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Zvi Efrat- The Most Beautiful Campus in Africa
2019-06-04 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A short film that critically illuminates the design by the Israeli architect and former Bauhaus student Arieh Sharon for the University of Ife campus, Ile–Ife, Nigeria, built in 1962 as part of an Israeli assistance program in West-Africa. Zvi Efrat, architect and architectural historian, is a partner in Efrat-Kowalsky Architects (EKA) and was head of the Department of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, from 2002 until 2010. He studied at Pratt Institute, at NYU, and at Princeton University. He has taught at several universities, lectured worldwide, published extensively, and curated numerous exhibitions, among them Borderline Disorder at the Israeli Pavilion of the 8th Architectural Biennale, Venice, in 2002, and The Object of Zionism at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel in 2011. His book, The Israeli Project: Building and Architecture 1948–1973, was published in Hebrew in 2004.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
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).
Photo: Keren Kuenberg

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace-Landon Caldwell
2019-06-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by to enjoy the various activities that this hidden downtown green space has to offer along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians from right here in your city. Challenge a friend to a game of table tennis, play giant Jenga, and find your new favorite musician.

June’s theme is ambient and experimental music and today’s schedule offers psych-rock mastermind, Landon Caldwell.

Live Music Lunch-Scrapper & Skelton
2019-06-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Lugar Plaza, 200 E Washington St, Indianapolis, 46204, United States
Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter Steve “Scrapper” Brown has over 55 years as a solo musician and bandleader. Blessed with a smooth baritone voice steeped in Blues/Jazz, Gospel and Funk, Brown brings a wealth of experience and versatility to the stage. He has appeared on 6 CDs including songwriting and production credits. ​
Blues Harmonica/Vocals Ken Skelton is a Blues enthusiast with a love for classic acoustic Blues. Skelton has received local recognition for his performances in the genre in which he hopes “not only entertains, but produces thought in the listener.

Michael Bauchert : Faux Ambiance
2019-06-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Faux Ambiance is an audio/video installation that wildly exaggerates the sound of a room. Created by Michael Bauchert, Faux Ambiance turns an ordinary space into an other-worldly cathedral which slowly morphs in character over time. All sound made by those present to Faux Ambiance has dramatic, sonic and visual consequences.
Projected onto the wall is a wash of vibrant color in the form of a gas, or is it a liquid? The sound of the room displaces this substance like a hand moving through water. It’s texture and shape morphs over time, reflecting the ever-changing timbre of the Faux Ambiance.
This installation is inspired by the diverse, acoustic properties of rooms and spaces. A hand clap sounds very dry and compact outdoors, yet thunderous and prolonged in a tall stairwell; the same action can have a very different reaction depending on its location. Faux Ambiance seeks to pay tribute and parody to this aspect of sound through technology.

Lugao Kasberg: Balay Means Home
2019-06-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Curated by Danicia Monét
Lugao Kasberg is a Mangyan-American artist based in New York City. His earliest memories were with family and community speaking his native Hanunó’o-Mangyan tongue in the Philippines. Balay means home in his traditional Hanuó’o language. Growing up in Indianapolis, IN as an indigenous person he experienced the hardships of poverty, depression, and abuse when his parents separated. Through the strength of family, education, entrepreneurship, and the arts he learned the importance of hard work and dedication as he was determined to attain a better life while also helping others.

During high school and college Lugao orchestrated community outreach initiatives which helped hundreds of youth explore, share, and celebrate art. This effort also ignited his love for film, photography, and documentation. As a successful commercial artist in New York City he was involved in creating works for some of the top brands in the world. After feeling creatively drained and unfulfilled in 2018 Lugao decided to reunite with his Mangyan family in the Philippines and live in the village.

He documented his journey through film, photography, and audio recording. Lugao is the first of his eight Mangyan-siblings and mother to return to their ancestral land after leaving for the United States in 1992. He shares the importance of family, community, and the connection to the land. Mangyans are the indigenous people of Mindoro Island in the Philippines. They have inhabited the land for thousands of years by practicing sustainable farming and developed tightly knit communities with their own language, writing systems, and government.

Like many other indigenous people, Mangyans also face issues of discrimination, land rights, and access to resources. As a solution, Lugao is using his platform to create visibility while also helping to grow the culture by developing initiatives for the youth and community through education and the arts. One such initiative is “Rice 4 Kidz”. This endeavor has had an impact by serving over 55,000 hot meals to one thousand Mangyan schoolchildren with the help of rice sponsors, faculty, and international community during the hunger months of August through October. Service being at the core of his work, Lugao aspires to bring positive change to this present generation for future generations.

To learn more about the artist visit
http://www.lugao.co
Instagram: @Lugao.co and @lugaokasberg

Otolith Group- O Horizon
2019-06-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The title refers to the surface layer of soil, changed in the area around Santiniketan as the result of Tagore’s introduction of new flora in development of the campus. In studying this trajectory, the film extends The Otolith Group’s ongoing consideration of the Anthropocene, a premise that denotes that the current geological age is one wherein human activity spurs the primary changes on climate and the environment. With O Horizon, The Otolith Group also proposes that Tagore’s project maps onto the notion of terraforming—a term originating in science fiction and now more widely used—whereby a party (typically but not always an interloper) reshapes the atmosphere of a place for their own needs.
O Horizon reflects upon modernist theories of dance and song developed by Tagore and the experimental practices of mural, sculpture, painting, and drawing developed by India’s great modernist artists affiliated with Santiniketan: K.G. Subramanyan, Benode Behari Mukherjee, Nandalal Bose and Ramkinkar Baij. O Horizon draws together visual arts, dance, song, music, and recital to assemble a structure of feeling of the Tagorean imagination in the 21st Century.
This screening is part of the Bauhaus Imaginista: Collected Research exhibition.
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).

Tintype Portrait Studio Sessions with Keliy Anderson-Staley
2019-06-13 09:00 - 2019-06-16 19:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Appointments (required) start at 9am and end 7pm each day
Call 317.361.3703 or email email hidden; JavaScript is required to schedule an appointment
Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley will be making tintype portraits at Tube Factory June 13-16, 2019. Tintype is a 19th-Century photographic process rarely practiced today.
All participants should expect the shoot to take 20-30 minutes, and there might be a short wait, even if you have an appointment. By sitting for a portrait, you are participating in a long-term portrait project that now includes images of a couple thousand individuals. Everyone who sits for a portrait will be asked to sign a model release form and will receive a high resolution scan of the image via email 2-3 weeks after the shoot. Group portraits are possible, but family portraits need to be limited to 5 members. People of all ages, body types, orientations and ethnicities are encouraged to come participate in this free portrait shooting event.
What to Know before Your Portrait Sitting
• Exposure times for tintypes can last up to 30 seconds. Sitters must remain relatively still during that time to make a clear, sharp image (some blinking is okay). Small children or other subjects who may find it difficult to stay still for that amount of time may appear blurry in the final image.
• Due to time and material restraints, sitters will have only one image made.
• Please wear clothes that do not have text and are not all white or all black.
• Subjects who wear glasses may want to consider not wearing them for the portrait to reduce the chance of reflection in the final image.
Learn more at www.auroraphoto.org

Lunch at Lockerbie-Foreign Candy
2019-06-13 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by to enjoy the various activities that this hidden downtown green space has to offer along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians from right here in your city. Challenge a friend to a game of table tennis, play giant Jenga, and find your new favorite musician. June’s theme is ambient and experimental music and today’s schedule offers Foreign Candy.

Dinner and Poetry with Bryan Thao Worra
2019-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Bryan Thao Worra author of DEMONSTRA (2013); BARROW (2009); Winter Ink (2008); On the Other Side of the Eye (2007) and The Tuk-Tuk Diaries: Our Dinner with Cluster Bombs (2003) for a reading and dinner at Tube Factory artspace.
Worra’s work appears in over 100 international publications, including Astropoetica, Cha, Asian Pacific American Journal, Hyphen, Lantern Review, Kartika Review, Journal of the Asian American Renaissance, Expanded Horizons, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Strange Horizons, Tales of the Unanticipated, and Innsmouth Free Press.
He was selected as a Cultural Olympian during the 2012 London Summer Olympics’ Poetry Parnassus convened by the Southbank Centre. His work is part of the Smithsonian traveling exhibit “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story.” He is the first Lao American to be accepted as a professional member of the Horror Writer Association and the Science Fiction Poetry Association, to which he currently serves as president. He is the first Lao American to hold an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and is a 2019 The Joyce Foundation Fellow.
In 2018, he was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton to serve on the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans to advise state legislators on policy. He works on Lao and Southeast Asian American refugee resettlement issues across the United States. Bryan Thao Worra is the Lao Minnesotan Poet Laureate, and the president of the international Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (est. 1978).
His forthcoming book is “Before We Remember We Dream” from Sahtu Press.

Lunch At Lockerbie
2019-06-20 11:00 - 13:00, 2019-06-27 11:00 - 13:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Spend your lunchtime with us at Lockerbie Marketplace every Thursday! Stop by to enjoy the various activities that this hidden downtown green space has to offer along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians from right here in your city. Challenge a friend to a game of table tennis, play giant Jenga, and find your new favorite musician. June’s theme is ambient and experimental music.

HEADSPACE-Silent DJ Party
2019-06-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This silent DJ party is the 3rd event for the Madam Walker Legacy Center’s Black Music Month Concert Series!
Pop on some headphones and immerse yourself into a carefully curated experience at the Tube Factory Artspace! Food trucks, visual art, free parking, and incredible music! DJ Godzillest and WTLC’s DJ King will be kickin’ out all of the best sounds for you to dance to!
Many thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, the Indiana Arts Commission and Radio One for sponsoring this series.
4 Different Fridays / 4 Different Venues
21+ – cash bar – food trucks
For more info please email email hidden; JavaScript is required.

Amexin Tamaliza 2019
2019-06-22 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Saturday June 22, AMEXIN Tamaliza 2019 11am to 3 pm.
Tamales are not just something to eat — the harvesting, preparing and sharing of tamales is embedded in the history and culture of Mexico, on a family basis and on a community basis. The word “tamale” (meaning “wrapped food”) originates from the Nahuatl language spoken by the Aztecs. This free festival of tamales will highlight this history and tradition. The day will honor Mexican arts, music, dance, and food with:
+ A short presentation on the history and tradition of tamales
+ Music performances by Meztil-Cultural de Indianapolis and Yuri Rodriguez.
+ Dance performance & presentations by Grupo Folklorico Macehuani, a family band in the son juarocho style of music
+ Tamales for sale (tamale vendor will keep revenue from tamale sales)
+ Art activities
While enjoying AMEXIN Tamaliza, attendees can also see an exhibition of art by a Chicago-based Mexican-American visual artist, Yvette Mayorga (https://www.yvettemayorga.com/), on display at the Tube. Mayorga’s work examines the candy-coated idea of the American Dream and the risks all immigrants take. Our hope is that visitors will be inspired to express their own stories through creative channels. And enjoy some Mexican cultural traditions at the same time.
The event is made possible through the generous support of
The International Center‘s Festival Fund Grant. Gracias! 🙂

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2019-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration broadcasted live on 99.1 WQRT.

99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Film Series-Urban Cowboy
2019-06-26 18:45 - 21:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“You a real cowboy?” John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges and Aaron Latham of Latham’s article on Western nightlife. Texas country boy Bud (Travolta) moves to Houston to work on an oil rig with his Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin), and he swiftly becomes indoctrinated in the nighttime rituals of drinking, dancing, and showing off cowboy duds at Gilley’s, the enormous local honkytonk. There he meets and marries the sassy Sissy (Debra Winger), but the honeymoon quickly ends when Sissy starts spending too much time learning the men-only skill of mechanical bull-riding from ex-con Wes (Scott Glenn); Bud throws her out and hooks up with slumming Pam (Madolyn Smith). Under the paternal tutelage of Uncle Bob, Bud then learns not only how to master the bull but also what it takes to be a real man rather than just an ersatz cowboy. With a story, cast, and setting that were essentially Saturday Night Fever country-style, Urban Cowboy was poised to be a summer 1980 hit. Although its box office did not live up to Fever’s legacy, Urban Cowboy did spawn a soundtrack album of country-and-western hits and helped spur a Western fashion vogue; people from all regions began sporting cowboy boots, and mechanical bulls started replacing passé disco floors. The first of Travolta’s many comebacks, Urban Cowboy provided the star with a more “manly” image after his Moment by Moment (1978) fiasco, but it was neophyte co-star Winger who got even better notices. With its Western milieu and retro view of relationships, Urban Cowboy stands as a sign of the nascent Reagan era, as ’70s icon Travolta learned bull-riding himself and replaced his white polyester with a black Stetson.” ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Presented by Upland Brewing Company

Lockerbie Night Market
2019-06-27 18:00 - 22:00 | IN
In partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners, Spark Placemaking and Big Car Collaborative are back for another year to host four Night Markets at Lockerbie!
Thanks to our friends at Sun King Brewery, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street.
Join us for an evening downtown, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts, music, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors or relax and take in live music.
Vendors, food trucks, and musical acts will be announced closer to each date. All ages // Free and open to the public.
*If you would like to become an artist vendor for June, please fill out the following application: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LGNDZK8
To learn more about events at Lockerbie Marketplace, visit https://www.bigcar.org/lockerbie/

Garfield Park Art & Music Festival
2019-06-29 16:00 - 21:00 | MacAllister Amphitheater at Garfield Park, 2450 Conservatory Dr., IN, 46203, United States
The 2nd annual Garfield Park Art & Music Festival (GPAMF) is an outdoor festival celebrating the art, music, and culture of Indianapolis. The Festival will feature a handful of local musicians and bands of diverse genres performing their original music. Up to forty local artists working in a variety of mediums will also host artist booths with their fine art and handmade wares for sale. Enjoy beers by Garfield Brewery, as well as local food trucks and vendors. This all ages, free event is part of Indy Parks and Recreation‘s annual Pack the Parks day and will also feature kids’ crafts and activities for family-friendly fun. Join us for a summer evening filled with local music and art behind the Arts Center!
*****Lineup *****
Sister Sinjin – 4:00 PM
Jacoby’s Invisible Band – 4:40 PM
Silent Bloom – 5:25 PM
Danni Al Mar – 6:20 PM
Brandon Wadley – 7:15 PM
Mina & the Wondrous Flying Machine – 8:15 PM
This event is sponsored by Indy Parks and Recreation, Garfield Park Arts Center – Indy Parks and Recreation, the Friends of Garfield Park, Inc., the Garfield Park Neighbors Association, Big Car Collaborative, ACS Signs, and Renewal by Andersen Window Replacement, and it’s organized by a passionate committee of neighbors, artists, and musicians!
Interested in volunteering or sponsoring? Contact GPAC Manager Kavita Mahoney at email hidden; JavaScript is required to see how you can be involved.
Learn more about #GPAMF here:
https://www.gpacarts.org/garfield-park-art-music-festival

SOUND LAB
2019-06-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself. Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration broadcasted live on 99.1 WQRT

Wildstyle Paschall: Culture, Indy HipHop Music
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Wildstyle Paschall’s multi-media installation “Culture, Indy Hiphop Music”, is a captivating look into the unseen counter culture of America’s most popular music genre centered in the capital of a Midwestern city more known for cornfields, a 500 mile race and various amateur sports. The ever-evolving cultural movement created by people of color exists in Indianapolis, isolated from much of the financial success and mainstream consumerism seen in larger cities.
As a lifelong musician and long time hiphop producer, Paschall is a product of 1980s and 90s hip hop culture. During a time
when hiphop storytelling, music, and culture expanded internationally, he was concerned that even by 2015 significant accounts of the rich culture created in central Indiana was not being archived to shared with outsiders as well as passed down to future generations.
“Culture, Indy Hiphop Music” takes the viewers and puts them on stage with independent hiphop artists performing and creating music to see their passion and dedication to the art through picture and video.

Aurora PhotoCenter at Tube Factory: Keliy Anderson-Staley
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Aurora PhotoCenter officially launches this summer, joining Indianapolis with an inaugural community-focused workshop and exhibition by renowned tintype artist Keliy Anderson-Staley.

This exhibition will be open July 5-19 in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery.

In June 2019, Anderson-Staley set up her tintype studio at Tube Factory and made 70 tintype portraits over a four-day period. This exhibition showcases portraits made during Anderson-Staley’s visit to Indianapolis, as well as subjects photographed in other American cities from New York to Cleveland to Houston to San Francisco. A selection of historical tintypes from the collection of the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites provide context for the modern portraits and show how the medium shaped our identity as a state and nation from photography’s earliest days.

To make a tintype, a light sensitive collodion emulsion is mixed and poured onto each plate shortly before a portrait is made. Tintypes need long exposure times, so the subject must remain completely still for up to 30 seconds to produce a sharp image. People sitting for tintypes often don’t smile, as it is difficult to hold a smile perfectly still for the length of the exposure.

Unlike the instantaneous digital selfie of today, a tintype portrait is an intimate collaboration between the photographer and the sitter, resulting in a one-of-a-kind portrait and experience. These portraits are rich in atmosphere and detail, emphasizing an often intense and mesmerizing gaze. Anderson-Staley’s beautifully textured tintype portraits use 19th-century technology to depict the wholeness of what “American” means today.

Keliy Anderson-Staley was raised off the grid in Maine, studied photography in New York City, and currently lives and teaches photography at the University of Houston in Texas. Her images are in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art (Maine), and Museum of Fine Arts-Houston. Her work was published in a solo issue of Light Work’s Contact Sheet and has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, SFO Museum, Akron Art Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, Southeast Museum of Photography and the California Museum of Photography, as well as at a number of non-profit art institutions and galleries around the country. In 2016 she completed a major public commission for the city of Cleveland, producing fifty large-scale portraits for installation in the airport tunnel of the rapid transit line. A book of her portraits, On A Wet Bough, is available from Waltz Books. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery.

Founded by local artist-photographers, Adam Reynolds, Craig McCormick, and Mary Goodwin, Aurora Photo Center serves as a creative bridge between artists and the greater photographic community with a regional, national, and international perspective. Aurora will be a place where artists meet, create, share work, and find inspiration.
In its first year, Aurora will focus on awareness of photography as a medium for art and social expression. By hosting partnerships and pop-up-style events, Aurora will work to build a community in central Indiana around the medium of photography through exhibits, conversations, and workshops. As Aurora grows and receives non-profit status, it will establish a dedicated gallery space, along with darkroom and studio facilities for both community education and working artists.
“Photography was once a medium permanently documenting history, family, and places. Today it is a momentary medium ruled by innuendo,” says Craig McCormick, Aurora co-founder. “Through Aurora, we hope to explore how photography becomes art in fast and slow times.”
Partnering with Big Car Collaborative in the Garfield Park neighborhood, Aurora’s inaugural event will feature Anderson-Staley’s ongoing tintype portrait series, [hyphen] American. Based out of Houston, TX, Anderson-Staley has spent the past decade travel- ing the country with a portable 19th century tintype studio capturing a typological portrait survey of the human faces that make up today’s America. Her next stop is Indianapolis, where she will be holding a tintype workshop and portrait sessions open to the community, followed by a curated exhibition of her tintype portraits from Indianapolis and beyond.
“Keliy’s project is an open invitation for Indianapolis to come together in a collective portrait of our city,” says Aurora co-founder Mary Goodwin. “It gives us a chance to re-examine what it means to be ‘American’ today.”
[hyphen] American will be on display in the Tube Factory’s Efroymson Gallery July 5-26 with an opening reception on July 5. Keliy Anderson-Staley will be in Indianapolis June 13-16 making tintype portraits. She will host a workshop on tintypes on June 15.

Napkin-spiration: A Designer’s Happy Hour
2019-07-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“Napkin-spiration: A Designer’s Happy Hour” is a group exhibition featuring napkin sketches from RATIO designers.
RATIO is an international, interdisciplinary design practice offering services in architecture, preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design + planning, and graphic design.
After more than 35 years, RATIO has evolved to a firm of more than 150 designers and administrative staff. The firm’s four studio locations in Indianapolis, IN; Champaign, IL; Raleigh, NC; and Chicago, IL allow our team of design professionals to cross geographic boundaries and provide a high level of architectural design excellence to clients throughout the country.
“At RATIO, we’re passionate about more than just great design. The interests of our people – and the communities in which we live and work – drive the work that we do.
Over the past two years RATIO has participated in a studio-wide napkin sketching contest to encourage and promote connectivity between the various disciplines and studio locations. As visual beings in the design world, what better way to express and share ideas than sketching on a scrap pieces of paper at a meeting, on the back of an envelope at a kitchen table or in this instance, a napkin at a bar?”
These RATIO designers hope “A Designer’s Happy Hour” inspires you to express and share ideas in your own way.
This exhibition will be open July 5-19 in the Guichelaar Gallery.

Pints for Parks - Featuring Nine13 Sports
2019-07-10 17:00 - 20:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Our Indy Parks are beautiful, but it is our programming partners and park users (you) who give them life!
Join us at the Tube Factory artspace the second Wednesday every other month for Flat12 Bierwerks Indianapolis beer, and tons of fun!
$1 per beer supports the Indianapolis Parks Foundation!
https://nine13sports.org
*Family Friendly*

Lowpone presents: Minor Sweat
2019-07-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Low Pone presents:Minor Sweat A safe space to be your queer selves. A mashup of open mic, art drag, radical thoughts, and community for the youth of Indy. Come check out Minor Sweats new home at Listen Hear located at 2620 Shelby St.

Lockerbie Night Market
2019-07-25 18:00 - 22:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States

Adam Wollenberg: Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes
2019-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us at Listen Hear for the grand opening of Adam Wollenberg: Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes, Friday August 2nd. The opening ceremony will be accompanied by a performance from Drayco McCoy
Holy Smokes & Bad Jokes is a collected representation of metaphors and symbols based off Adams experiences in the past year and a half. Most of these pieces are done in all ball point pen which has a shelf life. Especially when exposed to UV light. This body of work will slowly die the longer it is exposed for people to see.
Adam Wollenberg is an Indianapolis resident since 2005. He tattoos at Masterwork Tattoo and eats Arby’s from time to time. He likes cigarettes, bourbon and staying up late.

Masters Retrospective II: Social Practice & Placemaking
2019-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The second cohort in UIndy’s MA in Social Practice Art exhibits their work from the last year in many neighborhoods in Indianapolis and from around the state, including interactive and participatory projects in the gallery.
*Closing Reception: Friday, August 16, 5-7 pm (Remarks at 6)
Gallery is free to attend & open during regular Tube Factory Artspace hours.
Eve Eggleston presents a series of social practice art projects to raise community awareness of the plight of the pollinators. This recent body of work re-purposed refuse in upcycling at Rabble Coffee in Indianapolis. Her current project is using beehives for education about urban agriculture, sustainability, environmentally healthy practices, and pollinator value at IPS 39: William McKinley as part of their Learning Nature Center and at Jason Micheal Thomas’s urban farm, Indy Urban Awareness Gardens. William McKinley hosts a live honeybee hive in their gardens and is a part of a curriculum to understand honeybees and other pollinators. Through working with their Garden Club, ran by several teachers and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, the hive will provide pollination for their gardens and orchard. This project also included a full day of lectures, demonstrations, and activities for every class to familiarize the students with these issues. Part of this discussion was learning to understand not only the benefits of honeybees, but all pollinators. To address native bee populations, her thesis project expanded to include creating pollinator hotels with the Green Team of Groundwork Indy. These ongoing projects are always looking to expand. Please contact Eggleston with any inquiries or any opportunities.
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Indianapolis artist Kindness AK is shaped by internal and external conflicts that have a tendency to manifest itself physically through the creative arts. Although some people would choose one specific platform to focus in, she is unconsciously drawn to multiple artistic mediums and media. Her many life experiences, ranging from scientific, therapeutic, and artistic, have become embedded tools which she uses to rediscover and accept a more competent, accountable, and positive self-narrative. The M.A. in Social Practice Art program has helped her align her passions by exploring how placemaking can encourage healing-centered engagement through community building and self-reflection. Her exploration is through a series of projects that are based on personal and professional interest. Projects displayed include Transformative conversations, Affirmation mirrors (individual and community), Trafficking, and Lyles Station. These projects all in one way or another narrate how to enhance or identify the already “existing power of resiliency” within the self and/or community to hopefully initiate more access to social justice. Her broader objective is to increase resiliency and empowerment, using art as a tool to promote critical reflection and build a more culturally inclusive lens of social justice and healing.
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Writer and memoirist Sarah J. Wilson has deepened her exploration of Indianapolis’ Eastside neighborhoods through her social practice and placemaking projects. She grew up there and continues to live there. By collecting artifacts and oral history, she has expanded her creative practice in writing and memoir to more directly engage residents on the Eastside and investigate its complicated and enduring history. This summer, she has worked on the Eastside to collect local history and artifacts, especially from youth and the aging population, to create interactive social practice projects to commemorate this history and to celebrate its future.

Jessica Uçul: White: Trash, Washed, Lies
2019-08-02 18:00 - 22:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
White: Trash, Washed, Lies features work made from the artist’s personal collection of photography and video.

About the artist
Jessica Uçul is an American artist who uses a variety of media, including found and archival imagery and everyday objects to make photographs, collages, videos, and sculpture. Uçul’s work maintains a regard for kitsch as a cultural expression of loss. Born and raised in Franklin, Indiana, Uçul received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She currently lives and works in Indiana.

Now Age Emcee
2019-08-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Live performances involve group chanting, a shrine, a cassette boom box and telephone mic to create a lo-fi shamanic Hip Hop ceremony; a boom bap sound bath. His moniker is inspired by the brilliant writings of Taraka Larson of the band Prince Rama. In November 2018, he released the first single, “Come out of Hiding” from his forthcoming debut album, Transition Vision. The record is a sound he dubs: Hep Cat Hippie Hop. Now Age Emcee considers himself a part of a transition team, using music to aid in our personal and social development into a new society. Thump goes the evolution!

Cry Salon
2019-08-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Featuring readings by Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy / Soundtracked by John Dawson and Jared Landberg

About Performance:

Sammi Skolmoski, William Joseph Gass, and Jeremy Kennedy will present their contributions to the recently released book “Cry List”, a collection of essays on the topic of crying, along with a variety show other of poetic conversations, and short plays. The soundtrack for the evening will be provided by John Dawson and Jared Landberg.

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Bios:

Sammi Skolmoski is a writer and fiber artist born, living, and probably dying in Chicago. She is the managing editor at Featherproof Books and a contributor at Reductress, the Hard Times, Bandcamp, and elsewhere. Her first book, a translation of several shooting screenplays by the Dardenne brothers from their original French, came out in June.
William Joseph Gass (St. Louis) has worked in the direct patient caregiving industry since 2012. His wordage has been featured in publications including and from Art Papers, Universal Love Upload, and Penny-Ante, among others. He is happily partnered with Dr. Monica Sentmanat and their pets Reagan (MacNeil) and Adele (Bertei).
Since the late 1990’s, Jeremy Kennedy has been creating and exhibiting sound, artwork, and concepts in both community and academic settings. Before moving to Los Angeles in 2009, the largely self-taught artist spent over a decade living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Kennedy is an active visual artist, writer, and sound-maker, as well as co-founder and playwright with P/Sicho Street Theatre Company, and a founding editor of Rebel Hands Press.
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About: Cry List
Contributors: Chelsea Rector, Jamie Iacoli, Jeremy Kennedy, Sammi Skolmoski, William Gass
Photography: Ang Wilson
Crying is nothing other than itself. Metaphor is a construct that brings crying out of itself… These essays are accounts of crying, and the essay lists are not metaphors. It is a way for the authors to say that these things have takenthem, emotionally, directly. No metaphors. What these essays account is the form of agitation we call crying. From joy to sorrow, the items listed explore the questions, what does it take/what makes us cry?. The lists are a conceptual framework, organizing the otherwise indomitable act of crying.
The essays each list five items that make the authors cry… Unlimited in range, about the tangible or abstract, the essays also ask you, the reader, to think about when you cry. “Cry List” is a collection of insights on opening the hermetically sealed core of crying through connection with another form of expression that appears outside the body. Scored throughout with watery photographic notation, “Cry List” assembles a world of feeling, tangential to objective reality.
