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When: Sat., May 1, 2-6 p.m. Orwin House Gallery will host an Indoor/Outdoor Closing Event for its current exhibition, Move The World. Activities will take place outdoors on the gallery grounds, with (limited) open access to the gallery to view and enjoy the last day of the exhibition. The FREE event will feature music by DJ Drake Phifer, a performance by the exhibition s Poet Laureate, Brittini Ward, and Live Art being created on the scene by local artists including: Cameron Jenkins, Errin Whitaker, Jeni Wheeler, Kirah Price, Maliek Phillips, Scott McDuffee and Zuri Dean. The Live Art being created will become part of an outdoor installation to be unveiled later in the month on the Irwin Gallery grounds. ....
When: Through May 1 The Irwin House Global Art Center & Gallery presents MOVE THE WORLD, an exhibition bridging Black History and Women s Month and celebrating “the extraordinary lives of ordinary Sisters and Queens. ” The exhibition has been inspired by the recent political contributions of women of color in politics,. historic professional firsts for African American women, and the everyday heroinism of our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and friends. Opening Saturday February 13, 2021 and running through the end of March, it highlights the work of local and visiting artists – Ricky Weaver, Dawn Okoro, Laura Gadson, Jonathan Harris, Jide Ade, Damien Mathis, Donn Thompson, and BAI –and introduces Poet Laureate, Brittini Ward, who will design and perform spoken word compositions dedicated to the theme. MOVE THE WORLD also provides a rare glimpse of a painting by the late and endlessly talented dancer, choreographer and actor, Geoffrey Holder in celebration of ....