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SUMMARY:Taylor and Grant Lewandowski: Pathology
DESCRIPTION:“I never thought about death until I was forced to confront it\, which fortunately wasn’t till much later in my life. But for some\, and for most of us eventually\, it is a source of fear and animosity. It is the very propelling mechanism pushing us toward a gradual disintegration and by this natural process we imprint ourselves into the places we’ve been\, the things we’ve done\, the people we’ve encountered. And\, like it or not\, these images\, objects\, and voices form a life once here\, later vanished\, and eventually slipping outside living memory to a complete oblivion. It is this obsession with mortality that the idea of art\, specifically photography\, hopes to transcend. \nWhen my brother and I unearthed these photographs in our grandpa’s attic\, we were not horrified at their unrelenting depiction of violence and death\, because we both knew he was a pathologist for over thirty years. It wasn’t out of the ordinary as a kid to browse his computer and happen upon a folder filled with gruesome snapshots of a man’s head blown apart by a shotgun. But what struck us both was a novel approach to understanding and excavating a very familiar person in our family and a place we consider our home. \nAll of these photographs were taken between 1981 and 1990 when our grandpa served as coroner in northern Indiana. (He likes to boast\, “I had more votes than Reagan.”) It isn’t surprising he was chosen as the obvious candidate. The previous coroner owned the funeral home and preferred to ship the cadavers out\, rather than investigating the cause of their death. Also\, our grandpa has always been meticulous and\, something I’ve always admired\, an auto-didact. He has that natural bent to seek out the solution to a problem or investigate a topic till there’s nothing left to discover. From the time I can remember\, he’s always had a book in hand\, reading with a true\, catholic interest. \nWhen I asked him\, “Why did you choose to be a pathologist?” He answered with an anecdote: When he was ten\, he spent the whole year in bed with rheumatoid arthritis. The doctors\, hoping to save time\, decided to wheel him into the lab and run various tests\, rather than go back and forth between the lab and his sickbed. While in the lab\, listening to the doctors talk jargon and watching the vials and equipment around him\, he developed an affinity for the medical sciences. He never forgot this obsessive\, scientific procedure to diagnose and solve human ailments. I also asked him about the constant proximity to death and tragedy\, assuming this had some deleterious effect on his psyche\, but he described the cadaver as a thing without a soul. The only incident which bothered him was an early autopsy of a child who choked on a jellybean. She was coincidentally the same age as his daughter at the time. \nHe moved with my grandma to a small town in Indiana shortly after finishing medical school. They have lived the majority of their life surrounded by the flat\, Midwest landscape. It is this same place I romanticized growing up. The cash crops rotating through the seasons\, or the empty storefronts downtown\, or the faded signs pointing nowhere – they all had this tarnished emblem of time past\, which I thought had a bucolic\, timeless quality\, as if this Indiana never changed. I had no conscious awareness of the very real\, apparent violence shown in these photographs. To me\, the slowness and consistency of rural Indiana was a quick salve to my adolescent anxieties. This was not anchored in reality\, but a fantasy to suspend my ordinary life back in the suburbs of Indianapolis and indulge in the idea that the country had a sort of unchanging innocence. \nThis\, of course\, was far from the truth. Like most America\, it is still struggling with an abhorrent intolerance to anything considered different than the status quo. It is deeply scarred by a heritage of racial violence\, specifically against the Miami tribe and the egregious history of sundown towns. The stereotype of the backward\, rural person today is not a complete picture\, but there is an element of truth in the stubbornness to see outside the tight reign of American Christianity\, or the systemic problems of valuing ignorance over intelligence\, and toughness over understanding. This does not always translate to a general judgement for each individual\, but it does serve\, especially in today’s political climate\, as a sweeping preoccupation at the forefront of American life (and\, it could be argued\, for the last hundred years). \nIn conversation with my grandpa\, our own separate ideologies were apparent\, not only by the political connotations\, but also his generational tropes: skepticism towards emotions (“I can love you and not feel much about you\,” he told me over the phone)\, a belief in one’s own honest work\, and Judeo-Christian values. Some of these attributes (determination\, responsibility\, commitment\, trying to live a good life) are admirable and can be clearly seen in our grandpa’s life\, but it is always more complicated than we believe. \nIt is these photographs\, by their perhaps shocking reality\, that enliven a unique perspective and showcase distinct contrasts\, like those between the violence of a car wreck or isolated suicide to an almost timeless\, rural landscape. The tragic nature of these photographs emphasizes the end of a person’s life and informs their entire past. The end always turns back to the beginning. These are not complete portraits\, only a fragmented collection. They serve as a great reminder that the life examined never ends but continues well beyond our period of disappearance.” –Taylor Lewandowski
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/taylor-and-grant-lewandowski-pathology/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick May: Fag Family
DESCRIPTION:“Fag Family is a series of double portraits of individuals in my queer community. These portraits capture the queer relationships\, queer spaces\, and the liberating magic of queer world-building that I have the privilege to observe and be a part of\,” says May.\n“Historically\, portraiture was a display of wealth and power; a luxury afforded only to the rich\, affluent\, white aristocracy. Queer individuals\, especially queer individuals of color\, have been totally erased from that history. I vehemently reject the stink of white supremacy and classism that continues to infect the art world\, and my goal with these portraits is to subvert that ugly history by capturing my fellow queer friends with all of the luxuriance and beauty of oil painting.\n\nCreated with photo references\, my portraits are nearly life-size and meticulously painted in order to earnestly catalog and celebrate the human lives I observe. Painting is an incredibly physical process: building the stretcher bar\, stretching the canvas\, priming and the process of painting demands an inordinate amount of energy. This painstaking process is compulsory however\, because it is crucial for me to match the energy of the sitter I portray. Exerting so much energy into the surface of the canvas itself injects a kind of life into the portrait\, as a homage to the living person themself.\n\nMany of my fundamental artistic influences derive from the trauma I endured as a queer child. The escapist avenues I ventured in adolescence like children’s novels\, campy movie musicals\, fantasy video games made an invariable impression upon me. Growing up with image-dump platforms like Tumblr and Instagram exposed me to many artists who influence my work: Alice Neel\, Mickalene Thomas\, and Jordan Casteel to name a few. As a queer adult\, drag queens\, experimental pop music\, and queer literature has indelibly impacted me. The apotheosis of these influences has left me obsessed with beautiful images\, creating fantasies\, and the human lives around me.\n\nThe power and beauty of my queer community inspired me to create this body of work. Despite existing in predominantly conservative midwestern towns and within an oppressive society\, we create safe spaces for one another to brazenly enjoy our queerness. Within these spaces we transform ourselves\, celebrate\, and love one another. Within these spaces we create a whole new world that celebrates and uplifts us.”\n\nNick May is a portrait artist whose practice is deeply rooted in community and queerness. They received their Bachelors of Fine Arts with emphasis in Painting from Ball State University and are currently working as a portrait artist in Indianapolis\, Indiana. Created from photographs\, their portraits are nearly life-size and meticulously painted in order to earnestly capture and celebrate the human lives they encounter.\n\nMade possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/nick-may-fag-family/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Art Dog 2.0 Glizzies and Breakfast Sammies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our second Art Dog event at the Tube Factory Artspace! Normal Coffee is partnering with food artist extraodinaires\, Thin Glizzy\, for a Sunday brunch event. We are excited to share with you a brunch menu complete with Classic and Chicago style 6″ hot dogs\, a biscuit sandwich\, a sweet breakfast pastry\, a fresh\, vegan salad\, and beverages like Sun King beer\, wine/mimosas\, and coffee served out of our cafe space\, Normal Coffee. Nick May will have their artwork up in the Main Gallery at Tube. All patrons are required to wear a mask indoors unless they are eating or drinking. There are limited servings\, so RSVP and come early to guarantee your choice of brunch item!
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/art-dog-2-0-glizzies-and-breakfast-sammies/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park
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SUMMARY:Good Bones -1165 Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Watch the 1165 Nelson St. Good Bones episode on HGTV from the comfort of your own home. This episode will feature Bernie Price of Bean Creek Neighborhood Association and Dee Alderman who served on Garfield Park Neighborhood Association Board for several years. The two have advocated tirelessly for their neighborhood for decades. \nThe renovation was made possible by Lilly Endowment\, Inc.  \nAdditional episodes featuring the other two #APLRIndy homes are:\nAbout APLR: \nThe 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. \nThrough this program we are working to address these key issues: \nAffordable housing is vital but scarce in neighborhoods\, especially near Downtown and on the Red Line transit corridor\nOften the working poor\, artists are being priced out of “arts districts”\nAffordable housing is often short-term vs. perpetual (for instance homes and apartments developed as affordable in Fountain Square are now market rate)\nThe need for neighbors to experience creativity\, connect with each other\, and find solutions to challenges\nIndianapolis struggles to retain talented workers — including artists\nThe near southside struggles as homes and commercial buildings sit empty\, crime remains a challenge\, educational attainment is low\, and many households struggle for financial security. Our work addresses these challenges by linking artists and residents as co-leaders. Artist residents are now strengthening the neighborhood with free programming like African dance\, community dinners. \nFor 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. \nThrough a community-inclusive selection process\, artists of all disciplines have applied in two rounds so far to be matched with one of five affordable homes to purchase or five others to rent. In both cases\, costs are adjusted for affordability and the residency is linked to work in support of the neighborhood and broader community. \nThe houses in this program were previously vacant\, some for a long time\, and no existing residents were displaced. These efforts for APLR are happening in partnership with current residents as a way to work together to further strengthen the neighborhood and keep affordable housing for artists in place. Our partner\, South Indianapolis Quality of Life Plan and others are also working on strategies for affordable housing in general in the area. And we are all teaming up on efforts to avoid the displacement of existing residents. \nThis project is linked to larger efforts on the block funded by a $3 million grant by Lilly Endowment announced in December of 2018. Also\, this program and process comes — in part — from the research and organizational efforts by Indianapolis-based artist and planner Danicia Monet and is operated by Big Car Collaborative Co-founder\, Shauta Marsh. \nMore details: \nResident artists receive research and training support from Big Car staff and others as they will represent our partnership in the community.\nArtists will open their home and/or grounds for some form of public engagement during neighborhood-wide open house or art walks events – usually on the First Friday of the month.\nArtists dedicate 16+ hours per month to work with the public in the community. This includes time on their own public projects\, training and meetings\, and time supporting other Big Car or neighborhood programs.\nArtists have opportunities to participate in Big Car-organized exhibition and collaboration opportunities. We encourage partnerships between resident artists\, visiting artists\, other local artists\, and our staff artists.\nQualifying artists have been selected by a panel of experts on community-focused art and housing (some from other cities) and neighbors on the block.\nSelected artists are able to become homeowners or renters while also committing to building participation and strengthening the community through art\, along with Big Car\, in the South Indianapolis neighborhoods and the greater Indianapolis community. This is an investment by both owners/renters in our community.\nBecause this is not linked\, as is usually the case\, to a limited timeframe of affordability\, this is a way to keep housing affordable in perpetuity on the block.\nGovernment or corporate funds were not used to make this project happen. \nAbout the series:\n“Good Bones” follows the blueprint of several series on HGTV or DIY Network that showcase revitalization specialists who turn rundown homes into stunning remodels. In this case\, it’s mother/daughter duo Karen E. Laine and Mina Starsiak transforming properties in and around their hometown of Indianapolis. Karen’s legal background and Mina’s real estate knowledge help them secure diamonds in the rough\, and then they hire out demo and construction duties — or get help from family — to get the houses done on time and on budget.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/goodbones/
LOCATION:Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi)\, 1125 Cruft St.\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46203\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lockerbie Night Market
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening downtown\, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts\, music\, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors or relax and take in live music. \nIn partnership with Citimark and Gershman Partners\, Spark Placemaking and Big Car Collaborative are back for another year to host a Night Market at Lockerbie! \nThanks to our friends at Sun King Brewery\, beer will also be available for purchase at the pop-up beer garden located right off the Cultural Trail on Alabama Street. \nJoin us for an evening downtown\, full of opportunities to enjoy the local Indianapolis arts\, music\, and food scene. Purchase goods from local artists and food vendors or relax and take in live music. \nVendors\, food trucks\, and musical acts will be announced closer to the date. All ages // Free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/lockerbie-night-market-5/
LOCATION:Needler’s Market\, 320 N New Jersey\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46204\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambience Room:A Social Mixer
DESCRIPTION:Ambience Room serves as a revival space where art and music lovers can socialize\, hydrate themselves\, charge their phones and find themselves dancing to the different variations of electronic music. Enjoy pov polaroid cameras\, art installations and possible goodies 🙂\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nPresented / Hosted by: @sweetgarbij @faithocean @iam5laphouse\nSounds by: @iam5laphouse@obiquawn @fatboyfabio @taylorgroft and  nirrti azül 🙂\nVending by: @celestial.beadings@lifted.thrift @shueclothing@medusasheadshoppe@nineties_airport @underworldkingpin\nArt installation by @styledbyfei
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/ambience-rooma-social-mixer/
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:Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde-Remembering What I’d Rather Forget
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading\, talk about writing as a process and act of witnessing\, remembering\, healing\, imagining and activating healing and justice.\n\nAudience Q& A with Maria E. Hamilton Abegunde follows. The event will also play live on 99.1 WQRT. You can stream at www.wqrt.org\n\nMaria E. Hamilton Abegunde\, Ph.D. is a Memory Keeper\, poet\, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition\, healing facilitator\, doula\, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work are grounded in contemplative and ritual practices and respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory\, and always with the understanding that memory never dies\, is subversive\, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power. She is the inaugural recipient of the Ph.D. in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University.\n\nDr. Abegunde is the author of three poetry chapbooks\, including Wishful Thinking about the 2001 disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley in Chicago. Anthologized poems are included in Gathering Ground\, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century\, and Catch the Fire. Her poetry has also been published in Tupelo Quarterly\, The Massachusetts Review\, Cogzine\, and Rhino.\n\nExcerpts of her memory work\, The Ariran’s Last Life\, have been published in Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue\, Let Spirit Speak!\, Warpland\, Best African American Fiction\, and The Kenyon Review. Co-edited works include Jane’s Stories III with Glenda Bailey-Mershon with whom she and others co-founded Jane’s Stories Press.\n\nDr. Abegunde is a Cave Canem poetry fellow. She has also received writing fellowships from Sacatar\, Ragdale\, and Norcroft. Her awards for poetry include the New Discovery Award from the Poetry Center of Chicago and a COG poetry finalist award (Judge: Juan Felipe Herrera). In 2021 she was one of the inaugural poets selected for the Poets & Scholars Retreat at the Rutgers University Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice.\nHer creative work and research was recognized through the NEH summer institute fellowship Black Aesthetics and African Centered Cultural Expressions: Sacred Systems in the Nexus between Cultural Studies\, Religion and Philosophy\, under the directorship of Dr. Pellom McDaniels III and Paul Carter Harrison. Her book chapter “Seeing as a Ritual for a Good Death: The Spiritual Construction of Alain Gomis’ Film Tey” appears in Ashe: Ritual Poetics in African Diasporic Expressivity (edited by Michael Harris\, Paul Carter Harrison\, and Pellom McDaniels III).\n\nBecause of her work on intergenerational/ancestral trauma\, community healing\, arts-based practices\, she was invited to join faculty in the School of Education at the University of Juba\, South Sudan to help create a two-year Master’s program in Teaching Emergencies. Dr. Abegunde is also a trained Civic Reflection Dialogue and Powerful Conversations on Race facilitator for Spirit & Place\, which she used to launch the initial symposium and dialogues for the anti-Black racism critical conversations on race for the IU College of Arts and Sciences.\n\nShe is an inaugural winner of the Dr. James E. Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Awards from the IU Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) and an Inclusive Excellence Award for teaching during extraordinary times.\nDr. Abegunde was the founding director of The Graduate Mentoring Center in the University Graduate School\, where she directed the center between 2014-2021. As director she developed the Five-Fold Path for mentoring as a contemplative practice as well as nationally recognized student-centered mentoring practices\, including trauma-informed practices\, for students\, faculty\, and staff.\n\nBefore coming to IU Dr. Abegunde worked in elementary school education for over 20 years and as an independent teaching artist. She was the lead team teacher for the Middle Passage Project and sailed from Puerto Rico to Brazil with Captain Bill Pinkney to retrace and teach about Middle Passage routes. She also served as poet and ritualist-in-residence for the UNESCO-Transatlantic Slave Trade Route-USA Project.\nWhen Dr. Abegunde is not teaching and working\, she enjoys watching/reading science fiction.\nMade possible by the Midwest Gig Fund
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/maria-e-hamilton-abegunde-memory-keeper/
LOCATION:Zoom\, United States
CATEGORIES:Garfield Park,Listen Hear,Shelby St. Corridor
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SUMMARY:Words and Music-From The Belly: Etheridge Knight
DESCRIPTION:In this installment of Words & Music\, an audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers\, Sean Smith aka\, Oreo Jones\, explores the fascinating life and poetry of an Indiana Icon\, Etheridge Knight.\nSusan Neville\, Adrian Matejka\, Hanako Gavia\, and Smith discuss Knight’s later years as a poet living in Indianapolis\, his critically acclaimed publishings after prison\, and the art of meddling.\nBorn in rural Mississippi\, Etheridge Knight would grow to become one of the most prolific voices in the late Black Arts movement in the 70s. In a dark and dreary jail cell in Michigan City\, Knight would begin to find his true voice and calling as a pivotal writer/poet of the 20th century. A couple years into his sentence Etheridge would correspond with an American poet\, author\, teacher\, and Pulitzer Prize winner Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Detroit’s Dudley Randal from Broadside Press. It was his first published poetry book\, “Poems From Prison” that would make a splash in the literary world of poetry.\nUpon his release from prison\, Knight would move around the country as a mysterious figure of Black American folklore\, Known for his authenticity of the Black experience and his legendary Haikus. It was after the release of “Belly Song and other Poems”\, Knight grabbed a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973\, and would help establish the Free Peoples Poetry Workshop.\nThe episode features poetry from Etheridge Knight along with a live soundtrack provided by Sean Smith’s father\, Mark Powell.\nThis is a continuation of an eight-part series made possible by Indiana Humanities and produced by WQRT and Big Car Collaborative.\nYou can listen live via the streaming link or listen on regular FM radio in Indianapolis by tuning in to 99.1 FM.\nAbout the participants in this show (all Indiana writers):\nSusan Neville is the author of six works of creative nonfiction and her collections of short fiction include The Town of Whispering Dolls\, winner of the Doctorow Prize for Innovative Fiction; In the House of Blue Lights\, winner of the Richard Sullivan prize; and Invention of Flight\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She teaches at Butler University.\nAdrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg\, Germany and grew up in Indianapolis\, Indiana. He teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington and served as Poet Laureate of Indiana for 2018-19. He is the author of five award winning books and his first graphic novel\, “Last On His Feet” is forthcoming from Liveright in 2022.\nHanako Gavia is the Assistant Director of the Center for Citizenship and Community at Butler University. She also is the great niece of Etheridge Knight.\nOreo Jones has made Indianapolis his creative mecca. A multi-talented artist who delves into sound\, music\, and visual experimentation\, Jones shares and expands the minds of people in surrounding neighborhoods\, while helping the city grow.\nThis episode contains strong language which may be offensive to some listeners. Listeners discretion is advised (edited)\nPainting of Etheridge Knight by Michael Jordan aka\, Alkemi.
URL:https://www.bigcar.org/event/words-and-music-from-the-belly-etheridge-knight/
LOCATION:99.1 WQRT\, United States
CATEGORIES:Listen Hear,Shelby St. Corridor,Visual Art
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