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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Conversation Series- Juan William Chavez\, Dr. Jarrod Dortch and David Kirkland
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Juan William Chávez artist\, activist and director of Northside Workshop\, APLR artist\, Dr. Jarrod Dortch and Chef David Kirkland.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required to receive the Zoom link.\n\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nAbout Juan William Chávez\nJuan William Chávez is an artist\, activist and director of Northside Workshop. His studio practice focuses on sculpting space within urban ecosystems through partnerships and collaborations as a way to address social and environmental issues. His work includes public sculptures\, multimedia installations\, paintings\, drawings\, and unconventional forms of beekeeping and agriculture. His exhibitions focus on themes of the urban environment\, ecology\, sustainability\, craft/labor\, activism\, identity and archaeology of place. Chavez has exhibited at ArtPace\, Van Abbemuseum\, McColl Center for Art\, Tube Factory Artspace\, 21c Museum Hotel\, Laumeier Sculpture Park\, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Currently Chavez’s work was included in El Museo’s survey of contemporary Latinx art\, ESTAMOS BIEN – LA TRIENAL 20/21. His interdisciplinary approach to art has gained the attention and support of prestigious institutions like the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, Creative Capital\, Graham Foundation\, ArtPlace America\, Andy Warhol Foundation\, and Art Matters Foundation. Chávez holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.\nRead More: https://juanwilliamchavez.com/home.html\n\nAbout Chef David Kirkland\nDavid Kirkland\, the owner and executive chef of Turn Restaurant and David Kirkland Catering\, believes food and music brings people together. He began his career in the early-1990’s\, bouncing from the Café at St. Louis Art Museum (Catering St. Louis) to Frazier’s Brown Bag\, and then Venice Café. Kirkland learned everything he could from some of the city’s best. In 1996\, he moved to San Francisco and began focusing on his music interests\, becoming a resident DJ at several clubs throughout the city. However\, he never lost his love for the culinary arts\, cooking for friends and family and exploring the area’s now famous farm-to-table approach to food. After moving back to St. Louis\, Kirkland returned to the kitchen with a mission\, taking the helm at Café Osage in 2007. He opened Turn Restaurant and David Kirkland Catering in Spring of 2016.\nRead More https://www.stlmag.com/…/hot-seat-a-conversation-with…/\n\nAbout Dr. Jarrod Dortch\nDr. Jarrod Nicholas Dortch is a Professor of Communication at Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie\, Indiana. He also serves as the owner and operator of Solful Gardens\, a local urban agriculture startup specializing in bringing Fresh.Urban.Natural produce to clients’ properties and working with community gardens. He has been affiliated with Big Car as a Community Artist and as Community Gardener at the Tube Factory artspace. He is currently working with Listen Hear and WQRT 99.1 FM. He enjoys bringing together art\, education\, and gardening to help to enrich the experiences of communities and their denizens.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/artists-community-conversation-series-juan-william-chavez-dr-jarrod-dortch-and-david-kirkland/
LOCATION:IN
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SUMMARY:The Indianapolis Anthology Reading & Book Release
DESCRIPTION:“As a child\, I thought Naptown was a cool nickname for Indianapolis. Little did I know it was more pejorative than cool. Indianapolis used to—and sometimes still does—have a reputation for being boring and lacking culture. The Indianapolis Anthology proves otherwise. We see the beauty\, the ugliness\, the racism\, the diversity\, the past\, and the present. It’s all here. Through each story\, you see Naptown isn’t a sleepy little city\, and I was right all along.” —Oseye Boyd\, editor of the Indianapolis Recorder\n“A must-read for anyone who thinks they know the city.” —Rachel Sahaidachny\, associate editor of The Indianapolis Review\nThe Indianapolis Anthology (May 4\, 2021)\, edited by Norman Minnick\, showcases Naptown’s vibrancy and diversity with pieces from journalists\, poets\, historians\, established community voices\, and first-time writers. Indianapolis is more than the home of the Indianapolis 500\, John Dillinger\, Kurt Vonnegut\,and Wonder Bread. In these pages you’ll find lawn chairs in the beds of pick-ups; the magnificent stench of diesel\, sweat\, and sweetly hissing charcoal; suffragists and entrepreneurs; cement Pietàs; sneakers dangling from power lines; dog bakeries and yoga studios; red brick bungalows and war memorials; steakburgers and Mexican seafood; Pho and sauerbraten. In other words\, you’ll find not Naptown\, or flyover country\, but a vibrant city that is truly a cross section of today’s America.\nBelt books are distributed by Publishers Group West.\nMasks are required
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/the-indianapolis-anthology-reading-book-release/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor
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SUMMARY:Audrey Barcio and Rachel Leah Cohn: Sapientia Gloria Corona Est
DESCRIPTION:New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is proud to present “Sapientia Gloria Corona Est\,” curated by Shauta Marsh and featuring works by Audrey Barcio and Rachel Leah Cohn.\n“Sapientia Gloria Corona Est” runs from May 15 through June 27\, 2021 and opens with a limited reception on Saturday\, May 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. CT. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays.\nAs part of the ongoing Social Alchemy partnership with Indianapolis-based Big Car Collaborative\, this exhibition taps into the history\, art\, and architecture that has long made New Harmony a source of creative and spiritual energy for artists and thinkers. Sapientia Gloria Corona Est—or\, Wisdom is the Crown of Glory—is the motto of the Minerva Society\, one of the first women’s clubs in America. Founded in New Harmony\, the leaders of the Minerva Society nurtured critical conversation\, political debate\, and community engagement. Curator Shauta Marsh finds similar qualities in the works and practices of Audrey Barcio and Rachel Leah Cohn.\nIdeas of utopia and dystopia have long influenced these artists and their work. Through large-scale floor sculptures and reflective wall pieces\, Audrey Barcio and Rachel Leah Cohn each explore concepts of memory\, mythology\, and community. “Sapientia Gloria Corona Est” unifies Barcio and Cohn not only as artists\, but as teachers\, provocateurs\, feminists\, and catalysts for change. This exhibit\, like Social Alchemy as a whole\, simultaneously looks back and ahead and strives to make progress as a society.\nWomen are what they think.\n……\nAudrey Barcio is an artist and assistant professor at Ball State University. Through the use of universal symbology that is rooted in the language of the early abstractionists\, her work strives to change the accepted cultural raison d’être by positing a heritage of abstraction voiced in the feminine present. Barcio received her BAE from Herron School of Art and Design and her MFA from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. She attended the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany\, France\, and completed a Vermont Studio Center residency in 2017 and is a 2019 Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant recipient. Her work has been published in New American Paintings and has been featured in multiple group exhibitions around the U.S.\, including Art in America at the Art Miami Satellite Fair\, ART IN CONTEXT: Selections from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection\, Las Vegas\, NV\, and GLAMFA at UC Long Beach. Recent solo exhibitions include Syracuse University\, New York\, the Las Vegas Government Center\, Las Vegas\, NV\, University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and Tube Factory in Indianapolis. Barcio’s work is included in several public and private collections\, including that of the Barrick Museum of Art.\n\nRachel Leah Cohn is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting\, sculpture\, video and performance. She values experimentation\, collaboration and trying to find new ways to describe the world around her. Recent projects have included building a portable sauna with green tea steam\, searching for mirages out in the desert of Zekreet\, Qatar and trying to send a painting by radio waves to New Zealand. Rachel exhibits her work internationally\, including recent exhibitions in collaboration with the Qatar Museums\, the Istanbul Design Biennial and Aterlierhaus Salzamt in Linz\, Austria. She has attended many international artist residency programs\, recently including Signal Culture\, Otis College of Art and Design and the Fire Station in Doha\, Qatar. She holds an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and is the Foundations Coordinator for the School of Art at Ball State University in Muncie specializing in 4D Foundations.\n\nThe Social Alchemy project is a multifaceted\, multiyear\, interdisciplinary project in partnership with Big Car Collaborative\, University of Southern Indiana\, Historic New Harmony\, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art\, Working Men’s Institute\, Indiana State Museum\, Efroymson Family Fund\, and Indiana Humanities. 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. For more information\, visit the Social Alchemy project at bigcar.org/utopia.\n\nNew Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art provides a not-for-profit exhibition space for Midwestern artists and to promote discourse about and access to contemporary art in the southern Indiana region. Since its inception in 1975\, the gallery has provided an exhibition space for young and midcareer artists to show their work in a professional setting and a venue for contemporary art for the general public. The cornerstone of the Gallery’s mission is education and access through a carefully planned series of seven exhibitions per year. The exhibition series explores contemporary art concepts and provides increased opportunity for artists and the public to engage in discourse on and about the arts and culture.\nNew Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is a proud outreach partner of the University of Southern Indiana.\n\nThis exhibition is made possible in part by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana and the Indiana Arts Commission\, which receives support from the State of Indiana and the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/audrey-barcio-and-rachel-leah-cohn-sapientia-gloria-corona-est/
LOCATION:New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art\, 506 Main St\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artists & Community Speaker Series with Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Raymond Bobgan\, and Uzuri Asad
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second installment of this four part series developed with artists and neighbors who are doing work related to or influencing our thinking with the Artist and Public Life affordable artist housing residency in our neighborhood on the near Southside of Indianapolis.\nThis episode will include Executive Artistic Director of Twelve Literary Arts Daniel Gray-Kontar\, Executive Artistic Director of the Cleveland Public Theater Raymond Bobgan\, and APLR artist Uzuri Asad.\n\nE-mail email hidden; JavaScript is required for the Zoom link.\n\nMade possible by PNC Bank.\n\nAbout Daniel Gray-Kontar\nDaniel Gray-Kontar is a poet\, teacher\, youth mentor\, rapper\, journalist\, and education activist. He has worked as an advocate for social transformation in the city of Cleveland for more than 25 years. Gray-Kontar is an education consultant for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; writer-in-residence at MOCA Cleveland; the former chair of the Literary Arts Department at the Cleveland School of the Arts; and a former graduate school fellow at UC Berkeley’s College of Education. His work in arts education has been showcased on PBS Newshour\, The UK Guardian\, NPR\, and The Christian Science Monitor\, among other news media outlets. Gray-Kontar has lectured at universities\, public schools\, arts organizations and scholarly conferences across the US. His Ted Talk discussing youth leadership in public school education has affected the ways public school administrators think about the inclusion of youth and their families in the process of re-making school cultures and curricula.\n\nAbout Uzuri Asad\nOriginally from Cleveland\, Ohio\, Uzuri Asad now lives and works in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Indianapolis as part of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist in Public Life Residency program. She’s a singer\, dancer\, choreographer\, and jewelry-maker. Formally trained in West African dance and contemporary movement\, her art is guided by lived experiences and her cultural upbringing. Her style is a unique blend of fluid\, free flowing\, yet intentional movements. For Asad\, dance is a sacred means of individual expression that lives and breathes through her.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/artists-community-speaker-series-with-daniel-gray-kontar-raymond-bobgan-and-uzuri-asad/
LOCATION:IN
CATEGORIES:conference,Downtown Indy,Film,Garfield Park
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