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A commissioning, non-collecting contemporary art museum with nine galleries, artist residencies, radio station, cafe, artist studios and park in the historic Garfield Park south of downtown Indianapolis.

10/03/2026

GRIMM MATINEE- COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984)

Sunday, October 4, 2026
2:00 PM 4:00 PM
CAMi - The Frank & Katrina Basile Performing Arts & Event Hall
1125 Cruft Street Indianapolis, IN, 46203 United States
Free

Company of Wolves (1984) starts off the first installment in this month’s Sunday matinee series on shapeshifting and female desire.

95 minutes, Rated R

Neil Jordan’s lush, dreamlike fairy tale — adapted from Angela Carter’s short story — follows a teenage girl adrift in a forest of half-remembered warnings and half-understood desires. Told through nested dreams and stories-within-stories, it reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as something stranger and more knowing: a coming-of-age tale where the danger in the woods might not be what she’s been told to fear. Angela Lansbury stars as the grandmother spinning cautionary tales of wolves — a wonderfully sly turn from an actress better known for her cozier roles. Gorgeously shot, unsettling, and shot through with dark wit, The Company of Wolves asks what really happens when a girl stops being afraid of the wolf.

The CAMi bar will be open with spirits available for purchase.

10/02/2026

We’re showing the fantasy horror film “Company of Wolves” this Sunday 2pm, free admission - as part of our Grimm Matinee film series.

This 1984 film starts off the first installment in this month’s Sunday matinee series on shapeshifting and female desire.

95 minutes, Rated R

Neil Jordan’s lush, dreamlike fairy tale — adapted from Angela Carter’s short story — follows a teenage girl adrift in a forest of half-remembered warnings and half-understood desires. Told through nested dreams and stories-within-stories, it reimagines Little Red Riding Hood as something stranger and more knowing: a coming-of-age tale where the danger in the woods might not be what she’s been told to fear. Angela Lansbury stars as the grandmother spinning cautionary tales of wolves — a wonderfully sly turn from an actress better known for her cozier roles. Gorgeously shot, unsettling, and shot through with dark wit, The Company of Wolves asks what really happens when a girl stops being afraid of the wolf.

The CAMi bar will be open with spirits available for purchase.

10/01/2026

We’re staying up late on First Friday with two new exhibitions, open artist studios and storefronts, and plenty more to explore across the CAMi campus.

OPENING IN TUBE GALLERY
Ben Nicholson: Ex Materia Ex Nihilo
For 25 years, Nicholson filled a single sketchbook with hand-drawn investigations into geometry hidden inside Pythagorean mathematics, medieval labyrinths, Islamic calligraphy, the Hebrew alphabet, Dante’s Divine Comedy, and more.

For the first time, that work comes out of the sketchbook and into the gallery — alongside wooden Kufic labyrinth cubes and 200 hand-drawn labyrinth variations.

OPENING AT SHED
Daniel Luis Martinez: The Blueprint
Daniel Luis Martinez (Daniel Luis Martinez) uses cyanotype printmaking and mixed-media drawing to imagine a speculative home on the CAMi campus. Part architecture, part experiment, The Blueprint layers drawings, song lyrics and evolving process models into an exhibition about home, invention and what it means to design a place that doesn’t exist yet.

Martinez is an architect, educator, co-founder of LAA Office, and Associate Professor and Director of Indiana University’s J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program in Columbus.

AROUND CAMPUS
Hepatica Pottery (Hepatica Pottery Collective) is getting ready for Día de los Mu***os with paint-your-own ceramic sugar skulls.

The Art Café (The Art Cafe by Line+Form) welcomes macra-YAY macrame for some very cool macramé.

Quinn Tailor (Seams Quirky) is hosting Crow Fest in CAMi Studio 226. Bring something shiny and witness a murder. (Of crows. Possibly?)

Indy Sakura Express (Sakura Express) will be here with Japanese street food, including takoyaki, curry and karaage.
Plus, storefronts, select artist studios and CAMi galleries will be open late.

First Friday at CAMi
Friday, Oct. 2
Open until 10 p.m.
1125 Cruft St.
Free + open to all

09/29/2026

A new space is opening this Friday, October 2 -
SHED: Space for Hybrid and Experimental Design

Daniel Luis Martinez: THE BLUEPRINT
Oct. 2 – Dec. 18, 2026 | Storefront 145, CAMi campus

“The Blueprint” is the first exhibit at SHED, an IU-supported project space for experimental architecture, urbanism, and design, located on the CAMi campus. Its first season is titled “Home is What the Art Is.”

Before digital files, architects copied drawings by exposing them to UV light on iron-sensitized paper, creating the blueprint. The word has outlived the process. Now it means any plan or template for making something. Jay-Z’s “The Blueprint” (released 9/11/2001) used it that way, sampling soul and blues to build something new from the music that shaped him.

Martinez uses cyanotype and mixed-media drawing to imagine a speculative home on the CAMi campus. The works use architectural drawing conventions loosely, not as building instructions. Each piece takes its title from borrowed song lyrics, so together they work like a playlist (or a mixtape, depending on your age). Process models will join the space throughout the run. Home here is an improvisation in Prussian blue.

Daniel Luis Martinez is a registered architect, co-founder of LAA Office, and Director of IU’s J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program in Columbus, Indiana.

SHED is supported by Indiana University’s Arts and Humanities Council and the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design.

Image: “Must Be You, the Door to Open,” mixed-media drawing and cyanotype print on bristol paper, 2026.

📍 1125 Cruft St., Garfield Park, Indianapolis

09/28/2026

Ben Nicholson “Ex Materia Ex Nihilo”
Opens this Friday, October 2 ✦ Tube Gallery, Video Gallery and the Research Gallery in CAMi Main

Scratch a line in the sand with a stick and a taut string, and squares, triangles, and hexagons come spilling out. Where does that order come from? Nobody knows, but people around the Mediterranean spent thousands of years trying to explain it through number, metaphor, and myth.
Ben Nicholson’s exhibition brings together a survey of labyrinths and the full contents of a sketchbook he kept for 25 years. For Ben, the labyrinth is the first architectural plan, a way of slowing us down on the path from the known world to what’s unknowable at the center.
In the gallery you’ll find:
🌀 Four fields of labyrinth drawings, growing in size and complexity
🧊 Kufi Cubes, a 3D version of a centuries-old Islamic tile that makes script and pattern
📖 Facsimile sketchbook pages you’re invited to pick up, read, and take your time with
🎥 A new video works about Ben’s New Harmony studio and the turf labyrinth, Tree Henge, and oak row he and his wife Caroline planted
🗂️ A Research Room in CAMi Main with his notebooks, drawings, and books

Opening reception: Friday, Oct. 2, 6-10pm
On view through April 18, 2027
Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis, 1125 Cruft St. | Free

Made possible by the Efroymson Family Fund

09/26/2026

On today’s Create Hear at noon on 99.1 WQRT our Chief Curator Shauta Marsh is in conversation with Glasgow artist Sam Ainsley 🔴 Sam Ainsley
Encores October 10 and November 28 each date at 12pm.

Sam co-founded the MFA program at Glasgow School of Art and led it until 2005, and it helped shape the generation of artists people started calling the “Glasgow Miracle.” She’s also a painter, and for her, red is everything: love, joy, fire, revolution. Big unstretched canvases that feel like protest banners.

Her work is having a real moment. Her GoMA show drew more than 70,000 people, and she was part of Tate Britain’s Women in Revolt. We talked about teaching, color, feminism, and what it means to keep making work on your own terms.

Tune in at noon on 99.1 FM or stream at wqrt.org. Archived on Spotify after.

09/22/2026

Excited to host Lasana Kazembe Lyric + Lever— a panel discussion examining the intersection of archivism, literature, and community development in Black communities across the Midwest at CAMi.

The panel moves past the familiar model of art as representation or reflection of community life, and presses instead toward mechanics: how does the literary artist’s relationship to memory, record, and story change what gets built, funded, protected, and sustained in a Black community?

The discussion is organized around three questions:
• What is the Black literary artist’s responsibility to archivism — not simply as subject matter, but as method and discipline?
• What is archivism’s responsibility to community development — does preserved story change what a community can build, access, or defend?
• How can community development hold both artist and archivist together so that story and archive connect to the real tools of community development?

09/19/2026

Bryn Jackson, “ALT(R),” 2025
Giclée on archival paper
16x20” ea., edition of 3 + 2 artist proofs
Model: Jules Persaud

Part of the Artists At Work exhibit in our Guichelaar Gallery.

Bryn Jackson Artists At Work

Artists At Work (AAW) invests in artists and their communities, helping to seed and cultivate sustainable work and local partnerships that leverage creativity for community impact. Since 2020, Artists At Work has employed 98 artists and culture workers across 12 states to work in partnership with over 100 cultural and community organizations, reaching and engaging thousands of community members across the country. AAW believes artists’ ability to thrive creatively and financially are key contributors to the civic and cultural well-being of the places they call home.

In Indianapolis, local AAW Artists Andre Parnell, Ash Robinson, Bryn Jackson, and Mariah Ivey are bringing their skills and creative thinking to four local community partners — Arts for Lawrence, Little Red Door, CAMi and the Center for Black Literature and Culture at the Indianapolis Central Public Library — to serve their communities through artistic civic engagement projects. This exhibition gives a look into each artists’ practice as it has evolved over the past year in the program.

The implementation of Artists At Work in Indianapolis is made possible by the generous support of Herbert Simon Family Foundation.

CAMi is hosting this exhibition as a complementary part of Artists At Work’s Creativity + Community series, made possible by the generous support of the Hearthland Foundation.

09/17/2026

What an awesome day of live music, art, and socializing with Levitt VIBE Indianapolis at Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis last Sunday! Thanks to everyone who joined us and to our performers: Natural Information Society, A Bright Abyss, and Kata Gonzalez. Special thanks to Herron Student Art Market for setting up with us and to Books, Bourbon and Bacon for the delicious food!

NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
A Bright Abyss
Kata Gonzalez

Have you been enjoying the Levitt VIBE Indianapolis Music Series led by Big Car Collaborative and artemexicanoenindiana ? Post your concert photos and videos with the hashtag for a chance to win a pair of Apple AirPods Pro! Plus, every submission helps our nonprofit become eligible to receive an additional $5K grant from the Levitt Family Foundation!

Thank you to the Levitt Family Foundation (Levitt Family Foundation) for sponsoring this contest and helping make possible as our lead sponsor.

Big thanks also to our VIBE sponsors Citizens Energy Group, Jungclaus-Campbell, Efroymson Family Fund, Eskenazi Health, Penrod Society, and Lumina Foundation.

Citizens Energy Group Penrod Eskenazi Health Lumina Foundation Jungclaus-Campbell Co., Inc.

Be sure to join us for our next Levitt Vibe Indianapolis on Oct. 11 with Sofia Rei Gamelan Mojomanis Booze Hounds Bluegrass

09/16/2026

Jess Dunn & Sylvia Thomas, “Drafts”
🐎 Jess Dunn Sylvia Thomas

For their first collaboration, Dunn and Thomas were asked to make a piece about the renovation of the CAMi campus — and ended up making an experimental documentary about everything the site has been. Indigenous land. Farmland. A dairy. A factory. And now nine galleries across five acres.
Working from archives, primary source documents, and artifacts they found inside the building itself, the artists collaged archival maps and footage with field recordings made in Garfield Park and on campus, animation, and a score they composed together. The layers in the video echo the layers in the building.

The horse that runs through the piece comes from the Weber Dairy stables, which occupied the oldest part of this building until 1947. As CAMi expands to embrace natural elements and remember the heritage of this land, the horse stands as a symbol of humanity’s simultaneous connection to nature and to development.

Jess Dunn works in animation, treating illusion as both inspiration and medium, building custom circuits to distort images through voltage manipulation and immersive worlds that bridge the physical and the digital.

Sylvia Thomas is an artist and writer from Indianapolis whose work focuses on s*x, gender, grief, and euphoria. She’s a long-term artist in residence at Big Car Collaborative, a 2024–25 Creative Renewal Arts Fellow, and a 2023 Indianapolis Creative Risk Grant recipient.
On view through Oct. 18, 2026 in the Katharine B. Sutphin Media Gallery.

Open Wed–Fri 11–7, Sat–Sun 11–5. 1125 Cruft St. Free.

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1125 Cruft Street
Indianapolis, IN
46203

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Thursday	11am - 7pm
Friday	11am - 7pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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