Big Car

Poetry & Art with John Clark
2023-08-30 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join Indianapolis-based visual artist, Big Car co-founder and writer John Clark to make drawings, poems, and short stories…or a combination of all three!

Who? SPARK on the Circle is an ongoing partnership between Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, the Capital Improvement Board, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission.

What? SPARK brings a free, fun, playful, welcoming, and art-filled park to the heart of Indianapolis. Here on Monument Circle, you’ll find comfortable places to sit in the shade, free games to play like ping pong and chess, a cafe serving food and drink, art experiences, and special offerings like live, local music. Big Car Collaborative approaches its aspects of SPARK on the Circle as a site and community specific public art project.

When? Visitors can enjoy SPARK on the Circle from 11 a.m. until dusk each day until November 3.

Lunch at Lockerbie
2023-08-31 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace on Thursday, August 31 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the downtown greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market for artist-led activities like our Post Card Project, WQRT DJ mix, food by Box Burger, and games like Ping pong, foosball, and giant Jenga.
All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

African Dance with Uzuri
2023-08-31 16:00 - 18:00 | IN
Join Uzuri Asad, artist in Big Car’s Public Life Residency, for a dose of culture, self-care, and community as we explore rhythms from West Africa and other parts of the Diaspora. Give your body and soul a moment to reflect and progress all at once, meet Asad on the circle!

Who? SPARK on the Circle is an ongoing partnership between Big Car Collaborative, Downtown Indy, City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development, the Capital Improvement Board, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission.

What? SPARK brings a free, fun, playful, welcoming, and art-filled park to the heart of Indianapolis. Here on Monument Circle, you’ll find comfortable places to sit in the shade, free games to play like ping pong and chess, a cafe serving food and drink, art experiences, and special offerings like live, local music. Big Car Collaborative approaches its aspects of SPARK on the Circle as a site and community specific public art project.

When? Visitors can enjoy SPARK on the Circle from 11 a.m. until dusk each day until November 3.

Café Babette Pop Up
2023-09-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us in welcoming our soon to be neighbor Café Babette, a new micro-bakery specializing in French pastries.

They will be opening at 2625 Shelby St. later this year.

First Friday Night Market
2023-09-01 18:00 - 22:00, 2023-10-06 18:00 - 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us again for this upcoming First Friday for a wonderful evening in Garfield Park. We are celebrating local artists, musicians, food trucks and vendors by featuring them in our night market.
Come check out our creative endeavors here around Cruft Street, where you will have the opportunity to purchase local goods from amazing artists and food vendors here at the Tube.
During the winter months, the Night Market is held inside Tube Factory artspace. In the fall, spring, and summer months, vending is located outside.
If you are a local artist or maker, please contact email hidden; JavaScript is required for more information.

Through The Prism Model Casting Call
2023-09-03 11:00 - 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
This is an open call with flexible casting. Please arrive between the hours of 11am-3pm to be considered.

Heels are required. Wearing all black is not required. Please arrive in a look that captures your authentic self.

The casting call will take place in Jeremy Efroymson Gallery at Tube Factory Artspace. Please refrain from leaning or placing any objects against the walls of the gallery.

Casting call is open to women 21+ Previous modeling experience is not required.
This collection will incorporate performance and dancing. Previous performance experience is not necessary.

The show will take place November 2. You will be required to be available all day.

This call and show is organized by Mo Gio.

Lunch Break Live with Scrapper & Skeleton presented by Lake City Bank
2023-09-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us for one of Indianapolis’s finest blues acoustic duos, made possible by Lake City Bank!

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.

At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.
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Self Portrait Workshop with Greg Rose
2023-09-06 16:00 - 18:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join Greg Rose for a self portrait workshop! In this workshop you’ll delve into the art of self-portraiture. Learn and discover different techniques to capture yourself on paper. No prior experience needed! This workshop is designed for all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists. Materials will be provided, ensuring you have everything you need to bring your masterpiece to life.

About the artist:
A multidisciplinary artist who creates under the moniker of Hay Kidd, Greg Rose finds it paramount that they reflect their experience as a black queer non-binary artist living within the reach of poverty and under the knee of racism and homophobia. Rose believes having representation of those stories is necessary to creating new terms and conditions in our social contract, where all experiences are not only valued but protected. In reflecting on Courage, they say, “Courage is a virtue and virtues are the means between two vices, one of deficiency and one of excess. I would love for you to take a second and allow yourself to be transported by the vivid colors to a whimsical landscape and stand in courage—not just now but always.”

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Circle Side Chats with Ed Fujawa
2023-09-07 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Grab a bite to eat, have a seat at SPARK and settle in for lunch with Ed Fujawa to listen and discuss The Doctor and the Canals: Dr. Isaac Coe and the Bankrupting of Indiana
Ed Fujawa is an attorney with the Indiana Department of Insurance and in his spare time, an Indianapolis historian. His authors a blog dedicated to the history of the Circle City, www.class900indy.com His first history book about the city, Vanished Indianapolis, explores the history of lost sites across the city. When he is not researching local history, Ed enjoys being a subpar fisherman and going kayaking on the White River and Fall Creek.
This series is in partnership with Indiana Humanities.
Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that infuses the humanities into our daily lives. We do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating our own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2023-09-07 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us for live music by Wick, comfort dishes by Taste of Manila, and Live music. Games like foosball, ping pong, chess & checkers, and giant Jenga are also available for additional entertainment.
All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

About Wick
John Wick and Andrew Gustin met at IU Bloomington in 2006 and quickly bonded over similar music tastes. In 2007 they moved to Indianapolis and started an Indie Rock band called The Dwellers. The Dwellers were prolific and inspired by the DIY spirit and self released over 10 albums. In 2013 The Dwellers final album ‘Less is More’ was released by Jon Roger’s local label HIFR.
In 2021 John and Andrew reunited to make an album of songs John wrote in college. They started a new band called Wick and enlisted Dan Johnson to play drums and had John’s siblings Katie Jones and Ian Wick contribute with backing vocals on the album. Angel Baby is the single from the Wick album called “Forest” which will come out later in the year.
The band was joined by former Dwellers bassist Eric Brock to fill out the lineup.
About the project
A free gathering where knitting and graffiti collide! Simultaneously inspired by traditional knitting and graffiti, this ever-evolving piece combines fiber adjacent activities, coloring sheets derived from graffiti and knitting motifs, and opportunities for participants to share their creative path stories.
You are invited to come join the fun, because without YOU, Boo, this project can’t happen. Mary Jo Bayliss specializes in creating environments that help people feel at ease using space, light and color to achieve these goals.

Freetown Village: The Madam Walker Story
2023-09-07 16:00 - 18:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
In honor of Madam CJ Walker’s great achievements and contributions, Freetown Village Inc. brings you this one-woman show of her story through “different” eyes.
Join us for the amazing story of America’s first woman self-made millionaire. Learn about the rich legacy she created for women, African Americans, and Indianapolis!
Freetown Village is a living history museum with the mission to educate the public about African American lives, arts, and culture in Indiana through living history, exhibits, allied programs, and the collection and preservation of artifacts.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Music Instrument building with Rob Funkhouser
2023-09-13 16:00 - 18:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join composer and sound artist Rob Funkhouser for a workshop exploring the hidden sounds of everyday objects. Funkhouser will guide audiences through strategies for using amplification to reimagine the world of tiny sounds happening around them through the use of musical instruments, household items, and contact microphones. Participants will get the chance to explore a set of instruments and objects, and will also be guided on a short walk to find new sounds hidden in the environment around Monument Circle. No previous skills are required. Family friendly.

About:
Rob Funkhouser is a composer, performer, and instrument builder who can never quite sit still. His work is concerned with ideas of place, memory, and pattern and he is interested in interrogating the interstitial spaces between established genres. He holds an M.M. from Butler University in Music Composition, and most recently completed Peace of Mind, Speed of Thought for Classical Music Indy. He has released projects through various labels in three different countries, but finds his home turf on Auris Apothecary and Medium Sound. His current projects include an ongoing series of recordings and writing under the title Walking Music, building a new set of instruments in collaboration with artist Justin Cooper, and ongoing work on new performance tools for music and installations. In 2020, he began a long-term living residency with Big Car as part of their APLR program. He also serves as Education Manager for the Rhythm Discovery Center, where he runs public programming for schools and community members. He has collaborated with diverse groups including Forward Motion, Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, So Percussion, No Exit Theater, and Chicago-based director Ryan Gleason.

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Circle Side Lunch Chats with Jeannie Regan-Dinius
2023-09-14 11:30 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
A Grave Matter in Indiana: Cemeteries and Hoosiers
Grab a lunch and meet up with Jeannie Regan-Dinius to discuss cemeteries!
Before most of any city was developed, the first thing our pioneers established was burial grounds. Whether a family site, religious based, or community focused these essential spaces evolved in importance, design, and use. This Spark will explore the city’s relationship with these places.
Bio: Jeannie R. Regan-Dinius, Director of Special Initiatives, has a life-long interest in history, family history, and research. She earned her Bachelors in Public History from Ball State University, where she studied also anthropology and American Studies. She has her Masters in Urban Planning and Information Management/Library Science from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis.
She is the Director of Historic Preservation for the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation, a role she started in 2022. Before that, she worked as the Cemetery and Burial Ground Registry Coordinator for the State of Indiana. Jeannie has served on the board of directors for the Indiana Women’s History Association, the Indiana Historical Society, and the Association of Indiana Museums.
Circle Side Chats is in partnership with Indiana Humanities. Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that infuses the humanities into our daily lives. We do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating our own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle. Check our website for more.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Lunch at Lockerbie
2023-09-14 11:30 - 13:00 | 320 n new jersey, Indianapolis, United States
Join us for Latin Flavor Food Truck, graffiti meets knitting, artist-led activities and WQRT DJ mix.
September is the perfect month for Big Car’s Spark Placemaking in partnership with CitiMark and Gershman Partners to bring live music, food trucks, and a nice spot to hang out at the Lockerbie greenspace next to Needler’s Market between Alabama, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont streets in the heart of Downtown. This pocket park surrounded by retail and office spaces and is also located just off of the Indianapolis Cultural Trail. Ping pong, foosball, and giant jenga are always available for additional entertainment.

Lunch at Lockerbie Marketplace
2023-09-14 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace on Thursday, August 14 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the downtown greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market for artist-led activities like our Post Card Project, WQRT DJ mix, food by Latin Flavor, and games like Ping pong, foosball, and giant Jenga.
All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

Live music, food & artist-led activities at Lockerbie Place
2023-09-21 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us for live music by Awetree and food by Chomp’z Truck. Games like foosball, ping pong, chess & checkers, and giant Jenga are available for additional entertainment.
About Awetree
Awetree is the ukulele-pop project of Indianapolis-based singer songwriter Audrey Coy. Lyrically inspired by the complexities of interpersonal relationships, Awetree explores the sadness and hope of love and friendship.

All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

Night Market at Lockerbie featuring live performance by Clint Breeze and Funkhouser
2023-09-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace — a lovely greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market. Purchase goods from local artisans, enjoy local food by Herts BBQ and live music by Funkhouser and Clint Breeze Music from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Sun King beer and chilled wine are also available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street.
All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

Her Addiction-An Empty Place At The Table: Book reading with Mary Sexon
2023-09-24 14:30 - 16:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us and author Mary Sexson for a reading of her new book of poetry “Her Addiction, An Empty Place at the Table.”

“The book is a collection of poems that came to be written in response to the family problem of addiction. I feel that the poems are a chronicle of the fear, shame, and anger we went through as a family, during the years of our daughter’s active drug use and addiction. I wrote these poems over the course of almost 10 years, as a way to cope with the pain of it, the absolute fear of it, which I processed and filtered through the lenses of these words. My husband and I were also taking care of our daughter’s young son during this time, because she was unable to care for him. I knew we were not alone, that the dark secret of addiction was present within many families. I wanted this book to be some sort of acknowledgement that yes, this happened to us. Maybe it happened to you. So we need to talk about it openly, to tell the truth about it, to let go of the secrets and the shame. Writing these poems helped to free me from those feelings, and ultimately helped to heal me from within. I want people to have a healing process reading these poems, even just to know that they’re not alone. And I want to acknowledge that the incredible road to recovery my daughter has journeyed on is also a part of that healing.”–Mary Sexson

Mary Sexson is author of the award-winning book, 103 in the Light, Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Restoration Press), and co-author of Company of Women, New and Selected Poems (Chatter House Press). Her poetry has appeared in Tipton Poetry Journal, Laureate, Hoosier Lit, Flying Island, New Verse News, Grasslands Review, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal, among others. She has recent work in Reflections on Little Eagle Creek, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Last Stanza Poetry Journal Issue #7. Finishing Line Press will publish her manuscript, Her Addiction, An Empty Place at the Table, in 2023. She has three Pushcart Prize nominations. Sexson’s poetry is part of the INverse Poetry Archives for Hoosier Poets.

“This is a poetry collection that will break your heart, but also make you grateful you read it. Mary Sexson tells the story of her daughter’s addiction(s) honestly, sometimes painfully, with grace and love. The first time I read the powerful and moving manuscript I sensed it could be a challenge for her to find a publisher. As the author of a book of poems about surviving abuse by a priest, however, I also had faith that some wise publisher would admire a poet who confronts difficult topics and stories like the one that Mary Sexson has the courage to tell about herself, her family, and their struggles. Sometimes she is patient, sometimes frustrated, impatient, exhausted, angry, but always she is honest. Remarkably, her love of, and loyalty to, her undependable daughter is everywhere evident.
The most moving part of the story is her and her husband’s having to raise their grandson, a toddler, while his mother, in her thirties, is in and out of treatment, somewhere in an alley looking for a fix, causing a traffic accident, or temporarily back home before relapsing again. Sexson makes it clear that for everyone in the family there is “a heavy toll to pay.” At first, the grandson is unaware of what’s going on, but eventually his grandmother observes him playing “The Dinosaur Game,” with “a family /of triceratops,” then realizes, “I buy him the dinosaurs / he configures / into the family he does not have.” Later the little boy asks his grandmother a series of questions, including: “Why is [my] mommy not here?” On his bedside table, a “Big Ironman” stands, whose job is “to keep him safe / until her return.”
It’s no surprise that the grandparents find it difficult to share this painful story with others, which makes the telling of so much truth in these eloquent poems noteworthy. “The price we all pay / for this level of intimacy is staggering,” Sexson admits. “I ache for monotony…the comfort of it.” In “Map of My Fears,” she says: “Your addiction draws lines / on my face, deep and distinct.” She becomes “tired of writing about [her] in my head.” Finally, the grandparents start to “whisper” the story of their daughter’s addiction, telling others the “facts / bare and ugly as they were.”
In the last poem, “The Words,” Sexson reveals all that she would like to be able to tell her daughter on her 37th birthday. The last message is this: “Tell her / that you learn the truth about love / every time you are with her.” The poet is too wise to tell us, directly, what that truth is – the poems in this outstanding collection deserving of a wide audience have already made us see and feel it. Mary Sexson’s exquisite artistry makes forgetting her family story impossible.”
–Norbert Krapf, Former Indiana Poet Laureate

“I’ve always appreciated the variety Mary Sexson brings to her writing. In the past she’s given us humor, other times practical advice, and often wise words. But more than anything she gives us herself. Mary is never afraid of letting us see the most sensitive moments of her life and now is no exception. She welcomes us into her private world where we can see “The indigo sky, color of my heart / today, blue tattooed across it. In this new book Her Addiction, An Empty Place at the Table, Mary has taken us into the nightmare of her daughter’s drug addiction. With these riveting poems we feel the weaving together of love and pain as she navigates the all too often calamities families suffer as the result of addiction. At the same time we feel her palpable longing for the coming of relentlessly gained joy in her daughter’s recovery.”
–Joyce Brinkman, Indiana Poet Laureate 2002-2008

Lunch at Lockerbie Place
2023-09-28 11:30 - 13:30 | Needler’s Market, 320 N New Jersey, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, United States
Join us at Lockerbie Marketplace on Thursday, August 28 from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the downtown greenspace next to Needler’s Fresh Market for artist-led activities like our Post Card Project, WQRT DJ mix, food by That Vegan Food Truck, and games like Ping pong, foosball, and giant Jenga.
All events are free at 320 N New Jersey Street in the greenspace right off the Cultural Trail.

Sylvia Thomas: VIGIL Book Release
2023-09-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Join us for a reading and music performance from poet, activist and artist, Sylvia Thomas.
In 2016, Sylvia began performing her spoken word in Indianapolis. She performed at a few open mics and showcases. From then on, she began to feature at different spots all over the state and the Midwest. In 2018, her words took her to Copenhagen, Denmark as a poet for Winter Pride. After her trip to Europe, she wrote a collection of poems for her debut chapbook, DIVINE. In 2020, she began displaying her creative process of her works on Patreon.
In August of 2021, she was a headliner for Copenhagen 2021: World Pride and EuroGames. After her World Pride performance, she performed for a collaboration between the Global Queer Youth Network and the United Nation Envoy on Youth. Sylvia released her self-published book, Twirl: A Collection of Poetry by a Queer and Transgender Hoosier, in November of 2021. She continues to travel and create more work. Thomas is one of the long term residency artists in Big Car’s APLR program.

Lunch Break Live with Mandog
2023-10-03 12:00 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
A producer/visual artist from Indianapolis, IN, Mandog combines elements from everywhere and anywhere and cooks them down into a nice Mandog soup. Hip-hop is his specialty, but you might find him boppin’ around in other genres as well.
Mandog was the Champion of the 6th Annual Jay Brookinz Beat Battle at The Vogue Theater (2014) and had another first place finish at a Jay Brookinz Battle League round at the Hi-Fi (2015).

SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Drum Circle with Rob Funkhouser
2023-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Come join Rob Funkhouser from Rhythm Discovery for a drum circle on the Circle!

For this activity, participants will get the opportunity to learn how to express themselves on hand drums and explore the basics of playing with other people. Working with Rob, participants will begin making sounds on the instruments and learn some basic rhythms inspired by traditional music.

Planter Painting with Stephanie Williams
2023-10-04 16:00 - 18:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us down at SPARK for a creative and fun planter painting event! Unleash your inner artist as we provide you with all the supplies you need to decorate your own plant pot. Whether you’re a seasoned painter or a complete beginner, this event is perfect for all skill levels.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

Circle Side Chats with Kevin McKelvey
2023-10-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Making, Keeping, and Poeting a Place
This program will give a brief overview of creative placemaking and placekeeping and discuss the importance of place in the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley, Mari Evans, and Etheridge Knight.
Bio: Kevin McKelvey is a place-based poet, writer, designer, and social practice artist who also teaches at University of Indianapolis. His poems have appeared widely in journals, books, and as pieces of public art. McKelvey currently serves on the board of Central Indiana Land Trust and regularly consults on grants, placemaking, professional writing, and creative writing.
Circle Side Chats is in partnership with Indiana Humanities. Indiana Humanities is a statewide nonprofit that infuses the humanities into our daily lives. We do this by providing grants, convening discussions, uplifting humanities scholars, spotlighting humanities organizations and activities, and creating our own programs that help Hoosiers think, read and talk.

Candle Making with Freetown Village
2023-10-05 16:00 - 18:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join Freetown Village at SPARK for an immersive candle-making experience! Visitors will have the opportunity to learn the art of candle making, where they’ll create their very own drip candle. It’s a hands-on adventure in the world of candle making that’s perfect for individuals, families, and friends looking for a memorable and crafty day out
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.

A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
2023-10-06 18:00 - 2023-10-21 15:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Guichelaar Gallery
Within the brief window of our human existence, the ability to come together, protect, and care for one another has allowed us to evolve into a complex, beautiful species. But have we lost these vital sensibilities? Collectively, we have forgotten how to connect with others, provide comfort, empathize and sustain community.
A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH is an exploration of the friction, the barriers, and distance between the relationships we create with one another and how they are inevitable yet necessary to our growth. Through a combination of sculptural, textile, and print work Nazarinne Ahmed & Colleen Gross explore the labor involved in cultivating these complicated, intimate relationships.

About Nazarinne Ahmed
Nazarinne is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work is the result of an obsessive search for balance, security and comfort. Through the use of textile, printmaking, and tactile processes she creates a space to process, make sense of the past and untangle the complexity of her religious upbringing, cultural and racial identity. Through her work, she examines the way these facets have shaped the manner in which she moves and makes sense of the world around her.
Nazarinne’s mother is of Caribbean descent and her father is of South Asian descent. They both immigrated to New York, where they met and started a family, eventually moving to Indiana, where Nazarinne is currently based.
About Colleen Gross
Darwin’s Theory of Female Sabotage
400 chemistry vials, 400 hollow point boat tail bullet wax castings, 800 sewing pins.
Certain types of relationships prove that our isolation is not permanent. That one person in the entire universe recognizes your humanity means that you yourself can, too.
“Female sabotage is an evolutionary theory regarding the propensity of certain females to select “burdened” males of their species for mating. This ensures that as the males die, more food and other resources will remain for females and their young.”
Colleen is a sculptor from Indy exploring the stages of grief through their personal experience with loss and seeks to create environments for people to feel understood.They investigate the fundamentals of science to aid in the process of ending negative social cycles and introducing new, more inclusive ways of being. By imbuing these concepts into sculpture, they suggest forgetting the learned and inherited ways of survival based on biological phenotypes, and instead seek connection, strength, and longevity.
Curated by Jane Sun Kim / / Big Car Collaborative’s Artist & Public Life Residency

GOLDEN MYST: Tarot Art Show by Daniela Martín del Campo & Gloomy Zauros
2023-10-06 18:00 - 2023-11-19 22:00 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
Arte Mexicano en Indiana and Big Car Collaborative are partnering to present the works by Mexican Daniela Martín del Campo & and Colombian Artist Gloomy Zauros. GOLDEN MYST represents a unique visual and spiritual experience, where chromatic limitation becomes a window to reflection and contemplation: the deep black of the ink, the shimmering gold and the immaculate white of the paper.
GOLDEN MYST is the artistic dialogue between two talented creators: Daniela Martín del Campo, outstanding Mexican children’s book illustrator, who surprises us with her ability to weave enchanting visual narratives. Her reimagining of tarot cards transports the viewer into a realm of meaning and mystery.
On the other hand, Gloomy Zauros, heavily influenced by metal engraving and etching, offers a different and fascinating perspective. His cards are meticulously crafted with fine lines and striking visual depth, inviting us to immerse ourselves in the symbolic layers of the tarot.
GOLDEN MYST is a tribute to the artistic diversity of Latin America and the richness of creative reinterpretation. Through the different techniques of Dan and Gloomy, this exhibition immerses us in a world of hidden meanings, graphic beauty and mysticism, taking us on a journey that transcends the boundaries of imagination and culture.

Golden Myst representa una experiencia visual y espiritual única, donde la limitación cromática se convierte en una ventana a la reflexión y la contemplación: el negro profundo de la tinta, el dorado resplandeciente y el blanco inmaculado del papel.
Golden Myst es el diálogo artístico entre dos talentosos creadores: Dan Martín del Campo, destacada ilustradora infantil mexicana, que nos sorprende con su habilidad para tejer encantadoras narraciones visuales. Su reimaginación de las cartas del tarot transporta al espectador a un reino de significado y misterio.
Por otro lado, Gloomy Zauros, muy influenciado por el grabado en metal y el aguafuerte, ofrece una perspectiva diferente y fascinante. Sus cartas están meticulosamente elaboradas con líneas finas y una sorprendente profundidad visual, invitándonos a sumergirnos en las capas simbólicas del tarot.
Golden Myst es un homenaje a la diversidad artística de América Latina y a la riqueza de la reinterpretación creativa. A través de las diferentes técnicas de Dan y Gloomy, esta exposición nos sumerge en un mundo de significados ocultos, belleza gráfica y misticismo, llevándonos a un viaje que trasciende las fronteras de la imaginación y la cultura.
About the artists:
Daniela Martin del Campo is a Mexican illustrator who draws from the folklore of her country to generate symbolic images. Her charming characters and scenarios hide parallel narratives that invite us to imagine mysterious outcomes. Her work has been featured in Italy, France, Japan, Mexico and the united States.
Gloomy Zauros, a Colombian artist specializes in storytelling, comic, illustration, and tattoo. His work has been recognized in France and Mexico among other countries. His imagination revolves around the oneiric and the occult, and his technique is strongly influenced by metal engraving and ink etching.
Sobre los artistas:
Daniela Martín del Campo es una ilustradora mexicana quien se inspira en el folklore de su país para generar imágenes simbólicas. Sus encantadores personajes y escenarios esconden narrativas paralelas que nos invitan a imaginar desenlaces misteriosos. Su trabajo se ha presentado en Italia, Francia, Japón, México y Estados Unidos.
Gloomy Zauros, artista colombiano especializado en narración, cómic, ilustración y tatuaje. Su trabajo ha sido reconocido en Francia y México entre otros países. Su imaginación gira en torno a lo onírico y lo oculto, y su técnica está fuertemente influenciada por el grabado en metal y el aguafuerte.

Kaila Austin- Process as Practice: Reimagining the Lost Hardrick Mural
2023-10-06 18:00 - 2023-12-17 15:30 | Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi), 1125 Cruft St., Indianapolis, IN, 46203, United States
As the United States continues to face its history of enslavement, oppression, and exclusion of Black Americans in museums and other arenas of power and recognition, “Process as Practice: Reimagining the Lost Hardrick Mural” is impactful and unique. The exhibit is part of an ongoing partnership between artist Kaila Austin; the Norwood community on the southeast side of Indianapolis, and the family of Indiana’s Harlem Renaissance painter, John Wesley Hardrick (1891-1968).

Mientras que los Estados Unidos continúa enfrentando la historia de esclavitud, opresión, y exclusión de los Afro Americanos en los museos y otras arenas de poder y reconocimiento, la exhibición ‘El Proceso Como Practica: Reimaginando el Mural Perdido de John Westley Hardrick’ es una propuesta impactante y única. La exhibición es parte de una colaboración entre la artitas Kaila Austin, la pequeña comunidad de Norwood en el Sureste de Indianapolis, y la familia del pintor de ‘Harlem Renaissance’ originario de Indiana, John Wesley Hardrick (1891—1968).

Over the last three years, Austin worked with the descendants of the United States Colored Troops (African-American Civil War veterans), to recover and record their family histories as their communities shift due to gentrification. Austin is working most closely with Norwood — a neighborhood less than a mile from her childhood home.

Durante los últimos tres años, Austin trabajó con los descendientes de personas de color que fueron miembros de las Tropas en Estados Unidos (veteranos afroamericanos de la Guerra Civil), para recuperar y registrar sus historias familiares después del proceso de gentrificación de sus comunidades. Actualmente, Austin está trabajando más estrechamente con Norwood, un vecindario a menos de una milla de la casa de su infancia.

In February of 2021, Austin learned that the new city morgue would be built on the Hardrick homesite, encroaching on Norwood while the neighborhood celebrated its 150th anniversary. Due to community activism from the descendants, the City canceled morgue construction. Since then, Austin and the community have worked together to reimagine the Hardrick homesite. The mural featured in this exhibit is part of that reimagining. For Austin, this entire project is work that’s transient and malleable. It changes as the research becomes more clear (or muddy).

En Febrero del 2021, Austin se dio cuenta de que la nueva morgue de la ciudad sería construida en el lugar que fuera anteriormente la casa del reconocido pintor Hardrick, invadiendo el vecindario de Norwood, mientras que se celebraba el 150 aniversario de esta comunidad. A través de esfuerzos de la comunidad organizada, se evitó que se construyera la morgue en Norwood. Desde entonces, Austin y la comunidad han trabajado juntos para reimaginar la residencia histórica de Hardrick. El mural que se presenta en esta exhibición es parte de esta reinvención. Para Austin, este proyecto es un trabajo que está vivo, que es maleable y evoluciona, y que cambia mientras que los participantes aprenden más al investigar sobre la vida del pintor.

This mural — recreated by Austin with the support of Hardrick’s family — was originally painted at Crispus Attucks High School in 1934 as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Hardrick was the only African American artist to be selected in the state. The mural depicted four foundry workers toiling in the heat. The imagery reflected Hardrick’s lived experience working at a foundry in Norwood while he created the mural. However, the principal at Crispus Attucks wanted Black children to aspire to work in professions outside of manual labor, professions that historically excluded Black Americans. For this reason, the school put the mural in the basement, never to be seen again.

Este mural, recreado por Austin con el apoyo de la familia de Hardrick, fue pintado originalmente en la escuela secundaria Crispus Attucks en 1934 como parte de un programa de la ‘Works Progress Administration’ (WPA). En ese momento, Hardrick fue el único artista afroamericano seleccionado en el estado. El mural representaba a cuatro trabajadores de una fundidura trabajando duro en el calor. Las imágenes reflejaban la vida de Hardrick y su experiencia trabajando en una fundidora en Norwood mientras que él trabajaba, al mismo tiempo, creando el mural. Sin embargo, el Director de la secundaria Crispus Attucks quería que los niños negros aspiraran a trabajar en profesiones no manuales, profesiones que históricamente excluían a los afroamericanos. Por esta razón, la escuela puso el Mural en el sótano, para que nunca más se volviera a ver.

Austin reimagined what the mural looked like by working with the Hardrick family and the descendants in Norwood. They explored his diaries and sketchbooks and looked at Hardrick’s mentors and peers — and the community that raised him. The exhibit gives us a chance to step into Hardrick’s world and see how he created the piece from start to finish. Even the title of the piece was lost. So Austin and the family are renaming the mural.

Con la ayuda de la familia Hardrick y de otros descendientes en Norwood, Austin reimaginó cómo luciría el mural hoy. Ellos exploraron sus diarios y cuadernos de bocetos y miraron los de algunos mentores y compañeros de Hardrick en la comunidad en la que él se crió. La exposición nos da la oportunidad de entrar en el mundo de Hardrick y ver cómo creó la pieza de principio a fin. Incluso el título de la pieza se perdió, por lo que Austin y la familia tuvieron que cambiar el nombre del mural.

A collaboration between Hardrick, his descendants, the Norwood community, and Austin, “Process as Practice: Reimagining the Lost Hardrick Mural” is a multi-generational approach to public art. It creates context through community engagement that gives Hardrick’s descendants agency in reimagining the life of an artwork that deserves preservation and attention due to its relevance and meaning for all of us.

Esta colaboración entre Hardrick, sus descendientes, la comunidad de Norwood y Austin, titulada ‘El Proceso Como Práctica: Reimaginando el mural perdido de John Wesley Hardrick’ es un enfoque multigeneracional hacia el arte público. Esta colaboración crea un contexto a través de la participación comunitaria que provee un medio para que los descendientes de Hardrick puedan reimaginar la vida de una obra de arte que merece preservación y atención debido a su relevancia y significado para todos nosotros.

About the Artist:
Kaila Austin is an artist and public historian from Indianapolis. She attended Indiana University, triple majoring in Art History, African American Studies, and Painting. Since 2019, she has run her own historic consulting organization, Rogue Preservation Services. For the last two years, she has been working with six Reconstruction-era African American neighborhoods to record, preserve and uplift the stories of the US Colored Troops on the Southeast side of Indianapolis. The public arts plays a major role in telling these stories and reimagining our city through a Black lens. Austin is an Artist in Residence in Big Car Collaborative’s long-term residency program on the southeast side of Indianapolis.

This exhibit is made possible by The Efroymson Family Fund, The Arts Council of Indianapolis, The City of Indianapolis, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Fund and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Research support provided by Indiana Humanities, Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowship, Indiana Landmarks Black Heritage Preservation Program, Power Plant Grant, Kheprw Institute and CICF’s Artist Ambassadors Program.
Exhibition Production and Organization: The Southside US Colored Troops Coalition, Big Car Staff, Aurora PhotoCenter, Osborn Design & Craft, Quincy Owens Studio, 10 East Arts, Ben Rose, Studio Auteur, Greg Rose, and Rue Stafford.

Acerca de la Artista: Kaila Austin es una artista e historiadora pública de Indianápolis. Ella asistió a la Universidad de Indiana, con triple especialización en Historia del Arte, Estudios Afroamericanos y Pintura. Desde el 2019, dirige su propia organización de consultoría histórica, ‘Rogue Preservation Services.’ Durante los últimos dos años, ha estado trabajando con seis vecindarios afroamericanos de la era de la Reconstrucción para registrar, preservar, y realzar las historias de los soldados veteranos de color en EE. UU., en el lado sureste de Indianápolis. Las artes públicas desempeñan un papel importante a la hora de contar estas historias y reinventar nuestra ciudad a través de una lente negra. Austin es parte del programa de artistas residentes en Big Car Collaborative en el lado sureste de Indianápolis.

Esta exhibición es posible gracias a el Fondo de la Familia Efroymson, El Consejo de las Artes de Indianápolis, la ciudad de Indianápolis, la Comisión de las Artes de Indiana, El Fondo Allen Whitehill Clowes, y el Instituto de Servicios de Museos y Bibliotecas.

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About the Southside US Colored Troop Coalition:
The Southside US Colored Troops Coalition is founded and maintained by the descendants of African American Civil War Veterans who founded six Reconstruction era communities in Southeast Indianapolis. With over 250 descendant families still living on the lots their ancestors purchased after the Civil War, they are some of the oldest African American communities in the United States. The mission of this organization is to preserve, uplift and revitalize the communities, families and stories of these brave men who lived and died for Black Freedom.

About Norwood
The Norwood neighborhood was a Freetown founded and built by Civil War veterans in the 1860s. Survivors of the Civil War from the 28th Regiment returned to Indianapolis in 1866 as newly freed slaves. And they settled further east along Prospect Street, eventually expanding into what became known as Norwood.
Their living descendants have long advocated for the perseveration and recognition of their community. The homes in Norwood have stayed within families for generations.
Norwood’s first church, Penick Chapel AME Zion, was founded in 1889 by former Kentucky slave and Civil War veteran Rev. Sydney Penick

About the WPA
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a key part of the Second New Deal.
In one of its most famous projects, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in arts, drama, media, and literacy projects. The five projects dedicated to these were the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of immense importance to American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout the United States and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.

Kaila Austin
El Proceso Como Práctica: Reimaginando el Mural Perdido de John Wesley Hardrick
Oct. 6—Dec. 17

Mientras que los Estados Unidos continúa enfrentando la historia de esclavitud, opresión, y exclusión de los Afro Americanos en los museos y otras arenas de poder y reconocimiento, la exhibición ‘El Proceso Como Practica: Reimaginando el Mural Perdido de John Westley Hardrick’ es una propuesta impactante y única. La exhibición es parte de una colaboración entre la artitas Kaila Austin, la pequeña comunidad de Norwood en el Sureste de Indianapolis, y la familia del pintor de ‘Harlem Renaissance’ originario de Indiana, John Wesley Hardrick (1891—1968).

Durante los últimos tres años, Austin trabajó con los descendientes de personas de color que fueron miembros de las Tropas en Estados Unidos (veteranos afroamericanos de la Guerra Civil), para recuperar y registrar sus historias familiares después del proceso de gentrificación de sus comunidades. Actualmente, Austin está trabajando más estrechamente con Norwood, un
vecindario a menos de una milla de la casa de su infancia.

En Febrero del 2021, Austin se dio cuenta de que la nueva morgue de la ciudad sería construida en el lugar que fuera anteriormente la casa del reconocido pintor Hardrick, invadiendo el vecindario de Norwood, mientras que se celebraba el 150 aniversario de esta comunidad. A través de esfuerzos de la comunidad organizada, se evitó que se construyera la morgue en Norwood. Desde entonces, Austin y la comunidad han trabajado juntos para reimaginar la residencia histórica de Hardrick. El mural que se presenta en esta exhibición es parte de esta reinvención. Para Austin, este proyecto es un trabajo que está vivo, que es maleable y evoluciona, y que cambia mientras que los participantes aprenden más al investigar sobre la vida del pintor.

Este mural, recreado por Austin con el apoyo de la familia de Hardrick, fue pintado originalmente en la escuela secundaria Crispus Attucks en 1934 como parte de un programa de la ‘Works Progress Administration’ (WPA). En ese momento, Hardrick fue el único artista afroamericano seleccionado en el estado. El mural representaba a cuatro trabajadores de una fundidura trabajando duro en el calor. Las imágenes reflejaban la vida de Hardrick y su experiencia trabajando en una fundidora en Norwood mientras que él trabajaba, al mismo tiempo, creando el mural. Sin embargo, el Director de la secundaria Crispus Attucks quería que los niños negros aspiraran a trabajar en profesiones no manuales, profesiones que históricamente excluían a los afroamericanos. Por esta razón, la escuela puso el Mural en el sótano, para que nunca más se volviera a ver.

Con la ayuda de la familia Hardrick y de otros descendientes en Norwood, Austin reimaginó cómo luciría el mural hoy. Ellos exploraron sus diarios y cuadernos de bocetos y miraron los de algunos mentores y compañeros de Hardrick en la comunidad en la que él se crió. La exposición nos da la oportunidad de entrar en el mundo de Hardrick y ver cómo creó la pieza de principio a fin. Incluso el título de la pieza se perdió, por lo que Austin y la familia tuvieron que cambiar el nombre del mural.

Esta colaboración entre Hardrick, sus descendientes, la comunidad de Norwood y Austin, titulada ‘El Proceso Como Práctica: Reimaginando el mural perdido de John Wesley Hardrick’ es un enfoque multigeneracional hacia el arte público. Esta colaboración crea un contexto a través de la participación comunitaria que provee un medio para que los descendientes de Hardrick
puedan reimaginar la vida de una obra de arte que merece preservación y atención debido a su
relevancia y significado para todos nosotros.

Acerca de la Artista: Kaila Austin es una artista e historiadora pública de Indianápolis. Ella asistió a la Universidad de Indiana, con triple especialización en Historia del Arte, Estudios Afroamericanos y Pintura. Desde el 2019, dirige su propia organización de consultoría histórica, ‘Rogue Preservation Services.’ Durante los últimos dos años, ha estado trabajando con seis vecindarios afroamericanos de la era de la Reconstrucción para registrar, preservar, y realzar las historias de los soldados veteranos de color en EE. UU., en el lado sureste de Indianápolis. Las artes públicas desempeñan un papel importante a la hora de contar estas historias y reinventar nuestra ciudad a través de una lente negra. Austin es parte del programa de artistas residentes en Big Car Collaborative en el lado sureste de Indianápolis.

Esta exhibición es posible gracias a el Fondo de la Familia Efroymson, El Consejo de las Artes de Indianápolis, la ciudad de Indianápolis, la Comisión de las Artes de Indiana, El Fondo Allen Whitehill Clowes, y el Instituto de Servicios de Museos y Bibliotecas.

Scavenger Hunt with Brittany Fukushima
2023-10-07 12:00 - 14:00 | 1 Monument Circle, South Facing Steps, United States
Join us to kick off an on-going scavenger hunt, find all the little art sculptures and more around the Circle.
About the artist: Brittany Fukushima is an Indianapolis-based painter and teaching artist who uses their practice to interpret their environment. Drawing and painting become a means to investigate the natural world, express the intangible, and to present alternate ways of seeing. Recently, they have experimented with paint making using foraged pigments. Teaching is an integral part of their process as it keeps them in community and provides fresh perspectives. Brittany currently teaches at the Indianapolis Art Center and is a graduate of Herron School of Art and Design. They have exhibited throughout Indianapolis and Chicago and their work has been featured by Butter, WFYI and Pattern Magazine.
SPARK is a partnership with Downtown Indy, the City of Indianapolis, and the Indiana War Memorials Commission — and funded by the Capital Improvements Board. It is a continuation of our work last year and in 2015 on the Circle.
At Big Car, we approach our work at the Circle as a site- and community-specific socially engaged art and creative placemaking project. The SPARK on the Circle pop-up park was collaboratively designed with Indianapolis-based Merritt Chase to be a restorative public place where people of all walks of life can relax, play, socialize, and engage with art and artists in the heart of our city.
