We have our upcoming Salon lineup set: Buy tickets in advance HERE.

Featured artists:

Jennifer Baker

Jennifer is a painter who has been documenting over 20 years of her life in Northern Liberties. She will talk about the life, death and rebirth of a city neighborhood as she experienced it during 2 decades as an artist living and working there. These are images from about 1990 to the present: her personal impression of the area’s evolution from a small manufacturing center with breweries, tanneries, and meat packing plants, to a lost and partially abandoned neighborhood friendly to arsonists, short dumpers, and artists looking for cheap space. She is now examining Northern Liberties’ newest incarnation as a neighborhood of hip young people moving into old working class houses and the numerous new developments (many of which are now in bankruptcy). Her paintings and monoprints present her personal experience of this process.

Jennifer is currently in a show called “Summer in the City” at Projects Gallery in Northern Liberties. She was a recipient of a PA Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, and a finalist for a Pew Fellowship for the Arts.

Check out her work at a Brooklyn Gallery HERE, and locally at the Projects Gallery HERE

Shareef Hadid Jenkins

Shareef is an actor and playwright from Philadelphia who will be excerpting his recent work from the Philly Fringe, “Getting Your Life”. The play is adapted from journals he kept while living with a transsexual Crystal-meth dealer. “Getting Your Life” deals with drug abuse and the desire to stop using, while being powerless to addiction. Shareef’s most recent play, “The Three Mothers of Zachary”, was featured in Festivus, Philadelphia’s first LGBT Artist Festival. He will be showing “Getting Your Life” at the Philly Fringe Festival this September.

Music and Motion Dance

Music and Motion Dance, voted 2008 My Fox Philly Best for Dance, will be presenting 2 excerpts from their work “The 9 Muses”. Drawing from their own muses, each company member created new choreography, both individually and as part of a group, seeking to answer the question – What inspires you? Music and Motion Dance Troupe has participated in Live Arts and Philly Fringe for the past 5 years. “The 9 Muses” will be performed in its entirety on September 5th for the Philly Fringe.

Damon Reaves

Damon Reaves, a Philadelphia native, is a performance and conceptual artist exploring issues of identity. He completed his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and has also studied at The School of Visual Arts in New York and The Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen, The Netherlands. In 2008 Reaves was awarded The Locks Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship. He recently joined Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art and currently serves as a Mural Corps Instructor for The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Damon will be presenting the audio from a work-in-progress premiering as part of the Shelter exhibition at the Painted Bride this November. Combined with physical action, the piece explores the way individuals balance self-identity with cultural/social identity and questions what it means to be sheltered in both.

Date: August 12
Time: 7:30-9:30pm
Location: Laurie Beechman Cabaret, 601 S. Broad St.
Cost: $8
All Ages!