530 South Street • Philadelphia, PA
More Fun Upstairs
From the first tag to the latest wheat paste, upstairs at TMom’s has been home to a rich history of local & international street art. This is an ever changing gallery: an un-curated & spontaneous outpouring of creativity by local & traveling artists and the countless visitors who leave their unique mark here nightly.
The birth of the upstairs as a vibrant art space is in part tied to a 1999 exhibition by brothers Noah & Nathan Rice. That year the Brothers Rice brought their umbrella wheat pastes we’d been admiring around South Street to Mom’s. All 5000 of them.
Sticker art has been an important part of the upstairs at Mom’s since day one. So it’s a huge honor (and a lot of fun) to be the home of the Sticky Art Machine.
Love & Good Times Always
Scratch and sketch your way to magical fun EVERY Sunday in May! As you scratch away the black coating with a stylus on a variety of shapes supplied, watch your designs bloom in all the colors of the rainbow.
Scratch your creative itch while sampling our tasty brunch menu, available until 4: 30!
FREE FUN for the whole family.
Half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm
$2 PBR pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm
Scratch and sketch your way to magical fun EVERY Sunday in May! As you scratch away the black coating with a stylus on a variety of shapes supplied, watch your designs bloom in all the colors of the rainbow.
Scratch your creative itch while sampling our tasty brunch menu, available until 4: 30.
FREE FUN for the whole family!
Half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm
$2 PBR pounders & 1/2 price tater tots after 7pm
Spring is FINALLY here, and that means it’s time for the 6th annual South Street Spring Festival! Enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon as South Street transforms into 8 blocks of delicious food, local artists and crafts, 3 stages worth of music and entertainment & fun all day long both inside & out of Tattooed Mom!
Check out our Big Top Tent of Art right outside of Mom’s featuring one of a kind art & special Spring Fest exclusive drops from some of our favorite Philly artists. This year we’ll be featuring the very talented crew of creators & makers who work at Mom’s. Meet & pick up hand crafted art from these fine folks:
Bear
AntiDye
Raw Eyes
Nathan Hurst
Don’t Be A Prick
NAME
Kayla Connors
& more!
And be sure to pop into TMoms for our house made Spring Fest Big Top Punch cocktail!
Made with Peruvian Pisco, coconut water, mango & lime juices for a celebration of tropical spring flavors.
Join the Facebook Event and invite all your spring-loving pals! We can’t wait to see you for an afternoon of art, cocktails, food & free fun for the whole crew!
April welcomes spring and the migratory return of rubber duckies to Tattooed Mom. Celebrate our bird friends by customizing a rubber ducky with all the feathers, pom poms, googly eyes, sequins & beautiful bling you can get your hands on.
Try our tasty brunch menu until 4:30 or enjoy half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm PLUS half priced tots & $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon after 7pm. FREE arts & crafts FUN for all, rubber ducky style.
April welcomes spring and the migratory return of rubber duckies to Tattooed Mom. Celebrate our bird friends by customizing a rubber ducky with all the feathers, pom poms, googly eyes, sequins & beautiful bling you can get your hands on.
Try our tasty brunch menu until 4:30 or enjoy half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm PLUS half priced tots & $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon after 7pm. FREE arts & crafts FUN for all, rubber ducky style.
Help support the legendary artist Keech at this epic group show! Featuring work from scores of heavy hitters from the Philadelphia street art & graffiti communities and beyond. Amazing art for sale, rad custom pieces for silent auction & incredible prize packs for raffle. We are proud to host this gathering of the community that Keech has supported in countless ways over the years & will be donating 20% of all food and drink to the cause. If you can’t make it out that night you can donate directly HERE or check out the Kill Kancer & World Of Street Art instagrams for online auction items and more info. Community is Everything & Keech has been at the heart of the Philly community. Let’s show him Philly LOVE!
April welcomes spring and the migratory return of rubber duckies to Tattooed Mom. Celebrate our bird friends by customizing a rubber ducky with all the feathers, pom poms, googly eyes, sequins & beautiful bling you can get your hands on.
Try our tasty brunch menu until 4:30 or enjoy half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm PLUS half priced tots & $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon after 7pm. FREE arts & crafts FUN for all, rubber ducky style.
April welcomes spring and the migratory return of rubber duckies to Tattooed Mom. Celebrate our bird friends by customizing a rubber ducky with all the feathers, pom poms, googly eyes, sequins & beautiful bling you can get your hands on.
Try our tasty brunch menu until 4:30 or enjoy half priced drafts from 5-7 & 10-11pm PLUS half priced tots & $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon after 7pm. FREE arts & crafts FUN for all, rubber ducky style.
We’ve invited some of the talented folks who make Mom’s & the city of Philadelphia beautiful to help celebrate our 21st year with specially commissioned tee shirt designs. The fourth edition in our Anniversary Artist Series tees is by NTEL of the internationally famous AIDS Crew. The world is lucky to have received the Ab5trACT NT3Ligents of his intergalactic transmissions through art, design, graffiti & (sub)culture.
We’re stoked beyond words to be able to share this new piece of his wearable art with you.
We sent smoke signals to ask NTEL how his design was inspired by his vision of Tattooed Mom:
*signal detected
Dear Mom,
I hope this letter finds you well. I am good, but the Battle rages on. It has been raining for 3 Weeks, and I fear the worst for our Captain. We fight on despite. My thoughts of you keep me Strong, and the distraction of drawing up the Artwork for you was very welcome and refreshing. I hope you received the package, in order.
Speaking of, I remember one of the first times ever being in your place, Tattooed Mom’s. It was almost 20 years ago. I was underage, and fresh to the States from Europe with very little companionship or guidance. T-Mom’s had a reputation that preceded herself, and you always told me to stay away. She had long been an establishment known for Food, Music, Culture, and Art, before I moved to America, so it was one of the first places I visited on one of my first trips to Philadelphia, despite your warnings of course. The feeling was deep, and overwhelming, and one could get a sense of her History and long-beating pulse. I was glad I took the risk to sneak in, because it was humbling and eye-opening. Sometimes Mother’s don’t know best, huh?
Now, almost 20 years later, I am equally humbled and honoured that you asked me to create one of Tattooed Mom’s Limited Edition Artist Series 21th Anniversary T-Shirts. My, how crazy Life is. Upon approaching the concept, I wanted to show you how much I love you, Mom, and pay homage to Tattooed Mom’s History, while showing tribute to classic Black + White Rock n’ Roll style Streetwear, but also maintaining some Modern Graffiti influenced funk. I think we achieved those goals.
Before I say bye and return to my post, Mom, I would like to ask you to give special thank you and hugs to Robert, my good friend Noah, and the rest of Mom’s Children and Family…. and though we have not seen each other since I was born… Thank you too, Tattooed Mom. I love you. I hope we did ya proud!
– Love, NTEL
*end transmission
The NTEL x TMoms 21st Anniversary tee shirt will be released on April 9th. Available in a white design on a black tee in a full range of sizes. Limited edition run, so don’t sleep!
Model: K’Triqa • Photography: Elijah Snyder-Vidmar.
We’re excited to share more of these special designs with you. These shirts have been such a success that we are continuing the Mom’s Artist Edition Series into our 21st year. Stay tuned for details on the next Mom’s Artist Edition tee shirt.
JULIA PERCH is a queer and femme-identified editor, essayist, and poet living and working in West Philly. Her work has appeared in Philadelphia Stories, bedfellows, Word Riot, Shape Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, and others. She runs a low-key poetry vlog and deciphers dreams on Instagram, and tweets about The Bachelor franchise from a feminist lens.
MARYAN NAGY CAPTAN is an Egyptian-American poet, educator, and performer. She is the former art director at APIARY Magazine and teaches experimental writing with The Head & The Hand Press. She is the author of copy/body (Empty Set Press) and is an alumni of The Disquiet International Literary Program. Her work can be found in Mad House, AJAR, APIARY Magazine, Boneless/Skinless, and Sundog Lit.
Your generous donations this month will go to help support the good work of The Philadelphia Student Union, a youth-led organization that exists to build the power of young people to demand a high quality education in the Philadelphia public school system. Through leadership development, media making, organizer training and political education the Philadelphia Student Union gives young people the tools and support they need to be leaders in their schools and communities. We are proud to match every donation dollar for dollar!
Upstairs opens at 6PM, but our “doors” open at 7, and the reading starts around 8.
Accessibility Note: reading is upstairs and non-bumper car seating is limited, and tends to be first-come, first-serve. If you need assistance or accommodations, please let us know.
