Young Professionals Night is back, and it's All About Love!

Get ready to mix and mingle with the emerging creatives and young professionals who fuel Philly’s vibrant cultural scene. Whether you’re looking to explore our galleries, network with fellow art lovers, or dance the night away, #BarnesYP All About Love is the place to be. The theme honors our latest special exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. See 40-plus works by pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas Page, and experience her dynamic vision of beauty, love, desire, and community. The Barnes's presentation of All About Love is curated by Renée Mussai.

Enjoy a complimentary champagne toast starting at 7pm, music and spinning by DJ Val Fleury, an interactive collection tour: the Barnes After Dark Scavenger Hunt, tarot reading with Papa Boko and Danielle Williams, a photo booth by Pop Up Polaroid, collage and cyanotype art making with Qiaira Riley and Yannick Lowery, and a cash bar featuring beer, wine, themed cocktails, and light fare with a treat to finish the night!

We had so much interest in this workshop that Yannick offered to present it a second time! If you attended on October 5th, please allow others the opportunity to register for this one. 

Continuing his artistic practice of introducing “futuring” as a communal exercise, visual artist Yannick Lowery will be leading a 3-hour workshop that uses collage to remember and imagine our collective experiences in the city of Philadelphia. Drawn from prompts and discussions around memory and our future predictions, participants will work with local, archival, and contemporary imagery from the city and begin illustrating and constructing these visions through paper collage. While creating compositions that illustrate re-imagined landscapes of Philadelphia, participants will learn several techniques for dynamic composition and visual storytelling. Materials will be provided. Ages 18+.

Cull, Cut, Craft is sponsored by The Roger W. Moss Symposium Fund, Poor Richard's Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Colleé, and Blick.

Introducing “futuring” as a communal exercise, visual artist Yannick Lowery will lead a workshop using paper collage to visualize our collective futures. By reframing the theme of rest as an essential tool for future manifestation, participants will compose images that connect present duty to the future realm.

During this workshop, Lowery will share several collage techniques and provide insight into his practice while encouraging participants to develop their own methods.

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Continuing his artistic practice of introducing “futuring” as a communal exercise, visual artist Yannick lowery will be leading a 3-hour workshop that uses collage to remember and imagine our collective experiences in the city of Philadelphia. Drawn from prompts and discussions around memory and our future predictions, participants will work with local, archival, and contemporary imagery from the city and begin illustrating and constructing these visions through paper collage. While creating compositions that illustrate re-imagined landscapes of Philadelphia, participants will learn several techniques for dynamic composition and visual storytelling. Materials will be provided. Ages 18+.

Cull, Cut, Craft is sponsored by The Roger W. Moss Symposium Fund, Poor Richard's Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Colleé, and Blick.

StoryCorps has been at the forefront of amplifying diverse voices for over two decades. With nearly 11 million weekly listeners on NPR and millions more viewing our content online, we've given over 670,000 people the chance to share their stories. Brightness in Black is our latest initiative, collaborating with select communities to collect and share joyous and bold cultural stories, while countering harmful narratives about the Black experience in America. This launch event will kick off a national effort to reshape narratives and celebrate Black joy, pride, resilience and excellence.

This 4 part course will explore collage techniques utilized and developed by visual artist Yannick Lowery. Lowery will provide guidance and insight into his practice and encourage students to develop their own methods within the framework of the course.

Classes will typically start with a presentation and demonstration exploring a different technique every week. Students will illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed in each class. Classes will conclude with a low-pressure and constructive peer review of the daily exercise.

What you will learn:

1. Knowledge and history of contemporary collage

2. Techniques for dynamic paper assembly

3. An introduction to color theory and its usage in collage

4. Various collage mixed media techniques

Collage materials will be available for usage although participants are encouraged to bring their own materials as well.

REGISTER HERE

This 4 part course will explore collage techniques utilized and developed by visual artist Yannick Lowery. Lowery will provide guidance and insight into his practice and encourage students to develop their own methods within the framework of the course.

Classes will typically start with a presentation and demonstration exploring a different technique every week. Students will illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed in each class. Classes will conclude with a low-pressure and constructive peer review of the daily exercise.

What you will learn:

1. Knowledge and history of contemporary collage

2. Techniques for dynamic paper assembly

3. An introduction to color theory and its usage in collage

4. Various collage mixed media techniques

Collage materials will be available for usage although participants are encouraged to bring their own materials as well.

REGISTER HERE

This 4 part course will explore collage techniques utilized and developed by visual artist Yannick Lowery. Lowery will provide guidance and insight into his practice and encourage students to develop their own methods within the framework of the course.

Classes will typically start with a presentation and demonstration exploring a different technique every week. Students will illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed in each class. Classes will conclude with a low-pressure and constructive peer review of the daily exercise.

What you will learn:

1. Knowledge and history of contemporary collage

2. Techniques for dynamic paper assembly

3. An introduction to color theory and its usage in collage

4. Various collage mixed media techniques

Collage materials will be available for usage although participants are encouraged to bring their own materials as well.

REGISTER HERE

This 4 part course will explore collage techniques utilized and developed by visual artist Yannick Lowery. Lowery will provide guidance and insight into his practice and encourage students to develop their own methods within the framework of the course.

Classes will typically start with a presentation and demonstration exploring a different technique every week. Students will illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed in each class. Classes will conclude with a low-pressure and constructive peer review of the daily exercise.

What you will learn:

1. Knowledge and history of contemporary collage

2. Techniques for dynamic paper assembly

3. An introduction to color theory and its usage in collage

4. Various collage mixed media techniques

Collage materials will be available for usage although participants are encouraged to bring their own materials as well.

REGISTER HERE

Some time ago, I worked on a few animation sequences for an incredible film titled Meanwhile. The film will premiere at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at The American Museum of Natural History.

Check out the trailer

“Directed by Catherine Gund. Author Jacqueline Woodson narrates Meanwhile, a docu-poem about white supremacy and a community of artists who share visions of resistance. The screening and live performances will feature in-process works by artists from the film, including music, dance, and poetry. Meanwhile is composed by Meshell Ndegeocello and produced by Erika Dilday.”

Grab Tickets Here

Join me for the second opening of my exhibit Addressing the Future at its new location at NextFab. For the next year, the show will be on display and serve as a space for me host workshops and events.

Bring your skates.

Addressing the Future has expanded to assist in activating spaces and audiences to consider futures of specific locations. The event will be the unveiling of a mail receptacle I’ve built to receive messages from community members on how the space may be used.

In addition, there will be a collage and letter writing workshop to further stimulate ideas for the property.

“The Friends of the Tanner House, Inc, is an organization dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the historic Tanner family property at 2908 W. Diamond St. Through our heritage stewardship, the Friends of the Tanner House honors the growth, development and sustenance of the rich Black cultural life of North Philadelphia with family-centered artistic, intellectual, and cultural programming.”

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“Marte, a truly proud Afro-Latina, writes to us in English and Spanish about "self-love, nationalism, displacement, generational trauma, and ancestral knowledge."

Artist, Yannick Lowery is cooking us fried plantains to go with these nourishing, rich poems, and songs from around the world about—you guessed it—plantains.

Check out Plantains and Our Becoming at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

During this workshop participants will be reading the submitted letters from the Addressing The Future to inspire their collage compositions.

This course will explore collage techniques utilized and developed by visual artist, Yannick Lowery. Lowery will provide guidance and insight into his practice and encourage students to develop their own methods within the framework of the course. 

Classes will typically start with a presentation and demonstration exploring a different technique every week. Students will illustrate the concepts and techniques discussed in each class. Classes will conclude with a low-pressure and constructive peer review of the daily exercise. Register HERE.