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ast weekend, on HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a silly little comedy bit turned into something more when he made fun of a Pence family pet, the recently adopted rabbit, Marlon Bundo. What brought this on? The VP’s daughter, Charlotte Pence, was releasing her new children’s book this week: Marlon Bundo’s a Day in the Life of the Vice President. And when one is ridiculing a public official, this seems like an open invitation to pile on. I had made fun of the Pence’s pet rabbit a few times before Oliver did. Partly because I knew about rabbits and partly because making fun of the VP is just something I do. But Marlon Bundo is different. In an appearance on The View this week, the young Pence explained that she’d adopted the rabbit as part of a student film project in college. When she went to buy the bunny off of Craigslist, she asked how much it cost, and the owner said, “Make me an offer.” Hence the nod to Marlon Brando. When one of the hosts asked if Marlon favored the left or the right politically, Charlotte said he kind of “hops down the middle of the aisle.” I have to give the 24-year-old more points for that one. But the best was her response to the ridicule she and her family got from Oliver about the whole thing. What Oliver did was probably unprecedented. In the course of mocking the book, Oliver put together a book of his own that looks remarkably similar to the Pence book. His book is titled A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo. In the Oliver version, Bundo is having a typical rabbit day until he meets another rabbit named Wesley while hopping in the garden of the vice presidential residence. The two boy rabbits fall in love and decide to get married only to find out from the

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stinkbug in charge that “boy bunnies don’t marry boy bunnies!” Pence’s book is a rhyming slice of life of Marlon sharing a typical day in the life of the VP. It is the kind of book one would expect to read to a young child at bedtime, especially if that youngster needed help going to sleep. Is there anything more boring to a 4-year-old than a day in the life of Mike Pence? Proceeds from Pence’s book will go to A21 (a nonprofit dedicated to stopping human trafficking) and an art therapy program at Riley Hospital for Children. This young lady could have handled the over-the-top mockery that Oliver served up in so many ways. She responded by buying his book and accepting the mimicry as the highest form of flattery. Oh, and she embraced Oliver’s fundraisers too. She has been all class, all week. It turns out I really like Charlotte Pence. Which only leaves me to wonder if anyone has suggested she read her book to her dad’s boss. Maybe Marlon Bundo should spend a day or two with him. Michael Leppert is a public and governmental affairs consultant in Indianapolis and writes his thoughts about politics, government, and anything else that strikes him at MichaelLeppert.com.

SPECIAL SESSION PAY BECOMES POLITICAL PISSING CONTEST Lawmakers Vow to Give Back Overtime Pay BY QUINN FITZGERALD // NEWS@NUVO.NET

ome members of the Indiana General Assembly are giving the pay they receive for the special session to charity. Gov. Eric Holcomb announced last week that the General Assembly will hold a special session in May, during which he wants legislators to address bills focusing on school safety and tax system adjustments that would match changes at the federal level.

The estimated cost for the special session is $30,000 per day with legislators receiving a daily expense stipend of $173 as determined by the federal government. Indiana Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, agrees with Holcomb’s decision to call for a special session because of the issues that need to be addressed before 2019 but said it is appropriate to donate any pay he receives to charity. Long announced Wednesday that the Senate Republican leadership will contribute special session per diem to the Military Family Relief Fund. The MFRF, which is administered by the state through the Indiana Veterans’ Affairs Commission, provides financial assistance to veterans and their families for basic needs such as food, housing, child care, medical services, education, transportation, and utilities. Long said donating to the MFRF respects Indiana taxpayers by keeping the money within the state while providing needed resources to military families. “While it is entirely up to each individual legislator what to do with their per diem payment, we are encouraging our colleagues to follow our lead and donate to the MFRF,” he said. “We believe this is the right thing to do.” Sen. Travis Holdman, R-Markle, is also donating to the MFRF and said elected officials of the General Assembly should accept the fault for not getting the work done in time during the regular session. “It’s just the right thing to do to donate to charity or to refund back to

the state,” Holdman said. While lawmakers can’t legally opt out from being paid for days worked, each is allowed to determine whether or not to donate their per diem to charitable causes. So, while House Democratic Leader Terry Goodin, D-Austin, and Senate Democratic Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson, are against a special session all together, they will also make donations. Because Holcomb and Republican leadership have said they will not be addressing issues with the Department of Child Services during the May session, the minority leaders in both chambers said they will donate to groups that support at-risk children. “As the Republican supermajority’s mismanagement jeopardized the ability of the Legislature to take any action to help our children in the Department of Child Services, I will take any pay that I must receive during the special session and donate that money to assist children who are in the foster system,” Lanane said. Wednesday, House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said the session could potentially last only one day, but he and his wife, Cheryl, are donating $1,500 to the Indiana Association of Resources and Child Advocacy. Bosma challenged Goodin, Lanane, and Indianapolis Star columnist Tim Swarens to do the same. “There’s been some who’ve been trying to make political hay out of this,” Bosma said. Goodin declined and said Long and Bosma should have chosen to meet the challenge of doing their jobs in the regular session instead of issuing challenges now in an attempt to cover up their own mistakes.

“The charities I choose will be those that benefit Hoosier veterans, as well as at-risk children—exactly the children that should have been helped this session by those who run the Legislature by taking a more active interest in reforming the state’s Department of Child Services,” Goodin said in a statement. Along with Goodin, the House Democrats who have confirmed they are donating their pay are Reps. Ed DeLaney, Indianapolis; Dan Forestal, Indianapolis; Carey Hamilton, Indianapolis; Ryan Hatfield, Evansville; Sheila Klinker, Lafayette; Justin Moed, Indianapolis; and Melanie Wright, Yorktown. Brent Stinson, press secretary for the Senate Democrats, said the group has yet to meet and discuss whether they will be donating their pay. Sens. Jean Breaux, Indianapolis, and Lanane are the only members of the caucus to confirm their contributions. Senate Republicans who are joining Holdman and Long in giving to charities are Sens. Rodric Bray, Martinsville; Liz Brown, Fort Wayne; Michael Crider, Greenfield; Susan Glick, LaGrange; Randy Head, Logansport; Jim Merritt, Indianapolis; Mark Messmer, Jasper; Ryan Mishler, Bremen; Chip Perfect, Lawrenceburg; John Ruckelshaus, Indianapolis; and Jim Tomes, Wadesville. Erin Reece, director of communications and technology for the House Republican Caucus, said a comprehensive list of members who are donating is not available. N Quinn Fitzgerald is a reporter for TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. NUVO.NET // 03.28.18 - 04.04.18 // NEWS // 5

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KATHY LEE, AGE 6, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY SCHOOL 43 // PHOTO BY HALEY WARD

he history of Indianapolis women is not always easy to find. The vast majority of monuments and memorials in our city are icons of politics, war, and athletics.

Nothing illustrates this point more clearly than the monument at White River State Park marking the location where the first family of white settlers to arrive in Indianapolis built their home. “Here stood the cabin of John McCormick, one of the first settlers in central Indiana,” reads the plaque. “The commissioners appointed by the legislature […] met in this cabin on the seventh of June 1820 and decided upon the location for the town afterwards named Indianapolis.” There is no mention of the fact that McCormick was married. No mention of his wife Bethia, mother of his 10 children. The couple farmed the land side by side, raised the children side by side, built a town side by side. But only he is named, remembered, and celebrated. The same is true of pioneer Cassandra Pogue. While we attribute Pogue’s Run Creek and the surrounding neighborhood to her husband, the truth is George Pogue got himself killed within a year of coming

to Indianapolis, and it was Mrs. Pogue who survived on that land for decades without him. From the beginning, Indy was home to remarkably strong, talented, and bold women! By 1900, Indianapolis boasted female doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate agents. Women ran schools and businesses with tremendous success and longevity. As well as highly respected women poets and painters, dancers and dramatists, and authors who were giants in their field. Kathy Lee, our strong supergirl model, represents the future of Indianapolis women—and all the possibilities that await them. Flipping through other sections of this week’s paper, you’ll find stories on female chefs, painters, curators, comedians, and musicians who represent the best of our city today. But it’s important to start at the beginning and the women upon whose shoulders we stand. The sheroes who came before us and who deserve to be remembered for resisting the status quo, persisting against stereotypes, and paving their own way to success. Past, present, and future—we salute them all. — LAURA McPHEE

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• ALBERTSON, LILLIAN

1881–1962, ACTOR AND DIRECTOR

One of the greatest stage actresses of the last century, Lillian Albertson was born in Noblesville. After moving to California as a teen, she soon began acting in the stock company of the Grand Opera House before heading off to New York. As she aged, Albertson began working off stage more frequently. She produced and directed over 50 dramas, musicals, comedies, and operettas and is credited for discovering Clark Gable when she cast him in the role of Killer Mears in her stage production of The Last Mile. She also served as head acting coach at both RKO and Paramount and continued to act in films such as The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and The Ten Commandments (1956).

• ANDERSON, MARGARET

1886–1973, WRITER AND EDITOR

Born in Indianapolis, Anderson moved to Chicago in 1908, where she worked at The Dial and Chicago Evening Post before founding the avant-garde literary magazine The Little Review in 1914. Not long after, she began a 10-year relationship with artist Jane Heap (1883–1964), who became coeditor. The magazine was one of the most influential modernist publications in the world and featured works by T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams, among many others. Most famously, The Little Review serialized James Joyce’s Ulysses in 1918, but by Chapter 13, they were charged (and convicted) of violating obscenity laws. Moving between Paris and New York, the couple split in 1925. Anderson relinquished her role in the magazine and stayed in France, where she continued to write and publish through the 1960s.

• ATKINS, DORA

1903–2001, BUSINESS OWNER

Daughter of a prominent African American doctor, Dora Atkins was a freshman at Butler University when her parents died in 1923. With the help of her sister Murray, a school teacher, she continued to run her mother’s homebased flower business to support herself and pay for school. After graduating from Butler in 1926, she moved her business to 209 W. 21st St. and established Atkins Flower Shop as one of the premier florists in the city. The shop moved to 2049 N. Capitol Ave. in 1949 and

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1884–1973, PAINTER

1888–1972, COMPOSER

Perhaps the most famous female composer of the Ragtime era, according to the Library of Congress, May Aufderheide was born into the large German community in Indianapolis at the end of the 19th century. Her first song, The Dusty Rag (1908), became a sensation, and it was quickly followed by other hits such as The Buzzer Rag (1909) and The Blue Ribbon Rag (1910). Her success prompted her father to start his own publishing company, J.H. Aufderheide Music, which went on to publish dozens of his daughter’s rags, waltzes, and lullabies. Aufderheide gave up her music when her duties as a wife and mother demanded all of her attention.

• BOLTON, SARAH

1814–1893, POET AND ACTIVIST * Indiana’s first poet, Bolton came to Indianapolis

as a young bride in the 1830s. Her husband, Nathaniel Bolton, was editor of the city’s first newspaper, and they were both active in early city affairs and politics. In 1850–’51, she was part of a group of progressives lobbying state lawmakers for the recognition of women’s property rights. She published her best-known work, “Paddle Your Own Canoe,” in the 1850s, as well as two volumes of poetry, The Life and Poems of Sarah T. Bolton (1880) and Songs of a Life Time (1892), which contained an introduction by Lew Wallace and a dedication poem by Jame Whitcomb Riley. Her home, Beech Bank, is now a city park in Beech Grove, and a bronze relief memorial of the poet can be found at the Indiana Statehouse.

• BACON, ELIZABETH DRIGGS

1881–1928, ARTIST AND EDUCATOR

After several years studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, Bacon returned to Indianapolis, where she painted and exhibited regularly and taught children’s classes at the Herron School of Art. In 1922, she and eight other local women founded the Orchard School based on their belief in progressive education. Bacon wrote and edited a monthly newsletter for Herron, was an art critic at The Indianapolis Star, and was a respected painter of portraits and large decorative mythological scenes.

• CABLE, MARY ELLEN

1862–1944, EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST * Following her death in 1944, The Indianapolis Star

• BAKER, EMMA CHRISTY

1865–1955, POLICE OFFICER

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Known as the “socialite painter,” Bobbs was born to wealthy parents who died within a year of each other before she was sixteen. She was sent to study art in Paris for two years soon after, at the Academy Julian. From there, she went to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League before returning to Indianapolis in 1907 to finish her studies at Herron. When she married publisher William Bobbs in 1912, she insisted on maintaining her own studio—an old barn on 11th Street where she painted for the next 20 years. By the time her husband died in 1926, she was a well-established portraitist.

• AUFDERHEIDE, MAY

• BOBBS, RUTH PRATT

remained open until she retired in 1977 after 50 years in business. That same year, Mayor Bill Hudnut declared Nov. 20 Dora Atkins Day in Indianapolis.

After graduating from Shortridge High School, Baker began working at her father’s laundry business. She applied to be part of a new program of the Indianapolis Police Department that recruited women in 1918 and became the first woman hired by the city police as well as the first person of color. She wore a badge and earned the same pay as male officers and was mostly assigned to work undercover Downtown, targeting shoplifters and petty theft. She left the force in 1939 after a new chief eliminated women officers. Her grave at Crown Hill went unmarked for nearly 50 years, until a fundraiser spearheaded by IPS kids raised nearly $4,000 in 2013 for a headstone.

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RUTH PRATT BOBBS (AMERICAN, 1884-1973), GIRL IN WHITE, ABOUT 1905-1907. INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART AT NEWFIELDS, GIFT OF ELEANOR DICKSON AND OTTO N. FREEZES, 73.35 © RUTH PRATT BOBBS. //

said this about one of the city’s greatest teachers: “From lowly beginnings, this remarkable negro woman rose to eminence in the field of public education.” Raised in Kansas, Cable moved to Indianapolis in 1893 and worked in the segregated schools of Indianapolis for more than 40 years, including as principal of School #4 just off Indiana Avenue. She was the first to start a teaching program within IPS for training African American teachers, overseeing more than 60 graduates of the program in her role as director of the practice of teaching. Cable was heavily involved in civic affairs. She founded the Indianapolis NAACP in 1912 and served as its first president.

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• CAREY, MARY STEWART

1859–1938, PHILANTHROPIST

Mary Stewart inherited her wealth and gave most of it back to the city. In 1922, she donated use of a house and apple orchard for the new Orchard School founded by her daughters. A few years later, a visit to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum prompted Carey to create just such an institution at home. Inspired by Brooklyn’s cases of artifacts, its rooms dedicated to reptiles, birds, insects, and botany, and its 9,000-volume reference library, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis was the third museum in the country specifically for children when it opened a few years later. It is now the world’s largest. Located initially at the Indianapolis Propylaeum, within two years the collection and interest were so large Carey donated her 35-room mansion on Meridian Street as the new home of the museum. Carey was also instrumental in the adoption of the state flag and choosing its design.

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textbooks and lobbied lawmakers for compulsory education legislation, requiring school for all children. She was the first woman awarded an honorary degree by Indiana University (1913), and the Cropsey Auditorium at Central Library is named in her honor.

• DONNELLY, EUPHRASIA LOUISE 1905–1963, ATHLETE

Swimmer “Fraze” Donnelly was a 19-yearold Indianapolis native and member of the Hoosier Athletic Club when she made it to the 1924 Summer Games in Paris. Donnelly swam her way to a gold medal as part of the U.S. women’s 4x100 meter freestyle relay event. Donnelly and her teammates Gertrude Ederle, Ethel Lackie, and Mariechen Wehselau broke a world record along the way as the first team to swim the race in under five minutes. After retiring from swimming, Donnelly taught at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College for a few years before marrying.

• CARSON, JULIA

• DUBOIS, SHIRLEY GRAHAM

1955, Carson began her political career as a caseworker for newly elected Congressman Andy Jacobs Jr. in 1965. In 1972, she was elected to serve four years in the Indiana House of Representatives, before the Indiana Senate, where she served another 14 years. After a stint as Center Township trustee, Carson was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Indiana’s 7th Congressional District in 1997. She was the first woman from the 7th District elected to Congress and the first African American. Carson served 10 years before her death in 2007.

Though she was born in Indianapolis, “Lola” Graham didn’t stay long, heading to Paris after she graduated high school, where she studied music composition at the Sorbonne. After returning to the U.S. and completing her master’s degree in music in 1935, she was appointed director of the Chicago Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project as part of the WPA the following year. Her best-known opera, Tom Tom: An Epic of Music and The Negro, premiered in Cleveland in 1932 with over 15,000 in attendance. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Graham wrote several musicals and plays before turning to books in the 1950s with biographies of leading African Americans. Her last novel, Zulu Heart, was published in 1974. In 1951, she married W.E.B. DuBois, a second marriage for them both. The couple eventually emigrated to Ghana, where he died in 1963.

* A graduate of Crispus Attucks High School in 1938–2007, PUBLIC SERVANT

• CROPSEY, NEBRASKA 1845–1916, EDUCATOR

In the late 1860s, IPS Superintendent Abram Shortridge convinced the school board to pay the cost of sending Nebraska Cropsey to teachers’ college. Upon her return, she became assistant superintendent for elementary education at IPS—a position she held for 40 years. Over the next four decades, she supervised the primary schools of Indianapolis, trained each of her male bosses who held the title superintendent, and often did the majority of their work. In addition to her administrative duties, she wrote several math

1896–1977, COMPOSER, AUTHOR, AND ACTIVIST

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• DUDAN, ALICE HARVIE

An immigrant from Great Britain, Alice Harvie grew up in New Hampshire and trained at the Philadelphia Dental College. She moved to Indianapolis in 1907 following her marriage to a German-born chemist, Hans Duden, who worked for the State Food and Drug Commission. She became the first woman to teach at the Indiana Dental College and opened her own dental practice in 1909. Her research focused largely on the link between oral hygiene and kidney disease, work for which she is still lauded today. The Dudans lived in Irvington at 5050 Pleasant Run Parkway in a home designed by prominent architect Herbert Foltz.

1866–1917, JOURNALIST AND ACTIVIST

Fox began her journalism career in 1891 as the only female writer at the Indianapolis Freeman, one of the nation’s most prominent African American newspapers, and then she moved to the Indianapolis News as the paper’s first Black reporter, where she penned the column “News of the Colored Folk” from 1900–1915. She was an active civic leader, founding the Indianapolis Anti-Lynching League, Women’s Improvement Club, and the Indiana State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs. In its obituary for her in 1917, the Freeman wrote, “Lillian Thomas Fox worked tirelessly to ensure the negro community survival and to end Jim Crow segregation. She was an original thinker and one who dared to flout the dogma which do not consist with her cardinal principles of justice and right.”

1853–1940, LAWYER AND STEAMBOAT CAPTAIN

1919–2017, POET

Mari Evans’ involvement with the arts in Indianapolis goes back to 1963, when she began writing, directing, and producing the television program The Black Experience for WTTV. In 1968, she published her first book of poetry, Where Is All the Music?, and the next year she was offered a position at the newly created Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). She was a writer-in-residence teaching courses in African American literature at IUPUI during the 1969—’70 school year before accepting a position at IU Bloomington, where she taught until 1978. For the next 40 years, Evans wrote and published numerous poetry collections, books for children, and plays such as her 1979 adaptation of Zora Neale

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• EAGLESFIELD, ELIZABETH

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Solano—her partner for more than 50 years. The women moved to Paris in 1922, and Flanner’s only novel, The Cubical City, was published in 1926. She also began a weekly column for the new magazine The New Yorker. Writing under the pen name Genet, her “Letters from Paris” ran in the magazine until 1975.

1873–1926, DENTIST AND EDUCATOR

The first woman admitted to the Indiana State Bar, Eaglesfield practiced law in Vigo County at the age of 25, one of the first 15 women in the United States to do so, before moving to Indianapolis with several of her brothers in the 1880s. The Marion County Court was less welcoming to a female attorney, however, and for a time she earned a living running her own “fancy goods” shop on North Pennsylvania Street. Following a brief marriage and divorce, she moved with her son to Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to opening her own legal practice, she became a bit of a real estate and shipping mogul. She captained her steamship, The Golden Girl, a vessel that could carry up to 10,000 cases of fruit from Benton Harbor to various Great Lakes ports.

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• GOTH, MARIE

1887–1975, PAINTER

MAY WRIGHT SEWALL (FRONT, LEFT) AND OTHER DELEGATES AT THE WOMAN’S PARTY SAN FRANCISCO EXPOSITION SPRING 1915. // PHOTO COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. Thanks to the mural on Mass Ave by Michael Alkemi Jordan, Mari Evans now watches over all of us.

• FARMER, FRANCES 1913–1970, ACTRESS

Farmer came to Indianapolis as a middle-aged woman whose Hollywood career had been derailed by drunk driving, mental illness, and involuntary commitment to a mental institution. It took nearly two decades for her to regain her independence and attempt an acting comeback. In 1958, while touring in a theater production in Indianapolis, she was offered her own daytime movie program, Frances Farmer Presents, and soon after she made the city her permanent home. She had a good run for about seven years, but another drunk driving

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incident got her fired from television in 1964, and her final acting role came in a production of The Visit at the Loeb Playhouse at Purdue, which ended in October that same year. Farmer died from throat cancer in August 1970, and she is buried in Fishers.

• FLANNER, JANET 1892–1978, WRITER

Though her name has become synonymous with Paris, Janet Flanner was an Indy native and daughter of a man whose business, Flanner and Buchanan, still operates 100-plus years after his death. A graduate of Tudor Hall School for Girls, she briefly worked as a writer for The Indianapolis Star. She moved to New York in 1918, after an ill-fated marriage that lasted less than a year, where she met Solita

A graduate of Manual Training High School in 1906, Goth spent several years studying art at Herron Art School in Indianapolis before moving to New York and studying at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. Beginning in 1919, she established a studio in Indianapolis and a reputation as a portrait painter before falling in love with Brown County and eventually moving to Nashville as part of the burgeoning art colony there. She exhibited in every Hoosier Salon from 1925–1975 and was the first female artist chosen to paint the official portrait of an Indiana governor (Henry F. Schricker). Other portraits of notable sitters include Gen. Douglas MacArther, ISO conductor Fabien Sevitsky, and James Whitcomb Riley.

• GRAYDON, JANE CHAMBERS 1802–1891, NURSE AND ACTIVIST

Graydon and her husband, an iron manufacturer, moved to Indianapolis in 1843. The couple was ardently opposed to slavery, and their home has reported to be a stop on the Underground Railroad. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Graydon (now in her 60s) became a Union Army nurse serving in Tennessee. Together with Catherine Merrill, she

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founded the Indianapolis Home for Friendless Women in 1867, a shelter for homeless women, as well as widows and orphans of the war, that cared for as many as 500 local women a year by 1900. Located at 1731 N. Capitol, the home also began housing men in 1936 and changed its name to the Indianapolis Home for the Aged.

coming to Purdue, Haynes was the first woman elected Indiana state librarian in 1873 and taught at Shortridge High School.

• HAMPTON SISTERS

see St. (now Capitol Avenue) in the late 1860s, Ellen Ingraham was the first woman in Indianapolis to declare herself a professional artist. Best known for her portraits of prominent citizens, Ingraham taught classes, and she was praised for her miniature paintings. Her husband, Charles B. Ingraham, was a photographer who operated Ingraham’s Gallery of Art from 1867–1892 on East Washington Street near the Circle and displayed many of her paintings. She also wrote several books under the name Grace Lintner, including Bond and Free: A Tale of the South in 1882.

VARIOUS, MUSICIANS

The Hampton Sisters—Virtue (1922–2007*), Carmalita (1920–1987), Aletra (1918–2007*), and Dawn Hampton (1928–2016)—came to Indianapolis in 1938 with the family band, Deacon Hampton & The Cottonpickers. With Indy as home base, the family toured the vaudeville circuit for more than a decade before brother Slide Hampton left for New York and joined Uncle Lionel’s band. When WWII took the remaining brothers away from home, the sisters began performing as the Hamptonians at USO shows across the country and became part of the Indiana Avenue music jazz scene. The sisters were honored with the Governor’s Arts Award in 1991 for their contribution to Indiana music heritage and were awarded honorary doctorates in music from IU in 2004.

• HARRISON, CAROLINE SCOTT 1832–1892, *FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES

A reluctant politician’s wife, Harrison never fully adjusted or enjoyed public life, including her time at the White House. Despite her unhappiness, however, she spearheaded initiatives to rid the White House of its rodent problem, bring electricity to the mansion, and update the plumbing. In 1889, she was responsible for having the first Christmas tree set up at the White House, and she also established the orchid as the official flower at state receptions. Sadly, Harrison died from tuberculosis while at the White House; she was 60 years old.

• HAYNES, SARAH OREN 1836–1907, EDUCATOR

The first female faculty member at Purdue University, she was hired in 1875 as an assistant professor of mathematics but was appointed professor of botany soon after. As part of her work, Haynes presented the university with plans for a campus orchard with which to conduct experimental work, assisted in formulating the rules of student conduct, and founded the university’s first women’s literary society. Prior to

• INGRAHAM, ELLEN

1832–1919, ARTIST AND AUTHOR * When she opened her studio at 265 N. Tennes-

• KETCHAM, SUSAN MERRILL

1841–1930, ARTIST * Born into one of Indy’s pioneer families, Ketcham studied art at the city’s first art school and was one of several women who founded the Indianapolis Art Association in 1883—the predecessor to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Herron School of Art. After relocating to New York, her studio in a building adjacent to Carnegie Hall became a legendary place, where artists gathered for nearly 30 years. She spent her summers in Maine, “painting the ocean for Indiana,” until selling her beach cottage and returning to Indianapolis for good in 1927.

• LILLY, RUTH

1915–2009, POET AND PHILANTHROPIST

Heir to the Lilly fortune, Ruth was the last surviving great-grandchild of Eli Lilly and recipient of nearly $1 billion in family assets. She grew up in Indianapolis, moving to the Oldfields estate on the grounds of what is now the Indianapolis Museum of Art as a teenager and later attending Tudor Hall and Herron School of Art. Her passion was poetry, though none of her work was published in her lifetime. It is estimated she gave away more than $800 million to charitable causes, and her wealth continues to fund art and community organizations throughout Indianapolis as the Lilly Endowment and Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Endowment. The Poetry Foundation now awards an annual prize of $100,000 from an endowment she left the organization. NUVO.NET // 03.28.18 - 04.04.18 // THE BIG STORY // 11

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• MAIN, MARJORIE 1890–1975, ACTRESS

Best known as Ma Kettle from the Ma and Pa Kettle movie series, Main grew up in Acton, Indiana, and attended Franklin College before leaving home to work the vaudeville circuit as a comedienne and actress. She made her Broadway debut in 1916 and appeared in her first film, A House Divided, in 1931. Though she’d appeared in nearly a dozen films by the 1940s, it was her Academy Award nomination for best actress in a supporting role in The Egg and I in 1947 that made her a star. She later went on to make nine Ma and Pa Kettle movies with costar Walter Percy.

• MARMON, CAROLINE

1878–1960, *PAINTER AND PHILANTHROPIST

Marmon attended IPS #2 and Girls Classical School before going to Smith College, where she graduated in 1900. After studying art in Paris for several years and developing a reputation as a noted painter, she returned to Indianapolis in 1916. Heir to the Marmon Automobile fortune, she spent much of her time and money buying paintings she would donate to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, including works by Georgia O’Keeffe and Pablo Picasso. She served as a board member of Herron School of Art from 1916–’47 and was instrumental in the decision to split the art school from the museum, thus creating the IMA.

• MCCORMICK, BETHIA 1795–1874, PIONEER

There’s a marker just behind the IUPUI Natatorium that memorializes the site where the first settlers in Indianapolis built their cabin. According to the plaque, John McCormick and family were those settlers. There is no mention of his wife’s name or the fact that she bore him 10 children in the 15 years of their marriage before he died, leaving her with eight under 12 years of age. She eventually remarried and moved with her new husband to Waverly, where they ran a farm for nearly 30 years.

• MERRILL, CATHARINE

1824–1900, EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR

Best remembered as one of the city’s earliest school teachers, Merrill was the first woman admitted to the faculty of Butler University, where she taught from 1869–1883. When appointed, she was the second female professor in the country.

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At the request of Gov. Oliver Morton, Merrill wrote the definitive history of Indiana’s role in the Civil War, The Soldier of Indiana in the War for the Union, a two-volume work published in 1866 and 1869. She became lifelong friends with John Muir after they met when he resided here, and Muir wrote the introduction to her book The Man Shakespeare, published posthumously in 1902.

Pogue, Cassie continued to live on the land and was the first woman in the city to own property and pay property taxes, despite state law not recognizing a woman’s right to own property.

• NOWLAND, ELIZABETH BYRNE

Beulah Porter was the first African American woman to establish a medical practice in Indianapolis when she put out her shingle in 1897. For nearly 10 years, she treated mostly African American women and children before retiring from medicine to teach. Her medical background led her to create the first tuberculosis camp to treat infected African American children in Indianapolis and later founded the Women’s Improvement club with Lillian Thomas Fox. In both instances, she hired Black nurses who were barred from working at hospitals in Indianapolis.

1793–1856, PIONEER

Elizabeth and Matthias Nowland were one of the original families to settle in Indianapolis in 1821, building an 18-x-20-foot log cabin that served as both the family home and business—Nowland’s Tavern. Two years later, Mathias was dead from a malarial infection, and Elizabeth was a widow at 30 with five children under the age of 10. Over the next 20 years, she continued to run the city’s first tavern and expanded the cabin into a boarding house. Her establishment was one of the earliest places to buy a meal in the city.

• PAGE, RUTH

1899–1991, DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER

After a childhood of studying “fancy dance” in her hometown of Indianapolis, Page made her Broadway debut in 1917, just a year before joining the dance company of renowned ballerina Anna Pavlova. For the next 40 years, she danced and choreographed for some of the biggest dance companies in the world, establishing herself as a pioneer modernist dancer and choreographer who frequently used photography and film in her work. She was the founder of the Chicago Opera Ballet, the subject of two excellent documentaries, and the namesake of Chicago’s Ruth Page Center for the Arts.

• POGUE, CASSANDRA PAINE 1771–1861, PIONEER

While there is some dispute over who arrived first, the McCormicks or the Pogues, there is little dispute as to who was the first white settler to die in Indianapolis. George Pogue settled his family here in March of 1819 in a cabin located near where Michigan Street crosses Pogue’s Run Creek. Less than a year after his arrival, Pogue determined that a local settlement of Native Americans was stealing his horses. Over the objections of his family, he set out with his gun and dog one night to confront the thieves. He was never seen again. Thereafter known as Widow

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• PORTER, BEULAH WRIGHT

1869–1924 PHYSICIAN, EDUCATOR, AND ACTIVIST

• RANN, MARY ALICE 1855–1914, EDUCATOR

Though Indianapolis didn’t have a formal school segregation policy in 1872, no student of color had ever applied to continue school past eighth grade until Mary Alice Rann showed up to register as a freshman at what would become Shortridge High School. While some white parents objected, Superintendent of Schools Abram Shortridge asked whether they would prefer that their taxes pay to build a separate school just for her. Rann stayed and became the first African American student to graduate from Shortridge in 1876, which had 16 students of color by that time. She then attended teachers’ college and returned to teach at IPS until her retirement.

• SEWALL, MAY WRIGHT

1844–1920, EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST * The 100 words allowed here cannot possibly

provide enough space to list Sewall’s accomplishments or her lasting influence on the city. She opened and operated Girls Classical School, the city’s first college-prep school for female students. She founded the Art Association, which in turn established the Indiana School of Art (which later became both Herron and the Indianapolis Museum of Art). She was a major suffragette alongside her BFF Susan B. Anthony. Though she devoted her adult life to women’s rights, she died just one month prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment.

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• SHARPE, JULIA GRAYDON

*1858–1939, PAINTER

Sharp grew up in Indianapolis, living for a time at what is known as the “Fletcher House,” which is still standing at 10th and Delaware streets. She was a student of T.C. Steele and William Forsyth at the Indiana School of Art before transferring to the Art Students League in New York, where she continued her studies. She returned to Indianapolis in 1902 and transformed the attic of her parents’ Herron-Morton home into a studio. The Indianapolis Star included her in a list of select female painters dedicated to their craft a year later. “There are very few women in Indianapolis, apart from the teachers of art, who have established real studios.” Graydon was an exception.

• SPINK, MARY

1863–1937, PHYSICIAN

Spink began her medical career as a nurse at the Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis. Upon the recommendation of the director, she enrolled in medical school. In 1887, she was the first woman to graduate from what would become the Indiana University School of Medicine. She returned to working at the mental institution as a pathologist as well as a surgeon at City Hospital. In 1896, the Indiana Woman magazine described her as “A stranger in the city without influence, she built up a successful practice and made for herself an enviable position in the front rank.”

• STOCKTON, SARAH 1842–1924, PHYSICIAN

Born on a farm near Lafayette, Stockton graduated from the Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1882. She moved to Indianapolis and established a private practice before being hired as a physician at the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, located on West Washington Street. The new job prompted the New York Times to remark on Dec. 7, 1883, that it was the first official recognition of a female physician in state history. After leaving the insane asylum, Stockton was the doctor at the Indiana Women’s Prison in Indianapolis until her death in 1924.

• SPUZICH, SANDRA 1937–2015, ATHLETE

As a professional golfer, Spuzich played on the LPGA tour from 1962–’92, winning the U.S. Women’s Open in 1966 and coming in fourth at the Women’s PGA Championships in 1968.

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Born in Indianapolis, she was an IU grad and PE teacher when she made the decision to go pro and join the LPGA. In 1982, she became the oldest player to win two LGPA events in the same year at the age of 45. Spuzich and her longtime partner Joyce Kazmierski were married just before her death in 2015.

1817–1901, ACTIVIST * First lady of Indiana from 1837–’40 and

step-mother to the acclaimed author Lew Wallace, Zerelda Wallace was best known as a suffragette in her later years. She was a founding member of the Equal Suffrage Society of Indianapolis in 1878 and was elected its first president. The group eventually joined the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1887, and Wallace was a keynote speaker at the 1888 International Conference of Women in Washington, D.C. Nearly 30 years after her death, the League of Women Voters selected her to represent Indiana and installed a bronze plaque in the group’s national headquarters in Washington, D.C.

One of the most prolific writers to come out of the Circle City, Augusta Stevenson had more than 400 titles to her credit when she died. A former IPS teacher, she authored the majority of the books in the Childhood of Famous Americans series published by Bobbs-Merrill, including abridged biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Booker T. Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Clara Barton, and George Carver. She also published Children’s Classics in Dramatic Form, including adaptations of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, and the Brothers Grimm.

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• WALKER, MADAM C.J.

1840–1914, ARTIST AND ADVENTURER

1867–1919, BUSINESSWOMAN

She was born in a red house on the Circle and was baptized in the White River at age 2 by Henry Ward Beecher. At 17, she married a handsome soldier who worked at the Statehouse as a secretary to the governor. When her husband went AWOL from the Civil War, Fanny followed him to the silver mines of Nevada, where she gained a reputation as a gun-toting, cigarette-smoking, no-nonsense kind of gal. When her husband went AWOL from the marriage, she took their two children and sailed to Paris, where she studied art and fell in love with a young writer named Robert Louis Stevenson. Following her divorce from the cad in 1879, Fanny married Stevenson in 1880, and they remained together until his death in 1894.

When the Civil War broke out, Lovina refused to stay at home when her husband’s regiment was sent to battle and followed the group throughout the war, serving as cook and unofficial mother to all the soldiers. Twice captured by Confederate troops, she was let go in exchange for POWs. When he died in 1892, Lovina had her husband buried in the front lawn, reportedly so she would always know where he was. When she passed in 1910, more than 5,000 Indianapolis residents attended her funeral and burial at Crown Hill, including 64 survivors of the 51st Indiana Volunteers.

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• WALLACE, ZERELDA SANDERS

1869–1976, AUTHOR

1830–1910, CIVIL WAR NURSE AND SPY

Chicago Opera company, Boston Opera company, more than a dozen symphony orchestras, and writers William Butler Yeats and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

• STEVENSON, AUGUSTA

• STREIGHT, LOVINA MCCARTHY

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Born Sarah Breedlove, African American entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C.J. Walker came to Indianapolis in 1910 just as her haircare products were beginning to take off. She purchased a home and building at 640 N. West St., where she established a factory and beauty school to train her sales agents. Employing up to 20,000 African American women between 1910-’19, Walker’s business made her the first self-made female millionaire in America and the first Black millionaire. LUCY MARTHA TAGGART (AMERICAN, 1880-1960), ELEANOR, 1921. INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART AT NEWFIELDS, DANIEL P. ERWIN FUND, 41.34 © LUCY MARTHA TAGGART. //

• TAGGART, LUCY

• TALBOT, ONA B.

Daughter of Indianapolis Mayor Thomas Taggart, Lucy attended Girls Classical School before Smith College and the Art Students League in New York. She spent many years as a student of acclaimed artist Cecilia Beaux before establishing a home and studio in Hyannis Port. Her work was sold and exhibited throughout the U.S. Following her father’s death in 1929, she returned to Indianapolis to care for her mother and manage the family’s business affairs. She taught painting and portraiture at Herron for many years and served on the board of directors until 1958.

Talbot served as the secretary of the first board of the Indianapolis Symphony when it was founded in 1905. The new endeavor lasted three seasons before disbanding due to lack of funding. Determined to continue a live music tradition in the city, Talbot began arranging concerts herself. In 1922, The Indianapolis Star printed a partial list of talent brought to the city via Talbot, which included the Diaghilieff Ballet, Anna Pavlova and Ballet Russe, Isadora Duncan, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Serge Rachmaninoff, Metropolitan Opera company,

1880–1960, ARTIST AND EDUCATOR

1865–1955, CONCERT PROMOTER

• WOODS, ALICE

1871–1959, ARTIST AND AUTHOR

Among the first students of what would become Herron Art School, Alice Woods studied for several years under T.C. Steele before moving to New York to study with William Merritt Chase. In 1900, she spent the year in Paris studying with James Whistler. An exhibition of her work when she returned home in 1901 drew more than 500 attendees on opening weekend. Woods published her first novel, Edges, in 1902 and due to its success was able to move to Paris the following year. There she married fellow Chase student Eugene Ullman and went on to write several more novels, including Gingham Rose, The Hairpin Duchess, and The Gilded Caravan. N

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A REINVENTED LIFE

A New Indiana State Museum Exhibit Focuses on Lois Main Templeton BY DAN GROSSMAN // DGROSSMAN@NUVO.NET

ou could say that Lois Main Templeton, whose life and artwork are explored in the exhibition A Reinvented Life, had a substantial role in the development of the Indianapolis arts scene. “She came out of Herron [School of Art and Design] in 1981 at 51 years old and didn’t waste any time,” says Mark Ruschman, senior curator of art and history at the Indiana State Museum. “She got busy with her career as a professional artist and was the first artist to rent studio space in the Faris Building.” Other artists soon joined her. And the Faris Building, now part of the Rolls Royce campus on the Near Southside, became a center for artmaking in the Circle City and remained so until the late ’90s. (Templeton stayed in her studio at the Faris Building until 1999.) “Think of the Stutz Building but just kind of funky—an old, raw warehouse building,” says Ruschman. “It’s the precursor to Stutz, the Harrison Center, Circle City Industrial Complex, and the Murphy Building.” The paintings that she created on her large canvases in that space were in an abstract expressionist vein at first. “As she moved into the early ’90s, she started incorporating her writing into her canvases,” says Ruschman. “And she’s always been a writer. She kept personal journals, she wrote poetry...At one point she said, ‘I didn’t know if I was a painter or a writer. And it turns out I was both.’ So she just started incorporating her writing into her compositions.” This was a major shift for Templeton. While her work from this point onward was still abstract, writing on canvas became a way for her to overcome the artist’s equivalent of writer’s block.

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IL LE GA L” // “People don’t realize how intimidating a large blank canvas can be,” says Ruschman. “What she would do to free herself up is just start writing on it, writing her stories; and that would get her moving, and then as the painting progressed, sometimes it would be completely obscured.” Paintings from the 1980s all the way until 2017 are incorporated in the exhibition, as are examples of her journals, which touch on all aspects of her life and art. “Sometimes it’s about the paintings she’s working on, sometimes it’s about a meeting she had, sometimes it’s about what she had for breakfast,” says Ruschman. “But for her, that was all part of the daily process, daily journaling.” The exhibition also contains interactive exhibits as well that just might help you overcome any inhibitions that you may have about artmaking. There’s a magnetic poetry wall where you can create poems based on examples of Templeton’s paintings. And then there are tables where you

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can create your own art. But Templeton’s work wasn’t bound by the edges of her canvases, as it were. “She also taught college students,” says Ruschman. “She went to Herron to teach students at night for several years right after she got the studio. She taught people with special needs…And she went out and took her art on the road, went into the prisons and taught art to inmates. She has got this extremely wide reach.” Her children’s book Who Makes the Sun Rise?—created with the help of Indy-based artist Phil O’Malley—serves as an example of not only her art but of her work in the community. O’Malley and Templeton went out into Indianapolis’ public and private schools with the book and used it to teach children how to read.

“When she was 80, in 2007, she and I were sharing a studio. She was closing down shop, and I was going to take over the studio. And I realized, ‘This lady’s not ready to quit,’ and then we started working with the children’s book,” says O’Malley. “She since then has done about 300 paintings.” While Templeton has moved away from Indianapolis—she relocated with her husband to Orono, Maine, in 2012—she continues to make art. She travelled to Indianapolis for the opening reception and gave a walkthrough of the exhibition on March 18. “She’s a reinvented life,” says O’Malley. “And she’s reinvented herself more than once. After she had raised her children, she decided she wanted to do something meaningful again with the next phase of life. She said that she was too clumsy to dance, too old to learn an instrument. She couldn’t sing a note, so what’s left? Painting and writing. The retrospective is about Lois the painter and writer, and it’s also about Lois Templeton the citizen, the teacher, the volunteer, the pioneer.” N

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MARI EVANS EXHIBIT OPENS IN THE MIDDLE EAST The ‘Carl Pope: Mari Evans’ Exhibit Travels to Doha, Qatar BY SETH JOHNSON // ARTS@NUVO.NET

ocal artist Carl Pope and Big Car chief curator Shauta Marsh had the opportunity of a lifetime while working with highly regarded Indy poet Mari Evans on a multifaceted exhibit. Now after the writer’s passing, Marsh and Pope are sharing their love for Evans with an audience overseas in Qatar via an exhibit at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) School of the Arts in Doha, Qatar. “This is Carl and my love song to Mari,” Marsh says. “I think you can see that we love her and why. I hope that any person who sees the exhibit falls in love with her too.” Simply titled Carl Pope: Mari Evans, the exhibit honors the life and legacy of Evans, who died just over a year ago at the age of 97. While in Qatar on behalf of the exhibit (which is showing in Qatar until April 14), Marsh caught up with NUVO for an email interview, discussing her love for Evans and why she’s excited to share the poet’s story with an international audience.

NUVO: Tell me about the first time you discovered the work of Mari Evans. What was your reaction to it? MARSH: I believe the first time I saw Mari’s work was in 2004. David Hoppe did a NUVO cover story about Mari. My husband, Jim Walker, was the photographer at NUVO at the time. He took her picture for the story. We both love poetry, and he told me about meeting her. Then I read the story about her and ordered a few of her books. As a multiracial but white woman, I was looking at writers and artists of color. Black history and art made by Black people are for more than Black people. Just

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people, they didn’t know about her here. We wanted to help raise the level of awareness to what she deserves. I felt because she was a woman and because she decided to live in the Midwest, her contributions to the Black arts movement were overlooked.

NUVO: How did the opportunity to take the exhibit to Qatar come about, and why was that opportunity appealing to Big Car? MARSH: A curator in L.A., Rijin Sahakian, was watching Carl’s work and saw the exhibition video. She had sent it to artist and VCU Qatar faculty member George Awde and VCU Qatar curator Isabelle St. Louis. They liked it. There was a grant for exhibitions centering around women artists, #5WomenArtists. They received the grant, and that is how the exhibition came to be there. I flew to Qatar a year exactly to the day Mari transitioned to the other side. I don’t believe in accidents; she wanted it there. as Native American history and art are for NUVO: What prompted you to want to put more than Native Americans. It’s all our this Mari Evans exhibit together? history. As white people, MARSH: In March of we have some account2015, we met Mari buying ability issues. We don’t “If you notice pies at Shapiro’s. And I want to be guilty for the thought, “How’s it possisomething and do pain and suffering we’ve ble, what kind of city are caused or the long-term nothing, you’re part we that we haven’t honconsequences of what ored her or embraced her of the problem.” we’ve done. But we have in the way we have Vonto face this. Seeking these —SHAUTA MARSH negut?” Anytime I think different versions and something negative like perspectives of our past led to research this about our city, I try to do something that led to reading Mari’s work. So she was about it. Because if you notice something one of the first authors who helped lead and do nothing, you’re part of the problem. me to my overall curation approach and The airport had a poem of hers on a winmany of my ongoing interests. dow. But if you mentioned Mari to most

NUVO: What do you hope those in Qatar take away from the exhibit? MARSH: Mari is a smart, strong, beautiful woman. And I hope the women of Qatar see that in themselves.

NUVO: Going forward, does Big Car hope to send more exhibits out into the world like you are with this one? MARSH: Absolutely. We hope we can continue to do work that has so many layers, that can speak to an international audience, and can bring Indianapolis and its talented people like Mari and Carl to the world. But there will never be another exhibition like this one for me. N NUVO.NET // 03.28.18 - 04.04.18 // VISUAL // 15

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FINDING THEIR VOICES

2018 DivaFest Highlights and Inspires Women Playwrights BY REBECCA BERFANGER // ARTS@NUVO.NET

his year’s DivaFest will be the first time the playwright of Operation Farley, Ramona Henderson, will see her work performed on stage. Henderson, who retired from teaching at Marian University School of Nursing last year, got her start in writing at the Indiana Writers Center, and she encourages other writers to go there for inspiration and guidance. Her play is about a woman who wants to destroy a Confederate monument. Jack wants to save his great-great-grandfather’s Civil War memorial and enlists help from his friend Dale to do so. If the subject matter seems a little heavy, especially considering current events, Henderson says she wrote it as a lighthearted comedy. “I just want people to laugh,” she says. “I’m not making any kind of political statement. I just had these two characters I developed, two retired men who were kinda bored, their wives had passed away. One of them finds out someone wants to destroy a monument that mentions one of his relatives.” Operation Farley will be joined at DivaFest by an encore presentation of the IndyFringe Festival hit about Josephine Baker, Josephine: Stark Naked, by Carol Weiss, Moon Beneath Her Feet by Carol Stamile, and Cassandra’s Dream by Maripat Allen. These are just some of the diverse offerings for this year’s DivaFest. Women playwrights submitted their scripts to be reviewed by a jury, says Pauline Moffat, executive director of IndyFringe. Since the first DivaFest in 2010, she adds, the quality and the artistic integrity of the shows have improved every year. She credits the Indiana Writers Center for fostering playwrights and encouraging their participation in DivaFest. Ellen Shevitz, a longtime supporter of DivaFest, agrees, adding that one reason

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she supports the event is that it makes “theater accessible to everybody on every level,” including connecting women playwrights to audiences. Shevitz and Moffat also credited Rita Kohn (a longtime writer for NUVO), one of the early supporters of the festival, for the event’s continued success. “Women are finding their voices,” Shevitz says. “We need them to be heard. Theater is a perfect vehicle for that. The messages they have are told beautifully here at the Fringe.” Moffat adds that she has noticed a theme in the shows selected for this year’s festival. “Women are incarcerated all the time, but you just don’t see it. It can be physical, stereotypes, in [the] workforce, in the home.” For instance, she says, in Unholy

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Trinity by Mary Karty, about the internal conflicts of mind, heart, and body, “Women are portrayed as sweet, smart, or sexy—they rarely get to be all three at once.” In Kimberly Easter’s play about a survivor of domestic violence, Thin Walls, Moffat adds, “Society labels [women] as whores or angels.” Moffat also noted that Keeping the Pace is about “bringing life to stereotypes—irreverent, honest, human. You see how truly funny women are.” Stacy Post of Danville and Casey

O’Leary of Indianapolis wrote Keeping the Pace. In the play, says Post, the treadmill is a metaphor for life because at each stage, women keep a different pace. “Sometimes it’s too fast, sometimes it’s too slow, and sometimes you get into a rhythm.” The characters are a bride in the mania of wedding planning, a new mom, a divorcee, and the main character, an elderly woman selling her gym where the women all work out together. “I think women are deeply and diversely funny. They are smart and powerful and loveable and crazy all at the same time,” says Post. “I think there is so much room in theater and the need to laugh, especially when things are hard. I don’t obviously say I’m going to empower women with my show, but at the same time, it’s in the background. It’s a very frank kind of humor, very honest. It’s not a play for kids—unless you want to have uncomfortable conversations about bodily parts and bodily functions after the show.” Moffat and Shevitz added that is the spirit of DivaFest: to give women playwrights an outlet they wouldn’t otherwise have. “There is a special energy about DivaFest,” Shevitz says. “Just feeling like it’s a safe, secure environment to express themselves and getting an opportunity to show their talents.” “This is the beginning,” says Moffat. “Many [past participants] have gone on to do Fringe shows. We encourage them to go on the road.” And as far as Henderson is concerned, she didn’t expect her Operation Farley to make it onto the DivaFest stage when she submitted her play. “I’m very honored and appreciative to have this opportunity,” she says. “I never thought at my age I’d have a play that could be performed. I’m kind of amazed at the whole thing,” she said. N

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Erin Gillum Returns to Indianapolis as the Chef de Cuisine at Spoke & Steele BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

poke & Steele—the restaurant located inside the Le Méridien hotel Downtown—has been making some exciting staffing changes over the past few months. First, they brought former Recess chef and owner Greg Hardesty out of retirement from the industry to serve as a consulting chef. Now, they’ve hired a new chef de cuisine, Erin Gillum, to bring Hardesty’s creations to life every day while also crafting specialty dishes for an ever-changing features menu. A chat with Gillum is fun and enlightening because she has such a passion for the culinary lifestyle; it’s always exciting to see someone light up while talking about their trade. “Originally, I went to school to be a neonatal nurse; that was my thought when I left high school,” she says. After a year at IUPUI, she decided that wasn’t for her, so she wrote a list of things she loved. “The first thing I put down was food…So I went to culinary school.” After graduating from the Chef’s Academy, Gillum worked all around, including Dunaway’s Steakhouse, 94 West in the northern part of the state, Binkley’s, Mitchell’s Fish Market, and A Cut Above Catering, and most recently cooked for scores of college-aged men at Wabash College for Bon Appétit Management Company. Gillum is excited to share many of the dishes on Spoke & Steele’s menu, especially the seared scallops, which she says are her personal favorite food. “We have a dish here, the scallops, they’re served in a miso soy broth with edamame, radishes, cilantro, dried shiitake mushrooms that we rehydrate, and we use that liquid to form our broth.” Gillum also is excited to be working with many local farmers and purveyors. It’s something she says drove her to work

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with a place like Spoke & Steele because even though it is a corporate restaurant, they want to use local product as much as possible. “Here, it is nice because they let us make it Indiana,” she says. “They want scratch, they want it as local as possible. We can reach out to local farmers that no one else knows of and we can utilize them, so it’s like a cross between corporate and independent in a way.” She is excited to use these ingredients in presenting some dishes such as The Spoke Burger, which uses Fischer Farms beef and Amelia’s bread and appears on their brunch, lunch, and dinner menus. The Braised Beef and Noodles highlights local pasta purveyor Nicole-Taylor’s Pasta. And there are even pastries straight from Rene’s Bakery and The Gallery Pastry Shop. As for her new position, Gillum is excited about it for a few reasons. First, she is excited to be working with Greg Hardesty. “I learned it was with Greg Hardesty, and I was like, ‘I’m going to jump on it; I want to learn anything I can from him.’” She’s also excited about her role as a

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woman leading a kitchen. “Everything is evolving,” she says. “There are so many talented female chefs out there—especially in this city—that it’s growing and it’s not as new as it was.” Gillum says she recognizes that people can treat you differently as a woman in positions of power. “It’s always going to be a challenge…you just have to start strong and show that you mean business and that it’s for real.” But Gillum also knows that she’s no different than anyone else running a kitchen in this city. “A lot of the kitchens I’ve worked in I was the only female when I was on the line. So you’ve got to put your foot down and say, ‘Don’t treat me different, whether I am the chef or coworker, don’t treat me differently. I get burns on my arms just like you do. They heal just like yours. There is nothing different.’” N NUVO.NET // 03.28.18 - 04.04.18 // FOOD+DRINK // 17

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BEING OPEN AND OPTIMISTIC Lucy Dacus Shares Sophomore Release BY L. KENT WOLGAMOTT // MUSIC@NUVO.NET

f you want to know Lucy Dacus, just listen to her songs and watch her band on stage. That is who the 22-year-old indie-rock sensation is. “The band is called Lucy Dacus; my name is so totally associated with the content,” she said in a mid-March phone interview. “We’re not up there playing characters. Unlike some artists, I’m not bothered by people feeling like they’re seeing me at the shows. I think it’s fair to assume that.” And Dacus said they are hearing her in the songs she writes, which, she readily admits, come from her life. “I’ve talked with friends about this. When you write about yourself, that’s what people connect to,” Dacus said. “When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I’ve learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.” The latest batch of Dacus’ songs can be found on Historian, her instantly acclaimed second Matador Records album that she says is a song cycle of loss, perseverance, and, ultimately, optimism. There is a song about a recent breakup with a boyfriend and one about the death of her grandmother. But not all of the songs on the album, which was released in early March, were written together. Rather they were pulled together as Dacus began to choose material and record a year ago. “I wrote some of the songs years after the events that inspired them,” Dacus said. “It took that long to put words to things that can be hard to deal with and think about. I draw on old material. There are a couple songs that were even older than No Burdens [her 2016 debut]...I don’t feel like there is a sophomore jinx. I feel like this record has come together in a more powerful way.” That power can be heard not only in Dacus’ lyrics but also in the music that is richer and more involved than on No Burdens with-

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out departing from the guitar-based format. with your feelings and being open to what’s “It’s kind of an extension in every way,” Da- around you. cus said. “The music is a step up. The content “There was never an ‘aha’ moment is more difficult. My singing, I get louder. The when a spider bit me and I knew I could guitars get louder. It makes write songs,” Dacus sense to me as a follow-up said. “For that reason, album.” “I don’t feel like there I don’t know if I’m Dacus’ songwriting always going to be is a sophomore jinx. is an outgrowth of the able to. I want to write writing she’s been doing I feel like this record songs forever, but it’s since elementary school, elusive thing.” has come together in anDacus, when she started journalwho’s based ing in second grade. a more powerful way” in Richmond, Virginia, “I was always writing,” comes by music almost she said. “I’ve always been —LUCY DACUS as naturally as she does attracted to words and writing. Her mother stories, communication. It doesn’t feel like was an elementary school music teacher something special though. Humans are fasand pianist. cinated with communication. I was always “We’d clean the house and sing togethdrawn to words and stories, staying in touch er,” Dacus said. “She taught me how to

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harmonize when I was really young. That’s probably the most musical training I’ve had—her giving me an ear for harmony. The rest of it is all self-taught.” Dacus says she looks to Shakey Graves, the Texan who started solo and works a lot in open B tuning, which she uses, and Broken Social Scene, which has an expansive sound and ends songs where they need to be ended, as writing inspirations. Now she gets to take her songs out on the road and present them in her headlining shows—with everyone in the venue there to see her. That could be a lot of pressure for a young artist. But not for Dacus. “Not pressure as much as desire,” she said. “I really want to do that. If there’s any pressure, it’s from myself. I don’t want to have a bad show. I just want to have a good time. I think if I do, other people do.” In fact, Dacus is thrilled to have Historian out in the world—and garnering rave reviews from critics and often newfound fans. “It’s super exciting,” she said. “I’ve lived with the songs for so long and now they’re out there. I’m the mother; no one else can do that. I’m really happy others can hear it. The fact that her music is reaching people, both recorded and live, has been instantly fulfilling. “That’s probably the coolest part of all of this—that really immediate affirmation,” Dacus said. “How many jobs are there in this world that people come up to you and say, ‘You’re making my life better’? A doctor maybe. That feeling is never going to get old. Talking about it, I feel like tearing up. I’m such a softie. I really value the people that value me.” N

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DREAM A LITTLE DREAM Alfredo Rodríguez Believes Children Can Save the World

NUVO: I’ve seen some reviews of The Little Dreamer that draw parallels between the album’s title and the situation here in the U.S. involving Dreamers, the undocumented immigrant youth who are at the center of a heated political debate. Were you intentionally trying to draw those parallels with that title? RODRÍGUEZ: My intention was not specifically to address just that topic. It’s an

album dedicated to children though. I was inspired by La Edad de Oro, a book written for children in 1889 by Cuba’s national poet José Martí. He speaks to children in a very mature way, writing about principles. It’s the same message I’m trying to capture on the album. Basically, that our children are hope. They are our only hope to put the world in a better position. As you know, we’re living through very tough times in all countries. With my music, I want to show that we can create something positive out of all these problems we are having instead of separating each other. DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] is something that’s very close to my story, even though I did not come to the U.S. as a child. I am an immigrant and I feel close to their situation. For me the United States has been incredible, with so many opportunities. But I really feel for these children, and they should not be blamed for all the problems that are happening.

NUVO: The Little Dreamer is coproduced by Quincy Jones. Mr. Jones has helped bring a lot of notoriety to your music in the United States. I’m curious if working with Quincy Jones has changed your approach to making music. RODRÍGUEZ: I’m sure it has. I always say, “I play what I live.” So anyone that is close to me is going to have an influence on my personality and music. I’ve been working with Quincy since I came to the United States in 2009, and I met him in 2006. So I’ve been working with him for some time, listening to his ideas and learning from his legacy. So I’ve been very influenced by his way of thinking. He always brings positivity to any studio session. He’s such a great producer in my opinion because he lets you be yourself. Since the first time I met him, he’s always said, “Alfredo, just be yourself. Put your

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here’s certainly no shortage of strife in the world today, but you wouldn’t know it from listening to Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodríguez’s latest release. The album is titled The Little Dreamer, and it finds Rodríguez striking a bright and joyful tone. It’s not that Rodríguez is oblivious to the tense geo-political climate of the day. Rather he genuinely believes his music can act as a balm to uplift people and inspire change. Rodríguez told me he’s dedicated The Little Dreamer to children and the potential they hold to construct a more just and peaceful world. To impart this message, Rodríguez has crafted a beautiful musical language full of colorful melody, buoyant rhythm, and hopeful spirit. Rodríguez possesses a truly dynamic touch on the piano, exuding passion and energy. It’s a sound big enough to catch the ear of the legendary producer Quincy Jones. After hearing Rodríguez perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006, Jones invited the young pianist to America to record. After a few years of wrangling with the Cuban government, Rodríguez eventually obliged. Jones has become a champion of Rodríguez’s music here in the States, contributing production work to four of the pianist’s releases, including The Little Dreamer. Alfredo Rodríguez will bring his trio to The Jazz Kitchen for a show on Sunday, April 8. I spoke with Rodríguez via phone in advance of his Indianapolis date.

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roots in front of everyone. You have something to say, so just say it.” For me this was very positive that someone with such a big name just let me be who I am.

NUVO: Some music journalists are calling you the leader of a new movement in Cuban jazz. How do you feel about that designation? RODRÍGUEZ: To be honest, I don’t know, man. But I can tell you I feel honored and humbled when I hear someone likes what I do. I go on stage and I give it my all. When I go on stage, I’m giving the people my life. So when people come to you with stories of how your music touched them, that is the most beautiful thing. Everyone has an opinion. If those opinions are positive, I feel fortunate. I really appreciate the positive vibe, and it gives me the opportunity to keep going and keep sharing my music. N Head over to NUVO.net to see the full story.

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you’re blessed with a solid gold bathtub or a year’s supply of luxury cupcakes. It’s even possible that a sugar daddy or sugar momma will fork over $500,000 to rent an auditorium for a party in your honor. APRIL FOOL! I distorted the truth. I do suspect you’ll get more goodies than usual in the coming weeks, but they’re likely to come in the form of love and appreciation, not flashy material goods. (For best results, don’t just wait around for the goodies to stream in; ask for them!) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a narrow waterway between Asia and Europe. In the fifth century B.C., Persian King Xerxes had two bridges built across it so he could invade Greece with his army. But a great storm swept through and smashed his handiwork. Xerxes was royally peeved. He ordered his men to whip the uncooperative sea and brand it with hot irons, all the while shouting curses at it, like “You are a turbid and briny river.” I recommend that you do something similar, Scorpio. Has Nature done anything to inconvenience you? Show it who’s the Supreme Boss! APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, now is an excellent time for you to become more attuned and in love with a Higher Power, however you define that. What’s greater than you and bigger than your life and wilder than you can imagine? Refine your practice of the art of surrender. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Fifteenthcentury Italian painter Filippo Lippi was such a lustful womanizer that he sometimes found it tough to focus on making art. At one point, his wealthy and politically powerful patron Cosimo de’ Medici, frustrated by his extracurricular activities, imprisoned him in his studio to ensure he wouldn’t get diverted. Judging from your current astrological omens, Sagittarius, I suspect you need similar constraints. APRIL FOOL! I fibbed a little. I am indeed worried you’ll get so caught up in the pursuit of pleasure that you’ll neglect your duties. But I won’t go so far as to suggest you should be locked up for your own good. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to slap a lawsuit on your mom in an effort to make her pay for the mistakes she made while raising you. You could also post an exposé on social media in which you reveal her shortcomings, or organize a protest rally outside her house with your friends holding signs demanding she apologize for how she messed you up. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was ridiculous and false. The truth is, now is a perfect moment to meditate on the gifts and blessings your mother gave you. If she is still alive, express your gratitude to her. If she has passed on, do a ritual to honor and celebrate her. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Color Purple. She has also published 33 other books and built a large audience. But some of her ideas are not exactly mainstream. For example, she says that one of her favorite authors is David Icke, who asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial reptiles have disguised themselves as humans and taken control of our planet’s governments. I bring this to your attention, because I think it’s time that you, too, reveal the full extent of how crazy you really are. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. While it’s true that now is a favorable time to show more of your unconventional and eccentric sides, I don’t advise you to go full-on whacko. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning! Danger! You are at risk of contracting a virulent case of cherophobia! And what exactly is cherophobia? It’s a fear of happiness. It’s an inclination to dodge and shun joyful experiences because of the suspicion that they will disappoint you or cause bad luck. Please do something to stop this insidious development. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is that you are currently more receptive to positive emotions and delightful events than you’ve been in a log time. There’s less than a one-percent chance you will fall victim to cherophobia.

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