we turn everything into art: an audio & visual art experience by queer/poc artists📍 RE:PUBLIC Art Space, Indianapolis🎨 Featuring Local Queer and/or POC Artists🗓 Oct 11, 2025 from 5:00-8:00 PM
Join us for we turn everything into art, a one-night-only mixed-medium art pop-up gallery at RE:PUBLIC in Indianapolis. This vibrant, immersive event showcases the creative alchemy of local queer and POC artists who transform lived experience, memory, identity, and resistance into striking visual and audio formats.
From bold paintings to techno beats, each element is a celebration of reclamation, transformation, and truth-telling. This isn’t just a gallery—it’s a space of presence, power, and possibility.
Whether you’re an art enthusiast, collector, or community member looking to support boundary-pushing creators, this event invites you to witness how we turn everything—joy, grief, rage, love—into art.
Featured Artists:
Fran Smith (they/them): Fran is a queer & genderfluid spoken word and visual artist located in Fishers, IN. Fran is new to gallery curation, and looks forward to welcoming the public to their first group show. Fran's work has been featured in galleries throughout Central Indiana, and their spoken word work has been presented all over the country.
Emery Gay (they/them): Emery is a queer and nonbinary talented visual artist based in Indianapolis, IN. Their visually stimulating works range from sculpture, to collage, to charcoal, and more. Emery layers motifs of emotion, racial injustice, and historical context into their works. Their works have been featured all over Central Indiana, including the Third Floor Gallery in Irvington. They are continuing to refine their craft at the Herron School of Art.
Painted Bodies/Elizabeth Hernandez (she/her): Elizabeth Hernandez is a powerful queer visual artist based in Plainfield, IN. Her rich and colorful oil paintings create an atmosphere of surrealism combined with light, neoimpressionistic brushstrokes. Her use of color and space define her works. Elizabeth's works have been featured all around Central Indiana, including a gallery at the Plainfield Library.
Andres Calvo/Polychromatic (he/him): Polychromatic delivers hypnotic underground grooves rooted in House and Techno music, fusing his passion for art, culture, and electronic music into immersive sets that move both body and mind.
Free and open to the public. VIP Experiences also available for $5: Food and non-alcoholic beverages are available for purchase. All are welcome. Follow us on Instagram for artist spotlights and updates.
