Kick off the autumn season at ICA’s newly launched monthly after-hours night, Later @ ICA!
Join us for a lively mix of cocktails and light snacks, all on the house, as you explore our Summer/Fall 2024 exhibitions during exclusive late-night hours. Enjoy art-inspired games on our Terrace, catch short in-gallery poetry readings from our friends at Blue Stoop, and groove to the beats of Philly-based electronic artist and DJ JEWELSSEA.
A fantastic way to unwind, make new friends, and kick off the back-to-school season!
Registration
This event is free and open to all.
To register for the event, click here.
Accessibility
ICA is committed to creating a welcoming environment for all visitors. For more notes on accessibility including accessible parking nearby visit our Accessibility landing page. If you require any accessibility accommodations or have any questions about the program, please contact Brittany Clottey (bclottey@ica.upenn.edu).
About JEWELSSEA
Over the last few years, JEWELSSEA has garnered a reputation as one of Philadelphia’s most prolific and wide-ranging electronic musicians. As a co-founding member of the ALT + ESC rave series and L8HOUSE, JEWELSSEA has been instrumental in ushering a new wave of electronic artists emerging from the city, effortlessly distinguishing herself as the leader of the pack and earning spots on the Adult Swim and Making Time Festival (2023, 2024) stages. Capturing the attention of The Fader, Resident Advisor, and That Good Sh*t with her 4-track EP, B4 U Wake (2023), and debut album, Dwelling, the club mainstay is poised to cement her place next to the electronic music elite.
About the poets
Cam Simmons is a Philly based water justice advocate and poet. They’ve been writing poetry for most of their life, moving between spoken word, slam, and the written form. Poetry has taken on many different roles in Cam’s life, from a casual hobby to an academic pursuit to a deeply beloved side hustle. But through all its forms, poetry has been their way of making sense of themself and the world around them. They cannot remember a time before they were a poet. Since moving to Philly, they’ve been attending and sharing at local readings and are ever grateful for how the Philly poetry community has embraced them.
rough draft is a poet, mixed media artist, teacher, storyteller, and community organizer born and raised in Philadelphia. With a passion for fostering spaces of collective creativity and healing, she currently works as a Co-Director for Blue Stoop, a home for Philly writers. She shares her poetry on custom clothing with her brand Poetry for the Streets, is a creative lead on a digital healing project with Cry Collective, a project of Asian Arts Initiative, and is part of Voices in Power’s 2023 Millionaire’s Club for surpassing 3 Million Views across social platforms on her Spoken Word Performance “lay up”. She is a Philly Typewriter sponsored poet, recipient of the 2022 Judith Star Writing Award, and hopes to finally finish her first chapbook of poetry (eventually).
Philipe AbiYouness is a Lebanese-American poet and teaching artist from New Jersey. His work has been published in New England Review, Mizna, Gulf Coast, Pigeon Pages, Muzzle, and the anthologies “Best of the Net 2020” published by Sundress Publications and “We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent.” He is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University, Newark and has received support and fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, Brooklyn Poets, and Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
About Blue Stoop
Blue Stoop has been delivering classes, events, and professional opportunities to Philadelphia writers since 2018. We aspire to serve as the connective tissue between our region’s diverse literary traditions, narrowing the gaps between the false binaries of page and stage, poetry and prose, and emerging and established. Blue Stoop believes that strong creative communities have the power to drive personal, social, and cultural growth.
About the exhibition
Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard celebrates the foundational role of yards in shaping contemporary art in America. Building upon existing scholarship on Yard Art, artwork created to exist in the transitional space between the home and wider world, artist and art historian Josh T. Franco examines the lineage of this robust American art form which has historically existed outside of museum and gallery spaces. Featuring over 30 works, the exhibition spotlights both community and academically taught artists over the past five decades including David Driskell, vanessa german, Donald Judd, Noah Purifoy, and Finnegan Shannon, revealing connections across communities in creative world-building with what is available. This exhibition is part of ICA’s Sachs Guest Curator Program, which since 2007 has funded artists and interdisciplinary creatives to curate ambitious contemporary art presentations and actualize projects that leverage the space of resources of ICA to examine emerging and underrecognized creative practices.
Support
Programming at ICA is made possible in part by the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Fund to Support Contemporary Culture and Visual Arts and the Lise Spiegel Wilks and Jeffrey Wilks Family Foundation. Public and Student Engagement at ICA is supported by the Bernstein Public Engagement Fund, Suzanne Weiss Doft & Jacob W. Doft, Stacey & Robert Goergen Jr., Hilarie L. & Mitchell Morgan, the Nash Family Foundation, Joline & David Stemerman, and by Dana McDonald Strong & Mark W. Strong.
