Showing Up

Good morning! Or afternoon… or evening, depending on when you got around to reading this.

Gonna keep this one short & sweet as I’m sure you’ve got a lot of other things on your plate.

A while back I wrote down a goal that I’d like to have enough work to do multiple shows at once. To do so would mean; 1) that I had built up a body of work, 2) that I had generated enough desire for that work to be featured in multiple places, and 3) that I had the inventory, storage and operations system in place to make that happen.

Like most goals, it took a lot longer than I had thought, but I’m happy to say that I indeed am now doing multiple solo shows at once, which I am excited to share with you:

My show “U-N-I-O-N” is now up in the main hallway on the lower level of the Substation in Roslindale.

What’s made this show all the sweeter is that it opened a month before my actual Union Ceremony took place in the same venue. Shout out to Adam Rogoff, Laura Charles, Vickie Spiess and the rest of the team at the Substation for hosting pretty much everyone and everything I love.

“U-N-I-O-N” is up from now till September, if you haven’t been to the Substation its worth the trip by itself for the enormous Bay windows, local craft beer, and sleek workspaces, but right now you also get to see some new pieces by yours truly.

Tell em I sent ya!

Guys, Jazz Urbane Cafe is finally here!

While it hasn’t yet officially opened, this multimedia performance venue and restaurant in Nubian Square has been hosting a series of pre-opening events these last few weeks featuring local and international artists and performers.

Folks like Grammy Award winning drummer and composer, Terri Lyne Carrington, hometiown favorite Gregory Groover, Grammy Award winning acapella group Take 6, renown visual artist Paul Goodnight, NAACP Image award winner Tavis Smiley aaaand…

Yep, that’s right. I am very honored to be one of the first visual artists to show work in this already historic space in Boston’s cultural hub.

You can catch my work and remarkable Jazz Pianist and composer Jesse Taite today from 10:30 AM – 2:00pm along with brunch from Executive Chef Guara Pimenta.

That’s fine music, fine dining and fine art all in one sitting.

For tickets and info about all upcoming events visit Jazzurbanecafe.com

Ok so, this one isn’t really a show, but I will def be going live for my “Staying Authentic While Marketing Your Work” online workshop for Assets for Artists and the Arts Action Consortium this August 6th.

The workshop is definitely picking up steam, with over 150 registrants signing up for this 50 person (max) online workshop!

And I get it, marketing anything is tough but doing it authentically? Is that even possible? Yes… and no… well… it’s why I dedicated a whole 2-hour workshop toward unpacking that.

SO I guess I’ll just have to find a way to do it again and be sure to share here before it goes public so you can sign up and find out for yourself.

Till then,

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