Society of Salvage

05/22/2026

Check out Heimel Auction for this upcoming auction. Looks like a fun one! 🏁

05/20/2026

Sharing an interest art auction by Wickliff Auctioneers. Check it out, May 30th.

05/09/2026

Check out CAMi! Absolutely floored by all the amazing synergies going on in Garfield Park!

03/04/2026

Check it out Midland Arts and Antiques!

12/07/2025

Loving every bit of this! Jim Walker + Shauta Marsh 🙌🏼🙌🏼 Mad respect to both of you!!

A new contemporary art museum is set to open in Indianapolis in May 2026 and for many artists and neighbors in Garfield Park, it represents more than a gallery space.

The Contemporary Art Museum of Indianapolis, or CAMi, will sit inside a renovated 125-year-old dairy barn and offer free admission. Big Car, the nonprofit leading the $7 million project, says the goal is to create a place where artists and community members can gather, work and experience art without financial barriers.

“We want to remove the barrier that contemporary art is for the elite, or that it’s only for a certain type of person,” Shauta Marsh, co-founder of Big Car Collaborative, told Mirror Indy during a Dec. 2 tour of the space.

The 40,000-square-foot building will include galleries, artist studios, a café, creative storefronts and a small performance venue. It will be the city’s first contemporary art museum since iMOCA closed in 2020.

But CAMi stretches beyond the museum walls. The five-acre campus along Cruft Street brings together a new sculpture park, Tube Gallery (formerly Tube Factory artspace), community radio station WQRT 99.1 FM and 18 affordable homes for artists and their families.

One of those residents is sculptor Bryn Jackson, who lives in a Big Car home through the Artist and Public Life Residency. He pays about half the area’s typical rent in exchange for community work and for CAMi.

Jackson said the new museum’s relationship with artists is different because CAMi won’t be acquiring or collecting any art. It will focus solely on paying artists to create work for exhibitions.

“We will have an institution that is geared towards giving artists space to dream big, to be ambitious because there’s not that added layer of stewarding a major collection,” Jackson told Mirror Indy.

CAMi’s first exhibition will feature Puerto Rican painter Ivelisse Jiménez in the Jeremy Efroymson Gallery.

📸 Doug McSchooler for Mirror Indy

12/04/2025

Here's a few more pics from J***y Joe's! When shopping for unique gifts for that special someone in your life, be sure to check out our friends at J***y Joe's. He's about 1.5 hours west of Indy. Approx. 25 minutes south of Danville Illinois. He's got all sorts of architectural salvage and treasures to be discovered.

12/04/2025

When shopping for unique gifts for that special someone in your life, be sure to check out our friends at J***y Joe's. He's about 1.5 hours west of Indy. Approx. 25 minutes south of Danville Illinois. He's got all sorts of architectural salvage and treasures to be discovered.

11/14/2025

Swooning over this AMAZING PIECE our friends at Industrial Artifacts has in store. Wowsers!!!!!
You guys have been killing it w/all this amazing furniture!! 🥰🙌🏼💪🚛🥰🆘

09/10/2025

Road trip tip: make a detour to Doc's Architectural Salvation in Springfield, TN. Think giant warehouse packed with mantels, vintage lighting, tin ceilings, even claw-foot tubs. If you knew him on W. 30th Street, you’ll love the expanded sequel!!

Doc Keys opened his architectural salvage and antiques store in Springfield 13 years ago.

08/27/2025

We’re going to be setting up this year! More details to follow!