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Barnes Presents! Everyday Places Artist Partnerships

Starting this summer, Barnes West presents five Everyday Places Artist Partnerships - pairing a social-impact artist with an “everyday” location.
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These artists will create participatory and interactive artistic projects by, with, and for the West Philadelphia community.

Join us to meet and greet the artists and learn more about ways to get involved with their projects! Featuring live music and refreshments.

Everyday Places Artists:

Jahwula Seapoe & Clara Muhammad Square and Imperial Caribbean & Seafood

Seapoe will partner with Clara Muhammad Square and Imperial Caribbean & Seafood to offer in-person yoga workshops that pair movement with creative writing. On the last Saturday of each month, Seapoe will also host workshops via Zoom. These offerings will invite participants to think about their own approach to self-care. Seapoe’s project is hybrid, virtual and in-person, and the only artist project that will continue for the full six months (until mid-November)
 
Karen Smith & the Silk Tent

Smith, a member of Sistahs Laying Down Hands, will work with Philly Jawns and Tomorrow’s Girls to offer sustainable art-making workshops in partnership with the Silk Tent. Activities will include percussion, poetry, and crafts that speak to the theme of “Heartbeat & Healing: Public Heart in Public Spaces.” Community members interested in deepening their engagement will have opportunities to perform, present, or curate additional artistic work at future events.

Keyonna Butler & Kanvas Event Center

Butler will partner with Kanvas Event Center to host sustainable fashion workshops on upcycling old clothes. For these workshops, participants will bring clothes they no longer have use for to the center to learn skills like embroidery, hand sewing, and machine sewing to transform the clothes into new pieces of art. The resulting work will be exhibited as an art installation at Kanvas, after which participants in Butler’s workshops will take home their newly refurbished clothes.

Andrea Walls & the Center for Carceral Communities

Walls will partner with the Center for Carceral Communities to expand her ongoing project, Museum of Black Joy (TM), which may take the form of an exhibition, performance event, or virtual experience. Walls will guide community members who participate in the center’s programs through a collaborative process to create original works that will be exhibited in the museum. Media and materials will be determined by participants and may include dance, performance, writing, visual art, photography, and video. Walls’s photography of the process will also be included in the museum. Upcoming events are to be determined, between August and mid-October).

Marshall James Kavanaugh & La Pearl Beauty Emporium

Kavanaugh will partner with La Pearl Beauty Emporium and will set up typewriters and invite patrons and passersby to type responses to prompts or create original poetry. The resulting writings will be exhibited on long scrolls attached to the typewriters during a performance event and converted into community poetry zines. Upcoming events are be determined, between August and October 31).

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Barnes West is supported by a grant from the William Penn Foundation.

The above image is of the Barnes Presents! Juneteenth Lantern Making Party.