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Once a dairy barn, now a free contemporary art museum

Mirror Indy | Dec. 5, 2025

A 125-year-old dairy barn that’s been converted into a contemporary art museum will open May 1 in the Garfield Park neighborhood.

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With new ‘CAMI’ name, Garfield Park art campus looks to solidify future

Indianapolis Business Journal | Dec. 5, 2025

In the interest of brand clarity and long-range planning, an arts-focused campus in the Garfield Park neighborhood is adopting a new name before opening a 40,000-square-foot multipurpose building in 2026.

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Inside Big Car's big building renovation

IndyStar | Dec. 5, 2025

The Indy-based art nonprofit Big Car Collaborative has transformed Garfield Park by converting roughly a city block’s worth of dilapidated storefronts, old industrial buildings, and parking lots into a public arts fantasia. And with a new expansion underway, they’re just getting started.

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Big Car rebrands Garfield Park campus as ‘Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis’

WISH-TV | Dec. 18, 2025

Big Car Collaborative has big plans for an old dairy barn on its Garfield Park arts campus. They include space for 18 new artist studios, six new art galleries, five small shops, a cafe and even a radio station.

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Garfield Park art community getting new name

Axios Indianapolis | Dec. 8, 2025

Indianapolis' newest art museum is nearing completion, and now it has a new name.

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A first look: Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis expansion set to open Spring 2026

WRTV Indianapolis | Dec. 8, 2025

Big changes are coming to the near south side of Indianapolis in the new year.

The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis (CAMi) expansion is set to open May 1, 2026.

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Big Car’s expanding campus rebranded as ‘CAMi’

Urban Times | Dec. 6, 2025

As the Big Car Collaborative nears the May opening of its 40,000-square-foot, the Near Southside organization has launched a new identity for its cultural campus: the Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis — or CAMi for short.

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New contemporary art museum aims for 'more than what people might expect'

IndyStar | Dec. 5, 2025

Also in 2026, Tube Factory, an artist-run contemporary art museum and community center, will quadruple its footprint with a new, 40,000-square-foot space in a 125-year-old former dairy barn, allowing it to offer even more free programming, performances, and cultural collaborations.

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The Best Places to Go in the US in 2026

Condé Nast Traveler | Nov. 18, 2025

Also in 2026, Tube Factory, an artist-run contemporary art museum and community center, will quadruple its footprint with a new, 40,000-square-foot space in a 125-year-old former dairy barn, allowing it to offer even more free programming, performances, and cultural collaborations.

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Speed Read: Roots And Wings

Indianapolis Monthly | Jan. 2, 2025

The Indy-based art nonprofit Big Car Collaborative has transformed Garfield Park by converting roughly a city block’s worth of dilapidated storefronts, old industrial buildings, and parking lots into a public arts fantasia. And with a new expansion underway, they’re just getting started.

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How Big Car Collaborative Is Walking The Tightrope In Garfield Park

Indianapolis Monthly | Nov. 28, 2020

Were it not for Big Car Collaborative’s track record, their plans for the Garfield Park area might sound a tad grandiose. Maybe even nuts.

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Art and the Indy Speedway

Sports Illustrated | May 29, 2016

Sports Illustrated's Andrew Lawrence takes a closer look at the Indianapolis 500 and if racing can truly be art.

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Big Car opens Garfield Park headquarters

IndyStar | May 9, 2016

Jim Walker enters an abandoned home on Cruft Street. The house smells of mold, the floors are covered in dirt and grime and the way to the second floor is boarded up.

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Why Indianapolis is a test case for a fairer form of gentrification

The Guardian (UK) | Aug. 21, 2015

Arts collective Big Car helped transform a down-and-out Indianapolis neighbourhood into a thriving cultural hub, but then artists and other residents were priced out. Their new regeneration plan seeks to shift this urban paradigm.

 
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