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Meet Midtown Global Market Resident Artist Ron Brown
Free Artist Workshop on August 9 By MIKE HABERMAN Midtown Global Market is excited to announce the continuation of its 2025 Artist in Residency program by welcoming Ron Brown to its artist space through August 31. Artist Ron Brown will be leading an artist workshop at the Midtown Global Market on August 9. Brown’s artistic practice is rooted in Afrofuturism, a movement blending African culture with science fiction and speculative futures. He uses art as a tool for cultural affirmation, historical reflection, and spiritual resistance. Brown will host a free artist workshop at Midtown Global Market on Saturday, August 9 from 2 – 4 p.m. This event is free and open to the public but registration is required as space is limited. Register at midtownglobalmarket.org/meeting-artistspace. About Ron Brown Ron Brown’s 35 year + artistic journey began early, shaped by imagination and experiences. Art is a limitless universe. Ron’s work is a testament; creativity should [...]
July 2025 Events
Better Things 5x5 Reading and Open MicTuesday, July 17 PMMoon Palace Books3032 Minnehaha AvenueFreeJoin 5x5 hosts Davi Gray, Erin Sharkey, and Louise Waakaa'igan at Moon Palace Books as they showcase original work by five fantastic writers: Anthony Ceballos, Kyle Tran Myhre (Guante), Taiwana Shambley, Barbara Currin, and Jeannine Ouellette. Following the main reading, there will be a short refreshment break followed by an open mic.Better Things is sponsored by ReEntry Lab, which works to connect writers and other artists leaving incarceration to a community that’s ready to receive them. Masks are required at Moon Palace Books. Creation.StoryThrough July 26All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeCreation.Story is a group exhibit featuring artists who invoke the oral traditions and creative expressions in their Očhéthi Šakówiŋ heritage, and is a continuation of this thriving tradition. Artists featured are Jhon Goes In Center, James Star Comes Out, Mikayla Patton, [...]
June 2025 Events
Ode To Walt WhitmanThrough June 8Open Eye Theatre506 E 24th Street$15 - $30Created & Performed by Bart Buch, Ode To Walt Whitman is a tender, silent puppet poem - a dialogue between Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca that contrasts Whitman’s America, a nation full of lovers and comrades, with what Garcia Lorca sees, an America inundated with machines and tears. For tickets, visit openeyetheatre.org/ode-to-walt-whitman. “Anpewikin Kolawaya Yelo C’angles’ka K’ogmaya Yelo (The Sun is My Friend… I adorn Myself with a Sacred Hoop),” James Star Comes Out. Featured in Creation.Story, at All My Relations Art. Creation.StoryThrough July 26All My Relations Arts1414 E Franklin AvenueFreeCreation.Story is a group exhibit featuring artists who invoke the oral traditions and creative expressions in their Očhéthi Šakówiŋ heritage, and as such continue this thriving tradition. Artists featured are Jhon Goes In Center, James Star Comes Out, Mikayla Patton, Randilynn [...]
