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Tonight, 6:30pm at Tube Factory is Ariana Reines—brought to you in partnership with NIGHTJAR

Ariana Reines is an award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, translator, and educator. Her most recent book is A Sand Book, winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. Wave of Blood, a book-length exploratory essay, is out this fall from Divided Publishing, and The Rose, her next poetry collection, will be published in April 2025 by Graywolf. Reines has taught poetry as the Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley, Mary Routt Chair in Creative Writing at Scripps College, Visiting Professor of the Practice at Tufts, and at many other institutions and community organizations, including NYU, Pratt, Yale, Poets House, and the Poetry Project. In 2012, inspired by her experiences in Haiti and the ideas of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, she created Ancient Evenings, a Friday night project for the study of poetry. And in 2020, while a Divinity Student at Harvard, Reines founded Invisible College, an online hub for the study of poetry, the arts, and the sacred.

The reading is associated with our Rachel Leah Cohn exhibit, “Mem” related to feminine energy, motherhood, and the womb, symbolizing protection, safety, and giving to others.

NIGHTJAR cultivates the literary arts of Indianapolis by connecting audience members with the work of contemporary poets and their own poetic capabilities. Every third Wednesday evening at the Tube Factory, Michelle Niemann and C.S. Carrier host a reading or performance by a featured poet and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses. NIGHTJAR is about experiencing poetry as the communal and diverse endeavor that it is. It’s about exploring poetry’s connections to the visual arts and music. The series brings together poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms; welcomes both spoken-word performers and page-based poets; and creates a supportive space for all.

Today is First Friday at Tube Factory artspace! 🎉🎉🎉

Come to 1125 Cruft Street in Garfield Park from 6 - 10 p.m. to celebrate art and community with us!

Free to visit ✨

Join us June 18, 6:30pm at Tube Factory artspace for an evening with Ariana Reines. An award-winning poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, translator, and educator, her most recent book is A Sand Book.

A Sand Book was winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award. Wave of Blood, a book-length exploratory essay, is out this fall from Divided Publishing, and The Rose, her next poetry collection, will be published in April 2025 by Graywolf.

Reines has taught poetry as the Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley, Mary Routt Chair in Creative Writing at Scripps College, Visiting Professor of the Practice at Tufts, and at many other institutions and community organizations, including NYU, Pratt, Yale, Poets House, and the Poetry Project. In 2012, inspired by her experiences in Haiti and the ideas of Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, she created Ancient Evenings, a Friday night project for the study of poetry. And in 2020, while a Divinity Student at Harvard, Reines founded Invisible College, an online hub for the study of poetry, the arts, and the sacred.

The reading is associated with our Rachel Leah Cohn exhibit, “Mem” related to feminine energy, motherhood, and the womb, symbolizing protection, safety, and giving to others.

In partnership with NIGHTJAR.

NIGHTJAR cultivates the literary arts of Indianapolis by connecting audience members with the work of contemporary poets and their own poetic capabilities. Every third Wednesday evening at the Tube Factory, Michelle Niemann and C.S. Carrier host a reading or performance by a featured poet and invite audience members to share their own poetic responses. NIGHTJAR is about experiencing poetry as the communal and diverse endeavor that it is. It’s about exploring poetry’s connections to the visual arts and music. The series brings together poets writing in narrative, lyric, and experimental forms; welcomes both spoken-word performers and page-based poets; and creates a supportive space for all.

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 Ju**ie. 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 Ju**ie"
A Garfield Park resident and artist, 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.”

Start your Saturday with Community Sound Lab

A sound workshop and exploration series
All ages and all skills levels are welcome

May 18 & June 22
9a to 11a
May 18th will focus on intentional listening and field recording with a guided sound walk through Garfield
Park and some time spent preparing and manipulating field recordings and guidance for future projectors.

June 22nd will focus on manipulating sound through technology with extensive hands-on-play with modular synthesizers, accessible software based music production.

was a lot of fun! Thanks to & for putting everything together and thanks to everyone for getting creative and sharing such a lovely afternoon with us

New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art Curator Audra Lambert talks about her work, the gallery and announced an open call “Spirit of New Harmony”

The Spirit of New Harmony open call is ready for submissions! Enter your idea for an art show at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art this summer. The theme of the exhibit is ‘engaging with communities in and around New Harmony’, and this idea can be expressed in whatever sense that theme holds meaning for you. This can be submitting a show that points toward the link between art and nature, painting and farming, portraits of veterans, etc.

We are seeking proposals that include at least 2 artists and represent the spirit of New Harmony in a broad sense. We welcome all mediums (photography, painting, etcetera) and artwork of all sizes and concepts. We need you to submit by Friday, June 14th at 11:59 PM CT in order to consider your idea for an exhibit. More than two people can submit one idea for a show proposal. You can be a resident/s of New Harmony, and work or live nearby, but this isn’t necessary as long as the artists and artwork show direct links to the larger New Harmony area and artists can deliver their works and assist with install in-person. The show will be on view from early August until early September 2024, and the selected proposal will be awarded a $250 stipend.

Opening tonight in our Guichelaar Gallery is
UNCENSORED.
On view through May 31, this group exhibition featuring twenty-three artists from around the Midwest (Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky), was brought to the space and curated in part by our long term artist in residence, Dailyn Eades.

The exhibition examines the multitude of reasons that art and artists face censorship, especially in the Midwest, from art galleries, art institutions, and society at large.

This exhibition integrates photography, poetry, sculpture, paintings, and mixed media that speak to a variety of themes: q***r and racial identity, surviving domestic violence, softness in masculinity, sensuality and violence endured by women, repressive political policies, and the vastness and ambiguity of gender.

UNCENSORED visualizes these compounded feelings of disconnection and isolation, and transforms them into unity and belonging by showcasing the pieces together in a manner that is rarely observed. The Region Ninety curatorial team (Cierra Fogle, Dailyn Eades, Allie Wilkerson) wants to express our deepest gratitude to the artists for allowing us to share their stories.
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It’s almost First Fri’YAY! We are open May 3, 6-10pm at the Tube Factory campus with four galleries of art & food from Bay Area Bistro, 6-9pm.

Are you an artist looking for opportunities to exhibit your work? Learn what curators are looking for in our curator conversation series.

Audra Lambert from the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art will give a talk May 4, 1pm.

She will discuss what the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is and what they are looking for in shows from artists.
Learn why & how she came be a curator, different exhibits she curated that she is most proud of, what she is focusing on at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and more!

Q&A to follow.

Audra Verona Lambert is a curator, arts contributor and art historian with over a decade of experience. She’s organized 60+ exhibitions in partnership with multicultural nonprofits, such as WCAPS, Upwardly Global and Fountain House Gallery, Art in Odd Places Festival, FIGMENT NYC and others. She has independently curated exhibits at the Yeshiva University Museum, Brooklyn Art Haus, and New York City Department of Parks and Recreation’s Arsenal Gallery. Her writings have featured in Texte zur Kunst, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, The Culture Trip and more. She served as Director of Amos Eno Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from 2020-2022, and currently serves as Curator of the University of Southern Indiana’s New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art located in New Harmony, IN. Verona Lambert holds an MA, Art History and Visual Culture from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO and graduated from Undergraduate studies at both St Peters University (Jersey City, NJ) and Kansai Gaidai University (Hirakata City, Japan.)

These sculptures made of chewing gum and nail polish are on view in conjunction with Rachel Leah Cohn‘s exhibit “Mem.”

They were made by her great-grandmother, Margarete Silber, born in Vienna, Austria in 1904.

In 1957, Margarete began making sculptures of her family, followed by other sculptures of famous people (such as Moshe Dayan, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill) and other characters she found interesting. Her medium for these was chewing gum (yes, chewing gum!). She would use whatever she could find in nature or at home, to make these: interesting sticks and other findings. She used nail polish and lipstick for these.

During a visit to the United State around 1984, Margarete’s granddaughter, Yael, purchased clay for her, to try this medium. She completed a sculpture of a Yael’s cat, but was not satisfied with the medium or outcome. She said she found the gum to be more pliable.

The sculptures that are displayed, represent her curiosity, innovation and remarkable talent.

We are excited to be a stop on the Hatis Noit “Aura” USA tour! 🌞

Tickets go on sale today (April 18) at 12 p.m. 🌤️

There isn’t a more unique entry into a musical journey than that of Japanese voice artist Hatis Noit. Her musical awakening took place at the tender age of sixteen during a trek to Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal. One morning when staying at a women’s temple she came across a female monk singing Buddhist chants whose otherworldly sounds moved her so intensely that she was instantly aware of the visceral power of the human voice; a primal and instinctive instrument that connects us to the very essence of humanity, nature and our universe. From that moment she knew singing was her calling.

Her newest album, Aura was inspired by the German philosopher Walter Benjamin who used this term to describe the fundamental essence of art, which he believed is strongest in its original form, only happening once. Hatis agrees with this particular aspect as she realised, “during the pandemic, I really struggled. As a singer, I’m not very good at working on the computer. I much prefer doing live performances in physical spaces. Being with people, sharing the same space with them and feeling the atmosphere and energy of that moment, inspires me every time. To me art is that — that shared moment.”

If you are an artist starting to apply for grants or looking for a way to streamline the grant writing process, join Reyes Ramirez on April 21 at 1pm at

Ramirez a recipient of grants, residencies, and fellowships for his writing and curatorial projects as he discusses best practices and tips to use when applying for grants. This workshop will focus on writing project proposal summaries and what to consider when beginning a grant, fellowship, or residency application.

Reyes Ramirez (he/him) is a Houstonian, writer, educator, curator, and organizer of Mexican and Salvadoran descent. He authored the short story collection The Book of Wanderers (2022), a 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist, from University of Arizona Press’ Camino del Sol series and the poetry collection El Rey of Gold Teeth (2023) from Hub City Press. His latest curatorial project, The Houston Artist Speaks Through Grids, explores the use of grids in contemporary Houston art, literature, history, and politics. Reyes has been honored as a 2020 CantoMundo Fellow, 2021 Interchange Artist Grant Fellow, 2022 Crosstown Arts Writer in Residence, 2023 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow, 2023 Dobie Paisano Fellow, 2024 Speculative Play and Just Futurities Fellow and awarded grants from the Houston Arts Alliance, Poets & Writers, and The Warhol Foundation’s Idea Fund.

He is finishing up a one month residency with Speculative Play and Just Futurities (SPJF)
Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI)

World Collage Day is an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. Join artists Beth Hall and Emily Scott in making collages in Indianapolis on May 11th from 12-3pm.




Some collage basics and supplies will be provided, but you are encouraged to bring materials of your own as well to contribute to the group effort! Magazines, old books, paint swatches, miscellaneous ephemera, stamps, string, and other trinkets along with glue, rubber cement, scissors, are all good items to consider bringing.



This is a free event and Normal Coffee is open with all sorts of drinks and food options.



Initiated by Kolaj Magazine in 2018, World Collage Day encourages artists and art venues to hold events on that day to celebrate collage. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. And the day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking. Ric Kasini Kadour, the editor of Kolaj Magazine, writes, “We created World Collage Day because we wanted to honour this community of artists and to remind the world what a spirit of cooperation, mutual support, and creativity can look like.”

Tube Factory artspace will be open April 8, 12:30-3pm

Join us for a live musical performance by Jessica Dunn and Michael Moskaliuk to commemorate the eclipse.

Dunn currently has an exhibit on view through May 26 in our Jeremy Efroymson Gallery.

Join us for the opening reception of Rachel Leah Cohn: “Mem,” April 5, 6-10pm.

To walk through the installation, Mem, is to enter a myth. A kaleidoscope of the divine feminine, there are fountains of light centering the space on the painting of Miriam– one of the seven major prophetesses of Israel. Miriam carried a rock from which flowed an abundant amount of water during the 40 years Jewish people searched for a place to live in the desert. Access to this water made survival of her people possible. Smaller paintings surround her, as well as ritual objects such as papercuts and amulets.

The title of Cohn’s show, Mem, is a Hebrew letter that has multiple significant meanings in the work. “I recently took a class about the complexity, flexibility, and magic within a single Hebrew letter. When searching for a title, this one letter encapsulates many ideas I have considered while working in the studio. The shape can be seen as a wave and stands for the word for water, mayim,’ and Miriam and mikveh, a ritual bath used for transformation,” Cohn said. “Mem is related to feminine energy, motherhood, and the womb, symbolizing protection, safety, and giving to others.

Friday, April 5 we open Jessica Dunn “Particular Fragments” in Jeremy Efroymson Gallery at Tube Factory artspace.

“Particular Fragments” invites viewers to explore themes of time, memory, and consciousness through multisensory installations incorporating video and sound. With projection mapped videos, soundscapes, and interactive art, Dunn embeds personal moments inspiring the viewer to unlock and share memories of their own.

About the Artist
Jessica Dunn (sesseka) is a multimedia artist known for her immersive, dreamlike worlds combining video, sound, and physical installations. With a scientific curiosity, she finds inspiration by investigating the natural world as well as psychological realms of consciousness. Dunn graduated from Herron School of Art + Design with a double major in painting and sculpture. Caught between 2D and 3D practices, she found her calling in 4D art including experimental animation, performance, and experiential works. With a medium-agnostic mindset, Dunn utilizes a wide variety of materials allowing the concept to drive the process. Lately, Dunn has extended her practice into filmmaking including short documentaries and narrative animations. No matter the format, Dunn’s work invites the viewer to open their perception to explore new realms of reality.

It’s the last day to see Julian Jamaal Jones “Take Me Back” at & we are open till 3pm.

Many thanks toJulian, Kia Davis, Kat Goffnett and everyone who made the show a success🙏

Be sure to follow .studios to see what he does next!
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Join us for a conversation this Saturday at 1pm at Tube Factory artspace between multidisciplinary artist, Julian Jamaal Jones and assistant curator at Cranbrook Art Museum, Kat Goffnett.

The two will discuss his work, exhibit “Take Me Back” and take questions at the end of the conversation.

Kat Goffnett is the Assistant Curator of Collections at Cranbrook Art Museum. Goffnet received her BA from Alma College and her Master’s in art history from Wayne State University, where she specialized in photographic theory. She has taught art history at Wayne State University and West Shore Community College. Prior to Cranbrook, she worked for various art organizations including the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University Galleries, and the University Art Collection. Her recent curatorial projects at Cranbrook include Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art (2020), With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932 (2021), Homebody (2022), Bakpak Durden: The Eye of Horus (2022-23) with Laura Mott, and Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions (2023). She also recently curated Elevation: Kaneko and Contemporary Ceramics (2023) at Wayne State University’s Elaine L. Jacobs Gallery.

Only a few more weeks to see Giselle Trujillo “Hogar Dulce Hogar” (Home Sweet Home). We are open 9am-3pm all weekend. Wednesday-Friday, 9am-6pm.
Her immersive experience that transports visitors to a timeless realm and invites them to engage with the artwork and touch, feel, and even dance with the pieces. Trujillo’ screen paintings contemplate making a home where you are — without losing the richness of your background. The houses symbolize the beauty of diverse experiences and merge to form a tapestry of identity. This echoes the importance of preserving cultural roots while embracing new surroundings. Trujillo also offers subtle commentary on emigration and the essence of “home.”

Stitching & details captured from Julian Jamaal Jones piece “Revelation 22:13 “I am the Alpha, and the Omega” Hallelujah!!!”
2023
78.5 x 66
Calico Cotton, Plush Velvet, Denim, and Satin Cotton
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Our galleries are open tomorrow, March 1, 9am-10pm & Sakura will be onsite 6-10pm for dinner options 😋

These Hina dolls were gifted to Garfield Park neighbor Aili Lothamer by her grandmother when she was born. We are grateful to Chizuki and Ali Lothamer for allowing Tube Factory artspace to display them through March 3.

Every year on March 3, Japan celebrates Girl’s Day/Doll Festival (Japanese, Hina Matsuri).To celebrate families set up a special step-altar on which to arrange their Emperor and Empress dolls, called „hina“ in Japanese. They decorate this altar with boughs of peach blossoms and make offerings to the hina dolls of freshly made rice cakes (mochi), either flavored with a wild herb or colored and cut into festive diamond shapes. The festival began in the Edo period (17th Century).
Some believe displaying a set of dolls protects the girls of the house, by absorbing any misfortune and taking away bad luck.

tonight at Tube Factory 📖📖📖

The Year of the Dragon is coming! Celebrate the lunar new year Feb 10, 6-10pm with traditional dance performances, fireworks, activities like cut paper art, lantern/fan painting, origami & more.

Link in bio.

The Bay Area Bistro will have Lumpia, Crab Rangoon, Pork BBQ, P**o, Ube Pandesal ans Buco Pandan for purchase.

Indianapolis Chinese Performing Arts Inc (ICPAI) at 7pm.

Lunar New Year is one of the most important celebrations of the year among East and Southeast Asian cultures, including Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean communities, among others. The New Year celebration is usually celebrated for multiple days—not just one day as in the Gregorian calendar’s New Year. In 2024, Lunar New Year begins on February 10.

China’s Lunar New Year is known as the Spring Festival or Chūnjié in Mandarin, while Koreans call it Seollal and Vietnamese refer to it as Tết.

Tied to the lunar calendar, the holiday began as a time for feasting and to honor household and heavenly deities, as well as ancestors. The New Year typically begins with the first new moon that occurs between the end of January and spans the first 15 days of the first month of the lunar calendar—until the full moon arrives.

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Giselle Trujillo “Hogar Dulce Hogar” opens this Friday 6-10pm in Jeremy D. Efroymson Gallery

In partnership with Arte Mexicano en Indiana “Hogar Dulce Hogar” (Home Sweet Home) offers an immersive experience that transports visitors to a timeless realm and invites them to engage with the artwork and touch, feel, and even dance with the pieces.

Feb 2, 7pm & 8pm the installation will be activated with a music performance by “Mi Hermano y yo” (My Brother & Me) Clockwork Janz & Phillip Janz (integrants)

Trujillo’ screen paintings contemplate making a home where you are — without losing the richness of your background. The houses symbolize the beauty of diverse experiences and merge to form a tapestry of identity. This echoes the importance of preserving cultural roots while embracing new surroundings. Trujillo also offers subtle commentary on emigration and the essence of “home.”

A notable facet of this installation is Trujillo’s inclusion of works by other members of the Indy Latina Artists group. They include: Mayra Espino, Ana Escalante, Vanessa Monfreda, Mary Mindiola, Rosa Maria Díes, Frances Ruiz, and Nettie Viera. Their pieces further enrich the overarching narrative and cultural tapestry woven by Trujillo’s vision.

Calling all foodies! Dinner Pop up alert! The Bay Area Bistro will have Lumpia, Crab Rangoon, Pork BBQ, P**o, Ube Pandesal and Buco Pandan and more for purchase on February 10, 6-10pm at as part of our Lunar New Year Celebration.

Stay for the dancing, fireworks and activities or just get it to go.

Currently on view at through March 24 is Julian Jamaal Jones “Take Me Back.”
We are open Wednesday- Sunday, this Friday we will be open until 10pm.

“Home” often exists not as a structure but in spaces of community steeped in mutual reverence and a sense of belonging. In Take Me Back, Jones harnesses his nostalgia for one such place – the Black church of his youth. Growing up in the outskirts of Indianapolis during the 1990s, Jones navigated predominantly White spaces, making the church a sanctuary for him to engage with and celebrate both his religion and his Blackness. The church of Jones’s youth provided an atmosphere for creative inspiration and self-determination rooted in community, spirituality, and strong sensory experiences. In his first hometown exhibition, Jones channels his personal memories and nostalgic pangs into a new body of work that honors “the old Black church.” — Kay Goffnett