Staff
Big Car Collaborative staff members who focus on Tube Factory, Listen Hear and Guichelaar Gallery
Shauta Marsh / co-founder/director of programs and exhibitions
Shauta Marsh is a co-founder of Big Car Collaborative and works as its curator and program director. From 2009-2011 she was assistant director at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (iMOCA). In 2012 she was promoted to executive director and chief curator. During that time, Big Car Collaborative and iMOCA frequently collaborated on projects and exhibitions. At iMOCA, Marsh curated and/or organized more than 35 exhibitions including LaToya Ruby Frazier and Tony Buba: Inheritance, Toyin Odutola, Tabitha Soren, Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mound At Large, Richard Mosse: Fermata, and more.
Marsh returned full-time to Big Car Collaborative in March of 2015 when the organization purchased a vacant former manufacturing building, Tube Factory. Since opening Tube Factory artspace May of 2016, Marsh has commissioned Indianapolis-based, regional and national contemporary visual and musical artists — working with artists such as Carlos Rolón, Calvin Johnson, Jesse Sugarmann, Larissa Hammond, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Mari Evans, Pablo Helguera, Juan Willam Chávez, Prince Rama, Scott Hocking, and more. Marsh is a writer for the publication Pattern Magazine and co-author with Jim Walker a chapter in the book, "Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice" edited by Cara Courage and Anita McKeown and published by Routledge.
Julie Xiao
Public Art & Programs Manager
Julie Xiao is an Indianapolis based artist who creates narrative works that speak about contemporary subject matters depicted in a fantastical manner. She has been experimenting with scale and different aesthetic techniques to depict mythological worlds that focus on exploring multicultural identity and mythologies. Much of her aesthetic techniques are inspired by traditional Chinese paintings, Japanese prints, as well as contemporary media such as films and comics. Xiao is a storyteller as much as she is an artist, she blends her digital media skills with her traditional art experiences to create well balanced compositions that convey various narratives. She strives to create engaging works that tell a story and encourages the viewers to connect and explore more about the artwork.
Landon Caldwell
Space & Sound Manager
Landon Caldwell is a composer and multi-disciplinary artist in Indianapolis whose work examines environment, family, & class through the language of intuition and other hidden layers of reality. Through sound, words, color and other materials, his work creates environments that redirect attention to the present and open new realities through the minutiae of the everyday.Since 2016 he has co-operated Medium Sound, producing a number of the label’s releases. From 2017 to 2020 he was a co-owner/operator of A-Space, a community-focused audio workspace. He has toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe and is regularly engaged with artists and musicians across the Midwest and beyond.His collaborative work expands into multi-disciplinary fields, working with film, visual arts, sculpture, poetry, dance, and more.
Jim Walker / co-founder & executive director of Big Car
Jim Walker works as a public and social practice artist, placemaker, photographer, video and sound artist, teacher, designer, and writer. He’s a co-founder and CEO of Big Car, a nonprofit arts organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana. He makes all our programming possible! Walker began working as a journalist at age 16, writing and taking photos for his hometown paper in Warsaw, Ind. He enjoyed 20 more years in newspapers as a reporter, editor and photographer, finishing as an arts reporter for The Indianapolis Star in 2007. Along the way, Walker completed an MFA at Warren Wilson College and began showing photos, video, installation, and performance work in various galleries and art spaces. He’s influenced by Surrealism, Fluxus, Magical Realism, Futurism — people and ideas pushing boundaries of time, space, and perception.