Justin Brown:Same Old Sh*t Reboot or #FreeMe from my Epigenetic FX
2018-02-02 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
In game theory and economic theory, a zero-sum game is a mathematical representation of a situation in which each participant’s gain or loss of utility is exactly balanced by the losses or gains of the utility of the other participants. Evolutionary game theory (EGT) is the application of game theory to evolving populations in biology. It defines a framework of contests, strategies, and analytics into which Darwinian competition can be modeled. Game theory has been applied to contexts in war. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence.
Brown is focused on how the trauma of repetitive existential threats (lynchings/police shootings/abuse) is encoded in a peoples’ DNA in order to help them preserve themselves in inhospitable environments such as the United States of America.
The show will consist of mixed media collages focused around the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 24th amendments, the national anthem, and FBI case files for Malcolm X and James Baldwin. For this exhibit Brown will create 3D pieces that coincide with audio and visual imagery.
His work is most inspired by Carl Pope, Angelbert Metoyer, Clayton Hamilton, science, and history repeating itself. Justin is a former member of General Public Collective and a cofounder of Future Friends : Holographic Magic Club cooperative art gallery in the Murphy Arts building. Justin uses mixed media in an attempt to bring the consciousness of street art to the gallery world.

Audrey Barcio: Under Influence
2018-02-02 18:00 - 2018-04-14 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Heritage is a pressing concern to our generation. Should we allow the past to influence us—are we bound to ancient tools, materials and techniques? Or should we endeavor to make work that is specific to our time, embracing technology and its untested, ambivalent ramifications? If we do, are we at risk of becoming complicit in a catastrophe, or a pale reflection of something fleeting?
In her solo exhibition Under Influence at Tube Factory Artspace in Indianapolis, Audrey Barcio explores these questions in a new series of paintings that examines where the heritage of Modernism intersects with the tools of the Virtual Industrial Age. Her starting point for this body of work is the iconic grey and white checkerboard pattern recognized by contemporary digital designers as a symbol for emptiness waiting to be filled. Transforming that virtual nothingness into concrete form, Barcio employs it to empower interpretations of the iconographic legacy of our Modernist forbearers.
This is a vision of an aesthetic symbology as futuristic as it is rooted in the constructed languages of the past: Suprematism, Geometric Abstraction, Futurism, Orphism, Color Field Painting, Post-painterly Abstraction, Minimalism. The work transcends the accepted cultural raison d’être of this century—the cult of self—to evoke instead the universal.
Under Influence speaks to something ancestral, universal, infinite, and essential. It is a conversation arising not from coteries but from the unifying elements of a common world: shape, color, line, form, material, surface, and the infinite potentialities that arise from relationships.
Commission of these new works were made possible by the Herbert Simon Family Foundation.
Read more about Barcio in this Pattern Magazine story.
Audrey Barcio received her BA from Herron School of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She attended the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France, and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2017. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and has been featured in multiple group exhibitions around the U.S., including Art in America at the Art Miami Satellite Fair and GLAMFA at UC Long Beach. She has had solo exhibitions at Syracuse University in New York, in the Las Vegas Government Center, and at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work is included in several private collections and in the permanent collection of the Barrick Museum of Art. She currently lives and works in Chicago.
Image: Audrey Barcio, Second Choice, 2017

The Fiber Initiative
2018-02-03 11:00 - 15:00, 2018-03-10 11:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Organized by Tiana N. Cain, owner of i feel like dyeing, The Fiber Initiative is a program for all fiber lovers looking to network and learn with others who have similar interest.
For more info see: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ifeellikedyeing/
About Cain:
“I discovered knitting about five years ago; one of my coworkers gave me a book, yarn and needles! (how cool right??) One night visiting my parents, i was up late and couldn’t sleep. Thankfully I took my knitting; it was a beast at first but I GOT IT YALL!!! It all snowballed from there into EVERYTHING else!! I just couldn’t get enough!!! There is so much to the world of fiber and I want in on ALL of it! Any and every opportunity I get to play in fiber, I take it! Recently, I taught myself to spin!! I first started with a drop spindle and eventually graduated to a wheel! (both are my babies) Let me tell you…Oh my goodness!! It is so addicting. I can sit for hours on my porch and spin, sip coffee or tea, have a cocktail or glass of wine and LIVE!! It’s probably my favorite thing to do!!”

Post It
2018-02-09 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Photo:Mackenzie Loosemore, medium – resin, stickers, glitter, post-it
Artists Nick Witten and Danielle Graves will be hosting their inaugural event and fundraiser for Sugar Space. Artists from across Indiana will create unique works on post-it notes that will all be priced at $10 each. Twenty percent of sales will go to Sugar Space for supplies and funding future shows, while the rest will go back to the artist.
– Participating Artists –
Aaron Dodd
Abby Mendoza
Abigail Chestnut
Addeline Griswold
Alec Stewart
Alex Norris
Alexa Adamson
Alyson Love
Alyssa Deck
Alyssa Sellers
Angie Brooks
Annabella Habegger
April Knauber
Ash Windbigler
Ashley Woodrum
Auna Winters
Babelon Williams
Brent Lehker
Brian C Johnson
Brian Stovall
Briget Carroll
Brit Fukushima
Brooklynn Dischler
Caitlin McCready
Carly Purvis
Cassondra Graves
Chloe Karayiannis
Christina Hollering
Christine Plantenga
Claire Sweitzer
Cody Coffman
Cory Carpenter
Daniel Balmer
Daniel Jewett
Danielle Graves
Dave Lough
Dominic Senibalbi
Ellery Diaz
Emma Fiandt
Emma Hall
Emma Soukup
Erik Lundorf
Erin Case
Geraldine Diaz
Graham Marshall
Gustavo Ayala
Hailee Smith
Hannah Schriner
Hannah Thompson
Helen Ip
Henry Johnson
Iryna Bondar
Ivonne Carley
Jacob Mullins
Jennifer Gray
Jessica Kartawich
Jessica Springman
Jim Walker
Joelle Stille
John Clark
Jon Love
Jordan Thomas
Josh Haines
Joshua Mark
Kaitlyn DeSpain
Kara Heingartner
Kat Silver
Kate Lockhart
Katie Nocco
Kelli Renae
Kelsey Simpson
Kimberly McNeelan
Kitty Taylor
Kyle Agnew
Kylie Kinkoph
Lauren Ditchley
Lauren Dodge
Lauren Neely
Liz Wierzbicki
Lorie Lee Andrews
Lydia Crouse
Mackenzie Loosemore
Marck Ferrari
Maria Iqbal
Marissa Cohen
Mary McClung
Megan Kelley
Merideth Brooks
Michael Mirabile
Michael Moskaliuk
Michell Howard
Nat Russell
Nick Witten
Nicolas Cunningham
R.A. Buys
Rachel West
Rob Young
Ryan Felton
Sam Murphy
Sarah Mercado
Sarah Spomer
Serena Boehmer
Sharon Brooks
Shaunte Lewis
Shelby Alexander
Sidney Henry
Spencer Hannowsky
Stephanie Bunch
Tara Miller
Terrance Majors
Tori Weyers
Victoria Jenkins
Waxingmoon Temptress
Zach Carrico

Adults Only-Creativity Workshop
2018-02-11 16:00 - 18:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We’re partnering with The Outlet to bring you an afternoon of naughty creativity. Join us for a creativity workshop at Tube Factory Artspace.
This workshop is great for groups of friends, dates, valentines and others. Each participant will create a unique, collage, resin fetish box using naughty images and ephemera. Your one-of-a-kind artwork will be suitable for giving as a gift or keeping, and the box can be closed for privacy, or displayed as you wish. After all, we’re artists. We aren’t about to censor you!
The Tube Space Bar will be open for adult refreshments while you create your masterpieces.
We’re offering a reduced rate for any +1 participants when you register together. Individual registrations are $60, or two for $100.
This event is 21+

Adult Shorts
2018-02-13 18:30 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a selection of adult-themed short films. Those under 18 will not be admitted without a parent or guardian.

Frugal Fugazi
2018-02-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Make fashion art knock offs in this series of workshops with artists Sean Oreo and Nick Witten. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required as you will need to purchase supplies to make the works. If you want, works you make during this workshop series will be part of the Left Show exhibition at Guichelaar Gallery opening May 4.
Image still from Kreayshawn video “Gucci Gucci”
Directed By: @JOSEPHZENTIL
Produced By: @STRANGEARMAND
KREAYSHAWN.COM/
kreayshawn.tumblr.com
@KREAYSHAWN

Jim Walker-Brick Street Poetry Series
2018-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street South Poetry Series is run by JL Kato. The series features a poet and an open mic the third Wednesday of every month. February features poet, Jim Walker.
Jim Walker is CEO of Big Car Collaborative, onprofit social practice art and placemaking nonprofit. Walker — who received his MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. — has worked as a teacher, journalist, designer, and public artist. He also currently teaches in the University of Indianapolis Social Practice Art and Placemaking graduate program. He has published Poetry Report, a book about writing poetry that featured interviews with several renowned poets. His poetry has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Hanging Loose, Cream City Review, Flying Island, and others.

Beer and wine available for purchase.

De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
2018-02-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
Latino artists talk about their experiences living in two culture and how it shapes their art practice. This session will feature Ronald David Lora-Castillo.
About Ronald David Lora-Castillo.
Ronald’s influences are simple. He looks for the writing on the wall. Growing up he was always fascinated by the subversive political graffiti of Dominican Republic, and Brooklyn, NY as much as by the cave paintings of Lascaux, in France. His primitive, and brut style dances with topics such as mental health, ecology and technology through his personal experience. He is inspired by artists such as Basquiat and Dubuffet for their treatment of street and outsider art. Ronald seeks to touch on universal emotions and situations through the language of primitive man, Art.

Moderated by Eduardo Luna

Have You Seen This? .... Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick
2018-02-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Grab a beer, share a laugh, shed a tear and share YouTube videos on the big screen. “Have You Seen This? …. Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick” is a new installment into which we hand you the reigns to the fabulous world wide web. Attendees will be free to contribute to a sign up sheet where you will present that one Youtube video that captivates your soul. Got this wild Kpop music video you’ve been dying to share? Let it rip! You have this weird mini doc about recycling sea trash gathering in our oceans? Seems pretty chill.
The evening will begin with a few videos curated by professional Youtube watchers.
Image still from ZIBER by Andrey Kasay

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-02-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring 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 by placeing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a improvisation set.

The Artist as Problem Solver Workshop
2018-03-01 17:00 - 2018-03-02 17:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
The Artist as Problem Solver:
Understanding the Role of Artists and Arts Organizations in
Community Building, Placekeeping, and Cultural Sustainability
Presented by The Joyce Foundation and Big Car Collaborative

Thursday and Friday, March 1-2, 2018
Big Car/Tube Factory artspace
1125 Cruft St.
Indianapolis, IN 46203

As part of its ongoing effort to support the capacity of artists and arts organizations to create artworks and cultural participation opportunities that transform their communities, The Joyce Foundation (based in Chicago and supporting artists cities in the Great Lakes Region — including Indianapolis — through the Joyce Awards), is partnering with Indianapolis-based placemaking and socially engaged arts nonprofit, Big Car Collaborative to host an engaging and immersive, two-day convening beginning with an evening keynote and panel on March 1 at 5 p.m, and ending on March 2 at 5 p.m., after a full day of sessions.

This event (which is open to everyone but limited by space so please RSVP soon — links below) is for individual artists, leaders from arts and community organizations, city and neighborhood leaders who collaborate with artists, community organizers, entrepreneurs, urban planners and placemakers, funders, researchers, and others interested in the role of the arts in fostering community vitality in general in Indianapolis and the Great Lakes Region.

The aim of this interactive convening is to deepen and widen the conversation around placemaking to include the critical work of community building and placekeeping in established, economically vulnerable, or demographically fluctuating communities. Centered around first-hand case studies and tool-sharing, the goal of these two days is to provide opportunities for learning and network building that may lead to future collaborations and exchanges.In addition to nationally and regionally recognized speakers and panelists, everyone who attends will be asked to share their areas of expertise, current initiatives, and needs for additional assistance. Time will be allotted to organize around synergies, themes and resource needs.

Please register as soon as possible via the links below to hold your spot. Again, seats will be limited to ensure an inclusive and interactive convening. The final agenda will be disseminated to all registrants.

Registration details:Please register via the links below by February 16 to help us with planning.
Click here to RSVP for opening keynote panel and reception on March 1
Click here to RSVP for full-day convening featuring panels and workshops on March 2
Please remember to RSVP and register for each day separately

Schedule (full agenda coming soon)
Thursday, March 1, 5-7:30 p.m. (opening keynote panel & reception — followed by optional coordinated small-group dinners)
Friday, March 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. (full day of panels and workshops)

Kate Wallich & The YC, Dance Church™
2018-03-03 11:00 - 13:00
Dance Church™ is a 90 minute, all abilities, movement class that offers a fun, nonexclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, and identities, Dance Church™ is a communal space for everyone who wants to move their body. Co-presented with Big Car Collaborative.

MOKB and Big Car present: Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
2018-03-05 19:00 - 22:00 | White Rabbit Cabaret, 1117 Prospect St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
NNAMDI OGBONNAYA is a multi-instrumentalist composer, producer, song-writer, and performer in Chicago. He is a veteran of the Chicago DIY music community, having played a variety of primary roles in approximately 15 projects over the past decade. He toured extensively with those projects in the U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, and Europe. Nnamdi’s solo music fuses hip-hop, math, pop, gospel, and jazz with a lyrical cadence that is rhythmically and phonemically complex. His songs often evoke a sense of satire that can be just as critical as it is humorous. Nnamdi’s 2017 album DROOL received national and international recognition, and was featured on best album, song, and video lists on NPR, The Fader, Bandcamp, Paper Magazine, Timeout Chicago, and others. Apart from his solo music, Nnamdi remains active as a co-founder of Sooper Records and a drummer in the jazz-fusion band Monobody.

Big Car Collaborative & MOKB Present
Sun King Brewing Company Concert Series
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya w/ Special Guest TBD
Monday, March 5th @ The White Rabbit Cabaret | 21+
Doors 7PM / Show 8PM

Shop Safety and Orientation Part I
2018-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Required prior to taking any woodworking classes and using Open Shop hours.

Shop Safety is an introduction to the Public Workshop and covers how to safely use some of the basic stationary machines, as well as best practices for working in a community shop.
NOTE: Anyone more than 10 minutes late will not be admitted and asked to attend another class.
Prerequisite – NONE!
Tools used – miter saw, bandsaw, drill press
Class time – 2 hours
Cost: $25

WQRT Noise-A-Thon
2018-03-21 00:00 - 23:59
Tune into 99.1, WQRT for our live 24 hour Noise – A -Thon. We will celebrate with live experimental music from artists around the city of Indianapolis as we raise 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. If you’re an artists interested in participating please hit up the Listen Hear FB page to sign up in one of the many blocks available in the 24 hour broadcast.

Frugal Fugazi
2018-03-21 18:30 - 20:30 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Make fashion art knock offs in this series of workshops with artists Sean Oreo and Nick Witten. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required as you will need to purchase supplies to make the works. If you want, works you make during this workshop series will be part of the Left Show exhibition at Guichelaar Gallery opening May 4.
Gif from Kreayshawn video “Gucci Gucci”
Directed By: @JOSEPHZENTIL
Produced By: @STRANGEARMAND
KREAYSHAWN.COM/
kreayshawn.tumblr.com
@KREAYSHAWN

Derek Mong-Brick Street Poetry Series
2018-03-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Brick Street Poetry Series is a monthly reading and open mic organized by writer, JL Kato. Beer and wine available for purchase.
About Derek Mong
Mong is a poet, essayist, translator, and scholar. In 2016 he became the Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College. From 2008-2010 he held the Axton Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Louisville, where he designed and coordinated “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: The Axton Festival of Film and Verse.” From 2006-2007 he held the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has previously taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, Stanford University, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, and with young writer’s workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater.
In October 2015, he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Stanford, having written on marriage in the lives and afterlives of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. His texts included Edward Weston’s illustrated edition of Leaves of Grass (1942), with captions provided by his wife, Charis Wilson; Jerome Charyn’s The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson (2010); and a steampunk novella, “Walt and Emily” (1995), in which the two poets fall in love. In one chapter he examines Whitman and Dickinson’s role in American weddings, both gay and straight. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan, where he received a Cornwell Fellowship and two Hopwood Awards. He was the Dunbar Scholar in the Humanities at Denison.
His awards include The Missouri Review’s Editors’ Choice Prize, five Pushcart nominations, Alehouse’s Happy Hour Poetry Award, and the Cliff Becker Translation Prize (with his wife and co-translator, Anne O. Fisher). His poems, translations, and prose have appeared in the Southern Review, Crazyhorse, the Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, Two Lines, Court Green, and various other venues, including 99 Poems for the 99 Percent (2014) and Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017). He reviews new poetry for the Gettysburg Review and blogs at the Kenyon Review Online.
His first book, Other Romes (Saturnalia Books) appeared in 2011. His second, The Identity Thief (Saturnalia Books), will be published in 2018. A chapbook of his Latin adaptations, The Ego and the Empiricist (2017) was a finalist for the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize. In the fall of 2018, he and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, will publish The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin, a collaborative translation from the Russian. This project was supported by an NEA grant for Translation.
Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised outside of Cleveland, he has lived in San Francisco, Western Massachusetts, and throughout the Midwest. He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, currently make their home in Crawfordsville, Indiana. They are the parents of a young son.

Shop Safety and Orientation Part 2
2018-03-24 10:00 - 13:00
This class will teach you how to turn rough sawn lumber into useable boards. It’s one of the first building blocks of woodworking. We focus on how to choose wood, where to get it locally, and how each machine can help you prep wood for your projects. This class will give you in-depth instruction on how to use the table saw, planer, and jointer. Completion of this class grants you access to use these machines during Open Shop. We supply sample materials and give you the last hour to practice.
Prerequisite – Shop Safety Part 1
Tools used – table saw, jointer, planer
Materials (all provided) – Wood!
Class time – 3.5 hours
Cost: $75.00

De Aquí y De Allá (From Here and There)
2018-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Latino artists talk about their experiences living in two culture and how it shapes their art practice. This session will feature Alexis Zarco.
Alexis graduated from Shortridge IB High School, and is eager to learn anything and everything possible about art and the community. He is serving at Big Car Collaborative as an AmeriCorps member, focusing on building and sustaining relationships for the better of not only the community, but for immigrants and refugees as well. When not at The Tube Factory, you’ll probably find Alexis at Super Tortas, making fresh Mexican food as he’s been doing since ’08.

Have You Seen This? …. Hold Up Let Me Find It Real Quick
2018-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States

Heart of the Ghost Trio
2018-03-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Heart of the Ghost is an improvisational unit from the Baltimore/Washington, DC area. Comprised of Jarrett Gilgore (Alto Saxophone), Luke Stewart (Double Bass), and Ian McColm (Drums), this group is the culmination of years of encircling orbits. Collectively encompassing a massive variety of interests and collaborations and themselves known players in the circles of improvised music, these three find common ground within their individual vocabularies: an aim to deconstruct and reshape canonized creative tropes into a new & stunning language.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-03-28 18:00 - 20:00, 2018-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us the last Wednesday of every month for SOUND LAB- An evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
A re-occuring 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 by placeing your name in a bowl. We will draw 2 names at a time and you and your partner will team up in a inprovosation set.

have your cake and eat it too (congratulations)
2018-04-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Herron School of Art and Design Painting Thesis exhibition featuring: Chase Palmer, Tillman Reyes, Genevieve St. Arnaud, Lydia Crouse and Tom Day.
About Lydia Crouse
Crouse describes her work as “a romanticized collision of my honest identity—an individualized American woman— with elements from our glorified popular culture. All the while embracing my own naiveté, experience, and passion with skepticism and humor.”
About Tom Day
Day’s work centers around culture and bridging societal gaps through portraiture. “I paint people in attempt to learn about other cultures, but mostly to understand them,” says Day. ” Although there are many social divides in the world, I’m wanting to convey a sense of togetherness and equality of the human race.”
About Chase Palmer
“Today, we are more frequently exposed to a multitude of imagery than ever before,” says Palmer. “We are surfing the internet, looking at the social media postings of our friends and even strangers, and taking photographs on our phones. While looking at so much imagery on the internet, we are unconsciously reading more frequently than any other previous culture. We do this while working, commuting, socializing, or lounging at home, and while munching on conveniently obtained artificially flavored junk foods that are slowly suffocating our disgusting arteries.”
Palmer’s dilemma as a young contemporary artist is how does he accurately reflect this culture? His answer: Paint it all at once. “In my work, I assault the space with an over-construction of activity made up of various painterly inventions that come from improvised intuition. All of this comes from a process that is completely automatic and improvised,” says Palmer.
“The question of how to approach painting a figure is so shrouded in questions. Whenever I paint the figure in a traditional manner, I feel like a deadpan mechanical printer that has mastered the long-outdated technology of applying pigmented glue to canvas. I invent my own space that exists solely in the world of images. I layer these invented compositions over a more traditional subject in order to mimic augmented reality technology that is becoming more present in our smartphones, video games, and GPS technology. However, in my work, the digital does not replace reality, paint does.”
About Tillman Reyes
Reyes work serves as a “record” of a place in time. His paintings, installations, and sculptures highlight a seemingly insignificant event in everyday life, recreated in a gallery setting.
About Genevieve St. Arnaud
St. Arnaud’s artwork is an interpretation of her childhood through the perspective of a young woman finding her identity away from home. Her pallet is warm and inviting to characterize the optimism in youth with the use of color and texture to spark senses and emotions from childhood. She also incorporates non-traditional materials such as fabric, paper, thread and wire in the works to exemplify a feeling or place. “For example, patterned fabric can be soft and comforting, and remind me of home. Yet, wire can be aggressive and give a feeling of anxiety or edge. I use materials that serve as the base of many functioning objects to signify origin. I combined the paint and mixed materials to represent the push and pull between the past and present. Just as I remember these childhood moments in fragments, I apply mixed media in various parts,” says St Arnaud.
Process is important to her practice. “There is a self-discovery that occurs when I compare new and old materials. I use memorable stories, and photographs to inspire my collage-like paintings”, says St. Arnaud. “By combining my inspiration and materials I am able to transform a past moment. The moment becomes an understanding or vision of how I see it now.”
Symbolism also pervades her work to represent the innocence of childhood. These symbols at times are a stand in for important figures in her life. “Such as a strawberry signifying my mother. I merge my abstract collages with distinct imagery to recreate a scene or memory,” says St Arnaud. She invites the audience to be a part of her stories so they can understand the growth she’s made in discovering her authentic identity since leaving home. “When I revisit a memory I find that not only has my view of the memory transformed, but also so have I.”

Danielle Graves-Pure and Sexless
2018-04-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
It’s common, in the checkout lane at the grocery store, to see nearly naked women on magazine covers. Companies use bodies to sell stuff and sex on the Internet. And parts fly everywhere in video games. Still, something that remains taboo is art that addresses double standards between the sexes and celebrates the female body. This is why the work of Danielle Graves is important, especially in Indianapolis.
“You enter to find that corporate labels have interfered with incorruptibility. That contradiction has met desire. That an idealistic heaven has met an idealistic hell—a good girl has gone bad. She partners with purity to be sexualized—runs with her sexuality to be sanitized. She is made harmless yet is harmful—sinning for pleasure and indulged upon for corporate gain. She, like many — all — women before her, is a body pressured to be pure, a body that is a sexualized commodity of society, a body that has no will. Pure and Sexless is about finding comfort in the absurdity,” says Graves about the exhibit and the accompanying installation, Virgin Mary Vagina, in the unisex restroom at Listen Hear.
Our culture needs to develop further confidence in celebrating and looking directly into the heart (or in the case of the bathroom at Listen Hear, vagina) of what makes women different. The commissioned installation focuses on the part of the body that politicians and religious leaders most want to control. So if these pieces rub you the wrong way, we encourage you to reflect on why. —Shauta Marsh, curator
Virgin Mary Vagina, in the bathroom, a commissioned piece made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, will remain after this exhibit ends. (*Parental advisory*)
About Danielle Joy Graves
Graves was born and raised at the intersection of 114 and Mr. Rickard’s road. She currently resides in Indianapolis. She received her BFA in Illustration at Herron School of Art and Design and has pushed far from it. From soft sculpture to paper mache, Danielle is working towards creating a world not far from her reality.

WQRT Public Meeting
2018-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Learn more about helping out and creating programming for the radio station, 99.1 WQRT.

Frugal Fugazi
2018-04-18 18:30 - 20:30
Make fashion art knock offs in this series of workshops with artists Sean Oreo and Nick Witten. Please RSVP to email hidden; JavaScript is required as you will need to purchase supplies to make the works. If you want, works you make during this workshop series will be part of the Left Show exhibition at Guichelaar Gallery opening June 1.

Brick Street Poetry Series--Laura Beth Johnson
2018-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Tube Factory artspace, 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Open mic and reading by Laura Beth Johnson organized by JL Kato.
