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Join us at for a Slow Flow Yoga Series with Cory Cathcart Celebrating Meditation & Healing for Creatives on Select Sundays: 5-6 p.m. (12/8, 12/22, 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 2/2, and 2/9) This series is part of the exhibit "Julie Xiao: A Journey", events in the gallery during this show will center around healing and mediation. Cathcart will explore how movement and meditation benefit the artistic process through rest, mindful flow, and breath. No experience necessary. This class is free, donations are welcome.

Congratulations to Wendy Red Star on her MacArthur Foundation Fellowship! So fortunate to have curated an exhibit with her in 2014. I had first seen her work as part of the The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art Contemporary Art Fellowship show.?And when I worked with Red Star, Jennifer Complo McNutt was a great supporter and mentor for me—she facilitated the artist talk. As true today as much as then, Brose Partington ensured the art entrusted to us is well presented to the highest standards. It’s difficult to get attention for artists, curators and projects working outside the high art world centers. So I’m excited and sharing— even if it is a decade after our show together that she receives accolades—-it proves we Big Car Collaborative Tube Factory artspace are moving in the right direction to focus on contemporary art with our new campus.

Please join us for the Elisa Harkins “Ekvnv (Land), the Sacred Mother from Which We Came” artist talk on Saturday, October 5, 11am at Tube Factory artspace. If you’re in Southern Indiana on Friday October 4, Harkins will give a talk in New Harmony, IN at University of Southern Indiana's New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art. Then Sunday, October 6, she performs as part of Levitt VIBE Indianapolis at Garfield Park at The Garfield Park Arts Center. See her performance and others 12-3pm. About Harkins Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. She is the first person to sing a contemporary song in the Cherokee language. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College, Chicago, and an MFA from CalArts. She has since continued her education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She has exhibited her work at Crystal Bridges, documenta 14, The Hammer Museum, The Heard Museum, and MoMA. In 2020, she created the Indigenous concert series 6 Moons and published a CD of Muscogee/Seminole Hymns. She is also the DJ of Mvhayv (ma-hi-ya) Radio, an Indigenous radio show on 99.1FM in Indianapolis, IN. Radio III / ????? ?? (ga-wo-ni-s-gi tso-i) is a dance performance that features music and choreography by Harkins. With support from PICA and Western Front, songs from the performance have been collected into a double LP, which can be found on Harkins’ Bandcamp. Harkins resides on the Muscogee Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Nation. Special thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Efroymson Family Fund, Ruth Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services for making the exhibit possible Her Sunday performance is made possible by Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, Efroymson Family Fund & Citizens Energy Group. And is in partnership with Arte Mexicano En Indiana.

Can't make it to see our exhibit, Elisa Harkins: Ekvnv (Land), the Sacred Mother from Which We Came? Check out this new video of it. With this exhibit, Elisa Harkins looks at land in two different ways: a path toward healing due to the desecration of burial mounds in?New Harmony, Indiana?and how the Land Back movement addresses climate change. Harkins draws attention to settler desecration of Indigenous mounds in the unmarked “Harmonist Cemetery” in New Harmony. When the?Harmonists?purchased the land in the early 1800s, they dug up the Indigenous burial mounds, collecting what they considered interesting items for their?Cabinet of Curiosities. They then buried their dead over the native people’s remains. When the Harmonists sold the town to industrialist?Robert Owen?for his rationalist utopian attempt, the Harmonists took apart their church and used the brick to enclose the mounds with a wall. Today, the burial mounds are not acknowledged on signage for the cemetery. Harkins brings light to this history and offers healing through the Spirit Houses. These are structures built that provide a protective shelter over the grave of their deceased relative.?Harkins tells the story of the mounds in New Harmony to demonstrate not only settler violence against Indigenous land and bodies but also the presence of multiple tribes at sacred burial sites across time. The?Tear Dress?on the north wall of the gallery is one Harkins wears in many photos and in her work in the video room. Cherokee women traditionally wore this dress in the Southeast in the early 1800s. Indian Removal began to take place during this time period in Indiana (land of the Indians). This is also around the time Harmonists sought to build a sort of religious utopia in the town they named New Harmony. In the video room, Harkins shares a piece on the 200-year-old song,“Hesaketv Meset Likes?or The One Who Gives us Breath.” Though the singing takes place in the present, Harkins seeks to move the audience through time, preserving culture by bringing this new knowledge of ourselves to the forefront. In the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery, Elisa Harkins shares images, sound, and sculpture that invoke definitions of tribal sovereignty — centering land and its protection. Harkins often encounters tornado shelters for sale alongside the roads in Oklahoma. By using the image of these Tornado Shelters, she aims to raise awareness about the increasing destruction and loss of life caused by climate change. The shelters, placed in the ground or Ekvnv, serve as a metaphor for the Muscogee origin story, symbolizing their emergence from the earth at the beginning of their civilization. The exhibition is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, The The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Efroymson Family Fund, Ruth Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and a printing partnership with Aurora PhotoCenter.

September 19, 4-6pm at?Big Car Collaborative's Tube Factory artspace Free Workshop with Nico Valdivia Hennig Minimal Game Design for (New Game) Artists with Open Source Tools This workshop introduces new game artists to the fundamentals of minimalist game design using accessible open-source tools like Bitsy, Twine, and Godot. Participants will learn to create simple games with free and open-source software, developing practical skills for game development with minimal technical barriers. No prior experience is needed. Please bring your own laptop (Windows, Mac) or smartphone. Nico Valdivia Hennig (He/They) is an award-winning Chilean game artist, ludic activist, and cultural studies researcher with over a decade of experience in game design. They are a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside, with a Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fiction. Their research focuses on ludic activism, game design, and game production in Latin America. Nico co-founded Niebla Games, which has launched both board and video games for PC and mobile platforms. In 2022, their studio was selected for Google's Indie Games Accelerator program. Notable accolades include "Best Game Design" at EVA Córdoba 2019 in Argentina, "Best Chilean Studio of 2021", and recent nominations for the Explorer Award at the AMaze/Berlin Festival of Experimental Game Art 2024, as well as for Best Social Matters Game and Best Diversity Game at the BIG Festival/Gamescom Latam 2024 in S?o Paulo, Brazil. Nico has extensive experience lecturing on game design and narrative within game development programs in Chile. They are also a co-founder of Río Junto, a Latin American cultural exchange collective, and a founding member of Ludicocrítica, the Chilean Critical Games Studies Network. Recently, Nico received and Barricelli Award for Interdisciplinary Research Disertation and became a fellow-in-residence of the Speculative Play and Just Futurities program at Indiana University, supported by the Mellon Foundation for September 2024.

Loved hosting Emprendedoras Latinas en Indiana Conecta y Crece last night?at Tube Factory artspace!????????????

We at?Big Car Collaborative / Tube Factory artspace?are incredibly humbled to be nominated by a member of our community for the?Neighborhood Impact 2024 ARTI Award presented by?Indy Arts Council and supported by Central Indiana Community Foundation! The ARTIs honor people and organizations who are advancing equity and innovation in Indianapolis arts?+ culture. Thank you to Woodward Visuals for capturing our work so beautifully! #ACreativeLifeforAll

Elisa Harkins:?"Ekvnv (Land), the Sacred Mother from Which We Came" opens July 12-October 20 at Tube Factory artspace. Reception: July 12, 6-10pm. With this exhibit, Harkins looks at land in two different ways: a path toward healing due to the desecration of burial mounds in New Harmony, Indiana, and how the Land Back movement addresses climate change. Harkins, a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, & Shauta Marsh researched and worked on this exhibit for five years as part of "Social Alchemy." This is Big Car Collaborative's decade-long research project that explores utopia and dystopia with an emphasis on the Southern Indiana town of New Harmony that was twice the site of utopian experiments. Harkins draws attention to settler desecration of unmarked Indigenous mounds in the “Harmonist Cemetery” in New Harmony. When the Harmonists purchased the land in the early 1800s, they dug up the Indigenous burial mounds, collecting what they considered interesting items for their Cabinet of Curiosities. They then buried their dead over the native people’s remains. When the Harmonists sold the town, they took apart their church and used the brick to enclose the mounds with a wall. Today, the burial mounds are not acknowledged on signage for the cemetery. Harkins brings light to this history and offers healing through Spirit Houses. These are structures built that provide a protective shelter over the grave of their deceased relative. Harkins could not build them in the “Harmonist Cemetery.” So the photographic wall mural & Spirit Houses in the exhibit serve as a temporary monument to the native people buried there. The video “Hesaketv Meset Likes or The One Who Gives us Breath,” shares a 200-year-old song in which Harkins moves the audience through time, preserving culture through new knowledge of ourselves. In Jeremy Efroymson Gallery, images, sound, and sculpture invoke definitions of tribal sovereignty. Harkins often encounters tornado shelters for sale alongside the roads in Oklahoma. With the Tornado Shelter sculpture, Harkins raises awareness about the increasing destruction & loss of life caused by climate change. Light sculptures in English, Cherokee, and Muscogee words surround the piece as an original composition by Harkins plays. Through the installation she honors communities destroyed and lives lost through human-created climate change. Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) artist, singer, electronic music composer, and curator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her work is concerned with translation, language preservation, and Indigenous musicology. Harkins uses the Cherokee and Mvskoke languages, electronic music, sculpture, and the body as her tools. She is the first person to sing a contemporary song in the Cherokee language. Harkins received a BA from Columbia College, Chicago, and an MFA from CalArts. She has exhibited her work at Crystal Bridges, documenta 14, The Hammer Museum, The Heard Museum, and MoMA.

On Tuesday, we at Big Car Collaborative celebrated with an amazing group of supporters — including Mayor Joe Hogsett — the groundbreaking of our expansion into what we’re calling Big Tube on the Tube Factory artspace campus in the Garfield Park and Bean Creek neighborhoods. This 40,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project is planned to open in the fall of 2025. Big Tube will embrace art in all its forms — visual, sound and performance, literary, and culinary — to become a space that welcomes everyone. Big Tube — expanding on what we offer at Tube Factory today — will be a contemporary art museum with seven gallery spaces. We’ll continue to commission work — like Rachel Leah Cohn’s project in our main gallery now — on the themes of community, memory, and mythology. We’re building on what Tube Factory has been all about since 2016 and what we’ve teamed up with others to bring to our city over the last 20 years. What’s new in Big Tube that we don’t have space for at Tube Factory: ? An expansive gallery for larger 3-D work and installations? ? 18 long-term, affordable studios for artists ? a culinary center with a cafe and bar ? a large performing arts and event space ? five business incubator storefronts ? a home for our arts-focused radio station, @wqrtfm? ? and dedicated offices for our staff Big Tube will help us: ? further support artists from Indianapolis and beyond? ? strengthen our community by helping build civic pride and social connections ? and entertain and enlighten visitors from across the street and around the world. We believe everyone deserves access to the joys of creativity. We know that art can encourage empathy and support happiness. And, in these challenging times, art is crucial as a universal language that can help bridge divisions. And we know that people are often more open to art than each other. We’re very excited about this place for art and people. And we’re deeply grateful to all of our donors, partners, board members, neighbors, and staff artists for helping us make it happen! Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gbmeNPjc

Two new shows featuring Garfield Park neighbors will open on June 7, 6-10pm at Tube Factory artspace: Kelley Jordan Schuyler: "A Portrait of Motherhood" and Wu-"Bad Paint Junkie." Hert's BBQ will be onsite for food options. More about "A Portrait of Motherhood" "Through this work, I hope to create more space for the complexities of the motherhood experience, to give more room for the fierceness of the love, the depth of the overwhelm, the pain of the isolation, and the true joy that can be found in mothering in community. I share these photos to validate the role and experience of all mothers. I hope this particular view of motherhood offers a sense of solidarity to all, especially those who feel alone in this monumental, mundane endeavor." More about "Bad Paint Junkie" Wu started painting in 2012. He was walking down the street when he saw a fellow neighbor, Sharon, had a sign up on her porch that offered lessons on color theory. By day, Wu creates specialty floor covering and concrete underlayments that he describes as “walking on artwork.” Doing this since 1977, Wu has always wanted to keep fresh, learn, and improve. “I wanted to learn color theory,” Wu said, “so I figured, how else better than by painting? I picked up the paintbrush and put down the toolbox.”