Etiquette”
Detail image.

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Normal Pop-Up Market
2023-02-26 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Coffee, fancy toast, and one of a kind artworks and jewelry by Cierra Johnson, Angelita Hampton and Shanise Wright. Selected by Big Car staff artists Yeabsera Tabb and Adair Allen.

Betsy Stirratt Artist Talk
2023-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join artist Betsy Stirratt as she gives a tour of her exhibit, “Unearthing,” provides background and answers questions about her work.
About the artist
Betsy Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983, solo exhibitions include La Maladie at The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago and Veiled Taxonomies at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and White Columns and Art in General in New York among others. She is the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

African Dance with Uzuri
2023-02-22 19:30 - 21:00

Kottu
2023-02-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Come spend a restful and slow Sunday afternoon with Yeabsera and Meskerem Tabb, artists in Big Car’s residency program, as they share the Ethiopian culture of hospitality through a traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony.

Kottu (ካቱ) is an Ormic word that translates to come on in. The Tabbs will share traditional Ethiopian coffee from roasting to brewing while engaging in compelling conversations.

About The Coffee Ceremony
The coffee ceremony is considered to be the most important social occasion in many villages, and it is a sign of respect and friendship to be invited to a coffee ceremony. Guests at a ceremony may discuss topics such as politics, community, and gossip. There is also abundant praise for the ceremony’s performer and the brews she produces.
Regardless of the time of day, occasion (or lack thereof) and guests invited, the ceremony usually follows a distinct format, with some variations.
Beyond pure socialization, the coffee ceremony also plays a spiritual role in Ethiopia, one which emphasizes the importance of Ethiopian coffee culture. Coffee has a long history of association with Islam, and it is said that a transformation of the spirit takes place during the three rounds of the coffee ceremony thanks to coffee’s spiritual properties.
The lengthy Ethiopian coffee ceremony involves processing the raw, unwashed coffee beans into finished cups of coffee. It begins with the preparation of the room for the ritual.
First, the woman who is performing the ceremony spreads fresh, aromatic grasses and flowers across the floor. She begins burning incense to ward off evil spirits and continues to burn incense throughout the ceremony. She fills a round-bottomed, black clay coffeepot (known as a jebena) with water and places it over hot coals.
Then, the hostess takes a handful of green coffee beans and carefully cleans them in a heated, long-handled, wok-like pan. Holding the pan over hot coals or a small fire, she stirs and shakes the husks and debris out of the beans until they are clean.
Once the beans are clean, she slowly roasts them in the pan she used to clean them. During the roasting, she keeps the roast as even as possible by shaking the beans (much like one would shake an old-fashioned popcorn popper) or stirring them constantly. The roasting may be stopped once the beans are a medium brown, or it may be continued until they are blackened and shimmering with essential oils. The aroma of the roasted coffee is powerful and is considered to be an important aspect of the ceremony.
After the hostess has roasted the beans, she will grind them. She uses a tool similar to a mortar and pestle. The “mortar” is a small, heavy wooden bowl called a mukecha (pronounced moo-key-cha), and the “pestle” is a wooden or metal cylinder with a blunt end, called a zenezena. With these tools, she crushes the beans into a coarse ground.
By the time the beans are ground, the water in the jebena is typically ready for the coffee. The performer removes a straw lid from the coffeepot and adds the just-ground coffee. The mixture is brought to a boil and removed from heat.
At this point, the coffee is ready to be served. A tray of very small, handle-less ceramic or glass cups is arranged with the cups very close together. The ceremony performer pours the coffee in a single stream from about a foot above the cups, ideally filling each cup equally without breaking the stream of coffee. The dregs of the coffee remain in the pot. This technique prevents coarse grounds from ending up in the coffee cups.
In some cases, the youngest child may serve the oldest guest the first cup of coffee. Afterward, the performer serves everyone else.
Guests may add their sugar if they’d like. Milk is not typically offered. After adding sugar, guests bunna tetu (“drink coffee”), and then praise the hostess for her coffee-making skills and the coffee for its taste.
After the first round of coffee, there are typically two additional servings. The three servings are known as abol, tona, and baraka. Each serving is progressively weaker than the first. Each cup is said to transform the spirit, and the third serving is considered to be a blessing to those who drink it.

African Dance with Uzuri
2023-02-15 19:30 - 21:00, 2023-02-08 19:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Valentino Market
2023-02-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Looking for a one of kind gift for your beloved this Valentine’s Day? ERA Creates and Arte Mexicano en Indiana have teamed up to hand select vendors, art, crafts for you to show your love, YOUR love.

Nathaniel Russell: HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS
2023-02-03 18:00 - 2023-03-19 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
For “HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS,” Russell shares new paintings, objects, and situations made improvisationally with recycled, found and reused materials. A visual artist, illustrator, and musician based in Indianapolis who has shown his work around the world, Russell utilized the Efroymson Gallery at Tube Factory during the month of January to build his work for this exhibition. With “HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS,” Russell continues to explore themes of hope, anxiety, compassion and our place in an ever-expanding universe.

Nathaniel Russell was born and raised in Indiana. After college, he spent several years in the San Francisco Bay Area making posters, record covers, and woodcuts. His work can be seen around the world in traditional galleries and informal spaces. Russell has also created many book and album cover designs, illustrations for the New York Times, and a viral series of fake flier projects.

Two of Russell’s murals are found on Big Car’s campus — You are Here on the Listen Hear building and Totally Pencil on Tube Factory. Russell also previously made colorful, oversized plywood cutouts for Big Car’s parking lot garden at Service Center outside of Lafayette Square Mall and shared a solo show, Thing, at Big Car Gallery in its early days in Fountain Square.

Opening receptions: Feb 3 & Mar 3, 6-10 pm in our Jeremy D. Efroymson Gallery.

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Made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, The City of Indianapolis and The Efroymson Family Fund.
