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Sound Lab with Oreo Jones live on 99.1FM WQRT
2019-11-20 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
We are back with another edition of SOUND LAB! Join Oreo Jones at Listen Hear for an evening of sound exploration. Bring your synths, drum machines, pedals, theremins, or whatever you use to express yourself.
Sound Lab is a reoccurring workshop where we explore ways to communicate and express ourselves through sonic waves. Each attendee will be encouraged to play a piece that they have been working on and share ways of how they approached their work. The group will then attempt to work on a collaboration broadcasted live on 99.1 WQRT.

Who's Who of Naptown
2019-11-23 18:00 - 22:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Who’s Who of Naptown has reached it’s 6th Installment and we couldn’t be happier with the way we’ve progressed thus far!
We’d like to thank any and all of our featured guests we’ve had the pleasure of working with and are forever grateful for rocking with our vision!
To any who’ve come to support a show, Thank You for being willing to share space with and celebrate our city’s amazing creatives!
For those yet to make it out, mark your calendars!
11/23/19
6pm-10pm
Location: Tube Factory Art Space (1125 Cruft St. Indianapolis, IN 46023)
$10-$15

Indy Pride and GenderNexus present Community Friendsgiving
2019-11-24 17:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Each year we gather during the holidays to share our family recipes and celebrate our community. Gathering together makes the holidays a little happier! ????
Join us on November 24th from 5-8pm for a community pitch-in-event. Show off those cooking skills and be sure to include some extra love in those recipes. We will provide the ham ???? and turkey ????, and we would love to see what you like to enjoy in your own homes for drinks, side dishes and desserts.
If you’re unable to bring a dish, no worries! There will be PLENTY of food, so we encourage you to come help us to enjoy it all!
We don’t want to have too many of one type of item, so we suggest bringing the following items according to the first letter of your last name:
A-H bring beverages
F-Q bring side dishes
R-Z bring desserts
Of course this is just a suggestion, so if you have a special drink or dish that you’d like to bring, we suggest that!! Please register using the free ticket link above so that we can anticipate how much turkey and ham we need.
*An ASL interpreter ???? will be provided for this event.*
**If an IndyGo bus pass would be helpful for you to get to and from the event, please reach out to Program Director Tabitha Barbour at email hidden; JavaScript is required.**

Bring It! Crit Night
2019-11-27 18:00 - 21:00 | IN
Bring ItPeer 2 Peer Artist Critique
Pasta Pitch-in | Homebrew
For Emerging and Mid-career Visual Artists
Last Friday | 6-9 PM
Bring art for critique or a dish to share***** If your interested to critique there is time for 3 artists, if you are a collaborative or a group please notify.
RSVP to sign up for a critique spot contact:erinharpervernon@gmail.com
Please send me your name and a brief description of the work you are bringing and any special accommodations.
A simple pasta dinner and homebrew will be provided, bring a dish to share and any serving bowls.
Free! All ages of the public are encouraged to attend! Children and partners encouraged!

Artist Housing Information Session
2019-12-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist who wants to engage and help shape a community? Located on a block in both the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods on the near southside of Indianapolis, the Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR) program is an innovative and experimental approach to supporting artists who use their talents and skills to help drive positive change in the community.
Come tonight to learn more.
Click here to apply or go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHZ6YFV
For this program, we view the label of artists to include creatives, makers, and designers. Fields include — and are not limited to — architecture, culinary art, curation, visual art, public art, furniture, fashion, craft, design, film and video, creative writing and journalism, performing arts, music, theater, placemaking, socially engaged art, etc.
The APLR — taking applications for resident artists now through December 23, 2019 — is a long-term, affordable and community-invested artist home ownership program as part of a community land trust approach.
Applicants will be notified if they moved on as semi-finalists by January 6. Finalists will be selected by mid January. Public information sessions will be at Tube Factory art space December 5th, 6 pm and December 7th, 11 am.
In partnership with Riley Area Development and supported by Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP), the APLR’s goal is to provide artists enjoyable and equitable home ownership while they work — in part — to collaborate with other neighbors and boost the culture, creativity, diversity, livability, safety, health, and economy of the local and greater community. This is a reboot of the program launched two years ago before pausing to work out various aspects of the program and partnership. So far three families have been placed into the homes.

Localized: Creative Impressions of Life in Garfield Park
2019-12-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a collaborative exhibition between the Garfield Park Arts Center and the Tube Factory Artspace set to highlight artists of Garfield Park and Bean Creek.
Set between lush trees and historic homes the Garfield Park neighborhood is a hub to a diverse community of artists. Let us celebrate who creates here and how this historic park has influences our lives.
This exhibition will be on display at the Tube Factory Artspace from December 6-20.
We are looking for local makers, artisans, vendors, visual, sound and performance artists!
Submissions are open until October 25:
https://forms.gle/s4zbQPZHunJX7ySY6

Chad Eby: Skärgården
2019-12-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Navigate through Listen Hear from December 6 – January 24 as we welcome designer and artist Chad Eby.
Amidst an array of light and sound, Skärgården re-imagines cold war paranoia in the Stockholm archipelago in light and sound. The heart of this art installation is a self-organizing wireless mesh network that mirrors aspects of both the isolation and cooperation of an interconnected system of separate parts.
Chad Eby is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, teacher and researcher with particular interests in lighting, digital art, digital fabrication, people-center design and design history.
Listen Hear
2620 Shelby Street Indianapolis, IN 46203
Available by appointment
Opening Reception November 4 & December 6, 6-10pm
www.chadeby.studio
www.bigcar.org

David Lanch: Visions From Another World.
2019-12-06 18:00 - 2019-12-21 18:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Presented in partnership with the Consulado de México en Indianápolis
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For the last 40 years, David Lanch has worked with plastic, which is part of the industrial technology of our current world, and it has been his research work to apply it to painting, and architectural integration to find man in his habitat.
In his work he uses fiberglass, polymers and resins, materials that had not been used in our society until after World War II. In his search, he uses science fiction as an indispensable concept for mass catharsis.
In fiberglass painting he found the ideal means to express his vision of other worlds; textures, colors, surfaces illuminated and reflected in stainless steel, mirrors, natural or artificial light; an ideal world for your vision of a different landscape, the mountains, the seas, the unknown habitat, where the physical and chemical phenomena, and the realities of the micro and macro cosmos, follow the same principles that govern our planet and as far as We know, of the universe.
When exploring all these materials, he found a new technique, painting and etching in fiberglass, which can help the development of plastic arts in this new millennium.
David Lach was born June 26, 1949 in Mexico City.
Versión en español a continuación.
David Lach
Por los últimos 40 años, David Lach ha trabajado con plástico, que es parte de la tecnología industrial de nuestro mundo actual, y ha sido su labor de investigación aplicarlo a la pintura, y a la integración arquitectónica para encontrar al hombre en su hábitat.
En su trabajo utiliza fibra de vidrio, polímeros y resinas, materiales que no habían sido utilizados en nuestra sociedad sino después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En su búsqueda, utiliza la ciencia-ficción como concepto indispensable para la catarsis masiva.
En la pintura en fibra de vidrio encontró el medio ideal para expresar su visión de otros mundos; las texturas, los colores, las superficies iluminadas y reflejadas en acero inoxidable, espejos, luz natural o artificial; un mundo ideal para su visión de un paisaje diferente, las montañas, los mares, el hábitat desconocido, donde los fenómenos físicos y químicos, y las realidades del micro y macro cosmos, siguen los mismos principios que se rigen en nuestro planeta y hasta donde conocemos, del universo.
Al explorar todos estos materiales, encontró una nueva técnica, la pintura y grabado en fibra de vidrio, que pueden ayudar al desarrollo de las artes plásticas en este nuevo milenio.

Artist Housing Information Session
2019-12-07 11:00 - 12:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Are you an artist who wants to engage and help shape a community? Located on a block in both the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods on the near southside of Indianapolis, the Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR) program is an innovative and experimental approach to supporting artists who use their talents and skills to help drive positive change in the community.
Come today to learn more.
Click here to apply or go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PHZ6YFV
For this program, we view the label of artists to include creatives, makers, and designers. Fields include — and are not limited to — architecture, culinary art, curation, visual art, public art, furniture, fashion, craft, design, film and video, creative writing and journalism, performing arts, music, theater, placemaking, socially engaged art, etc.
The APLR — taking applications for resident artists now through December 23, 2019 — is a long-term, affordable and community-invested artist home ownership program as part of a community land trust approach.
Applicants will be notified if they moved on as semi-finalists by January 6. Finalists will be selected by mid January. Public information sessions will be at Tube Factory art space December 5th, 6 pm and December 7th, 11 am.
In partnership with Riley Area Development and supported by Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP), the APLR’s goal is to provide artists enjoyable and equitable home ownership while they work — in part — to collaborate with other neighbors and boost the culture, creativity, diversity, livability, safety, health, and economy of the local and greater community. This is a reboot of the program launched two years ago before pausing to work out various aspects of the program and partnership. So far three families have been placed into the homes.

Shane Smith & The Saint presented by 99.1 WQRT's Rhinestone Country
2019-12-07 20:00 - 23:30 | Duke’s Indy, 2352 S West St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Now three albums and nearly 10 years into their career, Shane Smith & the Saints are ready to go for broke. “It pretty much summarizes where we are as a band and where I am as an individual after pursuing this for practically the last decade,” Smith says of Hail Mary. “We’re a scrappy group of guys and this is more or less one of those moments where we’re really trying to put it all out there. We’re trying to give it our best shot on this record.”

Social Alchemy Meet & Greet
2019-12-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Black Lodge Coffee, 610 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 47631, United States
2020 will kick off Social Alchemy, a series of events connecting New Harmony and Indianapolis. Meet up with everyone involved in proposing this project and become part of it!
New Harmony, Indiana brims with art, history, architecture, and a strong sense of place. The impact of past and current efforts within this community have created a town that continues to represent the universal human condition. If Indianapolis is the head of the body of Indiana, New Harmony is its soul.
What can we in urban Indianapolis learn from rural New Harmony’s social alchemy? Tons. With support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family fund and our partners — University of Southern Indiana, Indiana State Museum, Historic New Harmony, New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute Central Library, and lots of individuals –– we will explore, learn and share how the pursuit of utopia forms places and pursuits.
WHY IS BIG CAR INVOLVED?
We’re fascinated by people who strive for utopia and by intentional communities: Past, present, and future. Our overarching goal for the Cruft Street Commons project in Garfield Park is to develop an arts-focused, socially cohesive block. And a key inspiration is the southwestern Indiana town, New Harmony — location of multiple and varied utopian experiments.
THE PROGRAM
This idea started with visits by Big Car Collaborative/Tube Factory artspace curator, Shauta Marsh, and artist and writer Jim Walker, to New Harmony over the past several years and conversations with artist, writer, and philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson — who lives, part-time, in New Harmony — and New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art director Garry Holstein.
WHAT WE’RE DOING:
• An interdisciplinary exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art focused on New Harmony’s visionary civic leader and preservationist Jane Owen (1915–2010).
• An exhibition at the Tube Factory about the history and art of New Harmony (designed to travel), with emphasis on Angel in the Forest and visual interpretations of this lyrical text.
• A film series of documentaries and feature films related to placemaking experiments.
• Community meals, one in New Harmony and one in Garfield Park.
• A two-day symposium in October 2020 in New Harmony to include philosophers, writers, historians, designers, architects, placemakers, urban and rural city planners, politicians, and community organizers.
• Two Tube Factory exhibitions by Native American artists Elisa Harkins (in 2021) and Wendy Red Star (in 2022): both creative responses to their peoples’ forced dystopias, with ideas for cultural renewal.
THE IMPACT
This project explores historical and contemporary examples of utopian experiments, fictional utopias and dystopias, and social design projects. It offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between the built environment and social good.
PROJECT PARTNERS
University of Southern Indiana: As the administrator of both Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery, USI is encouraging staff, professors, and students to participate in the project.
Historic New Harmony: HNH will host programs, help to develop the exhibitions, and help travel the New Harmony exhibition about after its Indianapolis debut.
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: The gallery will host the Jane Owen exhibition.
New Harmony Working Men’s Institute: This library/museum will help with historical research and lend artifacts for exhibitions
Indiana State Museum: The museum will be assisting with research, and help with didactics.
Pattern: Pattern Magazine will be a promotional partner alongside Big Car’s low-power radio station 99.1 WQRT FM.

The Haute Seat: A Chair Choreo Session
2019-12-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Uzuri Asad for The Haute Seat: A Chair Choreo Session.
WaistBliss by Mayasa will also be available for your adornment needs.
About Uzuri Asad
Asad was born in Cleveland, OH. She is an artist with a dance foundation based in West African dance. Teaching and performing from the age of 12, she finds sanctuary in movement and strives to create spaces for people of color to move and honor the colorful and and powerful lineage of her predecessors.

Tube Factory art space holiday hours
2019-12-21 08:00 - 2020-01-02 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
12/23-MON, 7-2
12/24-TUE, 7-2
12/25 -WED, closed
12/26 -THU, closed
12/27-FRI, 7-2
12/28-SAT, 8-3
12/30-MON, 7-2
12/31-TUES, 7-2
1/1 -WED, closed

Bring It! Community Crit Night
2019-12-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Bring ItPeer 2 Peer Artist Critique
Pasta Pitch-in | Homebrew
For Emerging and Mid-career Visual Artists
Last Friday | 6-9 PM
Bring art for critique or a dish to share***** If your interested to critique there is time for 3 artists, if you are a collaborative or a group please notify.
RSVP to sign up for a critique spot
Please send Erin Harper Vernon your name and a brief description of the work you are bringing and any special accommodations.
A simple pasta dinner and homebrew will be provided, bring a dish to share and any serving bowls.
Free! All ages of the public are encouraged to attend! Children and partners encouraged!

Kwanzaa Celebration
2019-12-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Kwanzaa is a pan-African holiday which celebrates family, community and culture created by Dr. Maulana Karenga in 1966 and celebrated from December 26–January 1.
Uzuri and Bashiri Asad, part of the Artist Public Life program at Big Car, are organizing and hosting the event at Tube Factory.
More details added soon.

Priya Wittman: Stormy Weather
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Efroymson Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“My recent installations are best described as landscapes created through expanded painting techniques. I gravitate toward materials that are accessible and quotidian, yet also project certain elemental qualities, such as light, space, or line. The interspersion of miniature sculpture within the landscape brings a human component into the otherwise formal work. The sculpture are stand ins for myself — they are observing, contemplating, elucidating their physical and mental environment. They remind me that ultimately my work is centered on describing the human condition to the maximum extent that I can perceive it.”
Stormy Weather depicts cyclical expressions of anxiety by layering patterns repeatedly into surfaces and space. The paintings and assemblages explore intimate, personal anxiety, and multiply/mirror/repeat the individual to reflect a larger communal state of unease and worry — a collective angst. Uncertainty is stressful, but it is a precursor to transformation. Perhaps this low level sense of dread is a catalyst for a shift, a renewal. Despite the angst, these artworks are ultimately optimistic. Similar to uncertainty, the anxious processes of layering and repetition are the means of revealing clarity, light, and sublime color interaction. Sunlight is rarely more beautiful than when it follows a storm.
Priya Wittman is an artist living and working in Indianapolis. She received her BFA in 2011 and MFA in 2016 from Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis. She has been the recipient of multiple scholarships and awards, including a summer fellowship award in 2009 at Ox-Box School of Art in Saugatuck, Michigan. She has exhibited in several states across the US, and completed a residency at AIR Studio Paducah in Kentucky. In addition to her studio practice, she periodically teaches painting and drawing courses as adjunct faculty at Herron School of Art, and works at Ignition Arts, an arts fabrication company based in Indianapolis.

Join us for First Friday in January to catch the opening reception of Stormy Weather from 6-10pm.
This show will be available from January 3-24.
Efroymson Gallery
1125 Cruft Street Indianapolis, IN 46203
M-F (7am-6pm)
Sa (8am-3pm)

Chad Eby : Skärgården
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Amidst an array of light and sound, Skärgården re-imagines cold war paranoia in the Stockholm archipelago in light and sound. The heart of this art installation is a self-organizing wireless mesh network that mirrors aspects of both the isolation and cooperation of an interconnected system of separate parts.
Chad Eby is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, teacher and researcher with particular interests in lighting, digital art, digital fabrication, people-center design and design history.

Parachuting Into Environmental Justice
2020-01-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Remember the parachute as a kid in gym class? The parachute is the same from gym class in elementary school but this time you can draw on it! During this activity, Museum Studies @ IUPUI will talk about what environmental justice is and what it means to you and us.

Neil Cain: Shadow's Prism
2020-01-03 18:00 - 2020-01-24 18:00 | Guichelaar Gallery, 1125 Cruft Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
“These works are a reaction to what I view as a consciousness bias in our culture towards ordered states of being and thinking. I believe this bias contributes to individualistic resource management, social division, and centralized state control, and that the artist must counteract these forces by presenting harmonious alternatives. I paint to present the beauty of ordered and non-ordered states interacting. I see each as integral to the full expression of the other and essential to true understanding.”
Neil Cain is an Indianapolis-native who began painting in 2002. His collections pull inspiration from his work in photography, utilizing movement, exposure, layering, and an increasingly polarized dialogue between ordered and chaotic elements. Trained as a music composer, Neil uses similar foundational concepts in his painting by working in harmonic terms, with ratios of frequencies juxtaposed against one another with or without bounding. ‘Form in flux’ and ‘magnetism of coherence’ form the conceptual framework for his most recent collections. He lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana with his wife, Jenny Ollikainen, their cat daughter, Little Cow, and many plants friends. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Join us for First Friday in January to catch the opening reception of Shadow’s Prism from 6-10pm.
This show will be available from January 3-24.
Guichelaar Gallery
1135 Cruft Street Indianapolis, IN 46203
Available by appointment

2020 Pride Month Planning Volunteer Call-Out Meeting
2020-01-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us to learn how you can get involved in planning for our 2020 Indy Pride Month events!
Every year Indy Pride hosts our annual Cadillac Barbie Indy Pride Parade, Indy Pride Festival, and 14 other community events to celebrate Pride Month with our community.
All of these efforts are powered by our incredible volunteers, gathered together within our Festival Planning Committee.
Please join us for our 2020 Volunteer Call-Out Meeting to provide your input and discuss how you can get more involved in our Planning Committee and the following events:
– Rainbow 5k
– Indy Pride Pageant
– John Alexander Hoosier 250
– Pet Pride
– TransGlam
– Community Picnic
– Bat N’ Rouge charity softball game
– Interfaith Celebration
– Pride Skate
– Deaf Pride
– Bi and Pan Pride
– Music and Movie Night
– Girl Pride
– Shabbat at Indy Pride
– Cadillac Barbie Indy Pride Parade
– Indy Pride Festival
We would love your input and support as we engage in planning for our 2020 events. Please bring your ideas for how you would like to support these events, and ideas for a theme for our 2020 Pride Month event season!
Refreshments will be provided for attendees, so please RSVP using the ticket link above so we know how much food and drinks to provide.
Indy Pride will provide an ASL interpreter.

Social Alchemy Public Meeting
2020-01-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Sara’s New Harmony Way, 500 Church St., New Harmony, IN, 47631, United States
New Harmony residents are invited to our first public meeting of 2020 to help plan for Social Alchemy, a series of events connecting New Harmony and Indianapolis! These monthly meet ups in New Harmony invite residents to meet those involved in proposing this project and become part of it!
New Harmony, Indiana brims with art, history, architecture, and a strong sense of place. The impact of past and current efforts within this community have created a town that continues to represent the universal human condition. If Indianapolis is the head of the body of Indiana, New Harmony is its soul.
What can we in urban Indianapolis learn from rural New Harmony’s social alchemy? Tons. With support of Indiana Humanities and the Efroymson Family fund and our partners — University of Southern Indiana, Indiana State Museum, Historic New Harmony, New Harmony Workingmen’s Institute Central Library, and lots of individuals –– we will explore, learn and share how the pursuit of utopia forms places and pursuits.
WHY IS BIG CAR INVOLVED?
We’re fascinated by people who strive for utopia and by intentional communities: Past, present, and future. Our overarching goal for the Cruft Street Commons project in Garfield Park is to develop an arts-focused, socially cohesive block. And a key inspiration is the southwestern Indiana town, New Harmony — location of multiple and varied utopian experiments.
THE PROGRAM
This idea started with visits by Big Car Collaborative/Tube Factory artspace curator, Shauta Marsh, and artist and writer Jim Walker, to New Harmony over the past several years and conversations with artist, writer, and philanthropist Jeremy Efroymson — who lives, part-time, in New Harmony — and New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art director Garry Holstein. It is made possible by Indiana Humanities and The Efroymson Family Fund.
WHAT WE’RE DOING:
• An interdisciplinary exhibition at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art focused on New Harmony’s visionary civic leader and preservationist Jane Owen (1915–2010).
• An exhibition at the Tube Factory about the history and art of New Harmony (designed to travel), with emphasis on Angel in the Forest and visual interpretations of this lyrical text.
• A film series of documentaries and feature films related to placemaking experiments.
• Community meals, one in New Harmony and one in Garfield Park.
• A two-day symposium in October 2020 in New Harmony to include philosophers, writers, historians, designers, architects, placemakers, urban and rural city planners, politicians, and community organizers.
• Two Tube Factory exhibitions by Native American artists Elisa Harkins (in 2021) and Wendy Red Star (in 2022): both creative responses to their peoples’ forced dystopias, with ideas for cultural renewal.
THE IMPACT
This project explores historical and contemporary examples of utopian experiments, fictional utopias and dystopias, and social design projects. It offers a deeper understanding of the relationship between the built environment and social good.
PROJECT PARTNERS
University of Southern Indiana: As the administrator of both Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery, USI is encouraging staff, professors, and students to participate in the project.
Historic New Harmony: HNH will host programs, help to develop the exhibitions, and help travel the New Harmony exhibition about after its Indianapolis debut.
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art: The gallery will host the Jane Owen exhibition.
Indiana State Museum: The museum will be assisting with research, and help with didactics.
Pattern will be a promotional partner alongside Big Car’s low-power radio station 99.1 WQRT FM.

St'Artup 317 Season 3 Kick-off
2020-01-16 18:00 - 20:00 | IN
Brought to you by Pattern and Indy Chamber, St’artUp 317 successfully matches young brands, established businesses, startups and artists, with prime vacant and under-utilized properties. Resulting in pop-up stores, art installations, and event activations, the program’s long-term goal is to eliminate empty storefronts, support small business owners & artists, increase local and visitor consumer spending and ensure that Marion county neighborhoods continue thriving.
As we enter Season 3, we want to continue spreading the word about the program, and provide opportunity to as many qualifying brands and vendors as possible to take part. Applications for Season 3 open on 1/20, and pop-ups take place during May.
Come meet fellow brands, artists, landlords and civic and non-profit leaders and learn more about how St’Artup 317 is working to help strengthen our neighborhoods and your businesses.
Refreshments will be provided.
Thank you to Big Car for hosting!
St’Artup 317 is a partnership between Develop Indy and PATTERN. For more information, visit www.startup317.com.

Sounds and Songs of Peace-A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr
2020-01-20 11:30 - 23:30 | Listen Hear, 2620 Shelby St, , Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join Oreo Jones, Shauta Marsh and others live in the studio at WQRT for conversations, songs and sounds to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.
Check back for more information.

Zumba with Michelle Carson
2020-01-25 09:30 - 11:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
A 1 hour long class centered around different rhythms such as Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa and Reggeaton. You will be dancing to great music and at the same time burning a lot of calories without even realizing! It is definitely a dance party! So wear your comfy workout clothes, bring a bottle of water and join Carson in this cardio party!
Donation suggested.
Una clase de 1 hora de duración centrada en diferentes ritmos como Merengue, Cumbia, Salsa y Reggeaton.
¡Bailarás con buena música y al mismo tiempo quemarás muchas calorías sin darte cuenta!
¡Definitivamente es una fiesta de baile!
¡Así que ponte tu cómoda ropa de entrenamiento, trae una botella de agua y acompáñame en esta fiesta de cardio!
Cualquier pregunta simplemente envíame un mensaje de FB!
A little about Michelle Carson
Born in US, raised in Ecuador and traveled around some other places that feels like home.
I started teaching dance classes early in my life. At the age of 12 I graduated from my dance school in Ecuador and started assisting teachers, after only 1 year they gave me a class of girls from 7-8 years old and was amazingly fun. I was also part of 3 different dance groups plus high-school, (I dont even know how). When I was 18 I decided I wanted to study abroad and so I went to Argentina and auditioned for an Afro-Contemporary dance group in which we performed at private and community events and was a great experience.
In 2015 I came back to USA to follow my roots in Florida where I did my training in Zumba and fell in love with it. I started teaching a month after my training in different locations, until Sept. 2018 when I moved to Indy to start a new and exciting life.
I truly love it here and I have always enjoyed the feeling of giving something of what I know so I want to share all of it with you!!!
Un poco sobre Michelle Carson
Nació en Estados Unidos, creció en Ecuador y viajó por otros lugares que se sienten como en casa.
Comencé a dar clases de baile temprano en mi vida. A la edad de 12 años me gradué de mi escuela de baile en Ecuador y comencé a asistir a maestros, después de solo 1 año me dieron una clase de niñas de 7-8 años y fue increíblemente divertida. También formé parte de 3 grupos de baile diferentes más la escuela secundaria, (ni siquiera sé cómo). Cuando tenía 18 años decidí que quería estudiar en el extranjero, así que fui a Argentina y hice una audición para un grupo de danza afro-contemporánea en el que actuamos en eventos privados y comunitarios y fue una gran experiencia.
En 2015 regresé a EE. UU. Para seguir mis raíces en Florida, donde hice mi entrenamiento en Zumba y me enamoré de él.
Comencé a enseñar un mes después de mi entrenamiento en diferentes lugares, hasta septiembre de 2018, cuando me mudé a Indy para comenzar una nueva y emocionante vida.
Realmente me encanta aquí y siempre he disfrutado la sensación de dar algo de lo que sé, así que quiero compartirlo todo contigo.
Donation suggested.

Sound Lab with Oreo Jones
2020-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | IN

Creative Mornings Indianapolis-Yecenia Tostado
2020-01-31 08:00 - 10:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us 1/31 to hear Yecenia Tostado present on the theme for January, which is “roots.” Tickets required for admission.

Kevin O. Mooney: 366247•2012
2020-02-07 08:00 - 2020-02-23 17:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Time. How do you perceive it? Is it fleeting or does it seem to go on forever? When did you first become aware of “time”? Do the minutes, hours, days blend together? Are the memories of events just as vivid now as when they actually occurred? Do memories play a significant role in what time means to you?
Where does the “time” go? Is it measured in the outcomes of our daily routines or in the singular outliers, the spectacular moments that occur irregularly and unexpectedly? This piece reveals my regimented routines over the course of a single year. When interacting with the piece, these routines become patterns. When the patterns change, the viewer is left to consider the reason why.
The images presented are my visual memories of events. In watching the piece, viewers have the opportunity to consider the past and the future simultaneously, to see the outcome before the event has actually occurred. The entire year (2012) is presented as a grid, with each image representing a day in each month of the year, starting at approximately midnight on the first day of each month and continuing to the final day of the month. From left to right, January through December is presented in its entirety until each fades into darkness. By de- constructing how a visual representation of a year is normally presented, the viewer visits an abstract representation of that year. Ultimately, a year of my life is presented in an hour, offering the viewer an opportunity to participate and find meaning in my mundane activities while simultaneously reexamining their own unrecognized minutes, hours and days.
366247•2012 is a time-based piece, rooted in still photography, and can be presented as a video or video projection installation. The more than 256,000 still images, presented as a photographic stop-motion animation, allow the viewer to witness my day-to-day routines, the same acts that everyone engages in on a regular or daily basis.
Kevin O. Mooney (b. 1957) is an educator and fine artist as well as a successful commercial photographer. He received his BS from Southern Illinois University and his MFA from Indiana University Bloomington. Mooney has been the recipient of Artist Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council in 1987. His photographic work is included in collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, Illinois, Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington and the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York. His work has been exhibited at the MFAH, Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago, Pictura Gallery at FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Gallery 312 and the Chicago Architecture Foundation as well as internationally at the Lee Yongjae Architects’ Window Gallery, and the Seoul Lunar Photo Fest, Lunar Photo Night Seoul, Korea. His project, 366247•2012 was just chosen by Center Santa Fe for the 2019 Excellence in Multimedia Award. His current work continues to investigate self, consciousness, and individuality through sequentially presented still photographs arranged as a stop-motion animation. He blurs the edges between various disciplines within the photographic field as well as those between photography and other digital media.
The exhibit runs through February 22 in the Jeremy D. Efroymson Gallery.
Made possible by the Arts Council of Indianapolis, Sun King Brewery and Ash & Elm Cider Co..

TJ Reynolds:We Catch the Light, Reflections on Black Skin
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-02-22 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Those of African descent are the most underrepresented group in the world of fine art. Black faces are beautiful. Digging deeper, we see that by working on black surfaces with white ink & paint, Reynolds draws in the light instead of the shadow, with emotive figures emerging from the deep, catching light in the way only melanin can. The stylized nature of the drawings reveals a complexity of shapes and linework, in patterns that evoke both ancient art and futuristic graphic design. The artist is also exploring his own ethnic heritage, examining roots he can only piece together, going so far as to trace his last name to the tradition of slaves taking on the surname of their master, in this case the RJ Reynolds tobacco fields. Prints will also be available of all work.
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TJ Reynolds is a multi-discipline artist and educator whose mission it is to spread the power of creativity and community. Visual artist, animator, director, M.C., producer, multi-instrumentalist and poet are just some of the creative avenues Reynolds travels on his exploits. As an educator, he has worked with thousands of students and adults in every conceivable setting; preschool through college, prisons and gifted schools, though his message remains the same; we must use art and expression to connect to each other and the world around us. Reynolds has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Nuvo Cultural Visionary Award, Spirit of Herron (School of Art) Award, and the first ever hip-hop artist to be named a Creative Renewal Fellow from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. His music has been featured nationally on NPR, and he has won rap battles, poetry slams and a Moth Story Slam. This is Reynolds first solo art show.

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With performances by TJ Reynolds, Teresa Reynolds, Tatjana Rebelle, Derrick Slack

As part of my We Catch the Light, Reynolds asked some prominent black Indianapolis poets & singers to select someone who was influential to them in their life. He will create a portrait of that person, and the guest artist will perform a piece dedicated to them at the opening Feb 7 for a unique, one time happening bringing poetry, song and visual art together.

Kipp Normand: Snake Oil, A Fantastical American History
2020-02-07 18:00 - 2020-05-16 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Artist and historian Kipp Normand’s practice is a physical and conceptual investigation into the power of objects and images as a narrative device. Inspired by the Dada traditions of assemblage, collage, construction, and performance, Normand employs the acts of appropriation, reuse, and recontextualization to explore contemporary perceptions of time, community, and memory. In Snake Oil, Normand distills four centuries of history to illustrate the deep-seated American penchant for fantastical thinking. Part world’s fair exhibit, huckster wagon, dime museum, and midway arcade; Snake Oil is a multifaceted installation that challenges the viewer to re-examine the ideas of American Exceptionalism. Imbued with satire and mixed with painful truths, this haunted temple of junk casts a sideways glance at the tales we tell our children and ourselves about who we are and how we got here.
Normand — who maintains a studio and workspace in Indianapolis where he creates dynamic works of visual art infused with narratives of culture, community, and history — is a scavenger and an obsessive collector. He searches back streets and alleys, junk stores and abandoned buildings, looking for clues to explain the mysteries of our world. Normand finds stories in discarded things: Stories about all of us, our cities, and our shared history. He first began making collage images, shadow boxes, and installations as a way to justify his relentless collecting. But the work soon became much more than that. It is Normand’s way to dig deeply into the vast attic of this world and to share his finds with anyone who takes the time to look. He holds a Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame and worked nearly 30 years in the field of heritage preservation and housing reform before turning to the practice of art.

Freedom To Be Official Book Launch
2020-02-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join award-winning author Diana Ensign for this celebratory book signing and educational panel discussion on how our community can support transgender people and their families. Hear from Kimberly Acoff, Indiana Youth Group (IYG) Director of Programming; Sa’hara Miller, BU Wellness Sophisticated Divas Program; Diana Asberry (parent of a transgender child and a nonbinary child); and Andru Lanning (awesome young adult)! Info table by Matty Slaydon, Organizer of Queering Indy. A portion of book sales support Trinity Haven, Indiana’s first transitional housing program for LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness, and BU Wellness Network.
This project is made possible by support of the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency.
