Everyday Places Artist Partnerships LAUNCH PARTY

, a collaboration between the Barnes Foundation and local arts and culture organizations in West Philadelphia, is happy to celebrate the fourth year of its banner program: Everyday Places Artist Partnerships.

Through Everyday Places Artist Partnerships, Barnes WEST aims to highlight the intersection of art and community. By facilitating an avenue for Philadelphia-based social impact artists to create a space where residents can drive art created and experienced right where they live in partnership with places that residents frequent "everyday".

Multidisciplinary artists Qiaira Riley and Yannick Lowery will work as an artist collective to lead a series of interdisciplinary workshops and community meals at The Arts League. Titled “Shaking the Table,” the series will explore the collective and personal relationships people have with Black ephemera and popular culture through art making and food.

Photographer and educator Lori Waselchuk will partner with Drexel’s Writers Room to organize and facilitate community photography workshops and a photo walk that highlights neighborhood leaders, amplifies local knowledge, and documents community-building. She will collaborate with community organizers and a hyperlocal mutual-aid project to capture and share current happenings in West Philly.

Irene Osorio will lead a series of sustainability-focused mending workshops at Dyke+ ArtHaus, a community-driven, feminist home for queer and lesbian artists of West Philadelphia. Osorio’s workshops will allow neighbors and residents to drop in to repair, mend, or upcycle clothing, fabrics, and other items.

Registration is encouraged, but not required.

Barnes West is supported by the William Penn Foundation, PECO, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Spark Therapeutics, Inc. Lead support for community engagement and family programs at the Barnes is provided through the Comcast Center for Community Engagement at the Barnes. Generous endowment support for community engagement programs is provided by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), and additional annual support for these programs comes from generous individual, corporate, and foundation donors.

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