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Indianapolis is home to first-generation immigrants from all over the world, many of them practicing artists. Tune in to hear their stories about finding inspiration, bridging an art practice across cultures, and creating home in a new place.

This series is hosted by Tiffany Black, resident of Big Car Collaborative’s Artist & Public Life Residency, a long-term artist housing program. Airing every 2nd Saturday at 3pm EST.

Artwork credit: Below And Beyond No.4 by Asli Narin.

Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis and beyond. In this episode, Shauta Marsh of Big Car talks with Indianapolis-based artist Yeabsera Tabb

Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis and beyond. In this episode, Shauta Marsh of Big Car talks with Artist and Lead Builder Jason Gray about his exhibit Cthutopia, Chicken Chapel, and other projects on the Tube Factory Artspace campus.

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of Every Man A King by Walter Mosley . Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Steve Woods, and Craig Von Deylen only on 99.1 WQRT

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Hernan Diaz 2022 Best Seller, Trust. Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Traci Cumbay, Barb Shoup, and Robin Beery only on 99.1 WQRT.

Produced by artists and curators from Big Car Collaborative, Create Hear is your place to listen to conversations with people making intriguing, innovative, and impactful things happen on the cultural front in Indianapolis, across Indiana, and beyond.

In this episode, Jim Walker of Big Car talks with artist Nathaniel Russell

This month, join our panel of four for a lively discussion of fantasy author Alex Jennings, The Ballad of Perilous Graves Ken Honeywell spearheads this monthly show along with Christine Hudson, Maurice Broaddus, and Alex Mattingly only on 99.1 WQRT

Big Car's Director of Programs and Exhibitions, Shauta Marsh interviews visual artist Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt’s creative practice focuses on themes about nature, collections and the environment. She is the Founding Director of the Grunwald Gallery of Art at Indiana University Bloomington where she has curated exhibitions and published catalogs since 1987. Exhibiting her own work widely since 1983, solo exhibitions include La Maladie at The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia and the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago and Veiled Taxonomies at the Center for Book Arts in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibits at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and White Columns and Art in General in New York among others. She is the recipient of a Visual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Join the Radio Free Book Club team—Dan Barden, Susan Neville, Traci Cumbay, and host Ken Honeywell for a no-holds-barred discussion of the provocative novel - When We Cease to Understand the World.

Radio Free Book Club is a radio show book club produced monthly at 99.1 WQRT in Indianapolis. We talk about contemporary novels, with an alternating cast to book club members. Yes: There will be spoilers. We hope you’ll join us!

In the fifth installment of Words & Music: An audio series exploring the life and work of Indiana writers, Jim Walker talks with poet Lasana Kazembe and jazz musician Rob Dixon who collaborated to create the multi-media performance, Firedance. Both artists are based in Indianapolis.

Kazembe, a professor at IUPUI, is The Cabaret's inaugural Artist in Residence. Firedance is an original work Kazembe and Dixon created and performed at the Cabaret in May of 2022. This multimedia, multi-disciplinary event featured live musical performance with storytelling, dance, and live painting on stage. This work drew on the African cultural concept of Serudj-Ta, meaning: to repair and remake the world - the restorative practice by which we replenish the world in order to make it more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Firedance follows Kazembe's highly acclaimed Voodoo of Hells Half Acre that aired on 250 PBS TV stations across the U.S. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1wht61KYM)