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

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

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

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

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

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

Radio DJ Workshop
2019-03-08 10:00 - 15:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
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Would you like to host a radio show on WQRT?
Hop in the WQRT studio for a one-on-one Radio DJ workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones. You can get the low down on how to take your show concept to the actual air. We want to hear your ideas!
This workshop is hosted bi-monthly, with 8 spots available each month.
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Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green: Fences/Imperia
2019-03-01 18:00 - 2019-03-23 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artists Osamu James Nakagawa and Conner Green will present new works that explore outmoded forms of conquest, power, and control—both real and imagined. Nakagawa’s work will consist of an installation of cyanotype prints created while in Okinawa. Green’s new work extends his exploration of monumentality and power through the language of architectural blueprints. The two seemingly disparate bodies of work present the question: How do the forces of power and control manifest themselves in real, immediate ways and in our collective conscious?
FENCES
In James Nakagawa’s work, the landscape often functions as a witness to history and suffering, as well as a platform to examine conflicts political and personal in nature. Raised in Tokyo, Japan, his family moved to Houston, Texas when he was fifteen. As an artist he mines the complicated pasts of both countries, touching on issues related to nationalism, family, pop-culture, tensions between eastern and western ideals, and war. Since 2006, James has produced several series reflecting on the legacy of World War II and Japan-U.S. relations on Okinawa.
Nakagawa started FENCES several years ago, as he was visiting the island to complete MAPS, a series using a frottage technique to create rubbings of words from war memorials. During this time, he had received permission to photograph inside a U.S. base looking through the fence at Okinawa. Nakagawa’s clearance was revoked before he could begin the project following a disagreement with the colonel assigned to him as a PR liaison. The conversation concerned the benefits of the U.S. military station to the island population. In reaction to this change of circumstance and the protests over the Henoko relocation, Nakagawa used leftover paper and cyanotype chemistry to make photograms of the outside of the base’s fence.
The planned installation of the work is key to counteracting the associated clichés. When James made the photograms, he did not align the sheets of paper in the same orientation against the fence. Presented in grids on four sides of a wall, the images are forceful and oppressive. Viewed edge to edge they crackle with energy and immediacy. The experience is disorienting; the barrier feels like it is both advancing and receding. Without an accompanying statement, this project would provoke more questions than answers—on which side is the photographer? Is the viewer looking up or standing squarely in front of it; are they floating? Like his prior work, he taps into feelings of claustrophobia, visualizing the latent histories that continue to linger in the Okinawan landscape.
IMPERIA | THE BENEFACTOR
Conner Green seeks to investigate the social ramifications of monumental architecture through collages of found materials, drawings, and photographs. “I understand ‘architecture’ to refer to more than just the design and decoration of buildings, but also to how thought or action can make order and meaning out of random space,” Green says. “My work, in part, attempts to excavate those embedded meanings.” To create his work, Green digitally assembles his materials into sketchy, black inkjet prints that resemble schematic drawings or computer renderings, producing a sense of disorder in the otherwise highly organized and rigid, even scientific, discourse of architecture. The rendered forms do not refer to any extant structures, rather they attempt to portray a kind of typological composite of different built forms throughout history.
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City in 1962 and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States, moving to Houston, Texas, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas, Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993. Currently, Mr. Nakagawa is the Ruth N. Halls Distinguished Professor of Photography at Indiana University, where he directs the Center for Integrative Photographic Studies. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana.
Nakagawa is a recipient of the 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2010 Higashikawa New Photographer of the Year, and 2015 Sagamihara Photographer of the Year in Japan. Nakagawa’s work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include: Eclipse, PGI, Tokyo (2018); Kai, sepia EYE, New York (2018); OKINAWA TRILOGY: Osamu James Nakagawa, Kyoto University of Art and Design (2013);GAMA Caves, PGI, Tokyo; Banta: Stained Memory, Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan (2009); Kai: Osamu James Nakagawa, SEPIA International Inc., New York (2003).
His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; George Eastman Museum; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa; The Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Grand Rapid Museum of Art and others. Nakagawa’s monograph GAMA Cavesis available from Akaaka Art Publisher in Tokyo, Japan.
Conner Green (born 1984) is an artist from Indianapolis, IN. He studied art and literature at Indiana University and received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Much of his work combines disciplines, incorporating found sculptural and print-based elements. His work explores concepts of institutional critique, myth, desire, and master narratives. He finds all of these concepts rife for excavation in the consumer-based material world and the built environment. His process allows for a certain degree of chance or disorder to come into play, which he believes enables the phenomenal world to speak for itself.

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

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

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

The Legend of Leigh Bowery
2019-02-11 18:30 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“Filmmaker Charles Atlas documents the life and work of Bowery, up to his AIDS-related death in 1994. Part fashion designer, part performance artist, part promoter, Leigh Bowery is a singular creation of his own making. An imposing-looking man even without his often startling, always outrageous costuming, the Australian-born Bowery becomes a legend of the London club and underground art scenes in the 1980s. The film features archival footage and interviews with Bowery’s family and friends.”
1 hr 23 min.
Presented in partnership with LOW PONE. Discussion to follow the screening. Admission is free.

Big Car Builders: Shop Safety Class
2019-02-02 11:00 - 13:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you wanting to increase your skills with tools and gain confidense in your builder abilities?
Big Car Builders: Shop Safety Class is an intensive 2 hour class giving you a tour of the shop and all of it’s tools and possibilities. Participants will be taught where the first aid and safety equipment are, what the rules of the shop are, and get hands on with a simple example of how to use a few tools.
The Shop Safety Class is a requirement for the Builder Volunteer program
Fees: $50
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David Schalliol-Three Communities
2019-02-01 18:00 - 2019-04-20 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We shape our surroundings at the same time our surroundings shape us. Communities and their environments are inseparable. Yet as we go about occupying, utilizing, and altering our natural and built worlds, how much do we think about the connections we share with the others who inhabit the place we call home?
For his exhibition at Tube Factory Art Space, David Schalliol addresses the interdependence of people and place through photographs and video interviews with residents of three geographically and culturally unique places.
First, he explores the very neighborhood in which this exhibition takes place, Bean Creek, a hamlet of homes and businesses on the Southeast Side of Indianapolis. The waterway for which the neighborhood is named has undergone a peculiar evolution as homes, churches, and businesses have grown around it. In some places, Bean Creek flows undisturbed, a trickling rill winding through thickets of gently bending trees. In other places, the creek has been covered by roads and other obstructions, only to remerge more than 100 yards away. The odd evolution of landscape and municipal planning has caused some houses to face the creek—today’s residents enter through the back door, as the front faces nature.
Next, Schalliol takes us to the South Side of Chicago, where since 2011 a tight-knit group of neighbors has watched their community disappear as the owners of a nearby freight yard buy up houses in order to expand their facilities. The few remaining homeowners have banded together to try to preserve whatever is left of this place and its unique culture. The economic powers that are being exerted, however, will likely prove too powerful to bear.
Finally,Schalliol visits former coal mining communities in the north of France. Following decades of economic contraction, the French government ceased all coal mining in the country in the early 2000s. Towns like the one in these photographs must completely re-imagine their future economic and cultural identities. Meanwhile, the visual and social fabric of the region is affected in every conceivable way by its historic attachment to coal. For example, the “spoil tip” hills interspersed throughout the town, created by waste rocks from the mines, now serve as artificial mountains being re-purposed for motorsports and ecological tourism.
Though located worlds apart from each other, the three communities share threads of kinship that hint at possible human universalities.
David Schalliol is a visual sociologist. He is an assistant professor of sociology at St. Olaf College and a principal of Scrappers Film Group. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, and been exhibited extensively. Recent exhibitions include the 2017 Chicago Architectural Biennial, the Belfast Photo Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Project. He is the author of Isolated Building Studies. His directorial film debut, The Area, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April 2018. He earned his BA from Kenyon College, and his MA and PhD in the Department of Sociology at The University of Chicago.

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

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

99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents JP Harris
2019-01-19 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Resurrecting the ghosts of a time when real, hardcore Honky Tonk ruled the airwaves, JP Harris has lived the songs he writes with the humor, grit, and grace that only a truly road-worn author can summon. After nearly 100,000 miles and over 200 dates, from Vermont to Louisiana to California, from festival stages to roadhouses you can’t find on a map, an album was born, “Home Is Where The Hurt Is.”
www.ilovehonkytonk.com

DJ Workshop with Oreo Jones
2019-01-11 10:30 - 15:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Hop in the WQRT studio for a one-on-one DJ workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones! Come with questions about audio equipment, learn how to DJ on WQRT, or how to go live on the air. This workshop is hosted bi-monthly, with 8 spots available each month. Free, Open to the Public.
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Rachel Leigh: Light Scheaux
2019-01-04 18:00 - 2019-01-21 18:00
Welcome to a world where grownups still build forts and play with flashlights. Where physics are not a classroom subject but a tender and flamboyant muse. Rachel Leigh teases out the sumptuousness of thrift-store glass and discarded TVs, bathing visitors in luminous, improbable delights.

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

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

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

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

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

About the artists

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

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

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

Hands Opening Reception
2018-12-07 06:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Big Car for First Friday this December as we unveil the opening reception of “Hands” by visual artist Britney Pendleton.
As an artist from Baltimore practicing in Indianapolis Pendleton offers a raw perspective, using the photography of hands to do the storytelling of our urban communities.

Collectors' Night : Britney Pendleton
2018-12-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Listen Hear is proud to present Baltimore-made, Indianapolis Artist Britney Pendleton as our December exhibiting artist.
Pendleton’s series “Hands” shares empathetic and eye opening storytelling through documentation of hands in our community.
Join us for Collectors’ Night to get an intimate look at the exhibition and chat with the artist.

#Trash
2018-12-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Experience #Trash a solo printmaking exhibition by Herron School of Art graduating senior, Hannah Clare.
This one night exhibition illuminates the power of personal choice while trying to enjoy life in an overworked and underpaid lifestyle.
#Trash features drawing, illustration and printmaking to describe that underneath a seemingly fun and exciting lifestyle, there is just a bunch of garbage.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2018-11-28 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 inprovosation set.

Dj Workshop with Oreo Jones
2018-11-09 10:00 - 15:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Hop in the WQRT studio for a one-on-one DJ workshop with resident sound artist Oreo Jones! Come with questions, learn how to DJ, go live on the air, or record a radio show. This workshop is hosted bi-monthly, with 8 spots available each month.
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99.1 WQRT Rhinestone Country Presents Dallas Moore
2018-11-03 20:00 - 23:00 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Dallas Moore’s old-school country sound developed honestly, following over 20 years of sharing stages and studios with his honky-tonk heroes. Satellite radio support, paired with a willingness to perform over 300 shows a year, finds the seasoned veteran positioned to reach the Americana masses with his forthcoming album Mr. Honky Tonk.
Tastemakers have taken note already, with the Dallas Moore Band crowned the Ameripolitan Music Awards’ 2017 Outlaw Group of the Year. The award came after three prior nominations for the band No Depression credits with bringing “hangovers and excitement to outlaw country fans everywhere.”
Recent career strides caught the attention of producer/country-music heavyweight Dean Miller, son of Roger Miller and an accomplished songwriter himself, having penned tunes with George Jones, Hank Williams III, Jamey Johnson and more. Miller entered Baird Music Group’s Nashville studio with Moore and his band to record what was originally planned to be a five-song EP. “Out of all the things we’ve ever done, I think Dean captured what I do way better than anyone else we’ve ever worked with,” Moore says. “It was the best recording experience I ever had.”
The EP turned album after its barnstorming title track—a song Moore actually wrote 20 years prior—gained serious traction on Sirius XM satellite radio’s Outlaw Country channel. The album’s other tunes came more recently, all of them written in the past year and a half, making them clearer snapshots of how sharing stages (and rounds of shots) with his country-music idols has impacted his songwriting. “In the last several years, I’ve been real blessed to tour with a lot of my songwriting influences, and they’ve helped me improve my craft,” Moore says. “Guys like Dean Dillon, Billy Joe Shaver, and Ray Wylie Hubbard have been so supportive. It’s really cool when your heroes become your friends, and that’s what happened in the past several years.”
Moore’s stage show—already seen in years past by fans of Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd—has improved with every opportunity to open for an iconic country or Southern-rock artist. “If you’re playing in the slot before Dean Dillon,” Moore says, “You’d better not suck.”
Another crew of country luminaries performed on the album, including harmonica legend Mickey Raphael (Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Chris Stapleton), famed Nashville session bassist Michael Rhodes and pedal-steel master Steve Hinson. “We walked into the studio and saw all of these incredible players lined up,” Moore says. “I thought they were there to play with someone else!”
Even with such ample backing, the main attraction on Mr. Honky Tonk is still Moore and his deft skill as a songwriter and lyricist. Like so many of his inspirations, he’s an ace at spinning relatable stories. On “Killing Me Nice and Slow,” he weaves an impactful tale of lost love (“It’s a long way down when you’re higher than a Georgia pine on love and whiskey the night before / Then you hear the slamming of the door”). From there, Moore puts his spin on time-tested country tropes such as celebrating place (“Texahio,” a nod to splitting time between Texas and his native Cincinnati) and balancing Saturday-night hellraising with Sunday-morning God praising (“Shoot Out the Lights”).
Moore’s mother—a bluegrass and gospel performer herself—bought her son his first guitar when he was 16 years old. Before that, sports had been his first priority. “My big claim to fame back in those days—one year I beat out Ken Griffey Jr. for the most home runs in the league,” Moore says. “But then I got a guitar the next year, and I quit—I walked away as a winner!”
A few years later, Moore enrolled at Northern Kentucky University to study jazz and classical guitar. But he found his true calling in a less high-brow environment around the same time, performing on the local bar scene in a country house band. Multi-night stints playing classic covers set a precedent for the Dallas Moore Band’s sound and unrelenting tour schedule. And Moore’s gruff vocals have made him an ideal singer of songs about hard luck and harder living as far back as his 1991 debut LP, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys.
Once Mr. Honky Tonk arrives in February, expect Moore to play nonstop in support of his new album. He played a whopping 327 shows in 2017, and that was without an album to promote. Who knows, he might just play solo or with his band every single night in 2018.
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WQRT 99.1 FM Rhinestone Country Presents Town Mountain
2018-11-02 20:00 - 23:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Raw, soulful, and with plenty of swagger, Town Mountain has earned raves for their hard-driving sound, their in-house songwriting and the honky-tonk edge that permeates their exhilarating live performances, whether in a packed club or at a sold-out festival. The hearty base of Town Mountain’s music is the first and second generation of bluegrass spiced with country, old school rock ‘n’ roll, and boogie-woogie. It’s what else goes into the mix that brings it all to life both on stage and on record and reflects the group’s wide-ranging influences – from the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia and the ethereal lyrics of Robert Hunter, to the honest, vintage country of Willie, Waylon, and Merle.

Laura Ortiz Vega:No USA return
2018-11-02 18:00 - 2019-01-12 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
For her debut solo exhibition at Tube Factory Art Space, Laura Ortiz Vega presents a new series of “thread paintings” inspired by the rhetoric surrounding President Trump’s proposed US-Mexico border wall.
Vega takes as her departure point the now famous images of the eight border wall samples President Trump browsed in 2017 as they were being tested along the actual border between San Diego and Tijuana. Listening to the speeches Trump has given about the wall, and reading his tweets on the subject, Vega then extracted the eight adjectives the President most frequently used to describe the project.
GREAT, BIGGEST, IMPENETRABLE, PHYSICAL, TALL, POWERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, INCREDIBLE
Each word an imposing declaration; each wall sample an impenetrable facade.
Seizing the chance to subvert public perception of these messages, Vega presents the adjectives like graffiti on the border wall samples, turning each section of wall into a billboard advertising its own hyperbolically alleged attributes.
Says Vega, “I saw the opportunity to present this matter in a positive note. I envisioned the wall as a blank canvas for expression, and in a way, made him eat his own words. [It is] a chance to reject the negativity and turn this around.”
Vega models her distinctive thread painting method after the traditional craft techniques of the indigenous Huichol people of western Mexico. She first covers a surface with cera de Campeche, a natural beeswax from the Mexican state of Campeche. She then “draws” on that surface with cotton Perlé embroidery thread, using a palette knife to embed the thread into the wax. It is a long, delicate, and sometimes messy process, and takes weeks to finish a single piece. The resulting image-object has a texture reminiscent of a woven textile, yet is inflexible.
Vega was born in Mexico City in 1975. She studied Industrial Design at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, earning her BFA in 2000. Her work has been exhibited extensively, including at the Museo de Arte Popular de la Ciudad de Mexico, Lyons Weir Gallery in New York, The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, Breeze Block Gallery in Portland, OR, and Galerie Ernst Hilger in Vienna, Austria. It has been featured at Zona MACO, Pulse LA and MIAMI, Houston Fine Art Fair, Art Chicago NEXT, Art Market San Francisco, Art Toronto, London Art Fair, PINTA Art Fair, and Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden. It was selected for the Tequila CENTENARIO Award at Zona MACO and was awarded with an Honorific Mention at the Bienal de Artes Visuales de Yucatán in 2009.

Aaron Scamihorn and Jason Roemer: Freaks & Geeks
2018-11-02 18:00 - 2018-11-18 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Freaks & Geeks is a collection of hand-painted and screen-printed portraits by Aaron Scamihorn, along with a unique collaboration with writer and Lodge principal Jason Roemer. With a focus on perceived beauty, Aaron’s portraits break social convention by inviting you to stare into the intriguing faces of those we see around us everyday. The show’s pairing of three stream-of-consciousness narratives with over-sized portraits forces you to come face-to-face with a set of distinctly American characters who hope for the best, but ultimately cope with the worst.
