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SUMMARY:“In C” by Terry Riley at Monument Circle (RESCHEDULED FROM 9/13)
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Indianapolis musician Danny Marquis — one of this year’s SPARK on the Circle artists in residence — this improvisational performance of “In C” is free for everyone to hear and enjoy at Monument Circle in Downtown Indianapolis. \nIf you’d like to play along\, join us by 1:30 p.m. at the SPARK park and bring your instrument.  We’ll provide sheet music for Riley’s 1964 composition that directs any number of musicians to repeat a series of 53 melodic fragments in a guided improvisation. Don’t worry\, Danny will show you how it works. \nWhy “In C?” Why perform this piece now in a time where artificial music is becoming more and more proficient and sufficient for so many use cases? Because “In C” demands the humanity of players to choose and listen. To interact in the moment and notice what emerges. Because a computer can render these lines\, but only a live performance can breathe vitality into them. \nIn C — live at SPARK on the Circle\, Sunday\, Sept. 28 at 4 p.m.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/in-c-by-terry-riley-at-monument-circle/
LOCATION:1 Monument Circle\, South Facing Steps\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Sept. 30
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. 30: TBA + Books Bourbon & Bacon food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-sept-23/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251003T180000
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SUMMARY:Oct. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Oct. 3 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \nWe have one new exhibit opening: \n\nTarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery\n\nContinuing exhibits include: \n\nSOMA in the Main Gallery\nKeren Cytter’s Rose Garden in the Video Gallery\n\nIn addition\, join us for a community painting session as part of the Garfield Park and Bean Creek Celebration Mural project\, where neighbors will help paint panels featuring designs by local artists Justin Cooper\, Jim Kelly\, and Alejandra Carrillo. Led by Big Car Collaborative in partnership with the Garfield Park Neighbors Association and the Bean Creek Neighborhood Association\, the project will create a new mural on the side of the Safeway at Shelby and Raymond Streets to celebrate local identity\, strengthen neighborhood connections\, and brighten a busy Southside corner. No painting experience is needed — we’ll provide guidance and all the supplies. Children under 10 can join in the fun too with a special coloring activity based on the mural designs. \nAnd\, the Sakura Express food truck will be on-site serving delicious Japanese cuisine. \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/oct-2025-first-friday-at-tube-factory/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tarrey Banks: A Thousand Drawings
DESCRIPTION:Tarrey Banks: A Thousand Drawings \nGuichelaar Gallery | on the Tube Factory campus | 1135 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN 46203 \nFriday\, Oct. 3 – Wednesday\, Nov. 19 | Opening Reception: Friday\, Oct. 3 @ 6 – 10 p.m. \nCurated by Sylvia Thomas \n\nTarrey Banks’ A Thousand Drawings gathers together a monumental series of works on paper — each one an individual mark of time\, memory\, and creative persistence. What began as a daily practice has grown into an expansive archive of drawings that capture shifting moods\, fleeting ideas\, and the evolving language of line and form. Installed collectively\, the drawings envelop viewers in a landscape of repetition and variation\, where each page is both self-contained and part of a larger whole. \n“This project is about showing up to the page again and again\,” says Banks. “It’s about discipline\, but also discovery — letting each drawing be a record of that moment. Over time\, the small gestures add up to something much bigger than me.” \nIn A Thousand Drawings\, audiences are invited to reflect on how ordinary acts accumulate into extraordinary impact. The exhibition underscores how creative practice\, like community itself\, grows stronger through repetition\, commitment\, and care. \n\nAbout the Artist \nTarrey Banks is an Indianapolis-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing\, painting\, and experimental approaches. His practice emphasizes persistence and process\, focusing on how small daily gestures of creation can grow into bodies of work that feel both intimate and expansive. Banks treats artmaking as a discipline of attention — a way to record time\, experiment with form\, and remain open to discovery. \nWorking across mediums\, he explores endurance\, variation\, and the transformative potential of repetition. His drawings and paintings often reflect a balance between control and improvisation\, discipline and play\, structure and freedom. For Banks\, art is not only a mode of expression but also a practice of resilience and care — one that continues to evolve as he adds to his ever-expanding archive of images and ideas. \nInstagram: @tbanks_art_company
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/tarrey-banks-a-thousand-drawings/
LOCATION:Guichelaar Gallery\, 1125 Cruft Street\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
DESCRIPTION: Tickets are $7 and can be purchased at the door \nA sound and visual meditation \nJon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism\, preternatural focus\, brute restraint\, and ecstatic\, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky’s photographs\, it becomes a deliberate focus on form\, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet\, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.  \n\n​​An apt reference point resides within the broad\, decades-spanning catalog of Table of the Elements. Like Tony Conrad’s surging Outside the Dream Syndicate\, the aural and conceptual headwinds are real\, but the perceived affronts of provocation are not. These works are not endurance challenges\, nor are they threadbare minimalist upholstery. They are not obstacles. They are invitations. Within their simplicity and formalism await a sympathetic repose\, a comfort. These are gestures of generosity. \n  \nMueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago\, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer\, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States\, Canada\, England\, Europe and Japan. \n\nIn addition to his solo work\, Mueller has collaborated and performed with groups such as Mind Over Mirrors\, Volcano Choir\, Collections of Colonies of Bees\, and Pele. He has also worked with artists including Olivia Block\, Aaron Turner\, Faith Coloccia\, Dawn Springer\, Chris Hefner\, Jason Kahn\, Hal Rammel\, Asmus Tietchens\, Z’EV\, Rhys Chatham\, Jarboe\, James Plotkin\, Duane Pitre\, and Raymond Dijkstra. He has released music on renowned labels such as Table of the Elements\, Type Recordings\, Important Records\, Taiga Records\, SIGE Records\, and American Dreams. \nwww.rhythmplex.com  IG: @jonmueller \n   \nTom Lecky has worked in photography\, music (as Hallock Hill)\, the book arts\, prose and poetry writing\, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory\, place\, and environment\, the work of the imagination\, perception\, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own\, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.\n \nThese creative pursuits are linked to Tom’s career as an internationally recognized expert in the field of rare and antiquarian books and manuscripts. He has worked in the auction world – notably in a 17-year run as a specialist and Head of Christie’s New York Books and Manuscripts Department – and as an advisor to collectors and institutions. He is the owner of Riverrun Books\, and the founder of the rare book and manuscript appraisal and advisory firm Lecky Art Group. www.tomlecky.com  \nIG: @tom.lecky
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/jon-mueller-tom-lecky-all-colors-a-sound-and-visual-meditation/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Oct. 7
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nOct. 7: 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix + TBA \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-oct-7/
LOCATION:Needler’s Fresh Market\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251012T150000
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SUMMARY:2025 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series: October Concert
DESCRIPTION:Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana are thrilled to continue as part of a national program to bring FREE\, high quality\, live concerts through the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series! In this — the second year of the series here — we’ll bring the free musical entertainment to our Tube Factory campus once a month over seven Sundays. We’re also adding cultural aspects like traditional dance performances and opportunities for local artists and artisans to sell their work as part of these lively community events. \nWhen: Noon to 3 pm on Oct. 12. \nWhere: Tube Factory campus\, on the near southside of Indianapolis\, at 1125 Cruft St. — Concerts will happen at the amphitheatre in our Terri Sisson Park greenspace and move inside Tube Factory in bad weather. While there will be some provided seating at this outdoor event\, we encourage visitors to bring blankets or other lawn seating for them to enjoy during the event. \nWho: Big Car Collaborative and Arte Mexicano en Indiana collaborating with partners\, sponsors\, and local and national musicians\, local vendors\, artists\, and creatives. \nWhy: To bring additional liveliness to an underused area of our neighborhood with free outdoor music experiences and neighborly\, inclusive\, fun\, and creative social gatherings. \nOct. 12’s lineup: \n\nBonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (folk)\nIndygaita (traditional Venezuelan)\nGamelan Mojomanis (traditional Indonesian)\nFood Truck: Arepas (Colombian flatbreads)\n\nAnd: \n\nDaydream Market (mix of vendors selling vintage\, art\, and hand-made wares)\nOpen picnicking (people can bring their own food and drink) is encouraged\nFun games will be on-site\nTube Factory galleries will be open\nBean Creek Outlook and Terri Sisson Park nature spaces will be open\n\nAND\, come help paint a mural that will be displayed on the side of Safeway on Raymond Street! This third community painting session will work on designs by neighborhood artists Julie Xiao and Andrea Haydon. This mural project is possible thanks to the City of Indianapolis and the Indy Arts Council’s Public Art for All program. \nLearn more about the series here. \n \n_ \nThanks to the Levitt Foundation\, Efroymson Family Fund\, Lumina Foundation\, MIBOR REALTOR Association\, Eskenazi Health\, Penrod Society\, and Rundell Ernstberger Associates for their generous support of Levitt VIBE Indianapolis! \nThe Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series is supported in part by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation\, which partners with changemakers and nonprofits across the country to activate underused outdoor spaces\, creating welcoming and inclusive destinations where the power of free\, live music brings people together\, fosters belonging\, and invigorates community life. www.levitt.org
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/2025-levitt-vibe-indianapolis-music-series-october-concert/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251014T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251014T133000
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Place Pop-up | Oct. 14
DESCRIPTION:Lockerbie Pop-Up Public Place\nSept. Oct. 14: Judy + the Golden Spatula food truck \nLunchtimes at Lockerbie Place\nStop by to enjoy the peace and quiet and various activities that this downtown green space has to offer — along with a soundtrack provided by live musicians or a a 99.1 FM WQRT DJ Mix from right here in your city. It’s free to attend! Challenge a friend to a game of ping pong \, play giant Jenga\, and find your new favorite musician or food truck. \nWhen? Every Tuesday from May 6 through Oct. 7\, 2025. Food trucks and activities on site from 11:30 am-1:30 p.m. and live music or WQRT DJ (alternating weeks) 12-1 p.m. Games are out all of the time! \nWhere? This program happens at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail\, next to Needler’s Fresh Market. \nWho? This creative placemaking project is by Big Car Collaborative and made possible by CitiMark and Gershman Partners. \nCheck @BigCarPix on Instagram for Lockerbie lineups + updates!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-place-pop-up-oct-14/
LOCATION:Lockerbie Marketplace\, 320 N New Jersey St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251015T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251015T210000
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Bryce Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem that engages with your new or old life in a specific place.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout Berkowitz: \nBryce Berkowitz’s TV pilot\, Meaderville\, won the AMC TV Pilot Award from the Austin Film Festival. He’s the author of the poetry collection Bermuda Ferris Wheel\, winner of the 42 Miles Press | Indiana University Poetry Award. His poems have been selected for national and regional anthologies\, and his writing has appeared in publications such as The Sewanee Review\, The Missouri Review\, the Chicago Sun Times\, Ninth Letter\, and the Southern Indiana Review. Bryce is at work on two dark-comedy crime novels\, several TV pilots and feature-length screenplays\, and a second poetry collection. He co-directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Butler University. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-bryce-berkowitz/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251017T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251017T170000
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SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-7/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251023T210000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Martinez sound performance
DESCRIPTION:Find out what it sounds like if the walls do indeed talk through Houston based artist Martinez’s experiments with the surrounding environment at Tube Factory a through a sound performance. \nBorn near an atomic blast crater in the New Mexico desert\, Gabriel Martinez is an artist\, writer\, and performer living and working in Houston. He is the founding director of Alabama Song\, an experimental sound and art space for which he received the Robert Rauschenberg SEED Grant. His art explores relationships produced by the built environment and the body’s experience of history. He graduated with an M.F.A. from Columbia University and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program before moving to Houston as a Museum of Fine Arts Core Fellow and artist-in-residence at Project Row Houses. \nMartinez’s work has been exhibited at various institutions and galleries including the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston TX\, Artpace San Antonio\, and the Wallach Gallery in New York City. He has performed at institutions such as Artist’s Space\, Menil Collection\, the Chinati Foundation\, and the Moody Center for the Arts. In addition to his extensive visual and performing background\, Martinez has received several grants\, fellowships\, and artist residencies. He was a 2022 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow at MacDowell\, attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/gabriel-martinez-sound-performance/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nov. 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Nov. 7 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \nWe have two new exhibits opening: \n\nAmy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery\nSelected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery\n\nContinuing exhibits include: \n\nTarrey Bank’ A Thousand Drawings in Guichelaar Gallery\n\nAnd\, RMY’S Soul/Comfort food truck will be on-site. \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nov-2025-first-friday-at-tube-factory-artspace/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amy Kligman: Shrines of the Luminous Halo
DESCRIPTION:Main Gallery  \nImagine you are stepping into a bubble\, a space filled with all the thoughts that drift through your mind in a single day. What do you surround yourself with? What defines you? And how do you interact with or move around these objects that symbolize yourself? \nAmy Kligman’s series of 23 paintings glimpses an inner world\, specifically focusing on the objects we choose to surround us. Arranged in a deliberate\, symmetrical way\, these objects represent who we are.  \n“I love objects and environments that carry the history of the people that have shared space and time with them. I think about lineage — the patina of the world handed from generation to generation\, and what it means to try to make something of the world as we receive it from others\,” says Kligman\, who lives and works in Kansas City\, Missouri. “Generations of women\, generations of artists\, generations of family. In my paintings I pull together elements from these histories to suggest a kind of ‘bubble world’ where those disparate pieces come together in a place of hope\, reverence\, acknowledgment\, or sometimes a sort of aspiration for a future where the efforts of the past inform progress.” \nThroughout the history of art\, depictions of the table and its contents have been used as a storytelling device to convey skillfully coded meaning and sociocultural significance to the viewer. Taking the genre of still lifes as its entry point\, this exhibition expands upon art historical precedents to think about the table (or toolcart) not only as a site and signifier of power\, position\, and social status but also as a shrine. \nKligman’s series also gives form to Virginia Woolf’s idea of a “luminous halo” — a semi-transparent layer that envelops us from the moment we become conscious until the end. Kligman’s works act like a book focusing on how we remember and what we think we know. \n“In the assembling of objects I’m often pulling together references and symbols as an invitation to a specific state of being or meditation or reflection. By creating these spaces and inviting others into them\, I’m inviting them into these states of reflection as well\, though folks are not meant to understand all the symbols and the visual language in a didactic way. I believe intention has its own halo\, echoing out into the universe\, subtly encouraging movement.” \n\nAbout the artist \nAmy Kligman is a painter and installation artist whose work is mostly about people\, even when it takes the form of rooms full of layered\, disposable party goods. Kligman holds her BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design. At the end of 2024\, after nine years in the role\, she stepped down as executive director at Charlotte Street Foundation to create her own opportunities by identifying gaps in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. She launched Special Effects gallery to make local artists more nationally visible. In March of 2025 she opened Salon for Possible Futures\, an artwork that doubles as a community gathering space on view at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Additionally her work was featured in New American Paintings and she received the Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Art Award\, ArtsKC Inspiration Grant\, Art in the Loop Public Art Commission\, residency at the Luminary in St. Louis\, Missouri Bank Artboards Commission\, and the Byron C. Cohen Artist Award. 
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/amy-kligman-shrines-of-the-luminous-halo/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260125T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251023T175345Z
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SUMMARY:Ilana Harris-Babou: Selected Works
DESCRIPTION:Nov. 7\, 2025 – Jan. 25\, 2026 | Video Gallery \n​​Red Sourcebook\, 2018\, 4:12 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nCooking with the Erotic\, 2016\, 11:37 minutes\, color\, stereo\, 2-channel\, HD video \nFinishing a Raw Basement\, 2017\, 6:41 minutes \, color\, stereo\, HD video \nReparation Hardware\, 2018\, 4:05 minutes\, color\, stereo\, HD video \nIlana Harris-Babou is a multimedia artist whose video works are an important component of a practice that includes sculpture and object making\, performance\, and installation. In her projects\, Harris-Babou mines the aesthetics of YouTube tutorials\, home improvement and cooking shows\, and corporate ad campaigns to call attention to how personal and social identities are constructed—and co-opted—by dominant ideologies. \nHarris-Babou unsettles the anodyne tone of these vehicles with wit and creative whimsy\, utilizing and re-contextualizing mainstream media forms to make explicit the forces that are elided by slick production strategies: social stratification; legacies of structured oppression; and the homogenizing push of consumerism. Fit within a history of artists using satire and mimicry to critique media and communication platforms\, Harris-Babou’s videos\, many of which feature her own mother\, also draw from her personal experience and lexicon of references to infuse her humor with deeply resonant meaning. \nHarris-Babou has presented solo exhibitions of her work at Candice Madey Gallery\, New York\, NY (2023); Storefront for Art and Architecture\, New York\, NY (2023); The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery\, Wesleyan University (2023); Artspace New Haven (2022); Kunsthaus Hamburg\, Hamburg\, Germany (2021); Goucher College\, Baltimore\, MD (2021); Jacob Lawrence Gallery\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, WA (2020); and The Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, NY (2017). In spring 2023\, the artist installed Liquid Gold in Times Square for the Midnight Moment series. Harris-Babou has participated in major exhibitions including the Istanbul Design Biennial\, Turkey (2020); and the Whitney Biennial\, Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, NY (2019)\, and group exhibitions at The Wellcome Collection\, London\, UK (2023); California College of the Arts Wattis Institute\, San Francisco\, CA (2021); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum\, Ridgefield\, CT (2021); and Queens Museum\, Queens\, NY (2020). She lives and works in Brooklyn and Middletown\, CT. \nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts \nScreen still from “Decision Fatigue.”
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ilana-harris-babou-selected-works/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251112T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251112T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Sunia Won Gibbs:  What About Love Tour
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled.\n\nJoin artist and storyteller Sunia Won Gibbs for “What About Love: A Resonance Experience\,” an evening that transcends a traditional concert. \nSunia knows the profound ache of being caught between origins and belonging. Abandoned in South Korea and adopted internationally\, she has spent a lifetime asking\, “What About Love?”—a question she has been writing songs to answer since she was 12. Her music builds from a struggle to name a Love that is boundless\, not conditional. \nIn this resonant experience\, Sunia invites you into a space where love and connection become lived experiences\, not just ideas. Through a powerful blend of original song\, raw storytelling\, and shared presence\, she gathers the scattered\, wandering\, and wondering to explore one central question: In a world frayed by fear\, can Love be more than a passive hope? Can it be embodied and practiced? \nThis event is our collective laboratory to find out. You can expect an immersive journey that bridges divides\, offering a taste of the healing power that emerges when we choose to amplify the sound of love within ourselves and one another. \nPresented by Big Car Collaborative and Hoosier Asian American Power (HAAP).
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sunia-won-gibbs-what-about-love-tour/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251119T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251119T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20250822T141342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250822T141549Z
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Karen Kovacik
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem that explores what you’ve inherited\, whether from your culture\, history\, religion\, family\, or other context.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout Kovacik: \nKaren Kovacik is the author of three collections of poetry\, most recently Portable City (Hanging Loose\, 2025). Also a translator of Polish poetry\, she has brought into English Jacek Dehnel’s Aperture\, a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation\, and she is one of three translators of Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline\, a finalist for the 2023 Derek Walcott Prize. The editor of Scattering the Dark\, an anthology of Polish women poets\, she has received many awards\, including two translation fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright Research Grant to Poland. From 2012-2014\, she served as Indiana’s Poet Laureate. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-karen-kovacik/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251022T162616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251022T162616Z
UID:13899-1763737200-1763744400@www.bigcar.org
SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-8/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251029T190514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251030T200511Z
UID:13909-1763827200-1763838000@www.bigcar.org
SUMMARY:Double Album Release Celebration: Ciaaattt and Rob Funkhouser
DESCRIPTION:Join Rob Funkhouser and members of Gamelan Mojomanis in celebrating the release of two records: Gamut Ria by Ciaaattt and Respiratory Cycle by Rob Funkhouser. \nCiaaattt is a regular collaborator with Indianapolis’ Gamelan Mojomanis\, and first appeared at Big Car during the gamelan’s performance at the 2024 Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series. He is currently visiting from Bali and will perform his groundbreaking vocal interpretations of gamelan tunes past and present. \nRob Funkhouser is a resident in Big Car’s long-term artist residency program\, and is putting out his first proper album in several years. Respiratory Cycle is a celebration of turning inward and outward in turn\, and finding music both in solitude and in collaboration. Funkhouser will perform pieces from Respiratory Cycle featuring instruments he built during his residency. \nIn addition to performances from Ciaaattt and Funkhouser\, there will be performances featuring Landon Caldwell\, and members of Gamelan Mojomanis under the name Mojoalit (Little Mojo). \nThe event will open with a short interactive workshop on Balinese drumming led by Ciaaattt and members of Gamelan Mojomanis. \nAdmission is free and donations will be accepted at the door. Copies of the albums will be available for purchase.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/double-release-celebration-new-albums-from-ciaaattt-and-rob-funkhouser/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251205T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251126T205626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T174124Z
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SUMMARY:December 2025 First Friday at Tube Factory artspace
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Dec. 5 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Tube Factory campus! \nContinuing exhibits include: \n\nAmy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery\nSelected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery\n\nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/december-first-friday-at-tube-factory-artspace/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251212T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251125T193612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251125T193612Z
UID:13983-1765551600-1765558800@www.bigcar.org
SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-9/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251217T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20251217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20250717T152347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250717T152347Z
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: All Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nOpen Mic Prompt: Bring your best haiku. \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-all-open-mic/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260102T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251229T171600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260122T175707Z
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SUMMARY:January 2026 First Friday at Tube Factory on the the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Campus
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for First Friday festivities on Jan. 2 from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) campus! \nContinuing exhibits in the Tube Factory building include: \n\nAmy Kligman’s Shrines of the Luminous Halo in the Main Gallery\nSelected Works by Ilana Harris-Babou in the Video Gallery\n\nOf note\, January is the last month to see Shrines of the Luminous Halo and Harris-Babou’s selected works! \nAnd\, come check out our CAMi expansion! \nAs always\, enjoy coffee\, Sun King beer\, and wine available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/january-2026-first-friday-at-the-contemporary-art-museum-of-indianapolis-cami/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Big Car Collaborative":MAILTO:info@bigcar.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260114T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251230T164101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T164126Z
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Kristine Esser Slentz
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nFeatured Poet: Kristine Esser Slentz \nOpen mic prompt: Write a poem on how technology affects a close relationship.  \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout the Featured Poet: \nKristine Esser Slentz is a queer writer of Maltese descent\, raised in the Chicagoland area. A cult escapee and GED holder\, she is the author of EXHIBIT: an amended woman\, depose (FlowerSong Press\, 2021\, 2024) and the forthcoming collection face-to-faces (ThirtyWest Publishing House\, 2026). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Saturday Evening Post\, TriQuarterly\, Five Points\, TEDx\, and elsewhere. Kristine is the co-founder\, organizer\, and host of Adverse Abstraction\, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City’s East Village. She also produces and performs in Verse & Vision\, a stage production currently in a micro-residency at NYC’s Dada and headed for an upcoming run at the IndyFringe Festival. Follow her art on Substack at Carnations & Car Crashes. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday (this month is an exception\, as it’s on the second Wednesday)\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-kristine-esser-slentz/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260116T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260116T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20251229T174724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251229T174724Z
UID:14159-1768575600-1768582800@www.bigcar.org
SUMMARY:Sketch Club with India Hines
DESCRIPTION:If you love sketching and are looking for community\, hang out and draw with Big Car long-term artist-in-residence\, India Hines. Open to all levels and artists of any kind! Beginners are welcome. Just drop by and draw 🙂
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/sketch-club-with-india-hines-10/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260124T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20260108T184944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260108T184944Z
UID:14212-1769259600-1769266800@www.bigcar.org
SUMMARY:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) Storefronts & Studios Open House
DESCRIPTION:Are you an artist\, designer\, or creative entrepreneur looking for a community where you can make\, share\, and grow your work? The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) is now accepting applications for studio and storefront spaces in our new building opening May 2026 on Indianapolis’s near south side. \nTo help prospective applicants learn more\, we’re hosting an open house where you can tour the spaces\, ask questions\, and explore what it means to be part of the CAMi campus. \nOpen House Details: \nSaturday\, Jan. 24\n1–3 p.m.\nStarting location: Tube building (1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN 46203) \nStaff will be available to provide direction\, share information about available spaces\, and answer questions about the application and selection process.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/contemporary-art-museum-of-indianapolis-cami-storefronts-studios-open-house/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Big Car Collaborative":MAILTO:info@bigcar.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260206T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260318T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20250801T134345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260319T203410Z
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SUMMARY:Pavlina Vagioni: AVÁSIMO (BASELESS)
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Feb. 6 – Wednesday\, March 18\, 2026 | Tube Video Gallery\n\n\nStock market data from the 2008 financial collapse — Dow Jones\, Nikkei\, Nasdaq\, and S&P 500 — is translated into a musical score. An electronic female voice\, processed through vocoder\, follows the score with precision. The voice is feminine\, like the voices designed to assist us\, to serve\, to comply. When algorithms are built to help\, they are so often given women’s voices. The system speaks through the voice it expects obedience from. A human voice enters\, not in obedience but in lament. It responds to the data\, departs from it\, grieves what the numbers cannot feel. It exists within the system while refusing to be ruled by it. The video displays symbols from the Phaistos Disc\, an undeciphered Minoan script possibly from a matriarchal Bronze Age society\, now scrolling in the format of a stock ticker: ancient mystery conscripted into capitalism’s visual language. Beneath the voices\, a sustained drone sounds: the ison of Byzantine chant tradition\, a single fixed pitch that served as tonal anchor for sacred music. Here it becomes the cost basis\, the entry point\, the fixed reference against which all market movement is measured\, the illusion of stable ground in a system without foundation. Matriarchal symbols forced into patriarchal economic display. Female robot voice obeying the algorithmic score. Human female voice refusing\, responding\, lamenting. The drone continues beneath it all\, as cost basis always does\, indifferent to what rises or falls above it. At the close\, the human voice fades; the machine inherits its tremor. Nothing holds still. Avásimo: without basis. The ground was never there.\n\n\n2026\, Single channel audio & video animationAudio duration: 3’17”\nConcept\, Artistic Direction: Pavlina VagioniOriginal Score: Audra Verona LambertArrangement & Transcription: Pavlina VagioniVocoder & Electronic Processing: Vangelis YalamasVocals: Pavlina VagioniMixing: Vangelis YalamasVideo Animation: Tasos Tsiaboulas\n\n\nAbout the Artist: Pavlina Vagioni is a Greek-born interdisciplinary artist based in Houston\, TX\, whose work spans sculpture\, painting\, sound\, and digital art. She has exhibited at notable venues across the US and Europe\, including the Byzantine Museum\, Hellenic American Union\, Kappatos Gallery (Athens)\, TANK Space\, Lawndale Art Center (Houston)\, Carillon Gallery (Fort Worth)\, and Opening Gallery (New York). Vagioni completed a residency at the School of Visual Arts and created a public art project at Houston’s ION Building. Her work is recognized internationally and held in multiple private and public collections\, including the MOMus–Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki\, Greece).
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/avasimo-baseless-pavlina-vagioni/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260206T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20260122T175756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T152541Z
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SUMMARY:February 2026 First Friday at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) (formerly known as Tube Factory) campus on Feb. 6 from 6-10 p.m. for First Friday! \nWe have three new exhibits opening: \n\nBlue Blood: Félix Labisse’s Goddesses\, Demons\, and the Space Between in the Tube Main gallery\nPavlina Vagioni: AVÁSIMO (BASELESS) in the Tube Video gallery\nStephanie Williams: Common Matter in Guichelaar Gallery\n\nArtists and small businesses are welcome to join guided tours of our expansion to explore the storefronts and studios. (Applications for the spaces are due on Friday\, Feb. 13 and can be submitted at camindy.org/opportunities.) \nAlso enjoy Sun King beer\, wine\, and coffee available for purchase from Normal Coffee.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/february-2026-first-friday-at-the-contemporary-art-museum-of-indianapolis-cami/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20260218T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T140601
CREATED:20260114T195119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T152436Z
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Williams: Common Matter
DESCRIPTION:Guichelaar Gallery | Feb. 6 – 18\, 2026 \nStephanie Williams’ exhibition Common Matter brings together ceramic wall sculpture and framed photography to trace the repeating structures that appear across nature and human design. The show includes modular ceramic forms that shift between geometric and organic designs\, alongside photographs which explore cosmic patterns at the microscopic level. Across mediums\, the work invites viewers to look closely at how familiar patterns emerge at different scales\, from crystalline structures to engineered surfaces. \nWilliams explores the idea that the universe is built from recurring visual and mathematical “rules” that show up in both organic building blocks and artificial systems. The work considers proportion and measurement as a universal expression of those “rules” (including spiral and growth patterns associated with the Fibonacci sequence) and asks how the macro and the micro mirror one another. \nThis body of work is informed by diverse influences\, from historical cosmologists such as Johannes Kepler to Williams’ daily encounters with the patterns embedded in the world around her. Over time\, she has become increasingly interested in how micro-patterns replicate themselves in both large and miniature form\, and how humans often echo these same micro-patterns in their design\, technology\, and impulse to create. \nWilliams’ studio practice is rooted in ceramics\, using a combination of throwing\, handbuilding\, and slipcasting. The photographic work extends the investigation of her exhibition’s thematic concepts through digital microscopic imagery and black-and-white analogue film. \nUltimately\, Common Matter asks viewers to reflect on their existence within the universe and their relationship to it at a fundamental structural level. In the spirit of Carl Sagan’s observation that humanity is “a way for the universe to know itself\,” the work suggests that the patterns we notice (and the ones we recreate) are not separate from us\, but part of what we are. \nAbout the artist\nStephanie Williams is an Indianapolis-based artist in Big Car Collaborative’s CAMi Long-Term Artist Residency program. She graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design in 2019 and has exhibited in a variety of spaces and galleries across Indiana. Williams has worked at American Art and Clay Company (AMACO) going on ten years.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/stephanie-williams-common-matter/
LOCATION:Contempory Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Blue Blood: Félix Labisse's Goddesses\, Demons\, and the Space Between
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Feb. 6 – Sunday\, March 15 | Tube Main Gallery \nFrench Surrealist Félix Labisse created something strange starting in the 1960s: a universe where women pilot impossible machines through realms that don’t follow normal physics. His iconic blue women — the “Selenides” — are warrior goddesses. And they’re navigating more than space. They move through desire\, mythology\, and what might be parallel dimensions of time. \nOn the south wall of the gallery are three pieces from Labisse’s Selenide series: La Femme avec un couteau (The Woman with a Knife)\, La Reine de Saba (The Queen of Sheba)\, and Judith\, referencing the stories and myths behind each warrior. \nOn the east and west walls are 16 prints from his Histoire naturelle series (1944)—hybrid creatures blending human\, animal\, and vegetable forms\, each with Labisse’s own descriptive poems. These fantastical beings prefigure his later libidoscaphes (1962)\, desire-vessels that merge spacecraft with sexual organs and mythological beasts\, navigating inner realms of “inadmissible desires masked by propriety.” \nPart Jules Verne\, part surrealist fever dream\, part absurdist comedy\, Labisse uses consciousness itself as a vehicle for traveling through forbidden dimensions where eroticism could actually warp reality. The nudity of Labisse’s female subjects is an armor. These women are preparing — for ceremonies\, for magic\, for battle. Their landscapes exist nowhere and everywhere at once: moon\, ocean\, future city\, ancient temple. Set in mythic space\, the women are real–piloting libidoscapes\, navigating time\, and fighting wars. Labisse enables us to see them through our own myths and knowledge of history. And imagine that perhaps because we see them\, they are real. Imagine they are waiting\, blue-skinned and patient\, for the rest of us to catch up. \nLabisse connected to science fiction\, painting and drawing what he imagined. But in his work can be found an idea more radical—that artists might actually access non-linear temporal streams\, tapping into futures and parallel timelines. \nAbout the Artist \nFélix Labisse (1905-1982) was a painter\, illustrator\, and theater designer who transformed mythology into what he called a “personal demonology.” Born in Northern France\, he spent his early years in Douai and later Ostend\, Belgium\, where he met his mentor James Ensor while studying at the École de Pêche. \nHis childhood shaped everything: the Gayant carnival with its giant mannequins\, living through WWI occupation from ages 9-13\, and obsessively reading 19th-century science fiction. By 1933 he’d moved to Paris\, where he quickly made a name designing theater sets (for Jean-Louis Barrault and later Jean-Paul Sartre) while painting and befriending other Surrealists—Robert Desnos\, Max Ernst\, René Magritte\, Paul Delvaux. But Labisse never quite fit André Breton’s official Surrealist movement. He was doing his own thing: Flemish Expressionism meets occult symbolism meets erotic mythology. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1966 and kept working until he died in 1982. \n—-Curator Shauta Marsh \nResearch assistance: Louise Martin \nPart one of a four part exhibition series on the artist.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/blue-blood-felix-labisses-goddesses-demons-and-the-space-between/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:NIGHTJAR: Kenn Hunn
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 6:30 pm\, Reading at 7 pm \nFeatured Poet: Kenn Hunn \nOpen mic prompt: Write an ode or elegy to something absurd. \nRead a poem or short piece that is 317 words maximum\, and challenge yourself to share new work! \n— \nAbout the Featured Poet: \nKenn Hunn recently earned their MFA in poetry at Butler University. They are chronically online (but in a fun way)\, a habitual Midwesterner exploring identity\, pop culture\, and their latest hyperfixation. \n— \nNIGHTJAR creates an inclusive space for all by bringing together spoken-word performers and page-based poets writing in narrative\, lyric\, and experimental forms. Every third Wednesday\, C.S. Carrier and Michelle Niemann host a reading and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nightjar-kenn-hunn/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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