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Absence Presence: Jedediah Johnson, Tiffany Pierce and Amanda Taves
2018-12-07 18:00 - 2018-12-16 15:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Image: Jedediah Johnson, Threesome, 2018

Three artists use the medium of photography to explore the relationship between identity and the human form.

About the artists

Tiffany Pierce, born in Indianapolis in 1992, is a current MFA candidate at Herron School of Art and Design studying photography. Greatly influenced by her degree in Human Development and Family Studies, as well as the recent, sudden loss of her father her work explores elements and events that compromise human identity such as gender, family, and mortality. The development of one’s identity and the social constructs that influence it are common themes addressed in her work. Always interested in an image’s capability to capture or create identity, she creates staged photographs, collages, and dioramas as a method to explore individual or societal constructs. Set to graduate in the spring of 2019, Tiffany’s experiences with loss, her empathetic sensibilities, and interest in human development influence the work she is doing today.

Jedediah Johnson wants you to like him. He was born in 1979 on the east side of Indianapolis. He is an artist currently working and living in the same house in which he was raised on that same east side of Indianapolis. The journey that brought him back to that house took him through Los Angeles, where in 2009 he received his BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design, and Chicago where in 2013 he received his MFA in Studio Art from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Jedediah is funny. Jedediah loves television. He enjoys sports but doesn’t watch them often and never plays them. He also believes in justice and equality and is not afraid to tell an authority figure that they are wrong. He has been overweight most of his life and only just recently decided that is just fine. Jedediah believes that a work of art with any real value is going to be beloved by many and hated by some. Jedediah Johnson wants you to like him, but he doesn’t need you like him because he likes himself just fine.

Amanda Taves is a photographer and installation artist exploring identity against the backdrop of forensic processes. She frequently collaborates with forensic professionals, city officials, and community organizations in her practice. Prior to receiving her BFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Taves cultivated a visual literacy program at The Night Ministry and interned with Industry of the Ordinary. Her work has been curated by New York Museum of Modern Art curator, Kelly Sidley, and she has participated as a panelist and visiting instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally at venues such as the Phoenix Museum of Art and Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. Taves is the recipient of various awards including a Chicago Cultural Center CAAP Grant, Goldman Sachs Scholarship, and an Endsley Fellowship, among others. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband and parrot.

What It's Like To Be Sarah
2019-01-04 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Sarah Matthews sound experience comes to Listen Hear First Friday in January. This sensual, immersive soundscape is a one-night exhibition that includes sound clips of a woman’s sexual responses during pleasurable intimacy with a partner. Her installation, LUST, invites participants to listen to a positive sexual experience from a woman’s perspective in order to consider the importance of female sexual empowerment in today’s hyper sexualized and heteronormative world.

Rachel Leigh: Light Scheaux
2019-01-04 18:00 - 2019-01-21 18:00
Welcome to a world where grownups still build forts and play with flashlights. Where physics are not a classroom subject but a tender and flamboyant muse. Rachel Leigh teases out the sumptuousness of thrift-store glass and discarded TVs, bathing visitors in luminous, improbable delights.

Wear comfortable clothing and join us for a 20-minute live interactive audiovisual performance by the artist: Jan 9, 13, and 21 at 6pm.

Rachel Leigh is an Indianapolis-based graphic designer, electronic musician, and all-around visual tinkerer who spent formative years in Europe. Her intricate, immersive work invokes subtleties of physics, geometry, and history. Leigh is a member of performing art collective Know No Stranger, contributing to numerous original stage shows and multimedia experiences since 2014. Her graphic design work has appeared at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and Simon Malls. Light Scheaux is her debut solo exhibition.
Follow her projects at majuscule.co. Follow on instagram @reallyearly.

DJ Workshop with Oreo Jones
2019-01-11 10:30 - 15:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Hop in the WQRT studio for a one-on-one DJ workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones! Come with questions about audio equipment, learn how to DJ on WQRT, or how to go live on the air. This workshop is hosted bi-monthly, with 8 spots available each month. Free, Open to the Public.
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99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents JP Harris
2019-01-19 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Resurrecting the ghosts of a time when real, hardcore Honky Tonk ruled the airwaves, JP Harris has lived the songs he writes with the humor, grit, and grace that only a truly road-worn author can summon. After nearly 100,000 miles and over 200 dates, from Vermont to Louisiana to California, from festival stages to roadhouses you can’t find on a map, an album was born, “Home Is Where The Hurt Is.”
www.ilovehonkytonk.com

Bree Jo'ann and Jon Flannelly: Tropical Gift Shop Pop Up
2019-02-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A career retrospective liquidation sale! think of a flea market booth with an assortment of the usual types of things you might find mixed with special art projects, old and new, in various mediums

Casey No & Taylor Rose: Crashing Through The Front Door
2019-02-01 18:00 - 2019-02-16 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Crashing Through the Front Door is a culmination of photography, essays, and oral histories examining queer life in Indianapolis, Indiana through the lens of once-a-month dance party.
Photographer Casey No and writer Taylor Rose met over a decade before the ideation of this project in southern Indiana. Though the town was small, and seeped in rural midwestern tradition, the two found a group of LGBTQ friends who were a safe haven. In fact, Casey was the first person Taylor came out to at the age of 16. Both have developed their individual crafts over the years, talking about doing a collaboration for several of them. When Low Pone, an Indy-based queer dance party, came to life the subject matter was clear — the two would chronicle the lives of their queer community as it intersected over one night every month.
Casey and Taylor are capturing a rare and novel movement in queer Indianapolis. One where much of the LGBTQ community is hungry for inclusion of all races, genders, non-genders, and expressions. On a sociological level, they are examining the need for public celebration of holistic queer existence by showing the vibrancy that comes from a space where the queer community can unapologetically show their identities. Low Pone is doing something that’s outside the norm in this city: It’s creating a space for those who have felt displaced. Crashing Through the Front Door is documenting what they view as a historical queer moment of creation and community.
Over the last eight months, dozens of people were interviewed about the impact that a small pop-up queer, trans, and people-of-color inclusive space had on their lives. By no means is a dance party the solution or even a delineation of the queer community in Indy, but it does bookmark a moment in time and offers a periscope view into queer life.
The culmination is a story about how that one night becomes a sanctuary, paying homage to the idea of home, to a chosen family, to rising above the fragments that society bends us to fit neatly into their stackable boxes. The photographs and personal narratives illuminate the process of finding triumph in the face of tragedy and refusing to be defined by it, how a chosen family finds one another, grapples with gender, sexuality, and identity in the midst of a cultural movement.
Casey and Taylor consider themselves documentarians and creative culture makers. Casey is a local musician in the band Spandrels and an award-winning photographer living in Indianapolis. He is interested in closing the negative space between artist, audience, and community. Taylor is a non-binary journalist in Indianapolis who has worked as the Arts Editor for NUVO and as the Communications Director for the ACLU of Indiana. Their work has won numerous Society of Professional Journalism awards for social justice and community based content. This relationship between an artist and journalist is collaborative. Both artists have experienced discrimination based on class, gender, and sexuality. They both found power in their perspective mediums by boldy claiming their own identities. This project is not only personal, it is how these artists hope to encourage similar endeavors in the arts community of Indianapolis.
Photo: Casey No, “Mary Fagdalane covered in blood while performing, November 2018.”
Made possible by LOW PONE, Upland Brewing Company, Printtext, Roberts Camera, Big Car Collaborative, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Indiegogo sponsors.

David Schalliol-Three Communities
2019-02-01 18:00 - 2019-04-20 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We shape our surroundings at the same time our surroundings shape us. Communities and their environments are inseparable. Yet as we go about occupying, utilizing, and altering our natural and built worlds, how much do we think about the connections we share with the others who inhabit the place we call home?
For his exhibition at Tube Factory Art Space, David Schalliol addresses the interdependence of people and place through photographs and video interviews with residents of three geographically and culturally unique places.
First, he explores the very neighborhood in which this exhibition takes place, Bean Creek, a hamlet of homes and businesses on the Southeast Side of Indianapolis. The waterway for which the neighborhood is named has undergone a peculiar evolution as homes, churches, and businesses have grown around it. In some places, Bean Creek flows undisturbed, a trickling rill winding through thickets of gently bending trees. In other places, the creek has been covered by roads and other obstructions, only to remerge more than 100 yards away. The odd evolution of landscape and municipal planning has caused some houses to face the creek—today’s residents enter through the back door, as the front faces nature.
Next, Schalliol takes us to the South Side of Chicago, where since 2011 a tight-knit group of neighbors has watched their community disappear as the owners of a nearby freight yard buy up houses in order to expand their facilities. The few remaining homeowners have banded together to try to preserve whatever is left of this place and its unique culture. The economic powers that are being exerted, however, will likely prove too powerful to bear.
Finally,Schalliol visits former coal mining communities in the north of France. Following decades of economic contraction, the French government ceased all coal mining in the country in the early 2000s. Towns like the one in these photographs must completely re-imagine their future economic and cultural identities. Meanwhile, the visual and social fabric of the region is affected in every conceivable way by its historic attachment to coal. For example, the “spoil tip” hills interspersed throughout the town, created by waste rocks from the mines, now serve as artificial mountains being re-purposed for motorsports and ecological tourism.
Though located worlds apart from each other, the three communities share threads of kinship that hint at possible human universalities.
David Schalliol is a visual sociologist. He is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and a principal of Scrappers Film Group. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, and been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial, the Belfast Photo Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies. His directorial film debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. He earned his BA from Kenyon College, and his MA and PhD in the Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago.

Big Car Builders: Shop Safety Class
2019-02-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you wanting to increase your skills with tools and gain confidense in your builder abilities?
Big Car Builders: Shop Safety Class is an intensive 2 hour class giving you a tour of the shop and all of it’s tools and possibilities. Participants will be taught where the first aid and safety equipment are, what the rules of the shop are, and get hands on with a simple example of how to use a few tools.
The Shop Safety Class is a requirement for the Builder Volunteer program
Fees: $50
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The Legend of Leigh Bowery
2019-02-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“Filmmaker Charles Atlas documents the life and work of Bowery, up to his AIDS-related death in 1994. Part fashion designer, part performance artist, part promoter, Leigh Bowery is a singular creation of his own making. An imposing-looking man even without his often startling, always outrageous costuming, the Australian-born Bowery becomes a legend of the London club and underground art scenes in the 1980s. The film features archival footage and interviews with Bowery’s family and friends.”
1 hr 23 min.
Presented in partnership with LOW PONE. Discussion to follow the screening. Admission is free.

99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents Read Southall
2019-02-13 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Formed In Stillwater Oklahoma, The Read Southall Band is comprised of 4 native Oklahoman’s. Read Southall (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) Reid Barber (drums) Jeremee Knipp (Bass) JT Perry (Lead Guitar and harmonies). With all members having different influences in music, they have come together to create a unique red dirt/southern rock sound. With overdriven guitars and heavy drums the Read Southall Band aims to deliver a rock and roll experience at every show.

Zach Carrico-Queer Aura
2019-03-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Queer Aura explores the complexity of our identities and tackles the stereotype that being gay looks any specific way. Carrico shares the sacred intimacy of bedrooms where the veils of our protection are divulged to show our raw forms.

Emma Bennett
2019-03-01 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Emma Bennett’s first solo exhibition features explorative paper works and found object sound sculptures.
“My daughter tried for years to get me to create anything. It wasn’t until I transitioned and separated from my wife of thirty years, my kids left the house and the PTSD I had been hiding from for decades since the Gulf War flooded in, did I pick up materials and begin to create.”

Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green: Fences/Imperia
2019-03-01 18:00 - 2019-03-23 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artists Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green will present new works that explore outmoded forms of conquest, power, and control—both real and imagined. Nakagawa’s work will consist of an installation of cyanotype prints created while in Okinawa. Green’s new work extends his exploration of monumentality and power through the language of architectural blueprints. The two seemingly disparate bodies of work present the question: How do the forces of power and control manifest themselves in real, immediate ways and in our collective conscious?
FENCES
In James Nakagawa’s work, the landscape often functions as a witness to history and suffering, as well as a platform to examine conflicts political and personal in nature. Raised in Tokyo, Japan, his family moved to Houston, Texas when he was fifteen. As an artist he mines the complicated pasts of both countries, touching on issues related to nationalism, family, pop-culture, tensions between eastern and western ideals, and war. Since 2006, James has produced several series reflecting on the legacy of World War II and Japan-U.S. relations on Okinawa.
Nakagawa started FENCES several years ago, as he was visiting the island to complete MAPS, a series using a frottage technique to create rubbings of words from war memorials. During this time, he had received permission to photograph inside a U.S. base looking through the fence at Okinawa. Nakagawa’s clearance was revoked before he could begin the project following a disagreement with the colonel assigned to him as a PR liaison. The conversation concerned the benefits of the U.S. military station to the island population. In reaction to this change of circumstance and the protests over the Henoko relocation, Nakagawa used leftover paper and cyanotype chemistry to make photograms of the outside of the base’s fence.
The planned installation of the work is key to counteracting the associated clichés. When James made the photograms, he did not align the sheets of paper in the same orientation against the fence. Presented in grids on four sides of a wall, the images are forceful and oppressive. Viewed edge to edge they crackle with energy and immediacy. The experience is disorienting; the barrier feels like it is both advancing and receding. Without an accompanying statement, this project would provoke more questions than answers—on which side is the photographer? Is the viewer looking up or standing squarely in front of it; are they floating? Like his prior work, he taps into feelings of claustrophobia, visualizing the latent histories that continue to linger in the Okinawan landscape.
IMPERIA | THE BENEFACTOR
Conner Green seeks to investigate the social ramifications of monumental architecture through collages of found materials, drawings, and photographs. “I understand ‘architecture’ to refer to more than just the design and decoration of buildings, but also to how thought or action can make order and meaning out of random space,” Green says. “My work, in part, attempts to excavate those embedded meanings.” To create his work, Green digitally assembles his materials into sketchy, black inkjet prints that resemble schematic drawings or computer renderings, producing a sense of disorder in the otherwise highly organized and rigid, even scientific, discourse of architecture. The rendered forms do not refer to any extant structures, rather they attempt to portray a kind of typological composite of different built forms throughout history.
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States, moving to Houston, Texas, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently, Mr. Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. Nakagawa’s work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include: Eclipse, PGI, Tokyo (2018); Kai, sepia EYE, New York (2018); OKINAWA TRILOGY: Osamu James Nakagawa, Kyoto University of Art and Design (2013);GAMA Caves, PGI, Tokyo; Banta: Stained Memory, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (2009); Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa, SEPIA International Inc., New York (2003).
His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Grand Rapid Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa’s monograph GAMA Cavesis available from Akaaka Art Publisher in Tokyo, Japan.
Conner Green (born 1984) is an artist from Indianapolis, IN. He studied art and literature at Indiana University and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of his work combines disciplines, incorporating found sculptural and print-based elements. His work explores concepts of institutional critique, myth, desire, and master narratives. He finds all of these concepts rife for excavation in the consumer-based material world and the built environment. His process allows for a certain degree of chance or disorder to come into play, which he believes enables the phenomenal world to speak for itself.

Radio DJ Workshop
2019-03-08 10:00 - 15:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents Mike & The Moonpies
2019-03-08 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Duke’s as we welcome back Mike & The Moonpies. This is a DO NOT MISS show.
On-stage and on record, Austin’s Mike and the Moonpies keep the torch of Texas country burning. Whether it’s a hardcore two-step, freewheeling Western swing, Doug Sahm‘s Cosmic American Music, or George Strait‘s sweet, burnished ballads, Mike and the Moonpies tap into the traditions of the Lone Star State, yet their music feels nimble and fresh thanks to their deft interplay and sly touch.
A nascent version of Mike and the Moonpies premiered in 2008, with guitarist Catlin Rutherford leading a variety of musicians through a Monday night residency at the Hole in the Wall, a dive on the University of Texas drag. Toward 2010, the band solidified around Rutherford, vocalist Mike Harmeier, steel guitarist Zach Moulton, drummer Kyle Ponder, and bassist Preston Rhone, with this lineup releasing the independent The Real Countrythat year. Pianist John Carbone joined in 2011 and the band claimed the East Side venue the White Horse as its new Austin haunt. The following year found the band releasing its second album, The Hard Way.
After the release of The Hard Way, Mike and the Moonpies continued to tour regularly, expanding to the rest of Texas. The group’s third album, 2015’s Mockingbird, began to earn the group attention outside of Texas. After delivering a double live album called Live at WinStar World Casino & Resortin 2016, the group returned in early 2018 with its fourth studio album, Steak Night at the Prairie Rose. (source: Allmusic.com- written by Stephen Thomas Erlewine)

Workshop: Discover Design – Discover Bauhaus
2019-03-16 12:00 - 14:00
The workshop Discover Design – Discover Bauhaus by the German Design Museum Foundation provides an opportunity to acquire new knowledge of a shared German – American cultural heritage in a practice-oriented fashion. Why are the ideas of the Bauhaus as a legendary school of architecture, design and art still relevant today? How can we use its ideas for our future? This exciting journey of discovery through the world of design is linked to the celebration of 100 Years of Bauhaus!
The design workshop combines intercultural content with imagination and creativity. Trained designers will provide support and advice. During the theoretical section, key facts about Bauhaus as an evolutionary movement, its leading figures, important projects and ideas will be taught. During the hands on section, the participants can let their creativity run wild and produce their own designs.Theeducational and cultural initiative Entdecke Design(Discover Design) has thus far enabled around 15,000 children and adolescents to discover the world of design.
This workshop is recommended for ages 10-17.
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This workshop is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, and supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
Photo Credit: Christof Jakob

WQRT Rhinestone Country Film Series-True Stories
2019-03-20 18:45 - 20:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Music icon David Byrne was inspired by tabloid headlines to make his sole foray into feature-film directing, an ode to the extraordinariness of ordinary American life and a distillation of what was in his own idiosyncratic mind. The Talking Heads front man plays a visitor to Virgil, Texas, who introduces us to the citizens of the town during preparations for its Celebration of Specialness. As shot by cinematographer Ed Lachman, Texas becomes a hyperrealistic late-capitalist landscape of endless vistas, shopping malls, and prefab metal buildings. In True Stories, Byrne uses his songs to stitch together pop iconography, voodoo rituals, and a singular variety show—all in the service of uncovering the rich mysteries that lurk under the surface of everyday experience.
Presented by Upland Brewing Company.

Artists Talk-Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green
2019-03-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for the closing reception of Fences/Imperia and a discussion with Nakagawa and Green.
About the artists:
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States, moving to Houston, Texas, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently, Mr. Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. Nakagawa’s work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include: Eclipse, PGI, Tokyo (2018); Kai, sepia EYE, New York (2018); OKINAWA TRILOGY: Osamu James Nakagawa, Kyoto University of Art and Design (2013);GAMA Caves, PGI, Tokyo; Banta: Stained Memory, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (2009); Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa, SEPIA International Inc., New York (2003).
His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Grand Rapid Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa’s monograph GAMA Cavesis available from Akaaka Art Publisher in Tokyo, Japan.
Conner Green (born 1984) is an artist from Indianapolis, IN. He studied art and literature at Indiana University and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of his work combines disciplines, incorporating found sculptural and print-based elements. His work explores concepts of institutional critique, myth, desire, and master narratives. He finds all of these concepts rife for excavation in the consumer-based material world and the built environment. His process allows for a certain degree of chance or disorder to come into play, which he believes enables the phenomenal world to speak for itself.
Made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country presents The Currys w/Steve Everett
2019-03-26 19:30 - 23:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brought together by family ties and a shared appreciation for folk, rock, and roots music, The Currys are an Americana trio featuring brothers Jimmy and Tommy and cousin Galen Curry. Like many family groups, their songs are anchored by the sort of elastic, entwined harmonies that only seem to exist among kin. On their second record, West of Here, their songwriting chops match those interlocking voices, with all three members contributing songs to an album that deals with the constant search for home.

Princess-Out There
2019-04-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for the Indiana premiere of Out There, a concept video album and live performance by the band Princess that explores the roles men play and those they ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning with misogyny. The video’s science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with musician JD Samson, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and the band TEEN.
Princess is a performance art duo, a collaboration between Alexis Gideon and Michael O’Neill that uses music as the backbone of a multidisciplinary practice that explores issues of queerness and the concept of masculinity. Princess was formed in 2004 in the Chicago DIY Performance space, Texas Ballroom. The duo released a self-titled LP and performed until 2006 when they went on to pursue other paths, reuniting for this project in 2017.
Alexis Gideon has performed and exhibited throughout the world, including at Moderna Museet Stokholm, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Vdrome, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Time Zones Festival Italia. He has toured internationally and opened for Dan Deacon and tUnE-yArDs.
Michael O’Neill has collaborated with JD Samson of Le Tigre and, with her, formed the acclaimed art/performance band MEN. MEN toured extensively around the world including festival appearances at Coachella (USA) and Sidney Mardi Gras (AUS), at museums such as SF MoMA (USA) and Museo Rufino Tamayo (MX), and support tours with the Gossip and Peaches.

Pique
2019-04-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Graduate Students from the Herron School of Art & Design Masters of Fine Arts Program are showcasing their recent works this First Friday April 5, 2019 at the Guichelaar Gallery at Tube Factory Art Space! These works are not to be missed: Radio interference, money machines, movable parts, photo ops and more. Come see what they have been creating.
Kennedy Conner is an interdisciplinary artist working with aesthetics from the early to mid 2000’s. She is addressing the concept of identity through the selfie. ​
Frank Mullen is building a religion, with a temple shaped like a self-portrait.
Hailey Potts explores the subtleties of mental health challenges through photography.
Adam Rathbun creates interactive work that plays with the idea of ownership, art and the way it exists in the eco system of the art world.
Sarah Strong uses handmade paper, print, and objects to create environments and installations, inviting the audience to interact with work that offers an opportunity to travel to a different time and place.
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Denise Troyer works in ceramics. Through clay, Denise uses texture and form to give a subtle nod to the strength and mystery of nature, with attention given to the fragility of humans’ relationship with it.​

Bauhaus Imaginista - Collected Research
2019-04-05 18:00 - 2019-06-22 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Jeremy Efroymson Gallery
“Bauhaus Imaginista” is a major international project that marks the German art school’s 100th anniversary. Operational from 1919 to 1933, Bauhaus is famous for the approach to design that combined high art and industry. This exhibition rethinks the school from a global perspective, and reads its entanglements against a century of geopolitical change.
The exhibition presents the 4 Gegenstande (Objects) in order to communicate the essential elements of bauhaus imaginista.
“The Bauhaus Manifesto” (1919) is shown through a specially commissioned essay film, exploring the hybrid and transnational influences that shaped its conception and the school’s origins. Marcel Breuer’s collage ein Bauhaus film (1927) was reproduced in the Bauhaus Journal No. 1, an edition of the journal will be reprinted and displayed in the gallery as a stacked multiple available for audiences to take away. Paul Klee’s “Carpet” drawing will be shown in reproduction on a study table detailing the artist’s North African journeys. Kurt Schwerdtfeger’s “Reflective Light Game” is shown through a film projection.
Photo: Paul Klee Rug (kilim), (1927); Hans Snoeck Private Collection, New York
Project partners:
Goethe-Institut, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Funded by:
Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Auswärtiges Amt, Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
On the occasion of 100 Jahre bauhaus (100 Years of Bauhaus).
Admission is free
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WQRT Rhinestone Country Film Series- Nine to Five
2019-04-10 18:45 - 21:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants managed to trap him in his own house, they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
Presented by Upland Brewing Co.

The Basics of Bauhaus
2019-04-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
As the influential design school of Bauhaus turns 100, architects, designers and other creatives all over the world are talking about how its ideas have shaped their work. Known as the art school that changed the world, Conner Green will provide an overview of Bauhaus, what it is and why it’s important today.

99.1 WQRT Noise-A-Thon 2019
2019-04-17 18:00 - 2019-04-18 18:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
WQRT’s 24 hour Noise – A -Thon is back! Tune in or join in as we celebrate with live experimental music from artists around the city of Indianapolis raising funds to keep WQRT rolling into the future. The phone lines will be open for calls from all committees as well as live interviews from all artists participating. The Noise-A-Thon is intended to showcase all the intriguing experimental artists in our community on the most uniquely weird station.
SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES/ ARTIST ANNOUNCED SOON!
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David Schalliol Artist Talk
2019-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a discussion with David Schalliol. Artist, filmmaker, researcher and sociologist, Schalliol will share stories, insights and more about his work.
David Schalliol is a visual sociologist. He is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and a principal of Scrappers Film Group. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, and been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial, the Belfast Photo Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies. His directorial film debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. He earned his BA from Kenyon College, and his MA and PhD in the Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago.

The Area
2019-04-20 15:00 - 17:00
A screening of David Schalliol’s The Area will mark the close of his exhibition, Three Communities at Tube Factory artspace.
The Area is a five-year odyssey of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are being displaced by a multi-billion dollar freight company. The documentary film follows homeowner-turned-activist Deborah Payne, who vows to be “the last house standing,” and the Row Row Boys, teen friends who must start a new life across gang lines.
A production of Scrappers Film Group, it is a 2017 IFP Documentary Labs awardee and is supported by the Graham Foundation, the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. The film was also a participant in the Tribeca Film Institute/Kartemquin Films Tribeca Hacks program.

-More about the Film-
DAVID SCHALLIOL — DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER, AND PRODUCER
David Schalliol is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College who specializes in visual sociology. In addition to working on The Area, he has contributed to films including the ITVS/Kartemquin Films feature Almost There and the National Film Board of Canada’s Highrise: Out My Window, an interactive documentary that won the 2011 International Digital Emmy for Non-Fiction.
Schalliol is also a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in such publications as Artforum, Mas Context, The New York Times, and Social Science Research, as well as in numerous exhibitions, including the inaugural Belfast, Northern Ireland Photo Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. The Japanese publisher Utakatado released his first book, Isolated Building Studies, in 2014.

BRIAN ASHBY — EDITOR AND PRODUCER
Brian Ashby began his filmmaking career co-directing the feature Scrappers, a three-year chronicle of two families surviving in Chicago’s informal scrap metal economy. Roger Ebert included Scrappers on his Best Documentaries of 2010 list.
Ashby co-created and co-directs two documentary web series: The Grid, distributed through Gapers Block, and Central Standard: On Education, a co-production with WTTW11. He recently co- produced the historical documentary feature Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists, which premiered at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
Ashby’s documentary projects have been supported by PBS Digital Studios, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, and the Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation, and have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.

DEBORAH PAYNE — PRODUCER
Deborah Payne is a life-long activist who is dedicated to community development on Chicago’s South Side. She has served as president of the Sherwood Peace Association, the Southwest Federation of Block Clubs, the CAPS Domestic Violence Subcommittee (7th District), and the Sherwood Local Advisory Council, and has worked as a community liaison and photographer for Teamwork Englewood, Chicago Embassy Church, and the Englewood Railroad Coalition.
She is currently the president of the CAPS Domestic Violence Subcommittee (2nd District), a member of the Chicago Public Schools Englewood Steering Committee, and a volunteer at the Englewood Satellite Senior Center and with various women’s shelters.

PETER GALASSI — EDITOR
Peter Galassi is a editor, director, and colorist. Recently, he finished editing Central Standard: On Education, an episodic documentary following five 8th-graders as they try to get into Chicago’s selective enrollment high schools. The show debuted on WTTW11 in the fall and is currently airing on PBS Digital’s YouTube channel.
In 2012 he produced and edited a cut of the feature documentary, Your Name is My Name, which explores the lives of albino children in Zimbabwe. Directed by Osato Dixon, Your Name Is My Name was funded by a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.

PHOELIX — ORIGINAL MUSIC
Hailing from the Fox Valley, west of Chicago, Phoelix has been constructing a kingdom of his own. On projects like Telefone, Bucket List Project, and Blkswn, he has implemented his own unique taste and influence that blends with eclectic artists such as Noname, Saba, Smino, and producers Monte Booker and Cam O’bi. Out of the studio, he has also toured with Noname, Smino, Eryn Allen Kane, and Jamila Woods. Phoelix’s debut project, GSPL, shows us much more of his identity through the unique sound he adds to the spectrum of music. He says, “Phoelix is like a future version of myself.”

YANA KUNICHOFF — ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Yana Kunichoff is an award-winning investigative journalist and producer based in Chicago. Her work has ranged from coverage of the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain to chronicling of the human casualties of rapidly disappearing affordable housing in Chicago.
Kunichoff won a Sidney Hillman award for her February 2016 investigation for the Chicago Reader into the way Chicago’s police union impacts the narrative around police shootings. Kunichoff’s work has appeared in The Guardian, Fusion.net, Al Jazeera, Pacific Standard and Chicago Magazine, among many others.

DAN RYBICKY — CONSULTING PRODUCER
Dan Rybicky is an award-winning filmmaker and tenured professor in Cinema and Television Arts at Columbia College Chicago. He produced and co-directed ITVS/Kartemquin Films’ critically-acclaimed feature documentary Almost There, which screened at over thirty festivals before being distributed theatrically, digitally, and on public television in 2016.
Dan started his filmmaking career working with and consulting in various production capacities for Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, and John Leguizamo. Dan’s latest project a short documentary about health care — filmed in (and titled) Accident, MD — will premiere in the coming year.

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
Additional contributors to The Area‘s production include Aaron Cahan, Emmanuel Camacho, Danielle Davis, Natalia Echeverry, Matt Goetz, Astrid Goh, Akemi Hong, Ben Kolak, Hannie Lee, Isabel Mitchell, Ashley Mills, Kiyomi Mino, David Nagel, Mary Otoo, Luis Antonio Perez, Reshmi Rustebakke, Zachary Sala, Alexandra Scott, Agnes Starczewski, Brittain Williams, and Hayden Yaussy.

Marion County Free Naloxone Training and Distribution
2019-04-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Marion County Opiate Overdose Reversal Training with FREE naloxone (the opioid overdose reversal drug), open to people who use drugs, their family and friends, the general public and any community organizations interested in saving lives.
This training will certify you as a volunteer for the IRA, allowing you to distribute naloxone and to train others to distribute naloxone.
You will learn how to identify and reverse opioid overdoses, the laws that protect you, the stigma people who use drugs face, and other facts about Harm Reduction that empower you to save lives.
For those who do not want the full training, and only want naloxone, we will do a quick 20 minute training at the beginning of the session, after which you may leave with naloxone.
Overdose fatalities are preventable. Please join us to learn how to save lives and kick up the love a notch.
OUR MAIN GOAL IS TO GET NALOXONE INTO THE HANDS OF PEOPLE MOST AT RISK. PLEASE COME PREPARED TO TAKE LOTS OF NALOXONE KITS BACK TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHO ARE AT RISK OF OVERDOSE!

Current State
2019-04-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
CURRENT STATE is a showcase of young electronic musicians and producers from IUPUI’s music technology program. Throughout the evening, 14 performers will display a diverse selection of original solo works. Performances happening from 7-8 p.m. will also broadcast live on WQRT-LP 99.1 FM Indianapolis. An encore broadcast of the entire event will air at a later date.
SCHEDULE:
7:00-7:10 P.M. – Kyle Barkes
7:10-7:25 P.M. – Michael Hanley
7:25-7:37 P.M. – Jared Nematollahi
7:37-7:44 P.M. – Galileo Asher
7:44-7:49 P.M. – Michael Lamb
7:49-8:00 P.M. – Will Graves
8:00-8:05 P.M. – Mitchell Sanders
8:05-8:15 P.M. – Sam Duncan
8:15-8:35 P.M. – Christian Rangel
8:35-8:40 P.M. – Collin Eades
8:40-9:00 P.M. – Charles Cheesman
9:00-9:10 P.M. – Cedar Lohraff
9:10-9:15 P.M. – Koltyn Alexander
9:15-9:40 P.M. – Alex Hauptmann
