The Pan Endemic series are individual artworks commissioned by Shauta Marsh, Co-founder and Director of Programming, at Big Car Collaborative. Due to the pandemic, Tube Factory artspace, our commissioning contemporary art museum has been closed to the public since March of 2020. This work and others to come are an effort to continue to support visual artists and share their work with the public. This series is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Art & Vinyl is an ongoing project that aims to bring the work of Black artists from the Indianapolis area to the forefront and contribute to a fuller picture of Contemporary art in an engaging virtual exhibition.

Rest In Paradise by Chicago based artist Carlos Rolón is window installation at Listen Hear commissioned by Big Car co-founder Shauta Marsh in response to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. May of 2020 their killings sparked demonstrations across the world and provoked a long over-due reckoning in the United States about systemic racism.

temporary artist housing & cultural spaces — ongoing

With this multifaceted, multiyear project, Indianapolis-based arts organization Big Car Collaborative — with our partners, the University of Southern Indiana, Indiana State Museum, Historic New Harmony, and others –– have created a series of radio show, exhibits, and conversations exploring, learning, and sharing how utopia has informed places and pursuits over time.

Curated by a committee of neighborhood artists in collaboration with Big Car Collaborative and the Garfield Park Arts Center, this exhibition will feature artwork in a variety of mediums by local artists that reside in Garfield Park.

Librería Donceles is a floating Spanish-language second-hand bookstore created by Pablo Helguera in 2013 that was housed at Listen Hear from August 5 until October 22, 2016. The bookstore, which is comprised of over 6,500 volumes and has traveled to major U.S. cities like New York, Phoenix and Chicago, was created in part to address the lack of literature available to growing Spanish-speaking communities.

Hocking spent three weeks in Indianapolis gathering materials from the site, documenting, researching, and creating his installation. He hauled over 100 massive hunks of burned Styrofoam, multiple plastic blobs melted by fires, fragmented fast food signage, nifty anthropomorphic food-character murals, and dozens of other artifacts. He brought this all to Tube Factory. And he worked onsite while living in Big Car’s neighboring artist residency home. The resulting installation uses the main gallery as a kind of ceremonial site — the burned Styrofoam mountain could be a dystopian temple or future glacier.

Located in the main Tube Factory gallery space, the exhibit was a co-curatorial project between Mari Evans, Carl Pope, and Shauta Marsh. It consists of a commissioned installation piece by artist Carl Pope related to Evans’s photos, poetry, and book of essays, “Clarity as Concept: A Poet’s Perspective.”