UNIQUE GLASSES & EYEWEAR IN INDIANAPOLIS
Ra Opticians is an independent optical boutique offering luxury eyewear, comprehensive eye exams, and expert frame fittings. We bring unique, handcrafted eyewear brands from around the world to Indianapolis.
FEEL SEEN
Our mission at Ra Opticians is to get to know you: Your wants, your needs, your challenges, your aspirations.
Through this process, we design lenses that help you see clearer and accomplish your goals with less effort, we fit your face with frames that are in harmony with your features and express the personal style you’ve always wanted, and we approach the holistic health of your eyes and vision knowing the big picture of your life.
Decades of experience in optical care and design have gone into selecting an assortment of independent frame collections that still craft by hand, design with their hearts, and care about their people.
We can’t wait to see you.
MEET OUR OPTICIANS
Jessica Ra can look at your face and instantly know the perfect pair of glasses to fit you with. Her passion for design and making everything beautiful, from the faces she fits glasses on, to her home and garden. Her optical journey began in Portland, Oregon where she started as an optician 20 years ago and eventually led her to managing stores, designing eyewear, and traveling all over the United States working for Garrett Leight California Optical.
Fun Fact: Jessica’s middle name Ra inspired the name of our shop. Her older brother named her Ra after the ancient Egyptian Sun God.
JESSICA RA
In the last 25 years, Lyle’s optical career has taken him all over the world, from working as an optician on Broadripple Avenue and Madison Avenue, to eyewear design rooms in Berlin and LA, wholesale strategy camps in Antwerp, visiting glasses factories in France, Austria, and Germany, showing new collections at eyewear shows in Paris, Milan, New York, and beyond. It’s been his privilege to work with founders, designers, artisans, and absolutely legendary opticians and optometrists. His favorite part of his career? Opening Ra Opticians and fitting glasses with his wife Jessica Ra every day.
Fun fact: Lyle grew up on The Dime (that’s what us East-Siders call 10th street) just down the street from the shop.
LYLE
Nathaniel Alex has always been fascinated by light, lenses, and the way we see the world. His journey began behind the camera as a cinematographer, using lights and lens to craft images with precision. Today, he brings that same creative eye and technical expertise to opticianry, tailoring eyewear to delivers both flawless vision and tasteful style.
Fun Fact: his Mom is an optician, so it runs in the blood!
NATHANIEL ALEX
Juniper Ra (our tiny blue chihuahua) has been in the optical industry her 8 years of life and has visited optical stores all over the US and Canada. She loves to greet you with a bark or two when you come in and she is super friendly.
Fun Fact: she will say please if you offer her a treat from the jar on our dispensing bar.